Suicide bomber kills 10 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Ten people were killed in Pakistan on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a paramilitary police convoy, security officials said.

The assault took place in the northwestern city of Peshawar, about 200 meters (yards) from the U.S. consulate but there was no indication the compound was the target.

Abdul Majeed Marwat, a commander for the Frontier Constabulary, said he was the target. Two members of the force and eight civilians were killed and 15 people were wounded, said the security officials.

Pakistan's Taliban have carried out similar attacks on security forces as part of their campaign to topple the U.S.-backed government and impose their brand of Islam.

Peshawar, an ancient trading city and gateway to the Khyber Pass and Afghanistan, has been a focus of militant violence.

(Reporting by Jobran Ahmad; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Google pledges not to sue open-source devs and users

Google has always been pretty firm in its stance that "open systems win." Now its going so far as to publicly pledge that it will "not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked." The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, as the company is calling it, is the latest effort to back open-source software which Mountain View contends is one of the driving sources of innovation in cloud-computing and the internet. The first set of patents that are part of the initiative are related to MapReduce, which is used to process large data sets, though the company will eventually expand it to cover other technologies. The pledge is similar to Twitter's Innovators Patent Agreement which it announced in April of last year. There wont be any immediate benefit to end users, but anything that encourages innovation and minimizes litigation seems like a net positive in our book. For more details hit up the source link.

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The Daily Roundup for 03.27.2013

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Fisherman Nets Bull Shark with 2-Headed Fetus

When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark's live fetuses had two heads.

The fisherman kept the odd specimen, and shared it with scientists, who described it in a study published online today (March 25) in the Journal of Fish Biology. It's one of the very few examples of a two-headed shark ever recorded ? there about six instances in published reports ? and the first time this has been seen in a bull shark, said Michael Wagner, a study co-author and researcher at Michigan State University.

Technically called "axial bifurcation," the deformity is a result of the embryo beginning to split into two separate organisms, or twins, but doing so incompletely, Wagner told OurAmazingPlanet. It's a very rare mutation that occurs across different animals, including humans.

"Halfway through the process of forming twins, the embryo stops dividing," he said.

The two-headed fetus likely wouldn't have lived for very long in the wild, he said. "When you're a predator that needs to move fast to catch other fast-moving fish ? that'd be nearly impossible with this mutation," he said. ?[See the two-headed shark.]

Wagner said the description of the deformed shark may someday help better understand how these deformities arise in sharks and other animals.

Two-headed snakes and turtles can be bought from certain specialty breeders, and there is a small market for such creatures, Wagner said.

Several of the few examples of two-headed sharks available today come from museum specimens from the late 1800s, when deformed animals and other macabre curiosities fetched high prices, he said.

Another reason the two-headed shark likely wouldn't have survived: its small body. "It had very developed heads, but a very stunted body," Wagner said. There's only so much energy that can go into the body's development, and it went into the shark's double noggins, he added.

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Tilda Swinton Sleeping At MoMa - Business Insider

Museum visitors were surprised to see actress Tilda Swinton live at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa).?

The "Moonrise Kingdom" actress was on display at the MoMa in New York City Saturday as part of an exhibit.

"The Maybe"?showcased Swinton sleeping in a glass box for the day with a mattress, pillow, linen, water, and spectacles.

The Gothamist reports Swinton has been talking with the MoMa about showcasing this exhibit since 2005,?and that it?will run several more times throughout the year,?"each unannounced and in a different location in the Museum."

This isn't the first time the 52-year-old Academy Award winner has slept in public.?

Swinton first performed "The Maybe" in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

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Boyle: Queen volunteered for Olympics Bond spoof

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown round the carriage of a parked train at Baker Street underground station in London, for a visit to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The Queen made her first public engagement in more than a week Wednesday after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. The British head of state joined her husband Prince Philip and their granddaughter-in-law, Kate, for the event marking the 150th anniversary of London's sprawling subway system, affectionately known as the Tube. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn, Pool)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown round the carriage of a parked train at Baker Street underground station in London, for a visit to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The Queen made her first public engagement in more than a week Wednesday after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. The British head of state joined her husband Prince Philip and their granddaughter-in-law, Kate, for the event marking the 150th anniversary of London's sprawling subway system, affectionately known as the Tube. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn, Pool)

LONDON (AP) ? Queen Elizabeth II needed no convincing to appear in a James Bond-themed skit during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics ? in fact, she volunteered, according to the show's director.

Director Danny Boyle says he had initially thought a lookalike ? possibly actress Helen Mirren ? would play the role of Elizabeth alongside Bond actor Daniel Craig.

He tells ITV's Jonathan Ross in an interview to air Saturday night that when he sought permission from officials to film the skit he heard back that not only was the video a go, but the monarch herself wanted to be in it.

Boyle says that when filming began, the queen asked him if he thought she should have a line, to which he replied "O.K., what do you suggest?"

"She said 'I'll do something' and we started shooting and she turned round and she said her lines beautifully," he said, according to excerpts of the interview released in advance.

The queen's star turn in the skit was considered one of the highlights of the opening ceremony last year.

In the skit, a tuxedo-clad 007 strides into Buckingham Palace to escort his VIP guest to the Olympic ceremony. In her acting debut, Elizabeth swivels around in her desk chair to face the legendary spy and declares: "Good evening, Mr. Bond."

Two of queen's corgi dogs also appeared in the clip.

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FOR KIDS: Teens seek invention protection

Increasingly, young researchers seek patents to defend their innovations against theft

Increasingly, young researchers seek patents to defend their innovations against theft

By Kellyn Betts

Web edition: March 22, 2013

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While adult engineers, scientists and other inventors submit most patent applications, there is no age limit. This year, 17 of the Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists and finalists ? all teens -- either have applied for a patent or have already received one. Additionally, another 20 semifinalists and finalists plan to seek a patent on their inventions.

Their experiences suggest that all students who invent something, even if they don?t participate in a science fair, should at least know about patents. And if they are interested in obtaining a patent, they should apply as early as possible! If they wait too long, they could lose the opportunity to guard their ?intellectual property? against theft.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?Teens seek invention protection

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Syria's Assad vows to clean country of extremists

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the Eman Mosque is seen destroyed after a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, at the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers inside a mosque in Damascus Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad and least 13 other people, state TV reported. Al-Buti's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels seeking his ouster. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the Eman Mosque is seen destroyed after a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, at the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers inside a mosque in Damascus Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad and least 13 other people, state TV reported. Al-Buti's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels seeking his ouster. (AP Photo/SANA)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the Eman Mosque is seen destroyed after a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, at the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers inside a mosque in Damascus Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad and least 13 other people, state TV reported. Al-Buti's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels seeking his ouster. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this undated photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, speaks at a press conference. Al-Buti, a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad was killed in a suicide bombing in the Eman Mosque, at the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013, state TV reported . (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the desk of Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, is seen after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Eman Mosque in the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers inside a mosque in Damascus Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad and least 13 other people, state TV reported. Al-Buti's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels seeking his ouster. (AP Photo/SANA)

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The Syrian president vowed on Friday to rid the country of Muslim extremists whom he blamed for a suicide blast the previous evening that killed dozens of people, including a top Sunni preacher who was a staunch supporter of Bashar Assad.

And in a warning to rebels battling to topple his regime, the Syrian leader pledged that his troops will "wipe out" and clean the country of the "forces of darkness."

Assad's statement came as the Syrian Health Ministry raised the death toll from the Thursday night bombing in Damascus to 49, after seven of the wounded died overnight in hospital.

In the attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti as he was giving a sermon. The blast also wounded 84 people.

It was one of the most stunning assassinations of the two-year civil war and marked a new low in the conflict: while suicide bombings blamed on Islamic extremists fighting with the rebels have become common, the latest attack was the first time a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a mosque. The grandson of the 84-year-old al-Buti was among those killed in the attack.

In the statement carried by Syria's state SUNA news agency, Assad said al-Buti represented true Islam in facing "the forces of darkness and extremist" ideology.

"Your blood and your grandson's, as well as that of all the nation's martyrs will not go in vain because we will continue to follow your thinking to wipe out their darkness and clear our country of them," said Assad.

Syria's crisis started in March 2011 as peaceful protests against Assad's authoritarian rule. The revolt turned into a civil war as some opposition supporters took up arms the fight a harsh government crackdown on dissent. The U.N. says more than 70,000 people have been killed since.

It was not immediately clear when al-Buti's funeral would take place. The government declared Saturday as a day of mourning and state-run Syrian TV halted its regular programs on Friday to air readings from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, as well as speeches of the late cleric.

Al-Buti was the most senior religious figure to be killed in Syria's civil war and his slaying was a major blow to Assad. The preacher had been a vocal supporter of the regime since the early days of Assad's father and predecessor, the late President Hafez Assad, providing a Sunni cover and legitimacy to their rule. Sunnis are the majority sect in Syria while Assad is from the minority Alawite sect ? an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

In a speech earlier this month, al-Buti had said it was "a religious duty to protect the values, the land and the nation" of Syria. "There is no difference between the army and the rest of the nation," he said at the time ? a clear endorsement of Assad's forces in their effort to crush the rebels.

The mosque bombing was also among the most serious security breaches in Damascus. In July, an attack that targeted a high-level government crisis meeting killed four top regime officials, including Assad's brother-in-law and the defense minister.

Last month, a car bomb that struck in the same area, which houses the headquarters of Syria's ruling Baath party, killed at least 53 people and wounded more than 200.

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Mroue reported from Beirut.

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Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sleep plays an important role in the brain's ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, research at the University of Chicago demonstrates.

Other studies have shown that sleep consolidates learning for a new task. The new study, which measured starlings' ability to recognize new songs, shows that learning a second task can undermine the performance of a previously learned task. But this study is the first to show that a good night's sleep helps the brain retain both new memories.

Starlings provide an excellent model for studying memory because of fundamental biological similarities between avian and mammalian brains, scholars wrote in the paper, "Sleep Consolidation of Interfering Auditory Memories in Starlings," published in the current online edition of Psychological Science.

"These observations demonstrate that sleep consolidation enhances retention of interfering experiences, facilitating daytime learning and the subsequent formation of stable memories," the authors wrote.

The paper was written by Timothy Brawn, a graduate researcher in psychology at UChicago; Howard Nusbaum, professor of psychology; and Daniel Margoliash, professor of psychology, organismal biology and anatomy. Nusbaum is a leading expert on learning, and Margoliash is a pioneer in the research of brain function and its development in birds.

For the study, the researchers conducted two experiments using 24 starlings each. They played two recorded songs from other starlings and tested the birds' ability to recognize and repeat the two songs. After learning to recognize the two songs, the birds were later trained to recognize and perform a different pair of songs.

In their experiments, the authors examined the effect of sleep on the consolidation of starlings' memories. After learning the second pair of songs, they were tested on the first before they went to sleep. They varied the time between testing.

Researchers found that learning the second pair of songs interfered with the birds' ability to remember the first pair, regardless of the time between the daytime testing periods. Learning the first pair of songs also interfered with the birds' ability to remember the second pair when they were tested on the second pair before they went to sleep.

When the starlings were allowed to sleep, however, they showed increases in performance on both the first and second pair of songs, suggesting that sleep consolidation enhances their memory, overcoming the effects of interference. When taught a new song pair after awaking, the birds were still able to remember what they had learned on the previous day, despite the new interference.

"The study demonstrates that sleep restores performance and makes learning robust against interference encountered after sleep. This process is critical to the formation and stability of long-term memories," Nusbaum said.

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UN rights body urges more thorough Sri Lanka probe

GENEVA (AP) ? For the second time in as many years, the U.N.'s top human rights body approved a U.S.-backed resolution Thursday calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the country's quarter-century civil war with the Tamil Tiger rebels.

By a 25-13 vote, the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council urged the South Asian nation "to initiate credible and independent actions" to ensure justice and accountability in the aftermath of the conflict, which ended in 2009.

The resolution followed a U.N. report alleging the government may be to blame for thousands of civilian deaths during the military campaign to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels. Like a similar resolution in March 2012, the measure asks Sri Lanka to probe allegations of summary executions, kidnappings and other abuses, but stops short of calling for an international investigation.

Sri Lanka and its allies staunchly opposed the resolution, saying it unduly interfered in the country's domestic affairs and could hinder its reconciliation process.

The head of Sri Lanka's delegation to the council, Cabinet Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, insisted before the vote that the resolution would set "a dangerous precedent" with its "interventionist" aims and could undermine the Human Rights Council's credibility.

"Today it is Sri Lanka, tomorrow it may be any other country," he told diplomats.

The Sri Lanka government has argued that its own investigation should suffice. A Sri Lankan commission report, released in December 2011, cleared government forces of wrongdoing.

Rights groups and foreign governments have called for an independent probe since government troops crushed the separatist rebels. Backers, such as the United States, the European Union and India, argued that credible probes into alleged crimes are an important step to heal the nation.

""The end of the conflict in Sri Lanka provided a unique opportunity to pursue a lasting political settlement, acceptable to all communities in Sri Lanka, including the Tamils," said India's ambassador, Dilip Sinha. "We urge Sri Lanka to take forward measures to ensure accountability. We expect these measures to be to the satisfaction of the international community."

In the end, the Geneva-based council passed the resolution with 25 countries in favor, 13 against and eight abstentions.

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Statins tied to lowered liver cancer risk with hepatitis C

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People infected with chronic hepatitis C are less likely to develop liver cancer if they are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, new research from Taiwan suggests.

The report doesn't prove statins ward off cancer, and one researcher not involved in the study says it's not reason enough to recommend using the popular medications solely for liver cancer prevention.

Previous studies have come to ambiguous and conflicting conclusions on the question of statins' cancer-preventing abilities, researchers noted.

"Observational studies do suggest a significant, modest reduction in the risk of (liver cancer) among patients with chronic liver disease who take statins," said Dr. Hashem El-Serag, a liver disease researcher from the Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.

Those trials, which follow different groups of patients to see who develops cancer over time, can't prove cause-and-effect.

"The downside to the observational studies, including this study, is because they are non-randomized, the decision to give statins to a patient with hepatitis C may or not may depend on factors that have a lot to do with severity of liver disease," El-Serag told Reuters Health.

For their study, Dr. Pau-Chung Chen from the National Taiwan University College of Public Health in Taipei and his colleagues used nationwide data to track about 261,000 people with hepatitis C from 1999 through 2010.

During that span, about 13 percent of them filled a prescription for statins.

A total of 28,000 people were diagnosed with liver cancer by 2011 - or about one percent of those with hepatitis C each year. After the researchers accounted for patients' age, gender and other diseases, they found those who took statins were about half as likely to get cancer as non-statin users.

Higher doses of statins, as well as longer-term use, were linked to a further drop in cancer risk, according to the findings published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The researchers said statins may prevent the hepatitis C virus from replicating or slow the growth of malignant cells. But they can't prove the drugs stopped people from getting cancer.

One limitation, they noted, is that they weren't able to measure other health and lifestyle factors that influence people's risk of liver cancer, including their weight and whether they smoked or drank heavily.

Chen said a large study in which people with hepatitis C are assigned to take statins or not, known as a randomized clinical trial, is needed to clarify the drugs' effects in those patients.

In the United States, about 3.2 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis C, which is spread through blood. Having hepatitis C increases a person's chance of liver cancer up to 20-fold, Chen's team wrote.

The National Cancer Institute estimates 30,640 Americans will be diagnosed with liver cancer in 2013 and 21,670 will die of the disease.

The researchers did not find a link between statins and any serious complications.

"We feel more confident that statins do not cause harm in patients with liver disease," Chen told Reuters Health in an email.

Until recently, El-Serag said, many doctors feared prescribing statins to people with liver disease, believing they might cause liver-related complications. He agreed that the new study should allay those concerns.

"Do not avoid statins because of underlying liver disease, because you may help the statin-related indication, such as cholesterol and heart disease, but you may still get additional benefit for reducing the risk of liver cancer," he advised.

Still, El-Serag said, "I would stop shy of recommending it just to (prevent) liver cancer."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/Ze6jf8 Journal of Clinical Oncology, online March 18, 2013.

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More career options may explain why fewer women pursue jobs in science and math

Mar. 19, 2013 ? Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Although the gender gap in mathematics has narrowed in recent decades, with more females enrolling and performing well in math classes, females are still less likely to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) than their male peers.

Researchers tend to agree that differences in math ability can't account for the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. So what does?

Developmental psychologist Ming-Te Wang and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Michigan wondered whether differences in overall patterns of math and verbal ability might play a role.

The researchers examined data from 1490 college-bound US students drawn from a national longitudinal study. The students were surveyed in 12th grade and again when they were 33 years old. The survey included data on several factors, including participants' SAT scores, various aspects of their motivational beliefs and values, and their occupations at age 33.

Looking at students who showed high math abilities, Wang and colleagues found that those students who also had high verbal abilities -- a group that contained more women than men -- were less likely to have chosen a STEM occupation than those who had moderate verbal abilities.

Further analyses suggest that gender differences in career choice could be explained, at least in part, by differences in students' combinations of abilities.

According to Wang, this study identifies a critical link in the debate about the dearth of women in STEM fields.

"Our study shows that it's not lack of ability or differences in ability that orients females to pursue non-STEM careers, it's the greater likelihood that females with high math ability also have high verbal ability," notes Wang. "Because they're good at both, they can consider a wide range of occupations."

Notably, those participants who reported feeling more able and successful at math were more likely to end up in a STEM-related job, and this was particularly true for students who had high math and moderate verbal abilities. Thus, math may play a more integral role in these individuals' sense of identity, drawing them toward STEM occupations.

Considerable funds have been put into designing and testing a wide variety of intervention programs to increase female participation in math-intensive careers.

According to Wang, these new findings suggest that "educators and policy makers may consider shifting the focus from trying to strengthen girls' STEM-related abilities to trying to tap the potential of these girls who are equally skilled in both math and verbal domains."

In addition to Wang, co-authors include Jacquelynne Eccles and Sarah Kenny of the University of Michigan.

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Syria says rebels' chemical weapon attack kills 16

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syria's information minister says a chemical weapon fired by rebels on a village in the north of the country is the "first act" by the opposition interim government announced in Istanbul.

Omran al-Zoubi says the missile containing "poisonous gases" was fired from Nairab district in Aleppo into Khan al-Assal village on Tuesday.

He says 16 people were killed and 86 wounded in the attack. He spoke to the pro-government Al-Ikhbariya TV station.

Omran also says the attack is the results of the decision by some in the international community to arm the Syrian opposition.

Rebels have denied the accusation and say regime forces fired the weapon.

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SOUTHGATE: Mayor to seek third term this fall (VIDEO)

By Alan Burdziak
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Southgate Mayor Joseph Kuspa, first elected in 2009, will seek a third two-year term this fall. Photo by Alan Burdziak

SOUTHGATE ? Mayor Joseph Kuspa will seek a third two-year term in this year?s city election.

Terms for all elected officials are up and Kuspa is the only person who has filed for office so far. First-term Treasurer James Dallos has said he intends to run again but other officials? plans are unclear.

Three City Council members ? Jan Ferencz, Phillip Rauch and Chris Rollet ? are ineligible to run because of term limits. Officials are limited to four consecutive two-year terms. Any of the trio can run again in the following election.

Kuspa, 56, said there are several projects that began during his administration that he would like to see completed. Those include three major projects at or near the Southgate Shopping Center at Trenton and Eureka roads: the creation of a public space at the former location of Montgomery Ward; a multimillion-dollar expansion of MJR Theater adjacent to the center; and renovation of the old Farmer Jack building into the new location of Downriver Gymnastics, currently based in Riverview.

While the city has a balanced budget, Kuspa said Southgate still has to be proactive in order to maintain long-term solvency. Expenses are expected to go up again this year and savings only can be realized in a few areas of the general fund, he said.

?We have gone through the budget,? he said. ?There?s very few areas that we think we can do any additional cost savings. We really are at a point in the budget where we have to look at the key things that contribute to our budget and obviously payroll and staffing is the major expense for any community.?

Contracts for all employee unions ? fire, police command and patrol, Teamsters, Department of Public Service employees, municipal employees and secretaries ? expire at the end of this fiscal year, June 30.

?To say we have had some conversations is true,? Kuspa said. ?I?ll just leave it at that. We?re starting the process of the negotiations.?

The process of cutting expenses began in 2009, when cities were beginning to feel the impact of declining property values and tax collections. Kuspa said because of the city?s proactive approach, Southgate is in better shape than those who acted more slowly. Property values in the city are expected to remain flat this year after three years of double-digit declines. Continued...

?There?s not a lot left in the budget to glean from,? Kuspa said. ?We?re at a point now where we?ve gone through three years of cutting our budgets and finding new ways to provide services, making some public/private partnerships as it relates to the services that we have here in Southgate.?

Collaboration with other communities is vital and the city has been pioneering such efforts since before Gov. Rick Snyder made it a requirement to receive a portion of state-shared revenue, he said. In 2009, Southgate was a founding partner in the Downriver Central Dispatch, which handles emergency calls for Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Southgate and Wyandotte. A new consolidated animal shelter with those three cities, the Downriver Central Animal Control Agency, is expected to open soon.

There are a number of private/public partnerships in the city including contracting with JRV consulting to run the Recreation Center and with Crystal Gardens to run the Senior Center, banquet facility and golf course clubhouse.

In his first run, Kuspa survived a primary and then won the general election, facing off against former mayor Dennis David, who was mayor from 2003 to 2005. In 2011, he ran unopposed. While it is still early on, he said he hasn?t thought much about facing off against a challenger this year.

?I really don?t think in those terms because we have an agenda here,? he said. ?I have a great staff. ? We?re moving the city forward. If I do have a challenger, we?ll deal with that. Obviously, we?ll run a campaign that?s comparable to two people in the race, three people in the race, whatever it is. But I think we have a good, compelling story to tell.?

Contact Staff Writer Alan Burdziak at 1-734-246-0882 or aburdziak@heritage.com. Follow him on Facebook and @AlanBurdziak on Twitter.

Source: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2013/03/17/news/doc514377caa726d364201059.txt

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Hands-on: iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S4

Live from the Samsung Unpacked event on Thursday, I snuck a few minutes at the demo tables and Phil Nickinson of Android Central was kind enough to film me doing a super quick iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S4 hands on.

I posted some extensive thoughts on the Galaxy S4 the other day, so read that now if you have already. To better round-out both offerings, here's Phil's complete Galaxy S4 hands-on as well.

2013 is going to be an exciting year.

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MLB 13 The Show almost a home run (guest review) | A+E Interactive

By Nick Roth
Guest reviewer

MLB 13: The Show for PS3 lives up to the hype, again. If it?s broke don?t fix it, however, the best-selling baseball game franchise still has to come up with a reason for gamers to pay $60 for the latest installment.

The Show features two new elements: playoffs (start playing directly in the playoffs) and show live, which tracks live-statistics, injuries, roster transactions and adjusts player attributes based on their day-to-day performances. The game returns several features, such as transferring a saved season from PS3 to the handheld PS Vita, and adds some new features: online 30-man Franchise mode, cross-platform (PS3-to-PSVita) HR derby, along with a plethora of statistics and baseball data, gamers can even view real-time twitter feed from their favorite MLB players within the game.

As always, The Show has fluid player animations but this year?s sound is noticeably better. The three man broadcast team is a vast improvement over previous versions, as is the sound track, crowd noise and in-game sound effects. Visually, the graphics are top notch and the stat overlays and auto-replays are entertaining. Each stadium is represented beautifully and home run balls now bounce, and can ricochet off billboards or stadium structures.

^{Pittsburgh Pirate Andrew McCutchen is the cover athlete on MLB 13 The Show.}

The depth and detail of The Show is what makes the hard-core baseball fan salivate but even a fringe fan can pick it up and play. There is an all-new beginners mode with simplified controls and there are three different controller modes you can use for pitching, along with several different options for batting. Players can view the game from any camera angle imaginable, including a broadcast camera that simulates camera angles from a real MLB game.

Returning game modes, include Road to the Show, where players create their own rookie and work their way through minor league rankings. They can also act as a general manager in Franchise mode, making all the team decisions: from hiring and firing coaches and players, to scouting, training and evaluating player talent, down to setting ticket and popcorn prices.

Despite the lack of competition, MLB 13: The Show has once again improved in several key areas and remains one of the best sports simulation games on the market.

Here?s a quick summary

LIKED

- Sound is biggest upgrade: A new 3-man broadcast team is entertaining, while the soundtrack, sound effects and crowd noises have all been upgraded. Graphics are amazing and player animations are fluid.

- New pitching and fielding controls make game play more realistic and not so monotonous.

- Home run balls land based on trajectory, and bounce off stadium billboards, etc., instead of disappearing into a general location of the crowd, like in previous versions.

- Online game play is better: lag and glitch in graphics while playing online has been fixed, easier to find opponents, and live-tracking of MLB injuries, player stats and performances that affect player attributes gives players a real life feel.

DISLIKED

? Games are long, which is to be expected, but you don?t finish a game (typically 1hr) there is no save option, which means you can?t save your game midway through and are forced to quit and restart.
**This option was available in previous versions of the game, during offline play against the CPU.

? Despite a plethora of statistics and data, there isn?t a league leaders category within Playoff mode.

Images courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment America

Source: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2013/03/15/mlb-13-the-show-almost-a-home-run-guest-review/

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Android gains as small tablet sales soar: IDC | Morocco World News

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2013 (AFP)

Small tablet computers are marketplace hits, with economically-priced devices powered by Google?s Android software taking share from Apple iPads, according to International Data Corporation.

?One in every two tablets shipped this quarter was below eight inches in screen size,? said IDC research analyst Jitesh Ubrani.

?Vendors are moving quickly to compete in this space as consumers realize that these small devices are often more ideal than larger tablets for their daily consumption habits.?

International Data Corporation on Tuesday increased its tablet market forecast for this year to 190.9 million and said that it expected the figure to be closer to 350 million by the end of the year 2017.

Android-powered tablets expanded their share of the market ?notably? last year and that trend is expected to continue, according to IDC.

IDC predicted that the Android share of the market would rise to 48.8 percent this year while sales of iPads would slip five percent to 46 percent.

Tablets running on Microsoft Windows software were expected to make slow gains in the market, growing from a one percent share last year to 7.4 percent in the year 2017, according to IDC.

?Microsoft?s decision to push two different tablet operating systems, Windows 8 and Windows RT, has yielded poor results in the market so far,? said IDC tablets research director Tom Mainelli.

?Consumers aren?t buying Windows RT?s value proposition, and long term we think Microsoft and its partners would be better served by focusing their attention on improving Windows 8.?

The growing popularity of low-cost tablets is damaging prospects for sales of dedicated e-readers, with sales expected to grow only modestly over the next two years before going into permanent decline, according to IDC.

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EA says SimCity server issues improve, not yet 'all-clear'

By Malathi Nayak

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Server problems that botched the launch of Electronic Arts Inc's new "SimCity" title last week and incensed gamers who could not access the game for days have improved but not yet been fully resolved, the company said.

About a week since the game's launch, the company has been scrambling to add servers and issue client updates to tackle server connectivity issues that plagued users.

While video game crashes were down 92 percent since the "SimCity" release on March 5, the company needed some more time to issue an "all-clear," Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of EA's Maxis label that develops the game, said in a blog post on Sunday.

"We need a few more days of data before we can assure you that the problem is completely solved and the game is running at 100 percent," Bradshaw said.

The rollout of the newest game in its 24-year-old "SimCity" franchise was met with an outcry on social networks and Internet forums from gamers who complained of being shut out from the game after receiving error messages.

EA said last week that it was unable to handle the user demand for its new title that is now fully hosted online and was setting up additional servers to bring the game back up.

To win back the support of its users, the company issued an apology on Friday and said it would offer them a free downloadable PC game from its portfolio.

"I know that's a little contrived - kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy. But we feel bad about what happened," Bradshaw said in a blog post on Friday.

The classic city-building game first came out in 1989 and became one of Electronic Arts' biggest hits. The new, $60 game was given a modern-day look and feel, and received positive reviews before its launch.

EA's latest, online-only "SimCity" won plaudits for incorporating some of the most topical themes in urban planning, including environmental and renewable energy issues.

Shares of Electronic Arts climbed about 4 percent to $19.24 in afternoon-trading on the Nasdaq on Monday.

(Reporting By Malathi Nayak; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ea-says-simcity-server-issues-improve-not-yet-183154877--sector.html

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HTC Droid DNA gets a taste of Sense 5

  

If you've got an HTC Droid DNA, and are feeling a bit left out seeing all this Sense 5 talk about the HTC One, you might want to take a good look at this one. Using a software dump from the HTC One, Sense 5 has been ported over to the DNA, and folks are saying good thing about it.

There are a few bugs (some camera stuff and MMS for Verizon users isn't working) but most of the features (including BlinkFeed) are up and running. In addition, the features you expect from any custom ROM, like proper root and busybox, are included and good to go in the latest version.

Of course you'll need to have a DNA that's rooted (or running a software version that can still be rooted) and unlocked with a custom recovery in place. This may be the only way you'll ever get to experience Sense 5 on the DNA (this is Verizon we're dealing with, after all), so it's definitely worth looking at. Hit the source links below for all the information you need.

Source: XDA-Developers; via: Android Central forums

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Josh and Anna Duggar to Welcome Third Child

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ACT - Internet In My Area

For over 15 years, Advanced Communications Technology, Inc. (ACT) has provided residents of Wyoming and Montana with telecommunications solutions for their homes and businesses. Starting in 1997 in Forsyth, Montana, the company moved to the thriving community of Sheridan, Wyoming in 2001. Among the company's numerous partnerships is an arrangement with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) to bring broadband internet access to rural areas.

Service Areas

As a subsidiary of the Range Telephone Cooperative, ACT serves over 32,000 homes, with a coverage area of over 6,300 square miles in both Wyoming and southern Montana. In 2001, the company finished installing a fiber optic network connecting the Montana Vision Net system with the major network hubs in Casper, Wyoming's second-largest city. ACT also covers some portions of western South Dakota and northern Utah.

Benefits

With thousands of acres, and often less than ten people occupying each square mile, the region known as ?Big Sky Country? often lacks the infrastructure to carry telephone lines, coaxial cables and fiber optic lines across such vast spaces. ACT and its NRTC partners are bringing the benefits of high-speed internet access to these isolated locations. The fiber optic lines are much lighter and require less impact on the natural beauty of the region, while still providing broadband access to the area's farmers, ranchers and business owners.

Equipment

ACT relies on the power of the digital subscriber line (DSL) to deliver high-speed internet connections to its customers. Most customers can access the DSL connection from their existing home system without the need for re-wiring or installing a network node. ACT provides its customers with a DSL modem, which transmits the signals between the computer and the phone line through the computer's network interface card (NIC).

Added Services

ACT gives its customers more than a pipeline to the internet. The company's team of expert technicians helps users with a wide range of services.

• SecureIT is a powerful software package that protects computers from viruses, spyware, malware, and other dangerous programs. Users can install it themselves, or an ACT service representative can guide them through the process. ACT also provides 24/7 support for an additional monthly fee.
• Online backup services preserve data from viruses, software issues and hardware damage. Users can subscribe to store up to 250 GB of data per month.
• Modem protection insurance allows customers to have their modem repaired or replaced in the event of damage, defect or power surge.

Plans

Each of ACT's residential high-speed access plans comes with up to five e-mail boxes, with download speeds starting at 1.5 Mbps and upload speeds starting at 768 kbps.

High Speed Internet (with Basic Local Phone Service):

• Plan I: 1.5Mbps Download/768 kbps Upload for $25.00 per month
• Plan II: 3.0 Mbps Download/1.5 Mbps Upload for $30.00 per month
• Plan III: 6.0 Mbps Download/1.5 Mbps Upload for $35.00 per month
• Plan IV: 10.0 Mbps Download/3.05 Mbps Upload for $45.00 per month

High Speed Internet (without Basic Local Phone Service):

• Plan I: 3.0 Mbps Download/1.5 Mbps Upload for $40.00 per month
• Plan II: 6.0 Mbps Download/1.5 Mbps Upload for $45.00 per month
• Plan III: 10.0 Mbps Download/3.05 Mbps Upload for $55.00 per month

Conclusion

On its web site, ACT promises ?access without limits?. With its expanding fiber optic network and excellent customer service, the potential for growth in ACT's business are as wide open as the expanses of Big Sky Country itself.

Source: http://internet.inmyarea.com/isp/act

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Question about health insurance ? Rapture In The Air Now ~

Really good priced plan. High deductible, Do you have co-pay for dr appts? Does it cover part of prescriptions? It depends on how your health is and how old you are, whether this is a good plan for you.

Yes, just 1 surgery can be more than your yearly premiums. Very wise to get it now.

Yes you will need to have insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty.

Stepola, most low income children can get free care under Medicaid, also pregnant women. Sabrina has this, (both of her parents are low income and still have custody of her though she has lived with us for most of her life) and we have not had to pay a dime for her cancer treatment, thank the Lord. I am sure it would have bankrupted us and both of her parents as well. If we had custody of her, she could have our insurance and it would have cost about 5000 dollars out of pocket.
The rest including prescriptions would be covered 100%. Of course we pay a great deal for insurance, but that is another discussion altogether. : )

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We're live at SXSW's Al Gore on The Future panel

Al Gore: former Vice President, environmental activist, author, voice-over artist, gadget freak -- and psychic? The politician and supporter of all things green will be looking into his crystal ball today, with a little help from The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg here at SXSW. Join us after the break for all the robots, lasers and flying cars.

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Heat ride 17-game streak into matchup with Pacers

MIAMI (AP) ? With yet another win in the books, the Miami Heat turned their attention to the streak.

And, no, not that 17-game winning one.

LeBron James scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dwyane Wade added 22 points and the Heat pulled away late to beat Philadelphia 102-93 on Friday night ? their 12th straight regular-season win over Philadelphia, their 13th in a row at home and most importantly, their 17th straight victory overall.

Up next for Miami: Indiana comes in for a rematch of last season's Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday, and the Pacers are 2-0 against the Heat this season, both of those wins coming at Indianapolis.

And that two-game slide is what the Heat were talking about after beating Philly, not that 17-game roll the reigning NBA champions are currently enjoying.

"Every team that has beaten us, especially since the break, we've tried to redeem ourselves and play a lot better," Wade said. "Obviously the first game, they smacked us pretty good. Second time, we had a chance, but they did more than us to win the game. So now it's our turn, being at home, to come out and take care of business."

Indiana won 87-77 on Jan. 8 and 102-89 on Feb. 1.

The Heat haven't lost since that second meeting.

Chris Bosh scored 16 points, Ray Allen added 12 and Shane Battier scored 11 for the Heat on Friday, when Miami matched the 12th-longest winning streak in NBA history.

"We got better tonight," James said. "And that's the most important thing."

James went to the bench with 8:02 left and with the Heat only leading by eight. Philadelphia never got any closer than that from there, and James wound up logging his 11th-shortest night of the season in terms of minutes, playing just over 34.

"Good team win, particularly in the second half," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "Our bench was really dialed in."

Thaddeus Young scored 25 points, Dorell Wright added 14 and Spencer Hawes finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds for the 76ers, who lost their 12th straight on the road. Jrue Holiday added a game-high 13 assists for Philadelphia.

The 76ers got outscored 48-31 in the final 19 minutes.

"I've very proud of them," Philadelphia coach Doug Collins said. "Our guys fought tonight. They did a tremendous job and it's just that Miami is a great, great team and that's what happens with great teams. They ratchet it up on you and squeeze you for about five or six minutes and then they take the game. That's what championships have always done so I couldn't ask any more of our guys. I thought they did everything they could do."

Down by nine in the third quarter, the Heat took a 76-75 lead when James beat the buzzer to end the period with a 3-pointer, then took control with what became a 17-4 run over a 5-minute stretch of the fourth.

"Anytime you can hit a big shot like that at the end of the quarter it definitely is a momentum-shifter," Young said. "And I think that's what got them going and they came out and just jumped out on us in the fourth."

That they did. And when the closing barrage was over, it was time for the Heat to start thinking about Indiana.

The Heat needed six games to oust the Pacers in a physical, verbal and sometimes bloody series last spring, a matchup where Indiana led 2-1 and had a raucous home crowd believing Game 4 would leave Miami one game from elimination.

That's before Miami won the last three games of the series.

"It's what they want on Sunday, fans get a game that they think is compelling," Spoelstra said. "Indiana wants to play us and compete against us, and we want to compete against them."

Notes: Miami clinched a playoff spot with 22 games remaining, five games faster than any other team in Heat history. ... It was the 450th Heat home game, including playoffs, since Wade was drafted in 2003. Miami has won 315 of those games, exactly 70 percent. ... Hawes was 4 for 5 in the first half, then 0 for 5 in the third quarter. ... The 76ers won three road games in a four-day span of November. They're 3-21 away from home since. ... It was Miami's 105th straight home sellout, the franchise's second-longest streak. ... Wade has at least one steal in 21 straight games, matching the longest such streak of his career. ... James became the 70th NBA player with 1,000 3-pointers made, according to STATS.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/heat-ride-17-game-streak-matchup-pacers-083027624--spt.html

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No. 5 Georgetown beats No. 17 Syracuse 61-39

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Georgetown coach John Thompson III was noting all the ways ? and there were many ? in which his team's lopsided, Big East-closing victory over Syracuse was significant, when a familiar baritone voice rose from the back of the interview room.

"Kiss Syracuse goodbye!" interrupted Thompson's father.

John Thompson Jr. coached Georgetown to a regular-season title in 1979-80, Year 1 of the Big East, and his son took the Hoyas to the final regular-season title before the conference undergoes massive changes, emphatically ending the rivalry against Syracuse with a 61-39 win Saturday.

On an afternoon that Otto Porter Jr. didn't make a field goal until the second half, No. 5 Georgetown held No. 17 Syracuse to its lowest scoring total in 558 Big East games ? and its fewest points in any game since a 36-35 victory over Kent State on Dec. 1, 1962, back before shot clocks and 3-pointers. It also was the series' biggest margin since Georgetown beat Syracuse by 27 in 1985.

"It's special because the Big East, as we have known it, is ending," Thompson III said. "Georgetown won the first one, and now Georgetown's won the last. So that means a lot."

Porter finished with 10 points, but the national player of the year candidate contributed in plenty of other ways, as usual, with eight rebounds and seven assists. With Syracuse focusing on Porter, Markel Starks scored 19, and freshman D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera had 15 points, five rebounds and five assists for the Hoyas (24-5, 14-4), who will be the No. 1 seed at the Big East tournament next week in New York.

"I don't want anything to get clouded: It's not over. We hope to go up to New York and play well and win that. And then we hope to play well and win the NCAA tournament," Thompson III said. "I'm not saying we've accomplished our goals, by any stretch of the imagination."

Try telling that to Georgetown's fans.

When the game ended, they stormed the court ? even though the favorite won ? and it took a while to clear them away so Georgetown could have a brief ceremony celebrating its title in the last year of the league as it's currently constituted. Georgetown's players even cut down the nets.

The Hoyas have won 12 of their last 13 games, including two wins against Syracuse; Porter scored 33 in a victory at the Carrier Dome on Feb. 23. It's the Hoyas' first two-game sweep of a season series over the Orange since 2001-02.

Syracuse (23-8, 11-7), which had been hoping for a double-bye in the tournament, was led by Michael Carter-Williams' 17 points. But the Orange shot only 32 percent from the field, including 1 for 11 on 3-point tries, and lost for the fourth time in their last five games.

"A blip," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim called it.

He waxed on and on about the history of the Big East and his school's storied matchups against Georgetown.

"It's been an unbelievable rivalry, and you don't remember one game or two, you remember the total package," Boeheim said.

This regular-season finale was the schools' 89th meeting overall (Syracuse leads 48-41) ? but the last time they will face each other in the regular season as Big East foes. Syracuse is heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference, and Georgetown is one of seven schools splitting away to form a basketball-centric league that will get to keep the Big East name.

By game's end, Hoyas supporters were taunting the Orange with chants of "A-C-C!" Among the announced attendance of 20,972 ? the largest crowd at a Georgetown home game ? were members of Georgetown's past who helped turned games against Syracuse into events, including Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning.

Playing in what might have been his final home game ? he has not said whether he'll return to school for his junior year or declare for the NBA draft ? Porter was the center of attention. When spectators arrived, they found on their seats gray placards with blue type proclaiming, "Player of the Year Otto Porter Jr." During pregame warmups, some fans loudly chanted, "Ot-to! Por-ter!" One person held up a sign reading, "Porter for Pope."

More than 12 minutes into the game, Porter had yet to attempt a shot. But he made his presence felt in other ways at both ends of the court. On the game's opening possession, he blocked C.J. Fair's runner from behind. He later had a steal. He set the screen that freed up Starks for a 3, part of the junior guard's strong start in which he scored Georgetown's first eight points. Smith-Rivera scored Georgetown's next eight.

Porter didn't even try to shoot a field-goal until 7:46 was left in the half, missing a 3-pointer from the corner.

He shrugged off a question about his quiet, 0-for-2 role in the first half, saying: "We were up at the time."

It was apt that there would be lots of defense, given the Big East's reputation. Georgetown and Syracuse both allowed opponents under 60 points per game this season, and they showed why Saturday. With 2? minutes left in the first half, they had combined for more turnovers (14) than field goals (13).

Porter's only points in the first half came on a pair of free throws with 23.9 seconds left that gave Georgetown its biggest lead until then, 25-18.

Porter got going a bit eventually, and his turnaround jumper made it 50-31 with under 8? minutes left. That was pretty much that, as the Hoyas started milking the clock when they had the ball.

When Porter headed to the sideline in the final minute, he and Thompson III hugged.

Afterward, Boeheim said he thinks Porter should be the No. 1 overall pick in the next NBA draft.

"Normally people in this league start saying stuff like that when they want your best player to leave," Thompson III said with a smile. "Since they're leaving, I don't know why he's doing it now. But I agree with him."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/no-5-georgetown-beats-no-17-syracuse-61-190711912--spt.html

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