Obama: review of Boston attack information sharing

President Barack Obama arrives for a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama arrives for a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Tuesday that no stone will be left unturned in reviewing whether any sensitive intelligence was missed that could have stopped the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon.

Obama called it "standard procedure," but said the review, which will last only 90 days, would help determine if all the information was shared properly.

"Based on what I've seen so far, the FBI performed its duties, the Department of Homeland Security did what it was supposed to be doing," Obama told a White House news conference, describing how the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who died in an escape attempt.

But he said it would help determine whether "there were additional things that could have been done."

Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, says the review is limited to how information about the suspects was handled before the attack because the investigation of the bombing is still ongoing. He added that Clapper believes his agencies shared information appropriately.

The review will be conducted by I. Charles McCullough III, the independent intelligence community inspector general, which is a position that is Senate-confirmed and is authorized to reach into any U.S. intelligence agency to conduct reviews.

Lawmakers have suggested that an intelligence breakdown may have contributed to the attacks.

"Just because the FBI didn't find derogatory information about the suspects doesn't mean it wasn't there to be found," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House intelligence committee. "But nor should we leap to a conclusion of malfeasance. Instead this review may produce one important component of the 'lessons learned' from the attacks," he added Tuesday.

The review was first reported by The Boston Globe.

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Apple paves way for first debt sale to finance $100B capital return

Apple has taken the first steps to find funds for its $100 billion capital return program to shareholders, as it promised during its second quarter earnings on April 23.

The iPhone and iPad maker filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, and will begin talks led by Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, the Reuters news agency reported.

Apple has more than $144.7 billion in cash and doesn't have a penny of debt to its name, making it the wealthiest technology companies currently in existence.

However, the company only has an estimated $45 billion on hand in the U.S., with the rest of that cash offshore. It won't repatriate those funds as it needs to invest in its local subsidiaries, but it would also face a massive tax bill should it return that cash back on U.S. soil.

As a result of this, Apple comes up short and doesn't have the available funds to accomplish this massive capital return program.

The plan is for Apple to sell debt for the first time in its history in order to fund a massive $100 billion capital return program, which would put cash back into the hands of the company's investors.?Apple is also planning to increase dividend payments by 15 percent over the next two years.

To do this, Apple needs to take on debt to fund the investor cash payouts. In getting in touch with the two banks, the company is laying the foundation groundwork in getting this process started.

It's not clear if the two banks will lead the bond offering. By issuing bonds, Apple will be able to raise capital and pay back the money in future.

It comes only a week after Apple reported its first quarterly profit dip in a decade.

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Created By Newbie Coders & Others, Espace Connects Meetup Organizers And Venue Owners

Some of the creators of TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon project Espace are still learning to code, and this was the perfect event at which to hone their skills. The six-person team designed a site this weekend to connect meetup groups with venues offering space where events can be hosted. Organizers and venue owners use the site to sign up and list their needs or what they have to offer, respectively. Espace then helps to put them in touch to broker the deal. The idea resonated with two of the group’s members in particular: husband and wife team Jamal and Felicia O’Garro. Both started learning Ruby recently, and today host a meetup group of their own. This group, started in January, is focused on helping others who are also learning to code, by offering training classes and coffee-and-coding sessions. The group meets Sundays at New York-based co-working space, Alley NYC, and despite its young age, it has already grown to around 550 members, with 30 or so showing up at each weekly session. Others working on the Espace team this weekend include David Lau, Adam Waxman,?Cavaughn Noel and Linda Peng. The site uses the Twilio API, which gives both the vendor owner and meetup organizer a virtual number that they can use to connect to discuss the details of the group’s meeting space needs. Asked if meeting organizers were really all that concerned about sharing their real phone numbers with venue owners, Jamal admitted that he was mainly interested in playing around with the Twilio API. Jamal may be a newer coder, but he’s already building software for another area startup, CommonBond?a recently seed-funded company that connects student borrowers with alumni to crowdsource funding of student loans. Whether or not Espace continues after this weekend is unknown: Jamal is turning into a hackathon junkie, it seems – this is his third in just a few months’ time, he says. Espace onstage:

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Radioactive leak feared at Japan n-plant

TOKYO (AP) ? The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said Saturday that it was moving tons of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage, in a blow to the plant's struggles with tight storage space.

Tokyo Electric power Co. said about 120 tons of the water are believed to have breached the tank's inner linings, some of it possibly leaking into the soil. TEPCO is moving the water to a nearby tank at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant ? a process that could take several days.

TEPCO detected the leak earlier in the week, when radiation levels spiked in water samples collected in between the inner linings of the tank. Radiation levels in water samples taken outside the tank also have increased, an indication of the water leak, TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono said.

Contaminated water at the plant, which went into multiple meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, has escaped into the sea several times during the crisis. Experts suspect there has been a continuous leak into the ocean through an underground water system, citing high levels of contamination among fish caught in waters just off the plant.

The leak is not only an immediate environmental concern, but threatens TEPCO's tight water management situation, Ono said.

The tank contains 13,000 tons of water, which is part of the water that was used to cool melted fuel at the plant's reactors damaged in the twin disasters. So much water has been used that TEPCO is struggling to find storage space.

"The impact (from the leak) is not small, as the space is already tight," Ono said. "We need to revise our water management plans."

More than 270,000 tons of highly radioactive water is already stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks and another underground tank. They are visible even at the plant's entrance and built around the compound, taking up more than 80 percent of its storage capacity.

TEPCO expects the amount to double over three years and plans to build hundreds of more tanks by mid-2015 to meet the demand.

Because of that, TEPCO is anxious to launch a new water treatment system that can purify the contaminated water. The machine, called ALPS, recently started a final test run after six months of delays due to safety requirements by government regulators.

The delay caused TEPCO to use some of seven underground tanks, originally meant for ALPS-treated water, to accommodate the contaminated water backlog as a stopgap measure.

TEPCO officials have indicated they hope to release the water into the ocean, but Ono said the company has no immediate plans to do so without public acceptance.

The plant is being decommissioned but continues to experience glitches. A fuel storage pool temporarily lost its cooling system Friday, less than a month after the plant suffered a more extensive outage.

The underground tank, several times the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool and similar to an industrial waste dump, is dug directly into the ground and protected by two layers of polyethylene linings inside the outermost clay-based lining, with a felt padding in between each layer.

The meltdowns have caused the plant to release radiation into the surroundings and displaced about 160,000 people from around the plant. They do not know when or if they will be able to return home.

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Radioactive-water-leak-feared-at-Japan-nuke-plant-4414385.php

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IKEA halts moose lasagna sales after finding traces of pork

The Associated Press ? ? ? 1 hr.

IKEA says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium.

IKEA spokeswoman Tina Kardum said the product had only been on sale for a month when it was pulled off the shelves on March 22.

The company didn't announce the withdrawal publicly until Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet wrote about it Saturday.

Kardum said the company found out Friday that a follow-up test in Belgium confirmed the lasagna contained 1.6 percent pork.

"We have more information now. That's why we choose to inform now," Kardum said.

Moose meat is common in Sweden though it's not typically used in lasagna.

IKEA has previously recalled meatballs and other meat products sold in its cafeterias and frozen foods sections after tests showed they contained traces of horse meat.

The Swedish furniture giant is one of many European companies caught up in a scandal over mislabeled meat in frozen food products.

IKEA's withdrawn products came from a Swedish frozen foods maker, which in turn blamed the mislabeling on its meat suppliers.

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New light shed on ancient Egyptian port and ship graveyard

Apr. 7, 2013 ? New research into Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC, will be discussed at an international conference at the University of Oxford (15-17 March).

This obligatory port of entry, known as 'Thonis' by the Egyptians and 'Heracleion' by the Greeks, was where seagoing ships probably unloaded their cargoes to have them assessed by temple officials and taxes extracted before transferring them to Egyptian ships that went upriver. Before the foundation of Alexandria, it was one of the biggest commercial hubs in the Mediterranean because of its geographical position at the mouth of the Nile. The conference will also explore the wider maritime trading economy during the Late Period (664 BC until 332 BC).

The first traces of Thonis-Heracleion were found 6.5 kilometres off today's coastline by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) under the direction of Franck Goddio in 2000. The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford is collaborating on the project with IEASM in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of State for Antiquities.

In the ports of the city, divers and researchers are currently examining 64 Egyptian ships, dating between the eighth and second centuries BC, many of which appear to have been deliberately sunk. The project researchers say the ships were found beautifully preserved, lying in the mud of the sea-bed. With 700 examples of different types of ancient anchor, the researchers believe this represents the largest nautical collection from the ancient world.

'The survey has revealed an enormous submerged landscape with the remains of at least two major ancient settlements within a part of the Nile delta that was crisscrossed with natural and artificial waterways,' said Dr Damian Robinson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Dr Robinson, who is overseeing the excavation of one of the submerged ships known as Ship 43, will discuss his first findings about the Egyptians' unique shipbuilding style. He will also shed new light on why the boats appear to have been deliberately sunk.

'One of the key questions is why several ship graveyards were created close to the port. Ship 43 appears to be part of a large cluster of at least ten other vessels in a large ship graveyard about a mile from the mouth of the River Nile,' explained Dr Robinson. 'This might not have been simple abandonment, but a means of blocking enemy ships from gaining entrance to the port-city. Seductive as this interpretation is, however, we must also consider whether these boats were sunk simply to use them for land reclamation purposes.'

The port and its harbour basins also contain a collection of customs decrees, trading weights, and evidence of coin production. The material culture, for example, coin weights, will also be discussed at the conference, placing this into the wider narrative of how maritime trade worked in the ancient world.

Elsbeth van der Wilt, working on the project from the University of Oxford, said: 'Thonis-Heracleion played an important role in the network of long-distance trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, since the city would have been the first stop for foreign merchants at the Egyptian border. Excavations in the harbour basins yielded an interesting group of lead weights, likely to have been used by both temple officials and merchants in the payment of taxes and the purchasing of goods. Amongst these are an important group of Athenian weights. They are a significant archaeological find because it is the first time that weights like these have been identified during excavations in Egypt.'

Sanda Heinz from the University of Oxford will share her findings on over 300 statuettes and amulets from the Late and Ptolemaic Periods, including Egyptian and Greek subjects. The majority depict Egyptian deities such as Osiris, Isis, and their son Horus. She said: 'The statuettes and amulets were all found underwater, and are generally in excellent condition. The statuettes allow us to examine their belief system and at the same time have wider economic implications. These figures were mass-produced at a scale hitherto unmatched in previous periods. Our findings suggest they were made primarily for Egyptians; however, there is evidence to show that some foreigners also bought them and dedicated them in temples abroad.'

Franck Goddio, Director of the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, commented: 'The discoveries we have made in Thonis-Heracleion since 2000 thanks to the work of a multidisciplinary team and the support of the Hilti Foundation are encouraging. Charts of the city's monuments, ports and channels are taking shape more clearly and further crucial information is gathered each year. The conference at Oxford University will present interesting results and might bring new clues and insights of the fascinating history of Thonis-Heracleion."

Franck Goddio will make a comprehensive presentation of the sacred topography of Thonis-Heracleion resulting from12 years of archaeological works on site.

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'Catching Fire' Trailer To Debut At Movie Awards: Watch Sneak Peek Now!

Liam Hemsworth will present first look at 'Hunger Games' sequel on April 14 at 9 p.m. ET.
By Amy Wilkinson

Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Photo: Lionsgate

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Palestinian funerals draw thousands in tense West Bank

By Noah Browning

ANABTA, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners turned out on Thursday for the funerals of three Palestinians, including two teenagers killed by Israeli army gunfire in some of the worst violence in the occupied West Bank in years.

The upsurge in unrest was triggered on Tuesday by the death of Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a 64-year-old prisoner serving a life term in an Israeli jail and suffering from cancer.

Palestinian officials accused Israel of delaying treatment for Abu Hamdeya and gave him full military honors at a funeral on Thursday in Hebron, where masked gunmen fired into the air as his body arrived at a mosque in the divided West Bank city.

In disturbances that followed his death, four Palestinian youths threw firebombs at an Israeli checkpoint near Tulkarm in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, the army said.

Soldiers returned fire and killed two teenagers from the nearby town of Anabta - Amer Nassar, 17, and Naji Belbisi, 18.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel's use of lethal force showed that it wanted to "provoke chaos" in the Palestinian Territories and avoid any moves toward a peace deal.

The wave of violence erupted two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the region, urging the Israelis and the Palestinians to resume long-stalled peace talks but offering no initiative to break the deadlock.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to travel to Jerusalem again next week to review the stalemate.

NINE DEAD

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Israeli forces had killed nine Palestinians, most of them in clashes in the West Bank, so far this year, compared with three in the same period in 2012.

The bodies of Nassar and Belbisi, their blood-stained faces clearly visible, were carried on stretchers through the packed streets of Anabta, held aloft by uniformed members of the Palestinian security forces.

"O martyrs rest, rest. We will continue the struggle," the crowds chanted as the lifeless teenagers passed by.

After their funeral, dozens of Palestinian riot police prevented youths with rocks and petrol bombs from reaching the Israeli watchtower near where Nassar and Belbisi were killed.

Masked protesters blocked a main road into the nearby city of Nablus and threw stones at an Israeli checkpoint. After Abu Hamdeya's funeral in Hebron, scores of youths clashed with Israeli forces, causing several light injuries.

Israeli officials urged Palestinian leaders to push for calm, and dismissed suggestions that a third uprising, or Intifada, was brewing in the West Bank - territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which is now home to more than 340,000 Jewish settlers.

"There are no powers there pushing for a third Intifada or general uprising," senior defense official Amos Gilad told Israel Radio.

Underscoring the potential for more violence, the Israeli army said that for a third straight day, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Thursday. No casualties or damage were reported.

Following initial rocket fire on Tuesday, Israeli jets carried out their first air strike on Gaza since a truce ended several days of fighting in November.

An al Qaeda-linked group, Magles Shoura al-Mujahadeen, claimed responsibility for rocket attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, saying it was responding to the death of Hamdeya.

Israel says Gaza's Hamas rulers bear overall responsibility for any rocket fire and has urged Egypt, which helped broker the November truce, to use its influence with the Islamist group.

"The Egyptians are very active. Dialogue with them is constant and their interest is in keeping stability and preventing firing, violence and terrorism," Gilad said.

For the second time this year, the death of a Palestinian prisoner has sparked widespread anti-Israeli disturbances.

In February, Arafat Jaradat, 30, died after an interrogation session. Palestinian officials said he had been tortured, an allegation Israel denied.

Palestinians say Abu Hamdeya complained of feeling sick in August, but was only discovered to be suffering from cancer in January. They say he did not receive adequate treatment and should have been released because of the gravity of the illness.

Israelis said Abu Hamdeya, serving a life term for attempted murder after sending a suicide bomber to a Jerusalem cafe, was a heavy smoker and had received adequate care.

(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-youths-shot-death-west-bank-seethes-055634409.html

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UK couple face jail for killing 6 children in fire

LONDON (AP) ? Mick Philpott presented himself as an amiable rascal with an unorthodox lifestyle and a rambunctious brood of children ? 17 in all, with five women.

Yet the Englishman's ramshackle existence took a horrifying turn when he and his wife set a fire that killed six of their children. Prosecutors said it was an attempt to influence a custody battle that "went disastrously and tragically wrong."

The May 2012 deaths and the twisting saga that ensued have shocked Britain and sparked debate on everything from sexism to Britain's welfare system.

A judge said she would sentence Mick and Mairead Philpott on Thursday for their manslaughter convictions in the deaths of Jayden, Jesse, Jack, John, Jade and Duwayne, aged 5 to 13.

Prosecutors said the couple hatched a plan to start a gasoline-fueled fire and then rescue the children, pinning blame on Philpott's mistress so he could gain advantage in their child custody battle.

The plan went wrong within minutes, because the fire was far bigger than expected and the father was unable to smash a window to get in, prosecutors said.

The couple and a friend who helped them, Paul Mosley, were all convicted of manslaughter this week at England's Nottingham Crown Court.

Before the fire, Philpott, now 56, was a local celebrity ? nicknamed "Shameless Mick" after a television program about a disreputable working-class clan ? who had appeared on a daytime talk show defending his lifestyle. In 2007, a Conservative lawmaker stayed at his home for a week as she filmed a critical documentary about Britain's welfare system.

The jury ? and the nation ? got a close-up look during the trial at Philpott's messy life with his 32-year-old wife, his girlfriend and as many as 11 children in a three-bedroom social housing property in Derby, central England. They heard of his threesomes and public sex, of Philpott's controlling behavior and of his bizarre claim that he had not washed for 12 weeks before the fire.

Shortly before the fire, girlfriend Lisa Willis moved out, taking her five children with her. Philpott's five children with Mairead and his wife's 13-year-old son from a previous relationship remained in the home and died in the blaze.

After the fire, the Philpotts made an emotional appeal on television, with Mick describing how he had battled the flames to try to save his children.

But police soon grew suspicious of the couple's erratic behavior and bugged the hotel room where they were staying. The jury was played recordings of Philpott asking his wife: "Are you sticking to the story?"

The couple was arrested two weeks after the fire and charged with murder, later downgraded to manslaughter.

"It was started as a result of a plan between the three of them to turn family court proceedings in Mr. Philpott's favor," said Crown Prosecution Service adviser Samantha Shallow. "It was a plan that went disastrously and tragically wrong."

Steve Cotterill, the assistant chief constable of Derbyshire Constabulary, said it had been "one of, if not the most upsetting cases any of us has ever investigated."

"Six young children lost their lives needlessly in a fire and all our efforts have been focused on getting justice for those children," he said.

The jury was not told that Philpott had a previous conviction for attempted murder for stabbing a former girlfriend and her mother when he was 21 or that he was on bail for road rage at the time of the fire.

The conviction of the couple was front-page news in Britain, with publications seeing all manner of social ills reflected in Philpott's mustachioed face.

To the liberal Guardian newspaper, he was "a control freak whose domestic violence went unchecked." For the conservative Daily Mail, he was "a vile product of welfare U.K." To the Daily Mirror tabloid he was simply "pure evil."

But their defense lawyers painted a different picture.

Anthony Orchard told the judge Wednesday that "despite Mr.Philpott's faults, he was a very good father and loved those children."

"Mairead Philpott was an extremely good mother to all 11 children," her lawyer, Shaun Smith, said. "No one, we respectfully submit, can dispute the grief that she feels."

Judge Kathryn Thirlwall said she wanted to "reflect further" and adjourned sentencing to Thursday.

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Shape from sound: New methods to probe the universe

Apr. 3, 2013 ? As the uni?verse expands, it is con?tin?u?ally sub?jected to energy shifts, or "quan?tum fluc?tu?a?tions," that send out lit?tle pulses of "sound" into the fab?ric of space?time. In fact, the uni?verse is thought to have sprung from just such an energy shift.

A recent paper in the jour?nal Phys?i?cal Review Let?ters reports a new math?e?mat?i?cal tool that should allow one to use these sounds to help reveal the shape of the uni?verse. The authors recon?sider an old ques?tion in spec?tral geom?e?try that asks, roughly, to what extent can the shape of a thing be known from the sound of its acoustic vibra?tions? The researchers approached this prob?lem by break?ing it down into small work?able pieces, accord?ing to author Tejal Bhamre, a Prince?ton Uni?ver?sity grad?u?ate stu?dent in the Depart?ment of Physics.

To under?stand the authors' method, con?sider a vase. If one taps a vase with a spoon, it will make a sound that is char?ac?ter?is?tic of its shape. Sim?i?larly, the tech?nique Bhamre and her coau?thors devel?oped could, in prin?ci?ple, deter?mine the shape of space?time from the per?pet?ual ring?ing caused by quan?tum fluctuations.

The researchers' tech?nique also pro?vides a unique con?nec?tion between the two pil?lars of mod?ern physics -- quan?tum the?ory and gen?eral rel?a?tiv?ity -- by using vibra?tional wave?lengths to define the geo?met?ric prop?erty that is spacetime.

Bhamre worked with coau?thors David Aasen, a physics grad?u?ate stu?dent at Cal?tech, and Achim Kempf, a Water?loo Uni?ver?sity pro?fes?sor of physics of information.

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Putin signs law to allow him to pick Russian governors

By Alissa de Carbonnel

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Tuesday letting him pick candidates to lead Russia's regions if local lawmakers scrap popular polls, in what critics called a setback for democracy in the Russian leader's new term.

The law allows each of the country's 83 regions to repeal direct elections of governors, introduced just last year in a concession during a wave of protests by Russians fed up with Putin's dominance and demanding a stronger political voice.

Putin has said the law is needed to protect the rights of minorities in ethnically mixed regions such as the mostly Muslim provinces of the insurgency-plagued North Caucasus.

The Kremlin is concerned that direct elections in the volatile regions could spark unrest or involve candidates whose loyalty is in question. Russia is holding the Winter Olympics next February in Sochi, close to the North Caucasus provinces.

But critics of the president say the law is a rollback in democracy that favors the ruling United Russia party, which is far less popular than Putin himself and had its parliamentary majority sharply reduced in a December 2011 election.

They fear the Kremlin and United Russia will use the measure to sideline opposition candidates in favor of loyal governors.

"It's another lever to manage everything from Moscow," said Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition leader and a former cabinet minister in the 1990s under Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.

Under the new rules, each regional legislature can vote to abandon direct elections, instead choosing their governor from a list of three candidates handed down by Putin.

Putin, in power as president or prime minister since 2000, scrapped popular elections of regional governors in 2004 as part of a drive to tighten his grip on the political system.

They were reintroduced last year amid the biggest opposition protests of his rule.

"It was a feint," Nemtsov said of their reintroduction. "Now Putin thinks the protest have faded and he has decided to roll back everything."

Putin has drawn criticism from Western governments and activists in Russia for what opponents say are restrictive laws, a crackdown on non-governmental groups and the prosecution of dissenters since he began a new presidential term in May.

(Reporting By Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Jim Morrison in 1969 interview: 'Fat is beautiful'

By Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone

Jim Morrison was a fan of flab, as a newly unearthed 1969 interview with the Doors frontman reveals. In it, he explains why "fat is beautiful" to director/journalist Howard Smith and relays how he made the most of his meal plan while in college, growing to about 185 pounds and feeling great.

The chat has been animated as part of a new series from PBS and the "lost interview" project Blank on Blank.

Jim Morrison documentary begins production

"I felt like a large mammal. A big beast," Morrison exclaims in the interview, his words now accompanied by some delightfully literal illustrations.

"When I'd move through the corridors or across the lawn, I just felt like I could knock anybody out of my way, you know. I was solid, man. It's terrible to be thin and wispy because, you know, you could get knocked over by a strong wind or something. Fat is beautiful."

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