Palestinians bury man who died in Israeli custody

Palestinians take cover during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the death of Arafat Jaradat, a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian after interrogation by Israel's Shin Bet security service stokes new West Bank clashes, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians take cover during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the death of Arafat Jaradat, a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian after interrogation by Israel's Shin Bet security service stokes new West Bank clashes, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

SAEER, West Bank (AP) ? Thousands have joined the funeral procession in the West Bank for a 30-year-old Palestinian who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody.

Palestinian officials say autopsy results show Arafat Jaradat was tortured by Israeli interrogators. Israeli officials say there's no conclusive cause of death and that more tests are needed.

His death comes at a time of rising tensions in the West Bank. It has stoked Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising.

Palestinian police kept order as Jaradat's funeral got under way in his village of Saeer on Monday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli officials traded accusations, each side saying the other is provoking violence for political gains.

Abbas says Palestinians want peace and won't be provoked, despite what he says are more lethal tactics by Israeli troops.

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AT&T LTE coming to GM's 2015 fleet

Ready to trade your old car in for a shiny new mobile hotspot? AT&T and GM are using the international platform that is Mobile World Congress to announce a partnership that'll bring the carrier's LTE network to "millions of cars" under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac umbrellas. The rollout is set to hit the 2015 models due out in 2014 in the US and Canada. The partnership with GM-owned OnStar will bring AT&T connectivity to a variety of services, including safety, diagnostics, infotainment and safety -- the carrier's president of emerging enterprises and partnerships, Glenn Lurie, told us that the latter was a chief concern for his company. "First and foremost is making the car safer," he explained, referencing the company's "It Can Wait," anti-driving-while-texting campaign. Such will certainly be a concern when the company realizes its dreams of turning GM vehicles into mobile hotspots.

Details of the partnership are forthcoming, though Lurie insists that AT&T will be "working on every aspect of what's going into the vehicle," including opening up SDKs and APIs for developers in an attempt to, "futureproof the car for things to come." As far as futureproofing after market vehicles, Lurie says, "we are working and looking at all opportunities in the after market space. We are absolutely working with partners on the after market." More info from GM and AT&T can be had after the break.

Daniel Cooper contributed to this report.

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Pregnant mother's blood pressure may affect future health of children

Feb. 25, 2013 ? Up to 10% of all women experience some form of elevated blood pressure during pregnancy. Researchers from the Centre for Social Evolution at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen show that mild maternal hypertension early in pregnancy actually benefits the fetus, but that late-pregnancy hypertension has negative health consequences for the child. The study is based on more than 750,000 births in Denmark, with follow-up data on children's hospital diagnoses for up to 27 years.

'It has been known for some time now that pregnancy-induced hypertension can lead to more serious toxic conditions (preeclampsia), but it has puzzled biologists why such a medical condition that can be quite dangerous for both mother and child has not previously been removed by natural selection in our stoneage ancestors. However, evolutionary theory also emphasizes that paradoxes of this kind can be due to genetic parent-offspring conflicts, so we set out to test whether we could find statistical evidence for that type of explanation', says Professor Jacobus Boomsma, Director of the Centre for Social Evolution and coordinator of the study.

Minor increases in blood pressure gives better health

The results clearly indicate that mothers with minor increases in blood pressure in the first trimester of pregnancy have babies that enjoy generally better health than children of mothers who never get a hypertension diagnosis during pregnancy. The difference was between 10 and 40% fewer diagnoses across all disease categories during the 27 years of available follow-up data, a result that has never been documented before. However, when hypertension continues or starts later in pregnancy, this advantage shifts to a ca. 10% disadvantage in terms of an increased risk of acquiring a diagnosis in the Danish public health data bases. Child mortality during the first year of life showed the same trend. In spite of this risk being very low in Denmark, no children of mothers with early pregnancy-induced hypertension died, whereas the mortality risk of children born to mothers with hypertension late in pregnancy was above average.

Fathers genes enhances blood pressure

Parent-offspring-conflict theory maintains that father-genes in the placenta will have a tendency to 'demand' a somewhat higher level of nutrition for the fetus than serves the interests of mother-genes. It argues that father genes that somehow manage to enhance maternal blood pressure will likely be met by maternal genes compensating this challenge. Both types of genes are 50/50 represented and thus likely to find a 'negotiated' balance while creating an optimally functioning placenta. However, when the pull of paternal genes cannot quite be managed by maternal counterbalances, there is a risk of elevated blood pressure to develop and persist, leading to late occurring pregnancy complications and compromised offspring health. The results obtained are consistent with the idea that some deep fundamental conflicts lay buried in our genes right from the moment of conception. Imprinted genes are prime suspects for mediating such conflicts as they 'remember' which parent they come from.

'Molecular biologists have recently found many such genes in mice and man, and they are particularly expressed in the placenta as the theory predicts. Our study therefore suggests that further research to test whether different patterns of pregnancy-induced hypertension are indeed related to paternal or maternal imprints would be highly worthwhile', says PhD student Birgitte Hollegaard, who did the analyses together with EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Byars.

The authors of the study hope these results will help build bridges between their evolutionary inspired public health analyses and established clinical praxis.

'Ultimately we are not only interested in the fundamental science aspects of genome level reproductive conflicts, but also in seeing some of these findings being made more directly useful, for example by adjusting pregnancy monitoring schemes to take long term risks for offspring health into account', concludes Jacobus Boomsma.

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Italians vote in parliamentary elections

A nuns casts her ballot in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A nuns casts her ballot in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A nun votes in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A nun exits a booth as she votes in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Nuns vote in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A man arrives to vote in a polling station in downtown Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

ROME (AP) ? Will Italy stay the course with painful economic reform? Or fall back into the old habit of profligacy and inertia? These are the stakes as Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies.

Fellow EU countries and investors are watching closely, as the decisions that Italy makes over the next several months promise to have a profound impact on whether Europe can decisively put out the flames of its financial crisis. Greece's troubles in recent years were enough to spark a series of market panics. With an economy almost 10 times the size of Greece's, Italy is simply too big a country for Europe, and the world, to see fail.

Leading the electoral pack is Pier Luigi Bersani, a former communist who has shown a pragmatic streak in supporting tough economic reforms spearheaded by incumbent Mario Monti. On Bersani's heels is Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul seeking an unlikely political comeback after being forced from the premiership by Italy's debt crisis. Monti, while widely credited with saving Italy from financial ruin, is trailing badly as he pays the price for the suffering caused by austerity measures.

Then there's the wild card: comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, whose protest movement against the entrenched political class has been drawing tens of thousands to rallies in piazzas across Italy. If his self-styled political "tsunami" sweeps into Parliament with a big chunk of seats, Italy could be in store for a prolonged period of political confusion that would spook the markets.

While a man of the left, Bersani has shown himself to have a surprising amount in common with the center-right Monti ? and the two have hinted at the possibility of teaming up in a coalition. Bersani was Monti's most loyal backer in Parliament during the respected economist's tenure at the head of a technocratic government. And in ministerial posts in previous center-left governments, Bersani fought hard to free up such areas of the economy as energy, insurance and banking services.

But it's uncertain that Monti will be able muster the votes needed to give Bersani's Democratic Party a stable majority in both houses of Parliament.

"Forming a government with a stable parliamentary alliance may prove tricky after elections," said Eoin Ryan, an analyst with IHS Global Insight. "A surge in support for anti-austerity parties is raising chances of an indecisive election result and post-vote political instability."

Another factor is turnout. Usually some 80 percent of the 50 million eligible voters go to the polls but experts are predicting many will stay away in anger, hurting mainstream parties.

When Berlusconi stepped down in November 2011, newspapers were writing his political obituary. At 76, blamed for mismanaging the economy and disgraced by criminal allegations of sex with an underage prostitute, the billionaire media baron appeared finished as a political force.

But Berlusconi has proven time and again ? over 20 years at the center of Italian politics ? that he should never be counted out.

The campaign strategy that has allowed him to become a contender in these elections is a simple one: please the masses by throwing around cash.

Berlusconi has promised to give back an unpopular property tax imposed by Monti as part of austerity measures. Even his purchase of start striker Mario Balotelli for his AC Milan soccer team was widely seen as a ploy to buy votes. Berlusconi has also appealed to Italy's right-wing by praising Italy's former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during a ceremony commemorating Holocaust victims.

The most recent polls show Bersani in the lead with 33 percent of the vote, against 28 percent for Berlusconi's coalition with the populist Northern League. Grillo's 5 Star movement was in a surprise third place, with 17 percent support, while Monti's centrist coalition was notching 13 percent. The COESIS poll of 6,212 respondents had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.2 percent.

Pollster Renato Mannheimer said among his biggest clients heading into the elections were foreign banks seeking to gauge whether to hold or sell Italian bonds.

"They are worried mostly about the return of Berlusconi," Mannheimer said.

Uncertainty over the outcome of the vote has pushed the Milan stock exchange down in the days running up to the vote and bumped up borrowing costs, as investors express concern that Italy may back down from a reform course to pull the country out of recession.

Mannheimer said many undecided voters ? who comprise around one-third of the total electorate ? identify with the center-right, and that may help Berlusconi. He said that the undecided vote may also tilt heavily toward Grillo's protest movement.

The professorial Monti looked uncomfortable at first as a candidate but has recently warmed to the role. Like the others, he has not shied away from name calling, warning that Berlusconi is a "charlatan" and saying his return would be "horrific."

Bond analyst Nicholas Spiro said the election "will deliver the most important verdict on the eurozone's three-year-old austerity focused policies."

But he is betting on a period of political instability after the vote.

"An upset victory by Mr. Berlusconi may be markets' nightmare scenario," he said, "but the prospects for a stable and harmonious Bersani-Monti coalition government ? still the mostly likely outcome in our view ? are bleak."

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'Identity Thief' steals box office again

By Reuters

Comedy "Identity Thief" snatched the weekend box office title in the United States and Canada during its third weekend in theaters, narrowly beating new action movie "Snitch" as Hollywood focused on Sunday evening's Academy Awards ceremony.

"Identity Thief" starring Melissa McCarthy grabbed $14 million in ticket sales from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters.?

"Snitch" featuring Dwayne Johnson finished close behind with $13 million. The animated offering "Escape From Planet Earth" took in $11 million to finish third in its second week in theaters.

The win was the second for "Identity Thief," which led the charts when it debuted February 8 and finished in second place a week ago. The adult comedy features McCarthy as a woman who steals the identity of a hapless man played by Jason Bateman.

"Identity Thief" has collected $93.7 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters to date.

Moviegoing was typically slow for an Oscars weekend. Total sales for all films ran slightly over $1.4 billion, a 6.6 percent drop from the same weekend last year, according to box office tracker Hollywood.com.

"Snitch" stars Johnson as a father who goes undercover to clear his son to keep him out of jail after he is wrongly accused of drug dealing. Susan Sarandon and Benjamin Bratt also star.

Ahead of the weekend, forecasters saw "Snitch" pulling in $10 million to $12 million. Summit Entertainment, a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment, bought U.S. distribution rights for about $5 million.

The weekend's other new movie, low-budget horror flick "Dark Skies," collected $8.9 million to debut in sixth place. The movie stars Keri Russell as a mother working to protect her children from alien invaders.

The film cost $3.5 million to make and was produced by "Paranormal Activity" producer Jason Blum. The Weinstein Company distributed the movie.

Last weekend's leader, "A Good Day to Die Hard," dropped to fifth place. The fifth movie in the Bruce Willis action franchise took in $10 million this weekend.

"Identity Thief" was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp. "Snitch" was distributed by Summit Entertainment, a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment. The Weinstein Company distributed "Escape From Planet Earth" and "Dark Skies." "A Good Day to Die Hard" was released by News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio.

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LaHood Cries Sequester; McCain's Benghazi Appetite In Insatiable

Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood played the role of town criar warning the peasants of the coming sequester cuts on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. LaHood rang his bell and warned of the 4 percent reduction coming to his old department that would spell layoffs for federal employees. Oh, and also, it will make flying even worse. "In the end, there has to be some kind of furlough of air traffic controllers, and that then will also begin to curtail or eliminate the opportunity for them to guide planes in and out of airports," LaHood said. He said they're already looking at where they can possibly make cuts if a deal isn't reached. "This sequester is very serious business, and it requires us to make the reductions that we're making," LaHood said. "It requires us as painful as it is to furlough the people that we're going to have to furlough.? And we're taking it very seriously." But just because the Transportation Department is getting prepared and LaHood is playing Paul Revere doesn't mean he doesn't think a deal is off the table. Far from it. LaHood still thinks there's time on the clock for Republicans a Democrats to get together and get a deal done. (Oh, good, another last minute deal, said everyone still suffering from fiscal cliff flashbacks.) On NBC's Meet the Press, LaHood seemed optimistic this might happen. "If Republicans and Democrats get together this week and take a look at the president's plan, which he put on the table to save $85 billion, this does not have to happen," LaHood said "There is still time to reach a compromise." LaHood really believes in the possibility of a deal getting done. "I hope so. I do.?It's been done before. It was done at the 11th hour to save us from going under the fiscal cliff.?It can be done again.?And it can be done by Friday."

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One person who doesn't think the sequester is that big of a deal is Sen. Tom Coburn. On Fox News Sunday,?Coburn said he feels the administration is "absolutely" exaggerating the sequester's potential effects. If anything, he feels the cuts should happen. "There?s easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel... not cutting spending is going to be disastrous for our country," Coburn said.

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Sen. John McCain said he expects Chuck Hagel to finally be confirmed as Defense Secretary this week on CNN's State of the Union. "The president deserves an up-or-down-vote," McCain said. "Now Democrats will say, 'We've never done that before, well they have, and they did with [John] Bolton and John Tower and others. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't give Chuck Hagel an up-or-down vote, and we should." Then McCain gave his passive aggressive outlook on the chances that Hagel actually gets positively voted through when the vote does happen. "I think it will happen, barring some additional revelation concerning his comments about Israel and all those other unfortunate things he's said in the past." The topic eventually switched over to the President's other pending national security nomination, CIA nominee John Brennan. On that, McCain thinks Republicans may try and delay it for more Benghazi answers just like they did to Hagel. "Look, I don't want to put a hold on anybody. But the American people deserve answers about Benghazi. There are so many questions that are still out there, including what was the president doing the night Benghazi happened?" McCain said. Translation: Look, I don't want to do this thing, but I'm totally going to do this thing because it worked the last time. "He needs to answer these questions. And they say, why now? It's the only time we have maximum leverage -- that's just a fact of life around Washington," McCain said. McCain also wants Brennan to address the?waterboarding?answer he gave in his first hearing again. "Mr. Brennan said that he was opposed to waterboarding and torture, but at the same time he said it had saved lives," McCain said. "I'd like to know what lives were saved, because the information I have is it saved no one's life. There's a lot of misinformation."

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Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks it's pretty gross how some people dragged Chuck Hagel's name through the mud during his confirmation process. On Fox News Sunday, she acknowledged that Hagel didn't do well in his hearing, but argued there's been enough belly aching and he should be allowed to do his job already. "Did [Hagel] have the best day that day? Of course not," McCaskill said. "But having said that, he?s qualified [and] I think it?s despicable the way his character has been impugned by other people." She thinks it's about time Hagel be confirmed. "It?s time for us to come together and unite behind him so he can do the best job possible," McCaskill said.?

Rep. Mike Rogers is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and also a Republican. He's not excited about this sequester business, not one bit, for it means bad things for the Defense departement. On ABC's This Week, Rogers argued for some flexibility to allow departments to try and lighten the blow should the sequester axe fall. "There will be an impact on national security, there's no doubt," Rogers said. "So it's really only 2 cents on the dollar over the whole federal budget, but they've scrunched that down into seven months and highlighted, or at least put most of the burden, on the Defense Department.?So that is going to have an impact."

Sen. Patrick Leahy said the Senate will eventually?have some kind of gun bill passed on State of the Union. "I think we will,"?the Vermont Democrat said. But it's going to have to require some team work, something the Senate and the House haven't received very much praise for recently. "I don't want it to be a partisan bill -- I'm working with both Republicans and Democrats," he said. "Unless we work with both Republicans and Democrats, we'll pass nothing." But Leahy implied Republicans are holding out for new border security measures before a gun legislation will ever pass, something he thinks they need to give up on. "If you say there must be total [border] security before we can move forward, that's never going to happen," Leahy said. "This administration, the Obama administration, spent more on border security than any administration in history - there are still going to be some people getting through."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan attacked lawmakers for the never-ending fiscal game that's putting pressure on school districts to constantly expects cuts in federal spending and leading to teachers losing their jobs on CBS' Face the Nation. "There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall," Duncan said. Some school districts are already laying people off because they expect Congress and the Senate to let the sequester happen, which would cut federal funding. These are teachers. Won't someone think of the children? "We don't have any ability with dumb cuts like this to figure out what the right thing to do is," Duncan said. "It just means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services and opportunities they need, and as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs." What's at the forefront of Duncan's argument is that avoiding the sequester shouldn't be this hard. "The fact that this is so easily avoidable is why I'm so angry," he said. "If folks would just work together, compromise, find the middle ground, we wouldn't put districts and families and children through this much trauma. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever." Duncan said the inability for Republicans and Democrats to work together is the root of his anger. "Sequester was set up to be painful to everybody, recognizing the dysfunction of Congress, to be so painful it would force people to come to the table," Duncan said. "And the fact that people in Congress are so tone-deaf to what's really going on in their districts ... that to me is unimaginable."

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Melissa McCarthy: Los Angeles 'Has Turned Me Into A 90-Year-Old Woman'

Story comes courtesy of Los Angeles Magazine.

By Nancy Miller

I moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1992. I had never been here before. I just kind of showed up. I didn?t have a car and had about $150. My best friend, Jos?, was nice enough to let me share his studio apartment in Santa Monica, which was literally a lean-to?I?m sure it?s been demolished by now. We weren?t in a romantic relationship, but we shared the same full-size bed, which was wedged inside the kitchen area, for almost a year. What?s insane is that we thought nothing of it. I thought everything was great. My older sister Margie had more sense. She came from Illinois to visit me, and since there was nowhere for her to sleep, the three of us now had to share the same bed. In the morning she sat bolt upright and shouted, ?This is not OK!? and I was like, What?s her problem?

I didn?t have a car, so I only took jobs that I could walk to. I worked at the YMCA and at the Starbucks on Montana. One time Chris Farley came into Starbucks, and I lost it. He was the one person I admired so much that every muscle in my body just froze. I could tell he was shy, and I was trying not to freak him out. I just stared at him and thought, Tell him you love him. Tell him you love him. Instead I said, ?Hi, can I help you?? That was it. I couldn?t even process how amazing it was to have him standing in front of me.

The big change for me was joining the Groundlings. It?s where I learned how to write and really act. I remember [comedian-writer] Mike McDonald saying, ?You can?t just be crazy for the sake of crazy. You have to justify why.? That was the missing link I needed?I apply this to everything I do now. The first show I ever went to at the Groundlings was when McDonald, Kathy Griffin, and Jennifer Coolidge were doing improv. My head exploded. They were fearless. There was nothing they wouldn?t do, but they were also excellent technicians of comedy. The next day I started taking classes, and it?s where I spent the next 12 to 13 years of my life. It?s also where I met my husband [Ben Falcone], so that?s pretty good.

Anybody who moves to L.A. is constantly explaining why we live here to other people. The first question is usually, ?Do you like it?? I understand this because I once swore I?d never live here. I was a wild animal when I lived in New York, staying out until four in the morning, then I moved here and started living like a senior citizen. Going to dinner before 9:30 used to be an atrocity to me. I wondered, What kind of savages eat at 6:30? Now Ben and I wait outside a restaurant at 4:15 and I?m looking in the window, pointing at my watch. This city has turned me into a 90-year-old woman. I?m also still a chatty Midwesterner. My big thing here is that people don?t say ?good morning? on the street. That doesn?t make sense. I?m not asking for a hug. Stop acting like a jackass. So now I make eye contact and force people to respond. It?s my personal quest.

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The Lonely Planet Adventure: Florida at its wildest

The Wilderness Waterway is to paddlers what the Appalachian Trail is to hikers: 159km (a minimum seven days of hard paddling) that snakes through one of America's most beautiful and least understood national parks, offering unparalleled wildlife close-ups and stunning scenery every bit of the way. The journey is a bit like paddling back in time through a part of American history ? most of Florida used to look like this before the invention of bulldozers and backhoes enabled the destruction of swampland on an epic scale.

As recently as the early 20th century, a thin sheet of water covered as much as 28,500sq km, creating one of the country's most unique habitats and harbouring unusual animals and plants. Bromeliads, orchids, palms and even hardwood forests thrived, providing habitats for all sorts of animals that nowadays are on the brink of extinction, such as the American crocodile and Florida panthers, which currently number only about 100. The now ubiquitous alligator has a commanding reign over this amazing "River of Grass".

The area was first written about by Hugh L Willoughby in 1898, after he made a west-east crossing of the vast sawgrass prairies in 1897. Save for the chickees (raised wooden platforms for camping), the Wilderness Waterway looks much as it did then. The communities of "Gladesmen" and indigenous tribes may have?gone, but wildlife still rules, and the only form of transport in this roadless expanse remains watercraft: boat, skiff, kayak or canoe.

The Everglades National Park was established in 1947 to protect this serene and wild ecosystem. Interestingly, the park's creation was in large part due to the efforts of a developer, Ernest F Coe. He envisioned an expanse of 2,000,000 acres and was so adamant about these boundaries (which even included Key Largo) that the creation of the park was almost scuttled completely. Even so, it remains the largest protected area east of the Mississippi River.

The adventure unfolds

The put-in for a west-east journey starts at the Gulf Coast Visitor Center in Everglades City. Clearly marked signs then guide paddlers across the waterways, lagoons, inlets and sawgrass prairies, with camping on beaches or chickees.

The journey goes through almost all the ecosystems the park has to offer, starting with miles of mangroves and tannin-stained water. Little blue herons and snowy egrets erupt with squawks from the shallows as your vessel slips by, the verdant mangroves subduing the sounds of paddling. The mangroves slowly melt into coastal estuary, where salt and brackish water mix, and manatee and sea turtle sightings are common. Here one can look out across Florida Bay at the Ten Thousand Islands. All but a handful of these islands are uninhabited. While many are open to campers, it's vital to obtain park permission prior to embarking on your trip and to stick to designated areas.

Gradually you'll trade the bay for sawgrass prairie: seemingly never-ending stretches of waist- to head-high grass like the prairies out west, except here they grow out of a paddy that's dry only in certain areas and at certain times of the year. At the highest points you'll find tropical hardwood "hammocks" (stands of trees) which support larger mammals ? look for deer, feral pigs, raccoons and (for the very lucky) a glimpse of the endangered Florida panther.

During the last days of the journey, camping is on chickees, which require some careful manoeuvring and preparation for tide, wind and current so as to not damage the canoes. Capable and experienced paddlers will find the seven to eight days as rewarding as a canoe trip can be.

Detour

A worthwhile side trip is to Big Cypress National Preserve, which borders part of Everglades National Park. One quick peek and you'll see why there's a line between the two: massive cypress trees blanketed with Spanish moss (a kind of lichen) create a totally different ecosystem from the Sawgrass Prairie and low-lying keys, yet this too is primarily swampland. Canoe any of the five NPS Big Cypress day trips or ask at the ranger station if you plan a longer stay.

This is an extract from 'Great Adventures', from Lonely Planet (?29.99). Readers can buy a copy for ?25, including UK P&P, by going to shop.lonelyplanet.com

Distance: 159km

Location: Everglades National Park, Florida, United States Time commitment: One week

Essential tip: Watch out for alligators

Essential Experiences

* Marvelling at unbroken vistas of sawgrass prairie as you glide through mangrove channels, lakes and lagoons.

* Encountering close up a host of birds and animals that many people never see.

* Enjoying the utter stillness that comes from being as far away from motorised vehicle traffic as one can be.

* Paddling around Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, all but a handful uninhabited.

* Camping on chickee stilt platforms at nightfall beneath a canopy of glittering stars.

* Travelling through one of America's most epic waterways that ? thankfully ? has been pristinely preserved, affording a look at what most of Florida looked like for millennia.

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Registration begins for public observation of appeal in renewable energy disputes

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At the request of the participants ? Canada, Japan, and the European Union ? the Appellate Body Division in these appellate proceedings has decided to open the oral hearing to public observation by WTO?Members and the general public via simultaneous closed-circuit television broadcast to a separate viewing room. The oral hearing will take place on Thursday, 14 March and Friday, 15?March 2013.

In the light of limited seating capacity, the places reserved for the public will be allocated on a first come, first served basis upon receipt of the completed registration form. Completed forms should be sent by e?mail only to the following address: ABRegistration@wto.org. Applications will be accepted until 5?p.m., Geneva time, Tuesday, 5 March 2013. Those to whom seats have been allocated will be advised by e-mail by Friday, 7 March 2013, at which time further information regarding the hearing will be provided. Those attending will need to present valid identification (official photo ID) to access the viewing room. Please note that no audio/video recording will be permitted. Portable phones and other such devices must be switched off throughout the hearing. Security checks may delay access to the viewing room.

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Aspiring Rapper Kenny Clutch Killed In Vegas Drive-By (VIDEOS)

Aspiring Rapper Kenny Clutch Killed In Vegas Drive-By (VIDEOS)

The driver of a Maserati who was killed in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip on Thursday bragged about stashing a gun in his Maserati in his music video. Kenneth Cherry, aka Kenny Clutch, was killed when men inside a black Range Rover opened fire on his car while he was sitting at ...

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2013 Sorauren soccer and t-ball registration starts March 6 ...

Due to an error, the Sorauren kids? soccer, t-ball and t-rex ball programs at Sorauren Park this spring were not included in the Toronto Fun Guide. HAVE NO FEAR: the great sports programs are happening this year, beginning in May as usual.

Registration starts Wednesday, March 6 (Sorauren is in the Toronto and East York district). On March 6 and afterwards, you can register online, by telephone (automated or through an operator), or in person at the Parkdale Community Recreation Centre in Parkdale PS on Lansdowne Avenue.

Make sure you have your City Client number and Family number prior to registering. Call a customer service representative from 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday, at 416-338-4386 to set up your account today if you don?t already have one.

Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation handles all registration, while local volunteer parents provide coaching and fundraising for t-shirts and trophies. Volunteering is a great way to support your kids and connect with the community.

We?ll publish more details on this new Sorauren Park Sports Association website as the season progresses.

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'Space Shuttle Atlantis' exhibit opens June 29

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The new logo for the "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit is unveiled by astronaut Jon McBride (left), Delaware North President Rick Abramson and Bill Moore, chief operating officer of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday,

By Robert Z. Pearlman
Space.com

NASA's final space shuttle to fly in space will be exhibited to the public in a facility that bears simply the retired orbiter's name, officials announced on Thursday.

NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, which will host the retired shuttle Atlantis, also revealed the logo for its new 90,000 square-foot, $100 million "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit, which will be used on monument signage at the entrance and on a variety of retail merchandise, marketing and promotional materials when the building opens to the public on June 29.

"Although the multimillion-dollar interactive exhibit encompasses much, much more than the display of Atlantis, there is no denying she is truly the star of the show," said Bill Moore, chief operating officer of the visitor complex.

NASA retired its veteran shuttle fleet in July 2011, after Atlantis flew the 30-year shuttle program's 135th and final mission. The space agency then awarded the orbiters?to museums and science centers in Virginia, New York and California, but decided to keep Atlantis for its own Florida spaceport public attraction.

NASA and Delaware NorthCompanies Parks and Resorts, the company contracted by the space agency to operate the visitor complex at no taxpayer expense, worked with the St. Louis design firm PGAV Destinations to develop the name and logo for Atlantis' display.

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Space shuttle Atlantis, as seen shrink wrapped and angled for its display in the "Space Shuttle Atlantis" building, on Thursday.

Hundreds of name combinations were considered but the parties agreed that the name needed to convey "emotion, fun, excitement and inspiration," and should be easy for adults and children to understand, repeat and remember. Ultimately, the partners chose to go with a simple name that they felt resonated the most powerfully with guests: Space Shuttle Atlantis. [Rare Last Look Inside Shuttle Atlantis (Photos)]

'Space Shuttle Atlantis'
"We know that this majestic beauty, which safely ferried men and women to space and back on 33 successful missions, is the real reason that our guests will travel thousands of miles, across oceans and across continents to visit Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to see her in all her glory," Moore said of Atlantis.

"There are no words to accurately describe the emotions and insights guests will gain when this attraction opens this summer, for there has truly never been anything like it before. Therefore, we decided to be true to the heart and soul of the exhibit and name it simply and reverently, 'Space Shuttle Atlantis,'" he said.

According to Mike Konzen with PGAV Destinations, the exhibit's logo was created using a gradient of fiery oranges to represent the space shuttle's launch and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. These symbolic colors were also used in the metallic "swish" to represent the re-entry of the shuttle on the outside of the orbiter's new building.

The light-to-dark range in the logo's lettering is meant to convey the excitement and drama of the shuttle program while the iconic silhouette of the orbiter, or shuttle, is used to represent the "A" in Atlantis. The NASA insignia ? or, as it is affectionately referred to, the "meatball" ? serves as a reminder in the logo of the "pride and patriotism" in America's space program, while "Kennedy Space Center" pays tribute to the birthplace of the United States' spaceflight efforts and the launch site for each of the shuttle program's 135 missions.

Milestones moving forward
The visitor complex broke ground for the "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit in January 2012. Atlantis itself was rolled the short distance from its former Kennedy Space Center processing facilities to its display facility 11 months later.

Thursday's reveal of the name and logo, as well as the opening date, marked the latest milestone since Atlantis arrived in the six-story building, was raised off the ground on its display pedestals and then was wrapped in plastic to protect it from gathering dust as the final construction of the building and exhibit continued.

The next milestone is scheduled to begin next month, with the installation of full-scale replicas of the shuttle external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters at the entry to the "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit. These components of the space shuttle "stack" will serve as a gateway, with guests walking beneath the massive orange tank, which will be suspended 24 feet (7 meters) above the ground and will be mounted between the two white rocket boosters that reach 185 feet (56 meters) into the air.

Installation of the entryway structure is slated to be completed by June.

Construction continues on schedule inside the exhibit as well. In May, Atlantis will be uncovered from its protective shrink wrap. The orbiter'scargo bay doors will be opened and a full-scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope will be installed inside the building along with some 60 other exhibits and artifacts.

Atlantis' replica Canadarm robotic manipulator, or arm, will also be extended and suspended from the 115-foot tall (35 meter) ceiling.

The "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit presents the shuttle at a tilt of 43.21 degrees, showcasing Atlantis as if it were in space. Guests will view Atlantis as only the astronauts from its 33 missions have previously had a chance to see it from their vantage aboard the International Space Station.

See shuttles.collectspace.com?for continuing coverage of the delivery and display of NASA's retired space shuttles.

Follow collectSpace on Facebook and Twitter @collectSpaceand editor Robert Pearlman @robertpearlman. Copyright 2012?collectSpace.com. All rights reserved.

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Die Arzte: Cpt. Metal

In a world overrun by bubblegum pop and easy listening, where all hope for head-banging seems lost, there's only one man that can save us: Captain Metal, the arpeggio-spewing, poser-crushing, Flying V-riding dark lord of Rock. Together with his legion of chicken minions and arsenal of Gibson rockets, Celine Dion doesn't stand a chance. More »

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This Is What It Will Look Like When You Wear Project Glass

Google has just released a video which shows off the UI for its Glass project—and it looks kinda neat. More »

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Google Reportedly In Talks With Warby Parker To Design Stylish Google Glass Frames

Google is reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make glasses that look less like Geordi La Forge's eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person in the early 21st century would be happy to put on his or her face. A New York Times story cites unnamed sources who say that Google is negotiating with the NYC-based e-commerce startup to help it create fashionable frames (both companies declined to confirm the report).

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Branstad aims to lure California businesses to Iowa, will use tax-cut pitch

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that he's heading to California in an effort to get West Coast businesses to consider setting up shop in Iowa.

Calling California a ?happy hunting ground,? Branstad said he will travel there this week, but the Republican declined to name the businesses he'll be courting.

?What we do, we call on companies that already have an investment here, and we call companies that are prospects,? Branstad said, arguing that Iowa's efforts to reduce commercial taxes should make it attractive. ?Their plan is if it doesn't move, tax it.?

California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, was critical of a recent effort by Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to lure California companies, dismissing it as a political stunt. Riley Robbins, spokesman for Brown's Office of Business and Economic Development, said studies show that such recruiting trips have no real impact on the state's economy.

?They're expecting up to 10 inches of snow in Iowa this week,? Robbins said. ?If I was the governor, I'd plan a trip to California, too.?

Branstad said he wasn't worried that Brown would try a similar recruiting effort in Iowa.

?He's welcome to come any time he wants. Last time I saw him in Iowa, he came here in December to the Farm Bureau convention without a coat. Most people said, this guy, he doesn't have a clue,? Branstad said, referring to Brown's 1992 bid for president, his third attempt at the office.

Branstad is scheduled to travel to California today and return Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the Iowa Economic Development Authority said that Branstad will be accompanied by two staffers and that travel for all three will cost an estimated $2,500.

Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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WTB: Android Smartphone GSM

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High-End Home Market Improving - 8 News NOW

LAS VEGAS -- A national report paints a positive picture for the housing market. January marked the 19th consecutive month with home sales higher than the same month in the previous year, according to the Re-Max National Housing Report.

Real estate agents and custom home builders say there is one sector of the new home construction market doing well and that is multi-million dollar homes.

"Through these double doors this extends into the master bath and in here we have an exercise room," said Jamie Lium, the managing broker for Shapiro & Sher Group, as she shows the selling points of one high-end home.

A fireplace in the bathroom and an in-home movie theater are out of most people's price range.

"We've had a lot of increase in interest and activity," Lium said. "It's just amazing what we're seeing out there in terms of people ...? serious about buying."

She says business is up 30 percent. Shapiro & Sher Group, a real estate company teams up with new home builders like Merlin Contracting to create estates worth between $1 million and $20 million.

"We're actually talking to a client later today who owns a property in Lone Mountain," said Chief Financial Officer Bart Jones of Merlin Contracting.

Each of the construction projects employs dozens of contractors which is positive news for an industry hit hard by the recession.?

?"The little work there is, is all I can count on to keep going," said David Peterson, owner of David Peterson Framing, Inc.

He was almost put out of business during the recession and saw his 50-man crew dropped to seven. The increase in construction of the multi-million dollar homes is giving him hope.

"We've recently done a 48,000 square foot home and it had about 125 workers on it," he said.

The extra work has allowed him to hire eight more workers.?

According to the Re-Max National Housing Report, Las Vegas' median price for a home went up about 28 percent from last year.

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Microsoft ? Surface Windows 8 Pro with 64gb Memory

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Supports the full Office experience
Run Outlook, Word, SharePoint Designer, PowerPoint and more. (Office applications sold separately.)
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Precision crafted to be tough yet elegant, without excessive bulk. With a watchlike finish that?s incredibly smooth and durable, Surface is a delight to hold and touch.
Integrated Kickstand
Provides uncompromised support and flexibility. Flip out the Kickstand for hands-free entertainment. Whether you?re watching a movie, or shooting video, Surface stands on its own.
Pen input
Included stylus pen lets you jot down ideas anytime, anywhere. Crafted to work with Surface, it?s a stylish way to edit, collaborate and do your signature work.
Ports and connectivity
Add up to 64GB of extra storage using the microSD card slot. Watch movies, show photos, or present your work on the big screen through the video out port. Has full-size USB port for data transfers.
Built-in Wi-Fi capability
802.11b/g/n wireless LAN and dual 2?2 MIMO antennas provide reliable Internet connectivity.
Front- and rear-facing 720p HD video cameras
Rear camera is angled to shoot straight ahead when the Kickstand is flipped out. The Kickstand also enables hands-free Skype video chat or recording.
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microSDXC card slot available.
Bluetooth 4.0 compatible
Easily link with other Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as a wireless keyboard, mouse and other accessories.
Weighs 2 lbs. and measures just 0.5? thin
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Discover PA Business: March 17 CONSOL Energy

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CONSOL Energy is one of the nation?s leading diversified energy companies.? CONSOL?s more than 9000 employees help generate the fuels- coal and natural gas- that comprise two-thirds of the nation?s power supply.? In this episode, viewers are taken on a tour of both the bituminous mining?and natural gas operations.? PCN also speaks with Nick DeIuliis, President of CONSOL Energy, about the company?s safety and environmental protocols, as well as the challenges and goals of this southwestern Pennsylvania business.

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Join Us On Twitter As We Live Tweet On Finding Bigfoot: Indonesia's Little Bigfoot Episode Tonight (With Live Images!)

Tonight's episode of Finding Bigfoot starts at 7PM PST. Join us on Twitter as we discuss tonight's episode live!

"The Finding Bigfoot team journeys to the island of Sumatra in search of Indonesia's elusive orang pendek, venutring into the unfamiliar jungle in hopes of proving this mythical creature is in fact real."

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93% Amour

All Critics (165) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (153) | Rotten (12)

Trintignant perfectly captures the resolve that eventually borders on obsession, as the woman he loves gradually, maddeningly, disappears before his eyes, and he does whatever he can to prevent it, though he knows it's impossible.

Many viewers will find echoes of their grandparents, parents, or even themselves in these characters.

A movie that is utterly worthy of its all-encompassing title.

The resulting interplay of ruthless restraint and unavoidable passion, plus the film's refusal to shrink from depicting the inevitable horrors of physical deterioration, is devastating.

In many ways it's the best horror film I've ever seen. At the same time, it's hard to recommend; I believe I will be struggling to forget this film as long as I live. I doubt I'll succeed.

As remarkable as Haneke's films are, not a one has been as transcendently generous as Amour, which is nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best foreign-language film.

My review is categorized as 'favourable' not because I enjoyed the film (that's not Michael Haneke's intent) but because I recognise what he is trying to say and that he says it with a unique cinematic voice

Debilitation and loss of control is a harsh topic, yet Haneke's film is surprisingly gentle, exploring the constraints and options faced, as old age delivers its ultimate blow - the loss of self and ability to function with dignity

Amour is a pure depiction of love, in all its many forms.

The furthest thing from sweet sorrow imaginable, Amour gets real about the pain of parting in every sense of the word.

This subject matter is ripe for sentimentalization, but Haneke resists it at every turn, opting instead for unflinching honesty. It is the economy of theme paired with the subtle richness of character that make Amour so powerful.

Clearly, Amour, Michael Haneke and Emmanuelle Riva don't really need me to additionally sing their praises (although praise is indeed all I have), so let's discuss Jean-Louis Trintignant for a moment.

All is presented in Haneke's exacting style, one that I find controlling and a bit, well, smothering.

An insightful, memorable film about what it means to love.

A tale about love at its most terribly, backbreakingly difficult.

In many ways, it's a horror film, as the woman descends into helplessness, and - like the audience - the man can only watch. It's a potent piece of filmmaking.

The superb Trintignant and the Oscar-nominated Riva -- who would win, in a just world -- embody once-vigorous people in inevitable decline.

For Haneke, love is just another curious human trait to be dissected and used as a tool to disquiet his audience.

A poignant tale of undying love!

Beautifully acted and unflinching, Amour goes where few movies have the courage to

Riva's performance is undeniably magnificent, as she must chart every step of Anne's physical and mental deteriorating with exacting precision.

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