Will Power grabs early lead in race for Indy pole

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Will Power was the most relieved man in Roger Penske's garage Saturday.

After spending most of the week frustrated as he tried to find speed, Roger Penske's team finally came up with the answers the Australian needed to move into position for his first Indianapolis 500 pole.

Power posted a four-lap average of 228.844 mph ? significantly faster than defending series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay, who was second at 228.282 ? heading into Saturday's nine-car shootout for the top starting spot in the May 26 race.

It was a refreshing change.

"We struggled early in the week, we just finally got quicker and quicker," Power said. "One more step and I think it would be 230."

He'll get that chance in the shootout.

But it was a stark contrast to the guy who looked demoralized following another frustrating practice session Thursday. Back then, Power seemed resigned to the fact he wouldn't be in contention for the shootout.

His perspective started to change Friday following a major jump up the speed charts. Power's steady progression continued Saturday morning when he posted the fastest lap in pre-qualifying practice. Then, after waiting through a rain delay of roughly 2? hours and watching 17 other drivers making qualifying attempts, Power finally got a chance to show the crowd what the No. 12 car could do.

Unlike so many others cars on Indy's tricky 2.5-mile oval, Power didn't lose a thing as temperatures cooled and the rain washed away some of the grip and drew loud roars by posting back-to-back laps of 229.422 and 229.170. He finished the run with laps of 228.526 and 228.260.

Nobody else had a lap faster than 228.684, putting Power in a strong position.

What changed? Power's crew switched to the setup rookie AJ Allmendinger was using in practice, a setup that kept him among the fastest drivers in practice.

"There was one change that we did that it definitely made the car quick and we know what that is," Power said.

He wasn't giving away the secret, though it clearly worked for his teammates, too.

For part of the afternoon, Penske's three drivers -- Power, Brazil's Helio Castroneves, a three-time 500 winner, and Allmendinger --held the top three spots.

Then the Andretti Autosport drivers who dominated this week's practice suddenly turned the shootout into a two-team race.

Defending series champ Ryan Hunter-Reay broke up the Penske monopoly. Two cars later rookie Carlos Munoz of Colombia, moved to third on the starting grid with a four-lap average of 228.171.

"That was a great run for us. I'd like to do a few things differently, but not many," Hunter-Reay said.

Two cars after that, Marco Andretti, wound up in the sixth spot after posting an average of 227.893. Two-time race winner James Hinchliffe and E.J. Viso, Michael Andretti's other drivers, were seeded eighth and ninth heading into the shootout. Hinchcliffe is from Canada, and Viso is Venezuelan.

The only non-Penske or non-Andretti driver to make the shootout was Ed Carpenter, the stepson of IndyCar founder Tony George. He was fifth fastest at 227.952.

There weren't many surprises.

Each of the nine drivers in the shootout were powered by the strong Chevrolet engines. That left the Honda teams, including all four drivers for Chip Ganassi's heavyweight team ? Australian Ryan Briscoe, New Zealand's Scott Dixon, Scotland's Dario Franchitti and Charlie Kimball ? out of the front three rows. Franchitti, like Castroneves, is trying to become the fourth member of the four-time winners club and will start from the middle of the sixth row, 17th, after going 226.069.

Also out of pole contention was points leader Takuma Sato of Japan. He posted a four-lap average of 225.892 and will start 18th, the outside of Row 6.

Eight drivers qualified but were later bumped out of the top 24 starting spots. Jakes and Briscoe were the only ones to make it back in.

The list of drivers still trying to make the field includes 1996 Indy winner Buddy Lazier, British driver Pippa Mann, who hasn't raced since suffering injuries in the tragic season-ending race at Las Vegas in 2011 and Brazil's Ana Beatriz. Mann and Beatriz, who drive for Dale Coyne Racing, are trying to become the first female teammates to start the 500.

Two drivers, Conor Daly and Michel Jourdain Jr., weren't quick enough to even qualify for the 33-car starting field and James Jakes' first qualifying attempt was later disqualified after failing post-qualifying inspection. Jakes tried to requalify two more times, finally making it into the 24th spot late in the day.

The final nine starting spots will be filled during the second and final day of qualifications Sunday ? a day Britain's Katherine Legge is expected to complete her first laps since being hired by Schmidt Peterson Motorsports to drive the No. 81 car. The late addition gives race organizers 34 driver-car combinations, meaning one driver won't start May 26.

And it won't be Power.

"Pole is not the most important thing for the race, but it is a very big deal at this place to get pole," Power said. "I've been very close a couple of times. I would love to get it and I think we have a chance today."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/power-grabs-early-lead-race-indy-pole-204735227.html

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You Can Thank China for Bentley's Back Seat Bonanza

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Back in the day when Bentleys and Rolls-Royces hailed from the same Crewe factory, the "Flying B" varieties were considered the car of choice for drivers, while the Rollers were the undisputed pick for those who preferred to be chauffered.

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Fast forward to 2013, and the new world order has dramatically shifted the relationship between those once entwined manufacturers. While Rolls-Royce has re-emerged under the tutelege of BMW AG, Bentley has redefined itself under the auspices of the Volkswagen Group. And while a massive technology trickle down has benefited both brands, the ultraluxury marques have also undergone a dramatic shift in philosophical bents.?

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Prime example: the 2014 Bentley Flying Spur, which we recently sampled along bustling Beijing boulevards and desolate rural roads. Why would Bentley host the car's global press launch in China? The real questin is, "Why not?" After all, China gobbled up 55% of the Flying Spur's first generation sales, and of the 8,510 Bentleys sold worldwide in 2012, 2,253 of those were destined for China.?

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Not only do China's Bentley buyers tend to be younger than their Western counterparts, they also prefer to be driven-- which explains doodads like the Flying Spur's stronger-than-ever emphasis on rear seat amenities. Sure, the imposing sedan can be customized with old world touches like a champagne cooler and veneered picnic tables with vanity mirrors, but nothing speaks to Bentley's Asian target audience quite as clearly as available internet connectivity and this little touchscreen number:

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Using the small handheld device or a downloadable smartphone app, rear seat passengers are able to take control of HVAC settings, multimedia screens, seat heating and ventilation, and access to speedometer information. And lest you worry about that the famously racing-obsessed W.O. Bentley is turning in his grave, consider the fact that this nearly three-ton car is furnished with the same 616 hp, 590 lb-ft twin-turbocharged W12 you'll find in the Continental GT Speed, which facilitates a unnervingly swift 0-60 mph time of 4.3 seconds.

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The 2014 Flying Spur's Chinese post-tariff price of?$550,000 may be difficult to comprehend for most American enthusiasts, but there's little doubt that the sedan's back seat delights will succeed at luring even more Far Eastern buyers to the Bentley brand.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/auto-blog/you-can-thank-china-for-bentleys-back-seat-bonanza?src=rss

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Former soap actor arrested for selling cocaine

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Dylan Patton in 2010.

Dylan Michael Patton, who earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for his role on NBC soap "Days of Our Lives," was charged on Thursday with selling cocaine from his home, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The 20-year-old actor played Will Horton for just under a year on the long-running soap and also appeared in such TV series as "Cold Case" and "That's So Raven." He was arrested Tuesday after sheriff's deputies searched his family's home in Agoura Hills, near Los Angeles.

Horton now faces one count of possession for sale of a controlled substance and was slated to be arraigned on Thursday. The Times said he was expected to plead not guilty, and that he allegedly sold the cocaine within 1,000 feet of an elementary school.

California law's health and safety codespecifies that if heroin, cocaine or a cocaine-based substance are sold near a school (or place of worship or facilities with minors present) the penalties for the sale can be increased in severity.

Patton could face up to nine years in state prison if he is convicted, and prosecutors were expected to ask the judge to set bail at $30,000.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/ex-days-our-lives-actor-charged-selling-cocaine-out-home-1C9965351

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G Data AntiVirus 2014

By Neil J. Rubenking

Even though not all of us can distinguish red from green, the vast majority of antivirus programs include an icon or banner that stays green when all is well but turns red when a problem arises. With its new user interface, G Data AntiVirus 2014 ($29.95, direct) marches to a different drummer. The top stripe remains red regardless of security status and turns gray when another window becomes active.

The new user interface doesn't leave you clueless as to system status. Three big green checkmark icons let you know that security status is fine, your license is still valid, and your antivirus definitions are up to date. If there's any problem the icon will turn red or yellow, depending on the severity. It took some getting used to, but I kind of like the look. I was less impressed with some of the current security features, though.

Some Collateral Damage
G Data installed without incident on most of my twelve malware-infested test systems. Malware interfered with activation or with updates on a few systems. A full scan solved those problems, and I scanned again after an update. The G Data Boot Medium rescue CD salvaged one system on which ransomware rendered the desktop inaccessible.

On more than half of the systems, the scan was interrupted by a request to reboot for thorough cleaning of active malware. After this reboot, the scan picked up where it left off. On a few systems this reboot request was repeated two, three, or even four times, but eventually they all finished the full scan.

That's where the problems began. The antivirus quarantined an essential Windows file on two systems, disabling my ability to boot into Windows. I booted the rescue CD and gathered logs for tech support to peruse. Doing so was quite a challenge, as I had to use a Linux terminal with a German keyboard layout. I typed "szstem32" all too many times and had to learn new locations for important command-line characters like dash, slash, and asterisk.

On advice from tech support, I tried booting Windows with the "Last Known Good" option; that sorted out one damaged system. As for the other, I had to use that Linux terminal again to restore non-infected versions of the problem files. I do wonder how Joe User would have managed when confronted with this level of hands-on repair.

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A look at 'enforced disappearances' worldwide

The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of cases is believed to be only a fraction of those who disappeared after being taken by security forces.

OPEN CASES (as of 2012)

Iraq ? 16,401

Sri Lanka ? 5,676

Argentina ? 3,271

Algeria ? 3,005

Guatemala ? 2,899

Peru ? 2,371

El Salvador ? 2,271

SYRIA (before the outbreak of the March 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad)

About 17,000 Syrians are believed to have disappeared during a crackdown on dissent by Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez Assad, according to Radwan Ziadeh, a U.S.-based Syrian opposition figure and human rights monitor.

ARGENTINA

The official toll of those who disappeared during the rule of a military junta in the 1970s is about 13,000, while human rights activists say more than double that number were killed and are unaccounted for.

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Gosnell case fuels bitter US abortion debate

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday May 14, 2013 to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday May 14, 2013 to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)

District Attorney Seth Williams speaks to members of the media, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Philadelphia. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore, accompanied by Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron speaks to members of the media Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Philadelphia. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Kermit Gosnell's defense lawyer Jack McMahon speaks to members of the media outside the criminal justice center, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Philadelphia. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

District Attorney Seth Williams, accompanied by Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore, left, and Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron, speaks to members of the media, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Philadelphia. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? One of the last people seated in the witness box at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial was a character witness for a co-defendant, and had nothing to do with Gosnell's abortion clinic.

But the woman happened to be six months pregnant, and nearly waddled to the stand. If the jury had any doubts about the second- or third-trimester abortions Gosnell performed at his west Philadelphia clinic, she offered a stark visual.

So, too, did the cellphone photographs staff took of a nearly 30-week baby so large that Gosnell callously joked it could "walk to the bus."

That boy, Baby A, is the first of three babies Gosnell stands convicted of killing after Monday's verdict. The 72-year-old Gosnell waived any appeals to avoid the death penalty on Wednesday, and will spend the rest of his life in prison.

The high-profile murder trial of a high-volume abortion provider reignited one of the nation's most intractable debates.

People on all sides of the abortion debate ? from proponents to clergy and lawmakers ? were quick to attack Gosnell, whose methods were unorthodox even when they weren't criminal.

"Gosnell's conviction is proof that he ignored not only state and federal laws, but standards that are set by the medical profession on best practices in reproductive health care, including safe abortion care," said Dr. Nancy Stanwood, the chair-elect for the New York City-based Physicians for Reproductive Health.

"Some abortionists may have cleaner sheets than Gosnell, and better sterilized equipment and better trained accomplices, but what they do ? what Gosnell did ? kill babies and hurt women ? is the same," said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, who co-chairs the House Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.

Opponents of abortion were joined by proponents in calling Gosnell's conviction appropriate, but they remained divided over what it may portend.

"Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed," NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse G. Hogue said this week. "We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell."

The Gosnell case could serve as a fulcrum for more dialogue about abortion, said O. Carter Snead, a University of Notre Dame bioethicist and law professor.

"I would hope that people on both sides of the abortion debate, after this Gosnell atrocity ... would sit down and say we have to find a way to talk about this," Snead said.

Gosnell's clinic went more than 15 years without a state inspection, a span that saw the practice become reckless and the doctor rich.

According to staff members, Gosnell had once performed mostly first-trimester abortions, but that proportion changed as first-trimester patients found other options than his chaotic, dirty clinic, and second-trimester patients increasingly had fewer options.

Gosnell came to rely on untrained staff, unsterile equipment and unorthodox abortion methods that included women delivering babies that were then "snipped" with scissors after they were born alive, the jury found.

Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 drug overdose of a patient, a 41-year-old refugee from Bhutan.

"The fact that we've got such a paralyzed political system when it comes to this question leads to attorneys general, governors and others not doing anything in the face of obvious harm to the public," Snead said. "This is a grotesque wakeup call for us to sit down and have a hard conversation about a very difficult question."

Relatively few women seek second-term abortions, and only a fraction of them wait until after 20 weeks. Abortions at 21 weeks or more make up only 1.5 percent of the total performed in the U.S. each year, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

That group might include teens in denial, the poor trying to raise money for the fee, or women trying to get several days off of work or family responsibilities in states with waiting periods.

Stanwood said that what she described as "arbitrary" restrictions on abortions in some states could drive some women to use clinics such as Gosnell's.

"He was preying on women who were on the social margins, who didn't have ready access to health care," she said.

The desperate, uninsured poor made up a considerable portion of Gosnell's cash-only practice. The mother of Baby A testified that she was 17 at the time, and didn't know how far along she was. She guessed she might be 4 1/2 months along when her aunt brought her to Gosnell's clinic in Delaware.

Gosnell manipulated the ultrasound wand to make the baby appear smaller, and listed the fetal age at 24.5 weeks, according to staff testimony. He then told her to return the next day to Philadelphia, where abortions could be performed until 24 weeks, four weeks later than in Delaware.

The aunt raised $2,500 in cash, some of it from an ATM after they arrived in Philadelphia. The aunt thought the abortion was in the girl's best interest, although the teen ended up with sepsis from the abortion, and spent two weeks in the hospital.

Staff cell phone photos showed what one clinic worker called the largest aborted baby she had ever seen. A prosecution expert said it was nearly 30 weeks. The photo was shown repeatedly during the trial, in part to prove the prosecution's theory that Gosnell regularly aborted babies past the state limit. The jury convicted him on 21 or 24 counts of performing illegal third-term abortions.

"Somewhere around 90 percent, 88 percent, (of women) have an abortion in the first trimester," said Elizabeth Nash, a public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute.

The Buhtanese refugee who died at Gosnell's clinic, Karnamaya Mongar, had sought an abortion closer to her Virginia home when she was 15 weeks pregnant, and went to three clinics before she found Gosnell a month later.

Her case exemplifies one of the many reasons women delay getting an abortion, especially as states adopt more and more restrictions, Nash said.

"It's so heartbreaking," Nash said. "If we were able to provide health care to these women, who are so in a sense displaced because they don't have a connection to the health care system, either because of financial reasons, or fear, or lack of knowledge ... we could really make a huge dent in the unintended pregnancy rate."

Half of all pregnancies are unplanned, she said.

"If you could work on that issue, you could really reduce everything that's going on around abortions. The decibel level could be reduced. And potentially, we could have a real conversation about abortion."

Associated Press

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Black hole powered jets plow into galaxy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/space_time/astronomy/~3/5prUHaNU_s0/130515151433.htm

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