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Saturday, March 30, 2013

'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' Expected To Destroy Box-Office

With the help of the Rock and Bruce Willis, the follow-up to 'Rise of the Cobra' is expected to take the #1 spot this weekend.
By Ryan J. Downey

Bruce Willis in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation"
Photo: Paramount Pictures

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704575/gi-joe-retaliation-box-office.jhtml

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"The Shining": 33 Years Later, "Room 237" asks why moviegoers can't leave the overlook

By Brent Lang

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Shining" hit theaters more than three decades ago, but as the upcoming documentary "Room 237" makes clear, many moviegoers had a hard time leaving the Overlook Hotel.

The Stanley Kubrick horror film has inspired a fervent coterie of analysts, many of whom devote countless hours to devising elaborate interpretations for what the story of a hotel caretaker going mad (a scenery-gnawing Jack Nicholson) actually means.

Director Rodney Ascher devoted himself to elucidating this subculture of "Shining" aficionados with "Room 237," which opens in New York City on March 29 before expanding. His idiosyncratic exploration indicates that Kubrick, the iciest and most cerebral of filmmakers, and his adaptation of Stephen King's novel is still the subject of intense debate in a way that critics, many of whom dismissed "The Shining" as a lugubrious genre exercise at the time of its release, never could have predicted.

"The bulk of this deep, deep symbolic analysis of the movie was just happening in the last couple of years," Ascher told TheWrap. "I think it's because on the internet people can share their ideas much easier than they have before and be inspired by reading what one person says to do their own stuff. The ability to watch the movie a frame at a time on your desktop and the ability to share what you discovered, that's really a new phenomenon."

Of course not every theory warrants consideration, so Ascher and his team chose to center the film on five major schools of thought.

>>"The Shining" is an allegory about the eradication of Native Americans. This theory, advanced by ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore, notes the location of the Overlook on a Native American burial ground (a change from King's novel) and the various Native American images and designs that pop up throughout the film on everything from wall art to Calumet Baking Powder tins.

>>It's a retelling of Theseus' struggles with the Minotaur. This interpretation by Juli Kearns makes much of Nicholson's character's final struggle to murder his family in an elaborate hedge maze, as well as several maze-like motifs that pop up in everything from the carpeting in the hotel to its intricate layout, to argue that its roots lie in Greek mythology.

>>It's a way for Kubrick to make sense of the Holocaust. History professor Geoffrey Cocks argues that the director, who explored the possibility of chronicling that period in a script he developed but never shot called "The Aryan Papers," allowed his fascination with and distaste for Hitler's extermination of European Jews to color the film. As evidence, Cocks points to Nicholson's German-made typewriter and the preponderance of the number 42 throughout the picture, which he thinks is a reference to the development of "The Final Solution" in 1942.

>>It's about the synchronicity of time. Performer and musician John Fell Ryan is one of the major proponents of this take on Kubrick's masterpiece, going as far as to stage screenings the run "The Shining" forward and backward, both simultaneously and superimposed over one another. Like the history of the Overlook hotel, Ryan believes that past and present collapse on each other.

>>It's an apologia from Kubrick for helping to fake footage of the moon landing. This conclusion is the one that elicits the loudest guffaws at screenings, but to his credit, conspiracy hunter Jay Weidner doesn't say the moon landing didn't happen, only that Kubrick helped stage it later for public relations reasons. As evidence, he points to Kubrick's close work with NASA during the filming of "2001: A Space Odyssey," which hit theaters two years before Apollo 11 touched down on the Sea of Tranquility.

"You hear five very different points of view and the assumption is he couldn't have explicitly meant all of them, could he?" Ascher said. "But how important is his original intent? Whether he meant it or not these are all still interesting. A lot of what these people are saying draws on his personal history, so it's hard for me to eliminate any one theory categorically."

One choice Ascher did make, and it's a radical one, was not to show any of his five talking heads on screen. Their voices seep into one another. Their theories are illustrated with historical footage, shots of Kubrick on the set and moments from "The Shining" itself. The scene of the young boy in the film, pushing his three-wheeler through the vertiginous hallways of the Overlook, becomes an extended visual metaphor for these people's attempts to feel their way through "The Shining"s' layers of meaning.

It was a method Ascher employed on a previous short film, 2010's "The S From Hell." As with that project, he conducted the interviews for "Room 237" remotely via Skype and by mailing digital recorders to participants. However, he said he never felt the need to go back and film the interviews to include in the final product.

"If I didn't have the talking head to return to, then I had to work harder to find a visual way to describe what they were saying," Ascher said. "I saw this movie as some kind of hybrid video essay. Each of these voices represent a larger group of people, so it isn't about a handful of unusual people, it's about a battle of ideas."

Out of all of Kubrick's films, "The Shining" seems to have been an odd choice to have elicited such a wealth of analysis. "2001" and "Eyes Wide Shut," after all, are more ambiguous, while "Dr. Strangelove" and its satiric at nuclear disaster remains more topical.

But Ascher has a theory about why "The Shining" trumps them all when it comes to this generation of amateur film theorists.

"It falls squarely in the overlap between art and entertainment," Ascher said. "There are other films that are more clearly symbolic, but they aren't necessarily the ones people watch because they want to watch a wildly entertaining movie. 'The Shining' is perfectly suited for both the grindhouse and the arthouse."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shining-33-years-later-room-237-asks-why-232828288.html

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Friday, March 29, 2013

China jails 20 on jihad, separatism charges in restive Xinjiang

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out jihad in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, the government said on Wednesday.

The courts in Kashgar and Bayingol said the 20 - all ethnic Uighurs judging by their names - had had their "thoughts poisoned by religious extremism", and used cell phones and DVDs "to spread Muslim religious propaganda", the Xinjiang government said on its official news website (www.ts.cn).

Some of them bought weapons to kill policemen as part of their jihad and spread propaganda related to the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement, the report said, a group which China says wages a violent campaign for a separate state.

Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.

China has blamed violence in energy-rich Xinjiang - strategically located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.

Some Chinese officials have also blamed attacks on Muslim militants trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the threat to justify its tight grip on the region.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said the 20 were actually guilty of no more than listening to the U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia and using the internet to discuss the importance of religious and cultural freedom.

"Giving heavy sentences to Uighurs (on the excuse) of terrorism is China's special way of carrying out suppression," he said in an emailed statement.

In December, a Xinjiang court sentenced three men to death and another to life in prison for attempting to hijack an aircraft in June.

(Reporting by Megha Rajagopalan; Editing by Ben Blanchard)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-jails-20-jihad-separatism-charges-restive-xinjiang-103943828.html

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Astronomers discover new kind of supernova

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Supernovae were always thought to occur in two main varieties. But a team of astronomers including Carnegie's Wendy Freedman, Mark Phillips and Eric Persson is reporting the discovery of a new type of supernova called Type Iax. This research has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is available online.

Previously, supernovae were divided into either core-collapse or Type Ia categories. Core-collapse supernovae are the explosion of a star about 10 to 100 times as massive as our sun. Type Ia supernovae are the complete disruption of a tiny white dwarf.

This new type, Iax, is fainter and less energetic than Type Ia. Although both types come from exploding white dwarfs, Type Iax supernovas may not completely destroy the white dwarf.

"A Type Iax supernova is essentially a mini supernova," says lead author Ryan Foley, Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the runt of the supernova litter."

The research team--which also included Max Stritzinger, formerly of Carnegie--identified 25 examples of the new type of supernova. None of them appeared in elliptical galaxies, which are filled with old stars. This suggests that Type Iax supernovas come from young star systems.

Based on a variety of observational data, the team concluded that a Type Iax supernova comes from a binary star system containing a white dwarf and a companion star that has lost its outer hydrogen, leaving it helium dominated. The white dwarf collects helium from the normal star.

Researchers aren't sure what triggers a Type Iax. It's possible that the outer helium layer ignites first, sending a shock wave into the white dwarf. Alternatively, the white dwarf might ignite first due to the influence of the overlying helium shell.

Either way, it appears that in many cases the white dwarf survives the explosion, unlike in a Type Ia supernova where the white dwarf is completely destroyed.

The team calculates that Type Iax supernovae are about a third as common as Type Ia supernovae. The reason so few have been detected is that the faintest are only one-hundredth as bright as a Type Ia supernova.

"The closer we look, the more ways we find for stars to explode," Phillips said.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope could discover thousands of Type Iax supernovas over its lifetime.

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Honda Odyssey rolls out with a built-in vacuum, almost makes a minivan sound appealing

It's not quite a minivan fit for a technophile, despite the standard lineup of 2014 in-vehicle gadgets, such as HondaLink with a smartphone interface, HD Radio and an updated center stack. But Honda's 2014 Odyssey does ship with one very practical addition: a built-in HondaVAC, designed with assistance from the good folks at Shop-Vac. The integrated vacuum cleaner lets you tidy up around the van and outside as well, and with integrated power, it doesn't need to be plugged in for use. It can suck indefinitely when the engine's running, or for up to eight minutes with the car turned off. It's integrated within the rear cargo area, and includes a replaceable filter and a canister bag, for easy rubbish disposal. The Odyssey just made its debut at the New York Auto Show, and pricing and availability have yet to be announced. You can check it out for yourself this week in NYC, however, or take a closer look in the promo video embedded just past the break.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Stroke prevention device misses key goal in study

This undated image provided by Boston Scientific on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 shows an experimental heart device called the Watchman. The future is unclear for the promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study suggested it is safer than previous testing found, but may not be better than a drug that is used now for preventing strokes, heart-related deaths and blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation over the long term. The new study was to be the top presentation Saturday, March 9, 2013 at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco. But the group took the unprecedented step of pulling it from the program just before it was to go on because Boston Scientific released results early to investors. (AP Photo/Boston Scientific)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The future is unclear for a promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat.

Early results from a key study of Boston Scientific Corp.'s Watchman device suggested it is safer than previous testing found, but may not be better than a drug that is used now for preventing strokes, heart-related deaths and blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation over the long term.

More than 2.7 million Americans and 15 million people worldwide have atrial fibrillation. The upper chambers of the heart quiver instead of beating properly. That lets blood pool in a small pouch. Clots can form and travel to the brain, causing a stroke.

The usual treatment is blood thinners such as warfarin, sold as Coumadin and other brands. But they have problems of their own and some are very expensive. The Watchman is intended to be a permanent solution that would not require people to take medications for the rest of their lives. It's a tiny expandable umbrella that plugs the pouch, and is inserted without surgery, through a tube pushed into a vein.

A study four years ago suggested the device was at least as good at preventing strokes as warfarin is, but the procedure to implant it led to strokes in some patients. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration narrowly recommended approving the Watchman but the federal agency required a second test of its safety and effectiveness.

The new study was to be the top presentation Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco. But the group took the unprecedented step of pulling it from the program just before it was to go on because Boston Scientific released results early to investors.

The study was led by Dr. David Holmes Jr. of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He and the clinic have a financial stake in the device.

The study involved 407 patients ? 269 assigned to get the device and 138 to get warfarin. It had three main goals, and it clearly met the first on safety ? strokes, heart-related deaths, blood clots and serious complications a week after implant or release from the hospital.

"The early concerns about safety of the device ... have been alleviated," Holmes said.

The other two goals were estimated based on just 88 patients who have been tracked for 18 months after treatment. Strokes and blood clots occurred no more often with the device in those patients. However, the results suggest the device will not prove better than warfarin at 18 months on a wider measure ? a combination of strokes, heart-related deaths or clots.

Whether that will be enough to win FDA approval remains to be seen. Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, a Johns Hopkins University heart specialist and former president of the American Heart Association, said he was reassured that the device seems safer, and said it might be approved just for people who cannot tolerate blood thinners long term.

"It's a mixed result," he said. "There still are complications" but fewer of them in the new study.

Dr. Hadley Wilson, cardiology chief at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, enrolled patients in the new study and predicts the FDA will require even more testing.

"It would be difficult for approvability without further study," he said.

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Online:

Atrial fibrillation info: http://bit.ly/odcTTM

Watchman device: http://www.bostonscientific.com/watchman-eu/index.html

Study info: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01182441

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Marilynn Marchione can be followed on Twitter at (at)MMarchioneAP

Associated Press

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Luxury Tour Packages -- France At A Glance

Looking to travel, and interested in luxury tour packages? Well, you happen to be in luck, as there are quite a few for those seeking adventure! There are also exciting deals for those looking to holiday in France, so do check out France holiday packages as well!

France has a multitude of attractions for any traveler, even picking out a favourite is difficult, as the country has so much to offer. The Loire Valley, also referred to as the 'Garden of France', and the 'Cradle of the French Language' is a haven of artistic architecture. The site has received world heritage status and is culturally and historically celebrated. Its surplus of vineyards and orchards, coupled with its location on the Loire River, the valley promises a priceless view.

The Mediterranean coastline of France is also known as the French Riviera, or Cote d'Azur. Aptly named, its azure waters and white sandy coasts make it one of the most idyllic places in the world, a perfect place to pick for any of the luxury tour packages. Famous personalities such as Pablo Picasso and Aldous Huxley have been beguiled by the enchanting location. It is an ideal tourist attraction, with marinas for yachting, over 250 days of sunshine annually, almost 20 golf courses, and over 2,000 restaurants.

There is little not to love about Paris. The Notre-Dame Cathedral, synonymous with French architecture, is located on the Ile de la Cite in the Seine River. Building the Cathedral took almost 200 years, and is possibly the best example of the Gothic style of architecture.

None of the France holiday packages would be complete without a visit to the Eiffel Tower. An icon of French culture, the tower is over 300 meters in length, and visitors have access to the first 3 floors, as well as its restaurants.

The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, and dates all the way back to the Capetian dynasty. Now home to over 300,000 international works of art, it first started when Francois I started a small collection by Renaissance artists like Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. It gradually grew, with contributions from more royalty. Today, the Louvre displays only a small portion of its total possessions.

Each of these places has something to attract you, out of the several luxury tour packages available. So step up and enjoy France with one of the many France holiday packages!

About the Author:
Ninad Chaudhari works as a Web UI Designer / Developer with Cox & Kings. He is also a digital photographer who loves indulging in luxury tour packages. Ninad's portfolio includes albums of CnK's France holiday packages.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Indonesia Luxury Real Estate Prices - Business Insider

Jakarta and Bali, both in Indonesia, ranked highly on real estate firm Knight Frank's new index of price growth in the world's luxury real estate markets.

The capital city of Jakarta, where prices increased 38 percent year-over-year, topped the list this year. And Bali ranked second, tying Dubai with a 20 percent increase in luxury real estate prices between 2011 and 2012.

Knight Frank explained the growth:

Jakarta benefited from continued strong GDP growth, which has stood at or above 6% for five out of the past six years and, in particular, from rapid growth in middle-class wealth. Increased access for non-resident purchasers could help sustain the trend through 2013.

In Jakarta, prices jumped from $250 per square foot to $346 per square foot. And in Bali, they went from $224 per square foot to $269 per square foot, according to Knight Frank.

While a third of the cities in the report experienced price growth in 2012, prices declined in around half of the cities analyzed in the report. Overall, the Asia-Pacific region fared well, while Europe struggled.

According to Knight Frank, the dichotomy stems from the aftermath of the financial crisis:

The search for safe haven investments has continued to propel prices higher in key global cities; some of the markets worst hit by the global financial crisis appear at long last to be recovering; and the impact of growing global wealth flows has kept governments busy in their attempts to limit price growth and deflate nascent real-estate bubbles before they explode.

Even with the upswing, Jakarta and Bali still fell outside Knight Frank's list of the 20 most expensive places to buy luxury property.

Here are the 20 cities (out of 80 analyzed by Knight Frank) where prices on luxury residential real estate rose the most in 2012:

Knight Frank

And the markets where they decreased the most:

Knight Frank

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/indonesia-luxury-real-estate-prices-2013-3

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The Legends and Folklore of Boats | Content for Reprint

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The Caleuche

This mythical ghost ship is an important figure in Chilean culture. The tale goes that a beautiful white sailing ship sails around the island of Chiloe at night. No crew is ever seen, but the vessel is always full of lights with sounds of a party on board and some believe it can navigate under water. The apparition soon disappears leaving no trace of its presence. Legend claims that the crew are ghosts of drowned men, brought to the ship by two mermaids and their brother. Once on board they continue their lives for a short time, before returning to the sea.

The Palatine Light - a.k.a. Princess Augusta

The legend tells how, in 1738, a German ship carrying immigrants to Philadelphia ran aground during a snow storm and sank near Block Island, south of Rhode Island in the USA. There are no records of the sinking but many sightings were reported in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalised the story in his poem "The Palatine", written in 1867. He writes of greedy wreckers tearing the ship to pieces, burning it and ignoring the drowning crew. He describes how, on moonless nights, the flaming wreck can still be seen and skippers reef their sails in spite of the calm. Another version describes how the islanders tried hard to rescue the crew, and both conflicting stories mention a female passenger refusing to leave the vessel. There are those who claim that her screams can still be heard from the ship. Occasionally locals report of seeing a burning ship on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Lady Lovibond

The superstition that a woman on board will bring bad luck is said to be the reason for the wrecking of the schooner Lady Lovibond in 1748. According to legend the captain, Simon Reed, and his bride, Annette, were celebrating their marriage with a cruise to Oporto in Portugal. The first mate, John Rivers, had been a suitor for Annette's hand. While the marriage celebrations were going on below deck, Rivers, in a fit of jealousy, attacked the sailor at the helm, seized control of the vessel and sailed her into the perilous Goodwin Sands, off the coast of Kent, killing everyone on board. The vessel is said to reappear every fifty years as a ghost ship and the sighting in 1848 was so convincing that lifeboats were sent out from Deal in the hope of rescuing survivors. Other sightings tell of a phantom vessel giving off an eerie green glow.

The Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait

The first sighting of this schooner, sailing off the east coast of Canada, dates back to 1786 and since then the phantom vessel with its white sails engulfed in flames has been reported by eye witnesses numerous times during 220 years. Sightings are usually in autumn, before a northeast wind and many believe them to be a warning of approaching storm. Some rescues have been attempted. In 1900 a group of sailors, in a small rowing boat, tried to reach the vessel, only to find it had disappeared with no trace. Eyewitnesses describe smoke rising from the deck and the crew climbing the masts to get away from the blaze, only to be engulfed in flames as the sails caught fire. During the sightings strange occurrences happen, such as guns heard from out at sea and a ball of fire seen in the sky. No one has been able to offer a foolproof explanation, although some have tried. One theory is that the apparent vessel is simply a bank of fog reflecting the moonlight. The story gained fame through a song, written by the Canadian singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant and included in his album "Breakwater". The song, "Tales of the Phantom Ship", describes the "frightening sight" of the blazing vessel, whose name no one knows.

Young Teazer

In the War of 1812, the privateer schooner, "Young Teazer", after being chased by British warships that she was attacking, was reportedly blown up by a member of her crew, known for his erratic behaviour. The deadly explosion killed most of the crew and the hull of the vessel, gutted but still partly afloat, was surrounded by floating bodies and wreckage. This gruesome end and the many stories it inspired, made the "Young Teazer" into a well known legendary figure in the folk lore of Nova Scotia. One of these tales tells of the ghost ship "Teazer Light" which appears in Mahone Bay near the site of the explosion and often on its anniversary. Several versions of the story appear in the book, "Bluenose Ghosts", written by the folklorist Helen Creighton.

Eliza Battle

This Tombigbee River steamboat worked during the 1850's and was destroyed by fire in 1858. It was the greatest disaster in the river's history, with around 33 people killed. Carrying cotton bales on her way down river, it was discovered that some were alight. The fire soon spread out of control as a strong wind fanned the flames and the passengers, dressed only in their night clothes, jumped into the freezing water to escape. Many perished, although some saved themselves by floating on the bales of cotton. The vessel sank to the bottom of the river where it still remains. Numerous sightings of the vessel took it into Alabama folklore and it has been the inspiration of many short stories including "The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee". The sightings seem to happen on cold windy nights, with the ship being engulfed in flame. Sightings are said to foretell imminent disaster for vessels using the river.

HMS Eurydice

The 26-gun Royal Navy corvette was a fast frigate with a shallow draught, designed specifically to operate in shallow waters. After over 20 year's seagoing service, she was refitted in 1877 as a training ship and sailed from Portsmouth for a three-month tour of the West Indies on 13th November 1877, beginning her return journey in the following March. After a fast crossing of the Atlantic she was caught in a heavy snow storm off the Isle of Wight, capsised and sank. Of the 319 crew and trainees only 2 survived, some being carried down with the ship and others dying from exposure in the freezing waters. One witness of this tragic event was a 4 year old Winston Churchill, living in Ventnor with his family. Later that year the wreck refloated, but was so badly damaged that she had to be broken up. All that remains is her bell, preserved in St Paul's Church, Shanklin. Ironically she was replaced by a second training ship, the HMS Juno, later renamed HMS Atalanta, which disappeared (believed to have been lost in a storm) in 1880 with the loss of 281 lives. The phantom Eurydice has had frequent sightings over the years. In the 1930s a royal naval submarine apparently took evasive action to avoid a collision with the ship, only to have it disappear from view. Later there was a notable sighting by Prince Edward in 1998, who saw a three-masted ship off the Isle of Wight during filming for a television series.

KobenhavnM

In 1928 this five-masted barque (the largest sailing ship of her time) was being used as a training vessel for cadets. She was last heard of on December 21st whilst on route from Buenos Aires to Australia with 75 people on board including 26 crew and 45 cadets. They had taken a shipload of chalk and bagged cement to Buenos Aires, unloaded it and were expecting to transport a shipment of wheat back to Europe. As no paying commissions were available the captain decided to leave for Australia without a cargo. The last that was heard of them was when the vessel reported being about 900 miles from Tristan da Cunha and that all was well. She was never heard of again. A lengthy search revealed nothing and her disappearance has become one of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time. Theories have been put forward to explain her disappearance; striking an iceberg in the dark or in fog, or capsising in strong winds. After her disappearance there were sightings of a five-masted phantom ship by Chilean fishermen in the area and from the crew of an Argentine freighter. Further sightings came in from Easter Island and the Peruvian coast and later some wreckage bearing the name Kobenhavn was reportedly found off West Australia. In 1934 a report was published that a cadet's diary from the vessel had been found in a bottle on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic. It implied that the vessel had been hit by icebergs, destroyed and abandoned, the crew having taken to the lifeboats. One year later human remains and those of a lifeboat were found along the southwest coast of Africa. There was speculation that these might have come from the Kobenhavn, but no proof.

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Giffords visits rampage site, urges gun control

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, left, reads a statement as she and husband Mark Kelly, right, returned to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, is joined by her husband Mark Kelly, left, and Emily Nottingham, mother of shooting victim Gabe Zimmerman, listening to a speaker as they returned to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, front left, holds a bouquet of flowers as she and her husband, Mark Kelly, right, and other shooting victims of the Tucson mass shooting, and family members join her as they returned to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, left, shouts "fight, fight, fight" as she and husband, Mark Kelly, pump their fists together as they returned to the site of a shooting that left Giffords critically wounded on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords urged senators to pass background checks for gun purchases. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, right, listens to a speaker as an emotional husband Mark Kelly, left, hugs Giffords as they returned to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ? Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the scene of the horrific shooting that wounded her and killed six people two years ago, urging senators Wednesday to pass background checks for gun purchases in her first public event at the site since the rampage.

Giffords, who is still recovering from her injuries, spoke fewer than 20 words in the parking lot of the Safeway grocery store in her hometown of Tucson in a brief but emotional call for stricter gun control measures.

"Be bold. Be courageous," Giffords said. "Please support background checks."

At one point, Giffords pumped her fist in the air and grinned.

Other survivors joined Giffords at the news conference, along with her husband, Mark Kelly. Giffords and Kelly have returned to the Safeway previously to visit the memorial, but Wednesday marked their first public event at the store since the shooting. Sheriff's deputies were there to provide security.

A gun control group started by Giffords and Kelly began airing a new television ad in Arizona and Iowa Tuesday urging Congress to take action. Giffords and Kelly support extending background checks to gun shows and Internet purchases. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up tougher firearm regulations Thursday.

"This discussion is not really about the Second Amendment," Kelly said. "It's about public safety and keeping guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill."

Jared Lee Loughner, 24, was sentenced in November to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years, in the Tucson shooting. The rampage happened at a meet-and-greet event organized by Giffords outside the grocery store on Jan. 8, 2011.

Kelly said it was not difficult to return to the place where his wife nearly died. As he spoke, shoppers and vehicles moved throughout the ubiquitous shopping center that includes a nail salon, a Starbucks and dry cleaners. It smelled like grocery store fried chicken.

It's places like this, Kelly said, that Congress needs to make safer.

Supporters gave Giffords a standing ovation as she arrived at the event with her husband and staffers. With Kelly's help, Giffords walked directly to a memorial outside the supermarket honoring the victims of the shooting, where she placed a bouquet of white roses and daisies.

Kelly, who was not present when the shooting occurred, recalled the massacre that took place two years ago on a chilly morning. Loughner walked toward Giffords and shot her once in the head before directing fire at the crowd around her. He released 33 bullets in 15 seconds, Kelly said.

"It was clear that the shooter had a history of mental illness, but he had easy access to a gun," Kelly said. "If things were different, he would have failed that background check."

Giffords resigned from Congress last year. Kelly, a former astronaut, has been by her side during her recovery.

On Wednesday, Giffords occasionally rubbed her husband's back as he called for gun control reform and introduced the victims of the shooting. Many of the 13 wounded survivors underwent multiple surgeries and months of physical therapy.

Susan Hileman described her excitement before the 2011 event as she waited to introduce her 9-year-old neighbor, aspiring politician Christina-Taylor Green, to Giffords. Green was the youngest of those killed.

"I am tired of this," Hileman said. "If we can save one life, if we can keep one family from feeling this awful, empty ache, if we can do something, and if that something is a commonsense something, if that something is a responsible step ... then I wonder what the problem is, people?"

Emily Notterman recalled that her son's bullet-ridden body was left on the sidewalk outside the supermarket for hours as investigators scrambled to make sense of the chaos. Her son, Gabe Zimmerman, Gifford's director of community outreach at the time, was 30 years old when he was shot.

"It's very hard to be here today," Notterman said. "The system is riddled with holes ? bullet holes. It needs to be fixed."

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Cristina Silva can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/cristymsilva.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Musical of 'The Fortress of Solitude' heads to NYC

FILE - This Sept. 2005 file photo shows Jonathan Lethem, author of "Fortress of Solitude," outside his summer home in Blue Hill, Maine. A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel ?The Fortress of Solitude? is heading toward New York. The Public Theater said Monday, March 4, 2013, that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York.

The Public Theater said Monday that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March.

The musical has a book by Itamar Moses and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, who also wrote songs for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." The new musical is conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin.

Lethem's novel tells the story of two boys, one white, one black, both raised by single fathers in 1970s Brooklyn and both of whom become endowed with superpowers.

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HP Pavilion 20 Linux AIO launches in the UK, ships with Ubuntu for ?349

Ready to take the plunge on a new all-in-one, but not super pumped about tackling Windows 8? You're probably not alone, and it looks like HP's got a solution. The company's entry-level Pavilion 20-b101ea AIO desktop now ships with Ubuntu pre-installed, so if you've been considering a jump to Linux but wanted to avoid dealing with a system refresh, this might be just the opportunity you're after. The alternative rig is shipping to UK customers for £349 including VAT, which roughly works out to $530, for blokes across the pond. Interestingly, the Ubuntu machine has yet to appear in HP's US store, where you're only able to snag the Windows 8 configuration, with pricing starting at $450. Those of you with a mailing address in the United Kingdom are in luck, however -- hit up our source link to snag your very own Ubuntu-equipped all-in-one.

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Louse genetics offer clues on human migrations

Feb. 27, 2013 ? A new genetic analysis of human lice from across the world sheds light on the global spread of these parasites, their potential for disease transmission and insecticide resistance. The results are published February 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Marina S. Ascunce and colleagues from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida.

Lice have been constant travel companions for humans ever since they left Africa and began colonizing other parts of the world. Since they have evolved along with humans, the geographic distribution of lice can reveal patterns of human migrations.

In the present research, the authors used available genomic data from human lice to identify genetic markers that can be used to determine which louse populations bred with one another. Their results improve our understanding of how lice have evolved resistance to insecticides, and can help improve methods of controlling these pests. These genetic markers can also be used to understand the differences between head and clothing lice, since the latter are capable of transmitting deadly bacterial diseases.

The authors suggest that these genetic markers may also reveal the tracks of human migrations across the globe, and can be used to test ideas about human evolution.

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Marina S. Ascunce, Melissa A. Toups, Gebreyes Kassu, Jackie Fane, Katlyn Scholl, David L. Reed. Nuclear Genetic Diversity in Human Lice (Pediculus humanus) Reveals Continental Differences and High Inbreeding among Worldwide Populations. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (2): e57619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057619

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McGRUDER LANDS AT WZTV IN NASHVILLE | Bottom Line ...

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February 27th, 2013

Bryan McGruder, who abruptly left WDAF-FOX 4 as its Vice President of News right before the November TV sweeps last year, has been named News Director at WZTV in Nashville.

The Nashville market is the 29th largest TV market in the nation. Kansas City is currently ranked 31.

His first day will be March 4 at the Sinclair Broadcast Group?s Fox affiliate.

?I?m happy to be back in the South and looking forward to helping a great team meet its goals and aspirations? said McGruder.

?Under his watch WDAF grew to one of the strongest FOX stations in the country,? noted WZTV in a statement.

At Fox 4, McDonald, a University of Missouri graduate, managed almost 60 hours per week of live, local news each week during a 10-year career there. His sudden departure led to much speculation that he might land a similar position in Kansas City.

Prior to WDAF, McGruder was VP of news at WHBQ Memphis and was news director at WJCL-WTGS Savannah, Ga. Before becoming a news director, he spent 15 years working as an anchor, reporter, producer and executive producer.

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