Offshore wind still years off after 1st auction

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- It will be a few years before energy is generated by any offshore wind farm in the United States, but efforts to get more of the nation's energy from such sources took a major step forward last week when the federal government for the first time auctioned off leases for wind energy on the outer continental shelf.

Providence-based Deepwater Wind was the provisional winner of the two leases for an area that starts around 10 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and stretches between and to the south of Block Island and Martha's Vineyard. The company bid $3.8 million for the two leases combined, beating out two other bidders in the auction held Wednesday by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior.

Tommy Beaudreau, director of the bureau, called it a historic moment in the future of clean energy in the country and said it would help in meeting President Barack Obama's goal of increasing the amount of clean energy generated on public lands. The Department of Energy has estimated the area could support enough electricity to power more than 1 million homes.

There are no offshore wind farms in the U.S., though several are being developed, including Cape Wind off Cape Cod and a small 5-turbine project off Block Island, being developed by Deepwater. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management also plans to auction off leases for several other offshore wind development areas, including Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia, where an auction will be held next month.

Deepwater CEO Jeff Grybowski said after the auction that the work for his company begins now. It will have to look closely at the area it is leasing and win state and federal permits that will allow the company to begin construction. That process is expected to last into 2015.

"We need to study everything from the birds and the whales to the ocean floor. We need to study the wind patterns out there and the waves," Grybowski said.

Assuming it receives permits, Deepwater will then begin construction onshore of foundations and other components, which will happen at Quonset Point in North Kingstown. Grybowski said an aggressive schedule could mean the company starts putting turbines in the water in 2017. It plans to erect 200 turbines, which would generate 1,000 megawatts, he said.

The project would start generating power in 2018.

The first offshore wind farm operating in the U.S. is expected to be either Deepwater's smaller project or Cape Wind. Cape Wind officials have said construction could begin later this year, while Grybowski said work is scheduled to start next year on the 5-turbine Deepwater project, with operation expected in 2015.

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China's Army Defends 'Sovereign Territory' from Japanese in Game

These are just some of the "guizi", the derogatory Chinese term for the Japanese occupiers during World War Two, that will die at the hands of Chinese troops defending their sovereign land, in a new Chinese video game released on Thursday, the anniversary of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) founding.

"Glorious Mission Online" was developed by Giant Interactive Group, a Chinese developer and publisher, in collaboration with the PLA for use in training simulations. It has entered into the CBT on August 1st.

Now it has been released as an online game, allowing players to defend contested islands in the East China Sea -- Diaoyu to the Chinese, Senkaku to the Japanese.

"Players will do battle alongside the PLA, with guns in hand, and tell the Japanese: 'You will not violate our sovereign territory!'" says a statement on the game's website.

The row over the barren clump of rocks in the East China Sea - administered by Japan - has badly affected relations between Beijing and Tokyo.

Japan's defense ministry declined to comment on the game's release.

The PLA was interested in having a 3D interactive game for simulations with virtual replicas of their weapons, said Richard Chiang, a spokesman for Giant Interactive.

"The military was 100 percent behind this game," he said. "Rather than playing the same foreign games like Call of Duty and being American Marines shooting Russians or whatnot, Chinese can actually play as Chinese soldiers."

Glorious Mission Online plays much like any other first-person shooter, though nationalism is prominent.

Weibo of People's Daily shows the PLAs are testing this game.

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One mission has players fighting with "burning passion" from the deck of the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, in a "life-and-death" battle.

"The guizi are coming!" warns the game in a scenario where players are tasked with defending a World War Two-era Shanghai and its cultural artefacts from Japanese invaders.

"The guizi have been obliterated!" Glorious Mission congratulates the player after a grenade explodes under the last enemy's feet. Shanghai's museums are saved.

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Iranian news agency says it misquoted Rouhani

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency says it misquoted the country's president-elect Hasan Rouhani.

ISNA reported Friday that Rouhani said "the Zionist regime has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world for years and the wound should be removed" in remarks ahead of his inauguration.

The remarks, made during an annual pro-Palestinian rally, echoed longstanding views of other Iranian leaders and threatened to tarnish his image in the West as a voice of moderation in Iranian affairs.

But after an outcry, ISNA corrected the quote, saying Rouhani actually said "in our region and under occupation of Palestine and dear al-Quds (Jerusalem), there has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world."

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Chevron's 2Q profit falls on lower oil prices

Chevron's latest quarterly profit was huge _ $5.37 billion _ but down 26 percent from last year due to lower oil prices, less production, and maintenance work at some refineries.

The results mirrored lower profit at Exxon Mobil and Shell, and they also lagged Wall Street expectations. Chevron shares fell $1.49, or 1.2 percent, to $124.95 Friday.

Consumers aren't likely to feel sorry for Chevron _ not after they fill their tanks at the national average of $3.63 for a gallon of gas. And Chevron's quarterly profit was much fatter than those at Google, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson _ like Chevron, they all rank among the 10 biggest companies by stock market value.

But for the second-biggest U.S. oil company, Chevron Corp.'s haul was considered disappointing because a year ago it earned $7.21 billion.

Chevron's profit worked out to $2.77 per share, down from $3.66 per share a year ago. Analysts were expecting $2.97 per share, according to FactSet.

Revenue fell 8 percent to $57.37 billion but came in higher than the $56.01 billion that analysts expected.

Chairman and CEO John Watson said earnings fell "largely due to softer market conditions for crude oil and refined products." He said repair and maintenance work on U.S. refineries was also a factor.

In percentage terms, Chevron's profit decline was only half as steep as those reported Thursday by Exxon Mobil Corp., which earned $6.86 billion on revenue of $106.47 billion, and Royal Dutch Shell. But the causes were similar _ lower oil prices and declining production.

The average price that Chevron got for a barrel of oil or natural gas liquids was $92 in the United States and $94 overseas; both were down $5 a barrel from last year's second quarter. Natural gas prices in the U.S. jumped 74 percent, but that was up from 10-year lows in 2012.

Chevron sold more natural gas in the U.S., but sales of refined products such as gasoline dipped both at home and overseas.

Production of oil and gas fell 1.6 percent, midway between Shell's 1.3 percent decline and Exxon's 1.9 percent decrease.

Chevron boosted production in the Marcellus shale of Pennsylvania, a deep-water development in the Gulf of Mexico and a new project in Angola, but that wasn't enough to offset declines in maturing fields elsewhere.

This week's numbers underscored the challenge that the major oil companies face to tap new sources. They must drill in remote areas or blast through tight rock formations. The costs are high, and it can take years for a project to begin producing crude.

Big Oil may be reining in any ambitions of boosting production. Exxon has posted nine straight quarters in which output sank from 12 months earlier. Shell announced it was dropping plans to raise production to 4 million barrels per day by 2018 from the current 3 million per day.

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Uruguay takes step toward full pot legalization

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) ? Uruguay's unprecedented plan to put the government at the center of a legal marijuana industry has made it halfway through congress, giving President Jose Mujica a long-sought victory in his effort to explore alternatives to the global war on drugs.

All 50 members of the governing Broad Front coalition approved the proposal in a party line vote just before midnight Wednesday, keeping a narrow majority of the 96 lawmakers present after more than 13 hours of passionate debate.

The measure now goes to the Senate, where Mujica's coalition has a bigger majority and passage is expected to come within weeks for the proposal to make Uruguay the world's first nation to create a legal, regulated marijuana market.

"Sometimes small countries do great things," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the U.S. Drug Policy Alliance. "Uruguay's bold move does more than follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington. It provides a model for legally regulating marijuana that other countries, and U.S. states, will want to consider - and a precedent that will embolden others to follow in their footsteps."

Marijuana legalization efforts have gained momentum across the Americas in recent years as leaders watch the death toll rise from military responses to unabated drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America. Presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala also have called for reforms, and a recent report by a commission of the Organization of American States encouraged new approaches, including legalization of marijuana.

But no sitting president has gone as far as Mujica to support the creation of legal alternatives to marijuana trafficking.

"At the heart of the Uruguayan marijuana regulation bill is a focus on improving public health and public safety," said Hannah Hetzer, a Drug Policy Alliance staffer who moved to Montevideo to help shepherd the proposal. "Instead of closing their eyes to the problem of drug abuse and drug trafficking, Uruguay is taking an important step towards responsible regulation of an existing reality."

Legislators in the governing coalition said putting the government at the center of a legal marijuana industry is worth trying because the global war on drugs had been a costly and bloody failure, and displacing illegal dealers through licensed pot sales could save money and lives.

They also hope to eliminate a legal contradiction in Uruguay, where it has been legal to use pot but against the law to sell it, buy it, produce it or possess even one marijuana plant.

Critics warned that marijuana is a gateway drug and said fostering the bad habits of addicts is playing with fire.

Mujica said he never consumed marijuana, but believes regulations are necessary because many other people do, even though recent polls suggest two-thirds of Uruguayans oppose the plan.

National Party Deputy Gerardo Amarilla said the government was underestimating the risk of marijuana, which he called a "gateway drug" for other chemical addictions that foster violent crimes.

"Ninety-eight percent of those who are today destroying themselves with base cocaine began with marijuana," Amarilla said. "I believe that we're risking too much. I have the sensation that we're playing with fire."

Under the legislation, Uruguay's government would license growers, sellers and consumers, and update a confidential registry to keep people from buying more than 40 grams a month.

Carrying, growing or selling pot without a license could bring prison terms, but licensed consumers could grow up to six plants at a time at home.

Growing clubs with up to 45 members each would be encouraged, fostering enough marijuana production to drive out unlicensed dealers and draw a line between pot smokers and users of harder drugs.

The latest proposal "has some adjustments, aimed at strengthening the educational issue and prohibiting driving under the effects of cannabis," ruling coalition deputy Sebastian Sabini said. "There will be self-growing clubs, and it will also be possible to buy marijuana in pharmacies" that is mass-produced by private companies.

An Institute for Regulation and Control of Cannabis would be created, with the power to grant licenses for all aspects of a legal industry to produce marijuana for recreational, medicinal or industrial use.

Dozens of pro-marijuana activists followed the debate from balconies overlooking the house floor, while others outside held signs and danced to reggae music.

"This law consecrates a reality that already exists: The marijuana sales market has existed for a long time, but illegally, buying it from traffickers, and in having plants in your house for which you can be thrown in jail," said Camilo Collazo, a 25-year-old anthropology student. "We want to put an end to this, to clean up and normalize the situation."

The heavy toll, costs and questionable results of military responses to illegal drugs have motivated marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington, and inspired many world leaders to re-think drug laws.

The secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Inzulza, told Mujica last week that his members had no objections. Pope Francis, however, said during his visit to Brazil that the "liberalization of drugs, which is being discussed in several Latin American countries, is not what will reduce the spread of chemical substances."

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Associated Press Writer Michael Warren in Buenos Aires contributed to this report.

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?Free, honest and credible?: African Union approves Zimbabwe elections

The head of the African Union?s election observer team has said that Zimbabwe?s presidential and parliamentary votes this week were ?free, honest and credible.?

That verdict contradicts an assessment made on Thursday by Zimbabwe?s biggest domestic monitoring group, in which it was claimed voting was ?seriously compromised?, particularly in urban areas where support for Morgan Tsvangirai, the bitter rival of President Robert Mugabe, is thought to be stronger.

Mugabe?s Zanu-PF party is already claiming victory in the presidential election, predicting that the 89-year-old leader who is running for a seventh presidential term, will have won at least 70 percent of the vote. A party spokesman said of the parliamentary vote that Zanu-PF would have at least 130 to 140 of the 210 parliamentary seats to be decided.

As for Tsvangirai, he has denounced the election as a ?huge farce?. ?The credibility of this election has been marred by administrative and legal violations which affected the legitimacy of its outcome,? he said on Thursday.

According to the first official results ? leaking unofficial results is illegal in this Zimbabwean election ? Mugabe?s Zanu-PF finds itself in the lead, although these results only include seats in rural areas, where Mugabe enjoys considerably more support than his rival Tsvangirai.

The Zimbabwe Election support Network, the country?s biggest domestic election observer group, has said that in urban areas, eight out of 10 polling stations turned away potential voters, with nearly four out of 10 rural stations doing the same. Up to a million people out of the 6.4 registered voters were unable to cast their ballots, it said.

However, Olusegun Obasanjo, who leads the Afruican Union observer mission has said that it could not verify these claims, and that the registrar-general had satisfactorily accounted for any discrepancies in the electoral roll.

Zimbabwe?s Electoral Commission has until Monday to declare the final official results.

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Stocks rise after tepid jobs news

Stocks rose Friday?despite the US adding fewer jobs than forecast in July, curbing optimism that the economy is poised to pick up strength in the second half of the year. Stocks gradually recovered throughout the day and major indexes ended slightly higher.?

By Steve Rothwell,?AP Markets Writer / August 2, 2013

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The Standard & Poor's 500 index ended the week 1 percent higher after breaking through 1,700 points for the first time Thursday. The index has risen for five of the last six weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent and is on a streak of six weekly gains.

On Friday, indexes dropped in early trading after the U.S. added fewer jobs than forecast in July, curbing optimism that the economy is poised to pick up strength in the second half of the year. The market gradually recovered throughout the day and major indexes ended slightly higher. The gains were enough to set all-time highs for the Dow and S&P.

The government reported that 162,000 jobs were created last month, pushing the unemployment rate down to a 4?-year low of 7.4 percent. The number of jobs added was the lowest since March and below the 183,000 economists polled by FactSet were expecting.

Brad Sorensen, Charles Schwab's director of market and sector research, said the jobs report was "moderately disappointing."

"That tepid growth we've seen, (the economy) not being able to reach escape velocity, continues to be the story," Sorenson said.

Investors have been watching economic reports closely and trying to anticipate when the Federal Reserve will start easing back on its economic stimulus. The central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds every month to keep long-term interest rates low and encourage borrowing.

While the jobs report wasn't encouraging, it did make it more likely that the Fed would take its time cutting back on stimulus, said Doug Lockwood of Hefty Wealth Partners. The stimulus from the central bank has been an important factor powering a four-year bull run in?stocks.

"As long as there's this concept that the Fed may still need to be involved and stimulate, that's good for both the bond and the?stock?market," said Lockwood. "You're seeing the trampoline effect; the market drops and then comes back up."

The S&P 500 ended Friday up 2.80 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,709.67. The index is up 5 percent since the start of July. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 30.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,658.36.

Seven of the 10 industry sectors that make up the S&P 500 gained, led by consumer discretionary?stocks. Of the three groups that fell, energy?stocks?dropped the most.

Investors were also assessing company earnings.

Chevron fell after it became the latest big energy company to disappoint investors with lower earnings. Chevron's profit fell 26 percent to $5.4 billion due to lower oil prices and maintenance work at refineries. The?stock?fell $1.49, or 1.2 percent, to $124.95.

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Washington Officials Put Brakes on Coal Shipments, Call For 2-Year Study

Environment Washington Officials Put Brakes on Coal Shipments, Call For 2-Year Study

Posted by George Prentice on Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:41 AM

Washington state officials want to slow down any efforts to export massive amounts of coal via trains from the Pacific Northwest to the Far East.

Boise Weekly readers have been familiar with the controversy for more than a year, when we first started reporting about local resistance to shipments of U.S. coal to China. (BW, Feature, "The Dirty Dance," Feb. 1, 2012).

The proposal envisioned shipping millions of tons of coal through Montana, Idaho's panhandle and Washington state before being sent to China.

When word started spreading about the proposal, hundreds of citizens began packing a series of meetings to express their concerns over the environmental and economic effects of the plan.

But on July 31, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Washington's Whatcom County said they would study the proposal over two years while the Washington Department of Ecology conducted a second review of the environmental effects of the coal shipments, including greenhouse gases.

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Better economic growth likely to follow weak Q2

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The economy is expected to have grown at a dismal pace in the April-June quarter, weighed down by large tax increases and steep government spending cuts.

But the second quarter should be the low point for the year, economists say. The fiscal drag is expected to fade. At the same time, steady hiring, more business spending and a solid recovery in housing should push growth higher in the second half of the year.

Economists forecast that growth slowed in the April-June quarter to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 1 percent, according to a survey by FactSet. That's below the tepid rate of 1.8 percent in the January-March quarter.

The Commerce Department will release the first estimate of gross domestic product, or GDP, for the second quarter at 8:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday. GDP is the broadest measure of the output of goods and services, including everything from manicures to industrial machinery.

Most economists say growth is already starting to pick up. And many are predicting annual growth rates of between 2 percent and 3 percent in the third and fourth quarters.

There are threats to the better outlook. Unemployment is still high at 7.6 percent, limiting consumer spending. And budget fights in Washington could lead to a government shutdown this fall, potentially disrupting the economy.

Still, recent data have been encouraging.

"More and more of the economic tea leaves are pointing in the same direction: toward a growth revival ahead," Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West, said.

Home construction, sales and prices have been growing since early last year. Americans purchased newly built homes in June at the fastest pace in five years. That's raised builder confidence to a seven-year high, which should lead to increases in construction and more jobs.

Overall hiring has accelerated this year. Employers have added an average of 202,000 jobs a month from January through June. That's up from 180,000 in the previous six months.

Better hiring has started to boost inflation-adjusted incomes after several years of stagnant wages. Joe Carson, chief U.S. economist at AllianceBernstein, a mutual fund company, calculates that average hourly pay rose at a 3.1 percent annual rate in the second quarter, the fastest pace since the fourth quarter of 2008. That was comfortably ahead of inflation, at just 1 percent.

And business spending has started to increase. Companies have ordered more industrial machinery and other equipment for four months in a row. As those orders are filled, factory production should increase.

Manufacturing is also benefiting from strong auto sales, which topped 7.8 million in the first six months of 2013, the best first-half total since 2007. Analysts expect sales will stay strong for the rest of the year.

Carson notes that housing and autos were the primary sources of growth in the second quarter. Both have benefited from the Federal Reserve's low-interest rate policies. Those sectors usually rebound early in recoveries. But after the Great Recession ended in June 2009, they were held back by tight credit and cash-strapped consumers.

"It's almost like a traditional recovery is just starting, even though we're in the fifth year," Carson said.

Federal Reserve officials have forecast better growth in the second half of the year. And Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that the central bank could begin to scale back its bond purchases later this year if the economy strengthens. But Fed officials typically put greater weight on employment and inflation data than the GDP figures.

The Fed concludes a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday, at which point it could clarify its interest-rate policies.

Most economists blame tax increases and government spending cuts for the sluggish second quarter. Higher taxes slowed consumer spending. And government cuts subtracted nearly a full percentage point from growth at the start of the year.

Even so, the solid pace of hiring suggests the economy is doing better than the growth figures show. Tax receipts have been stronger. Faster growth in the second half of the year would help close those gaps.

The government is also expected to release comprehensive revisions on Wednesday. Roughly every five years, the department incorporates more recent data and adjusts how it calculates GDP.

The revisions will likely show growth was faster in the first quarter and last year than previously estimated, economist say. Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, estimates the revisions could add up to a half-point to last year's 2.2 percent growth rate.

The revisions will also alter GDP data all the way back to 1929. In one major change, the government plans to count spending on research and development as investment, rather than as a regular cost of doing business. That, along with other changes, will boost the level of GDP in 2007 by about 3 percent, or $450 billion. It isn't likely to significantly change the pace of growth in recent years.

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Football mourns Chucho as former Birmingham striker Christian Benitez dies aged 27

Benitez, a father of three-year-old twins, died after reportedly suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest, less than a month after signing for Qatari club Al Jaish.

Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia, an Ecuador team-mate, tweeted a picture of the pair together and wrote: ?Why now brother? This strong pain you?ve caused me will stay forever my brother, but we love you. Please brother. Someone please say no.?

Benitez was admitted to hospital with severe stomach pain hours after making his debut against Qatar Sports Club in the Sheikh Jassem Cup on Sunday but died shortly afterwards.

Fabrice Muamba, the former Bolton midfielder who suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch at White Hart Lane in an FA Cup tie with Spurs, wrote on Twitter: ?My thoughts and prayers are with his family.?

Benitez was on loan at Birmingham in the Premier League during the 2009-2010 season and the club will pay tribute to him ahead of Saturday?s match at home against Watford.

The Ecuadorian, who had 58 caps, was in the squad for World Cup finals in Germany in 2006 and had scored 24 times for his country.

During his loan from Mexican club Santos Laguna, he turned out 36 times for Birmingham and scored four goals.

Alex McLeish, who was his manager at Birmingham, told Sky Sports News: ?He was a very likeable guy and dangerous in the box.

?I would have kept him but he went because we were trying to bring in some top players.

?That did not materialise and I was left cursing the fact we could?ve kept him for that season because I?m sure he?d have flourished in England.?

Sunderland midfielder Craig Gardner, who played with Benitez at Birmingham, wrote on Twitter: ?Can?t believe Christian Benitez aka chucho has died had the pleasure to play with him he was a top bloke.?

West Brom?s former Birmingham defender Liam Ridgewell tweeted: ?Such a sad thing. Had a great year with him at Blues. Sad time.?

In a statement, Birmingham said: ?The thoughts of all associated with the football club are with Chucho?s family and friends at this very sad time. He was an immensely popular character during his time at the club.?

Qatari club El Jaish confirmed the news in a statement: ?His sudden departure is a big shock.

?He was a player that over the short period he was here was regarded for his high moral character.?

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UFC on Fox 8?s Three Stars: Robbie Lawler among the fighters who stood out

UFC on Fox 8 was filled with split decisions and a fight that UFC president Dana White trashed. However, there were some standout performances. Who were the Three Stars?

No. 1 star -- Robbie Lawler: Of all the fighters who joined the UFC after Strikeforce folded, who did you expect to really shine? It's unlikely Robbie Lawler was on the top five of your list as he was just 2-3 in his five fights before returning to the UFC. He made a complete turnaround, knocking out Josh Koscheck in February before putting a beatdown on Robbie Voelker on Saturday night.

No. 2 star -- Melvin Guillard: Riding a two-fight losing streak, Guillard knew he had to win to keep his job with the UFC. Guillard delivered. He knocked out Mac Danzig with enough power to earn a Knockout of the Night bonus and pick up some job security.

No. 3 star -- Demetrious Johnson: The flyweight champion held onto his belt and convinced anyone who didn't believe in his abilities with a fifth-round submission of John Moraga. Before that submission with an armbar, Johnson beat up on Moraga for 23 minutes and 43 seconds, showing why he holds the belt.

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India's Congress Party agrees to create new state in south

By Sanjeev Miglani

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party approved on Tuesday the creation of a new southern state, a move that has revived deep political divisions and raised fears of violence in the area, home to global firms including Google.

The decision to break up Andhra Pradesh state and establish Telangana comes ahead of elections next year and critics say the ruling party is seeking to shore up its political fortunes after dragging its feet over the explosive issue for four decades.

Supporters, however, say Telangana's economic development has been neglected in favor of the richer and more powerful Andhra region, and that a new state is the only solution.

"It was not an easy decision, we appeal to people to cooperate," said Ajay Maken, a spokesman of the Congress after the party's highest decision-making body adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a new state, igniting celebrations in parts of Andhra.

Additional federal troops were deployed ahead of the decision in the coastal parts of Andhra Pradesh where people are bitterly opposed to the breakup of the state.

The booming state capital Hyderabad, where Google, Microsoft and Dell have major sites, will remain the common capital for two states for a period of 10 years, Maken said.

Hyderabad, India's sixth largest city, was a bone of contention because it fell in the proposed new state carved out of the western part of Andhra Pradesh.

A government official said there was still a long way to go before the new state, which will have an estimated population of 40 million, became a reality. The measure has to be approved by the Andhra assembly and then the federal parliament where the Congress does not have a clear majority.

"We're swallowing the poison for our party. The decision is very unfortunate but since our leader has taken the decision we'll abide by it. We know the consequences, the problems that will follow," said Rudraraju Padma Raju, the chief whip of the Congress in the state, who has long opposed the split.

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One immediate consequence is likely to be renewed demands from other parts of India for separate states, including in the Darjeeling hills and a further breakup of the most populous Uttar Pradesh state.

Since independence in 1947, successive governments have dealt carefully with demands for new states - creating three in 2000 - while ensuring demands did not spiral enough to threaten the integrity of a nation that now has 1.2 billion people with hundreds of languages, ethnicities and castes.

India currently has 28 states while the United States with a population of 300 million has 50.

The chief minister of revolt-torn Jammu and Kashmir state said he feared the establishment of Telangana would set off more unrest.

"Telangana is a state that will be created on the basis of agitation. It's not created on the basis of any recommendation of a state reorganizing commission or something like that," said Omar Abdullah.

"I believe this is a dangerous trend because all we are doing is sending across a message that if you agitate enough, and if you agitate long enough, you will create a state."

Another fear is that leftist guerrillas who operate in parts of the proposed Telangana state will become further emboldened and take advantage as the new state comes into being.

(Additional reporting by Nigam Prusty; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Breast cancer survival is three years shorter for black women compared with white women, mostly because their cancer is often more advanced when they first seek medical care, new research shows. Cancer researchers have known for two decades that black women with breast cancer tend to fare worse than white women. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that while a significant number of black women still get inferior cancer care, the larger problem appears to be that black women get less health care over all, and that screening and early detection campaigns may have failed to reach black communities. "We are getting there too late. That's why we are seeing these differences in survival," said Dr. Jeffrey H. Silber, the director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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The best argument for funding the space program is: ?Because space, that?s why!!?

But for many this argument is pointless. They would prefer the money be spent to help people on Earth. And for those folks, the best argument is: ?Space missions always invent numerous technologies that make life better for everybody.? NASA even maintains an online database/magazine called Spinoff to keep track of these technologies, which average about 50 per year.

A similar phenomenon is likely to happen with Google Glass, which is not only a wearable computing hardware device, but also a development platform.

I?m predicting that Google?s massively well funded moonshot, the beta product formerly known as the Google Glass Project, will bring to Android phone and tablet users incredible technologies, ideas, apps and content originally developed for Glass.

A couple days ago, Googler Alain Vongsouvanh from the Glass team, posted this entreaty for Glass developers waiting for the Glass-specific GDK (Glass Development Kit) to go ahead and use the existing Android SDK to start building Glass apps.

That?s great advice. Getting started using Android will accelerate the development of Glass apps. But even better is that developers now and later will discover that their Glass ideas will also make great Android apps.

Glass development comes with it numerous constraints. It?s got only a 640?360 resolution screen. Battery conservation is absolutely paramount. Interrupting the user must be reserved only for the most vital information. The user interface is cards.

Developing under all these constraints will result in small-footprint, battery-conserving, card-interface apps, which will be awesome on big-screen, big-battery Android smartphones and tablets.

We?re already seeing a similar phenomenon happen elsewhere.

If you heard about the recent launch of the Motorola Droid line (on Verizon only).

The phones are made totally different and better by an X8 system-on-a-chip, which includes some very bleeding-edge low-power features. One of these is that the time and notifications fade into view with a low-rez font powering just a fraction of the screen. Another is that the chips constantly check for location data and other contextual data without using much power.?Upcoming Moto X phones are also rumored to have these features.

These features may have never been developed for phones. They were in fact necessary technologies for the development of Motorola?s smartwatches. (It?s not clear whether the development was for past or future smartwatches, but make no mistake: This is spin-off technology from the smartwatch group.)

So let?s be clear about what?s going on here. It?s very likely that the technology that make Motorola phones better than many other phones (possibly all other phones ? who knows?) is technology first developed for wearable devices.

Another way to understand this is that Motorola is evolving its smartphones not only using wearable technology, but with wearable functionality and wearable use-cases. They behave like wearable computing devices and in doing so are improved as phones.

Another example is Google Now and the ?card? interface being applied to Google+ and other sites. It?s a near certainty that Google has been strongly influenced by the coming age of wearable computing in the design of services that will be used on all platforms. Google Now in particular is especially well designed for wearable computing. And all that over-simplification, performance optimization and other qualities that make Google Now work great on Google Glass are the same qualities that make it awesome on your phone, tablet and soon in your Chrome browser as well.

This is what?s going to happen with Google Glass. An army of Glass developers will create app types designed for the limitations and opportunities and use-cases of Google Glass. And these same apps will transform how Android phones work.

Let me give you one small example. It?s almost certain that someone ? possibly Google itself ? will create a ?subtitles? app for Glass. You?ll set the language to ?Italian,? then when people in real life are talking to you in Italian, you?ll see the English subtitles in Glass.

Once somebody creates a subtitles app, it?s a trivial leap to add that to a video capture app on Android. Video somebody talking italian, and the subtitles will be simultaneously printed on your video in real time, so that when you upload your video to YouTube the subtitles are already there.

Now that I?m wearing Google Glass all the time, people always ask me: What can it do?

Imagine being asked that question about smartphones in the year 2000. You would never have been able to predict the million things people now do with smartphones, mainly thanks to apps.

Likewise, nobody can predict where apps will take Google Glass. But we can predict that wherever Glass goes, so goes Android.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis is celebrating Mass in Rio de Janeiro's massive cathedral as he begins the culminating weekend of his first international trip, to the church's World Youth Day.

An estimated 1,000 bishops are celebrating the Mass along with Francis and his message is expected to echo what he has told young pilgrims all week: Go out of your churches to the peripheries and spread the faith to society's outcasts.

Francis faces a busy Saturday: After Mass, he goes to Rio's municipal theater to meet Brazilian politicians, businessmen, intellectuals and the diplomatic community. Afterward, he lunches with the country's bishops and then presides over an evening vigil on Copacabana beach that is expected to draw over 1 million young people.

He returns to Rome on Sunday after the final Mass.

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Newly retired Apolo Ohno to work in TV at Olympics

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Apolo Anton Ohno is hanging up his skates to join NBC's coverage of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

The most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history will work as an analyst on speedskating, in addition to doing features and studio commentary during the network's coverage in February.

Ohno says he may also contribute to NBC's coverage of Alpine skiing and snowboarding in Sochi, Russia.

"Hopefully I can give people a good show," he said Saturday at the Television Critics Association meeting.

Ohno recently retired without fanfare, although he hadn't competed since the 2010 Vancouver Games. He won eight medals in three Olympics.

"I miss it every day," he said.

At the same time, Ohno said, "I don't want to get in that skinsuit."

He first worked for NBC at last year's Summer Olympics in London, giving him a view of the action from the seats.

"That was my most difficult moment because you feel like you can do it one more time," said Ohno, who first thought after his last race in Vancouver that he might be done competing.

Ohno said being an ex-athlete will help him relate to the people he covers in ways that his media colleagues cannot.

"I've lived it. I've been there day in and day out," he said. "I can share that and gain that trust with other athletes."

Ohno said he won't have a problem asking tough questions.

"You have to," he said. "At the end of the day I have a job."

The 31-year-old skater is living full time in Los Angeles to take advantage of entertainment opportunities that have materialized since he broke out as a star at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

"Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing," he said.

In June, he started hosting a new version of "Minute to Win It" on the Game Show Network. He earlier raised his pop culture profile by winning a season of "Dancing With the Stars."

"You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice," he said. "In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better. This is the new me."

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Battling for a cure cancer fundraiser held in Sparks

RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) ? 5 year old Paytyn Squires's Army is growing as dozens attend a fundraiser for him at the Bull Pen at Aspen Glen in Sparks.

The event starts at 2 p.m. today and?will help cover his chemotherapy treatement. The Bull Pen at Aspen is located at 5215 Vista Boulevard in Sparks.

There will be live music, food, auctions, raffles, games and much more.

If you cannot attend the event but would like more information you can contact

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Shooting Star Basketball Camp a Win-Win for NBA Players, Local Youths

By Melissa Walker, Noozhawk iSociety Columnist | @NoozhawkSociety | Published on 07.26.2013 11:13 p.m.

[Click here for a Noozhawk photo gallery from the camp.]

Three NBA basketball talents with ties to Santa Barbara gathered more than 60 youths for the first Shooting Star Youth Basketball Camp held at Bishop Garcia Diego High School.

Kids laced up their shoes and took to the hardwood for the clinic that included instruction and mentorship from the pros ? Julyan Stone, a graduate of Dos Pueblos High School who recently signed with the Toronto Raptors, joined by UCSB alumni Orlando Johnson of the Indiana Pacers and James Nunnally of the Bakersfield Jam, who recently played for the Miami Heat summer league team and is fourth on UCSB?s all-time scoring list.

The three-day camp taught kids the fundamentals of basketball ? dribbling, shooting, passing and defense ? with one-on-one instruction, interactive lectures, scrimmages and group competition.

?Besides the skills, the message of our camp is that whatever you dream of is a possibility, and we just want to install that in the kids,? said Stone, who founded the camp along with Johnson and Nunnally.

Stone added that the camp gave these three longtime friends an opportunity to give back to the community and inspire a new generation of kids to excel in life regardless of their circumstances.

?We all came from similar backgrounds and started with little or nothing, and were able to make it here now matter what and get through adversity,? Stone said, ?so that?s our main message to the kids.?

It was apparent from the smiles on the kids? faces as they raced up and down the court that taking cues from their coaches was not only fun but also increased their self-confidence, an important attribute that would translate both on and off the court.

?I love it,? Johnson told Noozhawk after a Q&A session with the kids. ?It excites me because these kids, you see how eager they are to learn and you really get their attention and they are looking at you like what?s he going to do next? I?m really happy to be out here and to help these kids and give all the talents I was blessed with to help them and try to encourage them.?

On the last day of camp, kids munched on burgers and hot dogs at a barbecue-style luncheon, where they posed for pictures and lined up for autograph signings and prizes from the group of elite basketball players ? who acted as friends, coach and mentor during the camp.

The NBA players gave away 30 scholarships to the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County to ensure that youths from low-income families also have the chance to experience the unique camp.

An overwhelmingly positive response to the event gives organizers hope that this is the first of many camps to come for Santa Barbara-area kids.

?This is not about money for us. We just want them to have a good experience. We weren?t always able to afford the expensive camps, so that?s why we are doing this,? Nunnally said. ?We want them to have an experience that they will remember.?

Camp sponsors included Camp Spins, Pepsi, Frito Lay, Subway in Isla Vista, Gatorade, Goleta Signs, Teen Sports Radio and Nike.

Additionally, a local teen was awarded a $2,0000 scholarship based on a 500-word essay, titled ?How High School Athletics Has Impacted My Life,? describing the youth?s college academic goals and athletic aspirations. Stone, Johnson and Nunnally unanimously selected the winner of the award designed to help the youth succeed in academic pursuits and become an effective leader within the community.

On Friday night, the three players joined other professional players to battle the Santa Barbara Breakers at San Marcos High School for the Mid-Summer Benefit Game benefiting the local Boys & Girls Clubs as well as the Santa Barbara Basketball Hall of Fame College Scholarship Fund.

The tightly contested game brought the Breakers against a collection of NBA professionals, including James Ennis who played at Ventura High School and was a recent draft pick of the Miami Heat; Travis Leslie of the Los Angeles Clippers; and Zach Andrews of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Actor Don Johnson was head coach for the NBA pros? team who squared off against an impressive roster of players assembled by Curt Pickering, Breakers founder and owner, led by all-time leading scorer Tim Taylor and UCLA grad Billy Knight.

The impressive collection of talent shone brightly during an inspiring week filled with training, life lessons and joy for local youths during a camp that is likely to become an ongoing and growing part of summer in Santa Barbara over the coming years.

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