Syria risks drawn-out civil war: experts

With the Annan peace plan at stalemate, a badly-fragmented opposition and fierce resistance from the regime, Syria risks descending into a long and bloody civil war, analysts say.

As international powers grapple for a solution to end the conflict, experts believe a way needs to be found to tip the scales in favor of the 15-month rebellion seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"The regime is doing its absolute best right now to create a climate of civil war. That is clear," Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center, told AFP.

"The longer the situation goes on, I believe, Syria will be facing more of a sectarian problem than it has," he said. "I think you're going to find there'll be increasingly bloody episodes because the diplomacy has not managed to keep up with the situation on the ground."

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met late Wednesday in Istanbul with senior officials from 15 other countries to discuss how to halt the violence in Syria and remove Assad from power.

The talks came as the six-point peace plan drawn up by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan appears to be unravelling. One of its main resolutions is a ceasefire yet the tragedies have continued such as the massacre in Houla last month in which 108 civilians, many of them women and children, were killed.

"We are kidding ourselves if we act as if this peace plan is bringing peace... It is kind of like Tinker Bell -- if we all say that we believe in it, then it will happen," Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told AFP.

Residents in Houla blamed the massacre on residents from the neighboring Alawite villages -- the same mystical Islamic sect as the Assad family who have ruled the Sunni majority nation with an iron fist for over four decades.

Fears are also growing the conflict -- in which rights groups say some 13,500 Syrians have already died -- is increasingly turning into a proxy war between the West and its Arab allies on one side, and Russia, China and Iran on the other.

"There's been a privatization" of the conflict, said Shaikh, "meaning, different groups from the outside have been supporting different groups on the inside... And this is the great danger now."

Even though Washington has been clear that so far it is only providing non-lethal support to rebel groups, such as communications equipment, there are growing calls for a greater US involvement.

Some Republicans have called for the United States to arm the rebels, but there is little appetite to enter another Middle Eastern conflict in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan.

"There is a leadership vacuum," said Abrams, who has argued that greater US involvement in Syria is in national strategic interests as a collapse of the Assad regime would by extension prove a blow to Iran.

"The collapse of the Assad regime would sunder this dangerous alliance," argued former assistant secretary of state James Rubin in Foreign Policy magazine, saying Washington should help regional allies organize and train the ramshackle Syrian rebel forces.

Putting together some kind of coalition air support would also help support the rebels, while keeping US boots off the ground, Rubin said.

Part of the difficulty facing Washington and the international community is the fragmented nature of the opposition, with the Free Syrian Army fighting on the ground and the Syrian National Council trying to fill the political void.

As the conflict drags on, militias have sprung up in towns and cities, with one expert saying there could be 50 or 60 different groups.

"We've been very clear... we want to see a political dialogue begin as soon as possible," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told journalists.

He added that Assad could not be part of the talks, but "the exact makeup, who talks to who, obviously that's something that needs to be clarified by the Syrian people themselves."

"Washington needs interlocutors," Joshua Landis, director for the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, told AFP, arguing that the United States did not want to be caught out supporting the wrong group.

Washington was already "off-shoring" the conflict to regional allies such as Saudi Arabia who were funneling arms to the rebels, he said, "so at least when the car bomb goes off in Damascus, it won't have 'Made in America on it.'

"Everybody in Washington wants regime change on the cheap. They want to bomb without spending any money and without putting any American boots on the ground, they want another Libya. The trouble is, Syria is not Libya."

One possible way forward, backed by Russia, is a plan based on the model in Yemen, in which Assad's inner circle would help lead a transition.

But that requires a cohesive opposition prepared to engage "in what is in effect a negotiation with the government," said Shaikh. "That becomes even more difficult with the situation on the ground becoming ever more violent."

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Giant black hole kicked out of home galaxy

Monday, June 4, 2012

Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the black hole collided and merged with another black hole and received a powerful recoil kick from gravitational wave radiation.

"It's hard to believe that a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the mass of the sun could be moved at all, let alone kicked out of a galaxy at enormous speed," said Francesca Civano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), who led the new study. "But these new data support the idea that gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of space first predicted by Albert Einstein but never detected directly -- can exert an extremely powerful force."

Although the ejection of a supermassive black hole from a galaxy by recoil because more gravitational waves are being emitted in one direction than another is likely to be rare, it nevertheless could mean that there are many giant black holes roaming undetected out in the vast spaces between galaxies.

"These black holes would be invisible to us," said co-author Laura Blecha, also of CfA, "because they have consumed all of the gas surrounding them after being thrown out of their home galaxy."

Civano and her group have been studying a system known as CID-42, located in the middle of a galaxy about 4 billion light years away. They had previously spotted two distinct, compact sources of optical light in CID-42, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

More optical data from the ground-based Magellan and Very Large Telescopes in Chile supplied a spectrum (that is, the distribution of optical light with energy) that suggested the two sources in CID-42 are moving apart at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour.

Previous Chandra observations detected a bright X-ray source likely caused by super-heated material around one or more supermassive black holes. However, they could not distinguish whether the X-rays came from one or both of the optical sources because Chandra was not pointed directly at CID-42, giving an X-ray source that was less sharp than usual.

"The previous data told us that there was something special going on, but we couldn't tell if there were two black holes or just one," said another co-author Martin Elvis, also of CfA. "We needed new X-ray data to separate the sources."

When Chandra's sharp High Resolution Camera was pointed directly at CID-42, the resulting data showed that X-rays were coming only from one of the sources. The team thinks that when two galaxies collided, the supermassive black holes in the center of each galaxy also collided. The two black holes then merged to form a single black hole that recoiled from gravitational waves produced by the collision, which gave the newly merged black hole a sufficiently large kick for it to eventually escape from the galaxy. The other optical source is thought to be the bright star cluster that was left behind. This picture is consistent with recent computer simulations of merging black holes, which show that merged black holes can receive powerful kicks from the emission of gravitational waves.

There are two other possible explanations for what is happening in CID-42. One would involve an encounter between three supermassive black holes, resulting in the lightest one being ejected. Another idea is that CID-42 contains two supermassive black holes spiraling toward one another, rather than one moving quickly away.

Both of these alternate explanations would require at least one of the supermassive black holes to be very obscured, since only one bright X-ray source is observed. Thus the Chandra data support the idea of a black hole recoiling because of gravitational waves.

The source is located in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, a large, multi-wavelength survey.

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'Harry Potter': An MTV Movie Awards History

Following Best Cast and Best Hero wins for final film, we look back at our favorite Movie Awards moments with the Boy Who Lived.
By Terri Schwartz


Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Photo: Warner Bros.

UNIVERSAL CITY, California — With its Best Cast and Best Hero wins at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, the "Harry Potter" era in MTV history has come to a close.

MTV has been a fan of "Harry Potter" since the beginning. Literally. It's bittersweet to have to celebrate the series for the last time with the big wins for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," so we decided to take a look back at our favorite Movie Awards memories with The Boy Who Lived.

The series didn't earn its first Movie Award nominations until 2006, for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." It got nods for Best Hero (Daniel Radcliffe), Best On-Screen Team (Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) and Best Villain (Ralph Fiennes), but didn't take home any awards. "Potter" struck out yet again with "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" when it lost both Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet in 2007 and Best Kiss (between Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung) in 2008.

There was a year of downtime between "Potter" nominations because the series didn't have a film come out in 2009, but that doesn't mean it wasn't represented at the Movie Awards. Radcliffe, Grint and Watson presented a "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" clip showing Dumbledore using the Pensieve to show Harry the first time he met Tom Riddle, who later would become Lord Voldemort.

It wasn't until 2010, when "Half-Blood Prince" was up for four awards, that the series took home its first Golden Popcorn. The film lost for Best Female (Watson), Best Male (Radcliffe) and Best Movie, but Tom Felton took home the award for Best Villain. That ended up being one of the most memorable acceptance speeches in recent Movie Awards history as Mark Wahlberg kept interrupting the young Brit while he was trying to talk.

Fans were duly outraged, but Wahlberg was quick to apologize to Felton backstage — and we caught it on tape! "We were only kidding," Wahlberg said, patting Felton on the back. "Sorry about that, great job. ... Thanks for being a good sport."

That year also marked the second time the Movie Awards showed a sneak peek of an upcoming "Potter" movie. We premiered a teaser trailer for both parts of "Deathly Hallows," which ended up being pretty freaking awesome.

Felton took home the series' second Golden Popcorn the next year (again for Best Villain), though "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" lost for Best Female, Best Kiss (Watson and Radcliffe), Best Male, Best Movie and Best Fight. That night was another memorable one for Felton, as Foo Fighters leading man Dave Grohl congratulated him on camera following his win.

One of the most talked about moments of the 2011 MTV Movie Awards was the premiere of the forest scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2." It was one of the more chilling moments from the movie, and one that boded well for the final installment of the "Harry Potter" saga.

Fans were ultimately disappointed with the fact that "Potter" only took home one award in 2011, especially since it lost most of the Golden Popcorns to "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse." With the voting rules changed this year, that means that the competition in 2012 was less about a battle of the fandoms and more about the best movie winning.

In the end, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" didn't win every award it was up for this year. It lost for Best Fight, Best Female, Best Male, Best Kiss (Watson and Grint) and Best Movie, but at least won for Best Cast and Best Hero. At the end of the day, "Harry Potter" really does deserve both of those awards.

Fans could argue for hours over whether "Harry Potter" or "The Hunger Games" deserve the awards they won, but it seems fair to say that "Harry Potter" has consistently had one of the best ensemble casts in recent memory. It's not just Radcliffe, Watson, Felton and Grint who won the award, but everyone who participated in the series' eight films. As for the Best Hero win, considering that Harry defeated one of most evil beings of all time (you know, He Who Must Not Be Named), that's quite a heroic feat. Those seem like suitable thank-yous to the "Potter" crew for making one of the most beloved film franchises in movie history.

Jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, gut-busting moments galore. See what just happened at the 21st annual MTV Movie Awards!

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After Fran?ois Hollande?s victory in the last French presidential elections, Algerian flags have been seen in the Place de la Bastille. Not really surprising. Thousands of Algerians immigrate to France every year. An old French colony, Algeria is the second largest francophone country in the world. Although not an impressive number, approximately 50,000 people of Algerian origin reside in Canada today. The country is known for welcoming immigration, but you go a bit further and you discover that, differently for what is jokily said, they don?t beg people to live there, unless you fill in certain requirements. "Monsieur Lazhar" tells not only the story of an Algerian immigrant struggling to get political asylium in Canada, but the story of a multicutural and young country discovering its own identity and, consequently, its own limits and weaknesses. How many immigrants couldn?t repeat Alice?s words? "My school is beautiful. Maybe not the most beautiful, but it's mine. So...At first, when I started coming here, my mom kept saying how nice it was.Personally, I found it ok... But now, six years later, I also think it's really nice. Because it's mine. A big yard to play soccer and basketball, where parents drop their kids off in the morning. They take care of us, check to see if we have lice, how our teeth are, if we're aggressive or hyperactive. But this nice school is where Martine Lachance hanged herself. With her blue scarf from the big pipe on a Wednesday night. (...) Martine must've been discouraged with her life. The last thing she did was kick her chair to make it fall over. Sometimes I wonder if she wasn't sending a violent message." The anguish of relocation is algo the anguish of the kids having to deal with their teacher?s death. While some people fight for life, others give up without explanation. Here we have the opposition between Martine and Lazhar?s wife, between freedom and opression. Despite the differences, resamblances: their belongings. When Lazhar uses his wife?s stamp on assignments, he is taking Martine along with him.In the most majority of moves about teachers and students, the new teacher always brings a fresh air. Monsieur Lazhar, on the other hand, brings back the methods and rigor of old times, along, however, with a real passion for kids. Indirectly, the movie questions the modern teaching methods that include a constant parental intervention and that ultimately undermine the teacher-student relationship. Counting with an amazing leading actor and a great cast - if they made a remake of "My Girl', Sophie N?lisse just had to play Vada, due to her resemblance to that young Anna Chlumsky - "Monsieur Lazhar" perfectly balances fiction and reality, finding the accurate measure of drama required.

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$20M California Trail center opens in Nevada

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A $20 million federal facility devoted to telling the story of the covered-wagon pioneers' overland journey during the California Gold Rush has opened in Nevada.

About 700 people gathered for a grand opening ceremony Saturday at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's California Trail Interpretative Center, located along Interstate 80 near Elko about 280 miles west of Reno.

It's the BLM's third trail center and the first federal facility devoted exclusively to the California Trail. The agency operates similar centers in Casper, Wyo., and Baker City, Ore., along the Oregon Trail.

The trail center's exhibits feature life-size dioramas, original artwork, interactive displays and multi-media presentations. They showcase a wide range of subjects, including a typical emigrant camp, the infamous Donner Party, the Gold Rush and American Indian tribes of Nevada and Utah.

"I've had some people say it's Smithsonian in quality and I truly do agree," center director David Jamiel told The Associated Press. "People are absolutely amazed when they walk through the door and see what we've done."

The trail center commemorates more than 250,000 adventurers who followed various branches of the California Trail across California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah between 1841 and 1869.

For the pioneers who turned left off the Oregon Trail for California's gold fields, the final one-third of their 2,000-mile trek marked the biggest challenge.

They were forced to cross the barren deserts of Utah and Nevada not only at the hottest time of the year but also when they were lowest on food and supplies. California's Sierra Nevada was the final obstacle before they reached the promised land.

The trail center's six galleries are organized by zones the emigrants encountered along the way: the Missouri River, the Great Plains, the Parting of the Ways (where the Oregon and California trails branched), the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah, Nevada's Forty-Mile Desert and the Sierra.

A large diorama depicting how the animals and equipment of the pioneers were breaking down by the end of the journey is featured in the Forty-Mile Desert gallery. Dead oxen and mules lined the trail in the western Nevada desert, which was the greatest scene of suffering along the entire route because of its total lack of water and forage.

The Donner Party story is told in the Sierra gallery and at listening stations throughout the trail center. Many members of the party starved to death and others resorted to cannibalism to survive when stranded in the Sierra in the winter of 1846-47.

The trail center overlooks the junction of the California Trail and Hastings Cutoff, a supposed shortcut across Utah and a portion of Nevada that was blamed for putting the Donner Party behind schedule and leading to their entrapment by snow in the Sierra.

"From here, you're seeing basically the same landscape the emigrants saw 150 years ago," Jamiel said, adding a section of trail traversed by the pioneers is located on nearby ranch property.

The Great Basin gallery tells the story of the overland journey from the perspective of the Paiute and Shoshone tribes. Based on information from tribal volunteers, it notes how the flood of pioneers changed their lives forever.

"We try to present a balanced story without judgment so people can draw their own conclusions," Jamiel said.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who secured funding for the trail center, said he has long been fascinated by the history of the California Trail and is pleased the facility will educate the public about its significance in the settlement of the West.

"I worked hard to preserve this important piece of American history," Reid said. "The trail center in Elko will become a major educational and cultural attraction in eastern Nevada that will diversify the region's economy."

Don Buck of Sunnyvale, Calif., a historian with the Oregon-California Trails Association, said the trail center is long overdue.

"People may not know a lot about it, but everybody has heard about the Gold Rush," Buck said. "There, they can go in and get a feel for it. There hasn't been anything on the California Trail of this magnitude at all. I think it will be a huge success."

Year-round operation of the trail center begins this week.

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I am suggesting that as opposed to thinking about what to complete, figure out what to stop performing. In other words, stop undertaking the ?stupid stuff.?

Not doing the stupid stuff signifies getting out what prevents shoppers from spending cash with you and making sure that that action or reaction by no means happens once more.

Here?s an instance of what I contact ?stupid stuff.? Some airlines now need to charge customers who wish to speak to a reside agent.

That?s stupid stuff in two methods. 1st, they?ve selected to penalize customers who need to continue getting what they?ve normally gotten ? one-on-one focus. Worse, they?ve accomplished it by saying they?re going to charge much more for this previously typical level of service. How many customers will they shed because of this decision I know of at least a single.

You?ll find extra subtle, but no less damaging, stupid points corporations need to have to cease doing.

Take, for instance, the new Wheaties boxes. Common Mills lately introduced Wheaties boxes with images from the U.S. Olympic gold medalists. One was missing: Paul Hamm. Why

This was Common Mills? response to my inquiry:

?Selecting a Wheaties Champion has never ever been an easy activity, in particular when we have witnessed numerous outstanding performances by a lot of championship athletes. However it just is not doable to honor every champion on the Wheaties box.?

So they leave off the first U.S. man to win the Olympics all-around gymnastics championship in one of the sport?s greatest comebacks His return from a disastrous fall to a near-perfect high-bar routine won near-universal praise and, for many of us, defined the word ?champion.?

But there was controversy. As most of you know, a South Korean gymnast claimed that a scoring error price him the gold and appealed towards the Court of Arbitration for sport. The court lately ruled that Hamm can maintain the gold medal.

Despite the fact that the medal was disputed, it was not simply because of anything Hamm did or didn?t do. Nonetheless, Common Mills decided to accomplish the ?safe? factor. But by becoming protected and leaving out Hamm, Wheaties is alienating the millions of prospects who see him not as controversial, but as a hero, and losing consumers within the process. Now that?s ?stupid stuff.?

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Johan Santana No-Hitter: Mets Pitcher Throws First No-Hit Game In Franchise History (VIDEO)

Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in the history of the New York Mets. The 33-year-old ace of the Mets' staff went the distance against the visiting St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field without surrendering a hit in an 8-0 win.

Through eight innings, Santana had thrown 122 pitches while striking out seven and walking five. He faced the heart of the Cardinals' order in the top of the ninth, retiring Matt Holiday, Allen Craig and David Freese to make history in Queens. All told, he threw 134 pitches. The final pitch of the game was yet another signature change-up from the two-time Cy Young winner that Freese swung over.

Speaking with Kevin Burkhardt of SNY on the field after the final out, the first word uttered by Santana was "amazing." For a franchise described lovingly as "Amazin" even if the results were intermittently anything but, it was a choice of words as spot on as his final pitch.

"Amazing. I mean, coming in to this season, I was just hoping to come back. You know? And [to] stay healthy and help this team. And now, I'm in this situation in the greatest city for baseball," said Santana before addressing the fans at Citi Field. "I'm very happy and happy for you guys. Finally! The first one!."

Asked about the final strikeout, Santana said it was "the greatest feeling ever."

There were tens of thousands of fans in Queens and potentially millions more at home (and on Twitter) who felt the same way. The franchise had previously played 8,019 games -- stretching back to April 11, 1962 when Casey Stengel gave the ball to Roger Craig for the first game in club history -- without adding a no-no to its resume.

Entering the season, Santana's future was uncertain. Before the team's season opener, Santana had not appeared since Sept. 2010 and had undergone serious shoulder surgery.

The visiting Cardinals, on the other hand, entered the season as the defending World Series champions. Despite losing cornerstone hitter Albert Pujols via free agency, the Cardinals arrived in New York with the highest team batting average and home run total in the National League.

The historic result depended on a few critical plays in the field as well as one potential umpiring blunder. In the seventh inning, outfielder Mike Baxter made a spectacular catch as he ran into the wall. More controversially, Santana appeared to get the benefit of an incorrect ruling a fair ball to be foul during the sixth inning when former Mets star Carlos Beltran appeared to rifle a ball fair up the third-base line.

"It was tough because it happened so quick," Santana told reporters after the game when asked about the play. "I wasn't able to see anything. They just called it "foul" and I just stayed with it. There are times when one play makes the whole difference, when one call makes the whole difference. And if that was the case tonight then that was the call."

That the key play that went the Mets way involved Beltran added another layer of intrigue to the night as his relationship with the fans was never as steady as his performance while with the team. The low point of Beltran's six plus seasons came against the Cardinals in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS in Queens when St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright froze him on a nasty curve ball to end the game. Coincidentally, Wainwright was opposing Santana on Friday. Thanks to the call by third base umpire Adrian Johnson those fans won't #BlameBeltran after this historic night.

The 8-0 win lifted the upstart 2012 Mets to 29-23 on the season under manager Terry Collins, who will be nervously watching Santana in the coming days to see if the heavy workload takes a toll. Lucas Duda and Daniel Murphy did the heavy lifting for the Mets' offense, with four and three RBI respectively.

From Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan to Doc Gooden and David Cone, the Mets have sent some of the most dominant pitchers in MLB history to the mound during more than fifty years in New York but until Friday night the club never had a pitcher toss a no-no.

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