It's not too late for teens to find summer jobs - Fortune Management

FORTUNE -- The current U.S. crop of 14-to-18-year-olds is nothing if not optimistic, according to Junior Achievement's latest annual job survey of 1,025 teens. The poll found that two-thirds want to work this summer and, of that group, 92% said they were confident they will, even though more than one third (38%) have no work experience, and youth unemployment stands at a record 24% -- about three times the rate for all age groups.

The top three job-hunting methods the kids planned to use: networking through their parents' connections (47%); checking online help-wanted ads (33%); and looking in store windows for "now hiring" signs (32%).

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Memorial Day, summer's unofficial start, has come and gone, and most employers have already hired their summer help, so those who haven't landed a job yet may be discouraged. But it's too soon to give up, for three reasons. First, seasonal hiring is up this year. Not only do employers have more summer openings to fill, but they're also rehiring fewer repeat summer employees than in years past -- in part because many of those folks were adults who were making do between jobs and have since found year-round work.

The second reason to keep looking: As the economic recovery picks up (and the stock market's fresh heights make many people feel richer than they've felt in years), consumers seem ready to go out and have some fun. "Increased summer travel is likely to boost hiring across several sectors, including leisure and hospitality, food service, retail, and entertainment," says John Challenger, CEO of Chicago outplacement and career-development firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Challenger points to new Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that the leisure and hospitality industries have already added 729,000 workers this spring, due to rising consumer demand, while restaurants and bars hired about 202,000 employees in April alone.

"For young job seekers on break from high school or college, travel and leisure businesses offer a wealth of opportunities," Challenger says. "It's not too late to find openings, particularly for those who live near -- or can temporarily relocate to -- popular travel destinations." Orlando, for instance, "not only has the major theme parks, but water parks, hotels and motels, T-shirt and souvenir shops, restaurants and bars, and so on," he notes. Can't move to Florida? Not to worry: "All over the country, there are similar areas that need summer help, like Branson, Mo., or the Wisconsin Dells."

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The third reason why teens should stay optimistic is that "one thing all these places have in common is high turnover," Challenger adds. "Even if you haven't found anything by mid-June, don't hesitate to go back to employers where you already applied. Chances are good that one or more of the people they did hire at the start of the season hasn't worked out, and they will need to find replacements."

Source: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/29/teens-summer-jobs/

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Steven Sinofsky says he carries an HTC One

The former President of Windows now carries an Android device

Speaking to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D11 conference in New York, former head of Windows at Microsoft Steven Sinofsky dropped a small statement that he now uses an Android device. Responding to the question by Walt of "... what do you make of Google and Apple?", Sinofsky replied with a statement that today he carries an Android phone and that "We're all HTC One users these days." Speaking more broadly about Google and Android, Sinfosky actually had a bit of praise for what the company has accomplished with its platform, even going so far as to say that "Android is great".

He also spoke to some of the challenges that come along with having such a large number of APIs and products to manage at once, naturally. It's interesting to hear a former head of Windows speak so openly about using a different platform, but it's not at all surprising that Sinfosky would be intrigued by other devices -- even if he was still at Microsoft.

Via: AllThingsD

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/JlHCMPvXiZk/story01.htm

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Movie Review: Fact and Fiction Blend in In The House's Sordid Love ...

Francois Ozon?s?In The House?offers an interlacing of stories that unfold through various prisms of voyeuristic perspective. Germain is a high school literature teacher and failed writer who begins to mentor his student, young Claude. A promising writer for his own right, Claude has ?infiltrated? another student?s house, tutoring the boy at math while observing ? and writing about ? his friend?s parents? travails. Claude?s stories engage his own sexual fantasies about his friend?s mother, and then take a more sinister tone. As the film progresses, there is an increasingly blurriness between what in this movie is the fantasy of Claude and what is happening outside the boy?s construed stories. The resonance of interpersonal desire only underscores a consideration of what we understand as reality and how our sense of self is rooted in the way we craft the stories that, true or false, construct our identity and perspective.

Source: http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2013/05/movie-review-fact-and-fiction-blend-in-in-the-houses-sordid-love-fantasy/

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Motorola's next flagship phone is called Moto X, will be built in former Nokia plant in Texas (update 2)

Outside of possible FCC filings, Motorola has largely been coy about just what its next major smartphone will be -- until now. The firm's Dennis Woodside just revealed at D11 that the new flagship will be called Moto X (previously rumored as the X Phone), and that it will be built in a Fort Worth, Texas factory that was once used to make Nokia phones. Woodside isn't giving away many details at this stage, although he teases that the smartphone will "know what you want to do before you do." Oh, and he has a Moto X in his pocket... not that he's about to show us anything just yet, of course. If you're curious about Woodside's actual quote, it's below:

"It'll be the first Motorola smartphone built in the United States. It'll be built in Texas -- we'll employ around 2,000 people. It's right outside of Fort Worth in a 500,000 square foot facility that was previously used to build Nokia phones."

Update: Woodside had two extra nuggets while on stage -- he mentioned that the Moto X will be "broadly distributed" across numerous carriers, a rarity for Motorola smartphones in recent years. Specifically, he noted: "The Moto X is going to be broadly distributed -- that's a first for Motorola in a number of years. The support of the carriers has been fantastic." In other words, this won't be a Nexus device, and you can count on some amount of skinning and bloatware to muddle things up. On the issue of battery life, Woodside said: "I'll save the details for later, but [the industry issue of] battery life is a huge problem. Motorola has some of the world's best engineers and systems designers who spend their lives on that problem. There are two processors in the device that creates a system that allows you to do such a thing." Two processors, you say? Fascinating!

Update 2: A reminder: Motorola mentioned a shift toward stock Android coming later this year. While there isn't any guarantee that the Moto X will embrace that philosophy, it would be a fitting poster child.

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Facebook Airplane Ad With Eminem - Business Insider

Eminem's music publisher is suing Facebook for allegedly ripping off one of the rapper's songs in the tech giant's inaugural ad for Facebook Home, the Android takeover app.

The lawsuit claims that ad agency Wieden + Kennedy replicated Eminem's "Under the Influence" in an effort to "curry favor with Facebook by catering to Zuckerberg?s personal likes and interests, and/or to invoke the same irreverent theme."

But Facebook has made it virtually impossible for the public to tell if the ad uses Eminem's tracks. Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg played the original spot ? titled "Airplane" ? with the allegedly ripped off music during his Facebook Home launch speech, the version that was uploaded on YouTube later uses a noticeably different soundtrack.

A representative for Facebook declined comment.

Eminem's lawyer noted, "The alteration of the Airplane advertisement was an admission that Facebook knew it had infringed on the Eminem/D12 Composition."

We pulled the original version of the commercial from the keynote to let readers decide for themselves if it sounds like Facebook stole Eminem's song.

Here's the original, disputed ad for Facebook Home:

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And here is Eminem singing "Under the Influence." We had to post a live performance since Eminem's publisher copyrighted the song so that no recorded versions can play off of YouTube. Here's a recorded version with better sound quality.

And here's the Facebook Home ad that was released on YouTube with an altered soundtrack:

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-airplane-ad-with-eminem-2013-5

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Facebook SDK on Android 2.3 - Page not found

I have a problem with Facebook login on Android 2.3.3 (HTC Wildifre S). When I click on Login to Facebook button, it redirects me to Facebook app - I put there my login and password. Then I get redirected to web browser and I must login again on web page and then web browser redirects me to URL like fbconnect://success?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxx?expires_at=yyyyy. Web browser cannot handle this URL so I get page not found error and I'm not redirected to my app again.

I have Facebook App, I added package and class name in config, I have properly configured appId in my Android app and I generated key hash and put in my Facebook App config.

Strange thing is that it is working on Android 4.1 (Samsung Galaxy S Plus).

Here is code of my activity :

package com.example.apptest;  import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.SharedPreferences; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.Toast;  import com.facebook.LoggingBehavior; import com.facebook.Session; import com.facebook.SessionState; import com.facebook.Settings; import com.facebook.android.Facebook;   public class FBLogin extends Activity {     public static final int GAME_THREAD_DELAY = 4000;     //private static final String URL_PREFIX_FRIENDS = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=";      Facebook fb;     SharedPreferences sp;     private Button button_fblogin;     private Session.StatusCallback statusCallback = new SessionStatusCallback();      @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_fblogin);          Toast.makeText(FBLogin.this, "onCreate", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();          button_fblogin = (Button) findViewById(R.id.fblogin_btn);         Settings.addLoggingBehavior(LoggingBehavior.INCLUDE_ACCESS_TOKENS);         Session session = Session.getActiveSession();          if (session == null){             Toast.makeText(FBLogin.this, "session == null", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             if (savedInstanceState != null){                 session = Session.restoreSession(this, null, statusCallback, savedInstanceState);             }             if (session == null){                 Toast.makeText(FBLogin.this, "session= new Session()", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                 session = new Session(this);             }             Session.setActiveSession(session);             if (session.getState().equals(SessionState.CREATED_TOKEN_LOADED)){                 session.openForRead(new Session.OpenRequest(this).setCallback(statusCallback));             }         }         updateView();     }      @Override     public void onStart(){         super.onStart();         Session.getActiveSession().addCallback(statusCallback);     }      @Override     public void onStop(){         super.onStop();         Session.getActiveSession().removeCallback(statusCallback);     }      @Override     public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {         super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);         Session.getActiveSession().onActivityResult(this, requestCode, resultCode, data);     }      @Override     protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {         super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);     }      private class SessionStatusCallback implements Session.StatusCallback {         @Override         public void call(Session session, SessionState state, Exception exception) {             updateView();         }     }      private void updateView() {         Toast.makeText(FBLogin.this, "updateView", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();         Session session = Session.getActiveSession();         if (session.isOpened()) {             button_fblogin.setText(R.string.button_fblogout);             button_fblogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {                 public void onClick(View view) { onClickLogout(); }             });         } else {             button_fblogin.setText(R.string.fblogin_button_title);             button_fblogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {                 public void onClick(View view) { onClickLogin(); }             });         }     }        private void onClickLogin(){         Session session = Session.getActiveSession();         if (!session.isOpened() && !session.isClosed()){             session.openForRead(new Session.OpenRequest(this).setCallback(statusCallback));             Toast.makeText(FBLogin.this, "onClickLogin", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();         }else{             Session.openActiveSession(this, true, statusCallback);         }     }      private void onClickLogout(){         Session session = Session.getActiveSession();         if (!session.isClosed()){             session.closeAndClearTokenInformation();         }     }      @Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.         getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.fblogin, menu);         return true;     }  } 

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16790484/facebook-sdk-on-android-2-3-page-not-found

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: "LOAD"

As famed French artist Ren? Magritte once quipped, "Ceci n'est pas une Commodore 64."

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/qbsVbw5Ozec/the-weirdest-thing-on-the-internet-tonight-load-510107000

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CSX train derails outside Baltimore, one hurt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A CSX Corp train carrying chemicals struck a truck northeast of Baltimore on Tuesday, injuring the truck driver and sparking a fire, authorities said.

About 15 cars derailed shortly after 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) near White Marsh, Maryland, and caught fire, sending a thick column of black smoke into the air, TV pictures showed.

The Baltimore County Police and Fire Department said on its Twitter feed that the train was carrying non-toxic chemicals when it hit a tractor-trailer.

The truck's driver was sent to a Baltimore shock trauma center in serious condition. Two CSX workers on the train were unhurt, it said.

A police and fire spokeswoman said people were advised to leave a nearby 20-block area, with those staying behind urged to keep windows closed and air conditioners off.

An attempt to reach CSX for comment was not immediately successful.

It was the third significant rail crash in the United States in the past two weeks. On Saturday, two freight trains operated by BNSF Railway Co and Union Pacific Corp crashed at a rail intersection in rural Missouri, injuring seven people.

That accident came a little more than a week after a Metro North commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut. That accident injured more than 70 people and shut down traffic on one of the most heavily traveled passenger rail corridors in the United States.

On Friday, an interstate highway bridge in a rural part of Washington state collapsed after a truck carrying a large load hit a support beam. The collapse sent vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Scott Malone, Gerald E. McCormick, Steve Orlofsky and David Gregorio)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/csx-train-derails-outside-baltimore-buildings-collapse-201218998.html

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How do we locate the spatial position of sounds? Mechanism responsible for creation of giant synapses discovered

May 27, 2013 ? Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time -- crossing the street; locating an invisible ringing cell phone in a cluttered bedroom. To accomplish this small daily miracle, the brain has developed a circuit that's rapid enough to detect the tiny lag that occurs between the moment the auditory information reaches one of our ears, and the moment it reaches the other. The mastermind of this circuit is the "Calyx of Held," the largest known synapse in the brain. EPFL scientists have revealed the role that a certain protein plays in initiating the growth of these giant synapses.

The discovery, published in Nature Neuroscience, could also help shed light on a number of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Enormous synapses enable faster communication

Ordinarily, neurons have thousands of contact points -- known as synapses -- with neighboring neurons. Within a given time frame, a neuron has to receive several signals from its neighbors in order to be able to fire its own signal in response. Because of this, information passes from neuron to neuron in a relatively random manner.

In the auditory part of the brain, this is not the case. Synapses often grow to extremely large sizes, and these behemoths are known as "Calyx of Held" synapses. Because they have hundreds of contact points, they are capable of transmitting a signal singlehandedly to a neighboring neuron. "It's almost like peer-to-peer communication between neurons," explains EPFL professor Ralf Schneggenburger, who led the study. The result is that information is processed extremely quickly, in a few fractions of a millisecond, instead of the slower pace of more than 10 milliseconds that occurs in most other neuronal circuits.

Identifying the protein

To isolate the protein responsible for controlling the growth of this gigantic synapse, the scientists had to perform painstaking research. Using methods for analyzing gene expression in mice, they identified several members of the "BMP" family of proteins from among more than 20,000 possible candidates.

To verify that they had truly identified the right protein, the researchers disabled BMP protein receptors in the auditory part of a mouse brain. "The resulting electrophysiological signal of the Calyx of Held was significantly altered," explains Le Xiao, first author on the study. "This would suggest a large anatomical difference."

The scientists then reconstructed the synapses in three dimensions from slices that were observed under an electron microscope. Instead of a single, massive Calyx of Held, which would encompass nearly half the neuron, the 3D image of the neuron clearly shows several, smaller synapses. "This shows that the process involving the BMP protein not only causes that one synapse to grow, but also performs a selection, by eliminating the others," says Schneggenburger.

Synaptic connectivity, the key to many psychiatric puzzles

The impact of this study will go well beyond increasing our understanding of the auditory system. The results suggest that the BMP protein plays an important role in developing connectivity in the brain. Schneggenburger and his colleagues are currently investigating its role elsewhere in the brain. "Some neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism, are characterized by the abnormal development of synaptic connectivity in certain key parts of the brain," explains Schneggenburger. By identifying and explaining the role of various proteins in this process, the scientists hope to be able to shed more light on these poorly understood disorders.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/pcV52sCRTSQ/130527100630.htm

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Vet's diary finally makes it to sweetheart

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Before Cpl. Thomas "Cotton" Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the South Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his "last life request" to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved.

Davis did get to read the diary ? but not until nearly 70 years later, when she saw it in a display case at the National World War II Museum.

"I didn't have any idea there was a diary in there," said the 90-year-old Mooresville, Ind., woman. She said it brought tears to her eyes.

Laura Mae Davis Burlingame ? she married an Army Air Corps man in 1945 ? had gone to the New Orleans museum on April 24 looking for a display commemorating the young Marine who had been her high-school sweetheart.

"I figured I'd see pictures of him and the fellows he'd served with and articles about where he served," she said.

She was stunned to find the diary of the 22-year-old machine gunner.

Curator Eric Rivet (rih-VET) let her take a closer look, using white gloves to protect the old papers from skin oils. It was the first time in his 17 years of museum work that someone found "themselves mentioned in an artifact in the museum," Rivet said.

The diary was a gift to Jones from Davis. They had met in the class of '41 at Winslow High School. "He was a basketball player and I was a cheerleader," she said.

Jones had given her his class ring but they weren't engaged, she said. They had dated through high school. They went to the prom together.

He made his first diary entry while a private at Camp Elliott in San Diego, a little less than a year before he was killed. He described it as "my life history of my days in the U.S. Marine Corps ... And most of all my love for Laura Mae for whom my heart is completely filled. So if you all get a chance please return it to her. I (am) writing this as my last life request."

A sniper's bullet between the eyes killed Jones on Sept. 17, 1944, the third day of the U.S. assault on the Pacific island of Peleliu (PEL-uh-loo), in Palau.

Peleliu was where U.S. forces learned the Japanese had changed their island defense tactics. Instead of concentrating units on the beaches and finishing with reckless banzai charges, the Japanese holed up in bunkers, trenches, pillboxes and caves ? many of them blasted into the island's hills and mountains ? that had to be taken one at a time.

Jones, nicknamed in high school for his blond hair, was in the 1st Marine Division's L Company, 3rd Battalion. He was among 1,794 Americans killed on Peleliu and nearby islands in a 2?-month assault that Marine Maj. Gen. William Rupertus had predicted would be over in a few days. Another 7,302 Americans were wounded. An estimated 10,900 Japanese were killed; 19 soldiers and sailors became prisoners of war. Another 283 POWs were laborers, mostly Korean.

Burlingame said she didn't know why she never got the diary. It apparently went first to a sister of Jones whom she didn't know well, she said.

Robert Hunt of Evansville, the nephew who gave Jones' artifacts to the museum in 2001, told her he had received it several years after Jones' death and worried that passing it on to Burlingame might cause problems with her marriage. It wouldn't have, she said: "My husband and Tommy were good friends."

When she learned Hunt was collecting mementoes for the museum, Burlingame said, she gave him photographs and the class ring.

Jones's last entry, written aboard the USS Maui on Dec. 1, 1943, described winning $200 at craps. He had a total of $320, he wrote, and if he were back home "Laura Mae & I would really have a wonderful Xmas." He wondered if he could wire the money to her as a Christmas present.

That didn't happen, Burlingame said. She said she was touched by the number of times he mentioned getting letters from his parents and her.

Burlingame's tour group had to leave but the museum scanned the diary and mailed a copy to her.

The diary's 4-by-7-inch back cover was nearly filled with her photograph. The picture itself was black and white, but the photographer had tinted her cheeks pink and her lips dark red.

She had signed it, "Love, Laurie."

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Online:

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/

Museum online tribute to Jones: http://mymemorialday.org/remember/jones.php

Marine Corps monograph: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Peleliu/index.html

National Park Service book extract about Peleliu: http://1.usa.gov/13IE3V0

A list of some of those who fought at Peleliu: http://brothersinbattle.net/html/tribute.html

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ww2-marines-diary-brief-look-brief-life-083114099.html

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Boy Scouts: Will anti-gay troops emerge?

Religious leaders are suggesting that religious Boy Scouts leave the organization after its leadership voted to welcome gay boys. Others aren't so sure that the status quo will change.

By Patrik Jonsson,?Staff writer / May 25, 2013

Boy Scout Pascal Tessier is congratulated by Justin Buckford of Scouts for Equality, after hearing that the Boy Scouts of America had passed a resolution allowing openly gay scouts. Tessier is a Life scout who was unable to become an Eagle scout unless the resolution passed.

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The decision by the Boy Scouts of America to stop seeing homosexuality as a moral failing and accept gay boys raises an important question for troops from Sheboygan to Atlanta: Will Cub scouts and Eagle scouts exodus en masse, and, if so, to where?

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The wrenched decision by an organization founded in 1910 on quasi-military and Christian values came after months of debate and member polling, and the final vote looked much like America's general feeling on gay rights: Sixty percent supported the decision, which does not extend to gay adults. But the minority 40 percent may have stronger feelings, fueling a potential search for a new "character" organization for boys.

That debate had already begun this weekend in places like northern Virginia, where the Arlington Catholic Diocese is "prayerfully considering" leaving the Boy Scouts, as Bishop Paul Loverde told the Washington Post.

Boy Scout troops are sponsored by third party groups, the majority of which are churches. About 110 million Americans have been Boy Scouts since the organization was founded as part of the international Scout movement. In the 1980s, the organization went through a series of sex abuse scandals, and last year it was forced to release 20,000 pages of internal documentation of some 1,200 sex abuse cases that took place between 1965 and 1985.

That background explains in large part why the Boy Scouts of America has struggled to repair its image, and why the organization voted to continue excluding gay leaders.

But that concession isn't enough for some critics of the decision, including some in Baptist churches, which sponsor over 100,000 of the Boy Scouts' current 2.6 million members.

?Frankly, I can?t imagine a Southern Baptist pastor who would continue to allow his church to sponsor a Boy Scout troop under these new rules,? Richard Land, a senior Southern Baptist Conference official, said Friday in an interview with the Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention's news agency.

The Assemblies of God says that its own Royal Rangers youth group could be a "positive alternative" to the Boy Scouts under the new rule. The Royal Rangers, which have a similar skill-testing program as the Boy Scouts, has a stated purpose to "evangelize, equip and empower the next generation of Christlike men and lifelong servant leaders."

That push by some to leave the Boy Scouts ? which, if it happens, will be felt when the policy takes effect at the beginning of 2014 ? reveals a paradox of the long-awaited decision: By becoming more accepting, will membership be hurt or bolstered?

And that question seemed to undergird the internal debate, given that Boy Scouts membership under the old policy had fallen 27 percent since 1997. And the Boy Scouts aren't alone among religious and conservative organizations pushing back against past injustices. In order to stem membership dips, the Southern Baptist Convention last year elected its first black leader, the Rev. Fred Luter, in a major move for an organization that once backed segregation.

Some observers suggest the fallout may be milder than the rhetoric that preceded Friday's vote.

"I'm sure many [Scout] units will have meetings to decide what this means for them," Aaron Chusic, a spokesman for the National Capital Area Council of Scouts, told the Washington Post, but added that so far he had not heard from any group that has decided to leave.

The drive to allow gay boys came from deep within the organization itself, especially given that the Boy Scouts had the full legal right to say no. In 2000, the US Supreme Court upheld the Boy Scout policy, saying private organizations don't need to accept members or leaders in violation of their own moral creed, specifically a line in its bylaws that says that gay people should be excluded because they are not "morally straight."

Indeed, a deeper look at the Boy Scouts, which are highly decentralized into near-autonomous "units," is that the de facto acceptance of gay boys or gay families is a quiet fact in many troops, from rural Wyoming to the suburbs of Atlanta.

"I don't think it's going to impact scouting because there are already gay members," Melanie Mork, the mother of Alex Mork in Wyoming's Troop 101, told the Wyoming News on Friday. "Young men have come out and said, ?I am gay and I?m a Scout,? and it didn?t impact their ability to become an Eagle Scout. And I think we?ll hear more of those types of stories as they become free to do that under this change.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/-EcCFxDqDDw/Boy-Scouts-Will-anti-gay-troops-emerge

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Bechstein's bat is more Mediterranean than originally thought

May 27, 2013 ? Although the Bechstein's bat is regarded as a Euro-Siberian species, a study by researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology has revealed that the historical transformation of part of its original habitat rather than bioclimatic reasons could be responsible for this distribution. This research has been published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

The Bechstein's Bat (Myotis bechsteinii) has a broad distribution: from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caucasus, in the East, and as far as southern Scandinavia, in the north. Yet it is regarded as a rare species throughout its distribution area. "This scarcity contrasts with its abundance in the fossil record of the late Pleistocene and Holocene," says Dr Mar?a Napal, leading author of thepaper published in Forest Ecology and Management. The fossil record shows that the start and consolidation of its decline coincided with the deforestation caused by the intensification of agriculture, and are also linked to colder temperatures and greater humidity.

This has been cited on very few occasions in the Mediterranean area, but recent studies show that it could be locally abundant in certain localities.However, in the north of the Peninsula, where the climate and vegetation are more similar to those of Central Europe, their centre of distribution, it is much more difficult to find them. "That led us to revisit the traditional dogma that the M. bechsteinii is a Euro-Siberian species, restricted to the temperate forests of Central and Western Europe, and to ask whether its current distribution could respond more to the history of deciduous forestloss in part of its original range," explains Napal. "In fact,during the Holocene the vegetation evolved differently in the Mediterranean compared with the rest of Europe.In the Mediterranean, the intensity of human activity, linked to great aridity, led to the substitution of the deciduous vegetation by the typical xerophytic vegetation."

To test this hypothesis the UPV/EHU researchers studied the ecology of the species in the Mediterranean and Atlantic climate domains of the Iberian Peninsula. In the course of 4 campaigns, bats tagged with radio transmitters were followed for several nights to discover their roosts and specify their hunting areas. The researchers also described their diet on the basis of their droppings, and characterised their roosts, the structure of the vegetation on their hunting grounds and the presence of potential preys.

More flexible in the Mediterranean

In the Atlantic as well as Mediterranean domain the observations were consistent with the data available on the ecology of the species. M. bechsteinii prefer roosts carved out by woodpeckers in the trunks of living oak trees located inside the forest and close to a permanent supply of water. Apparently, the selection of roosts is less conditioned in the Mediterranean; "the colonies were much more flexible in terms of the variables relating to the microclimate of the cavity -- insulation, orientation or height of the cavity, entrance size -- even though the presence of water was a more limiting factor," points out Napal. In both areas the colonies hunted in the middle of the forest but the distances covered between their roosts and their hunting grounds were longer in the Atlantic.According to Napal, this could be explained by "a greater fragmentation of their habitat or its inferior quality, in terms of the abundance of prey, for example."

This study confirms that the M. bechsteinii is a forest specialist with a relatively narrow ecological niche, and adapted to hunting and roosting in temperate deciduous forests. "Both areas of study offer conditions that meet the ecological needs of the species, and it could also be said that, contrary to our expectations and based on the distribution area and data on the ecology of the species available to date, in the Mediterranean localities the conditions are even more lax than in the Atlantic," points out the researcher.

"Our data suggest that the current distribution pattern of the M. bechsteinii in Europe reflects not only the climate changes that have taken place over the most recent thousands of years, but also the severe loss and degradation of the deciduous forests in the Mediterranean," says Napal, by way of summary. "We reckon the species could still find optimum conditions in some locations in the Mediterranean area if these forests were still present."

"This is a clear demonstration of the effect that a prolonged history of deforestation and degradation of the forestry systems can have on the populations of forestry specialists, like the Bechstein's bat.It also constitutes an example of how the historical processes in the landscape may confuse or distort the apparent relationship between the distribution of the species and eco-geographical factors. It is not always easy to distinguish between the effect of current and historical factors, but ignoring this reality may lead us to draw wrong conclusions about the ecological needs of certain species, and therefore to design inappropriate conservation measures," concludes Napal.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov and Abel Trujilo scuffled at the UFC 160 weigh-ins, and Mike Tyson loved it

During the UFC 160 weigh-ins, Khabib Nurmagomedov blew weight, wore a wig, started a fight and made Mike Tyson laugh. He had a full day.

Nurmagomedov weighed in at 158.5 for his lightweight bout with Abel Trujilo. He will forfeit 20 percent of his purse, so maybe that's why he was angry when he faced off with Trujilo. He got in his opponent's face, first bumping Trujilo's head and then pushing him back. He was quickly escorted off stage by the UFC's Burt Watson.

The best part of the scuffle? Mike Tyson was on stage and loved every minute of it. Look in the upper right-hand corner of the video to see his reaction.

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Golf-PGA leader Canizares back after meningitis scare

By Tony Jimenez

VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 25 (Reuters) - Spain's Alejandro Canizares is hoping to pull off a remarkable victory at the PGA Championship, three and a half weeks after being diagnosed with viral meningitis.

The 30-year-old admitted it was "scary" when he became ill on a flight from the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea to the China Open at the start of the month.

"I started getting headaches, didn't attach too much importance to it, but the next day I woke up with the biggest headache I've had in my life," Canizares told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.

"I had a fever and was vomiting, I couldn't walk straight and felt dizzy. I was taken to an emergency room at the local hospital," he said after a four-under 68 helped him open a one-stroke lead over former world number one Lee Westwood at Wentworth.

"The tournament organisers were great, one girl stayed with me the whole time. The doctors did a lot of tests and diagnosed viral meningitis," added Canizares after compiling a three-round total of 207 in the European Tour's flagship event.

The Spaniard was forced to pull out of the China Open but he said he quickly felt better after medication.

"I flew home a couple of days after and I've been resting at home since," he said. "I haven't done much, haven't worked out and haven't played much because I've felt very tired.

"This week is my first week back on tour and every day I'm feeling better."

Canizares, who won the 2006 Russian Open, said he has now been given a clean bill of health by doctors at home in Spain.

"I am very happy to be playing the way I am this week because I am still not feeling 100 percent," he added.

"I've had all the checks, blood tests, MRIs, and they say everything is normal. I'm still going to get headaches and feel tired because it was a strong virus and the doctors say it will be at least a month before I feel normal."

Canizares, son of former Ryder Cup player Jose Maria, said his family were understandably worried when they heard of his illness.

"It was a little scary when the doctors mentioned the word meningitis but I knew I wasn't feeling that bad so I didn't give it that much thought," he added.

"My parents wanted to fly out to China but I told them not to."

Canizares will have Westwood for a playing partner in Sunday's final round and he knows the Englishman will be rated the title favourite.

"I'm sure I'm going to be nervous on the first tee," the Spaniard told reporters. "I'm sure I'm going to be more nervous than Lee.

"It's a great opportunity for me, it's a pleasure to be there. I did not expect it but obviously it's very welcome to be able to play with Lee.

"I'm just going to try to enjoy it and play my golf, be focused on every shot, be focused on my game and see what happens, that's all I can ask for." (Editing by Ed Osmond)

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Search continues for teen missing in Texas flood

A heron takes flight over a flooded baseball field, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in San Antonio. Heavy rains and flooding are being blamed for at least two deaths in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A heron takes flight over a flooded baseball field, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in San Antonio. Heavy rains and flooding are being blamed for at least two deaths in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

An onlooker passes along a flooded intersection, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in San Antonio. Heavy rains and flooding are being blamed for at least two deaths in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The Olmos Basin Municipal Golf Course and Basse Road in San Antonio are underwater Saturday May 25, 2013 as a result of heavy rains in San Antonio. Saturday was the second wettest day in San Antonio history with the National Weather Service recording 9.83 inches of rain by 10:30 a.m. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Billy Calzada) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES MBO

Debris gathers around street signs on a flooded road, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in San Antonio. Heavy rains and flooding are being blamed for at least two deaths in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SCHERTZ, Texas (AP) ? The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed to have been swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said.

After helicopters and divers were used earlier, several search and rescue teams in inflatable boats were moving through the muddy water trying to find the teen in Schertz, where he was reported missing Saturday.

Avron Adams, 18, and a friend got caught in the swift waters of Cibolo Creek after about half a dozen friends swam across. One friend held onto a tree branch and got out, but Adams did not, officials said.

"We're hopeful, but at this point, you just don't know," his father, Kenneth Adams, told The Associated Press as his wife stood nearby. "It's very hard. We're just keeping the faith."

The usually dry creek in Schertz, northeast of San Antonio, had dropped about 10 feet since Saturday. Other rivers in the San Antonio area and surrounding counties continued to drop after peaking above the flood stage, but flood warnings remained in effect Sunday. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for seven counties until 6 p.m. Sunday, saying thunderstorms could produce heavy rainfall.

Two women died Saturday after being swept away by floodwaters, some as high as 10 feet on some roads. One who was trapped in her car climbed to the roof before being swept away, and her body was found against a fence, said San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove. Emergency officials also recovered the body of a woman in her 60s, whose car was carried away by water as firefighters were trying to rescue her. Authorities did not immediately identify the women who died.

On Sunday, about 20 people were at a shelter set up by the American Red Cross, including some whose apartment complex roof caved in under the weight of the heavy rainfall.

Roxanne DeLeon arrived there Sunday with her 18-month-old son, 6-year-old daughter, 15-year-old daughter and husband, a day after escaping through waist-deep water in their rented home with nothing but what they were wearing, her purse and some diapers. They didn't even have time to grab shoes.

DeLeon said they spent the night on the floor of a relative's home because family members don't have enough room for all of them, and their insurance agent cannot provide help that would get them into a motel or apartment until after Memorial Day.

"It feels like we're stuck," DeLeon said Sunday. "One relative can keep my son part of the day while I'm at work, but who's going to pick up my kids from school? I never thought my family would go through something like this."

The San Antonio International Airport recorded 9.87 inches of rain Saturday, the second-highest official daily rainfall in city history.

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Associated Press writer Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth contributed to this report.

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Tiger Global Invests In Automattic - Business Insider

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Tiger Global has invested $50 million in web developer company Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com.?

From Automattic's president/founder Matt Mullenweg:

Anyway, wanted to get in front of the news that will inevitably come out in the next week or two (hi?Kara!): there has been a large secondary transaction in Automattic stock, about $50M worth. ?Secondary? means that it?s existing stockholders, like the earliest investors or employees, selling stock to another investor versus money going into the company (?primary?). It was led by Lee Fixel at Tiger Global, one of the behind-the-scenes quiet geniuses that has previously invested in SurveyMonkey, Facebook, LinkedIn, Palantir, Square, Warby Parker? Automattic is healthy, generating cash, and already growing as fast as it can so there?s no need for the company to raise money directly ? we?re not capital constrained. The minority of stockholders that elected to participate are holding on to the vast majority of their shares. We?re building an independent company that?s going to be a growing part of the fabric of the web for many years to come, so allowing early investors to lock in some returns releases any short-term pressure there might be on the company for a liquidity event and allows us to focus fully on the long road ahead.

This news comes the same week that Yahoo! announced it's buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

Also, WordPress is celebrating its 10th birthday next week. ?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-global-invests-in-automattic-2013-5

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'Arrested Development' Season Four: Eight Things To Remember

Before you cram all 15 new episodes into your Memorial Day weekend, here's a reminder of where we left the Bluths seven years ago.
By Brett White

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Roger Federer, always at Grand Slam tournaments

Roger Federer of Switzerland gestures during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Roger Federer of Switzerland gestures during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Spain's Rafael Nadal listens to a reporter during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Spain's Rafael Nadal attends the draw for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia smiles during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Roger Federer of Switzerland gestures during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

PARIS (AP) ? Perhaps not surprisingly, the first three questions posed to Roger Federer at his pre-French Open news conference Friday concerned rival and nemesis Rafael Nadal.

The third was about the difficulties of making a successful return from injury, the way Nadal has, reaching the final at all eight tournaments he's played in 2013 after going more than half a year between matches.

Federer shrugged and replied simply: "I don't know. I have never been out for seven months."

No he hasn't. Federer is always around, particularly at Grand Slam time. When the French Open starts Sunday, he will be participating in his 54th consecutive major tournament, a run that began with the Australian Open in January 2000. That's the longest such streak among active players; no one else comes within two years of Federer.

"For me, it's just something I just kept on doing. Now here we are," said Federer, who is seeded No. 2 in Paris and was drawn Friday to face qualifiers in each of the first two rounds.

"It's incredible. I never thought I was going to play that many, have that many opportunities to do well at the Slams. And clearly I'm happy about it, but they don't buy me victories, you know," added Federer, whose record 17 major titles include the 2009 French Open. "But it shows maybe great stamina and (an) injury-free career, in a way."

Nadal, who's dealt with recurring knee problems, will be back in Grand Slam action after nearly a year's absence from the four most important tournaments in tennis. At least he's in the field at Roland Garros, something Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro can't say: Both of those past U.S. Open champions and current top-10 players withdrew because of health issues.

Seven-time French Open champion Nadal dismissed the notion that he might be excited about getting back on the Slam stage for the first time since a second-round loss at Wimbledon last June.

Each tournament is as important as any other, the 11-time major title winner insisted Friday, going so far as to say: "If you can ask me if I win one Grand Slam during the whole year or win six tournaments, like I already did, I will choose (winning) six tournaments."

He explained: "When you win (a) Grand Slam, you are happy one week or two weeks. When you are winning (other) tournaments, you are having the chance to be happy and you feel that you are doing the right things during the rest of the time."

By that standard, Federer has not had an especially happy 2013.

His record is only 18-6, and he enters the French Open without a title for the season for the first time since 2000, his second full year on tour. Federer's played in only one final, a straight-set loss to Nadal in Rome last weekend.

Despite that, Federer declared: "I'm at the level I want to have for this tournament."

Now 31, and a father of twin girls, Federer tweaked his schedule this year to give himself a bit of a break. He skipped the hard-court event at Key Biscayne, Fla., and went nearly two months ? from March 14 to May 7 ? between matches.

"For me, it's important to stay injury-free, to give myself time," Federer said, "so when I come back, I'm fresh and motivated."

He's not merely about longevity or consistency, of course, but also excellence.

Federer doesn't just show up at Grand Slam tournaments: He has reached at least the quarterfinals at the last 35 of them, and earlier put together runs of 23 consecutive semifinals, and 10 consecutive finals.

If he plays at Wimbledon, where he is the defending champion, and then the U.S. Open this season, Federer will tie the record of 56 Grand Slam tournaments in a row, set by South Africa's Wayne Ferreira from 1991-2004. Not necessarily the stuff of great acclaim: Federer didn't know what the existing mark is.

The second-longest current set of Grand Slam entries belongs to Spain's Feliciano Lopez, with 45. Top-ranked Novak Djokovic has never missed a major tournament since entering his first in 2005, making the French Open his 34th in a row, but he has stopped playing in the middle of Grand Slam matches.

Federer is fond of pointing out, as he did again Friday, that he never has retired during a match in progress, and only twice has pulled out of tournaments after having competed in the draw.

He also noted that he's never really come close to missing a Grand Slam tournament during his streak.

"In a Slam, where you know you're going to enter best-of-five-set matches over two, three weeks, you have to be at your best and you need to feel like you can compete with the best at the highest of levels for a long period of time," Federer said. "There's no shortcuts in best-of-five-set matches, and that's where I think I was always up for the challenge. I'm very happy that I was able to do that for so long so far."

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Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin heckles Obama

Security surrounds Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin on May 23. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

President Barack Obama's planned counterterrorism speech was temporarily derailed several times on Thursday when activist Medea Benjamin shouted criticisms of the administration's use of drones and operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Benjamin, co-founder of peace activist group Code Pink, was seated in the audience at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., where Obama gave his speech. She first interrupted him as he announced plans designed to move the U.S. closer to closing the facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"You gotta let me speak. I'm about to address it," the president said in response to the heckling. He asked her to sit down so he could continue and repeatedly thanked her for her comments.

"This is part of free speech, is you being able to speak but also you listening and me being able to speak," Obama said, drawing wide applause from the audience.

After multiple outbursts and back-and-forths with the president, Benjamin was escorted out of the event.

"The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. Obviously, I do not agree with much of what she said. And obviously she wasn?t listening to me and much of what I said. But these are tough issues and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong," Obama said.

Benjamin and members of her San Francisco-based, women-initiated organization have a reputation in Washington for making scenes at high-profile events, including those with tight security.

Over the past several months, Code Pink members, including Benjamin, have interrupted the National Rifle Association's press conference on the Newtown, Conn., shooting response?where Benjamin unfurled a sign reading "NRA blood on your hands? and shouted, "reckless behavior coming from the NRA" before being forced from the room?and John Brennan's confirmation hearing to be director of the CIA, which was temporarily suspended as aides cleared the room.

Benjamin, a 2000 U.S. Senate candidate in California, co-founded Code Pink (the name a hat tip to color-coded terrorism warnings) in 2002 to protest against the Iraq War. President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are counted among the group's previous high-profile targets.

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Breakthrough on Huntington's disease

May 23, 2013 ? Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains of mice.

"We are the first to show that it is possible to prevent the depression symptoms of Huntington's disease by deactivating the diseased protein in nerve cell populations in the hypothalamus in the brain. This is hugely exciting and bears out our previous hypotheses," explains ?sa Peters?n, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Lund University.

Huntington's is a debilitating disease for which there is still neither cure nor sufficient treatment. The dance-like movements that characterise the disease have long been the focus for researchers, but the emotional problems affect the patient earlier than the motor symptoms. These are now believed to stem from a different part of the brain -- the small emotional centre called the hypothalamus.

"Now that we have been able to show in animal experiments that depression and anxiety occur very early in Huntington's disease, we want to identify more specifically which nerve cells in the hypothalamus are critical in the development of these symptoms. In the long run, this gives us better opportunities to develop more accurate treatments that can attack the mutated huntingtin where it does the most damage," says ?sa Peters?n.

As the role of the hypothalamus in Huntington's disease is gradually mapped, knowledge might be gained from drug research for other psychiatric diseases. It is likely that similar mechanisms control different types of depression, according to ?sa Peters?n.

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Funding Boost For Darwin Greyhound Racing Northern Territory ...

Written By Kevin Pitstock, Editor Australian Racing Greyhound 16 hours ago ?

Minister for Sport and Recreation Matt Conlan said an additional $230,000 for the Darwin Greyhounds Association in the 2013 Budget would provide a much-needed boost for the sport.

Mr Conlan said the industry had recently gone through difficult financial times and the extra funding would help it get back on its feet.

?The additional $230,000 in 2013 will allow the Darwin Greyhounds Association to maintain their prize money which will entice more interstate visitors and lead to more runners in races,? Mr Conlan said.

?The Greyhounds have been based at Winnellie in Darwin for many years and is a growing area of racing interest for Territorians.

?The Country Liberals Government is supporting this important industry and ensuring the Club can continue to provide an exciting and entertaining outing for Territory families.?

The Darwin Greyhounds has recently endured financial difficulties and in 2011-12 the Racing Commission was forced to appoint an administrator to review its operations.

To ensure the ongoing viability of the industry the Northern Territory Government has committed to a new three year funding arrangement with the Darwin Greyhounds Association which includes an additional $230 000 to bring total funding for 2013-14 to $800 000.

?This funding will assist the Darwin Greyhounds Association with industry development, help to conduct race meetings and maintain its facility at Winnellie,? Mr Conlan said.

?Tonight, I am delighted to officially open the club?s new race kennels, which finally replace an old shed which had existed since pre-cyclone Tracy. These new kennels, combined with our funding increase, should secure the future of this sport.?

Darwin Greyhound Association President, Robbie Brennan, welcomed today?s announcement.

?This new funding agreement will allow us to focus on getting Darwin Greyhound Racing out to a television audience, nationally and internationally on Sky Channel, which will increase our revenue,? Mr Brennan said.

?Sky Channel?s infrastructure is in place at Fannie Bay so getting a link between Winnellie Park and Fannie Bay is well within reach. The new Government Funding agreement allows the Darwin Greyhound Association to pursue this goal along with maintaining current prize money levels and developing the facility at Winnellie Park.?

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Am. Samoa to keep flier miles for govt travelers

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) ? American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory.

Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the territory will use the miles to help medical patients travel off-island when needed, or help students travel for educational programs.

Moliga says Hawaiian Airlines agreed to the plan that takes effect June 1. Hawaiian is the only carrier connecting the U.S. territory to the rest of the country.

Moliga announced the policy this week in a memo to the government's various agencies. He acknowledges some may see the policy as unfair but says it is morally wrong for employees to get extra benefits from traveling for the territory.

American Samoa budgeted nearly $6 million for government travel in fiscal 2013.

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Okla. tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B

Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Addison Paul, 7, stands by her mother Leslie as they take a short break from recovery efforts at Paul's tornado damaged home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

An American flag sits in a destroyed car's window in a neighborhood devastated by Monday's tornado Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Vehicles destroyed by Monday's tornado sit on the front lawns of homes as area residents begin clean up efforts Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Claudia Clark clears tornado debris from a cemetery Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

MOORE, Okla. (AP) ? The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.

Also Wednesday, authorities released the identities of the 24 people, including 10 children, who perished. While anguish over the deaths was palpable as residents began picking up their shattered neighborhoods, many remained stunned that the twister didn't take a higher human toll during its 17 miles and 40 minutes on the ground.

The physical destruction was staggering.

"The tornado that we're talking about is the 1 or 2 percent tornado," Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood said of the twister, which measured a top-of-the-scale EF5 with winds of at least 200 mph. "This is the anomaly that flattens everything to the ground."

As response teams transitioned into cleanup and recovery, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, who sent police and fire crews from his city to assist the effort, said an early assessment estimated damage costs at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.

The Oklahoma Insurance Department, meanwhile, said visual assessments of the extensive damage zone suggest the cost could be greater than the $2 billion from the 2011 tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., and killed nearly seven times as many people.

There was little more than 10 minutes warning that a tornado was on the ground Monday and headed for Moore, but many in the area are accustomed to severe storms. The community of 56,000 people has been hit by four tornados since 1998, and residents already were on alert after weekend storms and days of warnings. Because the tornado hit in the afternoon, many others were away from the neighborhoods and out of harm's way at work.

Looking over the broken brick, smashed wood and scattered appliances that is all that remains of the home where Dawn Duffy-Relf's aunt lived with her two daughters, Duffy-Relf and her husband marveled at the devastation ? and the survival rate.

Duffy-Relf credited central Oklahoma residents' instincts and habits: They watch the weather reports, they look at the sky, they know what they can and can't outrun.

"We know where we live," she said as she tried to salvage as much from the home as possible before her aunt returned from a vacation to Mexico.

Her husband, Paul Duffy-Relf, also noted the rise of social media and cellphone use since the last massive storm smashed the town more than a decade ago. He said people posted on Facebook and Twitter ahead of Monday's storm, telling others where the tornado was and when to flee. And some never left their cellphones, staying on the line with loved ones as long as they could, and working to quickly reconnect with those who needed help afterward.

"People are still looking for their wallets, but they have their cellphones," he said.

Harold Brooks, research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., said long-range forecasting models also have dramatically improved and are able to provide insight even a week before a storm strikes.

Brooks said people in the storm's direct path had time to pick out their safe place ? even if it was their home's bathtub ? when there was first word of a massive tornado bearing down on them.

"If you take appropriate action, you go to your safe place, you can dramatically increase the probability you'll survive," he said.

To Brooks, the Joplin tornado was the oddity in terms of lives lost. That tornado struck on a Sunday evening two years ago this week.

"It's a number that I really don't understand what led to that," he said. "It could be the timing, 5:30 on a Sunday night, or bad luck. That was the outlier."

While estimating that between 12,000 and 13,000 homes were affected by Monday's tornado, emergency officials said they were unable to estimate the number of people left homeless, in part because many had been taken in by relatives and only a couple dozen stayed overnight at Red Cross shelters.

President Barack Obama plans to view the destruction firsthand Sunday. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, meanwhile, visited Wednesday and again pledged the federal government's ongoing support. She urged people to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to learn about aid for which they may qualify.

"We know that people are really hurting," she said. "There's a lot of recovery yet to do. ... We will be here to stay until this recovery is complete. You have our commitment on that."

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Associated Press writers Tim Talley in Moore, Ken A. Miller in Oklahoma City and Justin Juozapavicius in Tulsa contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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