Police warn former St Neots Town manager Dennis Greene after Twitter spat with chairman

WARNED: Dennis Greene gets police warning for harassment

Richard Hughes Wednesday, January 30, 2013
12:15 PM

ST Neots Town are attempting to draw a line under the spat with former manager Dennis Greene, who has confirmed to The Hunts Post that he has received a warning from Cambridgeshire police over ?harassment? of the club?s owner and chairman Mike Kearns.

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What began as a falling out on the social media website Twitter, took a dramatic turn on Friday when the club released a statement on its official website, saying: ?All e-mails, texts and tweets that have been received from Mr Greene are now in the hands of the police.?

On Tuesday, Greene confirmed he had received a visit from police and would be issuing his own statement shortly.

?I have an appointment with my solicitor on Friday and I will be possibly going down the route of damages,? he said.

A Cambridgeshire police spokesman confirmed: ?We have received a report of harassment and a warning has been issued and words of advice have been given.?

Greene, who quit as manager of the club in June 2012, and later became the manager of Blue Square North side Histon, says he is still owned money which he was promised following his resignation.

The club, however, don?t believe this to be the case and are actively seeking to recover ?a goodwill gesture? which they say was paid to their former employee.

The statement on the club?s website says: ?As a gesture of goodwill, the club offered Mr Greene two months? salary as he departed, even though he was not entitled to a financial settlement because he had resigned.

?The relationship quickly soured with Mr Greene being generally unprofessional and refusing to cooperate with his departure. This included difficulties in getting club keys returned and his trying to tap players up. In light of this, the goodwill offer was withdrawn. Finally, after a reasonable conversation, we made a renewed offer of one month?s wages, with conditions attached, primarily that Mr Greene would cease all professional contact with St Neots Town FC and its players.?

The statement continues: ?Mr Greene had spoken directly without the club?s permission to a number of players, including players on contract, with the intent to entice them from the club.

?The case against Mr Greene to recover the good will gesture of one month?s salary is pending awaiting further instructions from us to our solicitors.?

Owner and chairman Mike Kearns is on holiday, so it was his son, the club?s managing director Lee Kearns, who contacted the police last week. He told The Hunts Post: ?I had a very nice conversation [with the police] and I made it clear that there is no malice towards Dennis Greene ? we just want to move on. If he does want to pursue this then he should do it through the small claims court.?

Greene, who lost his post as manager of Histon in December because of that club?s current financial problems, still lives in St Neots and is currently looking for another job in football.

?I?d love another job,? he said. ?It?s just a matter of getting the right one.?

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Samsung buys five percent stake in stylus-maker Wacom, strikes manufacturing deal

You don't have to look much further than the millions of Galaxy Notes sold to realize that Samsung is serious about the stylus, but the company's now made that commitment clearer than ever by buying a piece of Wacom. It's not the biggest of investments for a company of Samsung's size, but the $58.9 million its laid out will give it a five percent voting stake in the company, and a further in with what is what is one of the world's leading stylus makers. According to Wacom, its share of the global pen tablet market stands at a whopping 85 percent, and its sales of its components for use in smartphones and tablets have nearly doubled from 2011 to 2012.

As for where the new cash infusion will be put to use, Wacom says that by March of 2014 the entire net amount raised from the sale of shares will be invested in "product development and manufacturing and supply system enhancements for products to be supplied to Samsung Electronics," adding that it aims to "expand its relationship" with Samsung even further.

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Jody Sherman, Ecomom Founder And Longtime Web Entrepreneur, Has Died

Jody Sherman, a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site Ecomom, has passed away. He was in his late 40s. Details on the cause of death have not been confirmed. The news was relayed earlier today to close friends, family, and business associates, and has spread this evening from a Facebook post written on his profile today by his wife Kerri, which reads:

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US judge tosses discrimination suit against Kaplan

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A federal judge in Ohio has tossed out a lawsuit accusing Kaplan Higher Education Corp. of discriminating against black job applicants.

The federal district court judge in Cleveland ruled in favor of Kaplan on Monday.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit near the end of 2010. The suit accused the for-profit education company of discriminating by screening and rejecting some job seekers based on their credit history.

Kaplan maintained that it has a diverse workforce and does not discriminate.

It says it did background checks on all potential employees and reviewed credit histories of applicants whose duties would include financial matters. Kaplan says that's a standard practice used by many companies.

Kaplan is a unit of Washington Post Co.

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Lake Mead aquatic-science research documents substantial improvements in ecosystem

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Lake Mead National Recreation Area's water quality is good, the sport fish populations are sufficient, and the lakes provide important habitat for an increasing number of birds. This positive trend is documented in a new report published January 30 that leads to a better understanding of the natural resources of Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, and the issues that may affect natural resource management of Lake Mead NRA.

"While the Lake Mead ecosystem is generally healthy and robust, the minor problems documented in the report are all being addressed by the appropriate agencies, and are showing substantial improvement since the mid 1990's," said U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist, Michael Rosen, the lead scientist for the report. "This is thanks to proactive enhancements to wastewater treatment facilities for the Las Vegas Metropolitan area, the installation of wetlands in Las Vegas Wash, and the treatment of legacy pollutants from industrial areas near Las Vegas Wash."

Lake Mead provides significant benefits that have contributed to the modern development of the southwestern United States. The lake provides important aquatic habitat for a wide variety of wildlife including endangered species, and a diversity of world-class water-based recreational opportunities for more than 8 million visitors annually. It supplies critical storage of water supplies for more than 25 million people in three western states (California, Arizona, and Nevada). Storage within Lake Mead supplies drinking water and provides for the generation of hydropower to deliver electricity for major cities including Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Tucson, and San Diego. It also provides water for irrigation of more than 2.5 million acres (almost 4000 square miles or more than twice the size of the state of Delaware) of croplands.

Major findings detailed in the report include the following:

• Basic water-quality parameters are within good ranges of Nevada and Arizona standards and EPA lake criteria. Potential problems with nutrient balance, algae, and dissolved oxygen can occur at times and in some areas of Lake Mead. The Lake Mead-wide scope of monitoring provides a solid baseline to characterize water quality now and in the future.
• Legacy contaminants are declining due to regulations and mitigation efforts in Las Vegas Wash. Emerging contaminants, including endocrine disrupting compounds, are present in low concentrations. While emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, or plasticizers have been documented to cause a number of health effects to individual fish, they are not seen at concentrations currently known to pose a threat to human health. In comparison to other reservoirs studied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lake Mead is well within the highest or 'good' category for recreation and aquatic health.
• Lake Mead and Lake Mohave continue to provide habitat conditions that support a rich diversity of species within the water, along shorelines, and in adjacent drainage areas, including organisms that are both native and non-native to the Colorado River drainage.
• Sport fish populations appear stable and have reached a balance with reservoir operations over the past 20 years and are sufficient to support important recreational fishing opportunities. Native fish populations within Lake Mohave are declining, but the small native fish populations in Lake Mead are, stable without any artificial replenishment.
• Lake Mead and Lake Mohave provide important migration and wintering habitat for birds. Trends include increasing numbers of wintering bald eaglesand nesting peregrine falcons. Lake Mead water-level fluctuations have produced a variety of shorebird habitats, but songbird habitats are limited. Although some contaminants have been documented in birds and eggs in Las Vegas Wash, mitigation efforts are making a positive change.
• Invasive quagga mussels have become the dominant lake-bottom organism and are a significant threat to the ecosystems of Lake Mead and Lake Mohave because they have potential to alter water quality and food-web dynamics. Although they increase water clarity, they can degrade recreational settings.
• Climate models developed for the Colorado River watershed indicate a high probability for longer periods of reduced snowpack and therefore water availability for the Lake Mead in the future. Federal, state and local agencies, and individuals and organizations interested the future of the water supply and demand imbalance are working together to examine strategies to mitigate future conditions.

The report was prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Nevada Department of Wildlife, Southern Nevada Water Authority, BIO-WEST, University of Nevada, Reno, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The full report, USGS Circular 1381, "A synthesis of aquatic science for management of Lakes Mead and Mohave," is available online.

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Asia stocks rise as Wall Street flirts with highs

In this Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, photo, Trader Michael Urkonis, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street appeared headed for a day of trade without drama Monday Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, photo, Trader Michael Urkonis, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street appeared headed for a day of trade without drama Monday Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

BANGKOK (AP) ? Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing.

Analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore said that benchmarks in South Korea and Taiwan are recuperating after recent sell-offs amid worries that the depreciating yen will hurt economic growth in those countries. South Korea release its January trade figures later this week and Taiwan reports fourth quarter economic growth.

"While exporters in Korea and Taiwan will face competition from Japanese counterparts, importers could benefit from a cheap the yen due to the high dependence on industrial supplies from Japan," DBS said in an email commentary.

South Korea's Kospi rose 0.8 percent to 1,956.25. Technology giant Samsung Electronics jumped 3.2 percent, following four consecutive days of losses. Taiwan's TAIEX advanced 0.9 percent. Acer Inc., one of the world's leading PC manufacturers, surged 6.9 percent.

Elsewhere, Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.9 percent to 10,924.94. Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped less than 0.1 percent to 23,662.12. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.1 percent to 4,887.40.

"Investors are a bit more confident and responding to the fact that interest rates are very low and being kept that way by central banks," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney. "They are looking to maintain the value of their portfolios by getting themselves into an asset class more likely to be earnings a reasonable return."

Japanese banks surged on expectations they will beat earnings estimates for fiscal 2012, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group advanced 3.6 percent. Mizuho Financial Group gained 2.4 percent and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group rose 3.8 percent.

There will plenty of fresh data from the U.S. to drive trading this week, including retail sales, economic growth and the government's report on hiring and employment in January, which is due out Friday. More than one-fifth of the companies in the S&P 500 will report fourth-quarter earnings this week. Moreover, the Federal Reserve's policy committee begins a two-day meeting that concludes Wednesday.

Strong corporate earnings helped push the S&P 500 above 1,500 Friday, the first time in more than five years. The breakthrough happened on an eighth straight daily gain for stocks, itself a remarkable performance. That is the longest winning streak since November 2004.

But stocks cooled off by Monday. A report showed that orders for long-lasting goods rose in December by 4.6 percent, which was encouraging news about manufacturing, but stocks fell later after a disappointing report on the pace of home sales.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down or 0.1 percent at 13,881.93. The S&P 500 fell 0.2 percent to 1,500.18. The Nasdaq composite index added 0.2 percent to 3,154.30.

Benchmark oil for March delivery was up 26 cents to $96.70 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 56 cents to finish at $96.44 a barrel on the Nymex on Monday.

In currencies, the euro fell slightly to $1.3454 from $1.3456 from late Monday in New York. The dollar fell to 90.77 yen from 90.79 yen.

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Reduce Stress: Eliminate Negative Self-talk - Our Salon

Doctors at Mayo Clinic say positive thinking helps with stress management and can even improve your health. They suggest eliminating negative self-talk.

Here are some examples of negative self-talk:

Filtering. You magnify the negative aspects of a situation and filter out all of the positive ones. For example, say you had a great day at work. You completed your tasks ahead of time and were complimented for doing a speedy and thorough job. But you forgot one minor step. That evening, you focus only on your oversight and forget about the compliments you received.

Personalizing. When something bad occurs, you automatically blame yourself. For example, you hear that an evening out with friends is canceled, and you assume that the change in plans is because no one wanted to be around you.

Catastrophizing. You automatically anticipate the worst. The drive-through coffee shop gets your order wrong and you automatically think that the rest of your day will be a disaster.

Polarizing. You see things as either good or bad, black or white. There is no middle ground. You feel that you have to be perfect or that you?re a total failure.

Researchers continue to explore the effects of positive thinking and optimism on health, but here some health benefits that positive thinking:Increased life span

• Lower rates of depression
• Lower levels of distress
• Greater resistance to the common cold
• Better psychological and physical well-being
• Reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease
• Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress

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Russia tries whistleblower, despite his death

MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, in the latest twist in a case that has become a byword for rampant Russian corruption and has severely strained U.S.-Russian relations.

The posthumous trial has already provoked outrage among rights groups who see the whistleblower's case as indicative of the rampant judicial abuse, skyrocketing graft, and blurred boundaries between the state and organized crime that have plagued Russia under President Vladimir Putin.

"The trial of a deceased person and the forcible involvement of his relatives is a dangerous precedent that would open a whole new chapter in Russia's worsening human rights record," Amnesty International said in a statement last week.

Prosecutors accuse Magnitsky and his former client, London-based investor William Browder, of a $230 million tax fraud carried out through subsidiaries of Browder's company, Hermitage Capital Management.

Magnitsky claimed in 2008 that the fraud was committed by an organized crime group who colluded with corrupt Interior Ministry to register themselves as the owners of three Hermitage subsidiaries, and then claim a $230 million tax rebate. He was arrested shortly after by the same officials and accused of stealing the money himself.

A year later, the 37-year-old Magnitsky died in jail of pancreatitis, after what supporters claim was a systematic torture campaign. A report by Russia's presidential human rights council found in July 2011 that Magnitsky had been repeatedly beaten and deliberately denied medical treatment.

"If they have the same investigators and judges try the case, then what are they going to say ? 'we're guilty and we should be punished?' It's obvious what's going to happen," Magnitsky's mother, Nataliya Magnitskaya, told The Associated Press last week.

Russia's top court ruled shortly after Magnitsky's death that posthumous trials were allowed, with the intention of allowing relatives to clear their loved ones' names. Though neither Magnitsky's relatives nor Browder say they asked for charges to be refiled, prosecutors reopened his case just days after the ruling.

A Moscow court on Monday set preliminary hearings in the case for Feb. 18. Browder is being tried in absentia; he has not been to Russia since he was banned from entering the country in 2005.

"To try a dead man is beyond evil," Browder told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday. "This is a politically directed prosecution - Putin and (Prime Minister Dmitry) Medvedev have both directed, have sent the instructions for the outcome of this case."

Evidence collected by Browder on a website, Russian Untouchables, indicates that the officials accused by Magnitsky became substantially wealthier after the tax rebate, spending vastly in excess of their meager official salaries on international travel, luxury cars, and prime real estate in Dubai.

Officials in Switzerland, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are attempting to trace portions of the $230 million rebate to banks in those countries.

Last December, tensions between the U.S. and Russia flared when Congress passed a law named after Magnitsky sanctioning officials Browder accuses of involvement in the fraud.

Putin at that time said that Magnitsky died of a heart attack and accused Browder of politicizing his death to distract from his own crimes.

Russia responded to the U.S. law by banning adoptions of Russian children by Americans and dropping charges against a prison doctor on trial for negligence in Magnitsky's death.

Browder says he hopes the European Union will pass its own Magnitsky act by the end of the year.

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Nanophotonics enables new kind of optical spectrometer

Jan. 28, 2013 ? By bringing nanophotonics technology to traditional optical spectroscopy, a new kind of optical spectrometer with functions of sensing and spectral measurement has been recently demonstrated by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Dr. Junpeng Guo, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics at UAHuntsville, recently created a new nanoscale photonic device called a super nano-grating, with the assistance of his doctoral student, Haisheng Leong. With a fabricated super nano-grating, Dr. Guo's group demonstrated a new kind of optical sensing apparatus called spectrometer sensors.

Traditional optical spectrometers measure the spectra of light. Traditional optical sensors use light to detect the presence of chemicals. A spectrometer sensor is an optical spectrometer and also a chemical sensor because it measures the optical resonance spectrum that is controlled by chemicals bonded on the nanostructure surface. A spectrometer sensor with a super nanoslit metal grating was first published in Optics Letters (vol. 36, 2011) and a spectrometer sensor with a super nanohole metal grating was published recently in Optics Express (vol. 20, 2012).

Nano-gratings are periodic nanostructures with the feature size in the nanometer scale. One nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, about 1/50,000th of the diameter of a human hair. Because the feature size of nanostructures is less than the wavelength of light, we are not able to see nanostructures with our eyes. However, light can sense nanostructures by strong absorptions at specific wavelengths. This phenomenon is called optical resonance of nanostructures, a fundamental phenomenon in optics.

Optical resonances of nanostructures typically are measured by using optical spectrometers. By creating a super-grating pattern of nanostructures, the UAHuntsville team made super diffraction gratings with nano-grating structures. With the super nano-grating, the resonance of the nanostructure can be measured with a photodetector array. That way, the use of an optical spectrometer is not needed.

The nanostructures, such as nanoholes or nanoslits, are made by using a tightly focused electron beam, a technique called electron-beam lithography. Nanostructure patterns were first drawn with a computer and then sent to the electron-beam lithography machine to control the movement of the tightly focused electron beam to write nanoholes or any other nanostructure patterns in a thin layer of special polymer called e-beam resist.

The e-beam written polymer layer is then developed so the nanostructure patterns are imprinted to the thin polymer layer. The patterned polymer layer works like a mask and an argon ion etching process is used to transfer the pattern from the polymer layer to the thin metal film underneath it. This device was made by Haisheng Leong, a graduate research assistant at UAHuntsville.

The super nano-grating is a super-period nanohole array drilled in a thin gold film on a transparent glass substrate. The thickness of the gold film is 60 nanometers and the size of the nanoholes is about 100 nanometers. The periodic nanoholes in the thin metal film support collective free electron oscillations, referred to as surface plasmons, in the nanostructured metal.

The super nano-gratings have rich physics that needs to be investigated, Dr. Guo said. A paper he wrote and recently published in Applied Physics Letters (vol. 101, 2012) is trying to explain the resonance mode splitting phenomenon observed in the super-nanohole grating. The resonance mode splitting can be utilized to make better sensitivity chemical sensors.

The spectrometer sensors can detect toxins or contaminants in very small quantities. UAHuntsville recently has filed a patent to license the new technology.

"Spectrometer sensors are best suited in applications requiring small size and weight," Dr. Guo said. Such small size and lightweight sensors may be useful for NASA space exploration applications like measuring the chemical makeup on the surface of Mars, he said.

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New lingo for consumers: health overhaul glossary (The Arizona Republic)

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New lingo for consumers: health overhaul glossary

President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law has spawned its own jargon. With the law finally about to take full effect, consumers might want to get familiar with some of the terms:

Affordable Care Act ? The most common formal name for the health care law. Its full title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA, pronounced (Pea-PUH-kah). Opponents still deride the law as "Obamacare," but Obama has embraced that term, saying it shows he cares.

Employer mandate ? A federal requirement that companies with 50 or more workers pay a penalty to the government if one of their workers obtains taxpayer subsidized coverage through the law. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Intended to keep companies from "dumping" employees into public coverage.

Individual mandate ? A federal requirement that virtually everyone in the United State has health insurance, either through an employer, a government program or by buying his own plan. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Exemptions for financial hardship and religious objections. Does not apply to illegal immigrants. People who ignore the mandate will face fines from Internal Revenue Service.

Essential health benefits ? Basic health benefits that most health insurance plans will have to cover starting in 2014. They include office visits, emergency services, hospitalization, rehab care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescriptions, lab tests, prevention, maternal and newborn care, and pediatric care.

Exchanges ? Online health insurance marketplaces in each state where consumers can get private health insurance, subsidized by the government. Open enrollment starts Oct. 1, and the coverage takes effect Jan. 1, 2014. Exchanges can be run by the states, the federal government, or a state-federal partnership. Small businesses will have access to their own exchanges.

Medicaid expansion ? The health care law also expands the federal-state safety-net program to cover more low-income people. Medicaid is expected to account for close to half of the 30 million uninsured people who, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, eventually will gain coverage through the law. The federal government will pay the full cost of the new coverage from 2014-2016, then phase down to 90 percent. States are free to reject the expansion. In those states, many adults below the poverty level would remain uninsured.

Metal levels ?The four levels of coverage available through exchange plans, called bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Bronze plans feature the lowest monthly premiums, but cover only 60 percent of average costs. Platinum plans cover 90 percent of expected costs.

Pre-existing condition ? An ongoing or past health problem. Currently insurers can use pre-existing conditions to deny or restrict coverage, or charge more. Those practices will be barred by federal law starting Jan. 1, 2014, and insurers will have to accept all applicants.

Tax credits ? Government health insurance subsidies for individuals will come in the form of tax credits. The money will be paid directly to the consumer's health plan. The subsidies are based on income. Each year, people will have to "true up" with the IRS to make sure they got the right amount. People who receive too generous a tax credit may owe money back to the government.

Tax penalty ? The fine levied on individuals who disregard the individual insurance mandate. It starts small and gets bigger in subsequent years. In 2014 it's $95 or 1 percent of taxable income. By 2016, it's $695 or 2.5 percent of taxable income, whichever is greater. Thereafter it's adjusted for inflation.

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BlackBerry Z10 priced at ?480 sim-free by purported Carphone Warehouse database leak (update)

With all the BlackBerry 10 leaks as of late, it seems inevitable that pricing info would get ousted in the lead up to January 30th. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, it appears that the the sim-free version of RIM's Z10 will cost UKers a cool £480 at Carphone Warehouse (for perspective, a 16GB iPhone 5 would run you just roughly £30 more). The leak comes from what's said to be a snapshot of the company's internal database, listing the white variant. The attached BLAZ10WHI model number also syncs up nicely with the previous slip from the retailer. At this rate, not much is going to be left to the imagination when RIM officially unveils its devices come Monday -- who likes surprises anyway, right?

Update: We've updated the post to reflect that the phone was touted to us as "sim-free," specifically.

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Michael Crabtree Sexual Assault: Charges Dropped Against San Francisco 49ers Wide Receiver

SAN FRANCISCO ? Criminal charges won't be filed against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers, San Francisco's district attorney said Friday.

After examining information submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time."

"The San Francisco Police Department - Special Victims Unit completed and submitted a thorough investigation of the allegations against Michael Crabtree," Gascon said.

Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.

San Francisco police said Crabtree was never detained or arrested in the matter, and that he cooperated fully with their investigation.

The 49ers are preparing to meet the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.

49ers general manager Trent Baalke said the team was pleased that the district attorney decided to not file charges after reviewing the matter.

"Michael and the team can now put this behind us and move forward," Baalke said in a statement.

During the regular season, Crabtree became the first San Francisco wide receiver with more than 1,000 yards in a season since Terrell Owens in 2003.

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Primary Home refinanced October, Buying new home now. Cant get ...

Did you sign something on the refinance stating that you intended to occupy the property as a primary residence?
If so, then you committed fraud.... because you never had those intentions.

Your penalty for committing loan fraud, a federal crime, is to pay higher rates and put money down.

Also, I would think that most reputable lenders wouldn't touch your deal with a 10 foot pole. No one wants to risk their license for one shady loan.

I recently had a guy commit fraud on a loan application. Hid a debt from us... we found it.
I dropped him like a hot potato.

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Perry, the voice behind New York Street Food, brings you his latest review on New York City food trucks.

One of the newer street vendors in NYC is The Squeeze. They started with a food truck last May, then added a cart in November. The truck has been parking in Tribeca, and the cart has been parked on Union Square West between 14-15 St.

The Squeeze sells ?raw comfort food.? Think cold pressed juices, booster shots, cleanses, and a few other healthy goodies.

(credit: New York Street Food)

On our first visit to The Squeeze, we had a vegan hot dog with kimchi topping. That was not one of our more enjoyable lunches, but we seem to have found the sweet spot on our second visit.

We ordered a ?moc ?n cheese? for $7, and since it was a cold day (to say the least), also got an order of chunky veggie soup for $5.

We started with the soup, and chunky veggie soup was not an understatement.

The portion size was small for $5, but the soup was jam-packed with veggies. The main vegetables were carrots, zucchini and cabbage, which nearly filled the cup to its brim.

The vegetable broth was tasty too. There was a very slight sweetness to the broth, and a rich vegetable flavor.

There were 3 different soups available at The Squeeze, and they all looked good. We almost got nutmeg cauliflower, but one of the guys on the bikes in the photo below heartily endorsed the chunky veggie soup, and he was right. It was excellent.

We almost got the moc ?n cheese on our first visit, and made sure to get it this time.

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The macaroni was made with quinoa pasta, which didn?t taste much different to us than pasta made with flour, eggs and water. The texture was pretty similar too, albeit on the soft side.

The cheese sauce was made with raw cashew cheese, and it had a fairly strong cheesy flavor. We?re not too up on vegan food, but this dish was tasty and filling, two of the more important traits to us.

There were even some cereal flakes in the center of the dish to add some crunch.

Glad we went back for a second visit, because it was definitely more enjoyable than the first.

You can follow The Squeeze on?Twitter here, and their Facebook is here.?You can also check out the full menu on their?website here.

Source: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/nyc-food-truck-lunch-moc-n-cheese-chunky-veggie-soup-from-the-squeeze/

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Bloody turmoil erupts in Egypt over death sentences

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 22 people died on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, adding to bloody street turmoil confronting Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said after the violence. The state news agency quoted a general as saying the military aimed to "establish calm and stability in Port Said and to protect public institutions".

The unrest began with nationwide rallies on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, a democratic uprising that protesters now accuse Mursi of betraying by ramming through an Islamist-hued constitution.

While anniversary-related violence subsided, a new flare-up hit Port Said after a court sentenced 21 men to die for involvement in the deaths of 74 people after a local soccer match on February 1, 2012, many of them fans of the visiting team.

Residents ran wildly through the streets of Port Said in rage that men from their city had been blamed for the stadium disaster, and gunshots were reported near the prison where most of the defendants were being held.

State television, citing the Health Ministry, said 22 people were killed and more than 200 wounded. Security sources said at least two of the dead were policemen.

A witness said some men stormed a police station in Port Said, where protesters lit tires in the street, sending black smoke funneling into the air.

At least nine people were killed in clashes with police on Friday, mainly in the port of Suez where the army has also deployed. Hundreds were injured as police rained down tear gas on protesters armed with stones and some with petrol bombs.

The schism between Islamists and secular Egyptians is hurting efforts by Mursi, freely elected in June, to revive an economy in crisis and reverse a slide in Egypt's currency.

The political strife and lack of security that has blighted the Arab world's most populous country over much of the post-Mubarak era is casting a chilling shadow over a parliamentary election expected to start in April.

Highlighting tensions, the opposition National Salvation Front coalition called for a government of national unity and an early presidential vote among other demands. It said it would call for more protests next Friday and could boycott the parliamentary election if its demands are not met.

Mursi's opponents say he has failed to deliver on economic pledges or be a president representing the full political and communal diversity of Egyptians, as he pledged.

His supporters say his critics do not respect the democracy that has given Egypt its first freely elected leader.

VICTIMS' RELATIVES CHEER

At the Port Said soccer stadium a year ago, many spectators were crushed and witnesses saw some thrown off balconies after the match between Cairo's Al Ahly and local team al-Masri.

Families of victims in court cheered and wept for joy when Judge Sobhy Abdel Maguid read a list of 21 names "referred to the Mufti", a phrase used to denote execution, as all death sentences must be reviewed by Egypt's top religious authority.

A total of 73 people have been standing trial. Other rulings will be issued on March 9, the judge said.

One relative in the court shouted: "God is greatest." Outside the Al Ahly club in Cairo, fans also cheered. They had threatened more violence unless the death penalty was meted out.

Thousands took to the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities on Friday to protest against what they call the authoritarianism of Mursi's rule. Protesters in Cairo were again hurling stones at police lines in Cairo on Saturday.

"We want to change the president and the government. We are tired of this regime. Nothing has changed," said Mahmoud Suleiman, 22, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the cauldron of the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolt and near where youths stoned police.

"PURSUING CRIMINALS"

Ahmed Salama, 28, a protester camped out with dozens of others in Tahrir, said: "The protests will continue until we realize all the demands of the revolution - bread, freedom and social justice."

In a statement in response to Friday's violence, Mursi said the state would not hesitate in "pursuing the criminals and delivering them to justice". He urged Egyptians to respect the principles of the revolution by expressing views peacefully.

The president met on Saturday with the National Defence Council, which includes senior ministers and security officials, to discuss the spate of violence.

In a televised statement, the National Salvation Front said it was holding Mursi responsible.

The Front was formed from disparate groups last year when Mursi awarded himself extra powers and fast-tracked an Islamist-flavored constitution to a referendum, opposed by the Front although the document was passed in the popular vote.

"Egypt will not regain its balance except by a political solution that is transparent and credible, by a government of national salvation to restore order and heal the economy and with a constitution for all Egyptians," prominent opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter account.

Until the Front was formed, the opposition had struggled to unite and their vote had been split at presidential and parliamentary polls, helping Islamists. The last parliament was dissolved based on court order, demanding a new vote this year.

Mustapha Kamal Al-Sayyid, a professor of political science at Cairo University, said the latest violence reflected the frustration of many liberal-minded Egyptians and others.

"The state of polarization between Islamists and others is most likely to continue and will have a very negative impact on the state's politics, security and economy," he said.

Inspired by the popular uprising in Tunisia, Egypt's revolution spurred further revolts across the Arab world. But the sense of common purpose among Egyptians two years ago has unraveled, triggering bloody street battles last month.

(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/seven-die-egypt-violence-anniversary-uprising-003521804.html

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Countries grapple with the role of women in combat

From France's Joan of Arc, to female resistance fighters of World War II and the black-clad women warriors of the Viet Cong, popular history is filled with stories of women fighting alongside men in epic struggles.

In many modern armies, however, ground infantry combat is still largely a male preserve ? either by regulation, practical issues such as physical requirements of living space or personal preference in volunteer forces.

But change is afoot. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where supply troops, clerks and military police have ended up in battle regardless of gender, have blurred the distinction between combat and non-combat jobs.

This week the Pentagon lifted the ban on women being assigned to smaller ground combat units, although U.S. service chiefs have until January 2016 to recommend whether some positions should remain closed to women, such as Navy commandos or the Army's Delta Force.

Here are examples of how some other countries have set rules for women in war:

ISRAEL

The image of the gun-toting Israeli woman warrior is widely seen as the prototype of a gender-blind military. Reality is different. Israeli women are subject to the draft ? serving two years while men serve three. But women were barred from direct combat until 2000, when the first and so far only mixed gender infantry battalion was organized. The Caracal battalion, which is about 60 percent female, was assigned to patrol the relatively quiet borders with Jordan and Egypt. Still, more than 90 percent of military jobs are open to women ? including high-risk posts such as air force pilots, air defense, naval gunboat crews, artillery and search and rescue. But the five major infantry brigades are still all-male.

CANADA

Canada considers itself a pioneer in opening military ranks to women, allowing female soldiers to serve in combat jobs in 1989. Nearly a generation later, women hold about 14 percent of all active duty positions in the Canadian military but only 2.4 percent of the combat slots. At least three Canadian women soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, two by roadside bombs and one, a captain, in a firefight.

BRITAIN

Women make up about 9 percent of Britain's all-volunteer military but are barred from ground force units whose primary mission is to "close with and kill the enemy." Nevertheless, they can serve on warships, artillery, as engineers and on combat aircraft. A review by the Ministry of Defence in 2010 found "no evidence" that allowing women to serve in ground combat units such as the infantry or Royal Marines "would be beneficial or risk-free." Still, women have served in medical and support jobs with the British military in dangerous areas of Iraq and Afghanistan, where they face rocket barrages, roadside bombs and ambushes.

FRANCE

Women make up about 15 percent of all troops in France's military, the highest proportion of any European country. Women are not legally barred from serving in combat infantry units and the submarine service. However, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Martin Klotz said as a practical matter, many women can't carry the 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of basic equipment, and submarines lack space for women's sleeping quarters. The medical corps accounts for the highest female representation among the various services ? about 53 percent ? with the air force second at 21 percent.

GERMANY

Germany's postwar army excluded women until the mid-1970s, when a few were allowed to join the medical corps and military bands. The restriction was not lifted until 2000 when a female electrician challenged the ban at the European Court of Justice. The following year the Germans lifted all restrictions on women in the ranks if they could meet the same physical requirements as men. More than a decade later, women make up about 9 percent of the armed forces. A military spokesman was unable to say how many are in ground combat units.

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand lifted all restrictions on women serving in the military ? including infantry units ? in January 2000. But spokeswoman Kirsty Taylor-Doig said no woman has ever passed the rigorous selection criteria to join the elite special operations service, which performed with distinction in Afghanistan. Women make up nearly 16 percent of the combined force, with the largest group in the navy, which is about 22 percent female. Last August a woman medic was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the first New Zealand female service member to die by hostile fire since World War I.

NORDIC AND BALTIC COUNTRIES

The nations of northern Europe have spearheaded gender equality in the military, with Norway lifting all restrictions in 1985, including for special operations jobs. Denmark, Sweden and Finland followed suit. The former Soviet states of Lithuania and Estonia lifted restrictions and sent women to combat roles in Iraq and Afghanistan, though many women in Estonia have complained they are encouraged to apply for desk jobs.

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Associated Press correspondents Ian Deitch in Jerusalem, Matti Huuhtanen in Helsinki, Finland, Jamey Keaten in Paris, Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, and David Rising in Berlin contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/countries-grapple-role-women-combat-152628081.html

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NKorea warns of nuke test, more rocket launches

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.

The National Defense Commission, headed by the country's young leader, Kim Jong Un, denounced Tuesday's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime. The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that the launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also clearly indicated the country's rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the United States.

The commission pledged to keep launching satellites and rockets and to conduct a nuclear test as part of a "new phase" of combat with the United States, which it blames for leading the U.N. bid to punish Pyongyang. It said a nuclear test was part of "upcoming" action but did not say exactly when or where it would take place.

"We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-U.S. struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people," the commission said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival," the commission said.

It was a rare declaration by the powerful commission once led by late leader Kim Jong Il and now commanded by his son. The statement made clear Kim Jong Un's commitment to continue developing the country's nuclear and missile programs in defiance of the Security Council, even at risk of further international isolation.

North Korea's allusion to a "higher level" nuclear test most likely refers to a device made from highly enriched uranium, which is easier to miniaturize than the plutonium bombs it tested in 2006 and 2009, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. Experts say the North Koreans must conduct further tests of its atomic devices and master the technique for making them smaller before they can be mounted as nuclear warheads onto long-range missiles.

The U.S. State Department had no immediate response to Thursday's statement. Shortly before the commission issued its declaration, U.S. envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies urged Pyongyang not to explode an atomic device.

"Whether North Korea tests or not, it's up to North Korea. We hope they don't do it. We call on them not to do it," he told reporters in Seoul after meeting with South Korean officials. "It will be a mistake and a missed opportunity if they were to do it."

Davies was in Seoul on a trip that includes his stops in China and Japan for talks on how to move forward on North Korea relations.

South Korea's top official on relations with the North said Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development is a "cataclysm for the Korean people," and poses a fundamental threat to regional and world peace. "The North Korean behavior is very disappointing," Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik said in a lecture in Seoul, according to his office.

North Korea claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defense against the United States, its Korean War foe.

The bitter three-year war ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953, and left the Korean Peninsula divided by the world's most heavily fortified demilitarized zone. The U.S. leads the U.N. Command that governs the truce and stations more than 28,000 troops in ally South Korea, a presence that North Korea cites as a key reason for its drive to build nuclear weapons.

For years, North Korea's neighbors had been negotiating with Pyongyang on providing aid in return for disarmament. North Korea walked away from those talks in 2009 and on Wednesday reiterated that disarmament talks were out of the question.

North Korea is estimated to have stored up enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight bombs, according to scientist Siegfried Hecker, who visited the North's Nyongbyon nuclear complex in 2010.

In 2009, Pyongyang declared that it would begin enriching uranium, which would give North Korea a second way to make atomic weapons.

North Korea carried out underground nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, both times just weeks after being punished with U.N. sanctions for launching long-range rockets.

In October, an unidentified spokesman at the National Defense Commission claimed that the U.S. mainland was within missile range. And at a military parade last April, North Korea showed off what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Satellite photos taken last month at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, in far northeast North Korea, showed continued activity that suggested a state of readiness even in winter, according to analysis by 38 North, a North Korea website affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

Another nuclear test would bring North Korea a step closer to being able to launch a long-range missile tipped with a nuclear warhead, said Daniel Pinkston, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.

"Their behavior indicates they want to acquire those capabilities," he said. "The ultimate goal is to have a robust nuclear deterrent."

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Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee and Sam Kim contributed to this report. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at www.twitter.com/newsjean.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-warns-nuke-test-more-rocket-launches-072519060.html

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Astrophile: Split personality tarnishes pulsars' rep

Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse

Object: Pulsar (pulsing star)
Behaviour: Erratic

A split personality can be disturbing, especially when it affects someone you least expected it to. Now it seems stars, too, can have disturbingly fractured personas. The discovery of the first pulsar that shines at different frequencies at different times is tarnishing the reputation of this class of pulsing dead star. Until now, pulsars have been relied upon as cosmic timekeepers, but perhaps we can't take their regularity for granted any longer.

We had thought of pulsars ? the dense remnants of exploded stars ? as emitting radio waves, X-rays or gamma rays in bursts of such regularity that you could practically set your watch by them. Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, with strong magnetic fields that emit beams of radiation from their poles. The poles are offset from the axis of rotation ? just as the magnetic poles on Earth do not line up with true north and south. This offset means the beams sweep around like a lighthouse as the pulsar rotates, giving the star's radiation a distinctive pulse when viewed from a distance.

Individual pulsars can emit radiation at a range of frequencies, from radio waves to gamma rays, and some radio pulsars have been seen to dim or even stop broadcasting all together. That finding had previously cast some doubt on pulsars' otherwise impeccable reputation for dependability.

The latest discovery takes that to a new level, though. When Wim Hermsen of the Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Utrecht and colleagues took the first simultaneous measurements of both the radio and gamma radiation from B0943+10, a pulsar known to emit at both frequencies, they got a shock.

Radio flip

Rather than shining continuously as the team expected, B0943+10 flips at the drop of a hat, toning down its radio emissions for a few hours while pumping out extra X-rays, before switching back as if nothing had happened ? a totally new type of pulsar behaviour. "This variability has never been seen before," says Hermsen.

The pulsar's first personality is similar to that of its more stable siblings. In this mode, the pulsar emits a beam of radio waves from its pole and rotates every 1.1 seconds, while also emitting low-level background X-rays in every direction.

Every few hours though ? exactly when seems random ? the pulsar switches to its second personality. The main radio beam strength halves, though its timing remains the same, and is accompanied by another, even weaker radio signal just before the main pulse. Meanwhile the X-ray output doubles and pulses in time with the star's spin. Some time later, it switches back.

Astronomers already disagree over whether pulsar emissions are created by annihilation of particles close to the surface or further out but still within the pulsar's magnetic field. B0943+10's quirks throw a further spanner in the works because they don't fit either picture. What could be going on?

Cosmic act

One explanation is that what looks a radio-to-X-ray pulsar personality transplant is actually just an act. The object basically remains a radio pulsar, but whenever the radio beam halves in strength, the pulsar's magnetic field switches on a second radio beam in a different direction, which does not sweep past Earth.

In this scenario, the second radio beam is accompanied by increased X-ray emissions. Since they are produced in all directions, they are visible from Earth. If that's true, it would be rather like ascribing a friend's odd behaviour to a personality problem ? only to discover that there was in fact an explanation for the behaviour that was consistent with the person as you normally think of them.

Even this explanation raises obvious questions, such as why a second radio beam is triggered and how that boosts the pulsar's X-ray emissions. That's a problem, given that pulsars are used to search for the effects of gravitational waves - these ripples in spacetime should change pulsars' apparent frequency - and have even been touted as replacing satellites in a kind of GPS for deep space. "Whatever is creating this beam in one mode stops in the other mode, and for that you need something drastic," says Hermsen. "None of the known models can explain it."

Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1230960

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