British Man charged after abusive tweeting WORLD NEWS ...

August 25, 2012

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WORLD NEWS -? British authorities have charged a man for sending an abusive Twitter message to Israel defender Tal Ben Haim.? The tweet was sent earlier this month before Ben Haim struck a deal to leave cash-strapped English club Portsmouth.

Matthew Smith of Andover in southern England has been charged with improper use of a public electronic communications network. Crown Prosecution Service official Stacey Turner says ?this follows the posting of an abusive message on Twitter.?

Smith will appear at Andover Magistrates? Court on September 27. Ben Haim, who used to play for Chelsea is searching for a new club since leaving third-tier club Portsmouth.

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Baseball and drugs: Views from the inside

Bay Area News Group

A sampling of what others are saying about the issue of baseball and drugs in the wake of suspensions for Giants star Melky Cabrera and A's pitcher Bartolo Colon:

A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy: "I wouldn't be surprised if it's a few more. I just hope it stays at a manageable level, not where it's an issue where we have to open everything up again. I hope they're isolated incidents. Sometimes where there's smoke, there's fire. You just hope the program starts working."

Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum: "I guess the only thing you can do is make the punishments as severe as possible. Maybe that would make guys think twice -- or maybe three or four more times."

Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton: "It's another indication or example that you can't legislate stupidity. Somebody is so intent on looking for an edge (that) they do dumb things. It's a very stupid thing, a very bad decision."

Atlanta pitcher Tim Hudson: "What surprises me is that people are still foolish enough to try to cheat. There's no way around not getting caught. If you're a player trying to get back in the league or get to the big leagues, then that's a chance some guys may take. But if you're a player that's going to have a long career, it's one of the most foolish things you could ever try to do. There's drug testers at least two or three times a homestand coming in, and they're on the road as well."

A's pitcher Travis Blackley on the frequency

of testing: "It sure is a lot, more than I expected. You see the guys in the clubhouse twice in a homestand, and sometimes on the road, too . . . They're right there watching everything happen. No way you could get away with anything. I remember in the minor leagues, they would give you a cup and you'd go in the stall, and take care of it and bring it out. But now it's different. You've got to pull your shirt up to your armpits and your pants down to your knees and they watch it come out."

Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones: "I may have played with a handful of guys over the years that may have done it, and even having said that, I don't know for certain. Everybody has their own philosophy on it. It was a lot higher 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 15 years ago. But it's sparse now. I have to believe it's sparse. You're talking about a handful of guys on a yearly basis, and everybody's being tested. How many guys in Major League Baseball -- 600 to 700? That's a very small percentage."

A's manager Bob Melvin: "I think baseball does the best they can do and has the most stringent program in all of sports. I think guys are getting caught because the program is so good."

Source: http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_21395536/baseball-and-drugs-views-from-inside?source=rss

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Ban reiterates support for new UN-Arab League envoy on Syrian crisis

August,?24, 2012 ?

Meeting in New York today, Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon reiterated his support for the new Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian crisis, Lakhdar Brahimi, adding that he would count with the full backing of the international community when he assumes his position on 1 September.

?You have all the respect and full support of the international community,? Mr. Ban told Mr. Brahimi at UN Headquarters. ?It is crucially important that the Security Council and all the United Nations systems support your role.?

Syria has been wracked by violence, with more than 17,000 people, mostly civilians, killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began some 17 months ago. Over recent days, there have been reports of an escalation in violence in many towns and villages, as well as the country?s two biggest cities, Damascus and Aleppo.

Speaking before a private meeting, Mr. Ban said Mr. Brahimi has a very important and crucial task to bring peace and stability to Syria, and to promote human rights there. He also praised Mr. Brahimi?s talent and expertise on the region, which he will bring to his new position.

?The longer this fighting goes on the more people will be killed, the more people will suffer. In that regard, your contribution, your leadership, will be very important,? Mr. Ban said.

Mr. Brahimi, an Algerian national, has served the UN in various high-level roles over the past two decades, including heading the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), serving as an advisor on a range of issues, and chairing an independent panel on peacekeeping operations which released its keynote findings, known as the ?Brahimi Report,? in 2000. Mr. Brahimi also served with the League of Arab States from 1984 to 1991 as an Algerian diplomat.

In their exchange, Mr. Brahimi thanked the Secretary-General for the opportunity to serve the Syrian people, and stressed that they would be his ?first masters,? and that he would consider their interests first and foremost.

Appointed last week, Mr. Brahimi is taking over the peace-facilitation role which has been carried out since February by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who provided his good offices on behalf of the UN and Arab League, with the aim of bringing an end to all violence and human rights violations in Syria, and promoting a peaceful solution to the conflict. Mr. Annan?s mandate ends on 31 August.

?Source (UN News Centre)

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/08/53098/ban-reiterates-support-for-new-un-arab-league-envoy-on-syrian-crisis/

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Syrian rebels set free a kidnapped Lebanese

A Syrian man walks by a house destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A Syrian man walks by a house destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

In this Friday Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, Syrian fighters search for survivors under the rubble of a building destroyed in an airstrike by Syrian government planes in Aleppo, Syria. As Syria's rebels gain ground across the country, the fighters are trying to win the hearts and minds of their countrymen and the international community -- capturing army diesel trucks to give to impoverished villagers, working to restore damaged power lines and smuggling in foreign journalists. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian woman, right, kisses a soldier from the Free Syrian Army, in front a destroyed Syrian army forces tank which was attacked during clashes between the Syrian government forces and the Syrian rebels in Rastan, Syria. As Syria's rebels gain ground across the country, the fighters are trying to win the hearts and minds of their countrymen and the international community --capturing army diesel trucks to give to impoverished villagers, working to restore damaged power lines and smuggling in foreign journalists. (AP Photo, File)

Lakhdar Brahimi, newly-appointed Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria arrives at his meeting with UN Secretary General at United Nations Headquarters Friday, Aug. 24 20102 (AP Photo/David Karp)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels on Saturday freed one of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims they have been holding for three months, in a move aimed at easing cross-border tensions after a wave of abductions of Syrian citizens in Lebanon.

Hussein Ali Omar, 60, appeared healthy in an interview aired on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV as he crossed into Turkey after his release, urging the Lebanese and Arabs to support the Syrian people in the midst of their country's escalating civil war.

Omar later arrived in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, aboard a private Turkish jet.

"Our treatment (by the Syrian captors) was excellent and the Lebanese (hostages) are well," said Omar, wearing a white shirt and a red tie bearing an image of the Turkish flag. "I am wearing it in recognition of Turkey's efforts to free me," he said of the tie.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Ankara would continue to try to win the freedom of the rest of the hostages.

"It is clear that at this extremely sensitive time for the region, kidnappings benefit no one," the ministry said in a statement. "It is important for regional stability that such actions come to an end before anyone is harmed."

The release came a week after Lebanese tribesmen kidnapped two Turks and more than 20 Syrians to force the rebels to release Lebanese citizen Hassane al-Mikdad, who the rebels captured near the Syrian capital of Damascus and accused of being a member of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group. The al-Mikdad clan, which later released most of the Syrians it was holding except for four, is a powerful Shiite Muslim family in Lebanon.

The Shiite pilgrims were abducted May 22 after crossing into Syria from Turkey on their way to Lebanon. A previously unknown group calling itself "Syrian Rebels in Aleppo" claimed responsibility.

The group demanded that the leader of the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, apologize for his comments in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Nasrallah, an ally of Assad's regime, has said the abduction would not change Hezbollah's stance.

Mohammed Nour, a rebel spokesman in the Syrian northern town of Azaz, said in a statement read on TV that the release was in response to a request by Lebanon's Association of Muslim Scholars and an adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Nour did not say what they will do with the remaining 10 pilgrims but repeated his call for Hezbollah to "specify their stance regarding the Syrian people and revolution."

Syria's 18-month crisis has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon, where pro- and anti-Syrian group have clashed since Monday in the northern city of Tripoli. The latest violence in Tripoli killed at least 17 and wounded more than a 100 wounded.

In Syria, activists reported clashes between rebels and government troops and well as shelling in different areas including the northern province of Aleppo, the district of Idlib, the eastern region of Deir el-Zour and Daraa in the south. The activists also reported violence in some suburbs of the capital, Damascus, including Daraya, which government troops stormed on Thursday.

The state-run SANA news agency reported heavy clashes in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial capital, saying that "many terrorists" were killed or wounded. The Syrian regime frequently refers to those who oppose it as "terrorists."

Aleppo has been the scene of heavy fighting for nearly a month since rebels launched an assault on the city, seizing control of several neighborhoods. The regime has waged a fierce offensive in a bid to regain control of the city, but so far has struggled to snuff out the rebel offensive.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes in the eastern town of al-Bukamal, which borders Iraq, were concentrated near an air defense base. Al-Bukamal is in the oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour.

The Observatory said 109 people were killed in Daraya alone over the past four days as a result of clashes and violence.

The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said army helicopter gunships attacked the town of Qusair in the central province of Homs.

Activists say that more than 20,000 people have been killed since the country's crisis began in March last year.

Earlier Saturday, the head of a team of United Nations observers tasked to monitor a cease-fire in Syria that failed left Damascus. Lt. Gen. Babacar Gaye gave no statement before leaving for Lebanon.

The mission ended last Sunday but Gaye stayed for meetings. The U.N. Security Council has agreed to back a small new liaison office to support future peace efforts.

The observers' deployment in April was one of the only concrete achievements in Special Envoy Kofi Annan's attempts to halt the country's escalating civil war. They had intended to supervise a truce that never took hold.

Annan abandoned the job earlier this month and was replaced by veteran Algerian diplomat and former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi.

Brahimi hinted Friday at the immense challenges he faces trying to negotiate an end to the war, saying the mission left him "flattered, humbled and scared."

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Associated Press reporter Suzan Fraser contributed to this report from Ankara, Turkey.

Associated Press

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US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

The U.S. military has been launching cyberattacks against its opponents in Afghanistan, a senior officer said last week, making an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world of electronic warfare.

Marine Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills' comments came at a conference in Baltimore during which he explained how U.S. commanders considered cyberweapons an important part of their arsenal.

"I can tell you that as a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact," Mills said. "I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations."

Mills, now a deputy commandant with the Marine Corps, was in charge of international forces in southwestern Afghanistan between 2010 and 2011, according to his official biography. He didn't go into any further detail as to the nature or scope of his forces' attacks, but experts said that such a public admission that they were being carried out was itself striking.

"This is news," said James Lewis, a cybersecurity analyst with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said that while it was generally known in defense circles that cyberattacks had been carried out by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, he had never seen a senior officer take credit for them in such a way.

"It's not secret," Lewis said in a telephone interview, but he added: "I haven't seen as explicit a statement on this as the one" Mills made.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Mills' speech.

U.S. defense planners have spent the past few years wondering aloud about how and under what circumstances the Pentagon would launch a cyberattack against its enemies, but it's only recently become apparent that a sophisticated program of U.S.-backed cyberattacks is already under way.

A book by The New York Times reporter David Sanger recently recounted how President Barack Obama ordered a wave of electronic incursions aimed at physically sabotaging Iran's disputed atomic energy program. Subsequent reports have linked the program to a virus dubbed Flame, which prompted a temporary Internet blackout across Iran's oil industry in April, and another virus called Gauss, which appeared to have been aimed at stealing information from customers of Lebanese banks. An earlier report alleged that U.S. forces in Iraq had hacked into a terrorist group's computer there to lure its members into an ambush.

Herbert Lin, a cyber expert at the National Research Council, agreed that Mills' comments were unusual in terms of the fact that they were made publicly. But Lin said that the United States was, little by little, opening up about the fact that its military was launching attacks across the Internet.

"The U.S. military is starting to talk more and more in terms of what it's doing and how it's doing it," he said. "A couple of years ago it was hard to get them to acknowledge that they were doing offense at all ? even as a matter of policy, let alone in specific theaters or specific operations."

Mills' brief comments about cyberattacks in Afghanistan were delivered to the TechNet Land Forces East conference in Baltimore on Aug. 16, but they did not appear to have attracted much attention at the time. Footage of the speech was only recently posted to the Internet by conference organizers.

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Virtual reality lets amputees train with a prosthesis

Douglas Heaven, reporter

Even Oscar Pistorius had to learn to walk before he could run. But learning to live with a prosthetic limb can be a difficult and frustrating experience.

To help amputees get to grips with a new prosthetic arm, the prosthesis manufacturer Otto Bock has teamed up with researchers from the Interactive Media Systems Group at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria to develop a virtual reality training environment called ProsthesisTrainer.

Wearing a VR headset and sensors to track arm movements, users can practise their control skills without risking damage to themselves or their surroundings. Training tasks include manipulating differently shaped virtual objects and learning how to adjust the force of a prosthetic hand's grasp - if a virtual object is squeezed too firmly it explodes. The video shows the current prototype, but the researchers plan to add more complex scenarios in the next few months.

The set-up combines a motion-capture system called iotracker with electromyography, a technique for monitoring electrical signals in skeletal muscles. Data from the motion and electrical sensors is then fed into ARTiFICe, a VR framework for mapping the real world onto virtual objects, which is built on top of Unity?3 - a popular video game engine.

So far, the system has been tested with non-amputee volunteers only, says Annette Mossell at the Vienna University of Technology, who presented the work this week at Unite, an annual conference devoted to Unity. But the next round of evaluation will be done with the cooperation of the Vienna General Hospital and supervised by medical experts.

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