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Sources: Half-inch crack blamed for F-35 grounding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The engine blade crack that prompted the U.S. military to ground all 51 F-35 fighter jets was over half an inch long, according to three sources familiar with the matter, but it remained unclear if the crack was caused by a manufacturing anomaly or some larger design issue.

Engineers at Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, will conduct a detailed examination of the turbine blade as soon as it arrives at the company's Middletown, Connecticut, site, said spokesman Matthew Bates.

"Pilot safety is our absolute top priority," Bates said, noting that the F135 engine that powers the new radar-evading fighter jet had a readiness rate of over 98 percent.

"We are in a testing phase of the program and discoveries such as this are part of the process," he added.

Initial results may come on Wednesday, although it could take up to 10 days to complete the analysis, said the three sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The Pentagon announced the grounding of all F-35 warplanes on Friday after an inspection revealed a crack on a turbine blade in the Pratt-built jet engine of an F-35 jet being tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

It was the second engine-related grounding of the $396 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in two months, and came on the eve of a big air show in Australia, which is considering reducing its planned purchase of 100 F-35 jets.

The Pentagon's top F-35 official and executives from prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp are attending the air show in hopes of convincing Australia that the F-35 program is on track after three restructurings, and Australia does not need to buy 24 more Boeing Co F/A-18 Super Hornets.

Australia is expected to make a decision within the next three to six weeks, said a fourth source familiar with the matter. The program is also bracing for reductions in U.S. orders if Congress fails to avert across-the-board cuts due to take effect on March 1.

Inspectors found an anomaly on February 19 during an inspection that is conducted on every F-35 engine after 50 flight hours, but the crack on the blade was not confirmed until early Thursday after electromagnetic testing that began Wednesday and continued through the night, said one of the sources.

The crack was described as 0.6 inches long, the sources said.

F-35 test and training flights continued until Thursday evening, when the Pentagon's F-35 program office, the U.S. Navy and Air Force decided to suspend all flights and ban use of the engines on the ground until the blade crack was better understood.

In fact, two jets were airborne at air bases in Maryland and Arizona and had to be recalled, said one of the sources.

Officials decided that they had to assume a "worst case scenario" until they could rule out a high-duty cycle fatigue crack, an extremely rare occurrence that could result in a complete blade failure in just 90 minutes, the source said.

Engineers did not believe that this case involved such a devastating crack, but officials opted to take a conservative approach to ensure safety, the source said.

Colonel Kevin Killea, who oversees aviation acquisition for the Marine Corps, said that while the grounding was frustrating for test pilots and trainers, it was prudent. He added that finding problems was an expected part of developing any aircraft.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; editing by Jackie Frank)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/half-inch-crack-blamed-f-35-fighter-jet-031237599--finance.html

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Comparing iPad weather apps at a glance

iPad weather app at a glance

18 iPad weather app current weather screens

Earlier in the week I compared the current weather screens of 27 popular iPhone weather apps, and in the spirit of equal time for expansive interfaces, here's the same thing for 18 popular iPad weather apps. The reason for the lower number is that not all of the iPhone apps had iPad versions -- Apple's own iOS weather app included! While some of the iPad versions are just bigger, others take advantage of the larger screen and broader aspect ratio to show not just bigger but more.

Like before, I used the exact same location and page, whenever possible, for each app. I paid for full versions of in-app purchases to disable ads when I could, and when it worked. If extended forecasts could be brought up on the same screen, I brought them up. I made them as comparable as possible.

Here they are, in order, from top left to bottom right, are:

The current weather screen isonly one aspect of a weather app, and doesn't cover features like radar, videos, etc. so as the title says, consider this only a glance at different design approaches. For more on the individual apps, check out our weather app review series.

That being said, which weather apps do you use, and are they the same ones that appeal to you most in the comparison above? Any of the weather screens attractive enough they encourage you check out an alternative app?



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Videotron to launch Netflix-like service

MONTREAL ? Netflix is about to get another competitor in Canada, but it won't be very good unless you understand French.

Videotron announced on Thursday the launch of Illico Club Unlimited, an online on-demand video subscription service that will offer the largest collection of French-language television and movie titles available in Canada, with about 20 television series and 800 to 900 movies.

The Quebecor-owned company also announced that it will be increasing Internet speeds, offering unlimited Internet usage options and adding popular U.S. channel AMC to its television lineup.

Illico Club Unlimited, which launches on Saturday and accepts registrations starting Friday, will cost $9.99 a month, with the first month free. As its name implies, users will be able to watch an unlimited amount of the programming available on the service, whenever they want.

The catalog includes movies such as Spider-Man 3, The Social Network and Salt (in general, movies will be added to the service between the time they air on pay TV channels and when they air on broadcast television). It will also air children's programming, TV series and concerts.

Videotron CEO Robert Depatie said the focus is on providing a superior service for francophone households, so all of its content will be available in French, with 90 per cent only in French and the rest in both languages.

Netflix, which is available to Canadians for $8 a month, has little French-language content.

Though Videotron has acquired rights to its programming for all of Canada, the service will debut only in Quebec and Ontario. Manon Brouillette, Videotron's president of consumer services, said this was for technical reasons, including dealing with different tax systems in different provinces. "We'll see how Ontarians react," she said, and possibly expand to other provinces if reception is good.

Households don't need to be in a Videotron service area nor subscribe to any other Videotron service to take advantage of Illico Club Unlimited.

Like Netflix, Illico Club Unlimited can be streamed over the Internet to computers. Videotron is also promising a new application for Android-based tablets (an iPad app won't be available right away, because of issues with its digital rights management system, and a mobile app is also still being worked on and will launch in the coming months). Unlike Netflix, Videotron will also make the service available through its new-generation set-top boxes, which will allow users to see programming on their TVs without additional equipment and without using up their Internet bandwidth. The terminals, introduced less than a year ago, have reached the 500,000-subscriber mark, out of 1.46 million total digital cable subscribers, Vid?otron announced. Older terminals won't be able to access the service, which uses the MPEG4 encoding standard.

Since it arrived in Canada in 2010, Netflix and other Internet video streaming services have been seen as a threat to Canadian cable and satellite providers, who are licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and must follow regulations in terms of Canadian content, packaging and pricing. As an unlicensed service, Netflix needs only to worry about acquiring the Canadian rights to programming it wishes to distribute in Canada.

According to a CRTC report last year, about 10 per cent of Canadian households have a Netflix subscription.

Videotron also announced on Thursday that it was upgrading its residential and business cable Internet services, notably by introducing an option for unlimited download. In the coming weeks, residential subscribers can remove their download caps with a $30/month add-on, which goes down to $10/month for subscribers with at least three services (television, Internet, home phone or mobile). Business subscribers will have their download caps eliminated free.

The new add-ons follow similar offers from rivals Bell Canada and Rogers Cable.

Starting April 17, Videotron is also upgrading its Ultimate-Speed Internet packages, increasing their upload speeds and data caps.

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Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Videotron+launch+Netflix+like+service/7996888/story.html

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Fighting Racism In Israel

Adam Ognall, CEO New Israel Fund - Thursday 21st 2013f February 2013

Adam Ognall, CEO of the New Israel Fund, looks at the problem of racism in Israeli football and the work of anti-racism bodies in the country in trying to deal with it

Israeli football hit the headlines due to a group of Beitar Jerusalem fans' reaction to the signing of two Muslim players. Fans unfurled a banner "Beitar pure forever," and sang anti-Muslim chants. I was in Israel that week and watched some Beitar fans booing their own team at the next away game. The Beitar offices were also torched.

Of course the strong and positive response to these events has not received the same attention. This is the real story. Israel has taken great strides to stamp out racism around football. Something that other European footballing nations could take heed from.

The Israeli FA disciplinary committee closed Beitar's east stand for five games and fined the club 10,000. The club banned 50 known troublemakers.

This did not immediately stop the trouble and when one player, Kadiev, made his debut some fans booed. This was drowned out by the applause of a far larger group.

The actions of this hardcore caused a national wave of revulsion. President Peres denounced the fans, Knesset Speaker Rubi Rivlin (Beitar fan) asked how Israelis would feel if a German or English club refused to have Jewish players, and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Beitar fan) threatened to no longer attend matches.

Kadiev's debut came when Beitar played Bnei Sakhnin, the Arab-owned team. A rally held outside the ground by Kick Racism out of Israeli Football (KRO Israel) heard from Beitar legend Itzik Zohar. He said: "What has been happening here disgusts me. Football is for everyone and we cannot allow a small minority of racist fans to run the club."

KRO Israel celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. It was founded by the New Israel Fund. Its backbone is its Volunteers Forum who monitor matches and produce a weekly racism index of club's fans' behaviour. Over the years we have seen a marked reduction in racist incidents, with Beitar being by far the club with the greatest problems. KRO Israel now works closely with its FA and many clubs and it is a model that the English FA and UEFA both support and take lessons from.

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Source: http://totallyjewish.com/football/pro_soccer/c-19396/fighting-racism-in-israel/

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By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They?ve Gone Fringe

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CPAC is suggesting that they snubbed Chris Christie this year. He is not ?invited? to the cray-cray. That?s what he gets for helping his constituents by dealing with the President.

Another way of looking at this is that only Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is smart enough to avoid addressing CPAC this year. He?s already proven that he?s able to strategize for the long term and knows the value of being seen working with the President and Democrats.

The rest of the clowns are piling into the shrinking GOP tent, including electoral losers Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. Of course, neither of them have a thing to lose; they?ve already lost.

For some reason, NBC suggests that this means CPAC is mainstream. While I get how they got there (CPAC used to be far right of the party, anti-establishment), I think what it really means is that the entire Republican Party has gone fringe. They just don?t know it yet.

Let?s recap: Republicans, including the headliners at CPAC, are all polling poorly and have lost national elections precisely because of their positions. CPAC is the driver of those losing positions (wrong on immigration, wrong on gay rights, wrong on women?s rights, wrong on taxing the rich, etc).

CPAC is also a happy home for white supremacists and the NRA while banning gay Republicans like GOProud. If you were planning to run for President in 2016 and thought you might like to actually win, would you want to be seen pallin? around with plummeting poll contagion? Would you want your picture taken with Mitt 47% Cayman Romney or Sarah Death Panels Palin?

CPAC is snubbing the Republican with the highest approval ratings (Chris Christie), while cozying up to already-losts and never-will-bes. So while CPAC may be establishment Republican now, it?s not mainstream. And that?s because the Republican Party is no longer mainstream.

The Tea Party has driven the Republican Party off of the cliff of reality and national electability. Republican ?stars? Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan will all be hawking their wares at CPAC (anyone want to buy a water bottle?).

Anyone seen their polling numbers lately? They have to go to CPAC. A section of the conservative fringe is all they have.

Christie had his fun playing the raging Obama hater last year at CPAC. But it?s time to get serious about winning a national election, and perhaps the governor distinguishes himself from his brethren via his ability to read a poll sans skewing.

Chris Christie is the only Republican who stands a chance in 2016 and he?s not going to ruin that by getting smeared with CPAC stench. Maybe they snubbed him, maybe it was mutual. No matter what, not appearing at CPAC will only help the Governor, who seems to have realized that appeasing crazy doesn?t feel as great as actually winning.

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Oregon sports: What you missed over the weekend

It was one of the biggest sports weekends of the year for the Ducks, with teams playing across the country ? from baseball in Hawaii to track in New York City. If you?ve been busy this weekend with your nose in a textbook (or in a bottle) have no fear. Here are the top four Oregon sports stories you missed from this past weekend:

Softball sends Wolverines home early?? Under the eight-run mercy rule, Oregon softball crushed Utah Valley 9-1 to cruise through the first day of the Easton Desert Classic in Las Vegas. It was the third time this season the Ducks didn?t have to play a full match. The win was credited to Ducks pitcher Karissa Hovinga (2-0),?who struck out seven and gave up four hits in her first complete game of the year. Oregon would go on to lose to Hawaii 6-5 and beat Cal State Fullerton 6-0 to finish the tournament 4-1. Over the course of the three-day tourney, Oregon also beat Louisiana-Monroe 4-0 and Long Beach State 10-1, but it was the game against Utah Valley that showcased how well-rounded the Ducks can play on their best days.

Men?s basketball survives scare from Cougars ??It took an extra period of play, but Oregon edged Washington State 79-77 on Saturday night. The Ducks got a boost from E.J. Singler?s two overtime free throws to ice the game, and the senior guard became the winningest player in program history. The Medford native?s 82nd win as a Duck came with 25 points, a season-high. The Cougars led the Ducks by 11 at the half but still needed to hit a game-tying three as regulation expired to force OT. The win moves Oregon to 21-5 on the year.

English Gardner wows at Millrose Games ??Who needs gold medals? Oregon junior sprinter English Gardner ran the women?s 60 meters in a blistering 7.19, edging Jeneba Tarmoh and Lauryn Williams, who both contributed to Team USA?s gold-winning 4?100 relay at the London Games this summer. It was the second-fastest time in the NCAA this year. Afterwards, Gardner took to Twitter: ?Thank you everything for the love and support ? race done and analyzed back to work on Monday.?

Women?s tennis racks up honors ??The Ducks take to the road for the first time this year, trekking to Akron, Ohio, to battle East Tennessee State and Akron. Junior Lana Buttner played hero in Saturday?s first matchup, clinching the team?s overall 4-3 win and her No. 5 singles match with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 win over ETS?s Jessica Brumit. The Ducks followed up the win with a 3-4 loss to the Akron Zips, snapping the team?s overall eight-game win streak. Still, Oregon has drawn attention from across the country. Senior Patricia Skowronski was ranked No. 101 in the most recent iteration of the ITA singles rankings, and the team is ranked No. 69 overall. Meanwhile, sophomore Nicole Long won both of her games in Ohio to extend her conference-leading winning streak to 13 games. The Irving, Texas, native is 16-2 on the year.

Source: http://dailyemerald.com/2013/02/17/oregon-sports-what-you-missed-over-the-weekend/

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How politics and an earthquake led to prairie dog plague

John Tull didn?t know he was the heir to a century-old legacy. In 2002, he and his wife boarded a plane from their Santa Fe, New Mexico home and flew to New York City. Shortly after arrival, Tull and his wife both felt ill, with high fevers and odd swellings. In the post-9/11 aftermath, terrorism was feared?the couple was diagnosed with bubonic plague.

But the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, hadn?t come from any human with sinister motives?it had come from a rodent (likely a pack rat or a prairie dog) infected in their native state, via a long line of rodents dating back to turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

It?s not conclusively known how Y. pestis first entered the City by the Bay. Plague had broken out in several ports in 1899: Hong Kong, Honolulu, Tokyo, and Sydney; and Marine Hospital Service personnel (the precursor to the National Institutes of Health, led by Dr. Joseph Kinyoun) were kept busy inspecting passengers on potentially infected ships.

Speculation has focused on a steamer called the Australia, which arrived from plague-ridden Honolulu on January 2, 1900. Though the passengers appeared to be healthy, leaving Kinyoun no choice but to allow the Australia to dock, no one can be sure if the ship?s four-legged inhabitants were harboring the deadly bacterium, and subsequently spread it amongst their San Francisco kin. Reports surfaced of an abundance of dead and dying rats in the early months of 1900, but as the epidemiology of plague was still not well-understood at that time, none were tested for the bacillus. The role of rats and their fleas in transmission of plague would not be confirmed until 1905.

Regardless of its origin, plague officially hit the city on March 6, 1900, with the death of a Chinese immigrant named Wong Chut King. King had been suffering from high fevers, and his lymph nodes were horribly swollen and tender to the touch. Delirious, he entered a coma as his organs shut down from the bacterium?s toxins, and died shortly thereafter. Before bacterial cultures were even confirmed, police descended on Chinatown, removing any white inhabitants and sealing off the borders?Chinatown was quarantined, beginning an eight-year struggle that pitted whites against Chinese, scientists against politicians, and state versus federal government.

Because rats and their fleas were the key to disease transmission, the quarantine of Chinatown was not only ineffective, but it also served to sow seeds of fear in the population that was most at risk of plague infection?the Chinese immigrants, packed in to poorly constructed homes permeable to vermin, and unlikely to visit Western doctors when they were ill.? Quarantine was lifted after three days had passed with no new reported plague cases, but the damage had been done. Chinatown?s inhabitants mistrusted the city?s public health board, and newspapers published stories claiming that the reported case had been a false alarm. New cases were purposely hidden from the white doctors and health boards.

The deaths, and fighting, continued for years. Travel bans were briefly imposed on Chinese and Japanese immigrants trying to leave the city, and quarantine of Chinatown was attempted once again in late May of 1900, zig-zagging through the city to avoid white neighborhoods and businesses. The second quarantine was a failure as well, and lifted via judicial order two weeks later. Many San Franciscans called for Chinatown to be burned, even while newspapers were actively denying any plague existed within city limits.

When quarantine failed, a desperate Kinyoun ordered ships and trains to deny passage to anyone without a signed health certificate, and requested that detention camps be built to hold the city?s Asian population. Businesses owners howled with rage at the damage they felt Kinyoun was doing to their livelihoods, and accused him of spiking corpses with his own stores of plague bacteria. Soon, even California?s governor, Henry T. Gage, would accuse Kinyoun of this malfeasance, while the state?s legislature called for Kinyoun to be hanged.

By 1901, all but two of Chinatown?s blocks had documented cases of human plague. Kinyoun, defeated, was replaced first by Joseph White and then Rupert Blue, who both encountered the same atmosphere of political denial and patient suspicion that led to Kinyoun?s ouster.

The tide finally started to turn in 1902. California?s plague denial had become a nationwide embarrassment, and other states had threatened to quarantine the Golden State. By mid-1903, 93 cases of the disease had been officially reported, and the clean-up effort finally began in earnest. Blue worked with the city?s Chinese population, and they slowly began to trust him. Carbolic acid was sprayed into buildings and chlorinated lime sprinkled in houses; rats were trapped and poisoned; ramshackle balcony additions were removed from tiny Chinatown apartments; houses were searched for potential plague cases. By mid-1905, after 121 cases of plague and 113 confirmed deaths, Rupert Blue was hailed as a hero, and the epidemic was declared over. The city could rest easy.

Of course, there is a coda. In the wee hours of April 18, 1906, an earthquake struck. Gas mains broke from the impact, and fires broke out throughout the city, damaging at least 25,000 buildings. Water mains also were destroyed, leaving the fires to burn for 4 days. In the aftermath, many residents were left homeless for extended periods of time.

By 1907, even while rebuilding was ongoing, 40,000 were still residing in shacks. The majority of the city lacked working sewers, and garbage littered the streets. The conditions were perfect for a rat explosion, and a fresh outbreak of plague. Human cases quickly reappeared: one in May of 1907, and then an outbreak of cases in August, which led to the closing of the City and County Hospital: it was overrun with rats.

The city had learned its lesson. Immediately, San Francisco?s mayor contacted President Theodore Roosevelt, requesting assistance. Rupert Blue was sent back to the city he?d cleaned up only two years before. This time, determined to truly eradicate the bacterium (and armed with the newly-published knowledge demonstrating that fleas transmitted plague to humans from their rat hosts), Blue instigated a multi-pronged attack, cleaning up the city to eliminate the rats? food supply; destroying rat burrows and nesting places, and disinfecting them with lime; adding concrete? basements or screenings to places including homes, stables, warehouses, and? markets; and disinfecting buildings where infected humans or rats had been found. Blue noted, ?this latter measure is not considered as important as rat extermination,? driving home that rat control, rather than quarantine, should be the central measure to end plague outbreaks.

Under Blue?s watch, ten million pieces of rat bait had been set out; 350,000 rats were killed outright, and 154,000 of those tested for plague. Not only did this clean-up end the plague epidemic at 159 cases (per Blue?s accounting), but also led to a decrease in many other infectious diseases. The city was given a clean bill of health on Thanksgiving, 1908.

However, plague was not gone. Blue was troubled by some outlier cases that he had seen, such as a case in Oakland and another in Contra Costa County, both far removed from downtown. In August of 1908, Blue?s assistant, William Rucker, investigated the latter, and found not only dead rats but also infected squirrels in the vicinity. Blue wrote Washington that the discovery had caused ?considerable apprehension,? due to the fact that squirrels were abundant all over the state and beyond. It was already known in Asia that other rodent species?such as marmots?could host Y. pestis. Perhaps here was America?s version of wildlife plague. Not content with saving San Francisco, Blue wanted to attack the next plague frontier: squirrels. He requested $1.50 per day from the federal government to rent rifles and buy ammunition to kill wild squirrels, but was denied because of sloppy paperwork.

Even if Blue had been granted his request, it?s unlikely that he could have controlled the spread of plague in wildlife. By 1919, an outbreak in Oakland caused 17 deaths. In 1924, Los Angeles was struck, resulting in 37 deaths. Most of the cases in both of these epidemics were pneumonic: the bacteria traveled to the lungs and could then be spread between people, like influenza; and both outbreaks were traced back to squirrels. W.H. Kellogg, Chief of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the time, noted ?These endemic foci, constituted as they are of wild rodent infection, are, so far as anyone knows at present, permanent and everlasting.?

Today, wildlife plague has spread from San Francisco all the way to the Kansas border; draw a line from the eastern borders of Montana and Wyoming down to the southern border of Texas, and go all the way west to the Pacific: that?s plague country.? Human cases number about 10-20 per year, most of those coming from the ?Four Corners? states, where the prairie dog is the main host.

While now treatable with antibiotics, plague still can cause serious illness and even death, particularly if it?s not diagnosed quickly. The reverberations of San Francisco?s plague inaction even threaten the endangered black-footed ferret, which relies on prairie dogs as a main food source. While we can?t know for certain if plague would have become established in the United States if it weren?t for years of denial and scientist-bashing over a century ago, we certainly can see that the same mentality is alive and well today in some corners of our country. Alas, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Sources and further reading:

Marilyn Chase, 2004. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco.

Myron Echenberg, 2007. Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901.

The Plague in San Francisco. Science. 13:761-5, 1901.

Rupert Blue, 1909. Anti-Plague Measures in San Francisco, California, USA. J. Hyg 9:1-8.

Images: prairie dogs and Rupert Blue, from Wikimedia Commons.

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Gunmen refuse to leave in Malaysia border standoff

KUALA LUMPUR/MANILA (Reuters) - About 100 armed men holed up in a village in the Malaysian state of Sabah are refusing to leave, saying they have links with the Sultanate of Sulu in the Philippines which has a historic claim over the northern tip of Borneo island.

Malaysia police and army officials have formed a tight security ring around the village, media said, with navy boats patrolling nearby islands. The gunmen landed near the coastal town of Lahad Datu on Tuesday.

The drama on Borneo island has threatened to spark diplomatic tension between the Southeast Asian neighbors whose ties have been periodically frayed by security and migration problems caused by a porous sea border.

"They demand to be acknowledged as citizens of the Sultanate of Sulu," Abdullah Kiram, a son of the Sultan of Sulu, Ismael Kiram the II, told Reuters in Manila.

Sulu is an archipelago in the southern Philippines. Today, it is a province but the old sultanate covered a wider area that included the northern tip of Borneo, which is now the Malaysian state of Sabah.

In an arrangement that stretches back to British colonial times, Malaysia pays a token amount to the sultanate each year for the "rental" of Sabah.

"They want to be acknowledged as citizens of their own land. They own Sabah," said Kiram. Sultans in the Muslim-majority Philippine south have no power but generally enjoy the respect of the people.

Malaysian officials said they suspected the men were a faction of a Philippine Muslim rebel group. Philippine officials said they were unarmed Filipinos who had been promised land.

A spokesman for the Philippine Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Malaysia had given an assurance that efforts were underway to get the men to leave peacefully.

"We therefore urge these concerned individuals to return to their homes and families," said spokesman Raul Hernandez said.

Malaysia's police chief said on Thursday the situation was not tense and the men appeared to be "behaving well".

"Discussion is proceeding well and we have told them to leave Sabah peacefully, as we do not want any situation which can threaten the security of the people," Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar told a news conference, according to state news agency Bernama.

The Philippine embassy in Kuala Lumpur has sent a team to Sabah to coordinate with authorities there and to ascertain the identities of the men.

Sabah has a history of militants attacks in more remote parts of the state. The United States had issued travel warnings in the past to Sabah's east coast which has diving sites.

In 2000, a group of militants from the southern Philippines kidnapped 21 tourists from diving resort on Sipadan island. In 1985, 11 people were killed when gunmen believed to be from the southern Philippines entered Lahad Datu, shooting at random before robbing a bank.

(Additional reporting by Al Zaquan Amer Hamzah; Writing by Siva Sithraputhran; Editing by Niluksi Koswanage and Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmens-royal-army-id-adds-twist-malaysia-border-033758405.html

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Hubble sees cosmic 'flying v' of merging galaxies

Feb. 15, 2013 ? The Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of a large "flying V" that is actually two distinct objects -- a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184.

Both the galaxies are seen almost edge-on in the large, faint northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), and can be seen as bright streaks of light surrounded by the ghostly shapes of their tidal tails.

These tidal tails are thin, elongated streams of gas, dust and stars that extend away from a galaxy into space. They occur when galaxies gravitationally interact with one another, and material is sheared from the outer edges of each body and flung out into space in opposite directions, forming two tails. They almost always appear curved, so when they are seen to be relatively straight, as in this image, it is clear that we are viewing the galaxies side-on.

Also visible in this image are bursts of bright blue, pinpointing hot regions where the colliding gas clouds stir up vigorous star formation. The image consists of visible and infrared observations from Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

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Mayor Bloomberg: Compete For The (Sandy Relief) Gold

Last week, we reported on the first numbers coming from City Hall on just how we're gonna spend the $1.77 billion allotted to us by Washington for initial Sandy recovery efforts. Those figures showed that the money would basically be split into three main categories: housing redevelopment ($720 million), infrastructure improvement ($140 million) and, most importantly for this story, local business revival ($185 million).

The Mayor had two plans on the economic front. First, City Hall would hand out 'resiliency funds' to get downed companies back on their feet, which covers $40 million or so. Second, the remaining $145 million would go towards competitive bidding - a private sector option that has proven to be Mayor Bloomberg's economic planning go-to. We witnessed this move with the Roosevelt Island applied science school competition, the MTA app contest and those damn "micro-unit" apartments.

And, now, we're seeing this same gesture play out with Sandy relief money. Although the targeted millons is fragile to those in distress, the main gist of the proposed competitions aims to answer a worthwhile question: what will we do when the next Sandy hits?

There will be three competitions for these potential treasure chests of cash. And here's how they're gonna play out:

- The first contest is worth $5 million. Applicants will vie to create blueprints that provide businesses with new, storm-resistant technologies. So, the next time around, we won't need millions to save companies that suffered at the hands of natural disaster.

- The second contest is worth $40 million. Utility companies are invited to test out their ideas on how to make sure things like this never happen again. We're looking at you, LIPA.

- The third contest is worth $100 million. The largest chunk of competitive bidding money will be given to entrepreneurial efforts in still-recovering areas, like the Rockaways and Red Hook. According to the Mayor, the hefty reward will hopefully spark economic activity in areas that seriously need it the most.

With these three contests in place, Mayor Bloomberg will become the first official in the country to spend the federal disaster relief monies in this format. And that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Best of luck to the competitors - the City will be on standby.

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Source: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/02/mayor_bloomberg_54.php

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Sony Xperia Z to launch in Europe on February 21st; Sweden's 3 takes pre-orders

It looks like the Sony Xperia Z will be launched throughout Europe on February 21st, which is next Thursday. The device captured all of the buzz at CES 2013 last month with its 5 inch, FHD screen, quad-core processor, 13MP rear camera, all housed in a waterproof and dustproof casing. Sony's Facebook page says that the handset will launch from Sony's Berlin store on February 21st. And while nothing official has been said about the rest of? the continent, an invitation has been sent out for another Sony Xperia Z event on the same date for another European country. This would seem to provide evidence that all of Europe will see the release of the Sony Xperia Z on the same date.One of the first carriers to take pre-orders for Sony's new buzz-worthy model is Sweden's 3. The mobile operator is taking reservations now for the Sony Xperia Z which is LTE enabled and will come out of the box with Android 4.1. Including taxes, the phone will cost SEK 5,495 ($870.17 USD). The handset is also available for free with certain two year consumer or business plans.

The Sony Xperia Z is an IP57 certified device. The 5 indicates "limited dust ingress protection" while the? 7 stands for "Protection against immersion between 15cm and 1m depth" for a duration of up to 30 minutes. Which means that the device will survive that drop into the toilet or the fall into the pool that usually is the end of most smartphones' lives.

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Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-Xperia-Z-to-launch-in-Europe-on-February-21st-Swedens-3-takes-pre-orders_id39840

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World stocks fall on slumping German economy

BANGKOK (AP) ? Disappointing news about Germany's economy sent world stock markets down on Friday as investors turned their attention to a major economic conference this weekend.

Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent to 6,318.14. Germany's DAX lost 0.3 percent to 7,607.49 and France's CAC-40 shed less than 0.1 percent to 3,668.30. Wall Street also appeared headed for a day of losses, with Dow Jones industrial futures falling 0.2 percent to 13,926. S&P 500 futures lost 0.2 percent to 1,515.10.

Those drops came a day after Germany said its economy contracted a worse-than-expected 0.6 percent in the last quarter of 2012 as recession deepened across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro. It was Germany's worst performance since early 2009, amid a global recession.

The worry for European policymakers is that output is declining beyond weaker, debt-laden economies like Greece and Spain. France, Europe's second-biggest economy, also suffered a drop in output.

"A number of analysts have been making the case for quite some time now that the worst in Europe is probably behind us. However the steepness of the contractions ... appears to have given markets pause," said Michael Hewson of CMC Markets in an email commentary.

Finance ministers from 20 of the world's leading economies are meeting in Moscow this weekend to take up a host of issues, including concerns about a possible currency war.

Japan's new government has voiced a desire for a lower yen as a way to boost exports and its weak economy. But there are fears that more countries will seek to manipulate their currencies to gain trade advantages.

The slowdown in Europe was gloomy news for Asian countries, which depend on exports to the region to help drive their economies.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.2 percent to close at 11,173.83. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.1 percent to 23,444.56. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.1 percent to 1,981.18. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.1 percent at 5,033.90.

Benchmarks in Singapore, Thailand and New Zealand also fell. Mainland China and Taiwan were closed for Lunar New Year holidays.

Jackson Wong, vice president at Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong, said the Hang Seng was pausing before markets on mainland China reopen Monday after a weeklong Chinese New Year holiday.

"Analysts are expected a decent gain on the first day," he said, referring to mainland Chinese stocks. "I do expect a gain but not a huge gain. Chinese markets have been moving up steadily like the Hong Kong market. I believe they will continue this trend."

Japanese export shares, which have surged in recent weeks from a weakening yen, got hammered as the Japanese currency reversed course. Sharp Corp. plunged 4 percent. Ricoh Co. shed 3.4 percent. Yamaha Motor Co. tumbled 5.7 percent.

Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto fell 2.7 percent after posting a $3 billion loss for 2012 after taking a $14 billion writedown from its aluminum business and the acquisition of a coal company in Mozambique.

Benchmark oil for March delivery was down 27 cents to $97.04 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 30 cents to finish at $97.31 per barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.

In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3335 from $1.3346 late Thursday in New York. The dollar fell to 92.40 yen from 93.02 yen.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-stocks-fall-slumping-german-economy-091623347--finance.html

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Evolutionary origins of human dietary patterns

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Research: Roles of diet, energy expenditures in rising obesity rates to be presented

EVANSTON, Ill. --- William Leonard has conducted extensive research on the diets and ways of prehistoric populations. A paper on his research will be presented Friday, Feb. 15, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The research shows that the transition from subsistence to a modern, sedentary lifestyle has created energy imbalances that have increased rapidly -- evolutionarily speaking -- in recent years and now play a major role in obesity.

Leonard, chair and professor of anthropology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, was scheduled to present his research. However, in his absence, the presentation of his paper, Metabolic Challenges of the Modern World: Evolution and Human Nutritional Health, will be given by his colleague. The presentation is part of the symposium The Scars of Human Evolution to be held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 302 of Bostons Hynes Convention Center.

The presenter will discuss Leonards work examining the evolutionary origins of human dietary and activity patterns and their implications for understanding modern health problems. Drawing on data from the U.S. and traditional, subsistence-level societies, the presenter will examine the roles of both diet and energy expenditure in contributing to the rising obesity rates in the modern world.

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary perspectives on human dietary consumption and nutritional health have received greater attention among both anthropologists and nutritional scientists. Humans have evolved distinctive nutritional characteristics associated with the high metabolic costs of our large brains.

The evolution of larger hominid brain size necessitated the development of foraging strategies that both provided high quality foods and required larger ranges and activity budgets, Leonard said.

Over time, human subsistence strategies have become more efficient in obtaining energy with minimal time and effort. Today, populations of the industrialized world live in environments characterized by low levels of energy expenditure and abundant food supplies contributing to growing rates of obesity.

Leonards research has focused on biological anthropology and the adaptability, nutrition and growth and development of people in South America, Siberia and the United States. He has extensive field experience and has traveled the world to conduct research.

In October 2011, the Discovery Channel aired I Caveman. Leonard was a consultant on the program, which examined how well modern-day humans could adapt to a traditional hunting and gathering way of life in high-altitude Colorado. He evaluated changes in body weight and health status in the participants over the course of the experiment. The 10 participants all lost weight, experienced significant improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels, while following a typical Paleolithic lifestyle-consuming a diet of game, fish and wild plant foods.

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Symposium information
"The Scars of Human Evolution"
1:30-4:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 15
Room 302 (Hynes Convention Center)

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Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso
h-anyaso@northwestern.edu
847-491-4887
Northwestern University

Research: Roles of diet, energy expenditures in rising obesity rates to be presented

EVANSTON, Ill. --- William Leonard has conducted extensive research on the diets and ways of prehistoric populations. A paper on his research will be presented Friday, Feb. 15, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The research shows that the transition from subsistence to a modern, sedentary lifestyle has created energy imbalances that have increased rapidly -- evolutionarily speaking -- in recent years and now play a major role in obesity.

Leonard, chair and professor of anthropology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, was scheduled to present his research. However, in his absence, the presentation of his paper, Metabolic Challenges of the Modern World: Evolution and Human Nutritional Health, will be given by his colleague. The presentation is part of the symposium The Scars of Human Evolution to be held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 302 of Bostons Hynes Convention Center.

The presenter will discuss Leonards work examining the evolutionary origins of human dietary and activity patterns and their implications for understanding modern health problems. Drawing on data from the U.S. and traditional, subsistence-level societies, the presenter will examine the roles of both diet and energy expenditure in contributing to the rising obesity rates in the modern world.

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary perspectives on human dietary consumption and nutritional health have received greater attention among both anthropologists and nutritional scientists. Humans have evolved distinctive nutritional characteristics associated with the high metabolic costs of our large brains.

The evolution of larger hominid brain size necessitated the development of foraging strategies that both provided high quality foods and required larger ranges and activity budgets, Leonard said.

Over time, human subsistence strategies have become more efficient in obtaining energy with minimal time and effort. Today, populations of the industrialized world live in environments characterized by low levels of energy expenditure and abundant food supplies contributing to growing rates of obesity.

Leonards research has focused on biological anthropology and the adaptability, nutrition and growth and development of people in South America, Siberia and the United States. He has extensive field experience and has traveled the world to conduct research.

In October 2011, the Discovery Channel aired I Caveman. Leonard was a consultant on the program, which examined how well modern-day humans could adapt to a traditional hunting and gathering way of life in high-altitude Colorado. He evaluated changes in body weight and health status in the participants over the course of the experiment. The 10 participants all lost weight, experienced significant improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels, while following a typical Paleolithic lifestyle-consuming a diet of game, fish and wild plant foods.

###

(Source contact: William Leonard at w-leonard1@northwestern.edu, office: 847-491-4839; or mobile: 224-436-7063)

Symposium information
"The Scars of Human Evolution"
1:30-4:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 15
Room 302 (Hynes Convention Center)

NORTHWESTERN NEWS: www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/


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Deep space missions? Magnetic shielding of ion beam thruster walls may provide power

Feb. 13, 2013 ? Electric rocket engines known as Hall thrusters, which use a super high-velocity stream of ions to propel a spacecraft in space, have been used successfully onboard many missions for half a century. Erosion of the discharge channels walls, however, has limited their application to the inner solar system. A research team at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., has found a way to effectively control this erosion by shaping the engine's magnetic field in a way that shields the walls from ion bombardment.

Ions are produced in Hall thrusters when electrons from an electric current collide with the propellant atoms to form a plasma in the discharge chamber. Thrust is then generated by the interaction of this current with an applied magnetic field that creates a strong electric field. The magnetic field is mostly perpendicular to the channel walls whereas the electric field is mostly parallel to the walls. This electric field then acts as the driving force on the ions, accelerating them to very high speeds (>45,000 mph) toward the exhaust opening. However, the presence of a plasma in the thruster's discharge chamber leads also to a small component of the electric field parallel to the magnetic field lines. This component then accelerates some ions toward the discharge chamber (rather than the exhaust opening) causing erosion by sputtering material from the walls.

Guided by theory and numerical simulations, the research team designed a thruster configuration in which the effect of the plasma on the magnetic field lines along the walls is minimized, forcing the electric field to be perpendicular to the lines. Based on the numerical predictions, the effect of this magnetic field topology would be to accelerate ions away from walls while also significantly reducing their energy adjacent to the walls. Erosion then would be reduced without degrading propulsive performance. The method now known as magnetic shielding was verified by experiments in a vacuum facility using a modified thruster. The combined results of the simulations and experiments demonstrated that there was 100 to 1,000 times less wall erosion when using magnetic shielding.

The results were published in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) journal Applied Physics Letters.

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  1. Ioannis G. Mikellides, Ira Katz, Richard R. Hofer, Dan M. Goebel. Magnetic shielding of walls from the unmagnetized ion beam in a Hall thruster. Applied Physics Letters, 2013; 102 (2): 023509 DOI: 10.1063/1.4776192

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Iran denies shipping arms to Islamist militants in Somalia

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran has denied allegations that it has been supplying Islamist militants in Somalia with weapons, describing the charges as "absurd fabrications," according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday.

As the United States pushes for an end to the U.N. arms embargo on Somalia, U.N. monitors following Somalia sanctions are warning that Islamist militants in the Horn of Africa nation are receiving weapons from distribution networks linked to Yemen and Iran, diplomats told Reuters.

According to the latest findings by the U.N. Security Council's monitoring group, which tracks compliance with U.N. sanctions on Somalia and Eritrea, most illicit arms are coming into northern Somalia - that is, the autonomous Puntland and Somaliland regions - after which they are moved farther south into strongholds of Islamist al Shabaab militants.

"The allegations of arm transfers from Iran to Somalia are absurd fabrications and have no basis or validity," Iran's U.N. mission wrote to the U.N. Security Council in a letter obtained by Reuters. "Thus it is categorically rejected by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

"It is unfortunate that the Monitoring Group has, in an obvious irresponsible manner, put such unfounded allegations and strange fabrications in its report, without first bothering itself to communicate them to my Government," Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee wrote to the council.

"It is further regrettable that the content of the report is leaked to the media for propaganda purposes," he wrote. "This malicious campaign, which is done in the name of the United Nations, endangers the credibility of the Security Council along with that of the United Nations."

SOMALI NETWORKS

The monitoring team's concerns about Iranian and Yemeni links to arms supplies for al Shabaab militants come as Yemen is asking Tehran to stop backing armed groups on Yemeni soil. Last month the Yemeni coast guard and the U.S. Navy seized a consignment of missiles and rockets the Sanaa government says were sent by Iran.

According to the monitoring group, the supply chains in Yemen that provide al Shabaab with arms are largely Somali networks, council diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

Yemen is just across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia's northern coast, making it easy to move all kinds of goods - legal and illegal - from the Middle East into Somaliland and Puntland.

Iran's U.N. mission also wrote to the council regarding the allegations about the ship containing arms bound for Yemen. It denied responsibility for those weapons.

"It has been further claimed that the items seized on board ... the ship were produced in Iran," Khazaee wrote in a separate letter to the council. "Even if some of these items were made in Iran, this does not provide any evidence that Iran was involved in the shipment of arms to Yemen."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the 15-nation council should consider lifting the arms embargo to help rebuild Somalia's security forces and consolidate military gains against the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants.

It is a position that has the strong backing of the United States, which is pushing for an end to the 21-year-old U.N. arms embargo. The Security Council imposed it in 1992 to cut the flow of arms to feuding warlords, who a year earlier had ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged Somalia into civil war.

France and Britain oppose lifting the arms embargo for the government, U.N. diplomats say, and would prefer a more gradual easing of the restrictions on arms sales to Somalia's government.

(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; editing by Patrick Graham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-denies-shipping-arms-islamist-militants-somalia-070732571.html

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Does 'I love you' mean your relationship is in trouble?

Feb. 14, 2013 ? Cuddling, kissing and holding hands are the kinds of behavior you might expect to see this time of year. So why do the days that follow Valentine's Day mark the largest spike on the calendar for breakups?

Affectionate behavior is not all that it seems, according to relational communication expert Sean Horan, an assistant professor at DePaul University in the College of Communication.

"Gestures such as hand holding, kissing and cuddling could be indicators that your partner is mad at you," explained Horan.

In the study "Understanding the Routine Expression of Deceptive Affection in Romantic Relationships," forthcoming in Communication Quarterly, co-author Horan examined how and why deceptive affectionate behavior occurs.

Deceptive affection means that an individual in a romantic relationship chooses to express affection he or she does not actually feel, according to the findings.

Horan, along with co-author Melanie Booth-Butterfield, a professor at West Virginia University, discovered that non-married individuals expressed deceptive affection about three times a week to romantic partners.

"Couples use deceptive affection because they feel negatively about their partner and want to save face, avoid embarrassing their partner or sidestep a situation that may land them in hot water," said Horan.

Examples of this kind of deception include lying about one's own feelings or feelings about a partner and expressing affection instead of negative feelings, he noted.

One participant confessed she didn't want to hug or cuddle her boyfriend because she was in a bad mood but did so anyway. Another told his girlfriend he loved her to get off the phone faster so he could watch a basketball game. And when one woman's boyfriend asked if she liked his new haircut, she lied and said she did, in order to spare his feelings.

According to the study's findings, couples use verbal and non-verbal affection in hopes that a sweet caress or profession of love will mask their true feelings.

However, don't let paranoia kick in and assume your love will wilt faster than Valentine's Day roses. Horan noted that this isn't necessarily negative behavior.

"Using affection to lie appears to be a regular activity in romantic relationships that most people don't seem to mind," he said. "In fact, deceptive affection might actually help maintain a relationship."

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  1. Sean M. Horan, Melanie Booth-Butterfield. Is It Worth Lying For? Physiological and Emotional Implications of Recalling Deceptive Affection. Human Communication Research, 2011; 37 (1): 78 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2010.01394.x

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Florida LB Dillon Bates offered by Texas

The Longhorns offered the son of another former Cowboy player.

In the midst of all the prospects coming to Austin for the first Texas Longhorns Junior Day on Sunday, the coaching staff decided to extend an offer to Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) linebacker Dilon Bates.

If the name Bates sounds familiar, it should to Dallas Cowboys fans -- Dillon is the son of longtime Cowboys special-team standout Bill, who proudly wore the star on his helmet for his long NFL career that spanned the years of 1983 to 1997, the glory days for America's Team.

The younger Bates is a better prospect than his father was coming out of Knoxville, Tennessee when Bill joined the Volunteer program and met his future wife. At 6-3 and 220 pounds, Dillon is two inches taller and almost 10 pounds heavier than his father was during his playing career, with plenty of room on his frame to play at 235 pounds in college.

Considered a top-10 outside linebacker in the nation by the 247Sports composite rankings and a top-20 player in the state of Florida, Bates is a prospect who projects as versatile enough in college to handle himself in space against spread teams, but also has the frame and overall size to be able to match up against offensive linemen at the second level.

A native Texan, Bates spent some time growing up in Texas and is tentatively planning on visiting Austin, where the presence of a player like Jackon Jeffcoat, whose own father played with Bill Bates for the 'Boys, would likely help Bates feel more at home than he does on many out-of-state visits.

And as for the Tennessee connections, Bates has said that he's open to all possibilities, hardly unexpected for a prospect with national offers like those from national powers like Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech.

The rangy outside linebacker has already visited Tennessee twice in the last three months, along with Junior Days at several Florida schools and trips to Ohio State and Alabama, so he's had a chance to take some visits and the travel costs to make it to Austin shouldn't be an issue.

It's a longshot for the 'Horns, who finally got some good news at the linebacker position in 2014 on Sunday with the pledge of Carter linebacker Cameron Hampton, but they are probably still looking to add two more prospects in the class while moving cautiously with the evaluations of players like Allen linebacker Tay Evans, and Bates should probably make it to Austin at some point, so there's no harm in trying.

A lot of people in the industry believe it's an approach that Texas should take more often.

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Media Journal: Sony?s Starz Gazing; CBS? Prime Time

Here?s your morning roundup of the biggest media industry news and happenings. Send tips, suggestions and complaints to?william.launder@dowjones.com

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SONY REACHES FOR STARZ

Starz renewed a so-called output deal with Sony?s entertainment business, in a deal that retains the premium channel?s pipeline of movie content through 2021 amid mounting competition from Netflix. The deal comes at a critical point for Starz,?WSJ reports, given that Netflix usurped its output deal with Disney late last year and has been?hungry for more content.

And speaking of going on the offensive against Netflix,?a streaming arrangement?between Amazon and CBS will bring the new Stephen King mini-series ?Under the Dome? to Amazon Prime subscribers around the same time the show debuts in June. Ad Age weighs in on?what it considers the?unusual aspects of the deal.

FULL-COURT PRESS:?Dish Network is back in court, this time accusing ESPN of?unfairly offering more favorable rates?to competitors in violation of a long-running licensing agreement. ESPN?s attorneys, meanwhile, say Dish is trying to ?cherry pick? attractive parts of other distributors? contracts. This?isn?t Dish?s first standoff with Disney. Elsewhere, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen?spells out his views on several topics, including?cord-cutting, why Dish?needs a wireless network?and his company?s reputation as?a horrible place to work?at the??Dive into Media? conference.

More after the jump?

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/12/media-journal-sonys-starz-gazing-cbs-prime-time/?mod=WSJBlog

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