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Nadal wins 8th French title by beating Ferrer
Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates winning against compatriot David Ferrer in three sets 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, in the final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates winning against compatriot David Ferrer in three sets 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, in the final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball to compatriot David Ferrer during the men's final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Spain's Rafael Nadal returns against compatriot David Ferrer in the final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Spain's David Ferrer returns the ball to compatriot Rafael Nadal during the men's final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A spectator under a red umbrella takes images with a smart phone as Spain's Rafael Nadal returns against compatriot David Ferrer in the final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
PARIS (AP) ? Rafael Nadal's final shot at the French Open was a typically ferocious fallaway forehand, and when it landed for a winner, his momentum and emotions sent him splaying backward onto the clay he loves.
The champion quickly bounded to his feet and headed for the net at a trot. It was time to collect his latest Roland Garros trophy.
Nadal became the first man to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam tournament when he beat fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in Sunday's final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. The King of Clay broke the men's record for match wins at Roland Garros, where he improved to 59-1, with his lone defeat against Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009.
For fans enthralled by Nadal's semifinal victory over top-ranked Novak Djokovic, Sunday's final may have seemed anticlimactic. But not for the champion.
Nadal's path to the Roland Garros title was more arduous than usual. He fell behind in each of his first three matches and needed a fifth-set comeback to beat Djokovic.
And the latest title was especially sweet for the Mallorcan because of his comeback after a seven-month layoff caused by knee trouble. Since returning in February, he's 43-2 with seven titles in nine tournaments, and he has won his past 22 matches.
With his 12th Grand Slam championship, Nadal moved into a tie for third place with Roy Emerson behind Roger Federer's 17 and Pete Sampras' 14.
Nadal came into the final with a 16-match winning streak on clay against Ferrer, who as a result was a big underdog playing in his first major final at age 31. Ferrer had a few chances to make Nadal uneasy but converted only three of 12 break points and double-faulted five times.
As a result, Nadal was in control throughout, although he did wear a quizzical expression when protesters tried to delay the match in the second set. One man jumped onto the court near Nadal with a fiery flare spurting white smoke, and security personnel wrestled the protester to the ground and quickly dragged him away.
Other protesters also brandishing red flares climbed to the top of nearby Court Suzanne Lenglen and unfurled a banner calling for the resignation of French President Francois Hollande.
The interruptions were brief, and there was no stopping Nadal. He has lost a total of 16 sets in nine years at Roland Garros and was never in danger of doing so against Ferrer.
Trophy presenter Usain Bolt watched from the front row wearing sunglasses, even though the day was gray with occasional drizzle. Both finalists grinded away from the baseline, with one rally lasting so long fans began to buzz, then started to shush each other.
The 5-foot-9 Ferrer often wins points by extending them with his dogged defense. But Nadal matched his retrieving skills, and the torque on his groundstrokes eventually had Ferrer reeling.
Nadal misfired more than usual in the early going, perhaps adjusting to slow conditions and feeling the effects of his 4?-hour win over Djokovic. He gave back an early service break and had to erase two other break points in the opening set.
It was the first set Ferrer had lost in the tournament, and at that point, he knew he faced a daunting task. Nadal is 146-3 when he wins the first set in Grand Slam tournaments.
Nadal broke again early in the second set, and then came Ferrer's best chance to reverse the course of the match. At 3-1 he had four break points, but Nadal erased them all, the last with a backhand winner to end a 31-shot rally, longest of the match.
In the final set, Ferrer double-faulted to lose serve and fall behind 5-3, and Nadal needed only five more points to close out the victory.
Nadal broke the record for most men's victories at Roland Garros he had shared with Federer and Guillermo Vilas, and he improved to 20-4 against Ferrer.
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
CrunchBase Adds 13,689 Companies And 1,462 Venture Rounds In May
This week, CrunchBase released the?May Excel Export Sheet, which includes charts and graphs that illustrate recent U.S. investments, acquisitions, IPOs and more. Though the charts and graphs focus on May's data, the spreadsheet includes historical data on all U.S.-based companies that have received funding.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-cWQql8M8kQ/
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Is it jail time for genocide deniers in Cambodia?
Prime Minister Hun Sen's new law criminalizing denial of the Khmer Rouge genocide is a barely disguised political move, not a gesture of goodwill, say analysts.
Hundreds of former Khmer Rouge victims' bone and skulls are displayed in a memorial at Choeung Ek "Killing Field" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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EnlargeCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today pushed through legislation that makes it illegal to deny the Khmer Rouge genocide, but his critics say it has little to do with promoting atonement for his country's tragic past.
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Passed unanimously in a special session of the country?s National Assembly, the new law mandates a jail term of up to two years and fines of $1,000 for anyone convicted of denying the 1975-1979 genocide, during which Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge slaughtered some 1.7 million people.
Though formally said to be a gesture of support for the ongoing trials of leading Khmer Rouge leaders, analysts say the law is far more about political advantage for Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge official who has been the unchallenged leader of Cambodia since 1998.
The new law comes quickly on the heels of controversial comments allegedly made by Kem Sokha, president of the main opposition party.?In May the government released an audio clip purportedly of the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party saying that Vietnamese soldiers who reported the aftermath of an an infamous atrocity at a Khmer Rouge prison had imagined what they saw, according to The Phnom Pehn Post.?
Kem Sokha said?that the audio clip?was edited to take his words out of context, according to?The Phnom Penh Post. But the mere suggestion that Kem Sokha denied the atrocities could taint his image.?Nearly 20,000 people were tortured and murdered at the Khmer Rouge?s S-21 prison in Phnom Penh during a four-year long nightmare for Cambodia that has not faded from the national consciousness.?
Opposition party members note that they had for years been pressing for such a law, but also point out that the prime minister had only made moves toward such a law when politically convenient, according to a separate Post?article. The opposition objects to the fact that the law was passed with no debate, arguing that a law that has the potential to be abused should be thoughtfully drafted and subjected to careful scrutiny.
"It is a shame that the law should be passed in a rushed way in response to political comments," wrote Phuong Pham, a researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where she is studying the Cambodian public's attitude toward the Khmer Rogue trials, in an e-mail. "Kem Sokha, the opposition leader, is not a genocide denier, and any charges would be clearly politically motivated."
No opposition party members were present at the session that unanimously approved the bill on Friday morning. The prime minister's ruling party elected to remove all 27 members from their posts on Wednesday, amid election controversy. The ruling party was upset that?two different opposition parties had merged to challenge it in July's elections.
On Thursday, the opposition parties sent a letter to the National Assembly president asking that the vote on the law be postponed. The letter also proposed a tongue-in-cheek amendment to the law banning former leading members of the Khmer Rouge from holding public office. That would include the prime minister, Hun Sen, as well as several other leading members of his government. Hun Sen belonged to the Khmer Rogue before defecting to Vietnam and later rolling back into Cambodia, eventually claiming the post of prime minister.?
A member of the unofficial "10,000 Days in Office" dictator?s club, Hun Sen has profited enormously from the genocide more than three decades ago, cobbling together a dubious narrative in which he rescued the troubled country from Pol Pot?s agrarian "Year Zero" and crafted it into a emergent economic center in Southeast Asia. Last month, he told reporters that Cambodia would have been ?a coconut plantation? without his leadership, according to The Cambodia Daily.
Trials for 2 out of 4 Khmer Rouge leaders ? the first and only Khmer Rogue leaders to be tried for the genocide ? are currently ongoing in Cambodia, reported The Christian Science Monitor, racing against the failing health of the aging defendants. One defendant died in prison of heart failure in February. The only defendant to have been sentenced so far, Kaing Guek Eav, the former head of the S-21 prison, was transported to a prison in Cambodia?s Kandal Provincial Prison yesterday, where he will serve a life sentence, The Cambodia Daily reported.
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Gunman kills six in California and is shot dead by police
By Dana Feldman
SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he was shot dead by police in a community college library, law enforcement officials said.
At least five other people were wounded, one of them critically, in the shooting rampage that unfolded just a few miles from where President Barack Obama was speaking at a political fundraiser elsewhere in Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles.
As the gunman lay dead on a sidewalk outside the Santa Monica College library, a second individual was taken into custody near the campus and described by police as a "person of interest" in the case.
Obama completed his remarks at his event without interruption and left town for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping near the desert resort community of Palm Springs. The bloodshed did not appear to be related to Obama's visit and the Secret Service called it a "local police matter."
The killing spree marked the latest in string of high-profile mass shootings over the past year, including a December attack in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school and a shooting last July at a suburban Denver movie theater that killed 12 people.
Those attacks have helped re-ignite a contentious national debate over gun violence in America that spurred Obama and his fellow Democrats nationwide to push for expanded background checks for gun buyers - an initiative defeated in the U.S. Senate.
Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said the shooting rampage began east of the college campus shortly before noon when police received multiple reports of a house fire, a carjacking and shootings in the area.
The bodies of two people were discovered at the fire scene and four more bodies were found at two other locations between the burning home and the college, police said.
Three women who were shot, one of whom was found in her car outside the burning home, were rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where one later died.
A neighbor, Janet Carter, told Reuters that she heard five to seven shots come from the home, followed by two more rounds. Carter said she went outside and saw a woman who had been shot in the driver's seat of her car.
PURSUED ON CAMPUS
The overall death toll from the violence was at least seven, including the gunman, who was not identified by authorities but was described as a man between the ages of 25 and 30.
Police traded gunfire with the gunman outside the college and pursued him into a library, where he was shot and killed, Seabrooks said. The sequence of events was under investigation and authorities had no known motive for the rampage.
Earlier, a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol told Reuters that officers received a report of a man armed with multiple weapons, including a shotgun, firing at passing cars and a bus at two locations near the college campus.
Students at the campus library described a scene of pandemonium as the sounds of gunfire rang out, sending some scurrying for cover.
One student inside the library, Cyrus Jabari, 19, said that through a window he could see a man dressed in black with a buzz-style haircut carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle.
"The only thing between me and him was a glass door," he told Reuters.
Another witness told a CNN affiliate that he saw a man drive up in a car near the campus, walk into the middle of an intersection with a gun, and open fire at passing vehicles and a building before "he jumped back in the car and took off."
"It seemed like he was alone in his car," said the witness, who was not identified by name. The witness said that he took cover under the dashboard of his car, which was struck by gunfire. "I saw him jumping out of the car. He had a big, black gun in his hand and he just started blasting maybe 10 rounds from the left to the right."
Obama had been attending a fundraising event at the Santa Monica home of former News Corp President Peter Chernin at about the time of the shooting and had just finished his remarks. He made no mention of the incident.
A Secret Service spokesman in Washington said: "We are aware of the incident and it is not impacting the visit. It's a local police matter at this point."
Obama's departure from Los Angeles was re-routed to avoid impacting the scene, a White House press secretary said.
(Reporting by Dana Feldman and Steve Holland in Santa Monica, Steve Gorman, Ron Grover, Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles and Tim Gaynor in Phoenix; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-shot-dead-police-six-die-california-shooting-001203397.html
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Slo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High Speed Cameras Were Invented
The odds of capturing a lightning bolt on a high-speed camera in the wild are probably pretty similar to getting hit yourself?slim to nil. So to vastly improve their chances, the slo-mo team at BBC Earth Productions visited the Morgan-Botti Lightning Lab in England where the electrifying bolts are produced every day.
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