Rep. Don Young Is Sorry You Didn't Say 'Wetback' as Much as Him Back in the Day

Old Congressman Donald Young has half-apologized for using the term "wetback" to describe Latino migrant workers in a radio interview Tuesday, insisting that he knows "that this term is not used in the same way nowadays"?as if the term wasn't always considered a slur. Young, a Republican who represents Alaska and is the sixth most senior member of the House of Representatives, said in a radio interview Tuesday:

I used to own -- my father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. You know it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine.

Oh, boy. Obviously, "wetback" is a term you're not supposed to use for its connotations about people of Mexican descent. Merriam-Webster says the term was first used in 1929?to describe Mexican and Central American immigrants who people thought crossed into southern border of the United States illegally, by way of the Rio Grande. It's taken Donald Young 85 years to still not understand the problem with it, apparently.

After a backlash, Young apologized?issued the following statement overnight, saying that he meant "no disrespect":

During a sit-down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California ...?I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays, and I meant no disrespect.

Oh, boy. About those "days growing up"?well, Young is pretty old, and he is using as his defense a time when even the government said some pretty borderline racist things. In 1954, when Young would have been?around 21 years old, the U.S.?created Operation Wetback, an Immigration and Nationalization Service project aimed at curbing illegal immigrants, which targeted Mexicans in particular. "The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping 'Mexican-looking' citizens on the street and asking for identification,"?explains PBS. None of that history makes the term "wetback" any less racist.?

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The Engadget Show 42: Expand with OUYA, Google, DJ Spooky, robots, space, hardware startups and more!

Listen, we're not going to promise you that watching an hour-long episode is the same as going to Expand. The good news for those of you who were unable to attend due to scheduling or geography, however, is that the ticket price is a bit lower, and many of our favorite moments have been saved for posterity. We've done our best to whittle a weekend at San Francisco's beautiful Fort Mason center into one bite-sized chunk of Engadget Show goodness. We'll take you behind the scenes at the event and show you what it takes to run your very own consumer-facing electronics show.

We've got conversations with Google's Tamar Yehoshua, OUYA's Julie Uhrman, Jason Parrish and Corinna Proctor from Lenovo, Chris Anderson, DJ Spooky, Mark Frauenfelder, Veronica Belmont, Ryan Block, plus folks from NASA, 3D Robotics, Oculus, Google Lunar X Prize, TechShop, Lunar and IndieGogo. We'll go for a spin on ZBoard's latest electric skateboard and show off the da Vinci surgical robot, the Ekso robotic exoskeleteon and the latest UAV from 3D Robotics -- we'll also be taking you out on the town in a Tesla Model S. And for a little bit of high drama, there's our first-ever Insert Coin: New Challengers competition, including conversations with the semi-finalists and the big moment of truth. All that plus kids, dogs and your favorite Engadget Editors. Join us after the break for a warm and fuzzy Engadget Show, won't you?

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Hands-on with Katamari Damacy creator's crazy 16-button game controller (video)

You don't often see a video game specifically designed for a 16-button bespoke controller and for a special one-time party, but that's exactly what Keita Takahashi has done with Tenya Wanya Teens. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Takahashi is responsible for the enormously popular game franchise that is Katamari Damacy along with cult favorite Noby Noby Boy. Teens is his first foray as an independent creator under Uvula, a studio he formed with his wife Asuka Sakai, and is a result of a collaboration with event organizers Wild Rumpus and video game website Venus Patrol. As for the party in question, it's one that is being held concurrently with the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which is where we saw the controllers and the game in action.

As you can see above, the controller looks a lot like a modified arcade stick. A hand-made effort by programmer George Buckenham, both boxes were built in about five days for around 200£ ($302.50) each. According to Buckenham, the easiest part was assembling the electronics; it was the plywood housing that took him awhile to master. As for the game, Tenya Wanya Teens is a highly whimsical affair that is described as "a coming-of-age tale about love, hygiene, monsters and finding discarded erotic magazines in the woods." Tasks include peeing in the shower, punching monsters and taking on grizzly bears.

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New system to restore wetlands could reduce massive floods, aid crops

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new interactive system to create networks of small wetlands in Midwest farmlands, which could help the region prevent massive spring floods and also retain water and mitigate droughts in a warming climate.

The planning tool, which is being developed and tested in a crop-dominated watershed near Indianapolis, is designed to identify the small areas best suited to wetland development, optimize their location and size, and restore a significant portion of the region's historic water storage ability by using only a small fraction of its land.

Using this approach, the researchers found they could capture the runoff from 29 percent of a watershed using only 1.5 percent of the entire area.

The findings were published in Ecological Engineering, a professional journal, and a website is now available at http://wrestore.iupui.edu/ that allows users to apply the principles to their own land.

The need for new approaches to assist farmers and agencies to work together and use science-based methods is becoming critical, experts say. Massive floods and summer droughts have become more common and intense in the Midwest because of climate change and decades of land management that drains water rapidly into rivers via tile drains.

"The lands of the Midwest, which is one of the great food producing areas of the world, now bear little resemblance to their historic form, which included millions of acres of small lakes and wetlands that have now been drained," said Meghna Babbar-Sebens, an assistant professor of civil and construction engineering at Oregon State. "Agriculture, deforestation, urbanization and residential development have all played a role.

"We have to find some way to retain and slowly release water, both to use it for crops and to prevent flooding," Babbar-Sebens said. "There's a place for dams and reservoirs but they won't solve everything. With increases in runoff, what was once thought to be a 100-year flood event is now happening more often.

"Historically, wetlands in Indiana and other Midwestern states were great at intercepting large runoff events and slowing down the flows," she said. "But Indiana has lost more than 85 percent of the wetlands it had prior to European settlement."

An equally critical problem is what appears to be increasing frequency of summer drought, she said, which may offer a solid motivation for the region's farmers to become involved. The problem is not just catastrophic downstream flooding in the spring, but also the loss of water and soil moisture in the summer that can be desperately needed in dry years.

The solution to both issues, scientists say, is to "re-naturalize" the hydrology of a large section of the United States. Working toward this goal was a research team from Oregon State University, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, the Wetlands Institute in New Jersey, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They used engineering principles, historic analysis and computer simulations to optimize the effectiveness of any land use changes, so that minimal land use alteration would offer farmers and landowners a maximum of benefits.

In the Midwest, many farmers growing corn, soybeans and other crops have placed "tiles" under their fields to rapidly drain water into streams, which dries the soil and allows for earlier planting. Unfortunately, it also concentrates pollutants, increases flooding and leaves the land drier during the summer. Without adequate rain, complete crop losses can occur.

Experts have also identified alternate ways to help, including the use of winter cover crops and grass waterways that help retain and more slowly release water. And the new computer systems can identify the best places for all of these approaches to be used.

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Lunar cycle determines hunting behavior of nocturnal gulls

Mar. 27, 2013 ? Zooplankton, small fish and squid spend hardly any time at the surface when there's a full moon. To protect themselves from their natural enemies, they hide deeper down in the water on bright nights, coming up to the surface under cover of darkness when there's a new moon instead. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell discovered that this also influences the behaviour of swallow-tailed gulls (Creagrus furcatus), a unique nocturnal species of gull from the Galapagos Islands.

They fitted the birds with loggers and wet/dry sensors which enabled them to see how much time the animals spent at sea at night. Their findings show that the birds' activity was greatest at new moon, in other words the time when the most prey was gathered at the surface of the water. The cycle of the moon therefore also influences the behaviour of seabirds.

The lunar cycle controls the behaviour of various animal species: owls, swallows and bats, for example, align their activity with the phase of the moon to maximise their hunting success. However, marine life is also affected by the moon. Many species of fish hide from their enemies in the depths of the sea during the daytime and only come up to the water's surface in the dark. Known as vertical migration, this phenomenon is additionally influenced by the lunar cycle. The fish thereby avoid swimming on the water's surface at full moon where they would be easy prey. Vertical migration is thus restricted on brighter nights and the animals remain at greater depths. At new moon, on the other hand, the organisms become active and migrate to the surface.

Yet also in the dark of night hunters lie in wait for them -- for instance the swallow-tailed gull Creagrus furcatus from the Galapagos Islands. With eyes that are well adapted to the dark, the gull can see fish below the water's surface even in low light conditions and so does not need the moon as a source of light. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology therefore wanted to find out what effect the lunar cycle had on the hunting behaviour of the gulls.

To this effect, they attached loggers with sensors to 37 birds, which enabled the scientists to measure where, when and how long the animals were in the water. "The gulls fly off to hunt on the open sea and plunge down to the water's surface to snatch squid or small fish," explains Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute in Radolfzell. "From the contact time of the sensors with the water, we were able to conclude in which nights of the month the gulls were particularly active." The behaviour of each bird was recorded for 120 days on average in order to take in several moon phases.

The birds followed the lunar cycles strictly: at new moon the gulls were in the water particularly often. When the nights were very bright, the birds tended to stay on dry land instead. "For the swallow-tailed gulls it makes sense to be guided by the lunar cycle in their hunting, because, with a diving depth of no more than one metre, the prey is quickly beyond their reach on nights with a full moon," says Wikelski.

To facilitate their night-time hunting, swallow-tailed gulls have evolved light-sensitive eyes that are particularly well adapted to the dark nights at sea. They have also lost their melatonin rhythm -- an important clock that regulates sleep -- enabling the swallow-tailed gulls to occupy a new and unique ecological niche.

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Apple takes heat over ?nightmare? iCloud syncing problems

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As we?ve seen multiple times from MobileMe to iOS Maps, online services are Apple?s (AAPL) most glaring weakness. And now it seems that we can add iCloud to the list of Apple?s online service follies, because many third-party developers are hopping mad at what they describe as Apple?s failure to make iCloud seamlessly integrate and sync up with third-party application data. In a lengthy and detailed piece over at The Verge, Ellis Hamburger talks with several disgruntled developers who say, among other things, that ?iCloud hasn?t worked out for us,? that ?it just doesn?t work,? that it creates ?issues that?take hours to resolve and? can permanently corrupt your account,? and that it?s ?a developer?s worst nightmare? it?s frustrating, maddening, and costs hundreds of support hours.?

[More from BGR: AT&T issues one-word response to T-Mobile attacks: ?Whatever?]

The big issue, writes Hamburger, is that ?Apple has failed to improve the way it syncs databases (?Core Data?) with iCloud,? which results in apps where ?data disappears? or where ?devices and data stop syncing with each other,? all ?despite a developer?s best efforts.? These Core Data syncing problems have also damaged the reputations of many apps that try to sync up with iCloud since users who lose their data tend to blame the app developer and not Apple for their lost files.

[More from BGR: Poor HTC can?t win: HTC One preorders hit all time high as its launch slips to overlap with Galaxy S4]

?I too have been receiving customer complaints and one-star ratings,? wrote one developer in an Apple?support forum. ?I have yet to receive a suitable response as to why the problems are occurring, or what I might be able to do about them.?

As a result of all this, Hamburger writes, many app developers are simply giving up on integrating iCloud into their apps for the time being, despite the fact that iCloud is the most-used cloud storage service in the United States.

?Ultimately, when we looked at iCloud + Core Data for [our app], it was a total no-go as nothing would have worked,? one best-selling iPhone app developer told Hamburger. ?Some issues with iCloud Core Data are theoretically unsolvable (stemming from the fact that you?ve put an object model on top of a distributed data store) and others are just plain bugs in the implementation.?

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Chris Brown opens up about Rihanna assault

By Josh Grossberg, E! Online

Chris Brown wants to say goodbye to the past. Stopping by "On Air With Ryan Seacrest," ?the "Look At Me Now" crooner talked candidly about the current status of his relationship with Rihanna, whether they've been able to move on after he assaulted her four years ago, and his own view of his bad behavior.

When asked by Ryan Seacrest whether he ever thought Ri-Ri would forgive him the way that she did, the 23-year-old Brown admitted he "didn't know," but he's been making amends for the incident ever since.

"I just tried my best to be the best man I could be over the years and just show her how remorseful and sorry I was for the incident and that time was probably the worst part of my life and being that she has and she's a wonderful person I'm eternally grateful and thankful," the entertainer told the American Idol host on his radio show.?

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As for how they're getting on now, Breezy added: "It's still like we're kids. I try not to be too grown and be like, 'Lets have candlelight dinner every night.' I try to make sure everything is fun. It has to be fun and it has to be genuine."

The singer also acknowledged the challenge he continues to face in winning fans back that abandoned him after his domestic violence rap.

"People are entitled to their opinions. I can't go around blaming. It's all about my responsibility and me growing up as a man," he said. "So I think now that I'm becoming older, and trying to mature in this life under the public eye at all times, I have to focus on doing the right thing and being more of a humble individual."

When Ryan wondered what lesson he learned from that tough time, Brown replied, "that you can lose it all."

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"And I'm not just saying fame or stardom because that's not what it's about. I'm talking about dignity (and) integrity. You know, you lose yourself in a way."

While he admitted he learned -- and is still learning -- from his mistakes, the R&B star was quick not to blame the beatdown on his relative youth (he was still a teenager at the time it happened).

"I think for me that at age 18, 19, I was capable of writing and producing songs, so I'm also capable of making the right choices," noted Brown. "Being at that young age, I can tell you I was arrogant and definitely hotheaded. Everybody has a temper, but for me it was not knowing how to control it when I thought I had the world in my hands."

Chris Brown's valet fight: Insider the dispute over $10 parking fee

The "F.A.M.E." artist also elaborated on the altercation he got into with a valet the other day over a $10 parking fee, saying that he had given the valet a $100 and the man came back and demanded more money.

Chris said next time: "I've got to just shut up and be like, 'Security go get the keys!' I'll be by the car."

On the business side of things, Brown -- who appeared on the show to promote his new single, "Fine China," which drops in April -- also revealed he's currently working on a collaboration with Jennifer Lopez, whom he hopes to feature on his new album.

To hear the singer's full interview with Seacrest, click here.

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Three UK launching 4G service during Q4 2013, carrier in 'no rush' for LTE

During yesterdays earnings report, Three UK CEO Dave Dyson also spoke of his carriers plans for their as yet un-announced LTE network. Three has picked up spectrum from both rival carrier EE, as well as the recent spectrum auctions, on which their future LTE network will be based. According to Dyson, we shouldn't expect to see LTE from Three anytime before Q4 2013, but that they are in "no rush for LTE." 

Three currently offers an "Ultrafast" network via HSPA+, and customer response has been excellent. In our own real world tests, in certain areas Ultrafast can match, and even beat, EE's LTE for download speeds so you can understand Three's relaxed attitude towards 4G. 

They're also purposely waiting until the other two of the big four carriers -- O2 and Vodafone -- launch their own LTE offerings. Dyson went on to say that Three is content to see how these two position their 4G offerings, before looking at how they offer their own. 

4G is definitely the buzzword in this day and age, but Three isn't losing out too much by waiting. Besides offering some extremely fast HSPA+ data speeds, they also offer a wide range of all-you-can-eat data plans. Ultrafast will lead into 4G, and the first LTE markets will be where Three currently sees the most demand for mobile internet. 

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Why sticking around is sometimes the better choice for males

Mar. 26, 2013 ? Researchers from Lund University and the University of Oxford have been able to provide one answer as to why males in many species still provide paternal care, even when their offspring may not belong to them. The study finds that, when the conditions are right, sticking around despite being 'cuckolded' actually turns out to be the most successful evolutionary strategy.

The study, by Charlie Cornwallis and colleagues, is published 26 March in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

In many species, males put a lot of effort into caring for offspring that are not their own. At first glance this makes little sense, because natural selection should dictate that males only care for the offspring that carry their genes. However, this study suggests that the males are both more tolerant and more astute than previously assumed, and in fact adjust their care according to how likely it is that females are unfaithful, whilst also judging whether caring will potentially reduce the number of offspring they can have in the future.

The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 62 studies across 48 different species including insects, fish, birds and mammals. Overall, the researchers found that promiscuous copulations by females reduced the investment of males by 12%. Although parental care is highly variable across these species, the researchers were able to find a general explanation for why sticking around to care for the offspring is the better choice for some males that have been usurped. The reason is that males tend to be more accepting of offspring fathered by other males in species where the risk of cuckoldry is generally low, or when caring does not harm their future reproductive success.

"This, to me, shows the strength of natural selection, with its footprints clear in species from burying beetles -- which care for young over a few weeks by regurgitating dead mice -- to humans, who spend years providing for their children," says Charlie Cornwallis, researcher at the Department of Biology, Lund University. "These are complex calculations that males are making," he adds, "and it has been difficult to measure the relevant factors correctly, but looking across species has helped us work out what is going on. Moreover, a comparative study like this can guide researchers to the types of species and experimental cues that are likely to provide the most insight into paternal care in the future."

The study therefore opens up the possibility of more targeted research in the area. Now that the researchers know what factors are important, they can design studies to further test their findings and predict what males will do in species that have not yet been studied. For example, in species where the cost of caring is very low, males would not be expected to adjust their level of parental care even if the females are promiscuous. Rather than these males being 'duped', such tolerance has actually been favoured by natural selection.

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Minoan cuts losses and seeks further acquisitions ... - Travel Weekly

Pre-tax losses at expanding Scottish-based travel group Minoan were cut by almost ?300,000 last year.

Financial results for the year to October 31 released this morning show losses trimmed to ?1.3 million from ?1.6 million a year earlier.

Minoan?s travel division delivered a pre-tax profit of ?413,000 against ?154,000 in the previous period.

The acquisition of the remaining 80% of Stewart Travel Centre and Ski Travel Centre drove gross sales to ?37 million for the group?s travel businesses in the year.

By the fourth quarter, sales had reached an annual rate of ?45 million. Post-year end acquisitions, Classic Travel and the Golf Concierge brand, will also contribute to the growth of the division in the current year, Minoan said.

?The integration of the different businesses has gone well and we expect that the effect of this on our profitability will become evident in the current year,? it said.

The travel business ?continues to examine selective acquisition targets, which we will pursue to the extent that they are expected to be earnings enhancing?.

The company added: ?Since the year end, trading in the travel business has been positive both against the prior year and the market as a whole. All acquired businesses are significantly ahead, and at the end of the first quarter of the current financial year total commissions in our travel business were up over 20% year on year and more than ?200,000 of additional commission has been earned.?

Minoan reported that 50 self-service travel kiosks had been deployed in Post Offices as part of a deal with the National Federation of Sub Postmasters to offer travel services.

Chairman Christopher Egleton said: "We have made excellent progress over the past 12 months in our strategy of transforming the group into a successful travel and leisure business.

?Our management team's ambition and vision is translating into solid achievement.

?The fast-expanding travel business is performing well, delivering increases in both revenues and profits, and with the recent agency additions now integrated there are firm foundations for further strong growth, both organically and through more acquisitions.?

The group?s plans to develop a major resort in Crete has gained government support despite recent appeals.

?The current conditions in Greece and the continuing liberalisation of planning and privatisation laws augers well for the realisation of the Project and for other opportunities,? said Egleton.

?The outlook for the coming year is very positive and we will seek to capitalise on this year's successes to further enhance the group's performance and move the business forward strongly over the next 12 months."

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Simpler Raises $1.2M From Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla To Make Employee Onboarding Paperless

Simpler, a new startup that wants to disrupt employee onboarding, is launching today and announcing $1.25 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Data Collective, AngelPool, Kenny Van Zant, Alex Bard, Gary Benitt, Elad Gil, Sid Henderson and Formation8. Simpler is in private beta, and companies can sign up here.

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Nat Geo channel, Ridley Scott, Bill O'Reilly team for 'Killing Jesus'

By Tim Kenneally

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Just in time for Easter - when Christians worldwide will celebrate the resurrection of their savior Jesus Christ - the National Geographic Channel has announced that it is producing a film devoted to his death.

National Geographic Channel said Monday that it's teaming with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions to adapt the upcoming novel "Killing Jesus: A History."

The book, by Fox News Channel personality Bill O'Reilly and writing partner Martin Dugard, will be published September 24. The film version will air globally on National Geographic Channels next year.

Billed as a "factual drama," the film and book will tell the story of Jesus "as a beloved and controversial young revolutionary brutally killed by Roman soldiers and recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable and the changes that his life brought upon the world for the centuries to follow."

National Geographic Channel and Scott Free have previously collaborated on adaptations of O'Reilly and Dugard's books "Killing Lincoln" and "Killing Kennedy." "Killing Lincoln" premiered in February, averaging a record 3.4 million total viewers for National Geographic Channel. "Killing Kennedy" is currently in pre-production for an expected premiere later this year.

"O'Reilly has proven with ?Killing Lincoln' and ?Killing Kennedy' that the public is fascinated with the tragic tales of these renowned historical figures, and this is one of the most dramatic stories ever told," Scott said of this latest venture. "We are privileged to once again work with National Geographic Channel to bring Bill's vision to the screen."

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Police give all clear on radiation at Putin critic's home

By Olivia Harris

ASCOT, England (Reuters) - Specialist police with nuclear and chemical training gave the all clear at the British home of former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Sunday, a day after the fervent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin died in unclear circumstances.

Once known as the "godfather of the Kremlin", the former billionaire powerbroker helped Putin rise to the top before falling out of favour himself and fleeing to Britain in 2000.

Police said the 67-year-old's death was "unexplained" and sent radioactive, biological and chemical experts to do tests as they tried to piece together Berezovsky's final hours.

Berezovsky had survived assassination attempts, including a bombing that decapitated his driver, and said he feared for his life after he became one of Putin's fiercest critics, repeatedly calling for him to be forced from office.

He was also a friend of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who was poisoned with radioactive material in London in 2006, a murder that strained diplomatic ties between Britain and Russia.

However, friends said the man who personified the ruthless post-Soviet era of massive wealth and political scheming was depressed, had lost his fortune and may have committed suicide.

Others suspected he could have had a heart attack after the stress of losing a $6 billion (4 billion pounds) court case to Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich. British newspaper reports said his security guard found the body in the bath.

Police stood guard outside Berezovsky's mansion, an imposing French-style property with a swimming pool and lake in Ascot, a few miles from Queen Elizabeth's Windsor Castle, 25 miles (40 km) west of London. Inside, detectives were carrying out a thorough search of the house.

"The CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) officers found nothing of concern in the property and we are now progressing the investigation as normal," Superintendent Simon Bowden, of Thames Valley Police, said in a statement.

'LOST MEANING'

In what is thought to have been his last media interview, given in London on Friday, Berezovsky, said he was sorry he had left Russia to live in self-imposed exile in Britain and was struggling to see the "point of life".

"I do not know what to do. I am 67 years old. And I do not know what to do next," he was quoted as saying in the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. "I've lost meaning. The point in life."

Putin's spokesman said Berezovsky, seen by Moscow as a criminal who should stand trial for fraud and tax evasion, had written to the president asking for forgiveness - a suggestion dismissed by one of the oligarch's friends.

"Berezovsky sent Vladimir Putin a letter he wrote personally, in which he acknowledged that he had made many mistakes, asked Putin's forgiveness for these mistakes and appealed to Putin to help him return to his homeland," said Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

A friend of Berezovsky's in London, Andrei Sidelnikov, told Reuters the idea that he wrote a letter to Putin was "complete nonsense".

"He was a sane person and he understood that he would never be able to return under Putin's regime, for political reasons," Sidelnikov said.

A former mathematician who made millions selling luxury cars in Russia, Berezovsky became part of the inner circle of former president Boris Yeltsin and helped forge Putin's career.

The pair fell out soon after Putin's election in 2000 and Berezovsky left for Britain where he denounced his former ally as a corrupt "bandit" surrounded by former KGB agents.

Berezovsky was humiliated in 2012 when he lost a legal battle with former partner Abramovich, over shares in Russia's fourth biggest oil company.

Some associates said he had struggled with the cost of losing to Abramovich, estimated at the time as more than $100 million. Berezovsky had kept a low profile since the defeat and was rarely seen in public.

"He had no money, he had lost it all. He was unbelievably depressed," Tim Bell, a public relations executive who was one of his closest British advisers, told the Sunday Times newspaper. "It's all very sad."

(Writing by Peter Griffiths in London; Additional reporting by Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge in London and Thomas Grove, Maria Tsvetkova, Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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John Kerry arrives in Afghanistan to meet president Karzai

By Meena Haseeb - 25 Mar 2013, 3:44 pm

US secretary of state John Kerry on Monday arrived to Afghanistan on an un-announced visit for talks with president Hamid Karzai.

A US official travelling with secretary of state John Kerry said he will discuss a host of issues with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai during his visit to Afghanistan.

The official further added that the agenda of the meeting will include Afghan reconciliation, the transfer of security responsibility to Afghan forces as most foreign troops prepare to leave and Afghanistan?s elections.

Kerry?s visit to Afghanistan comes amid tensions between Kabul and Washington after Karzai has infuriated U.S. officials by accusing Washington of colluding with Taliban insurgents to keep Afghanistan weak even as the Obama administration presses ahead with plans to hand off security responsibility to Afghan forces and end NATO?s combat mission by the end of next year.

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Jeff Bezos' Salvaged Apollo Rocket Engines Reach Shore After Ocean Recovery

Returning to Cape Canaveral for the first time since they were used to launch a giant Saturn V moon rocket, the recovered parts from two colossal F-1 engines arrived on shore Thursday (March 21) after more than 40 years spent lost at sea.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos led the private expeditionthat recovered the F-1 engine components, which arrived at the Florida port aboard the multi-purpose vessel Seabed Worker. During their three weeks at sea, the ship's crew worked with remotely operated submersibles to lift the historic space artifacts off the ocean floor from a depth of more than 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) below the surface.

Five F-1 engines were used to power the Saturn V rocket's first stage, which lifted the mighty booster off the launch pad. After firing for nearly three minutes, the F-1 engines were jettisoned and together with the spent first stage fell from a height of about 40 miles (64 kilometers) into the ocean. The force of impacting the water tore the engines apart before the twisted parts sank to the seafloor.

Bezos revealed that his expedition had successfully raised enough parts for two engines in an update posted Wednesday (March 20) to the project's website.

Photos released by Bezos show the engines' thrust chambers, turbines, nozzles and even part of the Saturn V's first stage as they were found on the ocean floor and then aboard the Seabed Worker after being recovered. [Gallery: Apollo rocket engines raised off seafloor]

When intact, the massive engines stood 18.5 feet tall (5.6 m) and 12.2 feet wide (3.7 m). Thirteen Saturn V rockets, with a total of 65 F-1 engines, lifted off on NASA's Skylab and Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the moon between 1967 and 1973.

According to Bezos, it is not yet clear on what mission the two engines his team recovered flew.

Now on land, the rocket engine parts will undergo a restoration effort to halt the corrosive effects of the ocean's water and prepare them for public display. The parts, including those still at the bottom of the ocean, remain NASA property. The space agency has agreed, however, to work with Bezos to exhibit the restored engines.

Though no decisions have been made yet, NASA and Bezos earlier proposed the recovered F-1 engines be displayed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Click through to collectSPACE.com for more photos of the Apollo F-1 engines recovered by Amazon.com?s Jeff Bezos arriving on shore at Cape Canaveral.

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Is Earth's mysterious layer molten magma?

There have been several conflicting theories on a thin, jellylike layer under Earth's massive tectonic plates, and a new observation almost defines it as melted magma.

By Becky Oskin,?LiveScience / March 21, 2013

The orange colored area enclosed by a dashed line denotes a magma layer. The blue areas represent the Cocos plate sliding across the mantle and eventually diving beneath the Central American continent.

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Sandwiched between two rock layers ? the rigid lithosphere and the more pliable asthenosphere? this thin boundary is like the jelly in a peanut butter sandwich. Scientists think it could be very wet rock, or even partially melted rock, but no one knows for sure.

"There have been a lot on conflicting studies," said Kerry Key, a seismologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

Understanding the nature of the boundary layer and its role in plate tectonics is one of the grand challenges in seismology, according a list assembled by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology in 2009.

Now, a new study co-authored by Key appears to confirm the boundary zone is molten magma, at least under the ocean floor. Off the coast of Nicaragua, beneath the Cocos tectonic plate, researchers discovered a 15-mile-thick (25 kilometers) layer of partially melted rock at the bottom of the lithosphere. The results are published March 20 in the journal Nature.

"It's really a surprise," said Samer Naif, a Scripps graduate student and lead author of the study."We went out to try and understand the crustal fluid cycle at a subduction zone and we stumbled upon a partial-melt layer."

In past decades, the dominant view was that the boundary layer was likely melt-free, but weakened by water-rich minerals, Naif said. But in the last five years, new studies based on earthquake waves passing through the layer suggested the zone was molten, at least in certain places, he said.

The researchers saw the molten zone beneath the Cocos plate while using a technique that looks for subtle variations in Earth's naturally occurring electric and magnetic fields. These variations reveal structures below the surface, and are particularly effective at revealing pockets of liquid, such as oil and gas reservoirs.

"We've come out of left field with electromagnetic data, which shows much more sensitivity to features like this," Naif said. We could potentially have a lot more to say [about the boundary layer] if we go out and do more surveys," he told OurAmazingPlanet.

The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) puts the "plate" in plate tectonics, marking the bottom of the stiff tectonic plates that shift on Earth's surface, riding convection currents deeper in Earth's mantle. Both layers are solid rock, but the lithosphere is hard, stiff and cold and the hotter asthenosphere flows and deforms on a geologic time scale. The discontinuity, molten or not, lies at depths from 30 miles (50 km) under the ocean floor to 120 miles (200 km) beneath continents.

The group's next step is to explain why the magma is there, Key said. Other studies suggest that older ocean lithosphere does not have a molten LAB, Naif added. The geologically young Cocos plate could have remnant magma plastered to its underbelly from its birth at a nearby mid-ocean spreading ridge, for example.

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DOMA: the clash over marriage benefits

The Supreme Court will hear whether federal law can bar same-sex married couples from receiving the same benefits that heterosexual spouses do.

By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / March 24, 2013

In this photo, Edith Windsor speaks during an interview late last year in her New York City apartment. Windsor has found some notoriety as her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the United States Supreme Court.

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The law restricts the receipt of more than 1,100 federal benefits to man-woman marriages. In essence, DOMA bars same-sex married spouses from obtaining the same federal benefits received by heterosexual married spouses.

Same-sex couples argue that the federal restriction violates their right to equal treatment.

The issue arises in the case of New York resident Edith Windsor, who says she was wrongly denied a marital exemption from the federal estate tax because of her same-sex marriage.

Ms. Windsor and Thea Spyer lived together for 44 years and were formally married in Canada in 2007. Ms. Spyer died two years later.

Although their marriage was recognized as legal in their home state of New York, under DOMA the Internal Revenue Service did not consider their same-sex relationship a marriage. Without the marital exemption to the federal estate tax, Windsor owed $363,000 in federal estate taxes.

If the couple had been a man and a woman rather than two women, Windsor would have owed no federal tax.

A federal judge agreed with Windsor, and ruled that DOMA violated her constitutional rights. The Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, in a 2-to-1 decision, went even further. It found that gays and lesbians are entitled to a higher level of legal protection. Under that standard, DOMA must be struck down, the court said.

In his brief urging the court to overturn that decision, Washington lawyer Paul Clement says that Congress has the power to define marriage as part of a uniform system of distributing federal benefits and that the law is not discriminatory.

"DOMA does not bar or invalidate any state law marriage, but leaves states free to decide whether they will recognize same-sex marriages," Mr. Clement writes. "DOMA simply asserts the federal government's right as a separate sovereign to provide its own definition for purposes of its own federal programs and funding."

Lawyers for Windsor say that when states allow same-sex couples to marry, the federal government must recognize those unions as legal marriages and allow equal access to federal benefits for same-sex spouses.

"The question presented here is a narrow one: is there a sufficient federal interest in treating married gay couples differently from all other married couples for all purposes under federal law? There is not," Roberta Kaplan of New York writes in her brief urging the court to declare DOMA unconstitutional.

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How your brain finds your car keys

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Different neurons in the dentate gyrus fire when mice encounter new places (green neurons) versus familiar spaces (red neurons).

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The saying that it's impossible to step into the same river twice may be true, at least as far as the brain is concerned.

Different neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus fire when encountering a place for the first or second time. Different brain cells also fire to distinguish subtle changes in familiar terrain, new research in mice suggests.

The findings, which were published March 20 in the journal eLife, may help unravel how the brain tracks minute changes in our everyday environments, a process known as pattern separation. The phenomenon is how we find our car keys or wallet, for instance.

"Everyday, we have to remember subtle differences between how things are today versus how they were yesterday, from where we parked our car to where we left our cellphone," said study co-author Fred H. Gage, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, in a statement. "We found how the brain makes these distinctions, by storing separate 'recordings' of each environment in the dentate gyrus." [10 Odd Facts About the Brain]

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Several studies suggested that a brain region called the hippocampus helps people navigate and orient themselves in space, in part by retrieving memories from different environments. For instance, London?cabbies have more hippocampal gray matter?after training in navigation. ?

But exactly how the hippocampus sifted memories of new and familiar places wasn't fully understood.

Previous studies found that a sub-region of the hippocampus, called the dentate gyrus, helped the brain pick out important patterns from detail-rich memories of the environment ? such as where someone placed their keys from one day to the next. The same region may play a role in the eerie feeling of d?j? vu.

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To find out, Gage and his colleagues measured firing from neurons, or brain cells, in mice as they navigated a new chamber.

They then recorded their brain activity while the same mice explored either the exact same chamber or a very similar one.

The team found that neurons in a sub-region of the hippocampus called CA-1 fired when mice were in both new and familiar environments. But in the dentate gyrus, different groups of neurons fired in undiscovered territory versus familiar spaces. Different collections of cells also fired in the dentate gyrus in the two similar chambers.

The findings suggest the neurons that encode our memories of a new place are different from those that fire when we revisit it and notice its subtle transformations.?

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Arizona sends Harvard home with a thump, 74-51

Arizona's Solomon Hill (44) dunks in front of Harvard's Laurent Rivard (0) in the first half during a third-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Arizona's Solomon Hill (44) dunks in front of Harvard's Laurent Rivard (0) in the first half during a third-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Harvard coach Tommy Amaker shouts to his team in the first half during a third-round game against Arizona in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Harvard's Siyani Chambers (1) and Arizona's Mark Lyons (2) reach for a loose ball in the first half during a third-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City, Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Sometimes, it's rough being the smartest guy in the room.

Harvard freshman point guard Siyani Chambers knows.

He'll be heading back to Harvard missing part of his front tooth ? all part of a wicked basketball lesson provided by Arizona in a 74-51 crushing of the Crimson on Saturday in the NCAA tournament.

Mark Lyons matched a career high with 27 points to lead the sixth-seeded Wildcats (27-7), who showed how a real basketball school does it when March rolls around.

"The history of Arizona speaks for itself," coach Sean Miller said. "This time of year, we not only represent ourselves, but all the great players and teams of the past."

This will be Arizona's 15th appearance in the Sweet 16. The Wildcats are heading to Los Angeles for a West Regional matchup against Sunday's winner between Ohio State and Iowa State.

And Harvard ? well, it's back to class, though Chambers may want to stop by the dentist's office first.

"We got the rebound, we were on a fast break, I went in the air, came down, and before I knew it, my tooth was out," he said, in describing the inadvertent elbow he took early in the second half from Arizona guard Kevin Parrom.

Luckily, teammate Christian Webster was on the ball. He walked over to retrieve the tooth fragment and hand it back to its owner.

But there wasn't much to salvage by that point.

Harvard (20-10) missed its first 13 shots and 20 of its first 22 while falling behind 30-9. The Ivy League champs, who shot 52 percent in their upset win over New Mexico on Thursday, made only 27 percent in this one.

"We had some open opportunities early, and once we missed some, we kind of got our heads down and they took advantage of it," coach Tommy Amaker said.

Laurent Rivard, the Canadian guard who made five 3-pointers in the upset Thursday, shot 1-for-6 this time. He missed two early, then shot two airballs in the second half and finished with three points.

"They played me different than New Mexico did," Rivard said. "Stayed on me, forced us to finish inside. That changed the game."

Indeed, this was nothing like Thursday, when the upset over a physically imposing New Mexico team riled up the Harvard twitterrati and sparked dreams of nets somehow being cut down with a slide rule.

Yes, Amaker's program could be redefining what's possible in the Ivy League.

But Arizona, a team that hasn't lost to an opponent outside of the Pac-12 this season, had too much height, too much speed, too much talent to be slowed by this Harvard team.

"They pounced on us from the beginning," Webster said. "I think it took us by surprise how hard they played, how physical they were, their length and size and speed. From there, it was just an uphill battle."

Indeed, it was over early and a couple vignettes told the story.

Forward Solomon Hill (13 points, 10 rebounds) spotted up for a 3-pointer, drained it, then looped his fingers over his eyes ? the 3-point goggles ? right by the Harvard bench, in Amaker's face. On Harvard's next possession, Hill rebounded a missed shot, took the ball coast to coast and jammed with both hands, then bumped chests violently with Parrom.

Moments later, Lyons made a backdoor cut and took an alley-oop pass from Jordin Mayes for an easy layup.

Bad enough that happens to a defense once in a game. But on the next possession, Lyons and Mayes combined for an absolute carbon-copy of the same play.

"My teammates got me the ball in the right position and I was able to make shots today," said Lyons, a senior who came to Arizona from Xavier along with his coach.

Impressive as the back-to-back oops were, Chambers will remember another play better.

He was trying to make a jump pass, when Parrom left his feet, as well, to block it. His elbow bashed Chambers' lip and he grimaced in pain. Helped off the floor with the tooth in hand, he was wincing on the bench, where TV cameras caught a clear shot of his newly jagged right incisor.

"That showed how physical the game was," Rivard said. "It wasn't even close to the rim. Guys were scratching and clawing. But it was an accident."

Chambers came back shortly after and made a 3. He finished with six points.

Kenyatta Smith, Harvard's tallest player at 6-foot-8, led the Crimson with 10 points. Also shut down was Wesley Saunders. Saunders led Harvard with 18 points against New Mexico, but went 1-for-11 for eight points against Arizona.

"They're 7-feet, 6-9, 6-8," Amaker said. "They're in front of the rim, around the rim. They make it very difficult to finish."

Arizona, meanwhile, was every bit as good on offense as it was on defense. The Wildcats made 55 percent of their shots, led by Lyons' 12-for-17 night.

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Russian businessman Berezovsky dies near London: longtime friend

CALABAR, Nigeria, March 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria, crowned African Nations Cup champions six weeks ago, needed a dramatic late equaliser to rescue a 1-1 home draw with bottom team Kenya in World Cup Group F qualifying on Saturday. Substitute Nnamdi Oduamadi, who plays for Italian second-tier club Varese, scored three minutes into stoppage time to save the Nigerians from an embarrassing defeat. It was the second draw in three games for Nigeria who have five points, level with Malawi at the top of the group. Namibia have three points from three matches and Kenya are bottom on two points. ...

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Celebs visit CHOC for radio broadcast - The Orange County Register

ORANGE ? Ryan Seacrest and a host of young celebrities inaugurated a new multi-media studio Friday at Children's Hospital of Orange County with a live radio broadcast and visits to patient rooms.

Seacrest hosted his 102.7 KIIS-FM radio show from the new Seacrest Studios, which is the fourth to open in a pediatric hospital. The 652-square-foot glass-paneled studio was built during construction of CHOC's new tower, which opened last month.

Ryan Seacrest broadcasts from the new Seacrest Studios at CHOC in Orange Friday.

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Seacrest's nonprofit foundation outfitted the studio with five guest microphones, production-quality video cameras and a green screen.

"We just got off the air moments ago," Seacrest said during a ribbon cutting ceremony with singer Miley Cyrus and hospital mascot CHOCO the bear. "It all works. Everything connects; not only to the patient rooms, but to the entire country."

Bryan Mundia, media program coordinator, said CHOC plans to expand to five-day-a-week radio broadcasts and use the studio to film events such as puppet or magic shows.

The hospital's old radio station, while a popular activity for patients, did not have video capability. Now programming can be broadcast into rooms for patients who can't go downstairs.

"We teach them how to deejay, how to be producer, how to use video components," Mundia said. "It's state-of-the-art. It's the best you could possibly put in a radio station."

Patients will continue to call in to the station from their rooms to tell jokes or request songs.

"We tend to play a lot of Justin Bieber still," Mundia said. "Second is probably the Beatles."

After their radio interviews, celebrities spent time with patients.

Leukemia patient Catherine Ordaz, 7, was introduced to the Disney show "Shake It Up" during a previous stay at CHOC. She couldn't stop laughing and smiling when one of the show's stars, Zendaya Coleman, came to her room.

The two chatted about movies, purple and playing the piano.

Catherine's mother, Magaly Ordaz, said the visit lifted her daughter's spirits.

"This is a treat for her," said Ordaz, who lives in Santa Ana. "There are days where she's just bored."

Nolan Torres, 10, who receives treatment at CHOC for benign brain cysts and a suppressed immune system, appeared on Seacrest's show early in the morning. Seacrest then surprised him with a call from Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton.

"That was the best thing ever. That was awesome," said Nolan, who is from Corona.

The moment made his mother, Kris, cry.

"I have never seen my kid that happy," she said.

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