Japan?s ANA cancels more Dreamliner flights; no quick fix in sight

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ALL Nippon Airways Co, which has the biggest fleet of Boeing Co?s troubled Dreamliner jets, on Saturday (January 26) cancelled hundreds of flights until February 8, signalling a quick fix to the plane?s safety problems was unlikely.

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ANA, Asia?s biggest airline by revenue and an important launch customer for Boeing?s newest plane, said another 379 flights scheduled for February 1-18 had been scrapped, bringing to 838 the number of cancellations since one of its Dreamliners made an emergency landing in western Japan on January 16.

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The announcement underscores the widening pain the Dreamliner problem is inflicting on the industry, with safety regulators and experts warning that investigations into the cause of a series of small fires on the plane could take months or even a year.

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All Dreamliners have been grounded since January 17, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations worldwide, including in the US, India and South America.

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The cancellations have affected more than 82,620 passengers for ANA, which says it flies around 3.7 million passengers each month on domestic and international routes.

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ANA said in a statement it will make further announcements on what to do with flights beyond February 19.

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The announcement came after US safety regulators said they were nowhere near finishing a probe into a battery fire on one of the 787 aircraft, raising the prospect of a lengthy suspension for the cutting-edge airliner.

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Japan?s two big carriers - ANA and Japan Airlines - have been most affected because they own around half of the lightweight, fuel-efficient jetliners in operation as a strategic move to grab market share from their US and European rivals.

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The grounding is particularly hard on ANA, which acknowledges it may have to scale back its next 2-year business plan that puts the Dreamliner at the centre of its growth strategy.

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?The 787, which is the pillar of our management strategy, is in such a condition we have yet to decide on whether we can present a 2-year plan like we did in the past,? ANA spokesman Ryosei Nomura has told reporters.

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Investigations have centred on the plane?s lithium-ion battery unit. US, Japanese and Boeing representatives have this week been at the Kyoto headquarters of GS Yuasa Corp, which makes batteries for the 787.

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Critical, long-overdue BlackBerry makeover arrives

TORONTO (AP) ? BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. will kick off a critical, long-overdue makeover when chief executive Thorsten Heins shows off the first phone with the new BlackBerry 10 system in New York on Wednesday.

Repeated delays have left the once-pioneering BlackBerry an afterthought in the shadow of Apple's trend-setting iPhone and Google's Android-driven devices. There has even been talk that the fate of the company that created the BlackBerry in 1999 is no longer certain.

Now, there's some optimism. Previews of the BlackBerry 10 software have gotten favorable reviews on blogs. Financial analysts are starting to see some slight room for a comeback. RIM's stock has more than doubled to $15.66 from a nine-year low in September, though it's still nearly 90 percent below its 2008 peak of $147.

RIM redesigned the system to embrace the multimedia, apps and touch-screen experience prevalent today. The company is promising a speedier device, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone.

Most analysts consider a BlackBerry 10 success to be crucial for the company's long-term viability. Doubts remain about the ability of BlackBerry 10 to rescue RIM.

"We'll see if they can reclaim their glory. My sense is that it will be a phone that everyone says good things about but not as many people buy," BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said.

Jefferies analyst Peter Misek called it a "great device" and said RIM does have some momentum just months after the Canadian company was written off for dead.

"Six months ago we talked to developers and carriers, and everybody was just basically saying 'We're just waiting for this to go bust,'" Misek said. "It was bad."

The BlackBerry has been the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people and crossed over to consumers. But when the iPhone came out in 2007, it showed that phones can do much more than email and phone calls. Suddenly, the BlackBerry looked ancient. In the U.S., according to research firm IDC, shipments of BlackBerry phones plummeted from 46 percent of the market in 2008 to 2 percent in 2012.

RIM promised a new system to catch up, using technology it got through its 2010 purchase of QNX Software Systems. RIM initially said BlackBerry 10 would come by early 2012, but then the company changed that to late 2012. A few months later, that date was pushed further, to early 2013, missing the lucrative holiday season. The holdup helped wipe out more than $70 billion in shareholder wealth and 5,000 jobs.

Although executives have been providing a glimpse at some of BlackBerry 10's new features for months, Heins will finally showcase a complete system at Wednesday's event. Devices will go on sale soon after that. The exact date and prices are expected Wednesday.

Regardless of BlackBerry 10's advances, though, the new system will face a key shortcoming: It won't have as many apps written by outside companies and individuals as the iPhone and Android. RIM has said it plans to launch BlackBerry 10 with more than 70,000 apps, including those developed for RIM's PlayBook tablet, first released in 2011. Even so, that's just a tenth of what the iPhone and Android offer. Popular service such as Instagram and Netflix won't have apps on BlackBerry 10.

Gillis said he'll be looking to see when RIM releases a keyboard version of the new phone. The first BlackBerry 10 phone will have only a touch screen. RIM has said a physical keyboard version will be released soon after. He said a delay could alienate RIM's 79 million subscribers.

"The No. 1 feature that they like is the physical keyboard," Gillis said.

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Science & the Public: U.S. team breaks through subglacial lake

U.S. team breaks through subglacial lake

Testing should continue for a day or more, probing for life in the Antarctic depths

Testing should continue for a day or more, probing for life in the Antarctic depths

By Janet Raloff

Web edition: January 28, 2013

Research teams from Russia, the United Kingdom and United States have each spearheaded drilling efforts over the past few years to pierce and sample separate subglacial Antarctic lakes. Russian scientists reported last year piercing into Lake Vostok but has so far turned up no identifiable life. Those researchers are now working to analyze a new sample of ice recently retrieved from that drill project. Last month, the British team suspended its efforts for this summer season (which ends next month) to reach Lake Ellsworth.

The just-completed borehole into Lake Whillans ?marks the first successful retrieval of clean whole samples from an Antarctic subglacial lake,? the U.S. team reported today. ?Water and sediment samples returned to the surface are now being processed to answer seminal questions related to the structure and function of subglacial microbial life, climate history, and contemporary ice sheet dynamics.?

A research team led by Frank Rack, of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, recently developed and field-tested the novel hot-water drill used to cut through the roughly half-mile-deep sheet of ice to reach Lake Whillans. ?Over the whole Antarctic continent, there are more than 340 [subglacial] lakes,? he notes. ?We selected this one because we know that it goes up and down, which means that the water underneath the ice sheet is periodically filling up the lake, then draining out again.?

Researchers have monitored this cycle through a rise and fall of the surface of that portion of the ice sheet covering the lake. Each cycle can last up to a decade, Rack says.

A video camera and series of sampling instruments will be periodically lowered down the borehole in the day or two available before this portal begins freezing shut again. ?Lake Whillans has already presented surprises,? according to Doug Fox, a reporter embedded with the drill research team, which is camped out less than 400 miles from the South Pole. ?For one, the lake has turned out to be only five or six feet deep ? shallower than the 20 to 30 feet that people expected based on seismic measurements,? Fox reported in a blog on the Discover website.

When I met with the Lake Whillans research team, last month, they planned to begin analyses of retrieved water and sediment within minutes of it reaching the surface. A series of mobile research labs were recently hauled to the Lake Whillans drill site. At least one lab will be used to study the chemistry of the water. Another will focus on probing for signs of microbial life ? chiefly bacteria and viruses.

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Could Brazil's nightclub fire spur more regional accountability?

Today marks 500 days until the kick-off of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It's a moment that normally would bring worldwide attention to the country, also host of the 2016 summer Olympics, as it seeks to secure a spot on the international stage.

Instead, Brazil is in the spotlight for a tragic club fire that took more than 230 lives, many of the victims under the age of 20. The fire was caused by a pyrotechnic display set off by band members late Saturday evening that caused the venue to fill up, within minutes, with a cloud of deadly smoke. Many of the victims were found in the bathrooms, with reports noting they may have mistaken it for an exit or were trying to escape through back windows.

Today, FIFA was slated to unveil the official World Cup poster in Brazil, but the event was cancelled ?in respect for the more than 200 people who died in a tragic incident in Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul,? the group said in a statement.

The deadly fire comes at a time when Brazil is under increased scrutiny for its preparedness to host upcoming mega-events. And negative press is likely to abound, as it has each time something tragic has occurred in Brazil since it found out it was to play back-to-back host.

But maybe the spotlight can inspire widespread accountability in a region that has been plagued by multiple tragedies that are often due to lax safety standards, poor oversight, and overcrowded conditions.

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The Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria was not unique in terms of club fires and deadly riots in Latin America.

Just last week, a prison riot in Venezuela left 54 dead, and nearly double that injured. The prison, Uribana, was holding 1,400 prisoners at the time that fighting broke out, according to Bloomberg, but is only designed to hold 850 prisoners. It follows another tragic incident in a jail in Venezuela in August 2012, when fighting left 20 dead, something Human Rights Watch said underscores the rampant overcrowding in Venezuelan prisons.

And tragic events reach beyond South America. A year ago, a fire broke out in a prison in Honduras that killed 350 people. And in June 2009 in Mexico, 49 victims, ages 3 and under were trapped inside a daycare in the city of Hermosillo in the northwest of the country.

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Fires in nightclubs have been particularly common around the globe. The Associated Press looks at some of the most infamous tragedies in recent years including:

- A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out in December 2009, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152.

- A December 2004 fire killed 194 people at an overcrowded working-class nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a flare ignited ceiling foam.

- A nightclub fire in the US state of Rhode Island in 2003 killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling.

As is the case in the wake of tragedies anywhere, politicians and safety inspectors have promised to investigate any wrong-doing in Brazil. The club owner and two band members have been arrested, according to CNN. Some reports note security guards may have been blocking some exits. Activists, victims, and safety officials repeatedly promise to improve overcrowding in prisons, and corruption that allows venues ? from daycare to drug rehabilitation centers, to nightclubs ? to get away with sub-par standards that too often turn fatal. Could this event push the sentiment that follows events of this sort to action? Will Brazil, which says it's fighting against a culture of impunity as it modernizes and becomes a global player, take a new lead?

Citizens will await impatiently to see justice served. In the meantime, there are precuations that individuals can take on their own, as John Barylick, author of "Killer Show" about the Rhode Island fire, lays out helpfully here.

The advice includes:

? Be observant. Is the concert venue rundown or well-maintained? Does the staff look well-trained?

? As you proceed to your seat, observe how long the process takes. Could you reverse it in a hurry? Do you pass through pinch points? Is furniture in the way?

? Once seated, take note of the nearest exit. (In an emergency, most people try to exit by the door they entered, which is usually not the closest, and is always overcrowded.) Then, share the location of that nearest exit with your entire party. Agree that at the first sign of trouble, you will all proceed to it without delay.

? Once the show begins, remain vigilant. If you think there's a problem, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. Do not stay to "get your money's worth" despite concerns about safety. Do not remain to locate that jacket or bag you placed somewhere. No concert is worth your life. Better to read about an incident the next day than be counted as one of its statistics.

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10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. BOY SCOUTS POISED FOR A BIG CHANGE

Under a new policy, sponsors of individual Scout units would be able to decide for themselves whether to accept gays as scouts and leaders.

2. A SHOW OF BIPARTISANSHIP ON IMMIGRATION

Leading senators of both parties outline legislation aimed at giving some 11 million illegal immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship.

3. WHY SO MANY DIED IN BRAZIL BLAZE

The nightclub had no fire alarm, no sprinklers, no fire escape ? and just one exit.

4. THE SLINGS AND ARROWS AIMED AT CHUCK HAGEL

An AP fact-check finds that many of the claims by opponents of Obama's choice to head the Defense Department are overblown.

5. WHO IS WORRIED ABOUT EGYPT'S MASKED MEN

A mysterious group called the Black Bloc says it is defending protesters, but some fear it could prompt an Islamist backlash.

6. US PROTESTS AS IRAN PUTS A MONKEY INTO SPACE

Any space launch "is directly relevant to the development of long-range ballistic missiles," the State Department says.

7. HOW AN UNUSUAL DOUBLE-ARM TRANSPLANT IS WORKING OUT

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8. ONE CALAMITY AFTER ANOTHER ? AND NOW A DRY SPELL

Caddo County, Okla., which is enduring a crippling drought, has been declared a federal disaster area nine times since 2007.

9. 'HE NEVER SEEMED TO BE A HELP TO HER'

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10. AT QB, A COUPLE OF SUPER BOWL NOBODIES

But one will leave New Orleans as football's newest star.

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Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.

In Pennsylvania alone, royalty payments could top $1.2 billion for 2012, according to an Associated Press analysis that looked at state tax information, production records and estimates from the National Association of Royalty Owners.

For some landowners, the unexpected royalties have made a big difference.

"We used to have to put stuff on credit cards. It was basically living from paycheck to paycheck," said Shawn Georgetti, who runs a family dairy farm in Avella, about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

Natural gas production has boomed in many states over the past few years as advances in drilling opened up vast reserves buried in deep shale rock, such as the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania and the Barnett in Texas.

Nationwide, the royalty owners association estimates, natural gas royalties totaled $21 billion in 2010, the most recent year for which it has done a full analysis. Texas paid out the most in gas royalties that year, about $6.7 billion, followed by Wyoming at $2 billion and Alaska at $1.9 billion.

Exact estimates of natural gas royalty payments aren't possible because contracts and wholesale prices of gas vary, and specific tax information is private. But some states release estimates of the total revenue collected for all royalties, and feedback on thousands of contracts has led the royalty owners association to conclude that the average royalty is 18.5 percent of gas production.

"Our fastest-growing state chapter is our Pennsylvania chapter, and we just formed a North Dakota chapter. We've seen a lot of new people, and new questions," said Jerry Simmons, the director of the association, which was founded in 1980 and is based in Oklahoma.

Simmons said he hasn't heard of anyone getting less than 12.5 percent, and that's also the minimum rate set by law in Pennsylvania. Simmons knows of one contract in another state where the owner received 25 percent of production, but that's unusual.

By comparison, a 10 to 25 percent range is similar to what a top recording artist might get in royalties from CD sales, while a novelist normally gets a 12.5 percent to 15 percent royalty on hardcover book sales.

Simmons added that for oil and gas "there is no industry standard," since the royalty is often adjusted based on the per-acre signing bonus a landowner receives. While many people are lured by higher upfront bonuses, a higher royalty rate can generate more total income over the life of a well, which can stretch for 25 years.

Before Range Resources drilled a well on the family property in 2012, Georgetti said, he was stuck using 30-year-old equipment, with no way to upgrade without going seriously into debt.

"You don't have that problem anymore. It's a lot more fun to farm," Georgetti said, since he has been able to buy newer equipment that's bigger, faster and more fuel-efficient. The drilling hasn't caused any problems for the farm, he said.

Range spokesman Matt Pitzarella said the Fort Worth, Texas-based company has paid "well over" $1 billion to Pennsylvania landowners, with most of that coming since 2008.

One economist noted that the windfall payments from the natural gas boom are wonderful for individuals, but that they represent just a tiny portion of total economic activity.

For example, the $1 billion for Pennsylvania landowners sounds like a lot, but "it's just not going to have a big impact on the overall vitality of the overall economy," said Robert Inman, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school. "I think the issue is, what difference does it make for the individual families?"

Pennsylvania's total gross domestic product in 2011 was about $500 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Inman noted that total gas industry hiring and investment can have a far bigger effect on a state or region, and companies have invested tens of billions of dollars just in Pennsylvania on pipelines, infrastructure, and drilling in recent years.

For example, in North Dakota the shale oil and minerals boom contributed 2.8 percent of GDP growth to the entire state economy in 2011, according to Commerce Department data.

Another variable in how much royalty owners actually receive is the wholesale price of gas. That has dropped significantly over the past two years even as production has boomed in Pennsylvania and many other states. Average wholesale prices went from about $4.50 per unit of gas in 2010 to about $3 in 2012. For many leaseholders, that meant a decline in royalties.

The boom in natural gas royalties has even led to niche spinoff companies that look for lease heirs who don't even know they're owed money.

Michael Zwick is president of Assets International, a Michigan company that searches for missing heirs.

"It was an underserved niche," Zwick said of oil and gas leases. When a company can't find an heir to lease royalties, the money often goes to state unclaimed property funds.

Zwick said he has found a few dozen people whose gas lease money was being held in escrow, including one who was owed about $250,000 in drilling royalties. But the average amount, he said, is far lower.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/billions-gas-drilling-royalties-transform-lives-150830350.html

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Guatemala ex-dictator to stand trial on genocide

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ? A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians, a judge ruled Monday.

Human rights advocates have said that the prosecution of Jose Efrain Rios Montt would be an important symbolic victory for the victims of one of the most horrific of the conflicts that devastated Central America during the last decades of the Cold War.

He is the first former president to be charged with genocide by a Latin American court.

Guatemala's leaders have been criticized for years for their inability or unwillingness to prosecute government forces and allied paramilitaries accused of marching into Mayan villages, carrying out rapes and torture, and slaughtering women, children and unarmed men in a "scorched earth" campaign aimed at eliminating the support for a left-wing guerrilla movement.

Despite a series of international inquiries finding him responsible for war crimes, Rios Montt served as a Guatemalan congressman for 15 years until he lost a re-election race late last year. He had held immunity from prosecution while a member of Congress and was put under house arrest after losing his post.

One of the highest priorities of the president who won last year's election, Otto Perez Molina, has been campaigning for the elimination of a U.S. ban on military aid to Guatemala, which is locked in a fight against heavily armed drug cartels that have taken over swathes of the country.

Among the conditions set by the U.S. Congress for restoring the aid is reforming Guatemala's justice system and putting an end to impunity.

The decision to try Rios Montt could stand as a precedent in the cases of dozens of other lower-ranking military men accused of participating in atrocities, victims' advocates have said.

Judge Miguel Angel Galvez ruled that Rios Montt could be tried on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for the killing of 1,771 indigenous Ixiles in 1982 and 1983, when he was president.

The decision clears the way for a three-judge panel to hear the evidence against Rios Montt and decide to either judge him guilty and sentence him, exonerate him of the charge or start a public trial.

Prosecutors allege that after leading a March 1982 coup and seizing control of the government, Rios Montt oversaw torture, rape, forced disappearances and forced relocations and killings of thousands of Ixil people by soldiers, paramilitaries and other government officials.

His lawyers have sought to block the trial, arguing that he is protected by an amnesty law.

The attorney-general's office said that it found evidence of 5,271 killings of Ixil residents of the towns of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebai and San Gaspar Chajul in the department of Quiche. Prosecutors said 1,771 died in some 15 massacres between 1982 and 1983, and 370 bodies have been identified.

Prosecutor Orlando Lopez said during hearings before Monday's decision that Rios Montt wanted to wipe out the Ixil people, considered a bastion of support for guerrilla fighters waging a civil war against the Guatemalan state.

"During the period in which you held office, it is believed that the actions carried by members of the Guatemalan Army, military official and civil defense patrolmen resulted in the deaths of 1,771 people," the complaint against Rios Montt reads.

The prosecution case includes forensic reports documenting hundreds of deaths.

Among the testimony presented to the judge was that of Ana Lopez, an Ixil woman taken from her home by soldiers in May, 1982 to a government outpost where she was tortured and raped for 10 days.

During the 1960-96 civil war, more than 200,000 people, mostly Mayan Indians, were killed or went missing and entire villages were exterminated, according to the United Nations.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-ex-dictator-stand-trial-genocide-194704222.html

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Brooklyn Dolphin Removed From Gowanus Canal, Sent For Necropsy

By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The carcass of a dolphin that died after becoming mired in a notoriously toxic New York City canal has been removed and will be sent for a necropsy, a marine research group said on Saturday.
The animal, a common dolphin, was first spotted in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal on Friday morning, where it was described as looking disoriented and unwell as it struggled to avoid getting bogged down in the canal's muddy floor.
Biologists from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, who monitored the dolphin with police and a crowd of onlookers, hoped the animal might be able to free itself and head back out to the harbor as waters rose. It died Friday evening before high tide.
"The option that gave the animal the best chance for a positive outcome was waiting," Robert DiGiovanni, Riverhead's executive director and senior biologist, said on Saturday. "If an animal wasn't going to be able to survive through the next tide cycle then it was an animal that was compromised and wouldn't make it."
Approaching the dolphin by boat would have been difficult in the shallow, polluted canal and may have achieved little besides adding to the animal's distress, he said.
A necropsy will be performed on the adult dolphin, estimated to weigh about 200 pounds, on Sunday at Riverhead's laboratory on Long Island, he said. The findings and tissue samples will be shared with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Common dolphins are social animals that travel in groups known as pods. To see a solitary common dolphin, especially so far inland, is unusual, and is a sign that the animal is sick or dying, biologists and other marine officials said.
The dolphin's unusual trek into Brooklyn - DiGiovanni could not recall a dolphin coming so far into New York City in at least two decades - brought wide attention to one of the city's dirtier and most malodorous corners.
The Environmental Protection Agency declared the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site in 2010, calling it one of the country's "most extensively contaminated water bodies." Mayor Michael Bloomberg had opposed the designation, arguing the city's own plan would have cleaned the canal in less time.
The canal is laced with heavy metals, coal tar wastes and other pollutants from the factories and tanneries that have lined its banks, the EPA says.
The EPA is still working on its plan, which is currently open to public comment, to spend an estimated $300 million to $400 million of federal money to clean up the canal. (Editing by Paul Thomasch and Doina Chiacu)

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Newtown residents join gun control march on Washington

On Saturday about 100 residents from Newtown, Conn., along with thousands of protesters, will rally in support of gun control legislation on the National Mall.?

By Brett Zongker,?Associated Press / January 26, 2013

Gun rights and gun control advocates demonstrate in the Pennsylvania Capital building Wednesday, Jan. 23, in Harrisburg, Pa. Residents of Newtown, Conn. are expected to march in support of gun control in Washington on Saturday.

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Organizers said they are expecting thousands of participants for the rally on the National Mall, including about 100 from Newtown and buses from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska. They will gather Saturday at the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 10 a.m. and will begin marching down Constitution Avenue toward the Washington Monument at 11 a.m. A rally is planned on the monument grounds at noon.

Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march, inspired by the December massacre that killed 20 first graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, she said. The gunman also fatally shot his mother and committed suicide.

"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And In this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.

"I think it's because it was children, babies," she said. "I was horrified by it."

While she's never organized a political march before, Smith said she was compelled to press for a change in the law. The march organizers support President Barack Obama's call for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as for universal background checks for gun sales. They also want lawmakers to require gun safety training for all buyers of firearms.

As a theater person, Smith said murdering a child is something you can never show in theater. Even in the Greek tragedy, "Medea," the main character kills her children, but that happens off stage, Smith said.

After the Connecticut shootings, Smith posted something on Facebook and drew more support to do something. The group One Million Moms for Gun Control, the Washington National Cathedral and two other churches eventually signed on to co-sponsor the march. Organizers have raised more than $46,000 online to pay for equipment and fees to stage the rally.

Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland are scheduled to speak. Actress Kathleen Turner is expected to appear, along with Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor from the Virginia Tech massacre.

Smith said she supports a comprehensive look at mental health and violence in video games and films. But she said the mass killings at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., all start with guns.

"The issue is guns. The Second Amendment gives us the right to own guns, but it's not the right to own any gun," she said. "These are assault weapons, made for killing people."

March on Washington for Gun Control: http://www.guncontrolmarch.com/

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Team Hejorama talks about the essence of travel - Run. Travel. Grow.

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Alexis Kovalenko (30) and Benjamin Collignon (30) are two of the founders of Hejorama, a social media platform for travel. The Paris based creatives have launched the website in 2010 to share their travel philosophy and create a place for the stories of contributors and friends. At the Victoriapark in Berlin the Hejorama guys explain why holidays are not travelling, what the internet has changed and why you don?t have to fly to exotic countries to be a traveller.

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You call Hejorama a ?social media platform?. What is the difference between your website and a regular travel blog?

Alex: ?We wanted higher quality. We wanted to have real journalists writing the articles, real photographers doing the photos, while travel bloggers are writers, photographers and city guides at the same time. And we call it a platform because our original idea was that people contribute to it and write about their travels.?

Ben: ?We didn?t just want to give addresses of destinations. We are more focused on travel stories. We want to know how travel changed you, how you escaped your world yesterday; this is what we want people to share.?

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Your motto is ?Travel as you are?. What does that mean?

Ben: ?Hejorama is about the difference between activity and mentality. A lot of people see travelling as leisure. We want to show ? because we live it this way ? travelling as a way of thinking, a way of living, a day-to-day philosophy. There is a difference between holidays and travelling. You can go travelling during your holidays and go on holidays without travelling. For us, it is not the same. When we say ?travel as you are?, it means to travel your own way, to find your own quests??

Alex: ?? you don?t have to be a backpacker.?

Ben: ?If you want to be a tourist, be a tourist. But at least, do that every day of your life and not only two weeks or two month. This view allows us to show lots of aspects of travel and of life in general. It?s not only going to foreign countries, it?s also welcoming foreign people. Go to Turkish restaurants; see a movie in another language. This is Travel as you are. You don?t realize it, you just live it. For us, it is to be curious about everything, to be hedonist, to enjoy people. But not only people, you can be a lonely man and have the same philosophy. Travelling as a philosophy, that?s what it is.?

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What you just said touches on the criticism of people who fly to a beach for two weeks and do not do anything else there than lying in the sun.

Alex: ?If you go to a resort on Cuba and only see one specific corner or beach ? you?re enjoying the sun of Cuba then, but you are not travelling to Cuba.?

Ben: ?We don?t want to criticize that, we just want to make a difference. Because we consider travel as a way of living: discovering things about oneself and other people.?

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Do you want to connect to the world?

Ben: ?Exactly. Ask yourself: Who are you? Who are the people around you? What is your place in the universe??

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Should a lazy person who is confident with his small world travel as he is ? which possibly means not to travel at all? Or should he break out of his shell and take the next best flight?

Ben: ?He can use the internet, movies, books or songs to travel. Alex travels a lot for example, and I travel less than him. He is the moving part of Hejorama. I am very lazy in a good way. I love music, I know my world, the planet we live on, a lot of religions and cultures. That is all fine.?

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Travelling is not about moving to certain places?

Ben: ?Not in specific. It can be like that. But even in your imagination you can travel while you are actually staying home. There is this financial aspect people think about: Travel costs a lot. We think, travel is not an activity only for people who can afford it. You can do it by books, by songs or by plane, by train or by feet. You don?t need to be very far away to see different things and experience different cultures.?

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But don?t you think that the more you confront yourself with people and countries that you have no image of and that seem to be strange and exotic for you, the more it affects you as a person and changes something inside you?

Ben: ?I totally agree with you, it?s better to confront yourself with different countries and exotic cultures, but travel is not just that. At the end, it is all about one question: Why do you travel? Each person should ask that to himself. Do you travel because you are fed up with your country, your culture, to hear German? Do you want to find a new home? We want to show people how to find their personal quests, their own reasons to travel. It is the leitmotiv of Travel as you are.?

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And each reason is valuable?

Ben: ?Yes. One day of travel can be richer than two weeks under the sun, if you really think about the question why you are going there.?

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The ultimate super question: How did the internet change travel?

Alex: ?The internet made travel easier. People have been travelling forever since. My parents travelled a lot when they were young. But now everybody has the chance to travel. It became cheap. Most people who believe travel is expensive are wrong, because they can find a low-cost flight on the Internet and a cheap hostel. And there is this social aspect to it. You can meet people easily; you can make friends, stay in contact and visit them.?

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For our parent?s generation travels had a clear start and a clear end.

Alex: ?There are no clear ends anymore.?

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The value of travelling, one could argue, arises from the contrast between going somewhere and coming back. If this is changing, what does that mean for travel?

Alex: ?Many travel bloggers I have met, who are travelling a lot and constantly, definitely lose the value of travelling. They?re not curious any more, not all of them, but I have noticed that. You have to come back home sometimes.?

Ben: ?Nomads and Touaregs are always moving. Are they travelling or do they just move??

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The German news site Spiegel Online has an interactive world map now where readers can share their best travel tips. That is just one exmaple. Does travelling lose its necessary secrets if there are 1000 recommendations on Trip Advisor?

Ben: ?Totally. That is why Hejorama is not a good place to find destinations. You see, we don?t focus on addresses. Quite the contrary, we have addresses we don?t want to share. We want to show people how to find their own secret places and not to go to the secret place of this or that person. This is the way of travelling we stand for.?

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Source: http://runtravelgrow.com/2013/01/26/team-hejorama-talks-about-the-essence-of-travel-there-are-no-clear-ends-anymore/

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Woods takes the lead going into weekend at Torrey

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 18th hole of the north course at the Torrey Pines Golf Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 18th hole of the north course at the Torrey Pines Golf Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tiger Woods hits his second shot on the 14th fairway of the north course at Torrey Pines Golf Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tiger Woods picks up his ball after finishing his round on the north course at Torrey Pines Golf Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tiger Woods looks up as he waits to putt on the ninth hole of the north course at Torrey Pines during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tiger Woods smiles as he waits to hit his second shot on the seventh hole of the north course at the Torrey Pines Golf Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Tiger Woods cared more about the number of rounds left at Torrey Pines than the number of PGA Tour wins belonging to the guys chasing him.

When the second round ended Friday in a steady rain at the Farmers Insurance Open, the odds looked to be stacked in Woods' favor. He had a 7-under 65 on the North Course for his first outright 36-hole lead on the PGA Tour in more than three years. He is a seven-time winner at Torrey Pines, six of those in this tournament. And his 74 career wins on tour were 74 more than the next seven guys behind him.

"We've got a long way to go," Woods said after finishing his two rounds at 11-under 133.

Woods knows this from experience.

His three-shot win in the 2009 Buick Open was tougher than it looked on paper, only because Woods had everything to lose. He was expected to win. Of the 13 players within five shots of his slim lead going into the last round, only one of them ? Ben Crane at No. 73 ? was ranked inside the top 100 in the world.

Golf gets deeper every year, and it doesn't get any easier to win.

Then again, Woods is playing some pretty good golf.

He effectively missed only one fairway on the easier North Course in the second round. He is leading the field in driving distance at 318.5 yards, remarkable given the wet conditions from the rain and Torrey Pines being at sea level. He is 9 under on the par 5s, with five birdies and two eagles over the last two days.

Woods seized control Friday around the turn, when he played four holes in 5-under par ? a 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th, a 5-iron to 5 feet for eagle on No. 18, a two-putt birdie on the first, and a wedge that one-hopped against the pin and settled about 5 feet away for another birdie.

"Vintage (at)TigerWoods today," Dustin Johnson said on Twitter after finishing eight shots behind.

Woods had a two-shot lead over Billy Horschel, who only two months ago was in Q-school trying to get his PGA Tour card again. Horschel finished strong on the South Course for a 69 and was thrilled when he looked at the leaderboard. He was at 9-under 135, and Woods was the only name ahead of him. That meant he would be in the final group with Woods, joined by Web.com Tour grad Casey Wittenberg, who had a 67 on the North.

"It's a good day and I'm excited about tomorrow ? I get to play with Tiger," Horschel said. "I found out when I tapped in for par. I realized he was leading and I was in second place. So yeah, looking forward to that."

Horschel wades into a big world Saturday, but he believes he has the experience from when he played the Walker Cup in 2007 at Royal County Down.

"There was a guy I competed against three times called Rory McIlroy," Horschel said. "So there may have been 10, 12,000 people following us, and only a couple thousand following the rest of the groups. So I've dealt with crowds. I guess it's a little bit easier playing with Tiger because I guess the group ahead, they move a lot or something. Just hearing what media says. It's going to be exciting."

Brad Fritsch, a rookie from Canada, had a 67 on the South Course to lead the group of six players at 8-under 136. The others were Wittenberg, Steve Marino, Jimmy Walker, Josh Teater and Erik Compton, whom Woods referred to as "remarkable" for being a two-time heart transplant recipient and playing on the PGA Tour.

Defending champion Brandt Snedeker didn't fare so well. After opening with a 65 on the North, he made only one birdie and twice took bogey on the par 5s on his way to a 75 that left him seven shots behind. K.J. Choi, who had a 65 on the South Course, couldn't break par on the easier North and had a 73 to fall five behind.

Phil Mickelson struggled to keep his hands dry in the wet weather and finished bogey-bogey on the South for a 71 to make the cut on the number, though his work isn't over. There were 87 players who made the cut at 1-under 143, meaning there will be another cut to top 70 and ties Saturday.

Mike Weir, meanwhile, made the cut for the first time since July 2011 despite a sloppy finish for a 75 on the South. He was tied for 41st at 3-under 141.

Woods is coming off a missed cut in Abu Dhabi last week to start his year.

"I've had beautiful practice sessions at home," he said. "If I can do it there, I can do it out here. Even though last week I played only two days, I felt like I hit the ball well enough to shoot a better score than I did. I had a couple of days to work on it, and I came out here and felt pretty good about it."

The final two rounds move to the South Course, which played about 1? shots harder Friday in the rain. The greens are more receptive, sure, but the course figures to play at full length in wet conditions and at sea level.

For Woods, it was his first outright lead going into the weekend against a full field since the Australian Open in 2011 (he finished third at The Lakes), and his first time atop the leaderboard at Torrey Pines since 2008. Then again, he has only played one time at this event since then when he was just starting to change his swing.

And while this looks ominous for everyone else, Woods with a 36-hole lead ? even at Torrey Pines ? doesn't mean this is over. He had a 34-10 record when he has at least a share of the 36-hole lead, though he has failed to win four of the last six times from that spot.

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The Mission Continues Welcomes More Than 70 Military Veterans to Los Angeles to Launch New Careers in Service

National Nonprofit to Host First-Ever Los Angeles Orientation Weekend,

Including Volunteer Event at L.A. Dream Center

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 22, 2013

More than 70 post-9/11 military veterans will begin a new chapter of service to their country this week by leading the Los Angeles community in a service project at The Dream Center. The veterans are gathering in Los Angeles from communities across the United States for Alpha Orientation with The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping post-9/11 veterans find renewed meaning and purpose in civilian life through six-month service fellowships with local nonprofit organizations in their hometowns.

?The Mission Continues was founded on the belief that veterans? service to their country does not end when they return home,? said Spencer Kympton, president of The Mission Continues. ?Through service ? whether overseas or alongside neighbors in their home towns ? veterans have the potential and the skills to inspire communities and lead a nation.?

Alpha Orientation culminates with a service project on Saturday, January 26. From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. that day, veterans will work side-by-side with community volunteers from throughout the Los Angeles metro area, to refurbish common areas and serve meals to patrons, helping The Dream Center fulfill its mission of addressing the immediate and long-term needs of homelessness, hunger relief, medical care, and education. The service project will conclude with the veterans taking an official oath of community service during a special post-project ceremony that marks the beginning of their fellowships.

?The Dream Center is about offering second chances and opportunities for many who have met life's tougher challenges head-on" said Pastor Matthew Barnett, Co-Founder, The Dream Center. "The 70 volunteer veterans of The Mission Continues will be doing a tremendous service for The Dream Center that will touch thousands upon thousands in the days and years ahead. They are our heroes. Not just on the battlefields, but for each person in need who will come through our doors."

The Dream Center service event is a central component of The Mission Continues? 2013 Alpha Orientation, the group?s first-ever national orientation event in Los Angeles. Once they leave Los Angeles, the members of Alpha class ?known as Fellows ? will return to their homes across the country to begin service work with local nonprofit organizations. Throughout their service experience, Fellows are able to translate military experiences into civilian skills, gaining valuable work experience and pursuing a defined post-fellowship goal.

Among the members of Alpha class is Los Angeles native and retired U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran Jaime Magallanes. After serving more than 10 years in the Marine Corps including three combat tours to Iraq, Magallanes returned home, looking for a way to continue his service.

Through The Mission Continues, Magallanes will begin volunteering 20 hours a week at The Boys and Girls Club of Southwest County. At the facility, he will leverage his personal and military background to coach and mentor at-risk kids. He hopes to be a role model and to create an environment of safety and positivity for children in the community.

?A lot of these kids have a tough home life, but I want them to be able to trust me, like my Marines trusted me,? Magallanes said. ?I want to be a role model and mentor to help them in their future, but I think they have as much to teach me about being a good father, as I can teach them about leading a purposeful life.?

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The Mission Continues Fellows and volunteers will work together to renovate The Dream Center?s common rooms, build an outdoor recreation area and feed local homeless individuals.

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About The Mission Continues

The Mission Continues challenges veterans to serve and inspire in communities across America. Founded by former U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Greitens in 2007 upon his return from deployment to Iraq, The Mission Continues offers post-9/11 veterans six-month community service fellowships with nonprofit organizations in their hometowns. Through service, The Mission Continues has helped more than 500 veterans reconnect to their communities at home, offering a pathway to utilize their tremendous skills and leadership toward one of three ultimate outcomes: pursuit of higher education, securing full-time employment, or continuing in a full-time position of community service. For more information, please visit http://www.missioncontinues.org.

About The Dream Center

Founded in 1994, The Dream Center provides a range of vital services, including rehabilitation programs, transitional shelter for homeless families and victims of human trafficking, mobile hunger relief and medical programs, foster care intervention, and education/job skills training all targeted at rebuilding lives and families. The Dream Center?s long record of success has led to the establishment of more than 100 independent Dream Centers across the United States and around the world. For more information go to http://www.dreamcenter.org

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Las Vegas Is One Bright Hole Straight to Hell

Paris may be the City of Light, but the City of Sin is looking to give it a run for its money. This pair of shots was tumblr'd (tumbled?) and tweeted by Colonel Chris Hadfield, who's currently up on the ISS. At night, the city looks like some pool of molten metal, scalding the desert's surface, burning a hole straight to hell. And maybe that's not too far from the truth. [Col. Chris Hadfeild] More »

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Gregory Charles to receive Martin Luther King Jr. Award

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?I?m a parent now and I appreciate even more now what my parents did for me and for the role models they were.? says Gregory Charles.

Photograph by: Peter Ford

MONTREAL - Not that he doesn?t appreciate all the wonderful things that have come his way in this city, but it?s days like this when Gregory Charles wonders what it would be like if his family had stayed put in Trinidad where the temperature is about ? mmm ? 70 degrees warmer.

?Half of my family grew up in a place where it?s 36 degrees every day of the year,? Charles notes. ?The other half of my family had it worse. Still my maternal grandparents and great-grandparents from Quebec would probably hit me across the head if I were to complain about the weather. Besides, it could be worse, and it has been worse here.?

Ah, spoken like a true Montrealer.

Charles allows that perhaps it was the elements as well as the determination of his family that pushed him into overachieving and becoming as close as anyone in these parts to being a modern-day Renaissance man. Charles is an award-winning singer, musician, actor, choir director, radio and TV host, teacher and, oh yeah, lawyer. Almost easier to list the occupations he doesn?t have.

Charles is about to add another credit to his r?sum?. On Saturday evening at the downtown La Plaza Holiday Inn, he will be presented the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award at the 27th Vision Celebration Gala, which is held annually by the Black Theatre Workshop to kick off Black History Month festivities in Montreal in February. Charles is being honoured not only for his international artistic success, but also for his community involvement. He joins an impressive list of past award winners: Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, Ranee Lee and Trevor Payne, among other notables.

Charles will warm up the crowd Saturday night by tickling the ivories complemented by some inspired crooning. Also on the performing bill will be 12-year-old classical piano prodigy Daniel Clarke Bouchard, who brought the house down at Place des Arts in December at the 30th anniversary Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Christmas concert.

?I?m obviously very proud about the award, but in a funny way, I?m even prouder for my dad. I?m a parent now and I appreciate even more now what my parents did for me and for the role models they were. So when I?m recognized for the work I have done with kids and artists as a community-involved person, my first reflex is to think who my models have been. My dad used to tell me: ?If you can walk, run. If you know, teach.? And this has applied to pretty much everything I?ve done.

?My parents were just perfect. My mom was my general and so honest and demanding. I could always trust her to tell me how she felt. My dad was so positive and socially so astute. Everybody who has ever spoken to my dad feels like they?re the most important person on the planet. He made me feel like I could accomplish anything I set my mind to.?

Charles also points out that his parents would always stress for him to think in terms of ?team? ? and not individual goals. He hopes to impart the same philosophy to his year-old daughter when she grows up. Charles credits his wife, Nicole, a Microsoft exec, for keeping the family on an even keel.

An overachiever, too? ?Let?s say she?s an ambitious person. I can never admit to being an overachiever, either. But I can admit to being very ambitious, that life is more interesting when you follow Captain Cook?s credo: which is not to go any further than anybody else, but to go as far as is possible. And love whatever you do with all your heart and all your soul.?

He recalls how his mother used to decry the word ?satisfaction.? She felt it ?unbearable? that it meant to do ?enough.? She thought the word should be linked to doing ?everything in one?s power.?

Even by his mom?s strict definition, Charles has to feel satisfied. He began early. When he was 7, he won a piano contest at the Canadian Music Competition. After performing with symphony orchestras around the country, he would later apply his piano skills on tour with C?line Dion before breaking out as a solo act.

Charles now does about 200 concerts a year around the planet. He is forever hosting variety shows as well as his TV and radio programs. His first one-man show, Black and White, has played to more than one million people, and he holds the house record at the Bell Centre for doing it 43 times. The show also hit the legendary Carlyle Caf? in New York and received glorious plaudits from The New York Times.

One could go about his record sales, acting accomplishments, awards ? including two F?lix prizes for best stage show and best male singer. He is a judge on and a member of the teaching faculty of Star Acad?mie. He is founder and president of the Mondial Loto-Qu?bec de Laval. Plus, he is also head of the Gregory Foundation, a local charity that offers support to young Canadians in the arts. He has been teaching aspiring artists for the last 18 years. He has also been involved with specialty music and science summer camps for kids as well as programs for inner-city kids in St. Henri. To those ends, he does about 30 fundraisers a year.

And can?t forget that Charles also has a doctoral degree in civil law.

OK, so he?s not a medical doctor ? yet. But there?s still time. He?s only 44.

Charles is also one of the few who is a fixture in both the anglo and franco cultural communities.

?I?ve been lucky to receive such rich culture from both my French-Canadian and English-Canadian families,? says Charles, whose cousin Kevin Brereton is the well-known rapper k-os. ?Add to that, my Caribbean background. I have been so enriched by all these components and all these people. And I do believe my constant desire to better myself is a result of my roots.

?I don?t expect to be given the key to heaven for what I?ve done. I?m simply the result of what my parents made and I?ve followed through on what they taught me.? Pause. ?And even being a lawyer proves one can still turn out to be a decent person,? he cracks.

?Actually, I probably would have turned out to be a really lousy lawyer had I chosen to continue on that path. But it also connects with who I am. Lawyers are taught to believe in possibilities, and that principle has guided me. I don?t believe it?s possible to change the world, but I do believe that when you apply yourself, it?s possible to change your world. And the way to do that is to move people, be it by song, words or deeds.?

Charles passes down advice he picked up from then-young vedette Ren? Simard several decades back: ?I asked him how one makes it in showbiz. His response: ?Never say no.? I was a little disappointed with the answer then. But I learned to appreciate it later.?

And Charles rarely says no, be it to gigs, fundraisers or doing national anthems at Habs games.

?Talk about pressure. If you sing and they lose ? as they did against the Leafs last Saturday when I sang ? they won?t want to see my face again.

?It proves you can?t get too smug in this business.?

The Black Theatre Workshop?s 27th Vision Celebration Gala takes place Saturday at La Plaza Holiday Inn, 420 Sherbrooke St. W. Cocktails are at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Gregory Charles will be presented with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. Charles and pianist Daniel Clarke Bouchard will perform. For tickets, call 514-932- 1104 ext. 225. For more information, go to blacktheatreworkshop.ca

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J.J. Abrams' 'Star Wars 7': What Will It Look Like?

From 'Felicity' to 'Star Trek,' Abrams' filmography provides clues as to how his 'Star Wars' vision will come together.
By Josh Wigler

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AP Debate: Training needed to redesign job market

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ? Economists and officials say a host of new training programs are needed to rebuild the job market after technological gains and the financial crisis wiped out millions of middle-class jobs over the past five years.

IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu said governments aren't paying enough attention to training amid a widespread push for austerity. Eric Cantor, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, says training is needed to give workers the tools they need for the "new labor force."

They spoke Friday at an Associated Press debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Italian Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli, also at the debate, warned that shrinking birth rates are making economic prospects even worse: "To get people employed you need young people to be born."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-debate-training-needed-redesign-job-market-134237153--finance.html

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New Genetic Twist: 4-Stranded DNA Lurks in Human Cells

Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life ? an interweaving double helix called DNA ? researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells.

The odd structures are called G-quadruplexes because they form in regions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that are full of guanine, one of the DNA molecule's four building blocks, with the others being adenine, cytosine, thymine. The structure comprises four guanines held together by a type of hydrogen bonding to form a sort of squarelike shape. (The DNA molecule is itself a double strand held together by these building blocks and wrapped together like a helix.)

The new visualization of the G-quadruplex is detailed this week in the journal Nature Chemistry.

"I think this paper is important in showing directly the existence of this structure in vivo in the human genome, but it is not completely unexpected," said Hans-Joachim Lipps, of the University of Witten in Germany, who was not involved in the study. [See Images of the 4-Stranded DNA]

Scientists had shown in the past that such quadruplex DNA could form in test tubes and had even been found in the cells of ciliated protozoa, or single-celled organisms with hairlike appendages. Also there were hints of its existence in human cells, though no direct proof, Lipps said.

But scientists still didn't have concrete evidence for its existence in the human genome. In the new study, researchers, including chemist Shankar Balasubramanian, of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Research Institute, crafted antibody proteins specifically for this type of DNA. The proteins were marked with a fluorescent chemical, so when they hooked up to areas in the human genome packed with G-quadruplexes, they lit up.

Next, they incubated the antibodies with human cells in the lab, finding these structures tended to occur in genes of cells that were rapidly dividing, a telltale feature of cancer cells. They also found a spike in quadruplexes during the s-phase of the cell cycle, or the phase when DNA replicates just before the cell divides.

As such, the researchers think the four-stranded DNA could be a target for personalized medicine in the future. If they could block these odd ducks perhaps they could stop the rapid cell division of cancer cells.

"We are seeing links between trapping the quadruplexes with molecules and the ability to stop cells dividing, which is hugely exciting," Balasubramanian said in a statement.

The finding "is certainly a technical (not scientific) breakthrough in designing antibodies sensitive enough to demonstrate this structure in vivo in the human genome," Lipps wrote.

Lipps and his colleagues had suggested previously these structures regulate basic biological mechanisms, such as the replication of DNA.

"What makes me personally very happy about this work is that it again demonstrates that mechanisms first described in ciliated protozoa hold also true for other organisms up to human, demonstrating the strength of this model organism," wrote Lipps wrote.

The team still has several questions about quadruplexes, such as how the structures operate. "One thought is that these quadruplex structures might be a bit of a nuisance during DNA replication ? like knots or tangles that form," Balasubramanian said.

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Finger Army 1942: A whack-a-mole game worth your 99 cents

We're all familiar with the arcade classic "whack-a-mole" type games, but how does that translate into an Android app? Pretty darn well in Finger Army 1942. Sometimes the most simple games are also the most fun, and it's a recipe that works well here. You basically have a whack-a-mole clone set to the theme of a 1942 battle field, but the second twist is that soldiers are... fingers. Right. Trust us though, it works and is extremely fun.

You progress through levels with increasing difficulty, tapping on the finger soldiers to gain points. As the levels get tougher, more variety of military units are deployed, adding to the variety and fun of the game. Hit the soldiers with metal helmets twice to knock them down, but don't touch the medics or white flag wavers! It only takes a few minutes before you're frantically mashing your fingers on the screen. The game doesn't have any settings or menu really to speak of, lending credence to the idea that this is a true casual screen-masher. Finger Army 1942 brings a bit to the table for all ages, with easy gameplay from the start for younger users and harder advanced levels later on for the more serious player. 

The graphics, sound track and gameplay are all high quality, which just add to the overall game experience. You're not distracted by messy animations or slow performance anywhere in the game. You can tell that the developers (Tin Planet) put a good bit of work into every aspect here. Although it is certainly compatible -- and runs just as great -- with phones we find it the most fun on a tablet (it ran great on a Nexus 7) because you have more screen real estate to work with.

Stick around after the break to see an official gameplay trailer of Finger Army 1942, and if you're interested in the game it can be found for $0.99 in the Play Store at the link above.

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