Gazzetta sorry over Balotelli King Kong cartoon

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By Mark Meadows

updated 7:44 a.m. ET June 27, 2012

KRAKOW (Reuters) - Top Italian daily newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport has apologized for printing a cartoon portraying black Italy striker Mario Balotelli as King Kong.

Media reports said Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola had reacted with fury at the depiction, which comes after the 21-year-old has battled racism in his homeland and abroad for years.

The cartoon of the Manchester City forward on top of London's Big Ben swatting away footballs was meant to be humorous and positive, showing the striker as a giant who had conquered England.

However, in the wake of Italy's Euro 2012 quarter-final win over England and ahead of their semi-final with Germany on Thursday, the cartoon has received complaints from readers.

"We can honestly say it is not one of the best efforts by our great cartoonist," Gazzetta said.

"If someone found it offensive we are sorry.

"This newspaper has always fought against racism in stadiums and denounced monkey noises aimed at Balotelli."

Neither Balotteli nor Italy were immediately available to comment.

The cartoon was printed on Sunday and at first went largely unnoticed but has now become a hot topic across the internet.

Balotelli, born in Italy and of Ghanaian descent, was racially abused by Juventus fans during his time with Inter Milan and the Turin club was forced by Serie A to play a match behind closed doors.

However, racism campaigners in Italy have long believed not enough was done to protect him in a country not as used to immigration as other major European nations like the Britain and France.

At Euro 2012 Balotelli was subjected to racist abuse by Croatia fans during a match on June 14 and the Croatian FA was fined 80,000 euros ($99,800) by European governing body UEFA.

The size of the fine was criticized by the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network, who told Reuters there was public concern that Denmark's Nicklas Bendtner was fined 20,000 euros more for exposing an illegal advert on his underpants.

Spain have also been charged over the racist behavior of fans.

Before the tournament Balotelli said he would "kill" anyone who threw a banana at him in the street and indicated he would walk off the pitch if he heard racist chanting.

Balotelli and the Italy camp did not hear the abuse in the Croatia or Spain match. ($1 = 0.8019 euros)

(Editing by Ken Ferris)

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Seattle pool allows topless breast cancer survivor

Jodi Jaecks is seen in a June 20, 2012 photo in Seattle. Jaecks, 47, pressed for months to swim topless in a city pool after her double mastectomy made wearing swim tops painful. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department has reversed a decision by its aquatics manager and decided to allow Jaecks to swim topless in a public pool. Parks Superintendent Christopher Williams says there's nothing to alarm the public, so the department decided to make an exception to its dress policy for public pools. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Dean Rutz) SEATTLE OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, TELEVISION OUT, NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT TO: DEAN RUTZ/THE SEATTLE TIMES.

Jodi Jaecks is seen in a June 20, 2012 photo in Seattle. Jaecks, 47, pressed for months to swim topless in a city pool after her double mastectomy made wearing swim tops painful. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department has reversed a decision by its aquatics manager and decided to allow Jaecks to swim topless in a public pool. Parks Superintendent Christopher Williams says there's nothing to alarm the public, so the department decided to make an exception to its dress policy for public pools. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Dean Rutz) SEATTLE OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, TELEVISION OUT, NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT TO: DEAN RUTZ/THE SEATTLE TIMES.

SEATTLE (AP) ? A Seattle breast cancer survivor whose breasts were surgically removed has gained the permission to swim topless at a city pool.

But Jodi Jaecks wants to make sure her privilege is also extended to other breast cancer survivors who want to swim comfortably.

"Initially when I heard about the reversal, I was elated. Then it came that it wasn't a policy change, it was just an exception for me. Then I was quite deflated. It seemed like it was a reaction that it was just meant to appease me," the 47-year-old said Thursday.

Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Christopher Williams announced Wednesday that he was giving Jaecks an exception to the department's clothing policy.

"Our original concern stems from our responsibility to accommodate the needs of all our patrons. In this case, I see nothing that might alarm the public," Williams said in a statement. He was reacting to an article about Jaecks that was published in The Stranger weekly newspaper, which also ran a picture of her topless.

Parks spokeswoman Dewey Potter said Thursday that Williams has decided to create a committee made up of cancer survivors, parks staff, King County health representatives and others to come up with a new policy.

Until a new policy is written, Williams will review on a case-by-case basis requests from people who have had surgery and want to swim.

After enduring two surgeries, rounds of chemotherapy and the surgical removal of both her breasts in March 2011, Jaecks wanted to turn to swimming to regain her strength. But swimsuit tops proved too uncomfortable, and nerves on her chest remained tender, Jaecks said.

So she asked the manager at her city pool if she could swim topless this past March. Eventually, she heard from the head of the aquatics department, who told her she couldn't.

"And that's when they said it was a policy that they required gender-appropriate clothing ... regardless if I had nipples or whatever," Jaecks said.

Potter said pool staff was following city policy. But she said it was "unfortunate" the issue didn't get to Williams' attention until now.

Jaecks hasn't swum topless yet. She is planning a swim Monday. Her exception extends only to adult lap hours.

She plans to meet with Williams next week and ask that her exception be extended to anyone who survived breast cancer.

Jaecks said cancer patients shouldn't be made to feel self-conscious by asking for special permission.

Associated Press

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S. Africa: Rwandan general accuses Kagame

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? A Rwandan general who was once a top aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame but now is among his most prominent critics said Thursday that Kagame ordered the killing of the previous president that sparked Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa made the accusation Thursday as he testified in a Johannesburg courtroom about an attempt on his own life in 2010 in South Africa. The shooting of Nyamwasa, and developments in other countries, have raised suspicions that Rwanda's government has deployed hit teams against dissidents abroad. Rwanda denies the accusations.

Asked why the three Rwandans and three Tanzanians on trial may have wanted him dead, Nyamwasa, once Kagame's military chief, described a breakdown in his relationship with Kagame.

"I ran out of the country because my life was threatened," Nyamwasa testified.

Nyamwasa fled in 2010 to South Africa, where he was shot months after arrival. Nyamwasa testified Thursday that a bullet remains lodged at the base of his spinal column.

Rwanda's government has denied involvement in the attempted murder.

Nyamwasa testified Thursday that another Rwandan exiled in South Africa allowed him to listen in secret to a telephone call with a top Rwandan army official in Rwanda. Nyamwasa said the caller from Rwanda was looking for someone to help "eliminate" Nyamwasa. Nyamwasa said he reported the conversation to South African authorities before he was shot, but that his security was stepped up only after the shooting.

He added, as a further explanation of why he may have been targeted: "There are facts in my knowledge that the president of Rwanda ordered the killing of the former president of Rwanda, President Habyarimana."

Rwanda's 100-day genocide was sparked by the shooting down of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane in 1994. Militants from the Hutu ethnic majority blamed Tutsis, sparking the massacre of more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, a frenzied slaughter that was stopped when Kagame's Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, toppled the Hutu extremists.

While the Rwandan government blames Hutu extremists for the crash that killed Habyarimana, accusations persisted for years that Kagame's Tutsi rebel force shot down the plane. A French investigation completed earlier this year found that the missile fire came from a military camp and not Tutsi rebels. French judges had filed preliminary charges against Kagame's allies and were investigating the crash because a French air crew was killed.

Nyamwasa was not allowed to elaborate Thursday after the judge ruled that the general was merely speculating and not offering evidence of the suspects' motives.

A South African lawyer hired by Rwanda's government to monitor the proceedings, Gerhard van der Merwe, said after Thursday's session that it was unfortunate accusations could be leveled without Kagame being given an opportunity to respond.

Nyamwasa was for years a top Kagame aide. In testimony over the last two days, he has described a falling out that may have led to his apparent demotion from national security coordinator to ambassador to India in 2004.

Nyamwasa described the shooting in a soft voice Thursday, standing with straight military posture.

Asked whether the shooter was in the courtroom, he walked from the witness stand and calmly and firmly placed his right hand on the left shoulder of one of the defendants, Hemedi Denengo Sefu, a Tanzanian.

"This is the person," Nyamwasa said, then stared at Sefu for a beat before returning to the witness stand.

According to Nyamwasa's account of the assassination attempt, he was sitting next to his driver as he and his wife returned to his Johannesburg apartment complex after a shopping trip. He saw the shooter reaching through the driver's window, holding a pistol in both hands. Nyamwasa opened his door and was shot in the lower abdomen as he ducked out of the car. As the shooter then walked around the front of the car, Nyamwasa considered running a few meters (yards) to his apartment's basement, but worried his right leg would not hold him ? he would find out later that the bullet had fractured his right hip. Instead he grabbed for the gun. The shooter took a few steps back, and Nyamwasa could see the gun had jammed. The shooter then tried to pull out a knife. As he fumbled with his weapons, Nyamwasa ran to the basement, shouting at his driver to grab the shooter.

The driver, who is charged as a conspirator, did nothing, Nyamwasa said. The driver is accused of giving the plotters information on Nyamwasa's movements in exchange for money. He sat next to the accused shooter in the defendant's dock Thursday.

Once in his basement, Nyamwasa said he became concerned the shooter would then attack his wife, so he came back out and saw the shooter running out of the pedestrian gate of the apartment complex wall.

Observers speculate Kagame saw Nyamwasa as a political rival who was becoming too powerful. In South Africa, working with other dissidents here and elsewhere, Nyamwasa established the Rwandan National Congress, which they say is dedicated to pursuing peaceful political change in their homeland.

Nyamwasa has been dogged in exile by questions about his conduct when he was close to Kagame. Nyamwasa and other senior Tutsis are accused of waging an extermination campaign against Hutus in the aftermath of Rwanda's genocide. Nyamwasa denies the charges.

In Rwanda, a military court last year convicted Nyamwasa and three other dissidents in absentia and sentenced them to 20 years in prison for threatening state security and on other charges they deny.

Last year, British police warned Rwandan exiles in Britain that their lives were in danger, and the threat was believed to have emanated from the Rwandan government. In Sweden earlier this year, a Rwandan diplomat was expelled because he was engaged in "refugee espionage," according to a person close to the Swedish government.

Last year, after a Rwandan journalist who was a frequent critic of his government was shot and killed in Uganda, Human Rights Watch urged Uganda's government to protect Rwandan dissidents living in Uganda.

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Windows 7 Tested on Retina Display MacBook Pro: How Good Is It?

Everyone who?s gotten their hands on the new MacBook Pro has raved about the Retina Display and its astounding 2880 x 1800 resolution ? and with good reason. Text, photos, video and games have never looked as sharp on a laptop display as they do on the new MacBook Pro. Apple has optimized its own applications, including Safari, Mail, iPhoto and iMovie, to take full advantage of the increased resolution. Blizzard Entertainment has even announced that its ultra-popular roleplaying game, ?Diablo III?, will support a resolution of 2880 x 1880. (We averaged 41 frames per second in our review of the system.)

But how good does Windows 7 look on the MacBook Pro?s Retina Display? In a word: Fantastic.

As long as you boost increase the size of text and icons to the ?Larger? size (150%), the MacBook Pro?s 15-inch display feels as large as a 24-inch monitor. Make the text any smaller, however, and reading becomes an experience painful to anyone without hawk eyes. What?s more, the MacBook Pro?s powerful hardware ensured that our benchmarks clocked in with stellar scores ? although not every Windows feature proved compatible with Boot Camp. Get the full story below.

Retina Display

Windows 7 has never looked better. But don?t take our word for it ? see for yourself below. Just a brief caveat: Although the display is easier to read with text and icons set to 150 percent size, for these screen shots we set the display size to 100 percent to more effectively demonstrate the difference in quality between 1800p, 1080p, 900p and 768p resolutions.

1366 x 768

1600 x 900

1920 x 1080

2880 x 1080

As you can see, the Retina Display effectively quadruples the screen real estate compared to a 1366 x 768 screen. Text looks much crisper, as well. Compare these images of the Laptopmag.com home page:

1366 x 768

1600 x 900

1920 x 1080

2880 x 1800

Interestingly, it appears that some Windows applications, such as the Windows version of the Google Chrome browser, haven?t been optimized for the Retina Display. Comparing Internet Explorer and Chrome side-by-side, text and images on IE appear much crisper than on Chrome, which suffers from very noticeable fuzziness when viewed at 2880 x 1800. See for yourself below ? Internet Explorer is on the left, while Chrome is on the right.

Performance

Windows 7 doesn?t just look good on the new MacBook Pro ($2,199) ? it outperforms the competition in almost every category. For comparison, we looked at the 15-inch Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 ($1,031), MSI GT60?($1,499) and Samsung Series 7 Gamer ($1,899).

On PCMark07, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the MacBook Pro and its 2.3-GHz quad-core Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU, 8GB of 1600 MHz RAM and 256GB SSD racked up a score of 4,779, more than 2,000 points higher than the average mainstream notebook (2,429) and 1,000 points higher than the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 (1.7-GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU, 4GB of RAM and 256GB SSD). The MSI GT60 gaming notebook (2.3-GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU, 12GB of RAM and dual 500GB 7,200-rpm HDDs) notched 3,336 on the same test, while the Samsung Series 7 Gamer (2.3-GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and dual 750GB, 7,200-rpm HDDs with 8GB of Express Cache) notched a score of 3,611.

Copying 4.97GB of mixed media files proved to be a snap for the MacBook Pro as well. Its 256GB SSD achieved an ultra-fast file transfer speed of 196 MBps ? much faster than the category average (34.7 MBps). Even the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3, with its transfer rate of 164 MBps, couldn?t match the new MacBook Pro. The MSI GT60 and Samsung Series 7 Gamer, which use dual 7,200-rpm hard drives, clocked in at just 74.8 and 33.3 MBps, respectively.

On the OpenOffice Spreadsheet test, the MacBook Pro matched 20,000 names and addresses in 4 minutes and 35 seconds, more than a full minute faster than the Acer and Dell, and almost two minutes ahead of the mainstream notebook average. The MSI GT60 just managed to squeak by the MacBook Pro, completing the spreadsheet test in 4 minutes and 26 seconds.

Still, at 36 seconds the MacBook Pro doesn?t boot as quickly into Windows 7 as the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 (0:23).? But the extra time is almost certainly due to the fact that the machine must first examine the partition before launching Windows. On OS X, the MacBook Pro boots into the operating system in a cool 15 seconds. The MSI GT60 and Samsung Series 7 Gamer, which lack flash memory, booted Windows in 53 and 42 seconds, respectively.

Graphics Performance

The MacBook Pro delivered phenomenal results on our 3D benchmarks ? on 3DMark06, for example, the MacBook Pro and its 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650 GPU turned in a whopping 14,330, far outstripping the 11,173 turned in by the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 (1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 640M) and making the mainstream notebook average of 5,268 seem like a joke. The MSI GT60 (3GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M GPU) and Samsung Series 7 Gamer (2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M GPU) delivered more impressive results (19,359 for the GT60 and 20,917 on the Series 7 Gamer) ? but these systems, unlike the MacBook Pro, were built to play games.

Unfortunately, ridiculously high benchmark scores don?t translate into excellent gaming experiences. In fact, we weren?t able to get ?Batman: Arkham City? to run at all on the MacBook Pro running Boot Camp. The game looked good, for the brief time that we were able to run it ? running ?Arkham City? at 1366 x 768 pixels and Low graphics settings, the built-in benchmark averaged 115 frames per second until the game crashed 30 seconds into the benchmark.

Like most other non-gaming laptops, the MacBook Pro struggled to run ?Arkham City? with its graphics at its near-maximum; after setting the resolution to 2880 x 1800 and graphics to Very High, the benchmark averaged only 13 fps and crashed after 52 seconds. Actually playing ?Arkham City? proved impossible ? the game crashed shortly after launching a new game, every time.

Heat

We should note, also, that the MacBook Pro generates a tremendous amount of heat when trying to play high-end games ? we measured a temperature of 79 degrees Fahrenheit on the touchpad, 100 degrees on the underside and 108 degrees between the G and H keys after 3 consecutive attempts to run the benchmark in ?Arkham City? on its highest settings. We consider anything above 95 degrees to be uncomfortable.

Even when playing streaming video on Hulu.com for 15 minutes, the MacBook Pro didn?t get much cooler, registering 82 degrees on the touchpad, 95 degrees on the underside and 105 degrees between the G and H keys.

Overall Impressions

Is the MacBook Pro with Retina display, ironically, the best Windows notebook on the market? The answer isn?t clear-cut. If you?re not in the market for games and don?t have a problem looking at small text, the MacBook Pro offers far superior performance to every other mainstream notebook currently on the market. If games are your thing, however, the system?s inability to play the latest games for more than 30 seconds may be a deal-breaker.

Obviously, the new MacBook Pro has been optimized to run most effectively using Apple?s own OS X, but if you love Windows or are just feeling adventurous, you can use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your machine. Thankfully, installing Windows on a Mac?is a simple process, so if you?re the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro, try loading up Windows 7 and giving it a whirl for yourself.

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Preventing kidney stones | Bodybuilding, Supplements, Diets ...

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You probably guessed that consuming too little water can lead to the formation of kidney stones. But did you know that too little calcium in your diet can also lead to the formation of kidney stones?

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And the important thing about calcium in preventing kidney stones is that it needs to come from a food source, and not from supplements. Apparently, calcium from supplements did not prevent the formation of kidney stones.

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This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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Research Conclusions

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Their research is based on following 78,293 US women for an average of eight years. Their research conclusions include:
The women with the highest calcium consumption in their diets were 28% less likely to develop kidney stones compared to the women with the lowest consumption of calcium.

Women with the highest consumption of fluids per day had a 20% lower risk of developing stones than the women with the lowest fluid intake.

Women who had the highest levels of sodium in their diet had a whopping 61% higher risks of developing kidney stones than the women with the lowest levels of sodium in their diet.

Best Ways of Preventing Kidney Stones

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Based on their research conclusions, the best ways to prevent the formation of kidney stones are to
Eat foods high in calcium content
Stay away from calcium supplements
Drink sufficient fluids every day
Reduce your sodium intake
Foods Highest in Calcium Content

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These foods have the highest calcium content according to Whole Foods

Yogurt ? 44.8% RDV
Tofu ? 39.6% RDV
Sesame Seeds ? 35.1% RDV
Sardines ? 34.6% RDV
Milk ? 29.2% RDV
Collard Greens ? 26.6% RDV
Cheese ? 22.1% RDV
Turnip Greens ? 19.7% RDV
How Much Fluids Per Day?

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Every one is a little different. The best way to determine how much fluids you should consume each day is to look at your urine. If it is pale in color, your fluid intake is adequate. If it is dark in color, you should consume more fluids.

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How To Reduce Your Sodium Intake

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Besides using less salt, you should also reduce your intake of fast foods, processed meats and canned foods. You can also use Lite Salt.

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So, eat more foods high in calcium content, take in adequate amounts of fluids and reduce your sodium consumption to improve your kidney?s health and fitness by preventing the formation of kidney stones.

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Scientists behaving badly: the Berlin patient

As scientists we are taught to present our data and opinions through a defined network. New findings are published in peer-reviewed journals, not the New York Times; our opinions are recorded at scientific meetings, not in press releases. At the heart of this lies our desire to keep science free from the undue influence of the media and untainted by personal motivations. While this system may make some researchers overly wary of speaking with journalists, for the most part it works; cutting edge research is first assessed by scientists with the necessary background, not the general population.

The scientific landscape is littered with stories of those scientists who have disobeyed. In 1954 Jonas Salk spoke on a radio program about the large-scale success of his polio vaccine prior to publication, promptly losing some respect in the scientific community.? In 1984 Robert Gallo announced the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in a press conference with President Reagan?s secretary of health and human services one month prior to publication, and afterward lost much of his credibility.

This past week, we were faced with another example of scientific hubris. At the International Workshop on HIV & Hepatitis Virus Drug Resistance and Curative Strategies in Spain, data was presented on one of the most dramatic cases we have in HIV: the Berlin patient. An HIV positive American, Timothy Brown, who received a bone marrow transplant from a donor with natural resistance to HIV, and consequently was cured of the disease he had harbored for decades, this one patient has inspired numerous clinical trials and given hope to millions of AIDS patients worldwide. Immediately following this workshop, one researcher, not involved in Timothy?s research, released a press release with the tantalizing headline: ?The So Called HIV Cured ?Berlin? Patient Still Has Detectable HIV in His Body.?

The problem, of course, is that the new data we have on the Berlin patient has, in fact, nothing to do with his cure. Timothy Brown, the Berlin patient, has been off therapy for 5 years and is, for all intents and purposes, functionally cured of HIV. New, unconfirmed data on the presence of non-replicating HIV DNA in his gut is likely to tell us more about viral persistence then about the future of HIV therapy. Unfortunately, the dramatic nature of this press release, and further blog posts by one scientist, meant that the story was widely reported.

The real story here is not about whether the Berlin patient has lingering HIV in his gut, it?s about our interaction, as scientists, with the media. This story will have little impact on research but will erode the hope of HIV patients worldwide. Scientists would be wise to remember that a debate on the Berlin patient is ultimately a debate about one person?s life: Timothy Ray Brown.

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