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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Ultrabook Prototype Combines Touch and Eye-Tracking Technology
Nokia's Here Maps service comes to the Asha 501, beta release available now for download
The touchscreen Asha 501 Nokia unveiled back in May will now work with Here Maps, the company announced on its blog today. The navigation service is already available on Windows Phone 8, Firefox OS, Android and iOS, and its arrival on the Asha platform will boost that operating system's more modest selection of apps. Available now as a beta release, Here Maps for the Asha 501 offers turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic information. It's designed specifically for low-end smartphones without GPS on board, and Nokia's post notes that the current version "is a starting point and we will improve the experience over time." Upcoming changes will likely include improved satellite images, which the company says will soon be updated to a higher quality. Asha 501 users in select countries can nab the Here Maps beta via the source link below.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Detective returns to stand in Zimmerman trial
Sanford, Fla., police officer Chris Serino identifies George Zimmerman in the courtroom during the 16th day of Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
Sanford, Fla., police officer Chris Serino identifies George Zimmerman in the courtroom during the 16th day of Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
Sanford police officer Doris Singleton holds up a copy of a photo of the complex where the Trayvon Martin shooting took place, while testifying in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
George Zimmerman leaves court at the end of the session of his trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
A photo of George Zimmerman taken at the Sanford police station on the night of the Trayvon Martin shooting is projected on a video monitor for the jury during the 16th day of his trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
A reenactment video shows George Zimmerman with Sanford police investigators, taken the after the Trayvon Martin shooting, is projected for the jury during the 16th day of his trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? The lead police detective who investigated the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in central Florida last year was to return to the witness stand Tuesday for a second day to testify about his investigation.
Sanford Police detective Chris Serino and another investigator, Doris Singleton, testified Monday about their investigation as jurors heard a series of police interviews in which the detectives grow more pointed in their questioning of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer later charged with second-degree murder in Martin's death. Zimmerman maintains he was acting in self-defense.
In an early interview, just hours after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting, Singleton recounted that Zimmerman noticed a cross she was wearing and said: "In Catholic religion, it's always wrong to kill someone."
Singleton said she responded, "If what you're telling me is true, I don't think that what God meant was that you couldn't save your own life."
But in an interview days later, Singleton and Serino suggest that Zimmerman was running after Martin before the confrontation. They also ask Zimmerman why he didn't explain to Martin why he was following him. The officers insinuate that Martin may have been "creeped out" by being followed.
"Do you think he was scared?" Singleton asked Zimmerman in one video interview.
Under cross-examination, though, Serino said Zimmerman seemed straightforward in his answers and didn't show any anger when talking about Martin. Serino said the increasingly pointed questioning is a tactic known as a "challenge interview," where detectives try to break someone's story to make sure they're telling the truth.
Zimmerman has said he fatally shot the unarmed black teen in self-defense in February, 2012, because he says Martin was banging his head into a concrete sidewalk behind townhomes in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.
The state argued during its opening statement that Zimmerman profiled and followed Martin in his truck and called a police dispatch number before he and the teenager got into a fight. Zimmerman has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and their supporters have claimed. A 44-day delay in Zimmerman's arrest led to protests around the nation; he was ultimately charged by a Florida special prosecutor. Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
In his first interview at the police station, Zimmerman said he saw Martin walking through his neighborhood on a dark, rainy night while Zimmerman was driving to the grocery store. He told Singleton that he didn't recognize Martin and that there had been recent break-ins at his townhome complex.
"These guys always get away," Zimmerman told Singleton, a statement similar to one that prosecutors have pointed to previously to try to show that Zimmerman was increasingly frustrated with the burglaries and that his encounter with Martin was a breaking point.
Zimmerman told the police officer that he lost track of Martin and got out of his truck to look for a street name he could relay to a police dispatcher. When the dispatcher suggested Zimmerman didn't need to follow Martin, Zimmerman started to head back to his vehicle. At that point, Zimmerman alleged, Martin jumped out of some bushes, punched him and he fell to the ground.
Zimmerman said Martin began hitting his head against the sidewalk as Zimmerman yelled for help and that Martin told him, "You're going to die tonight."
With Zimmerman's shirt and jacket pushed up during the struggle and his holstered gun now visible, he thought Martin was reaching for his firearm holstered around his waist. Zimmerman told the officer that he shot Martin and the teen said, "You got me."
In a written statement, Singleton read in court, Zimmerman refers to Martin as "the suspect." Singleton said it didn't appear that Zimmerman showed any anger when talking about the teen. Prosecutors must show that Zimmerman acted with ill will or a depraved mind in order to get a second-degree murder conviction.
Zimmerman also acted surprised when Singleton told him Martin was dead.
"He's dead?!" Singleton recalled Zimmerman saying, before he lowered his head toward the table in the interrogation room.
Earlier Monday, prosecutors called FBI audio expert Hirotaka Nakasone to focus on the issue of who was screaming for help on 911 calls during the confrontation. Jurors were played the 911 calls several times last week.
The recordings are crucial pieces of evidence because they could determine who the aggressor was in the confrontation. Martin's family contends it was the teen screaming, while Zimmerman's father has said it was his son.
Even though he was a pre-trial witness for the defense, prosecutors called Nakasone to set up later testimony from either the teen's mother or father that they believe it was their son yelling for help.
During his pre-trial testimony, Nakasone testified that there wasn't enough clear sound to determine whether Zimmerman or Martin was screaming on the best 911 sample, an assertion he repeated Monday.
The FBI expert said it's easier for a person with a familiarity of a voice to identify it than someone who has never heard it previously. That is especially true if the recording is of a subject screaming and the person trying to identify the voice has heard the subject under similarly stressful circumstances previously, Nakasone said.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Arizona firefighters young, dedicated, beloved
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The Granite Mountain Hotshot crew from Prescott, Arizona scouts a piece of terrain before starting a burnout operation that was meant to help contain the Whitewater-Baldy fire, which was the largest fire in New Mexico history.
By Andrew Rafferty, Elisha Fieldstadt and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
The 19 firefighters killed Sunday in an Arizona wildfire were young, brave family men.
Many followed in family footsteps when they decided to dedicate their lives to battling deadly blazes. And a number of those lost were in the beginning stages of starting their own families before they were trapped by a fast moving fire in central Arizona on Sunday.
They were a group known for being tough as nails, but with a lighter side that was needed to cope with the demands of the job.
But now, many leave behind wives and children who now understand all too well the sacrifices their loved ones made when they became firefighters. Here are their stories.
Anthony Rose, 23
In just a few months, Anthony Rose would have been a father.
His?fianc?e,?Tiffany Hettrick, was due in October, family members told NBC News. The couple lived in Arizona, and Hettrick had been accustomed to her husband-to-be's being gone doing what he loved.
?He always wanted to be a firefighter, and he was living what he wanted to do. He?s with God now, so he?s OK,? Hettrick's stepfather, Michael Mooney, told NBC News.??I don?t warm up to too many people too much, but he was a very good guy, and I knew that right away.??
Sean Misner, 26
Like many firefighters, Sean Misner had the job in his blood.
The California native's uncle and grandfather were firefighters around Santa Barbara, Calif., according to the Santa Barbara Independent.
Misner had been married less than one year, and the couple were expecting their first child soon, the paper reports.
?The devastating loss of nineteen lives in the Arizona wildfire on June 30, 2013, has not only affected the fire service overall, but one of our own Montecito Fire families,? the Montecito Fire Protection District announced Monday. ?We send our heartfelt condolences to all the families who lost loved ones in this tragedy."
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Christopher MacKenzie, 30, had always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a firefighter.
Christopher MacKenzie, 30
The son of a firefighter, Christopher MacKenzie lived life to the fullest, friends say. He was an avid snowboarder who always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps.
He grew up in California's San Jacinto Valley and became a member of the town's fire department. He hurt his leg during the first week on the job and ended up in the hospital, only emerging more determined than ever to spend his life battling intense blazes, his mother said.
"I was very proud of him. Yeah, he was a good kid, and he's gonna be so missed," said Laurie Goralski, MacKenzie's mother.?
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Kevin Woyjeck, 21, hoped to one day join the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Kevin Woyjeck, 21
Kevin Woyjeck's goal was to one day join the Los Angeles County Fire Department, just like his dad, Joe Woyjeck.
"We're a giant family. Any firefighter lost throughout the country is one of us. We're all a big family," Keith Mora, L.A. County fire inspector, told reporters.
The Southern California man began his short career as a member of the Fire Explorers, a mentorship program for young men and women who wanted to become firefighters, according to NBC Los Angeles.
"He was doing everything he could to become a professional firefighter -- he had an extreme work ethic," Mora told NBC Los Angeles. "He was a great, great kid. I say kid, but he was a young man at 21 years old."
Andrew Ashcraft, 29
Andrew Ashcraft leaves behind a wife and four children, none of whom is older than 6.
Friend Jeannie Brown remembered him as a "good husband, good, devoted family man." She knew Ashcraft through her husband and said the firefighter was always quick to help.
His wife, Juliann Ashcraft, told TODAY on Tuesday that her husband had a ?contagious smile, a heart of gold.?
?He wanted to protect the community that he lived in and loved,? she said. ?In our time of mourning we want people to know that they were heroes, that they are heroes.?
Dustin Deford, 24
Dustin Deford is remembered as a work horse who would do anything to help a neighbor.
?This whole community knows him, not a lazy bone in his body,? Sheriff?Neil Kittleman, who was Deford's boss at a hazardous fuel reduction program in Montana from 2007 to 2012, told NBC News.
?He?d help you do anything,? said?Kittleman.
Deford, who was not married, comes from a large family, according to Kittleman. He father is?pastor at a church in Ekalaka, Mont.
Eric Marsh, 43
Eric Marsh had been involved with firefighting since graduating from high school in Ashe County, N.C., according to the Jefferson Post.
Marsh went on to graduate from Appalachian State University, where he studied biology.
"He was a great son. He was compassionate and caring about his crew," John Marsh, Eric's father, told the newspaper.
Eric Marsh was married but had no children.
William Warneke, 25
Like some of his Hotshot colleagues, Marine Corps veteran William Warneke was preparing to become a father, his grandmother Nancy Warneke told The Press-Enterprise newspaper in Riverside, Calif.
Warneke and his wife, Roxanne, were expecting their first child in December. The?Hemet, Calif., native joined the Hotshot crew in April after four years in the military that included a tour in Iraq.
The couple had just purchased a property in Prescott near family.
Nancy Warneke told the newspaper that she called William's sister after seeing reports of the fire on the news.
?She said, ?He?s gone. They?re all gone,?? she said. ?Even though it?s a tragedy for the whole family, he was doing what he loved to do. He loved nature and was helping preserve nature.?
Scott Norris, 28
Scott Norris seemed to always have a smile on his face, according to friends.
"He talked to random people and had a conversation with them," said 19-year-old Ryan O'Hara. "That's the type of guy he was, and honestly, it inspired me, in a way, to be like that."
Throughout Prescott, he was best known for his part-time job at Bucky O'Neill Guns.
"Here in Arizona the gun shops are a lot like barber shops. Sometimes you don't go in there to buy anything at all, you just go to talk," resident William O'Hara told the Associated Press. "I never heard a dirty word out of the guy. He was the kind of guy who if he dated your daughter, you'd be OK with it."
Travis Carter, 31
Travis Carter was a fitness buff whose strength was legendary at a local gym.
At Captain Crossfit gym, Carter gained a reputation for being the strongest of the Hotshots and also the nicest, friends told the Associated Press.
?No one could beat him. But the thing about him, was he would never brag about it. He would just kill everyone and then go and start helping someone else finish,??trainer Janine Pereira told the AP.
He made up demanding workouts, motivated fellow Hotshots to push themselves and gained?notoriety?for holding a plank (an exercise in which a person gets in a push-up position and holds himself up on toes and forearms) for 45 minutes, the AP reported.?
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John Percin, 24
John Percin was a high school athlete known for his laugh and penchant for fun, friends told The Oregonian newspaper.
The 24-year-old was a 2007 graduate of West Linn High School, about 20 miles south of Portland, Ore., the paper reports. He grew up playing baseball.
"It's a tough day for us today," Percin's father, John Percin Sr., told The Oregonian. "We don't know a lot of things yet."
Robert Caldwell, 23
When it came to fighting flames, Robert Caldwell was a natural, friends say. He not only possessed the physical?stamina?for the grueling work but also had the smarts.
"He was one of the smart guys in the crew who could get the weather, figure out the mathematics. It was just natural for him," Chase Madrid, who worked as a Hotshot in the two prior years, told the Associated Press.
Caldwell's understanding of the science behind raging fires helped him get appointed as a squad boss.
Travis Turbyfill, 27
Known as "Turby" to his squad, Travis Turbyfill got his job with the Hotshots when another member's girlfriend asked him to quit.
Like many of the 18 other firefighters who perished Sunday, Turbyfill frequented the Captain Crossfit gym near the Hotshot headquarters. Trainer Tony Burris said the firefighter would often come in with his two daughters.
"Because he's this big, huge Marine, Hotshot guy, and he has two little girls, reddish, blonde curly hair, and they just loved their dad," he told the Associated Press.
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A photo of Wade Parker, one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hot Shot crew members who was killed fighting a fire near Yarnell, Ariz. on Sunday, sits at a makeshift memorial outside the crew's fire station, Monday, July 1, 2013 in Prescott, Ariz.
Wade Parker, 22
Wade Parker had always wanted to be a second-generation firefighter, according to family friends.?Parker's father works for the nearby Chino Valley Fire Department, family friend Jeff Knotek told the Associated Press.
Knotek called Parker, a "big, athletic kid who loved it, aggressive, assertive and in great shape."
"It's just a shame to see this happen," he said.
Grant McKee, 21
A giving young man who whose mother told the AP he was in training to be an emergency medical technician, McKee would regularly request extra emergency room shifts.
?I had four grandchildren, but Grant was the sweetest most giving nature of any of my grandkids,? his grandmother Mary Hoffman told the AP. ?We used to think he was a little angel.??
McKee?s cousin, Robert Caldwell, was also among those killed on Sunday.
Jesse Steed, 36
Among the older members of the Hotshots crew, Steed was remembered for his ability to always make his coworkers laugh ? but he couldn?t have been more serious about doing his job right.
Steed?s brother Cassidy Steed spoke of his brother?s commitment to helping other in a statement released on Monday, according to Seattle?s KOMO News.
?Jesse has always put his life on the line for people who he knew he would never meet. He sacrificed time with his family and his own personal interests. Jesse loved his job very much as his family supported him with every sacrifice he made for it,? Cassidy Steed said in the statement.
?All of Jesse?s crew also gave the ultimate sacrifice. Now there are 19 families who are as grief-stricken and numb from their recent loss as I am,? he said.
Clayton Whitted, 28
A high school football player whose coach recalled him as a ?wonderful kid,? Whitted never shirked a challenge.
?He was a smart young man with a great personality, just a wonderful personality,? remembered Lou Beneitone, who coached Whitted at Prescott High School. ?When he walked into a room, he could really light it up.?
Garret Zuppiger, 27
Zuppiger was ?always, always willing to lend a helping hand,? former neighbor Frank Morrison told The Arizona Republic. ?He would give you the shirt of his back.?
The man who wrote ?Everyday is like a gift!? on a blog he maintained also had a passion for a good beer and the ginger-hued facial hair he cultivated, according to the AP.
?We both had a red beard and so we would always admire each other?s beards,? friend Tony Burris told the AP.
Joe Thurston, 32
A caring Utah native with a ?daredevil? streak, Thurston ?was never one to shy away from a challenge or new experience,? former classmate E.J. Overson told the Salt Lake Tribune.
?He had all the qualities that a firefighter would need to possess,? Overson told the paper. ?He was service-oriented, very caring and willing to do some things that many others would say, ?I don?t want to get involved.??
A determined man who balanced his fearless time battling flames with skateboarding and drumming in a band, friends remembered when Thurston snuck a key to a school swimming pool.
?He was able to touch a lot of lives,? Overson said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Juliann Ashcraft's husband, Andrew, was one of the 19 firefighters killed in Arizona on Sunday. She says her husband and his fellow firefighters "loved what they did" and shares how she and her four children are coping with the loss.
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6 Radical Infrastructure Schemes That Almost Changed NYC Forever
The East River? Oh, we dammed that thing up and threw a new City Hall on top. The Hudson? Filled it with traffic years ago. New Yorkers have never been prudes about changing the natural landscape of their city, but if you dig into the archives, you'll find dozens of ideas so radical, they make present-day Gotham feel like a nature reserve.
These days, the ballooning cost of construction combined with environmental and preservation issues conspire to make extreme infrastructural projects a moot point. Hell, it's taken us almost a century to build the 2nd Avenue Subway. But in the middle of the 20th century, a booming economy and a renaissance in public infrastructure made it seem like anything was possible in New York?literally, anything.
Six plans from those years follow, ranging from the grand to the gargantuan. Makes Bloomberg's Vision 2020 plan look a bit puny in comparison, no?
Infill the Hudson River, 1934
In March, 1934, Modern Mechanix featured the daring plan of Norman Sper, ?noted publicist and engineering scholar? (maybe publicist meant something different back then?), who envisioned adding ten square miles of land to Manhattan by infilling the mighty Hudson River. Sper proposed creating a massive, multi-layered grid that would connect New Jersey to Manhattan, solving problems like housing and transit which, according to the editors, ?are threatening to devour the city's civilization like a Frankenstein monster.?
It?s hard for us to imagine the optimism felt about modern engineering in the 1930s and 40s, and today, Sper?s plan seems like folly. But the magazine asked a handful of established engineers about it, and many of them described it as visionary. ?Provided with sufficient money and time, particularly money, the project could be carried through to completion with unquestionable success,? said one engineer. ?... It would be quite in keeping with President Roosevelt?s rehabilitation and N.R.A. plan and put an enormous army of men to work. I heartily endorse the plan, though I am fully aware of the almost insurmountable impediments which appear at first study of the idea.?
Estimated cost: $17 billion*
Build a Massive Hudson River Airport, 1946
The man who owned the Chrysler Building?William Zeckendorf?was behind this idea to build "Manhattan's Dream Airport." Zeckendorf proposed a 144-block-long floating airport on the edge of the Hudson River, where planes could take off on the long roof and boats could dock at its edges.
It's hard to know how New Yorkers of the day reacted to the plan, which was sited on the edge of what was then a still-developing neighborhood. But as Untapped Cities points out, a similar (but satirical) plan to turn Central Park into an airport received over 85,000 earnest signatures?which should tell you something about how "green space" stacks up against "long cab rides" for most modern-day New Yorkers.
Estimated cost: $35 billion*
Draining the East River, 1924
According to the editors at Popular Science, in 1924, New York was loosing $1.5 million a day on traffic congestion. The solution? Get rid of the East River, of course. Dr. John A. Harriss, a "special deputy police commissioner in charge of traffic," was the progenitor of this particular scheme, which would've required the construction of two dams?one at the Williamsburg Bridge, the other, near Hell Gate in Harlem. In between, Harriss envisioned a broad avenue of cars and small pedestrian routes, centered by a massive new City Hall. Basically, Brasilia in New York City.
A Super-Highway Slicing Through SoHo, 1940-1962
The mercifully unfulfilled Lower Manhattan Expressway was one of Robert Moses' plans to modernize Manhattan. LOMEX, as the plan is known, came close to leveling a huge 14-block swatch of Lower Manhattan to build a ten-lane highway stretching from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. Moses envisioned the highway edged on both side by gigantic public housing complexes.
We actually have LOMEX (along with the destruction of Penn Station) to thank for the development of historic preservation in New York City. Jane Jacobs led the fight against the project, and ultimately, it was abandoned. It's hard to imagine that anyone ever seriously entertained the idea?but we need only look across the East River to see what could have been, since Moses was central in creating the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the highway that required the razing of thousands of homes in each borough.
Estimated cost: $749 million*
A Geodesic Dome Over Midtown Manhattan, 1960.
Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome was proposed with the best intentions: It would've created a bubble of clear air stretching from the Hudson to the East River, between 21st and roughly 64th streets. Of course, in reality, it likely would've led to strict urban segregation in Manhattan, between those "inside the bubble," and those without.
Estimated cost: $7.5 billion*
A Bridge Over the Hudson, circa 1915
Ever wonder why there are no bridges between Lower Manhattan and New Jersey? One of the main reasons is that too many massive freighter ships passed through the bay on their way to Manhattan's docks. But architect Alfred C. Bossom envisioned a seemingly simple solution: A bridge 200 feet above the waterline, more than enough space for ships of the day to pass unfettered.
Bossom christened his idea the Victory Bridge, angled as a celebration of the end of World War I. The concept never took of, perhaps because of the sheer size and cost (the towers themselves would've been more than 800 feet high), but Bossom was right on, in some ways: The Holland Tunnel was completed underneath the exact same route, in 1927.
*All estimated costs have been adjusted for inflation.
[Hudson River images via Modern Mechanix; Dream Airport images via Ptak Science; East River images via Gothamist; Victory Bridge images via Andrew Cusack]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/6-radical-infrastructure-schemes-that-almost-changed-ny-636053287
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Matt Kenseth wins Sprint Cup race at Kentucky
Matt Kenseth celebrates with his crew members in the winner's circle after capturing the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Matt Kenseth celebrates with his crew members in the winner's circle after capturing the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Jimmie Johnson cruises out of Turn 3 well in front of the rest of the field in the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Pole setter Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (88) and Carl Edwards (99) lead the field in the first lap of the rescheduled NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013. The race was postponed on Saturday night because of rain. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Matt Kenseth celebrates his victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013 by hoisting the trophy above his head in the winner's circle. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Jimmie Johnson (48) leads Carl Edwards (99) and the rest of the field early in the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
SPARTA, Ky. (AP) ? Matt Kenseth's fuel-only pit road gamble helped him beat Jimmie Johnson late and win Sunday's rescheduled 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway.
A race that was Johnson's to lose ultimately became Kenseth's series-high fourth victory of the season even though he passed on getting new tires following the race's ninth caution. He widened his lead after a wild four-wide restart on lap 246 that saw Johnson's No. 48 Chevy spin from second place on a dominant day he led three times for 182 of 267 laps.
The series points leader finished ninth and leads Carl Edwards by 38 points.
Kenseth led twice for 38 laps, including the final 23 in the No. 20 Toyota.
Second was Jamie McMurray in a Chevy, followed by Clint Bowyer (Toyota), Joey Logano (Ford) and Kyle Busch (Toyota).
Rain on Saturday forced NASCAR officials to postpone the race to a daytime start.
The race was red-flagged for 18 minutes following a six-car wreck involving defending race and Sprint Cup winner Brad Keselowski, who returned to finish 33rd.
Kenseth, like Johnson, was due for a breakthrough on the 1.5-mile oval after finishing seventh here last year and sixth in the 2011 inaugural race. But victory didn't seem likely for the 2003 Cup champion after qualifying 16th and running outside the top 20 during the first quarter of the 267-lap event.
From that point, the first-year Joe Gibbs Racing driver was a perennial top-five contender. Trouble was, he and other hopefuls seemed to need Johnson to suffer misfortune to have any shot of catching him.
Turns out, Kenseth needed to rely on his tires. Taking fuel only allowed him to gain three spots and the lead coming off pit road, and the rubber held up on the rough, bumpy track, both on the restart and through the final laps.
The surprising late turn of events and the tense finish capped a weekend when a number of drivers were projected to win at Kentucky.
Friday's pole qualifying generated enough excitement for the series' third visit, with eight drivers breaking Johnson's year-old track record of 181.818 mph. The group included the five-time champion, who shattered his own mark at 183.144 mph before Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 183.636 mph speed in the No. 88 Chevy snatched the record and the pole, leaving Johnson to settle for the third spot.
Earnhardt's run in NASCAR's new Gen 6 vehicle sealed his first pole since last fall at Richmond and only his third top-10 start this season. But it continued an encouraging trend for Junior at Kentucky, where he started seventh last year and finished fourth. His objective was ending a 37-race victory drought and improving his seventh-place points standing coming in.
Keselowski sought to break his own drought as well and entered the race on a roll. On Friday night, the Michigan native dominated the second half of the Nationwide series race before earning a rain-shortened victory, which followed his runner-up finish in the Truck event on Thursday.
The combination of strong finishes gave Keselowski early bragging rights over fellow Cup veteran Kyle Busch, competing in the grueling tripleheader weekend as well. Busch wasn't far off from Keselowski, running a spot behind him in the Truck race and finishing fifth in Nationwide.
Edwards quickly got past Earnhardt after the green flag and led the first 32 laps, although a competition caution allowed Earnhardt to reclaim the lead with a two-tire stop, a strategy followed by the top 10. Denny Hamlin was one of those and restarted sixth on lap 36, but he quickly had to return to the pits when his right front tire went down.
Hamlin's misfortune quickly created concern for Earnhardt and Johnson when the rubber slid off the tire rim during his exit and flew back on to the track. Earnhardt ran over it, bending his splitter's right side, before the tire flew off and bounced off Johnson's hood to bring out the race's second caution on lap 39.
Another wreck sent Hamlin to the infield care center and left him 35th.
The biggest incident came 10 laps later when Kurt Busch spun out Keselowski near turn 1, triggering a six-car accident that red-flagged the race. Greg Biffle slammed into Keselowski, lifting his car off the asphalt and leaving both Fords mangled.
Somehow, both returned.
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NYC's gay pride march celebrates Supreme Court win
NEW YORK (AP) ? Only days after the Supreme Court used her lawsuit to grant same-sex couples federal marriage benefits, Edith Windsor helped lead New York City's Gay Pride march on Sunday.
Signs along the route read, "Thank you, Edie" ? celebrating Windsor for her successful challenge of a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
"If somebody had told me 50 years ago that I would be the marshal of New York City's gay pride parade in 2013, at the age of 84, I wouldn't have believed it."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined hundreds of bikers whose motorcycles roared to life at noon to kick off the celebration, a colorful cavalcade of activists and others who marched down Fifth Avenue 44 years after the city's first pride march.
Longtime LGBT activist Cathy Renna said Windsor's suit and the Supreme Court's favorable ruling in a challenge to Proposition 8, the California gay marriage ban, made this year's celebration special.
"It is an especially thrilling year to march this year," she said. "I have seen more real progress in the past three years than the nearly two decades of activism before it."
But, she added, "we must remain vigilant; hate crimes, discrimination and family rejection loom in our lives still."
A spate of recent hate crimes in New York provide a stark reminder of work left to be done. In one case last month, police said a gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd. The city's police commissioner called it an anti-gay hate crime.
A. Carlos Cardinas, a native of Colombia who lives in Queens, is a transvestite who dressed up in festive attire for the day: a green sequined top with a salmon-colored flower ringing the waist.
"We are so happy to live free in America," said Cardinas, a hairdresser who is engaged to be married to his boyfriend.
Carl Siciliano, who heads the Ali Forney drop-in center for homeless gay youth in Harlem, said he's happy about the court decision. But he said the humanitarian fight is not over.
"Now that our adults have won this wonderful victory, it is time for us to begin to build a safety net for the more than 200,000 homeless LGBT youth who are stranded on America's streets without shelter," said Siciliano.
Windsor said she long enjoyed the parade with her late wife, Thea Spyer, whom she married in Canada as Spyer was dying in 2007.
In 2009, she suffered a heart attack a month after Spyer's death. While recovering, Windsor faced a hefty bill for inheritance taxes ? more than $363,000, because Spyer was, legally, just a friend.
On Sunday, Windsor was one of three grand marshals, joining musician and activist Harry Belafonte and Earl Fowlkes, head of the Center for Black Equity.
"I have marched in the parade for the last several years carrying a huge rainbow flag," she said. "Last year, I was so elated that I danced my way down the whole street, for the entire route of the parade."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nycs-gay-pride-march-celebrates-supreme-court-win-152806276.html
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