Larrow, three others no longer with Rutgers football

Michael Larrow, who was quietly dismissed from the Rutgers football team for disciplinary reasons earlier this month, was arrested for the second time in 10 months Sunday night in New Brunswick.

An attempt to obtain the police report was not immediately successful but Rutgers coach Kyle Flood confirmed the arrest Monday while announcing several roster changes, including the early enrollment of four members of the 2013 recruiting class.

Larrow, a Union High School graduate, was suspended for the first four games of last season ? his fourth with the program ? for a violation of team policy. He was charged in July 2012 with simple assault and disorderly conduct for a domestic incident. The female victim subsequently declined to press charges and they were dropped.

?At the time that was one of the harshest suspensions that I could remember in my time at Rutgers,? Flood said. ?I felt that it was warranted and it sent the right message to the team. I don?t really have any regrets about disciplining him more harshly than I did because I felt like I had disciplined him quite a bit. My concerns are for the kid as he goes forward. I hope he can get himself straightened out.

The 6-foot-4, 270-pound Larrow, who started five games at defensive end during the 2011 season before suffering a season-ending ankle injury, appeared in just one game after returning from suspension. With one year of eligibility remaining, he was moved to tight end during bowl practices.

?It?s been hard but I have to move past it,? Larrow said in October after he was reinstated to the team. ?It was a learning experience and I realized what I did was wrong.?

Larrow has not been part of the Rutgers program since May 6 and was looking for a transfer destination.

In addition to Larrow, punter Anthony DiPaula and offensive linemen Matt McBride and Jorge Vicioso are no longer with the team.

DiPaula, who failed to make a mark during an open competition in spring camp, is expected to transfer to a lower-level program and Vicioso is considering doing the same. McBride, a Hofstra transfer, has graduated and is uncertain whether he will play a fifth year at an FCS school ? he sat out spring camp after undergoing shoulder surgery ? or pursue a career in law enforcement.

Four freshmen ? defensive back Bryant Gross-Armiento, linebacker Nick Internicola, wide receiver Taylor Marini and tight end John Tsimis ? will begin classes Tuesday and thus be eligible to participate in summer workouts.

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Germany's uncomfortable role as Europe's 'economic police'

Since World War II, Germany has preferred to stay out of international leadership roles. But the eurocrisis has put the country at Europe's head ? with all the criticism that entails.

By Sara Miller Llana,?Staff writer / May 16, 2013

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a discussion panel on 'making Europe strong' during the Europe forum conference in Berlin Thursday. Germany has consciously avoided a leadership role in Europe since the end of World War II, but the eurocrisis has put it in the limelight ? with all the criticism that brings.

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Germans in the postwar era, on the other hand, have preferred to blend into the background.

But amid Europe's sovereign debt crisis, as Germany's healthy economy has put it at the head of the 27-member European Union, that's been proving impossible. And now Germans are dealing with the criticism that accompanies being a regional ? if unwilling ? hegemon.

While a recent Pew poll shows Germany to be considered by many countries to be the most trustworthy nation in Europe, it has also accrued new enemies far and wide, with Greeks burning German flags or picketing with signs of German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in Nazi uniform. There have even been?claims from France that Germans are out to rule the Continent.

?We have made a lot of commitment to help those people,? says Markus, a musical theater stage producer, in Berlin?s Alexanderplatz, a public square and major transportation hub in Germany?s capital Berlin. ?It?s really unfair.?

It?s also untrue ? at least the part about Germany wanting continental dominion, say German and European observers. Instead, the avoidance of tough positions in foreign policy, so Germany is not led into a moral dilemma, is ingrained in the postwar mentality, they say.

?There is no appetite for domination. Germany has been pushed into this position by default,? says Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe in Brussels for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ?There is no ambition to shape the continent in the image of Germany.?

?Germans want to be liked by the rest of the world,? says Michael Wohlgemuth, director of Open Europe Berlin. ?Germany feels uneasy in its new powerful role. We don?t want to be leaders of Europe.?

Outside the US embassy in Berlin, Erkan Arikan says that Germany is being unfairly maligned in Europe. But he says he can also laugh it off, as a German of Turkish descent in a multicultural Germany that has nothing to do with the 1930s.

He says that he can see some parallels between the hegemonic positions of Germany and the US today, but there is a limit. ?The US is still the world police for everyone; Germany doesn?t want to be the focus,? he says. ?But maybe it?s becoming the economic police of Europe.?

It?s a role that many Germans might feel uncomfortable playing, especially with the bad will that can breed.

If Americans don?t like the term ?ugly American,? Germans like it even less.

Ulrike Gu?rot of the European Council of Foreign Relations says when she travels around the country and talks to everyday Germans, they are starting to ask, ?Are we responsible for this youth unemployment in Spain? There is an uneasiness they they are just starting to feel,? she says. ?They don?t want to be the ?ugly German.??

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Surprising No One, Twitter Is An Arrested Development Explosion

The Netflix-only fourth season of Arrested Development went live at 3 a.m. EST this morning, and if you didn't see the Twitter deluge coming, well, you're one of these people:

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Britain to target radical Muslim preachers after soldier's killing

By Peter Griffiths

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government, facing criticism over the killing of a soldier by suspected Islamists in a London street, is to set up a new group to combat radical Muslim preachers and others whose words could encourage violence.

Prime Minister David Cameron's office said on Sunday the group aimed to fight radicalism in schools and mosques, tighten checks on inflammatory internet material, and disrupt the "poisonous narrative" of hardline clerics.

"It will assess the range of strategies to disrupt individuals who may be influential in fostering extremism. It needs to confront those religious leaders who promote violence head on," it said in a statement.

The killing of soldier Lee Rigby, hacked to death near his London barracks on Wednesday, fuelled public anger about radical Islam. It has also raised questions over whether more could have done more to prevent the attack and put pressure on Cameron to tackle suspected militants more forcefully.

Witnesses said the soldier's killers shouted Islamist slogans during the attack. Bystanders filmed one of the suspects saying it was in revenge for Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospital after being shot and arrested on suspicion of murder. Media reports said Adebolajo handed out extremist literature and made "rambling and intense" street lectures.

Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May said thousands were at risk of being radicalized.

"You have people who are at different points on what could be a path to violent extremism," May told the BBC. "We need to look at the laws."

Opposition Labour lawmaker Hazel Blears said people vulnerable to radicals were spotted too late and government cuts had weakened the fight against them. She told the Observer newspaper the government had "abandoned the territory".

Former British prime minister Tony Blair tried to tighten rules against hate preachers after the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 commuters. The measures stirred a long debate about how to balance free speech and civil rights with a strong counter-terrorism strategy.

Religious campaign group Faith Matters said Rigby's death had led to a big rise in reports of attacks on Muslims.

Up to 2,000 people attended a demonstration in Newcastle, northern England, organized by the far-right English Defence League on Saturday. Demonstrators shouted "RIP Lee Rigby" and "Whose streets? Our streets?"

'LONE WOLVES'

Three more men were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Asked whether the suspects were "lone wolves" or part of a wider group, May said signs suggested they were acting alone.

A parliamentary committee is examining the security services' handling of the case. Security sources said the two suspects were known to them but were not seen as a serious threat.

A friend of Adebolajo made unsubstantiated claims on the BBC on Friday that intelligence officers tried to recruit the suspect six months ago.

Asked whether the security services had contacted the men, May told the BBC: "Their job is about gathering intelligence. They do that from a variety of sources and they will do that in a variety of ways. And yes, they will approach individuals from time to time."

French police were investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier patrolling west of Paris on Saturday was a copycat crime.

(Additional reporting Nicolas Bertin in Paris; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-target-radical-muslim-preachers-soldiers-killing-115616337.html

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Editor column: Challenges of breaking news, and changing ...

A colleague remarked last week that what we do isn?t science. He was referring to making decisions as news breaks, details emerge and we learn more of the truth.

Naming juveniles who have been accused of crimes has been a topic of discussion in our newsroom ? and in this column ? in recent days and weeks, what with the death of soccer referee Ricardo Portillo after allegedly being punched by a 17-year-old player.

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3rd place ? Lisa Schencker, Kyle Goon and Melinda Rogers, sports reporting

The Salt Lake Tribune has chosen to not identify the player as his case remains in juvenile court. The policy is based on the premise that someone who is not yet an adult deserves a degree of protection for making mistakes that may be, at least in part, the result of their immaturity and will affect them for the rest of their lives. If the teenager is certified as an adult for trial, we will name him.

Our own policy placed us in a problematic position when news broke Wednesday night that two young boys were found murdered in their West Point home, and their brother was missing.

Taking the lead from police, we published online that night and in print the next morning the name and photograph of the 15-year-old, who initially was thought to possibly be in danger but who had been found by midnight. Editors discussed whether or not to publish the identifying information and decided the potential benefits (finding the boy) outweighed the possible downside (that he was involved in the crime).

Then the story changed. Police identified him as the primary suspect in the homicide Thursday morning. We removed his photograph and name from our online coverage. His name does not appear in Friday?s print story. We explained to readers that we had identified the boy in earlier stories, as he initially was the subject of a missing-person investigation by police.

We realize by doing this we are trying to ? pick your clich? ? unring the bell, put the genie back in the bottle. The boy?s name is out there. Other news media will continue to name him, and his identity likely remains somewhere in cyberspace, attached to a Tribune story, and it is in Thursday?s print edition.

But we?ve done the best we can to follow a policy we believe is sound. Juveniles are a special case and deserving of special consideration. They are still children. As in the case of the soccer player, if the courts decide the 15-year-old will be tried as an adult, we will follow suit and publish his name.

No, this isn?t science.

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Awards ? Spring is contest season for journalists, and Tribune reporters, photographers and editors are getting their share and more of prizes. In the Utah Press Association awards, handed out in March, The Tribune took 13 first-place awards, 29 awards overall and swept all awards in five categories: general news, investigative reporting, feature reporting, sports reporting and sports columns. The newspaper also took the top award for general excellence.

More recently, The Tribune excelled in the regional Top of the Rockies and Best of the West contests, which include newspapers from throughout the West.

In Top of the Rockies, our website, sltrib.com, took the general excellence award. We took first place for our news reporting, health care reporting, arts and entertainment criticism and reporting, spot news photography, humor columns, general and enterprise business reporting. We swept first, second and third in enterprise reporting on legal issues. Our designers took first places for their front pages, feature pages and sports pages.

In Best of the West, we took the top awards in growth and environment reporting, arts and entertainment writing and editorial cartooning.

Awards are nice, particularly when the competition includes newsrooms from throughout the region, many larger than ours. It?s a chance to reflect on a job well done. But we know the real judge is you, readers of The Salt Lake Tribune.

Terry Orme is a Tribune managing editor. Reach him at orme@sltrib.com.

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Hertz stock could rise 70 percent in two years: Barron's

(Reuters) - Car rental company Hertz Global Holdings Inc is poised for a long run of earnings and revenue growth and the stock could be worth 70 percent more in two years, the Barron's financial news weekly said in its May 27 edition.

The car rental industry, tied closely to airline traffic and hotel bookings, is seeing strong volumes, helped by a recovery in business travel in the United States. Hertz, which primarily serves corporate customers, is also benefiting from the acquisition of Dollar Thrifty, a big player in the leisure and lower-priced rental market.

Hertz, No. 2 in the car rental market behind privately held Enterprise, will gain from domestic travel which is expected to hit a record high this year, Barron's said.

"Consolidation should bring firmer pricing to the industry and a recent acquisition should allow Hertz to pursue new growth opportunities across more brands," Barron's said.

In the past decade, the number of major car rental companies has dropped from six to three.

In the first quarter, Hertz brand rental rates at airports rose 5.3 percent, Barron's said.

Park Ridge, New Jersey-based Hertz forecasts that revenue, which rose 8.7 percent last year to $9.02 billion, will climb as much as 13.5 percent annually through 2015, and that earnings will come in at $3.10 to $3.30 a share. Apply last week's multiple of 13 times current earnings to that forecast, and the stock is worth $43, Barron's says.

Hertz shares, up about 50 percent this year, closed at $25.20 on Friday.

Hertz does face the challenge of replacing and disposing of cars, and no one is quite sure how Japan's newly cheap yen will affect the prices of new and used vehicles, Barron's said.

(Reporting by Ellen Freilich in New York)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hertz-stock-could-rise-70-percent-two-years-233757105.html

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China Has Their Own Stealth Drone

This is China's stealth combat drone, an airplane that seems very similar to the American Northrop Grumman X-47B. The unmanned combat air vehicle was photographed while performing taxiing tests. Given the development speed of China's other military airplanes, it wouldn't be surprising to see this in flight in the next few weeks.

According to China Defense Blog, it was initially labeled to be a project by "college students" for the 601 Aircraft Design Institute/Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Clearly, it's much more than that.

It seems obvious that China's military complex is advancing at a higher pace than many in the West would like to believe. It is not comparable to the United States yet, but the technology matching may be a matter of years and not decades. And it has already happened in the cyber war front. [China Defense Blog]

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Turkey: 1 killed, 24 injured in balloon crash

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Two hot air balloons collided mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey on Monday, causing one of them to crash to the ground, officials said. One Brazilian tourist was killed while 24 other people on board were injured.

The ascending balloon struck another balloon's wicker basket above it, causing a tear that sent it plunging to the ground, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The passengers on board the balloon that crashed were mostly tourists from Asia, Spain and Brazil, according to Abdurrahman Savas, the governor of Nevsehir province. Many had fractured bones and one of them, an elderly passenger, was in serious condition.

The balloons were flying above scenic canyons and volcanic cones of the Cappadocia region, a popular tourist destination some 300 kilometers (190 miles) from the capital, Ankara. Cappadocia is famed for its "fairy chimney" volcanic cones and its subterranean cities carved out of soft stone.

It was the second fatal accident in Cappadocia since balloon sightseeing tours were launched there more than a decade ago. In 2009, a British tourist died when two balloons also collided mid-air.

In February, a balloon caught fire and crashed in Egypt, killing 19 tourists.

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Multiple injuries, fatalities in Cambodian shoe factory collapse

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ? Part of a shoe factory in Cambodia collapsed while several dozen workers were inside the building early Thursday, and police say two bodies have been pulled out of the wreckage.

At least six people were injured in the factory and it's unclear how many people still are under the collapsed area, Police officer Khem Pannara said. The factory is south of the capital, Phnom Penh.

A 25-year-old worker, Kong Thary said "pieces of bricks and iron started falling on us." She escaped with injuries.

The garment industry is Cambodia's biggest export earner. In 2012, more than $4 billion worth of products were shipped to the United States and Europe.

About 500,000 people work in more than 500 factories making garment and athletic clothing, including shoes, throughout the country.

The accident comes about three weeks after a building collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,127 people in the global garment industry's deadliest disaster. Bangladesh is the third-biggest exporter of clothes in the world, after China and Italy.

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Tiny water creepy crawlies from South Korea and the Russian Far East

May 15, 2013 ? Water mites of the family Torrenticolidae are tiny, heavily sclerotized and crawling water creatures presently known from all continents except Antarctica. More than 400 species are described so far but this is expected to be only a minor pars of their diversity, especially in the tropical areas where the family is most species abundant. Until recently only one species was known from South Korea, and five from the Russian Far East. A recent study, published in the open access journal Zookeys, adds up to the diversity in this regions with 2 new to science species and 5 described from South Korea for the first time.

The two new species Torrenticola kimichungi and Monatractides abei, have been described from South Korea and the Russian Far East as a part of the project aimed at uncovering Korean invertebrate diversity, and led by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR). The species have been named to commemorate the contributions of two scientist Drs Il-Hoi Kim and Kyung-Sook Chung and Dr Hiroshi Abe for their extensive studies in the area of water mites.

"Water mites are a diverse and widespread but still neglected group of freshwater fauna. In natural streams, species diversity of water mites is generally rather high and may reach, or occasionally even exceed, 50 species at single collecting site, often most of these are torrenticolid mites. Torrenticolid mites avoid habitats with silty substrata and intermittent flow, and their study can give valuable information on the ecological characteristics of the areas with an unstable surface water regime," says the lead author Vladimir Pe?i?, Department of Biology, University of Montenegro.

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Black hole powered jets plow into galaxy

May 15, 2013 ? This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF's Very Large Array (pink).

This multi-wavelength view shows 4C+29.30, a galaxy located some 850 million light years from Earth. The radio emission comes from two jets of particles that are speeding at millions of miles per hour away from a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The estimated mass of the black hole is about 100 million times the mass of our Sun. The ends of the jets show larger areas of radio emission located outside the galaxy.

The X-ray data show a different aspect of this galaxy, tracing the location of hot gas. The bright X-rays in the center of the image mark a pool of million-degree gas around the black hole. Some of this material may eventually be consumed by the black hole, and the magnetized, whirlpool of gas near the black hole could in turn, trigger more output to the radio jet.

Most of the low-energy X-rays from the vicinity of the black hole are absorbed by dust and gas, probably in the shape of a giant doughnut around the black hole. This doughnut, or torus blocks all the optical light produced near the black hole, so astronomers refer to this type of source as a hidden or buried black hole. The optical light seen in the image is from the stars in the galaxy.

The bright spots in X-ray and radio emission on the outer edges of the galaxy, near the ends of the jets, are caused by extremely high energy electrons following curved paths around magnetic field lines. They show where a jet generated by the black hole has plowed into clumps of material in the galaxy (mouse over the image for the location of these bright spots). Much of the energy of the jet goes into heating the gas in these clumps, and some of it goes into dragging cool gas along the direction of the jet. Both the heating and the dragging can limit the fuel supply for the supermassive black hole, leading to temporary starvation and stopping its growth. This feedback process is thought to cause the observed correlation between the mass of the supermassive black hole and the combined mass of the stars in the central region or bulge or a galaxy.

These results were reported in two different papers. The first, which concentrated on the effects of the jets on the galaxy, is available online and was published in the May 10, 2012 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. It is led by Aneta Siemiginowska from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA and the co-authors are ?ukasz Stawarz, from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Yoshinodai, Japan; Teddy Cheung from the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC; Thomas Aldcroft from CfA; Jill Bechtold from University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ; Douglas Burke from CfA; Daniel Evans from CfA; Joanna Holt from Leiden University in Leiden, The Netherlands; Marek Jamrozy from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland; and Giulia Migliori from CfA. The second, which concentrated on the supermassive black hole, is available online and was published in the October 20, 2012 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. It is led by Malgorzata Sobolewska from CfA, and the co-authors are Aneta Siemiginowska, Giulia Migliori, ?ukasz Stawarz, Marek Jamrozy, Daniel Evans, and Teddy Cheung.

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PFT: Ex-Lion Young pleads not guilty to?8 charges

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Browns fans know that, on the rare occasions when they?ve gotten high-level quarterback play during the most recent incarnation of the franchise, the performances have come from players who weren?t worried about losing their jobs.

The best ? and worst ? example came in 2007, and then in 2008.? When Derek Anderson inherited the job after Week One starter Charlie Frye promptly was traded following Week One, Anderson and everyone else assumed he was keeping the seat warm for first-rounder Brady Quinn, who wasn?t ready to take over due to a holdout fueled by his perception that he should have been drafted higher in round one than he was.? So Anderson was loose and unworried about losing the job, because he knew he eventually would.

And as we?ve heard Ron Jaworski (and other experts) explain it over the years, a quarterback not worried about losing his job plays with a confidence that allows him not to obsess over each mistake, wondering whether the next one will be the last.

By 2008, when Anderson suddenly had something to lose, he played like it.? And he did.

Current starter Brandon Weeden, whose less than four months younger than Anderson, is trying to play like a guy who has nothing to lose.

?[A]t this position ? which, to me, is the hardest position in sports ? you can?t be looking over your shoulder all the time,? Weeden tells Vic Carucci of ClevelandBrowns.com.? ?You?ve got to worry about what?s most important, and that?s me getting better, building on what I did last year, and continue to grow as a player.? And, if I can do that, and not really worry about what?s going on around me, and kind of have that tunnel vision, that?s going to make me a better player and that?s going to make this team better.?

What?s going on around him is that Colt McCoy has been shipped to San Francisco and veteran Jason Campbell has been brought in to compete with Weeden.? If Weeden worries too much about Campbell, Weeden will grip the ball a little too tightly and wait a little too long to pull the trigger for fear of screwing up, because enough screw ups will result in no screw ups because he won?t be playing.

So while Weeden is wisely saying the right things, telling himself not to worry about what?s going on around him could virtually guarantee that he?ll worry about what?s going on around him.? Which could mean he?ll make enough mistakes to eventually open the door for Campbell.

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Demolition begins on N.J. coaster wrecked by Sandy

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) ? Riding the Jet Star roller coaster as a girl vacationing at the Jersey shore, Nicole Jones said there was always that one breath-catching moment when the passenger cars swerved toward the ocean, as if threatening to dump riders into the surf.

When Superstorm Sandy hit last October, it was the roller coaster itself that plunged into the waves off the amusement pier where it had been anchored for decades.

Work crews, making better progress on Tuesday than anticipated, began tearing down the remains of the roller coaster and placing them on a huge storage barge, which was expected to carry away the last remnants of the beloved ride within 48 hours. About half of it was gone by mid-afternoon.

The image of the Jet Star, sitting in the ocean, was perhaps the most famous and enduring image of Superstorm Sandy. It appeared hundreds of times in media accounts and graced T-shirts, hoodies and car magnets, sold by the numerous charities raising money for storm victims.

"It was always a thrill. It didn't matter how many times you went on it," said Jones, now 21, who grew up in northern New Jersey but recently moved to the shore, where she was a regular visitor during the summers from the time she was 5. "It was that scary moment when it went around the curve at the top, and you felt like maybe you were going to fall in the ocean. But then somehow you never did.

"It's heartbreaking to see it like this," she added.

The ride is privately owned by Casino Pier, one of two amusement piers in Seaside Heights that were devastated by the Oct. 29 storm. Funtown Pier, at the southern end of the boardwalk, was so badly damaged it cannot open this summer, but will be back in 2014.

Casino Pier is being rebuilt and will include at least 18 rides this summer, including a new pendulum ride called The Superstorm, in defiance of Sandy.

The coaster's removal was delayed for months while the company wrangled with insurers and contractors over a rare engineering feat: Exactly how DO you snag a roller coaster out of the sea?

In the end, they came up with a fairly simple solution. The company hired Weeks Marine, an experienced maritime contractor, to bring a barge bearing a giant crane with the same sort of grasping claw featured in miniature in so many Seaside Heights arcades, where contestants maneuver the device and try to capture a stuffed animal or sports jersey as a prize.

Tuesday morning, shortly after Great Britain's Price Harry had wrapped up a brief visit to the boardwalk as part of a U.S. tour, the crane roared to life and began grasping and wrenching loose twisted sections of metal track, dropping them onto the barge for later removal.

Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers said the wind and weather had to be just right for the job ? and were expected to be over the next 48 to 72 hours. Work would progress around the clock until the last of the coaster is gone.

The project also will remove three other rides that fell from the pier and into the ocean during the storm, but have been submerged and out of view since then, said Toby Wolf, a spokeswoman for the pier's owners. The Stillwalk Manor, a haunted house-type ride; The Centrifuge, and the Log Flume all plunged off the pier and into the waves.

A fifth ride that fell from the pier, the Music Express, landed on the beach and was salvaged a few days after the storm, Wolf said.

The boardwalk itself is nearing completion, and the mayor promises it will be done by Memorial Day weekend. The section of boardwalk upon which Prince Harry walked on Tuesday was just finished over the weekend by workers hastening to prepare for his visit.

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Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC

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Ashley Tisdale Freaked Out by Follower, Police to Speak with Suspect

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A Front-Loading Toolbox Means You'll Never Dig for Buried Pliers Again

Can the iconic red metal toolbox ever really be improved? One would assume it was too timeless a design to mess with, but Best Made has come up with a brilliant way to make them even better. Instead of having to empty its contents to reach a tool buried at the bottom, this revamped design features a front-loading trap door providing easy access to the toolbox's contents.

And the improvements do nothing to take away from the toolbox's classic design. It's still got a firetruck red powder-coated finish, and is hand-spot welded so it's strong and durable. At $89 it's worth every last penny as it will no doubt survive being passed onto future generations again and again. [Best Made via Cool Material]

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AG removed himself from decision to subpoena AP

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department says Attorney General Eric Holder removed himself from a decision to subpoena phone records of The Associated Press.

A Justice Department statement Tuesday says that Holder stepped aside ? a procedure known as recusal. The statement says Holder stepped aside because he had been interviewed in a government investigation into who provided information for an AP story that disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen.

Holder has assigned Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole to handle the phone records case.

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The AP in what the news cooperative's top executive called a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news.

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Leap in leukemia treatment

May 13, 2013 ? Doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) have found a combination of drugs to potentially treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) more effectively. The research was published online on May 3, 2013, and it will appear as a letter in the journal Leukemia, a publication of the Nature Publishing Group. The study helps address a basic problem of treating CLL.

CLL lives both in the blood in circulation, and in lymph nodes and bone marrow. The former is relatively easy to kill, but the disease recurs because of resistant CLL cells in the lymph nodes and bone marrow. The researchers found an innovative drug combination that targets the stubborn CLL cells.

"We have been studying the mechanism in the cancer cells that causes the resistance to treatment," says Alan Eastman, the senior researcher on the team and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, "and that in turn, led us to find drugs that target the resistance." Eastman led the team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center that also included Ryan Soderquist, Darcy Bates, and Alexey Danilov.

The researchers found a very effective drug combination of gossypol plus navitoclax to kill CLL cells. "Both drugs have been given to patients, but never in combination, because no one had the mechanistic rationale for doing that. Now we have what we think is the most promising drug combination so far for the treatment of CLL," says Eastman.

CLL cells in the lymph nodes have an increased level of a protein known as BCL-X. Gossypol likely inhibits this protein, which allows the navitoclax to work more effectively to kill the cancer cells. Eastman and his team tested this drug combination on CLL immediately after they came out of the patients.

The willingness of the patients to participate was integral to this study," Eastman adds. "After 40 years of research, I think this is the most promising idea I have had that might truly impact patient outcome." The researchers hope a clinical trial will soon follow.

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Runtastic brings a GPS watch, fitness monitors and more to the US

Most app developers have few incentives to build their own hardware, let alone the resources. With 25 million mobile users, Runtastic has both -- so it only makes sense that the company is bringing a slate of complementary exercise gear to the US for the first time. The initial catalog won't shock cyclists and runners who have ever toyed with tracking their progress, but it's certainly complete. Along with Runtastic's take on a GPS watch ($150), there's also an app-friendly heart rate monitor ($70), a speed sensor ($60), an armband and a bike mount. While the peripherals only truly make sense for Runtastic loyalists, they're available today through Amazon -- and they might seal the deal for athletes who want a harmonious blend of hardware and software.

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Seth Meyers named as 'Late Night' host

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"SNL's" Seth Meyers has been named as the new "Late Night" host.

"Saturday Night Live" star and head writer Seth Meyers has his next gig set: the host of NBC's "Late Night." The comedian will be taking over the job from current host Jimmy Fallon, whom NBC last month named to succeed Jay Leno as "Tonight Show" host in 2014.

"We think Seth is one of the brightest, most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation. His years at SNL's ?Weekend Update? desk, not to mention being head writer of the show for many seasons, helped him hone a topical brand of comedy that is perfect for the ?Late Night? franchise,? said Bob Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, in a statement. ?On behalf of Steve Burke, Ted Harbert and Paul Telegdy, we couldn?t be happier that Seth and Jimmy Fallon will be continuing their careers at NBC after growing up in this network's late night legacy."

Of his new job, the Emmy-winning Meyers said in a statement, "I only have to work for Lorne (Michaels) for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car. 12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice."

Michaels, who is the executive producer of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" and has produced numerous seasons of "SNL," will also be working with Meyers on the next iteration of "Late Night."

"Since 1982, there have been three 'Late Night' hosts starting with David Letterman, and Seth couldn?t be in better company," Michaels said in a statement.

A premiere date for "Late Night With Seth Meyers" has not yet been announced.

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IRS tea party scandal unlikely to fade as Congress plans investigations

The IRS has apologized for targeting tea party groups. But that hasn?t satisfied critics pushing for congressional investigations, and they're still waiting for President Obama to speak out.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / May 12, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The agency has apologized for targeting tea party groups for special scrutiny of their tax status. Lawmakers promise investigative hearings.

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Conspiracy theories aside, there?s no evidence that the Obama White House had anything to do with Internal Revenue Service bureaucrats targeting tea party-type organizations for special tax scrutiny.

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That?s despite new information that senior IRS officials knew agents were targeting such groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by the Associated Press that seems to contradict public statements by the IRS commissioner.

Still, as Time political columnist Joe Klein writes this weekend, ?the absence of scandal is not the presence of competence.?

?Yet again, we have an example of Democrats simply not managing the government properly and with discipline,? Klein writes. ?This is just poisonous at a time of skepticism about the efficacy of government?. [Obama?s] unwillingness to concentrate ? and I mean concentrate obsessively ? on making sure that government is managed efficiently will be part of his legacy.?

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So far, the White House response seems a bit anemic, a bit hands-off. On Saturday, press secretary Jay Carney said the President believes government agencies should be staffed with "the very best public servants with the highest levels of integrity.?

The President ?is concerned that the conduct of a small number of Internal Revenue Service employees may have fallen short of that standard,? Carney said.

Given what?s been revealed in the inspector general?s report, such statements likely will not quell the criticism.

?It is absolutely chilling that the IRS was singling out conservative groups for extra review,? US Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine said on CNN?s ?State of the Union? Sunday.

?The president needs to make crystal clear that this is totally unacceptable in America,? she said. ?I think that it's very disappointing that the president hasn't personally condemned this and spoken out.?

As first reported by the AP, in June, 2011, Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups with "Tea Party," ''Patriot" or "9/12 Project" in their names were being flagged for additional and often burdensome scrutiny.

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Egypt Christian teacher's detention extended

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) ? Egyptian prosecutors extended the detention Saturday of a Coptic Christian teacher held over accusations of blasphemy of Islam and proselytizing Christianity, security officials said.

In another southern Egyptian city, security officials said a Coptic man stabbed his wife for converting to Islam and for trying to see their son afterward.

Both incidents highlight the rise in sectarian tension in Egypt over the past two years, brought on in part by deterioration in police powers since the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The country's Christian minority has long complained of discrimination. Some ultraconservative Muslim groups, allegedly emboldened by Islamist electoral gains since Mubarak's fall, have lately been accused of inciting violence against the Christians, who make up around 10 percent of the country's 90 million people.

Officials say 24-year-old teacher Dimiana Abdel-Nour will be held for another 15 days in a southern village near the famed city of Luxor where she taught history and geography. The defendant, who has denied the charges, went on hunger strike earlier this week and was sent to a local hospital.

Amnesty International called on Egyptian authorities to release the school teacher. Some of her students say she showed contempt while talking about Islam in class last month and insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

Amnesty's Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said it was "outrageous that a teacher finds herself behind bars for teaching a class," adding that if Abdel-Nour had made a "professional mistake or deviated from the curriculum, an internal review would have sufficed."

Often in Egypt, tensions between Muslims and Christian are sparked by inter-religious love affairs or conversions.

In the stabbing case, police officials said Romany Amir stabbed his wife Saturday in Assiut while she was trying to visit her son at school. The wife had converted to Islam four months ago and had been separated from her husband since then. He is under arrest.

The officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to media.

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Associated Press writer Mamdouh Thabet contributed reporting from Assiut, Egypt.

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Offshore 3D Printed Gun Blueprint Protector Kim Dotcom Reportedly Deleting Files [Updated]

3D printed guns are reportedly even too scary for the infamous free-information hacker, Kim Dotcom. After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printable gun?remove the files from his network, New Zealand-based Dotcom committed to keeping them safely online in his offshore legal safehaven. “I think it’s a serious threat to the security of the community. I think?it’s scary that people can print 3D guns that can’t even be detected by?metal detectors. This should concern everybody,” said Dotcom, according to a statement emailed to us by a spokesman. According to New Zealand’s Newstalk ZB website, “The plans were available on Dotcom’s Mega website, but the New Zealand-based entrepreneur asked his staff to delete the public files. Dotcom says he thinks they are a serious threat to security of the community.” We have reached out to Dotcom and will update readers with more information as we receive it. Last week, Texas law school graduate Cody Wilson made global headlines for freely distributing digital blueprints for manufacturing a lethal weapon with a 3D printer. In a mere week, Senator Chuck Schumer called for immediate regulation and the blueprints themselves had been downloaded over 100,000 times. Because of Dotcom’s commitment to guarding them against U.S. interference, it was questionable whether any government entity could prevent them from being distributed. Dotcom is an entrepreneur and hacker, who became famous for a massive police raid of his Megaupload site that housed pirated entertainment content. He seemed like a natural ally in the fight for radical open information. Now that even he’s abandoned 3D weapons, perhaps there is some information that the Internet and government can collaboratively reject. Updated with quote from Dotcom

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Prince Harry in Colo for wounded vet Warrior Games

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? Britain's Prince Harry is meeting with wounded service members competing in the Paralympic-style Warrior Games in Colorado.

The veteran combat helicopter pilot, wearing brown camouflage and boots, chatted with individual athletes on the United Kingdom team in Colorado Springs on Saturday morning.

He plans to attend the opening ceremonies and watch volleyball. He'll also watch a cycling competition Sunday.

Harry has deployed to Afghanistan twice with the British Army, once as a forward air controller and once as a helicopter co-pilot and gunner.

A spokesman says he's attending the Colorado games because he believes the wounded deserve recognition.

The Warrior Games run through Thursday. About 260 athletes are expected.

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Bears, glaciers: Show pits man against Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? Dallas Seavey knows what it's like to mush across the wilds of Alaska. Now it remains to be seen how he survives being dropped off in the middle of that wilderness and navigates his way out without the help of a dog team.

Seavey, 26, who became the youngest Iditarod champion ever when he won the 1,000-mile sled dog race across Alaska last year, is among eight mushers or outdoor adventurers featured in the latest reality show set in Alaska.

"Ultimate Survival Alaska" premieres Sunday (10 p.m. EST) on the National Geographic Channel.

"We took eight of the toughest outdoorsmen in Alaska and actually did something that was true to the nature of National Geographic," Seavey said. "Anybody who appreciates the outdoors is going to enjoy the show."

In each episode, the eight participants are taken by plane or helicopter to a different part of Alaska. They must find their way to a pre-arranged landing zone within three days, fighting the harshest elements the state puts in their way, from bears, mountains and raging rivers to guiding their way along a glacier. Spoiler alert: It's not easy.

In the first episode, titled "Arctic Hell," the men are dropped off in the Brooks Range, in northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle, and must make their way almost 50 miles on foot to Takahula Lake.

The men break off into three teams, with brothers Dallas and Tyrell Seavey choosing to take a barren ridgeline to the lake. Mountain guide Willi Prittie, musher Brent Sass and explorer Tyler Johnson decide to travel the high mountain route only to find wolves blocking part of their path.

Mountain guide Marty Raney and his son, survival expert Matt, along with wilderness guide Austin Manelick choose the most direct route, through a river valley, but have to contend with the swift-moving river and swamps.

All eight outdoorsmen are expected to live off the land for any food beyond the two pounds of rice and beans they carry.

Manelick, 24, supplemented his diet by eating a live wood frog. "I wish I could find some more," he said, and so might viewers after his next culinary choice ? snarfing down cranberries he picked out of bear scat.

"A little bit tart," he says.

Future episodes will have the men competing in two teams and building rafts to take down the mighty Yukon River, the nation's third longest river. Another episode has the men rappelling down a cliff on a summit in the snow-capped Tordrillo Mountains, then traveling eight miles over the Triumvirate Glacier.

The series was filmed over two and a half months last fall in 10 locations in the vast state.

For Tyrell Seavey, 28, the series was a chance for him to reconnect with his younger brother. A decade ago, they dreamed of doing things like this but couldn't because they had to spend two- to three hours a day cleaning up after the dogs at their home in Seward, Alaska. Their father, Mitch Seavey, won the Iditarod in 2004 and this year became the sport's oldest champion at the age of 53.

"As Alaskans, we sure talk about doing all this stuff, but who does all these things, visits all these places?" Tyrell Seavey said.

Both Dallas Seavey and Sass, a Minnesota native who was the Iditarod rookie of the year in 2012, said their experiences from the race helped prepare them for the survival challenge.

"The sleep deprivation, pain tolerance we endure and the constant problem solving we do during the race was a great prep for the show," Sass said in an email to The Associated Press.

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Egypt says Libyan and Iraqi oil to arrive next month

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said it expected crude oil imports to start arriving next month after Libya and Iraq agreed to make shipments to help Cairo weather an economic crisis.

More than two years of political turmoil since an uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak have hammered Egypt's economy. Foreign currency reserves, used to pay for food and fuel under subsidy programmes that make up about a quarter of the budget, have fallen to critically low levels.

Egypt's oil ministry said in a statement on Tuesday measures would be implemented to rein in an energy crisis, including "the arrival of the Libyan and then Iraqi crude oil shipments next month".

Some areas have experienced sporadic power outages, and fuel shortages have also led to queues at many filling stations over the past few months.

The economic crisis has pushed Egypt to seek easy payment terms from suppliers by cutting diplomatic deals that leverage the country's strategic importance.

Iraq said during a visit by Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil to Baghdad in March that it had agreed to supply Egypt with 4 million barrels of oil per month.

Last month, Libya said it would supply Egypt with $1.2 billion worth of crude oil at world prices but on interest-free credit for a year.

The Islamist-led government of President Mohamed Mursi is trying to negotiate a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Economists expect reforms of the country's fuel subsidy programme to be included in any deal.

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Diplomat: Special forces stopped from going to Benghazi

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Four members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go, according to a former top diplomat.

Gregory Hicks also argued in an interview with Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that if the U.S. military had flown aircraft over the Benghazi facility after it came under siege it might have prevented the second attack on the CIA annex that killed two CIA security officers.

Excerpts of the interview with the former deputy chief in Libya were released Monday in advance of Hicks' testimony on Wednesday before the panel.

The Sept. 11, 2012, assault killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Nearly eight months later, Republicans insist that the Obama administration is guilty of a cover-up of the events despite a scathing independent report that faulted the State Department for inadequate security at the diplomatic mission.

Hicks' comments and the hearing are likely to revive the politically charged debate in which GOP lawmakers and outside groups have faulted former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible presidential candidate in 2016.

After the first word of the attack in Benghazi, a seven-member security team, including two military personnel, flew from Tripoli to Benghazi. Upon their arrival, they learned that Stevens was missing and the situation had calmed after the first attack, according to a Pentagon timeline released last year.

Meanwhile, a second team was preparing to leave on a Libyan C-130 cargo plane from Tripoli to Benghazi when Hicks said he learned from the Libyan prime minister that Stevens was dead. The Libyan military agreed to transport additional personnel as reinforcements to Benghazi on its cargo plane, but Hicks complained the special forces were told not to make the trip.

"They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it," Hicks told GOP committee staff. Pressed on why, he said, "I guess they just didn't have the right authority from the right level."

Defense officials said Monday that four members of Army special forces were in Tripoli on Sept. 11, 2012, as part of a regular training mission. The officials said they were trying to track down information about the Libyan cargo plane and could not verify whether or not the special forces were told not to get on the plane.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said it is normal procedure for U.S. service members to get permission to fly on another country's military aircraft.

That flight left Tripoli after the second attack on the CIA annex that killed two security officers ? Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

Hicks also contended that if the U.S. military has scrambled jet fighters after the first attack that it would have prevented the mortar attack on the CIA annex around 5:15 a.m.

"I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them," Hicks said, according to the excerpts.

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other military leaders have said there wasn't enough time for the military to respond as the events in Benghazi occurred too quickly ? a point reinforced by the Pentagon on Monday.

"The fact of the matter remains, as we have repeatedly indicated, that U.S. military forces could not have arrived in time to mount a rescue of those Americans who were killed and injured that night," said Pentagon press secretary George Little.

At the State Department on Monday, spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the committee's work appeared to have political aims rather than ensuring the protection of U.S. diplomats serving overseas.

"It certainly seems so, so far," he replied when asked if the department believed the investigation to be driven by partisan politics. "I mean, this is not sort of a collaborative process where the committee is working directly with us and trying to establish facts that would help as we look to keep our people safe overseas in a very complex environment."

Democrats on the committee said Monday they have been excluded from the investigation.

Ventrell said the department had not seen the full transcript of Hicks' statements to committee investigators and could not comment until it had or until after his testimony on Wednesday. At the same time, he insisted that the department was not blocking any employee from appearing before Congress or intimidating them into silence.

"We understand this testimony's going to go forward, and we want people to go and tell the truth," he told reporters. "But in terms of the full context of these remarks or these sort of accusations, we don't have the full context, so it's hard for us to respond."

Ventrell also pushed back against allegations from congressional Republicans and their surrogates that the independent panel appointed by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had not conducted a comprehensive or credible investigation into the Benghazi incident and were somehow involved in a cover-up.

He noted that the independent panel, called the Accountability Review Board, had produced a harshly critical report, blaming systematic leadership and management failures at senior levels of the State Department for the inadequate security at the Benghazi compound.

Meanwhile the co-chairs of the review board, retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former senior diplomat Thomas Pickering, released a statement rejecting claims that their panel had been denied access to key witnesses or had conducted anything less than a thorough and impartial probe.

"From the beginning of the ARB process, we had unfettered access to everyone and everything including all the documentation we needed," the two men said. "Our marching orders were to get to the bottom of what happened, and that's what we did."

Meanwhile, the former head of the State Department's counterterrorism bureau, Daniel Benjamin, denied allegations that his office had been cut out of the loop in the discussions and decision-making processes in the aftermath of the attack.

"This charge is simply untrue," he said. "At no time did I feel that the bureau was in any way being left out of deliberations that it should have been part of."

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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

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