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Report: Algeria's president has mini-stroke

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as they pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Algiers, Algeria, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as they pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Algiers, Algeria, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ? Algeria's president was hospitalized Saturday after having a mini-stroke without serious complications, the state news agency said.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, had a brief blockage of a blood vessel ? called a transient ischemic attack ? around noon, Rachid Bougherbal, the director of the national center of sports medicine told the state news agency.

"His excellency the president of the republic must observe a period of rest for further examinations," he said, adding that "there was no reason for worry."

Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said the president was hospitalized, "but the situation is not serious."

Bouteflika has ruled the oil-rich North African country since 1999 and has long believed to be in poor health and rarely appears in public. The state news agency rarely carries any reports on the president's health

The announcement also comes as speculation is rife that Bouteflika will run for a fourth term in presidential elections just a year away, despite promises to step down. In Algeria, power is delicately shared between civilian politicians and the powerful military.

Algeria is one of Africa's richest countries, as the No. 3 supplier of natural gas to Europe, with $190 billion in reserves, up $8 billion in the last year alone.

On Jan. 16, a band of al-Qaida affiliated militants attacked the Ain Amenas gas plant and took dozens of foreign workers hostage. After a four-day standoff, the Algerian army moved in and killed 29 attackers and captured three others. At least 37 hostages, including one Algerian worker, died in the battle.

According to the American Stroke Association, a TIA, as it is known, is caused by a temporary blood clot and lasts just a short time and "usually causes no permanent injury to the brain." A third of those suffering from TIA, also known as "warning strokes," go on to have a full stroke within the next year, according to website of the association.

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MADRID, April 28 (Reuters) - Malaga kept up their push for a possible return to the Champions League next season with a 2-1 win at home Getafe that lifted them to fifth in La Liga on Sunday. Striker Roque Santa Cruz headed them in front just before halftime and defender Weligton doubled the lead with another header, this time from a corner, two minutes after the re-start. Getafe pulled one back with a close-range volley from Juan Valera in the 70th minute and Manuel Pellegrini's side endured some nervy moments near the end as they missed a number of chances to settle the game. ...

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Even Vinny Magalhaes can?t believe a judge gave him a round in UFC 159 loss to Phil Davis

At UFC 159 on Saturday night, Phil Davis showed off the best striking of his career. The NCAA Division-I champion wrestler clearly dominated Vinny Magalhaes in all three rounds on the way to a unanimous decision win. However, one of the judges thought Magalhaes won one round, and the score was 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.

It was a surprising score. It didn't take anything away from Davis' win, but it was odd enough that Magalhaes spoke up about it.

One insane judge gave me a round... I lost all 3 fair and square...

? Vinny Magalhaes (@VinnyMMA) April 28, 2013

Davis and Magalhaes talked trash to each other for months before their bout. Magalhaes left the bad blood in the cage, and was able to give himself an honest assessment moments after the loss.

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US team speaking to suspects' parents in Russia

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) ? U.S. investigators are in contact with the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia and working with Russian security officials to shed light on the deadly attack, a U.S. Embassy official said Wednesday.

The Americans traveled Tuesday from Moscow to the predominantly Muslim province of Dagestan "because the investigation is ongoing, it's not over," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He said the U.S. team is working with the Russian security services, the FSB.

"This is a horrible tragedy for our country, but one positive development might be closer cooperation on this set of issues with the Russian government," the embassy official said.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are accused of setting off the two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The elder brother was later killed in a police standoff.

Investigators are looking into whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who spent six months in Russia's Caucasus in 2012, was influenced by the religious extremists who have waged an insurgency against Russian security services in the area for years. The brothers have roots in Dagestan and neighboring Chechnya, but neither spent much time in either place before the family moved to the United States a decade ago.

On Wednesday, their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was inside the FSB building in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where she was believed to be speaking further to U.S. and Russian investigators.

Heda Saratova, a prominent Chechen rights activist providing support to the distraught mother, said Tsarnaeva first went in for questioning on Tuesday, returning late at night. Saratova said she had no details about the discussions, but Tsarnaeva said they were "cordial."

The father, Anzor Tsarnaev, also was summoned to the FSB headquarters but did not go because he felt ill.

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AP writer Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.

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Lending scheme retooled to help small firms

By William Schomberg and David Milliken

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain sought to inject new life into the country's stagnant economy on Wednesday by giving banks greater incentives to lend to small and medium-sized firms which complain they are starved of credit.

The Bank of England and the Treasury said a new phase of their flagship Funding for Lending Scheme would be heavily skewed towards smaller firms.

Banks taking part in the programme will also now be able to lend to alternative providers of credit - such as leasing firms which often work with small companies - as well as mortgage and housing credit corporations.

Under a third change, banks can get funding from the FLS for an extra year until the end of January 2015.

The Bank and the government see a lack of credit to small businesses as a major factor behind Britain's very slow recovery from the financial crisis. On Thursday, data could show the economy slipped into its third recession in under five years

Chancellor George Osborne is under pressure to boost growth after concerns from the International Monetary Fund - previously a supporter of his austerity policies - said he may need to slow the pace of spending cuts.

He announced measures to boost the housing market in March and employers groups welcomed Wednesday's changes to the FLS. But they said it remained to be seen whether banks would become less risk-averse and lend to such borrowers as start-up firms.

"What a lot of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) will be looking for is money actually getting to the front line on reasonable terms, and not just to the safe bets," said Adam Marshall, policy director at the British Chambers of Commerce.

Economists said the changes were not a game-changer for the economy. "The FLS is likely to provide a boost when confidence returns to the economy, but confidence is the elusive factor," analysts at Barclays said in a note to clients.

Alan Clarke, an economist at Scotiabank said the changes were probably a complement to more broad-based stimulus in the future by the Bank, and were unlikely to stop it from buying more government bonds later in the year.

INCENTIVES TO LEND TO SMALL FIRMS NOW

The original FLS was launched last August and offers banks cheap credit if they increase lending to households and businesses. Results have been mixed, with benefits so far mainly going to banks and homebuyers rather than small businesses.

Banks drew 14 billion pounds in cheap funding from the Bank between August and the end of last year but the FLS failed to stop a decline in overall bank loans at the end of 2012, adding to pressure on the government to take more action.

The Bank Governor Mervyn King said the extension of the FLS would assure banks about their cheap funding rates.

"This innovative extension will now do even more for small and medium-sized businesses so that they can play their full part in creating new jobs," Osborne said in a statement.

One of the changes announced on Wednesday seeks to get credit to small and medium-sized firms flowing as soon as possible: for every pound of additional lending by banks to the sector in the remainder of 2013, the amount of funding that banks will be able to draw upon increases by 10 pounds.

In 2014, that falls to five pounds of FLS funding for banks for every pound they lend to SMEs.

Lending to other sectors will count on a one-for-one basis towards the allowance for banks accessing the scheme.

Cormac Leech, a banking analyst at Liberum Capital, said the 10-to-1 ratio to increase bank lending to small firms this year would help banks such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, which are Britain's biggest business lenders.

"They are highly incentivised to write SME loans even at an underwriting loss. So it's a key positive for them and should help to drive their share price and sector earnings," he said.

Employers groups want more competition in Britain's banking sector as a way to spur fresh lending. Those hopes suffered a blow on Wednesday when the planned sale of 630 bank branches by Lloyds to the Co-Operative Group fell through.

(Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)

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Runtastic PRO (for iPhone)

Can I share with you just how much I hate running? Having tried it across a number of years, indoors and outdoors, it's simply not for me. I inevitably spend the whole time thinking, "Why? Why am I doing this?" So why would I ever want a running app, much less think Runtastic PRO ($4.99) deserves such a high rating? It has to do with the fact that fitness apps are often deceiving, especially in their names. Runtastic really isn't solely for runners. Sure, it's marketed at the hobbyist runner crowd, but you can use it to track nearly any outdoor activity, from walking to cycling to skiing. I used Runtastic to keep track of my more leisurely activities, and loved the wealth of information the app collected about where I went, how long it took, and the total distance traveled.

Runtastic PRO isn't the only fitness app with a misleading name. I've had similar experiences with the Map My Run and its companion Map My Ride+ ($2.99) apps, as well as the Cyclemeter iPhone app ($4.99). None of these apps is specific to any one sport, and they all have free versions as well, but paying a few dollars for the "pro" or "plus" edition is worthwhile because it ensures access to all the data. Some of the freebies, on the other hand, short-change you or repeatedly push an upgrade message at you.

Runtastic Basics
Runtastic PRO captures all the basic data you'd expect from a fitness tracking app: distance, average speed, speed between mile markers, elevation, pace, pace between mile markers, duration, calories burned, and route as plotted on a map using GPS, which you can optionally disable to conserve battery power.

Open the app, and you can launch right into your activity by hitting a green start button on the "Session" tab, which is the default home screen. The app will ask if you want live tracking enabled, and then prompt you to choose your activity, unless you've set the app to a default sport. The app will then countdown a few seconds (to give you a moment to strap your iPhone into place), which you can also customize to be 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or no time at all. Tapping the screen will also kill the countdown so you can get moving.

When you finish your run, kayak ride, cross-country ski route, or what have you, the app opens to a page where you can log additional details about the weather, surface (i.e., pavement, wooded trails, gravel), your mood, and average heart rate, which becomes automatic if you wear a compatible chest strap. The app also automatically records the average temperature based on your location. I like these little details because you can mark, for example, if you're injured or just having a down day, which would account for a slow pace or shorter than normal route.

I used Runtastic on a couple of bike rides and also on a few long walks. I wore headphones while walking and liked that Runtastic didn't interrupt me much, other than to announce when I passed a mile marker and the total time at that point. While bicycling, I tucked my iPhone away, which is when the delayed start countdown came in handy. Both of those features are pretty standard in other fitness apps that cost a few dollars, although they're the kind of thing that might be missing in free apps.

Free vs. Pro
As mentioned, Runtastic does have a free app, but it's somewhat limited compared with the Pro version. Also, it's a little tricky, but not all the features in the Runtastic PRO are available across all platforms, so for example while the iPhone Pro app has an integrated music player, the Android version does not. I'm reviewing the iPhone version here, and luckily, it has the most features of any platform.

Pro adds: voice feedback (in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian), live tracking, routes and routes search (meaning you can find routes that other users have mapped nearby), pulse reading and heart rate zones (when a compatible heart rate monitor is added), as well as an integrated music player. You can set a power song from your music library, which is what Runtastic will play if you need a boost. Runtastic PRO also has a few different modes for guiding your activity toward a specific goal, such as workout, interval workout, and competitions. And most important to me, the PRO version has auto-pause, meaning it accounts for stops at red lights and such.

In-App Add-Ons
Runtastic PRO app for iPhone balances depth of information with ease of use. It gathers a lot of data surrounding activities you do, but keeps the interface simple enough that you can easily get to the most important information quickly. Explore all the settings and menu buttons, however, and you'll uncover more and more. When you buy the $4.99 PRO version, everything is included, although Runtastic still does offer some additional in-app purchases, special (and expensive) training programs that coach you through marathon prep or weight loss assistance over several weeks. Although I didn't test any of these add-on services, I do feel slightly uneasy when I pay $5 for an app but still feel like the company is trying to sell me more, more, more.

Which Fitness App to Use?
Runtastic, a PCMag Editors' Choice, is a solid activity tracking app, and its iPhone app is the most complete of all the different platform versions. It's worth spending $5 for Runtastic PRO to ensure you get auto-pause, a variety of modes to adjust your exercises to suit when you're training versus when you're trying to burn calories, and the ability to search out new routes uploaded by other users.

A very similar app which I like equally as much is Cyclemeter, which is also an Editors' Choice. Spend $4.99 on either Runtastic PRO or Cyclemeter, and you won't be disappointed.?

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Livable super-Earths? Two candidates among Kepler's latest finds.

Researchers unveiled a total of three planets Thursday, including two potentially livable super-Earths. The discoveries bring the Kepler team closer to its goal.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / April 18, 2013

An artist drew (l. to r.) Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler 62f, and Earth to scale to show the similarities in size. Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope have found the best candidates yet for potentially life-bearing worlds beyond our solar system, officials said Thursday.

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Two potentially livable super-Earths and an outsized version of Venus were unveiled Thursday, the latest in a string of remarkable discoveries from NASA's Kepler mission.

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Kepler is a space-based observatory whose unblinking gaze has rested on some 170,000 stars simultaneously since May 2009.

The three planets are the smallest the observatory has yet detected in stellar habitable zones. These zones represent distances where a planet receives enough light from its host star to harbor liquid water on its surface. Liquid water is essential for the emergence of organic life.

The discoveries bring the Kepler team tantalizingly close to its ultimate goal ? to find Earth-mass planets orbiting sun-like stars at Earth-like distances, while also taking a broader census to see how many planetary systems with an Earth-like planet the Milky Way may hold.

Led by William Borucki, a researcher at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif., the team has confirmed 115 extra-solar planets so far, and it has amassed a roster of more than 2,700 planet candidates.

Two of the new planets are part of a five-planet system orbiting a star some 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. The star, Kepler 62, is about two-thirds the size of the sun and has 70 percent of the sun's mass. It's also about 3 billion years older than the sun.

The system's three inner planets, one comparable in size to Mars, are too close to their sun to be livable. Kepler 62-e, the fourth planet out, however, falls within the habitable zone. Orbiting once every 122 days, the planet is about 60 percent larger than Earth.

The team speculates that the planet is covered with water, although the system is too far away to take the measurements needed to estimate the planet's mass. Researchers need that measurement to determine the planet's density, a major clue as to its bulk composition.

Instead, modeling studies have indicated that planets ranging from 1.5 to two times Earth's size tend to be far more watery than planets closer to Earth's size. Thus, while the nature of the planet remains speculative for now, "the fascinating idea is that we've actually found the first ocean planet, the first water world out there," said Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., during a mission briefing Thursday afternoon.

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Binge eating curbed by deep brain stimulation in animal model

Apr. 23, 2013 ? Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a precise region of the brain appears to reduce caloric intake and prompt weight loss in obese animal models, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, reinforces the involvement of dopamine deficits in increasing obesity-related behaviors such as binge eating, and demonstrates that DBS can reverse this response via activation of the dopamine type-2 receptor.

"Based on this research, DBS may provide therapeutic relief to binge eating, a behavior commonly seen in obese humans, and frequently unresponsive to other approaches," said senior author Tracy L. Bale, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Animal Biology and in the Perelman School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. DBS is currently used to reduce tremors in Parkinson's disease and is under investigation as a therapy for major depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Nearly 50 percent of obese people binge eat, uncontrollably consuming palatable highly calorie food within a short period of time. In this study, researchers targeted the nucleus accumbens, a small structure in the brain reward center known to be involved in addictive behaviors. Mice receiving the stimulation ate significantly less of the high fat food compared to mice not receiving DBS. Following stimulation, mice did not compensate for the loss of calories by eating more. However, on days when the device was turned off, binge eating resumed.

Researchers also tested the long-term effects of DBS on obese mice that had been given unlimited access to high-fat food. During four days of continuous stimulation, the obese mice consumed fewer calories and, importantly, their body weight dropped. These mice also showed improvement in their glucose sensitivity, suggestive of a reversal of type 2 diabetes.

"These results are our best evidence yet that targeting the nucleus accumbens with DBS may be able to modify specific feeding behaviors linked to body weight changes and obesity," Bale added.

"Once replicated in human clinical trials, DBS could rapidly become a treatment for people with obesity due to the extensive groundwork already established in other disease areas," said lead author Casey Halpern, MD, resident in the Department of Neurosurgery of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (DA022605 and HL091911). In addition to Drs. Bale and Halpern, Penn experts include Anand Tekriwal from the College of Arts and Sciences, John Wolf from Neurosurgery and Jeffrey Keating from Neurology. They were joined by colleagues in Psychology at the University of Buffalo.

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Makeshift Tripods, Android Photos, and Hard Drive Adapters

Readers offer their best tips for turning lamps into tripods, getting rid of empty photo albums on Android, and fitting 2.5" hard drives into a 3.5" slot.

Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons?maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in?the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it over at our user-run blog, Hackerspace.

Turn Any Table Lamp Into a Camera Tripod

Patrick McDonald discovers a hidden "feature" of modern table lamps:

You know how most table lamps have a little screw off cap on the top that lets you remove the lamp shade? The remaining male thread screw is the EXACT same as that used by camera tripods. Just screw your camera onto the male post and, viola! Instant temporary camera tripod-with a built-in backlight!

Delete Empty Folders from Android's Gallery App

Joshua Hammer shares a fix for one of Android's annoyances:

Android Central just outlined a very simple way of getting rid of those very pesky empty "Instant Upload" Album folders sitting in your Gallery app. All it involves is heading over to the Picasa Web Albums page and deleting those folders.

Even if those folders had been deleted from your Google+ albums they would still show up on your phone and they just didn't look good. This trick will also allow you to get rid of duplicate folders. For the full details head over to Android Police.

Make a 2.5" Hard Drive Adapter with Two Cassette Tape Cases

Marcel Kaiser discovers a useful DIY trick:

When I was building a PC for a friend, I had the problem that I didn't have a HDD rack for the 2.5" hard drive. After some time of ransacking various boxes, I found two audio cassette cases. Heureka!

You'll need two audio cassette cases, a strip of duct tape, and a sharp knife for drilling holes. Check out my blog post for more pictures of the process.

Improve LibreOffice's Interface With Its Full Screen Toolbar

Scottintheway brings LibreOffice into the 21st century:

. . .If you put [LibreOffice] in full-screen mode you can edit the full-screen floating toolbar to have any number of useful menu options. This basically gives you a menu-bar-free interface (saving valuable vertical pixels).

. . .Not a bad solution, especially for people who are used to the Adobe Creative Suite layout style. A nice, functional, floating sidebar that saves a ton of vertical pixels. It's a single click to see the status bar (for word counts, etc.) and on the rare occasion any additional menu functions are needed, it's a single click to get out of full-screen.

You can see more of the cool stuff Scottintheway did with LibreOffice by checking out his full blog post.

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Liverpool fine Suarez for bite but won't sack him

(Reuters) - Liverpool have fined Uruguay striker Luis Suarez an undisclosed amount for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic at the weekend but will not sack him, the Premier League club said on Monday.

Suarez, the league's top scorer with 23 goals, has been widely condemned for his behavior in Sunday's 2-2 draw and is expected to get a lengthy ban from the Football Association but Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said the club would stand by him.

"I think the most important thing is that we acted swiftly yesterday," Ayre told the club's website (www.liverpoolfc.com).

"Luis issued his apology and then we spoke with him last night and then again this morning. We've taken action to fine Luis for his actions."

Ayre did not specify the size of the fine but Suarez asked for the money to be donated to the Hillsborough Family Support Group - an organization set up after the 1989 stadium disaster that left 96 Liverpool fans dead.

Former Liverpool midfielder Graeme Souness said on Sunday that Suarez had reached "last chance saloon" at Anfield after the latest in a string of misdemeanors while others have suggested the club could take a moral stance and terminate his contract.

However, Ayre said manager Brendan Rodgers would work with the player to help improve his discipline.

"The owners are happy with the way we are handling the matter," said the managing director.

"He's a very popular player with his team mates. As we keep saying, he signed a new four-year contract last summer and we'd all love to see him here throughout that contract.

"He's a fantastic player, top scorer and everything we'd want in a striker so there's no change there."

The Professional Footballers Association (PFA) said on Monday that Suarez would be offered anger management classes.

(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Tony Jimenez)

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The Infinity Cell is a kinetic charger for the iPhone that uses your body's movement to generate electricity. The current prototype for the Infinity Cell is a crude 3D printed rectangle, roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes, linked up to the iPhone with a cable. The plan is to create a more streamlined version during the product's Kickstarter campaign.

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Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochement

ISTANBUL (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Turkey to speed up and cement an American-brokered rapprochement with Israel, and he explored with Palestinian officials new ways to relaunch Mideast peace efforts.

Those are second-term foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama, and Kerry tried to advance them in meetings with Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.

On a trip to Israel last month, Obama secured a pledge from Turkish and Israeli leaders to normalize ties that broke down after a 2010 Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American.

But the rapprochement has been slow, fueling concerns that Turkey may be backsliding on its commitment.

Israeli and Turkish negotiators plan to meet this coming week to discuss Turkey's demand for compensation for victims of the flotilla. U.S. officials hope the discussions will jumpstart the process of restoring full diplomatic relations and exchanging ambassadors between two countries that Washington sees as vital strategic partners in the volatile Middle East.

The raid sparked throughout outrage in Muslim-majority Turkey, making it politically difficult for the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to bend to persistent U.S. appeals to improve relations with Israel.

In March, Obama extracted an apology for the raid from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that broke the stalemate.

Kerry said he understood the anger and frustration of those Turks who lost friends and family in the raid. The former Massachusetts senator said last week's Boston Marathon bombings made him acutely aware of the emotions involved.

"We have just been through the week of Boston and I have deep feelings for what happens when you have violence, when something that happens when you lose people that are near and dear to you," he said. "It affects the community, it affects the country. But going forward, you know, we have to find the best way to bring people together and undo these tensions and undo these stereotypes and try to make peace."

Kerry said he had a "prolonged and constructive" discussion with Davutoglu, about "the importance of completing the task with respect to the renewal of relations between Turkey and Israel."

Kerry added that he believed Erdogan, whom he did not meet on this trip, and Davutoglu "are deeply committed to fulfilling all of the obligations of that understanding."

Erdogan plans to visit Obama at the White House on May 16, and U.S. officials are keen to see substantive process by then. Kerry said Erdogan's visit "will be an important next step in this ongoing dialogue."

"We would like to see us get to a point where we are moving on improving the situation in Gaza, which was part of the agreement ... and where we are also completing the tasks of moving to full diplomatic relations between the countries, which would be very beneficial to everyone," he said.

Erdogan's plans to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip sometime in May after his trip to Washington have raised concerns. Both Israel and Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority is based in the West Bank, are opposed.

Kerry said he had made it clear to the Turks that such a trip "shouldn't take place at this time."

"It was our feeling, in a constructive way, that we thought that the timing of it is really critical with respect to the peace process that we are trying to get off the ground. We would like to see the parties begin with as little outside distraction as possible."

With Abbas, Kerry was talking about ways to improve the Palestinians' living conditions as a confidence-building measure to improve the atmosphere for a resumption in stalled peace talks with Israel.

Kerry has said he fears there is only a two- or three-year window of opportunity to reach a deal on a two-state solution that would end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wants to move as quickly as possible. He has met with Abbas and Netanyahu several times already to that end since becoming secretary of state.

Kerry was in Istanbul primarily to attend an international conference on Syria that began on Saturday and stretched into early Sunday as participants debated how best to boost aid to rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

At the conference, he announced that the Obama administration would double its nonlethal assistance to the Syrian opposition with an additional $123 million in supplies that could include for the first time armored vehicles, body armor, night vision goggles and other defensive military supplies.

"I can't tell you how quickly it will change things on the ground," Kerry said Sunday. "I can promise you that as soon as I return to Washington, I am going to press as hard as I can" to get it to the opposition within a matter of weeks.

"This has to happen quickly, it has to have an impact," he added.

The additional aid, which brings total non-lethal U.S. assistance to the opposition to $250 million since the fighting began more than two years ago, "underscores the United States' firm support for a political solution to the crisis in Syria and for the opposition's advancement of an inclusive, tolerant vision for a post-Assad Syria," Kerry said.

The U.S. pledge was the only tangible, public offer of new international support at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the 11 main countries supporting the opposition and fell well short of what the opposition has been appealing for: weapons and direct military intervention to stop the violence that has killed more than 70,000 people.

The Syrian National Coalition is seeking drone strikes on sites from which the regime has fired missiles, the imposition of no-fly zones and protected humanitarian corridors to ensure the safety of civilians.

While pleased with the U.S. moves, the opposition appeared deeply disappointed, especially as it lost some ground in the latest clashes with Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen capturing at least one village in a strategic area near the Lebanese border.

With the exception of the United States, none of the participants offered new assistance, although European nations are considering changes to an arms embargo that would allow weapons transfers to the Syrian opposition.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-pushes-turkey-israel-rapprochement-061951724--politics.html

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In Austin, half-baked pay scheme costs dough ? Business ...

Chuy?s Panaderia Bakery, which oper??ates two locations in Austin, has agreed to settle charges of failing to pay the federal minimum wage to 101 employees. A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation revealed the company paid fixed salaries to its cooks, cashiers and bakery staff regardless of how many hours the employees worked.

In some cases, that caused em???ployee pay to fall below the federal minimum wage. And it virtually en?sured that employees working more than 40 hours in a week were not paid time and a half for those hours.

The final tab for the bakery?s stingy practices came to $244,770.

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Good Reads: China's 'cyber cage,' millennium goals update, toddlers and tech, space diving

The round-up of Good Reads this week includes how the Internet could erode China's authoritarianism, the status of the UN millennium development goals, how parents introduce technology to children, and space-diver Felix Baumgartner's superhero suit.

By Allison Terry,?Correspondent / April 19, 2013

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China, at the top of this list, has allowed its citizens to benefit from the Internet?s economic mobility while still controlling its political and social impact. As some dissidents have said, ?freedom is knowing how big your cage is,? reports The Economist.

It?s a method of governing the Internet that is antithetical to the Western model of free speech. Further, China?s ?adaptive authoritarianism? is serving as a model for other countries (such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ethiopia) looking to profit from the Internet even as they control it. But even with this paternalistic approach, The Economist argues that the Internet may still have a destabilizing impact on the foundation of China?s authoritarianism. As online access spreads ? especially via mobile phones ? the democratic nature of the Internet may eventually bring political change to China.

?When, many years from now, history books about this period come to be written, the internet may well turn out to have been an agent not of political upheaval in China but of authoritarian adaptation before the upheaval, building up expectations for better government while delaying the kind of political transformation needed to deliver it,? states the report. ?That may seem paradoxical, but it makes sense for a party intent on staying in power for as long as it can.?

Planning for progress

The number of people living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 a day) dropped from 43 percent in 1990 to about 21 percent in 2010, one indicator that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have had some measure of success. Reducing extreme poverty by half was achieved five years before its 2015 deadline.

Before governments, multilateral institutions, and nongovernmental organizations set new international development agendas, the accomplishments and shortcomings of MDGs need to be closely examined, writes John W. McArthur in Foreign Affairs.

?The MDGs have helped mobilize and guide development efforts by emphasizing outcomes. They have encouraged world leaders to tackle multiple dimensions of poverty at the same time and have provided a standard that advocates on the ground can hold their governments to,? writes Mr. McArthur. ?Even in countries where politicians might not directly credit the MDGs, the global effort has informed local perspectives and priorities. The goals have improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people. They have shown how much can be achieved when ambitious and specific targets are matched with rigorous thinking, serious resources, and a collaborative global spirit.?

Looking forward to the next generation of development, McArthur said that low-income countries must have a greater voice in outlining the goals, and government accountability must be a priority.

Too young for a tablet?

To some parents these days, it may seem as if their toddlers ? or in some cases, infants ? are increasingly tech savvy, especially when it comes to tablets. With more than 40,000 kids? games and applications in iTunes and Google Play, it?s no surprise that such young children have mastered technology, writes Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic.

?It did not seem beyond the range of possibility that if Norman Rockwell were alive, he would paint the two curly-haired boys bent over the screen, one small finger guiding a smaller one across, down, and across again to make, in their triumphant finale, the small z,? Ms. Rosin writes.

On the downside, however, is the extra worry that parents have about what impact technology is having on their children?s development.

?Parents end up treating tablets like precision surgical instruments, gadgets that might perform miracles for their child?s IQ and help him win some nifty robotics competition ? but only if they are used just so,? she writes. ?Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures who can?t make eye contact and has an avatar for a girlfriend.?

A superhero fall from space

What does it take to jump out of a space capsule 130,000 feet above Earth? Lots of coaching, according to Felix Baumgartner, the man who set the record for highest human free-fall last October, while also breaking the speed of sound.

In a Vanity Fair profile, William Langewiesche describes how Mr. Baumgartner spent five years preparing for the feat with a team of veteran aerospace engineers, test pilots, and a sports psychologist. Baumgartner struggled with the idea of wearing his spacesuit, so his psychologist told him to think of it as a superhero outfit.

?If you put it on and look in a mirror, you look like a hero, you know? There aren?t many people in the world who have their own suit,? Baumgartner said. ?Even astronauts, they don?t have custom-made suits.... It protects me. It gives me the right to be there at 130,000 feet.?

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Clenbuterol in livestock farming may affect results of doping controls in sport

Apr. 17, 2013 ? The illegal use of clenbuterol in livestock farming may affect the results of doping controls in sport. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute of Food Safety, RIKILT Wageningen UR, Netherlands, in partnership with fellow institutes.

At the behest of FIFA (F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association), RIKILT examined 47 meat and food samples. All originated from hotels in Mexico where football teams stayed during the U-17 World Cup. In 14 of these samples, the growth promoter clenbuterol was found.

A different institute studied 208 urine samples from footballers staying at the hotels in question and found clenbuterol in 109 of them. Only five of the 24 teams which had provided urine samples tested negative for the presence of clenbuterol. At least one of those teams had been put on a strict non-meat diet.

FIFA launched its investigation into possible problems with food contamination in connection with doping tests in 2011, prompted by five positive doping tests involving clenbuterol in members of the Mexican national football team during out-of-competition doping tests.

The study demonstrates that clenbuterol in meat for human consumption causes major problems when eaten by top athletes who are registered in national and international doping control systems. As such, there is an urgent need for government action to combat the illegal use of clenbuterol in livestock farming worldwide.

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The use of clenbuterol in livestock farming is banned in the entire European Union. This prohibition also applies to all meat exporting countries selling meat products in the markets of the EU member states.

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Facebook Home expands beyond the US, now up for download in Canada and the UK

Facebook promised that other countries would be getting Home for Android sometime after the US rollout, but it didn't have much more to offer in the way of specifics at its launch event earlier this month. It turns out the wait wasn't too long for some countries, though, as the Home app is now available for download in at least Canada and the UK. You'll still need one of the phones already approved for use to actually run it, though -- namely, the Samsung Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III, HTC One X+, One X or One. As for the one phone that Home actually ships pre-installed on, the HTC First, it remains a US-exclusive on AT&T; EE and Orange have confirmed that they'll be carrying it across the pond, but there's still no word on Canadian availability.

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?Evil? Boston bombings were act of terror

President Barack Obama speaks about the Boston Marathon bombings on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Susan Walsh/AP)

"Evil." "Heinous." "Cowardly." President Barack Obama on Tuesday sharply denounced the Boston Marathon bomb attacks even as he held up the heroism of first responders and ordinary Americans in the bloody aftermath of what he labeled "an act of terror."

"The American people refuse to be terrorized. Because what the world saw yesterday in the aftermath of the explosions were stories of heroism and kindness and generosity and love,? the president said in the White House briefing room.

He pointed to exhausted marathon runners who raced to area hospitals to donate blood, others who stayed to help the wounded, some tearing off their own clothes to make tourniquets. He cited first responders ?who ran into the chaos to save lives,? medical staff still treating the wounded, religious leaders who tended to the fearful, ?and the good people of Boston? who opened their homes.

?If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that?s it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid,? Obama said.

"This was a heinous and cowardly act, and given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism," Obama said. "Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror."

"What we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual," he said. "Clearly, we are at the beginning of our investigation. It will take time to follow every lead and determine what happened?but we will find out."

"We will find whoever harmed our citizens, and we will bring them to justice."

Obama also ordered American flags flying over government facilities at home and overseas to be lowered to half-staff. Aides lowered the Stars and Stripes fluttering in the overcast Washington sky over the White House and the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

The blasts, captured in dramatic videos and photographs, ripped through crowds of onlookers near the race?s finish line. The official toll includes more than 170 wounded, 17 critically, and three fatalities including an 8-year-old boy.

Obama spoke after receiving his latest briefing on the response and investigation from top national security aides including FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and Lisa Monaco, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-evil-boston-bombings-were-act-terror-160222366--politics.html

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Low-key private ceremony held for Margaret Thatcher

By Andrew Osborn

LONDON (Reuters) - A coffin bearing the body of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was placed in a chapel in Britain's parliament before her funeral on Wednesday as a debate about the ceremony's scale and guest list deepened.

Draped in the red, white and blue British flag, Thatcher's casket was driven through London's Whitehall government district in a black hearse as tourists and parliament workers looked on in bright sunshine.

Four undertakers then carried it on their shoulders before placing it inside the crypt of the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, a cavernous vaulted place of worship first completed by King Edward 1 of England in 1297.

Aged 87, Thatcher, who ruled Britain from 1979 to 1990, died after suffering a stroke on April 8.

Security was tight, with armed police on hand as lawmakers attended a private memorial service commemorating her career as Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century.

Her children, Mark and Carol, also attended.

The proceedings were low key, unlike her planned ceremonial funeral on Wednesday which some left-wing lawmakers have called an expensive political advert for her ruling Conservative party, which is trailing the opposition Labour party by 10 percent in the polls.

The guest list has prompted talk of diplomatic snubbing.

On Tuesday, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron denied the United States had snubbed Britain by not sending anyone senior from the administration of President Barack Obama.

"Absolutely not," the spokesman said.

Obama is sending George Shultz, a secretary of state for Republican President Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, who had a number of senior roles in both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies. No senior serving politicians are attending.

COST CONCERNS

The spokesman also said the Argentine ambassador had refused an invitation to attend, a decision colored by worsening diplomatic tensions over the contested Falkland Islands.

Relations between the two countries remain strained after a 1982 war over the islands during which Thatcher ordered a task force to retake the contested South Atlantic archipelago after Argentine troops seized it by force.

But in Britain it is the estimated 10-million-pound ($15 million) bill for the funeral and its grandiose nature which has drawn criticism from some lawmakers.

Thatcher was admired by many but despised by other Britons and her death has - at least temporarily - resurrected the tribal left-right politics of the 1980s with her most extreme opponents "celebrating" her death and her most ardent supporters hailing her as the country's greatest peacetime prime minister.

Some are angry that she is being given such a lavish funeral at public expense, with Queen Elizabeth attending along with more than 700 armed forces personnel, some of whose units played a pivotal role in the Falklands conflict.

"This is a state funeral in all but name without the consent of parliament for funding and without the consent of the people. Churchill, who was the only PM over the past 100 years to have a state funeral, unified the country, while Margaret Thatcher divided it," Labour lawmaker John Healey told the Guardian newspaper.

In a ceremony that will be covered live by Britain's biggest broadcasters, her coffin will be carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage through central London to St Paul's Cathedral where more than 2,000 guests will hear her favorite hymns and bid her farewell.

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Motor race draws world gaze to Bahrain, Arab Spring's forgotten corner

By Yara Bayoumy

MANAMA (Reuters) - On the wall of a home in the Bahraini village of al-Aali, 20-year-old Hassan peered through a black balaclava to admire his latest artwork: a circle around the phrase F1 crossed out in red spray paint.

The sentiment is shared by many Bahraini Shi'ites - the majority in this Sunni-ruled kingdom - who say the Formula One Grand Prix race Bahrain will host April 19-21 should be canceled, as it was in 2011 when authorities crushed pro-democracy protests inspired by the 'Arab Spring'. Two years on daily clashes still erupt, largely unnoticed outside the region.

The race will once again draw international attention to Bahrain. The 2012 meeting was accompanied by nightly skirmishes between protesters and security forces. This year, says Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, the signs are that tensions in the kingdom have eased and the risk of protests has diminished. That's a view opposition activists reject.

"Of course we're against it," said Amani Ali, a 22-year-old university student dressed in the black garb typical of conservative Shi'ite women, standing a few meters from Hassan at the first of a series of opposition-organized marches.

"The race brings money to the regime, which they use to buy weapons and attack us.

Many of the companies who help to finance Formula One are limiting their sponsorship involvement, although the firms, including Vodafone and Diageo, say the reasons are operational, not political. Formula One makes most of its money from hosting fees paid by race venues and from television rights. Bahrain pays an estimated $40 million annually to be part of the 19-race calendar.

Home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, Bahrain has faced unrest since pro-democracy protests broke out in February 2011, pitting a Shi'ite-dominated opposition against the minority Sunni-led government, led by the Al Khalifa family.

The protest was crushed, dozens of people were killed and authorities razed "Pearl Square" where mostly Shi'ite demonstrators camped out in central Manama in 2011.

Now weekly sessions of a reconciliation effort between government and opposition known as the "national dialogue" take place outside Manama. But daily confrontations between stone-and-petrol-bomb throwing youths and birdshot-and-teargas firing police reflect a bitter political atmosphere.

WATCHED BY MILLIONS

Watched by millions around the world, the Grand Prix is the biggest sporting event hosted by Bahrain and authorities are eager to showcase Bahrain in its best light.

The protesters know the race will not be canceled. They feel there is an opportunity to use the media spotlight to highlight what they say are injustices still being committed against them.

The Shi'ite majority complain of discrimination in jobs and government while their loyalty in turn is questioned by members of Bahrain's Sunni ruling family, bound by historical and marriage ties to neighboring Saudi Arabia.

For the most part, the opposition feels the West and friendly Sunni-ruled Arab states are ignoring their plight, as more horrific headlines from the civil war in Syria and Egypt's major economic problems dominate media coverage.

"People are getting killed. They (the government) wants to show that there's nothing wrong in Bahrain," said Hassan, at the same protest in al-Aali in which thousands were calling for greater freedoms and for the downfall of the king.

A drive through the capital Manama and nearby rich suburbs showcase multi-lane highways, glittering five-star hotels, business towers and billboards advertising concerts.

It is impossible to ignore the omnipresent pictures of the top three royal figures: King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman al-Khalifa plastered on malls, schools and billboards across the city.

But a few minutes drive into poorer Shi'ite villages, and the skyscrapers are replaced by simple homes, many displaying graffiti that says "Down with Hamad", "The people want the downfall of the regime", and "Death to the Al Khalifa family".

"NOT A COUNTRY IN CRISIS"

National dialogue talks that began in February have been in deadlock as both sides accuse each other of intransigence.

The tensions reflect the sectarian faultline in which Shi'ite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are vying for influence in a region where traditional alliances are being recalibrated in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

The government denies opposition allegations of arbitrary arrests and abuse by security forces.

Last month, Hussein, a protest leader, said a group of men accosted him as he drove in his car late at night, and beat him.

"They told me say 'Long live the King'," he said. The men asked him if he participated in protests to which he replied that he joined government authorized ones. The men forced him to strip to his underwear and asked him the same question to which he gave the same reply. They then stripped him completely and asked him whether he would join protests, to which he replied no. "This time we'll let you go," he said the men told him.

Information Minister Samira Rajab denied security forces would have carried out such an action.

On many evenings youths block roads with palm tree trunks and couches, burn tires and throw petrol bombs and iron rods at police forces who fire teargas and bird shot bullets.

Against the backdrop of low-grade violence, Western diplomats acknowledge the challenge posed to the dialogue talks but hope they will eventually progress.

"There's a lot of mutual suspicion and they have to get through that," said a Western diplomat in Manama."But both sides recognize that 'We need a dialogue'. I'm reasonably confident that this dialogue will yield positive results. This is not a country in crisis, not a country on fire."

(additional reporting by Keith Weir; editing by William Maclean and Janet McBride)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/motor-race-draws-world-gaze-bahrain-arab-springs-065234463--f1.html

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