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During his show at the?Hammersmith Apollo in London tonight, Yeezy got a few things off his chest after performing ?Clique? in true Kanye freestyle/rant form. Topics include his dislike of corporations, The Grammy awards and more.
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Local student union gears for vote on possible ban of Israeli companies; supporters say they're being threatened. Opponents say boycott goes against everything university stands for Ynet
Students at Britain's prestigious Oxford University are set to hold a controversial vote this week as the Students Union (OUSU) stands to make its final decision on whether to boycott Israeli companies and products.
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The vote, which is scheduled for Wednesday, follows a tumultuous week, brought about by anti-Israeli MP George Galloway's hurried and highly criticized exit of a debate on Israel, after discovering that his opponent was an Israeli citizen.
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"I don't recognize Israel and I don't debate with Israelis," Galloway said, to gasps of shock and mutters of "racism."
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According to The Guardian, the boycott motion calls on Oxford students to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement "in protest of Israel's treatment of Palestinians and its hindrance of attempts to create a Palestinian state." ??
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According to the report, both the motion's promoter and the person who seconded it have received threatening emails, prompting the latter to withdrawn his support and the former to ask that her name not be publicized.?
The BDS movement urges a boycott of Israeli exports as well as any firms ? British and international ? that do business in or with Israel.?
Some BDS supporters have also disrupted cultural events involving Israeli performers.?
Last week, the Oxford Student Union gave its colleges two additional weeks to debate the issue, after most failed to come to a decision.?
Henry Watson of Magdalen College told the Guardian that "People thought it was a question of supporting Israel or Palestine or supporting peace. The boycott goes against everything the university stands for.?
"The idea that we are not going to read your books or articles or hear your arguments on the basis of your nationality is ridiculous."?
Magdalen College voted 39-3 against the motion, Watson said.?
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In Mexico?s drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violence are acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts, according to a recent research paper from Microsoft, called ?The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare.?
These ?curators,? tweeting with hashtags like #mtyfollow, #reynosafolllow, #saltillo and #verfollow, produce an inordinately high number of tweets compared to other users, informing people about recent violence, clashes and other news in regions where traditional news outlets have engaged in self-imposed blackouts to avoid narco violence.
?Twitter in particular and social media in general have become important elements of the information ecosystem. They have not replaced traditional news media, but they have certainly extended it in new ways,? Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez, one of the report researchers, tells TechCrunch. ?Social media is more participatory and democratic than the existing mainstream media, which is one of the reasons why it has emerged as a form of public sphere ? like a networked version of the public plazas.?
The report noted that of the 34 million people with Internet access in Mexico, 20 percent use Twitter. About 4.2 percent of Mexico?s online population has posted about the drug war on Twitter, according to the report. These users tend to use Twitter on desktop, and occasionally mobile, Monroy-Hern?ndez says.
Twitter?s adoption in the cities most affected by violence and studied in the report ? Monterrey, Reynosa, Saltillo and Veracruz ? paralleled the rise of violence there. And the volume of tweets in these cities continues to mirror violence-related events there, according to the report.
Because the use of Twitter in these cities revolves around the drug war, a big chunk of tweets are actually retweets, users notifying their networks about the danger. Hence, the importance of the core group of ?curators? who work independently, or with their own sources, to tweet out information to the masses. For example, in Monterrey one Twitter user was responsible for 3 percent of the city?s total tweets, two users responsible for 2 percent and seven users who were each responsible for 1 percent of the city?s tweets.
Yet, because of the nature of these tweets, curators are also anonymous, which at times means it is difficult to ascertain the veracity of the information in the tweets. This legitimacy issue is something Monroy-Hern?ndez sees as part of the evolution of social media in Mexico.
?I see an emerging trend of civic media technologies playing a central role in public life, especially those technologies that build on everyday social media practices,? he said. ?I expect this is going to become a very rich space ? not only in Mexico, but across the world.?
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Excerpted from Global Affairs: President Obama told Congress on Friday he had dispatched 40 more American troops to Niger this week, bringing the total U.S. military presence in the west African country to 100.
The troops have been deployed to support the intervention in neighboring Mali, where French troops have been helping local forces rout Islamist militants from the country?s north since last month.
The Obama administration is also planning to build a base in Niger for unarmed Predator drones to conduct surveillance on militants in the region, The New York Times reported last month.
On Wednesday, ?the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger,? Obama wrote to the House and Senate leaders.
?This deployment will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The total number of U.S. military personnel deployed to Niger is approximately 100. The recently deployed forces have deployed with weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security.?
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TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
February 22, 2013
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
On February 20, 2013, the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger. This deployment will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The total number of U.S. military personnel deployed to Niger is approximately 100. The recently deployed forces have deployed with weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security.
I directed this deployment of U.S. forces in furtherance of U.S. national security interests, and pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.
I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in this action.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
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You will encounter many so-called experts when you?re doing research on traffic-generating techniques like article marketing, but do not be fooled by the brand of info they?re trying to sell you. Most of these gurus? expertise comes via the ability to sell you on the lie that they?re experts at all. Find out the truth about article marketing in the text below.
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Gain more exposure for yourself and your site by posting guest articles on blogs in your topic areas. Search for high-quality blogs that focus on your same group of target readers. Ask if they will let you provide a guest post. Remember, though, to add a short bio with your site and author information at the end of each blog post.
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Spinning articles is a very controversial topic, and the most knowledgeable article marketers know that it is one to avoid. Articles that are spun using software designed for that purpose are often ungrammatical or difficult to understand. In addition, you?re not saying anything new with a spun article, which is worth far more than luring traffic to your website with duplicate content that is simply reformatted. Spinning articles can also land you in court if you inadvertently violate any copyright laws. It?s much better to use your time writing creative articles than wasting it spinning useless ones.
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Article marketing is a very useful tool to get your business goals and things about it published in thousands of places across various mediums. It can not only catch the eye of a consumer, but make you very many future clients. If you use article marketing, you can be sure your work will be seen far and wide across all kinds of different platforms.
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The War of the Korean Tech Giants: Battle Display is approaching a detente. LG Display has dropped its request for a domestic sales ban on rival Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, reports Yonhap News Agency. The world's two top display makers (Samsung is in the number one spot) have been warring over organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel patents by slapping each other with lawsuits since September. LG had sought the sales ban in response to an injunction Samsung filed against LG's products based on Samsung's confidential OLED tech.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U_qteE1MWYY/
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Laurence Bowers had 17 points plus 10 rebounds and Missouri erased a 13-point deficit midway through the second half to rally past No. 5 Florida 63-60 on Tuesday night.
Phil Pressey added 10 assists, seven points, six rebounds and three steals for Missouri (19-7, 8-5 SEC). The Tigers didn't have Bowers a month ago in a 31-point blowout loss at Florida.
Mike Rosario had 14 points for Florida (21-4, 11-2) but missed a 3-point try at the buzzer. The Gators had won 13 of 14 and led 49-36 with 10:51 left, then hurt themselves at the foul line.
Florida missed five straight free throws in the second half, three times on the front end of one-and-ones. The slump ended when Rosario hit the second of two with 5:10 to go for a 54-50 lead.
The Gators made six of 12 foul shots overall. Missouri was 12 of 15.
The Tigers improved to 15-0 at home this season. They are 30-1 the last two seasons under coach Frank Haith.
Florida trailed by a point when Kenny Boynton missed a 3 with about eight seconds to go. Missouri's Keion Bell came up with the ball after it was tipped around and made two free throws with 3.1 seconds left.
Bowers' jumper from the key put Missouri up for good at 61-60 with 1:15 to go. Pressey's three-point play with 2:51 to go gave Missouri its first lead at 59-57. Scottie Wilkekin's 3 put Florida back up with about 1 1/2 minutes to go.
Pressey didn't take a shot in the first half while getting two assists and three turnovers. He made his first shot from the wing with just over 14 minutes to go.
Two dazzling assists by Pressey, the second wrapping around a defender to set up Bowers' dunk, capped a 12-0 run that cut Florida's lead to 49-48 with 8:02 to go.
Florida, averaging an SEC-leading 10 3-pointers in conference play, was 4 for 6 the first 7 1/2 minutes while grabbing an 18-6 lead. The Gators made just one of their last 11 3-point attempts of the half, going scoreless the final 4:39 while Missouri ended with an 8-0 run to cut the deficit to 29-26.
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Accused Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was spending more time alone in the months leading up to the mass shooting as his mother, Nancy Lanza, attempted to encourage him to be independent despite his mental disabilities, a Hartford Courant/Frontline investigation has found. In a new documentary called "Raising Adam Lanza," which airs Tuesday night on PBS, reporters from the Courant attempt to retrace the steps taken by Nancy and Adam in the years leading up to the shooting, complicating the picture that has occasionally appeared in the media of Nancy as a gun obsessed mother who was in denial about her son's mental challenges.
Adam is believed to have shot his mother four times in the head as she slept on Dec. 14 before shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary, where he attended school as a child, and killing 20 children and six women. He then took his own life.
Frontline and The Hartford Courant provided Yahoo News with several previously unpublished childhood and teenage photos of Adam Lanza they uncovered in their investigation.
The 20-year-old had been spending more time alone in his mother's $500,000 home in the affluent Connecticut suburb in the months leading up the shooting, Courant reporters Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner found in their investigation. Adam's social world gradually began shrinking after he left Newtown High School at the age of 16 to enroll in a nearby college, where he made As and Bs before withdrawing there, as well. Since 2010, Adam had not attended school.
Between 2010 and 2012, Nancy took Adam to nearby gun ranges to practice shooting. Nancy purchased four firearms, including the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle Adam is believed to have used in the attack, during the same period. Her friends say Nancy used target practice as a way to bond with her withdrawn son. Police also uncovered thousands of dollars worth of violent video games in the Lanzas' home. Police believe Adam may have been inspired by the video games he played in the attack, since he changed the magazines of his weapons more frequently than was necessary, Frontline reported. Late Sunday, the Courant also reported that Adam may have felt that he was in direct competition with Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, based on news articles about Breivik's 2011 crime they found in the Lanzas' home.
In the months before the attack, Nancy took frequent trips and left Adam at home unsupervised--including on one trip this past Thanksgiving--in an attempt to make him more independent.
Her friends say Nancy is the forgotten 27th victim that day.
"She's been described as some sort of gun nut or survivalist and this other misconception that she was a bad mother," her friend John Bergquist told Frontline. But he said her life "revolved around caring for Adam."
Adam was diagnosed at a young age with sensory integration disorder, a medically controversial diagnosis that meant Adam had trouble coping with bright lights, loud noises, and knowing when he was in pain. Later, when he was in middle school, Adam was also diagnosed with Asperger's, a condition related to autism that can make social interaction challenging. (Medical experts cautioned that autism disorders are not associated with violent behavior.)
A friend of Nancy?s remembered that when Adam was just six years old, he did not like to be touched. If children his age touched them, he recoiled or became upset. "He was angry with them," Marvin LaFontaine, Nancy's friend, told Frontline. Richard Novia, who co-founded the tech club Adam joined while he attended Newtown High School, told Frontline Adam would have "episodes" as a teen where he would completely withdraw from the world, sometimes sitting in a corner, motionless.
Nancy raised Adam and his older brother in their Newtown home on her own after she and her husband separated in 2001. In 2009, the couple officially divorced, and Adam abruptly cut off contact with his father in 2010 for reasons that are unclear.
Nancy's friends said she was planning on moving to either Washington or North Carolina to enroll Adam in college again, so that he could get a degree in history.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process.
McCarthy would likely become the face of Obama's latest push to fight climate change. Currently the assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, she would replace EPA chief Lisa Jackson, who stepped down this month.
Moniz, a former undersecretary of energy during the Clinton administration, is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Initiative, a research group that gets funding from industry heavyweights including BP, Chevron, and Saudi Aramco for academic work on projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.
The source said the announcements were possible this week, although were more likely come later.
Moniz would replace Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who is stepping down.
McCarthy has the respect of environmental groups and a reputation for working well with utilities and state regulators, which bear the brunt of implementing EPA rules.
But she will face tough questions from Republican lawmakers who believe the EPA has gone too far in its rules, which they argue have hurt the economy.
Obama has taken up climate change as one of his main second-term challenges, warning during his State of the Union speech to Congress that his administration would consider taking executive actions to fight the problem if lawmakers failed to revive a market-based system to regulate carbon emissions.
The EPA would likely be the agency to implement such executive actions.
A Boston native, McCarthy came to Washington after serving as the top environmental regulator in Massachusetts and Connecticut under Democratic and Republican governors.
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, a Democrat, appointed her chair of a council to oversee a review of a proposed hazardous waste incinerator in the Boston area in 1990.
She later served as an environmental policy adviser to then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and launched the state's first Climate Protection Action Plan. Romney was Obama's Republican opponent in the 2012 presidential election.
In 2004, McCarthy was appointed to head Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection under then-Governor Jodi Rell, also a Republican, and helped lead the state into a carbon cap-and-trade system for Northeastern states, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
SCIENTIST AT THE HELM
By choosing Moniz, Obama would put another scientist at the head of the Department of Energy, despite a sometimes rocky tenure for Chu.
At MIT, Moniz led intensive studies about the future of coal, nuclear energy and natural gas, and he helped attract funding and research momentum to energy projects on campus.
People familiar with Moniz's work said, if chosen, he would bring his own energy and pragmatism to the job.
"He has a kind of boundless enthusiasm that's infectious," said George Shultz, a former secretary of state in the Reagan administration, who is head of an advisory committee for the MIT Energy Initiative.
"He knows a lot about the subject in all its dimensions," Shultz said.
Some green groups are skeptical about Moniz because of his support for natural gas and have started petitions against his potential nomination.
They are wary of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a method used by gas drillers to blast sand, water and chemicals into layers of shale to unleash natural gas trapped deep beneath the ground.
Moniz earned kudos for a pragmatic approach toward using research to find ways to reduce carbon pollution from fossil fuels and transition to cleaner forms of energy.
"It's clearly part of his DNA," said Phil Sharp, a former congressman who now leads research group Resources for the Future, and has worked with Moniz on panels.
"Those in the advocacy community who are really deep in the substance find they can work with him," Sharp said.
(Additional reporting by Valerie Volcovici, Editing by Alistair Bell and Cynthia Osterman)
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That page, dubbed You Got Knocked the Fck Out Man, includes videos from WorldStarHipHop, the shock website that two weeks ago posted a savage video of a group of thugs stripping and whipping a Newark boy with a belt.
The profanity in the Facebook page title is misspelled.
Big Bootie Freaks, meanwhile, is filled with photos of women with large derri?res.
The pages were among five Mainor has liked since the start of 2013. Less than an hour after The Jersey Journal spoke to Mainor, the two pages were deleted from his Favorites list.
Mainor, a Democrat who made headlines last January when he used Facebook to call the Philadelphia Eagles ?gaybirds? and the Dallas Cowboys ?cowgirls,? told The Jersey Journal this morning that he doesn?t use Facebook anymore since that incident, and at first he denied liking either of the two pages.
?I doubt very strongly that I would do something like that,? said Mainor, a Jersey City cop who has represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the state[..]embly since 2010. ?I don?t do Facebook.?
Mainor, who later admitted to liking the You Got Knocked the Fck Out Man page, said his strong anti-gun stance may be the reason why any constituents have complained about Facebook pages he likes.
?They?re trying to discredit me in some kind of way because I agreed with the gun deals that I pushed through,? he said. ?We?re losing babies. And if the best they can do is come back and say, 'He shouldn?t have Big Bootie Freaks,? then I said, ?Hey, you shouldn?t have guns.?
Mainor, as chair of the[..]embly Law and Public Safety Committee, has backed measures intended to tighten mental-health oversight for gun owners. The measures have cleared Mainor?s panel and have been forwarded to the full[..]embly for a vote.
Mainor called back The Jersey Journal this morning to say he had indeed liked the You Got Knocked the Fck Out Man page. His daughter, he said, reminded him that she showed him the page and that he liked it so he could return to it later.
He said he planned to un-like the page as soon as his daughter showed him how.
?As far as the Big Bootie Freaks ? listen, I love women, but it shouldn?t be on there but I don?t know how to get it out,? said Mainor, who is not married.
He added: ?Ever since the Cowboys and the Eagles, I really try my best not to do anything, and I ended up liking something that got me jammed up again.?
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By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor
Published: 02/18/2013 11:55 AM EST on LiveScience
NEW YORK ? The increasing power and accessibility of genetic technology may one day give parents the option of modifying their unborn children, in order to spare offspring from disease or, conceivably, make them tall, well muscled, intelligent or otherwise blessed with desirable traits.
Would this change mean empowering parents to give their children the best start possible? Or would it mean designer babies who could face unforeseen genetic problems? Experts debated on Wednesday evening (Feb. 13) whether prenatal engineering should be banned in the United States.?
Humans have already genetically modified animals and crops, said Sheldon Krimsky, a philosopher at Tufts University, who argued in favor of a ban on the same for human babies. "But in the hundreds of thousands of trails that failed, we simply discarded the results of the unwanted crop or animal."
Unknown consequences
Is this a model that society wants to apply to humans, making pinpoint genetic modifications, only to "discard the results when they don't work out?" Krimsky asked during an Intelligence Squared Debate held in Manhattan. He added that assuming no mistakes will occur would be sheer hubris.
He and fellow ban proponent Lord Robert Winston, a professor of science and society and a fertility expert at Imperial College in London, focused on the uncertainty associated with the genetic underpinnings of traits. The two also addressed the consequences of manipulating genes. [5 Myths About Fertility Treatments]
"Even [for] height, one of the most heritable traits known, scientists have found at least 50 genes that account for only 2 to 3 percent of the variance in the samples," Krimsky said. "If you want a tall child, marry tall."
Mother Nature doesn?t care
Meanwhile, their opponents, who opposed the ban, talked of empowering parents to give their children a healthy life, even if it meant giving their offspring traits they themselves could not pass down.
Lee Silver, a professor of molecular biology and public policy at Princeton University, urged the audience members to look at someone sitting next to them.
"That person and you differ at over 1 million locations in your DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid]. Most [of these variations] don't do anything," Silver said. "[But] even if you are a healthy adult, 100 [of these] can cause deadly childhood disease in your children or grandchildren."
"Mother Nature is a metaphor," he continued. "And it is a bad metaphor, because in reality inheritance is a game of craps ? It won't have to be that way in the future."?
His fellow ban opponent, Nita Farahany, a professor of law and of genome sciences and policy at Duke University, attacked the idea that uncertainty should prevent the use of the technology, pointing out that reproduction, completely unaided by technology, involves much uncertainty.
"We are not going to ban natural sex," Farahany said.
Already possible
A significant portion of the debate focused on a particular technology known as mitochondrial transfer. While the majority of DNA resides in a cell's nucleus, a small amount is contained in the cell's energy factories, called mitochondria. This mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to child. In rare cases, women have mitochondrial defects they can pass down to their children, causing devastating problems or even death.
Mitochondrial transfer can replace such defective mitochondrial DNA with that from a donor, allowing affected mothers to avoid passing these defects on to their children, who then carry genetic material from three parents (the father and two mothers, including the donor).
Opponents of a ban argued it would prevent women with mitochondrial disorders from having healthy children of their own.
"I am not here to defend every type of genetic engineering. I don't think we are ready as a society to embrace it all," Farahany said.
Rather than an outright ban, she and Silver argued for a middle ground, which would allow for certain procedures once they had been shown to be safe and effective. An emerging scientific consensus says mitochondrial transfer would fit into this category, she said.
Winston disagreed.
"We know fiddling with mitochondrial DNA may make a massive difference to what happens to nuclear DNA. ? Abnormal children have been born as result of mitochondrial transfer," he said. "I think, in preventing one genetic disease, you are likely to cause another genetic disease." [The 10 Most Mysterious Diseases]
Society should instead focus on the enormous importance of environmental influences in health, Winston said. "What we should be trying to do, rather than risk making abnormal babies, is to improve the environment so the DNA functions in the best possible ways."
Neither Farahany nor Silver argued in favor of allowing parents to modify their children to ensure other traits that are less medically necessary, but nevertheless desirable, such as higher intelligence or blue eyes.
"What I think parents care about most is promoting the health of their children," Silver said.
Leading to eugenics?
Both sides referred to the specter of eugenics, an idea embraced by the Nazis, which holds that selective breeding can be used to improve the human race.
Winston and Krimsky pointed out that genetically modifying children to choose desirable traits evoked this approach. Meanwhile, Farahany noted that some of the worst abuses of government in recent history involved attempts to control reproduction. How would a ban on the genetic modification of children be enforced, she asked, would all babies be forcibly tested???
An audience votedeclared the opponents of the ban the winners.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Buddha statues have joined Barbie dolls and characters from "The Simpsons" TV cartoon as banned items in the conservative Muslim nation.
Authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to stop the promotion of Buddhism in the country, according to a report Sunday in the independent Arman daily.
Iran has long fought against items, such as Barbie toys, to defuse Western influence, but this appears to be the first time that Iranian authorities are showing an opposition to symbols from the East.
The newspaper quoted Saeed Jaberi Ansari, an official for the protection of Iran's cultural heritage, as calling the Buddha statues symbols of "cultural invasion." He said authorities will not permit a specific belief to be promoted through such items. Ansari did not say how many Buddhas had been seized, but that the "cleansing" would continue.
Some Iranians buy Buddha's statues to decorate their homes and cars. Most are made in China and come from Iranian free-trade zones in the Persian Gulf.
"As I understand, none of customers cared about Buddhism, they only bought it for decoration," said Reza Sanaei, a shopkeeper who sells the statues.
A customer, Marjan Arbabi, said she personally did not like the statues. "But my parents have set of five Buddah's statues at their home simply because they think the statues are beautiful," she said.
Under the constitution, Christian and Jewish beliefs as well as Zoroastrianism are recognized beside Islam, the official religion of the country. The law, however, says that, in general, the rights of all non-Muslims should be observed.
Some Islamists do not support production of any statue, since they view it as a way to promote idols.
In 2010, several statues depicted prominent Iranians, disappeared from Tehran city's streets and squares. Their disappearance was blamed on an unnamed group with a strict interpretation of Islam that bans the depiction of the human form in art.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-confiscates-buddha-statues-shops-092335149.html
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa easily won re-election in Sunday's presidential vote, according to two private exit polls, providing a timely boost for Latin America's alliance of socialist leaders.
Correa won 61 percent of the vote compared with 21 percent for former banker Guillermo Lasso, the strongest showing of the seven opposition candidates in the race, according to a survey by polling firm Opinion Publica.
A separate exit poll by the firm Cedatos showed Correa winning 59 percent of the vote versus 20 percent for Lasso.
The electoral authority was expected to release an official quick-count by 7:00 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) based on 30 percent of the votes cast.
Correa, a pugnacious U.S.-trained economist, wants to continue boosting the state's role in the OPEC nation's economy and strengthening the leftist ALBA bloc of Latin American nations that openly oppose the United States.
The only Ecuadorean president in the past 20 years to complete a full term in office, Correa is admired for bringing political stability to a nation where leaders had been frequently toppled by violent street protests or military coups.
Opposition leaders call Correa a dictator in the making who is quashing free speech through hostile confrontation with media and squelching free enterprise through heavy taxation and constant regulatory changes.
His success hinged in part on high oil prices that allowed for hefty government spending, including providing cash handouts to 2 million people, and spurred solid economic growth.
(Additional reporting by Jose Llangari and Eduardo Garcia in Quito and Yuri Garcia in Guayaquil; Editing by Kieran Murray and Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-votes-president-correa-seen-winning-term-053015841.html
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Melissa Block speaks with Dr. Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, about the Brain Activity Map project written about in today's New York Times. If it goes forward, the project would seek to find treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism, psychiatric disorders and more.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/18/172336350/new-project-would-map-the-human-brain?ft=1&f=1007
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At Staples, the business supply retailer is accepting orders for the 64GB model ($899), but will not take orders for the 128GB unit until the tablet is back on the shelves. Canadian? You can reserve the 64GB Microsoft Surface tablet at Best Buy and at the Future Shop. Microsoft said it would announce when the 128GB model is available again up north.
If this is indeed a manufactured sellout designed to catch a buzz (nothing is in demand more than something that can't be ordered), the good news is that it shouldn't take long to refill the pipeline. On the other hand, if this is a genuine sellout, the gang in Redmond needs to get on the horn with its suppliers and tell them to step up production. The early trend is that the 128GB model is in demand and Microsoft needs to make sure they are taking advantage of this by having enough product in stock. Otherwise, it could turn into a blown opportunity.source: Slashgear
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This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a caricature placard during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Heavy fighting for control of the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and a major military air base nearby has killed some 150 rebels and government soldiers over the past two days, activists said Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
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BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian state news agency says power outage plunges Damascus and southern Syria into darkness.
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From Harding University:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - In celebration of the 40th anniversary of NCAA Division II, 48 former student-athletes are set to be honored by the NCAA throughout 2013. One of those former student-athletes is Harding cross country and track standout Janet Cherobon-Bawcom.
Developed through a partnership with the Division II Commissioners Association, the 40th Anniversary Tribute Team highlights one male and one female from each of the division's 23 current conferences, plus two at-large nominees.
"This group of former student-athletes is meant to reflect the core values of Division II athletics," said Josh Looney, associate director of Division II. "Commissioners have helped identify a diverse group of championship individuals from Division II's 40-year history. Not only did these former student-athletes act as champions in athletics and in the classroom, they have gone on to live championship lives as well."
Cherobon-Bawcom, a native of Kapsabet, Kenya and now an American citizen, competed for Harding from 2000-2005. She won three Division II national championships in track and was an eight-time All-American. For her exploits, she was inducted into the Division II Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Harding Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.
After leaving Harding, Cherobon-Bawcom continued her running career. In 2011, she was declared the women's champion of the 2011 USA Running Circuit. In 2012, she became Harding's first-ever Olympian and placed 12th in the 10,000 meters at the 2012 London Olympics.
Cherobon-Bawcom is one of two representatives from the Great American Conference, joining Drew Beard from the Southeastern Oklahoma State University football team.
The year-long 40th Anniversary celebration will feature a number of initiatives branded by Division II's tradition, history and community influence. A special 40th Anniversary highlight video was unveiled to Division II membership during the 2013 NCAA Convention, officially kicking off the celebration.
Each member of the Division II 40th Anniversary Tribute Team will receive a commemorative 40th Anniversary gift and is slated to have his/her accomplishments profiled through Division II media channels.
Conferences were asked to submit a list of nominees who are representative of Division II's ideals. The only requirement was that nominees exhausted their athletic eligibility within the past 40 years and attended a college or university active in Division II.
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Stepping off the Carnival Triumph ? the filthy, sweltering cruise ship that was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for five days after an engine fire knocked out power ? wasn't the end of the travel nightmare for some passengers.
A bus carrying Triumph passengers from Mobile, Ala., where the ship docked late Thursday, to New Orleans broke down Friday, Carnival Cruise Lines confirmed to NBC News. The company said that another bus picked up the passengers and they continued toward New Orleans.
Clark Jones of Dallas, who was on the bus, said it was stuck about an hour.
?I?m pretty tired,? he said later. ?I don?t know, life gives you lemons ? I guess you have to eat the lemons sometimes.?
Other buses from Mobile reached New Orleans without incident Friday, and some passengers boarded charter flights for Houston, near the ship?s port of Galveston.
?We survived it,? passenger Veronica Arriaga told NBC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans. ?We are here, we're on land. Thank God.?
Delays hampered the last day of the rescue of the Triumph. With the ship in sight of shore, a cable snapped between a tugboat and the larger vessel. Also Thursday, Carnival at least twice pushed back its estimate for when the ship would dock in Mobile.
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PULLMAN ? The names and numbers ? some of them record-setting ? have changed for Washington State?s starting lineup this?season.
Gone is all-time home run leader Derek Jones. So, too, is Taylor Ard ? who led the Cougars with a .577 slugging percentage and 12 home runs last season ? along with the rest of WSU?s top five hitters last?year.
But WSU baseball coach Donnie Marbut expects better balance and just as much production from the new guys, along with returners like center fielder Jason Monda ? a third-team preseason All-American selection by Baseball America ? and sophomore infielder Ian Sagdal, who started??
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PULLMAN ? The names and numbers ? some of them record-setting ? have changed for Washington State?s starting lineup this?season.
Gone is all-time home run leader Derek Jones. So, too, is Taylor Ard ? who led the Cougars with a .577 slugging percentage and 12 home runs last season ? along with the rest of WSU?s top five hitters last?year.
But WSU baseball coach Donnie Marbut expects better balance and just as much production from the new guys, along with returners like center fielder Jason Monda ? a third-team preseason All-American selection by Baseball America ? and sophomore infielder Ian Sagdal, who started 50 games last?season.
The Cougars? pitching staff is a different story. Six pitchers recorded a start for WSU last season. Each of them returns this year. And despite the fact that each of the Cougars? probable starters this weekend in a season-opening series at Western Carolina is a sophomore ? Tanner Chleborad, Joe Pistorese and Scott Simon ? they don?t lack for?experience.
The trio combined for 26 starts last season ? 25 of them by Chleborad and Pistorese, though Simon made 27 relief appearances ? and Pistorese led the team with a 2.44 ERA in 66 1/3?innings.
?Obviously, all three guys pitched in the rotation on their respective summer teams, too,? Marbut said. ?We?re definitely excited about the rotation. They?re still only sophomores, but they?re experienced and we think they?re doing really good?things.?
WSU will rely on a lineup that is less experienced ? though not necessarily youthful ? to supplement its still-growing pitching staff. Monda, who batted .275 last season, is the team?s top returning hitter, and the Cougars also return both of their catchers, sophomore P.J. Jones and junior Collin?Slaybaugh.
And Marbut says he expects WSU to start four players who redshirted last?season.
Trace Tam Sing, who was limited to six games a year ago and received a medical hardship waiver, is expected to be the team?s starting?shortstop.
Ben Roberts, a redshirt freshman outfielder, should also start today against Western Carolina, as well as redshirt freshman Nick Tanielu, whom Marbut likes at third base. And redshirt junior first baseman Brett Jacobs, who sat out last year with an injury, could also start if a foot ailment clears up in?time.
?I like the guys we?re putting in there,? Marbut said. ?They?re different types of guys, but I think 1-through-9, our offense will be more balanced. I think we?ll steal as many bases and I think we?ll hit as many home runs. We?ll just do it with more guys than the two (Jones and Ard) that we?had.?
The Cougars finished 28-28 last season and 12-18 in Pac-12 play. A preseason coaches? poll picked the Cougars to finish eighth in the conference this?season.
WSU?s last NCAA tournament appearance was in?2009.
Gonzaga begins its season with a doubleheader today against Utah Valley and UC Riverside in Palm Springs, Calif., at a three-day tournament hosted by Oregon?State.
The Bulldogs, who were picked to finish third in the West Coast Conference by the league?s coaches, return one of the nation?s top players in junior pitcher/infielder Marco?Gonzales.
Gonzales returned from injury last season to finish 8-2 with a 1.55 ERA, winning the conference?s Pitcher of the Year award while also batting .325. He?s a member of the 50-player preseason watch list for the Golden Spikes Award and is a preseason?All-American.
Gonzaga appeared primed for an NCAA tournament appearance last season before losing 13 of its final 21 games and finishing third in the?WCC.
Source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/feb/15/wsu-baseball-coach-expects-more-balance-this/
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Last night, Facebook pushed an update to its Android app that lets users update their cover photo from directly within the app. In the past I had covered an Android app that helped you create a new cover photo, but it required you to use the Web site ?
Read more at CNET (blog).
Source: http://www.twytter.net/blog/change-your-facebook-cover-photo-using-the-android-app/
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Defence Minister Peter MacKay says a heavy-lift Canadian air force transport plane will continue to assist French forces in Mali for another month.
The commitment involving the C-17 Globemaster, which has been shuttling war material, vehicles and troops between France and the Malian capital of Bamako, was set to expire Friday.
MacKay confirmed the extension to March 15 outside of the House of Commons on Thursday following question period.
?We received a request a few days ago, but it was a request that came to us through military channels,? MacKay said.
?We wanted to examine the specifics of what that would request would entail and how it would fit with ongoing operational requirements of the Canadian Forces.?
MacKay offered no details on the status of the special forces contingent that was deployed to protect the Canadian embassy in Bamako, which had been scaled back.
It is the second extension for the Canadian support mission, which kicked off in early January after French forces intervened in the former west African colony where al-Qaida-linked militants had threatened to overrun the country.
In January, air force planners cleared the schedule of the C-17 transport, which is attached to 429 Squadron out of CFB Trenton, Ont., for up to three months to give the government flexibility in the unfolding situation.
French forces have made quick work of militant strongholds, pushing them out of many provincial towns in the northern part of Mali. But fears of an Afghanistan-style insurgency have taken hold as both Western and African troops have faced roadside bombs and ambushes in some areas that were thought cleared of guerrillas.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird acknowledged that threat in his testimony before a House of Commons committee earlier this week, saying Canada won?t ?get into another Afghanistan.?
Public opinion polls suggests Canadians don?t want to see the country get any more involved in the conflict than it already is.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last month that he would reach out to the Opposition parties to seek a ?broad? national consensus Canada?s next steps ? a reflection of fears the war in Mali would be a drawn-out conflict.
The Commons foreign affairs committee has held a series of hearings, mostly fact-finding sessions.
Thursday?s news of the C-17 extension caught Opposition members off guard.
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said there?s been virtually no dialogue, in spite of the government?s promise to consult the House about the mission.
?What we need to know from the government is, what was the basis of this extension?? Dewar said.
?We need some details. Having a minister announce this as he?s walking up the stairs isn?t helpful. It?s not open and it?s not what the government said it would do on Mali.?
The U.N. Security Council is still debating whether to deploy up to 6,000 peacekeepers in Mali to help stabilize the country.
The 15-member council has dragged its feet on approving a French request for blue-helmeted peacekeepers to patrol areas that it has cleared of militant fighters.
Officials at the UN have suggested in media reports out of New York that the council is close to a consensus.
Source: http://www.citynews.ca/2013/02/14/canada-to-extend-mali-mission-by-a-month/
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When it comes to video games, film tie-ins have had something of a bumpy history. While GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64 proved that a licence can flourish in the right hands, it?s more often than not a rare exception.
However, when a game is based on a movie which itself is based on video games, it?s fair to assume that the end result might be just be something that?s worth our time. After all, the developers already have an idea to work with and all they need to do is cleverly work their own creativity in around this.
Unfortunately, this isn't the case with Wreck-It Ralph. Despite the fact that its movie counterpart draws its inspiration from video game classics such as Donkey Kong, the game is surprisingly lacking when it comes to gameplay, level design and practically every other aspect.
That?s not to say that there isn't some thought put in; in some ways Wreck-It Ralph does feel like a 2D platforming game from the early 90s, mainly due to its array of moving platforms, dangerous obstacles and switches. Yet, while it may look like a great retro romp on the surface, the truth is that it?s utterly lacking when it comes to the gameplay. There are so many ideas that could have been taken from the vibrant, magical world that Disney created for the film and expanded upon, but this sadly isn't the case here. Like many licensed games, Wreck-It Ralph is little more than a rinse and repeat effort, and one that is woefully lacking in the fun department, too.
Although it isn't really made clear, this game is set after the events of the movie, and the introduction does a pretty good job of revealing some pretty big spoilers. Ralph is enjoying life and the new found respect his new video game buddies have for him. However, this is short-lived as Ralph, in all his clumsiness, accidentally releases an entire horde of evil Cy-Bugs.
With the nasty creatures invading each and every video game, it?s up to Ralph and Fix-It Felix Jr. to team up and save the virtual video game world yet again. The player must regularly switch between Ralph and Felix and use their unique abilities in order to progress through the game.
This sounds like a great idea on paper, but the execution is quite poor. That?s because the whole thing feels like a gimmick, as their abilities are mostly trivial. For example, only Ralph can walk up ladders, while Felix is the only one who can repair certain objects. This setup could have worked really well if it weren't for the fact that it?s always blatantly obvious what you need you to do. The game even provides you with hints which explicitly inform you when to change character and which buttons to press. There?s a never a sense of challenge or urgency where you need to think and act quickly.
To make matters worse, there?s very little variety when it comes to the gameplay. Despite being spread across various game environments from the film such as Hero?s Duty and Sugar Rush, the only thing that really changes is the visuals. Assets are simply repainted and reused in different levels. For example, a laser barricade that blocked your way in Hero?s Duty is remodelled into a golden gate in Sugar Rush, and works in exactly the same way. Nothing has been done to make each of the game?s areas feel like its own world and the simplistic puzzles are duplicated throughout.
As a result, Wreck-It Ralph becomes tedious very quickly. It truly is a shame that the developers didn't approach this with more creativity, especially considering the fact that the game is not based directly on the film. It?s a fairly short title and although there?s an enhanced mode you can experience upon completing it, it?s highly unlikely that you?ll actually want to go back through it all again.
Wreck-It Ralph also disappoints when it comes to its overall presentation. Character models look crude, and the environments look remarkably bland for a Disney game. Naturally, the 3D effect adds some depth, but it?s not used in any meaningful way beyond that. It would have been great to see Ralph charging through enemies, only to them see them fly towards the screen.
The game?s soundtrack is surprisingly authentic, sounding very much like something you?d hear in a NES game. Nevertheless, it isn?t very good; there were game soundtracks made more than 20 years ago which are infinitely more catchy.
Wreck-It Ralph could have been so much more. Disney clearly spent a lot of time injecting the film?s world with strong gaming influences and tons of variety, and it?s baffling that the developers didn't build upon this. Instead, it feels like nothing more a half-hearted attempt to cash-in. It looks and feels like a retro game in some ways, but it?s simply far too shallow and devoid of fun to draw you in. As a result, you should probably save your quarters for a more worthwhile effort on 3DS.
Source: http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/3ds/wreck_it_ralph
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The Sennheiser HD 280 Pro, a $99.95 (direct) headphone pair designed for professional studio use, was released in 2003, before I began writing for PCMag. However, I often use it as something of a standard to A-B test similar types of pairs with, so it seemed appropriate to give a proper full-length review. A no-frills, exceedingly comfortable pair, the powerful and accurate HD 280 Pro is ideal for recording and mixing applications. It proves the term "flat response" doesn't mean "no bass." There's plenty of rich, articulate low frequency response here, but the entire frequency range is dutifully represented. At this reasonable price, this is where your search for a pair of studio headphones should begin. It may well end here, too.
Design
For a recording studio headphone pair, the single most important design element, after the drivers that produce the audio, is long-term comfort. Sessions last a long time. People sweat, gravity presses headbands into skulls. The HD 280 Pro?does an admirable job of keeping long-term sessions more or less fatigue-free.?Sure, if you don't take them off for hours at a time, you can expect some sweaty ear cups, perhaps, or some minor discomfort along the headband. But as someone who wears these headphones on a more or less daily basis, I can tell you they fit securely and comfortably for long sessions.
There are pairs with more plushness to the ear pads, like the?NuForce HP-800, but the HD 280 Pro is unlikely to be described as uncomfortable by many users, and it passively blocks out up to thirty decibels of ambient/room noise. If you blast these while recording near a mic, there will be some sound leakage, but they don't bleed like an open pair would?their circumaural (around the ear), snug fit prevents most sounds from escaping, provided you listen at moderate levels. The ear cups are swivel-mounted, which allows for an even more secure fit as they adjust automatically to the shape of your head. The headband is easily adjustable and stays in place.
Unlike the NuForce HP-800, the HD 280 Pro lacks a detachable cable. The HP-800 is a newer design, in an era when detachable cables are becoming more and more a design staple, so it's hard to knock the HD 280 Pro too hard for not having one. But it would be a welcome update on Sennheiser's part, as a detachable cable can extend the life of your headphones significantly. Cables are the most common culprit when a headphone pair begins to malfunction, and replacing the cable instead of replacing or repairing the whole thing is a far more affordable option.
The non-removable cable features a thick coil, and it terminates in a 3.5mm connection. The sole included accessory is a ?-inch adapter for larger headphones jacks. A carrying pouch would be nice.
Performance
Lest this review begin to sound like a love letter, let me be clear about one thing: The HD 280 Pro is far from my favorite pair of headphones. I've heard options, like the Grado GS1000, that have made me giddy with excitement?until I realized the price was, well, a bit out of my budget. But the real difference we're talking about here is not price?it's application. The HD 280 Pro is a professional studio headphone pair?basically, a measurement tool for recording, mix, and mastering engineers, as well as performers.
A pair like the aforementioned Grado offers a sound signature and a wide, deep stage that makes the music feel almost palpable. The precision of a pair like the HD 280 Pro is more surgical than magical, but here is where it separates itself from the typical, flat, light-on-bass studio reference pair. The HD 280 Pro packs plenty of low-end. Its impedance of 64 Ohms means that, depending on your sound source, it may not get brain-meltingly loud (but this is a good thing). This fact, combined with the superb quality of the drivers, means distortion will also be a rarity. 
Can the HD 280 Pro distort? Sure, but it is very unlikely to happen before your ears start to bleed. Even at very high, unsafe levels, from a variety of sound sources, like a Marantz PM7001 stereo receiver, a Digidesign Digi 003 recording interface, and an iPhone 4S, the HD 280 Pro can handle extremely deep bass without any hints of distorted crackle. If you want to pulverize the headphones and your eardrums, yes, you can achieve distortion, but not at levels you will ever want to actually listen at.
Some headphone pairs manage to avoid distortion on deep bass by, well, avoiding deep bass itself. But the HD 280 Pro's frequency response starts at the sub-bass realm of 8Hz. Many headphones and earphones don't start until 15 or 20Hz. What's more?you can actually hear the presence of these low frequencies. Even better: They are present, but not boosted weirdly. They don't overtake the mix. On the Knife's "Silent Shout," the powerful thump of the kick drum loop is conveyed cleanly and accurately?the Knife mixed it so that you would hear tremendous low frequency content here?but not in a manner so over-the-top that it dominates the rest of the frequency range.
Classical tracks like John Adams' "The Chairman Dances" sound a little less enthralling than they might sound on a pair with more low and low-mid presence to compliment the lower register strings, like the Yamaha PRO 500. But again, we are talking about the difference between a pair to enjoy music on and a clinical tool to make music on. The idea behind this approach has always been: If you can get your mixes to sound exciting and balanced on an accurate pair that doesn't enhance the sound at all, it'll likely sound good on the more sculpted consumer options as well. So, while orchestral tracks like this one may not pack the excitement they do on a pair like the Yamaha PRO 500, they are conveyed cleanly and accurately, so the mastering engineer can get a handle on what the actual stereo recording sounds like.
Modern pop, hip-hop, and rock tracks sound excellent on the HD 280 Pro. You almost forget that you're listening to a pair that doesn't really sculpt the sound. When mix engineers add a little bass thump to the mix, as many modern producers and engineers often do, the HD 280 Pro handles it beautifully?you hear and feel it, and yet it's never booming.
On Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," the kick drum loop's attack packs all the treble edge it should, while the coinciding thump of the drum's muffled resonance implies power, but doesn't overwhelm the mix. When the sub-bass synth hits come in after a few measures, they catch your attention?there's some serious low end here, but it sounds natural, even in a song built on samples and electronic patches. Vocals shine, front-and-center, and the entire mix feels in focus.
If I'm gushing, it's because I truly have come to rely on the HD 280 Pros for creating and mixing music in my own home studio. You learn to trust a pair like this?if these babies distort at a reasonable listening level, you know you have a problem with your mix. If things sound sibilant here, you had better cut some of the high-mids on your vocal tracks. If the bass sounds smooth and subtle here, it won't sound crazy and muddy on your stereo system.
If you want something that sounds similar to the HD 280 Pro, but offers more features, like a detachable cable, the slightly more expensive Shure SRH1440 is an excellent studio option. Also at the higher end of the spectrum, the aforementioned Yamaha PRO 500 offers deep bass and an excellent overall response. The aforementioned NuForce will distort on deep bass tracks at higher volumes, but at modest volumes, and on genres that lack deep bass, it offers a similarly winning combination of accuracy and clarity without making things sound boring. But for $100, it's very hard to top the HD 280 Pro?it's a modern classic from a company that has been in the recording business for quite some time, and although it arrives about ten years late, it easily wins our Editors' Choice award.
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