Close call in Mexico City: Suspicious Srixons

MEXICO CITY ? I usually don?t count airport layovers as cities visited, but passing through Mexico City on my way to the Costa Baja Resort in La Paz, Mexico tonight warrants an exception.

As we arrived, our flight attendant announced that we were approaching the largest city in the world. Well, I don?t think that was entirely accurate, but Mexico City is big, really big. More than 21 million people live in Mexico City, which make it the largest metro area in the Western Hemisphere.

Seeing it from the air really drove that point home. Laid out amongst the mountains were more high rises than I?ve ever seen, and all the buildings seemed to be on top of each other. Cars were everywhere, and it was evident where the poor sections were ? acres and acres of dilapidated dwellings.

I couldn?t wait to see the airport, and here?s the part you want to pay attention to if you ever fly into Mexico City:

I swear the walk to immigration was about a mile. Then there was the line to check passports. I waited in that one for 45 minutes before they took the second half of the line and brought them to a new area. Guess which part I was in? That?s right, in the middle of the line. It did go quicker after that, but it turned out the United Flight attendant gave me the old form, so I had to go back and fill out another one.

Of course, after that it?s customs, onto an Aerotrain to Terminal 2 and back through security. That went pretty smoothly until a young security officer spotted a dozen suspicious spheres in my carry-on. She asked me to open up my bag, and that?s when she came upon my yellow Srixons. She grasped a couple of them, inspected them, tossed them gently into the air to see what they were made of, and proclaimed ?no pelotas.?

Yikes, even I knew enough Spanish to realize somebody?s about to confiscate $42 worth of golf balls from me.

I pleaded and made my case that I needed those in my work to review the golf courses in La Paz. Another fellow came over, checked out the balls, did some more consulting, and finally let me keep them. A close call. That would have been a first.

My guess is that the 21 million people here don?t see a lot of golf balls, especially when they?re not in golf bags (I elected go with a rental set on this trip.) In all, it took about two hours to get through customs and over to Terminal 2 to catch my connection. Good thing my layover is 3 1/2 hours.

I?m just chalking it up to another cultural experience ? and looking forward to playing golf tomorrow in the sunny weather of La Paz, now that I?ve successfully smuggled golf balls out of the country.

Source: http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/mike-bailey/2012/06/29/close-call-in-mexico-city

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California Foie Gras Ban: A Brief History Of Anti-Foie Measures

On July 1, California will be bound by the most sweeping anti-foie gras statute in the world. Consumed by few, the pricey delicacy made from duck or goose?s liver is lusted after by chefs and diners for its rich, singular flavor and versatility on the plate for everything from hot dogs to ice cream. Despite its limited production (compared to the no-less controversial factory farming of beef, chicken and pork), foie gras has been a common rallying cry for animal rights and vegetarian activists across the world. Like many of the world?s most coveted ingredients, foie gras suffers from a bit of an ethical foible: the force-feeding required to enlarge the duck or goose?s liver in the final 2-3 weeks of its life (?foie gras? is, after all, French for ?fat liver?).

The key question is whether the process, called ?gavage,? of putting a tube down the animal?s throat rises to the level of actual animal cruelty. Foie defenders will tell you that gavage is almost second-nature to ducks and geese, whose bodies happen to be built to seasonally gorge themselves to prepare for migration. Their esophagi expand easily and they lack a gag reflex, so the process isn?t as uncomfortable ? if it?s uncomfortable at all ? as we might be led to believe. Foie opponents contend that the practice, which swells the animals? livers to many times their normal size, is inherently inhumane.

At least 14 countries now have some sort of foie gras ban on the books, though most of these only target its production ? not possession or consumption ? through laws banning force-feeding as part of larger animal cruelty measures. The two exceptions to this are Chicago?s short-lived ban and California?s impending law, which not only prohibits foie gras production but also bars shops and restaurants from selling it. It?s the closest thing to a scorched earth victory foie gras opponents might ever see.

See the timeline below for a brief history of these measures.

1965: Luxembourg bans animal force-feeding, unless its health specifically requires it, effectively banning the production of foie gras.

July, 1972: Germany bans force-feeding.

December, 1974: Norway bans force-feeding.

June, 1991: Denmark bans force-feeding.

1993: The Czech Republic bans force-feeding, "particularly poultry in intensive farming."

April, 1996: Finland bans force-feeding "for fattening purposes."

August, 1997: Poland bans force-feeding for the purposes of the "fatty degeneration of livers."

December, 1998: The EU's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare publishes an influential, 89-page report on foie gras production that helps form the EU's policy.

June, 1999: The EU prohibits foie gras production in member states effective 2004, except where it is already "in current practice," and calls for research into alternative techniques for its production that don't require force-feeding.

August, 2000: England effectively bans foie gras production under an interpretation of its farmed animal welfare regulations, which otherwise don't explicitly ban force-feeding.

March, 2001: Italy issues a legislative decree to ban foie gras production in 2004, calling force-feeding "torture" and "barbaric."

August, 2003: Argentina bans foie gras production, saying "force feeding must be considered mistreatment or an act of cruelty to animals, in this case to geese or ducks."

August, 2003: Israel prohibits the production of foie gras, starting in 2005. Unlike other countries where the bans were decided legislatively, anti-foie activists ultimately earned a ruling from Israel's Supreme Court who agreed that force-feeding violated animal cruelty laws. In 2003, Israel had the third largest foie gras industry in the world after France and Hungary.

September, 2004: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs into law a ban on the sale and production of foie gras starting in 2012. ?This bill provides seven and a half years for agricultural husbandry practices to evolve and perfect a humane way for a duck to consume grain to increase the size of its liver through natural processes,? he said in his signing statement. ?If agricultural producers are successful in this endeavor, the ban on foie gras sales and production in California will not occur.?

April, 2006: After a campaign by animal rights groups, the city of Chicago bans the sale of foie gras by a vote of 48 to 1, making it the first city in the U.S. to do so. The measure, enforced only through citizen complaints, fines restaurants $250, then $500 per offense after an initial warning. Upset with being told what they could and could not serve, in acts of civil disobedience one day after the ban, chefs who didn't typically have foie gras on their menus nonetheless serve it in various forms.

May, 2008: Mayor Richard M. Daley, who called Chicago's ban the "silliest" ordinance the city had ever passed, puts forward a bill to repeal it. The City Council votes to overturn Chicago's foie gras ban by a vote of 37-6.

July, 2011: France and Germany get into a a diplomatic kerfuffle after a major German food fair prohibits the inclusion of French foie gras. Alain Fauconnier, a Socialist member of France's senate, remarked, "It's unbelievable. It's like banning German sausages in France. The economic cost is enormous."

December, 2011: While the U.K. has banned the production of foie gras, it can still be served at restaurants. Most supermarkets, however, prohibit the sale. Celebrity butcher Jack O'Shea was escorted out of Selfridges supermarket for illegally selling foie gras to customers that knew his secret password. Two months later he was fired from his post.

Spring, 2012: Several prominent chefs and restaurateurs who oppose the California ban form a coalition in protest. They host elaborate foie-filled meals. Due to increased demand in California, the price of foie gras price nearly doubles and becomes harder to find. At the James Beard Awards, chefs sport "Save The Foie" pins.

May, 2012: Brandishing a less common strategy in the fight to ban foie gras, leading animal rights groups file a lawsuit against the USDA claiming that foie gras is inherently the product of diseased birds, due to their oversized livers, and therefore is illegal under existing USDA regulations.

July, 2012: California's foie gras ban takes effect. Violators risk fines of up to $1,000. The sole producer of foie gras in California, Sonoma-Artisan, will cease operations on July 1.

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Coach trips Richmond hockey player

CTV News is reporting that RCMP are investigating a Vancouver hockey coach after he tripped a 13-year-old Richmond Steel player during the post-game handshake.

Video obtained by CTV News shows a coach identified as Martin Tremblay tripping the Richmond player, causing two boys to tumble to the ice. One of the players suffered a broken wrist.

The incident happened at the University of B.C.'s Thunderbird Arena. See the video here.

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Facebook slides as underwriters issue ratings

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Wall Street analysts who know Facebook best are giving the company's stock a mixed review. Think: like, not love.

A flood of analyst reports from the banks that led Facebook's initial public offering gave the company's stock a mix of "Neutral" and "Buy" ratings on Wednesday. The day marks the end of a 40-day quiet period following the IPO, during which the underwriters aren't allowed to issue ratings.

Morgan Stanley, the lead bank in the IPO, gave a $38 target price for Facebook's stock over the next 12 months. That's the same as the IPO price Facebook has failed to match since its first day of trading. The analyst says Facebook has long-term opportunities in mobile despite decent concerns.

Facebook's stock slid 21 cents to $32.89 in midday trading.

Associated Press

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'Twisted light' carries terabits

25 June 2012 Last updated at 03:55 ET

Researchers have clocked light beams made of "twisted" waves carrying 2.5 terabits of data - the capacity of more than 66 DVDs - per second.

The technique relies on manipulating what is known as the orbital angular momentum of the waves.

Recent work suggests that the trick could vastly boost the data-carrying capacity in wi-fi and optical fibres.

The striking demonstration of the approach, reported in Nature Photonics, is likely to lead to even higher rates.

Angular momentum is a slippery concept when applied to light, but an analogy closer to home is the Earth itself.

Our planet has "spin angular momentum" because it spins on its axis, and "orbital angular momentum" because it is also revolving around the Sun.

Light can have both these types, but the spin version is the far more familiar - as what is commonly called polarisation, or the direction along which light waves wiggle. Polarising sunglasses and many 3D glasses work by passing one polarisation and not another.

In many data-carrying applications involving light, more data is packed on to light waves by encoding one polarisation with one data stream, and another with a different stream.

That means twice as much information can fit within the same "bandwidth" - the range of colours that the transmitting equipment is able to process.

Twisted mission

Orbital angular momentum, or OAM, on the other hand, has only recently come to the fore as a promising means to accomplish the same trick.

The idea is not to create light waves wiggling in different directions but rather with different amounts of twist, like screws with different numbers of threads.

Most recently, Bo Thide of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and a team of colleagues in Italy demonstrated the principle by sending beams made up of two different OAM states across a canal in Venice, an experiment they described in the New Journal of Physics.

Most data traffic in optical fibres around the world is made up of different data streams on slightly different colours of light, which are split into their constituent colours at the receiving end in a technique called multiplexing.

To fully realise OAM's potential, similar multiplexing of different "twists" must be developed.

Alan Willner and his team at the University of Southern California, along with colleagues at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tel Aviv University, have now demonstrated one way to do that.

The team prepared two sets of four light beams, each with a set level of OAM twist, and each of the eight containing its own data stream.

The two sets were then filtered to have different polarisations, and arranged into a single beam with four streams at the centre and four in a doughnut-shape around the edge.

At the receiving end, the process is undone and the single beam was unpacked to yield its eight constituent beams, together carrying about 2.5 terabits per second.

Initial experiments were only carried out over a distance of about a metre, and Prof Willner said that challenges remained for adapting the approach to fibres or for longer-distance transfer.

"One of the challenges in this respect is turbulence in the atmosphere," he explained.

"For situations that require high capacity... over relatively short distances of less than 1km, this approach could be appealing. Of course, there are also opportunities for long-distance satellite-to-satellite communications in space, where turbulence is not an issue."

Commenting on the work in an accompanying article in Nature Photonics, Juan Torres of the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona wrote that it "contributes a new chapter to the long history of telecommunications by demonstrating the potential of OAM... for increasing the transmission capacity".

However, he said that for wider application, a number of robust tools would be needed to manipulate OAM states and to create and deliver beams made up of several of them.

"The true impact of this development in the telecommunications industry will depend on how several important issues... are addressed and solved," he wrote.

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MightyText launches in earnest, enables browser-based texting through your Android phone number

Nah, it's not exactly iMessage (or BBM) for Android -- in some ways, it's better, but it lags behind in others. MightyText has launched in earnest today, graduating from its Chrome-only beta state and opening up a world of new messaging possibilities for those with Android handsets. In order to gain access, users need only install the free app linked below on an Android 2.2+ smartphone, and then install a plug-in at the company's website into your browser of choice. Once synced, you'll be able to view, send and reply to messages through your Android phone number, with no additional charges added at any point. The only niggle is that this is still SMS; unlike iMessage, which utilizes data, you won't be able to use this as a loophole to send messages whilst using Gogo on a plane, or using a WiFi hotspot in an international destination. The SMS still gets routed through your phone, so you'll still need a texting plan (or a pay-per-text plan) and a solid cellular signal to make the magic happen. For those still interested, the links below are beckoning.

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Watch: Drinking While Pregnant: Acceptable Amounts?

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Bad guys win?

How about we have a roleplay following a group of individuals who are the bad guys, or at least anti-heroes? I have a couple of ideas for this that aren't developed too much at the moment, but oh well. You can choose one of those, suggest one of your own, or pick none of them (you big meanie!). I'll put more thought into this concept of "the bad guys win" if that idea gains enough interest.

The first idea is one where an evil empire is attacking the good guy kingdom, only our guys are the evil minions and not as tough as the hero/band of heroes rampaging through our forces, not to mention we are heavily outnumbered in the area our people are fighting. Our group is tasked with brining down the heroes, which seems impossible for our lowely minion status, but we need to take on the challenge anyways. Obviously, that would be the final boss and we'd be fighting the good guy army a ton before then. We'd be outnumbered in all of our battles, so we'd have to toughen up a lot in order to survive.

The second idea is that we follow a mad scientist bent on world domination, or perhaps an expert hacker. Yep. That's all I got on that one for now.

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Alaska officials halt search for Japanese climbers

In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo provided by the National Park Service, climbers hike through the area where an avalanche swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill during their descent from Alaska's Mount McKinley. U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as a one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition on the Alaska mountain. The NPS said Hitoshi Ogi, 69, survived after falling 60 feet (18 meters) into a crevasse. He was able to climb out. The other four tumbled into the avalanche debris and haven't been seen since. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Kevin Wright)

In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo provided by the National Park Service, climbers hike through the area where an avalanche swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill during their descent from Alaska's Mount McKinley. U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as a one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition on the Alaska mountain. The NPS said Hitoshi Ogi, 69, survived after falling 60 feet (18 meters) into a crevasse. He was able to climb out. The other four tumbled into the avalanche debris and haven't been seen since. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Kevin Wright)

In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo provided by the National Park Service, climbers hike through the area where an avalanche swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill during their descent from Alaska's Mount McKinley. U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as a one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition on the Alaska mountain. The NPS said Hitoshi Ogi, 69, survived after falling 60 feet (18 meters) into a crevasse. He was able to climb out. The other four tumbled into the avalanche debris and haven't been seen since. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Kevin Wright)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? The search for four Japanese climbers who were caught in an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley has been called off, with authorities calling the site their final resting place.

The National Park Service said Sunday that a shallow avalanche on the mountain may not have killed the climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep.

The search for them was permanently suspended after a mountaineering ranger found the climbing rope in debris at the bottom of the crevasse, spokeswoman Kris Fister said Sunday from Talkeetna.

"We believe this is their final resting place," Fister said.

The four were identified as Yoshiaki Kato, 64, Masako Suda, 50, Michiko Suzuki 56, and 63-year-old Tamao Suzuki, 63.

The avalanche early Wednesday morning also pushed Hitoshi Ogi, 69, into the crevasse. Ogi climbed 60 feet out of the crevasse and reached a base camp Thursday afternoon.

Ogi had been attached to the other members of the team by climbing rope as they descended in an avalanche-prone section of the West Buttress Route. The rope broke in the avalanche and fall.

The group was on a section known as Motorcycle Hill at about 11,800 feet, which has a 35-degee slope. Climbers who take a required briefing on the mountain are warned of the avalanche danger there.

"This is the first time there have been fatalities," Fister said.

The avalanche likely was set up by new snow falling on rock or hardened snow and ice, Fister said. No climber reached the summit between June 8 and the day of the fall five days later because of falling snow and wind that limited visibility, Fister said.

The avalanche measured 200 feet wide and 800 feet top to bottom, Fisher said. It created a snow pile averaging only 3-4 feet deep.

A 10-person ground crew searched for the climbers Saturday and at first concentrated on the avalanche debris. The patrol included a rescue dog and a handler. Probes turned up no sign of the missing climbers.

"We weren't certain originally," Fister said. "That's why we were probing through the snowfield itself. Then when we had the chance to go further into the same crevasse that he (Ogi) had fallen into, they started going further in, probing. Again, there was a lot of ice debris that had fallen into it."

Park Service mountaineering ranger Tucker Chenoweth found a grim sign of the doomed climbing team in the crevasse. Ogi had emerged from the crevasse with much of his gear missing, and Chenoweth spotted equipment as he descended. At 100 feet down, he dug through ice debris and spotted rope.

It matched about 60 feet of rope that remained attached to Ogi, and which he had carried with him on his descent from the crevasse to the base camp.

Chenoweth continued to dig, hoping to reach the other roped-in climbers, but found the going difficult through the compacted ice and snow debris.

The danger of falling ice made it too dangerous to continue an attempt to recover bodies, Fister said.

All the climbers were members of the Japanese alpine club Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation.

Ogi suffered a minor hand injury, according to the Park Service. He was flown off the mountain Thursday.

The deaths bring to six the number of fatalities on the mountain during the summer climbing season.

Since 1932, 120 people have died on the mountain. A dozen died in avalanches.

Park Service spokeswoman Maureen McLaughlin said by phone from Talkeetna that the Japanese climbers bring to 44 the number of bodies that remain on North America's tallest mountain. Some, she said, were in similar circumstances where it was too dangerous to mount a recovery effort. Others have never been found.

Associated Press

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Chinese spacecraft en route to orbiting module

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China's first female astronaut Liu Yang, bottom, waves during a sending off ceremony as she departs for the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China will send its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China's first female astronaut Liu Yang salutes during a sending off ceremony as she departs for the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China will send its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

BEIJING (AP) ? A spacecraft carrying China's first female astronaut and two male crew mates made a planned course change Sunday en route to docking with an orbiting module, state television reported.

The Shenzhou 9 capsule was launched Saturday on China's most ambitious space mission yet in a step toward building a permanent space station.

The spacecraft carried out the first of five planned orbit changes early Sunday, state television said. The capsule is to dock Monday with the Tiangong 1 module 343 kilometers (213 miles) above Earth.

Liu Yang, a 33-year-old air force pilot who is China's first female space traveler; mission commander and veteran astronaut Jing Haipeng, 45; and crew mate Liu Wang, 43, are to spend at least 10 days in space.

"The astronaut crew are in good shape and everything is going according to plan," China Central Television said in its midday news program.

Two of the astronauts will live and work inside the module while the third remains in the capsule in case of emergency. The astronauts are to conduct medical tests and other experiments before returning to Earth.

China is hoping to join the United States and Russia as the only countries to send independently maintained space stations into orbit. It is already one of just three nations to have launched manned spacecraft on their own.

Another manned mission to the module is planned later this year, while possible future missions could include sending a man to the moon.

The space program is a source of national pride, reflecting China's rapid economic and technological progress and ambition to be a global leader.

The selection of the first female astronaut is giving the program an additional publicity boost.

The Tiangong 1 is due to be replaced by a permanent space station around 2020. That station is to weigh about 60 tons, slightly smaller than NASA's Skylab of the 1970s and about one-sixth the size of the 16-nation International Space Station.

China has only limited cooperation in space with other nations and its exclusion from the ISS, largely on objections from the United States, was one of the key spurs for it to pursue an independent space program 20 years ago.

China first launched a man into space in 2003 followed by a two-man mission in 2005 and a three-man trip in 2008 that featured the country's first space walk.

In November 2011, the unmanned Shenzhou 8 successfully docked twice with Tiangong 1 by remote control.

Shenzhou 9 is to dock with the module by remote control, then separate and dock again manually to test the system's reliability.

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MTV News sat down with Brown hours before NYC melee and caught up with Drizzy before things between the stars turned violent.
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THE BRONX, New York There was something in the air on Wednesday. In hindsight: a certain electricity. And while we're still patching together the details of what went down between Drake, Chris Brown and their crews in SoHo, we do know that two 20-something millionaires — who have a million reasons to celebrate — went from popping bottles to lobbing bottles.

Members of MTV News' hip-hop brain trust were under the same roof as Drizzy just before he turned up at WIP nightclub and things went left. In another coincidence, earlier that day, we welcomed Breezy to the newsroom, where he teased his Fortune LP ... and praised Drake — without any prompting from us. We'd be wrong not to share with you, so we've detailed what we saw in the 24 hours leading up to the bloody confrontation.

Fresh off the New Jersey leg of his Club Paradise Tour, Drake headed to the Sin City gentleman's club in the Bronx, where Maybach Music's entire starting lineup had gathered to drink to their accomplishment, namely the imminent release of the Self Made 2 album. Rozay was there in all his bearded glory, and so was Drizzy's Paradise tourmate Meek Mill; all were on hand to give industry insiders and fans a preview of their compilation.

The Toronto spitter's fascination with the Maliahs of the world is well-documented, and he looked right at home when got to Sin City. In a bit of cinematic timing, he strolled in just as his verse in "Stay Schemin' " came over the speakers and a new band of pole-clutching, cream-complexioned girls rotated onto one of the V.I.P. stages.

Flanked by security, the YMCMB star greeted well-wishers and then made his way to a back area. Maybe he was looking forward to letting off steam after the energetic 90-minute set we caught on Tuesday in Jersey. But Drake had just lost his close friend Christopher "Lewds" Natalio, too, so maybe spending a couple ones was just the prescription.

Meanwhile, early Wednesday afternoon, at around 1:15 p.m. ET, Brown paid a visit to our 1515 Broadway headquarters. Dressed in Jordans and a white Commes des Garçons polo, he bounced into the interview room with girlfriend Karrueche Tran trailing quietly behind. Breezy's bodyguard, Big Pat — who later suffered head injuries in the melee at WIP — was also with Brown.

While we set up mics and cameras, Chris let us take a good look at his inked-up sleeves. Soon the topic turned to his rapping and how much we liked the Fortune track "Till I Die." The Virginia crooner told us he's in a '90s-rap state of mind when it comes to fashion (check his "Today" show vintage, but firmly in this decade when it comes to music. He grew animated explaining why he felt at ease rapping and singing on a record these days, citing the reception for "Look at Me Now" and the impact of a certain Canadian actor-turned-rapper.

"I think the culture is starting to be very different and be [accepting of] diversity," he said. "You don't have to be the hardest of the hardest rapper or the toughest of the toughest guys to make a statement ... as far as your music. ... So with Justin and me and you've got Drake and other people that rap that aren't the DMXs of the world — it's a different day.

"I think people are just listening to the music," he added, and not just giving rappers a thug litmus test or judging whether they live a street "lifestyle."

Kind words indeed, but tension was brewing. We haven't mentioned Rihanna yet but it's nearly impossible to talk about Chris Brown and Drake these days without the Bajan stunner's name coming up. Brown is the ex who did her wrong and Drizzy, the collaborator who once rapped about wanting to do right by her, who would have accepted sparks over fireworks with her. To hear the blogs tell it, the brawl was over Rih, and it was a collision waiting to happen. A tug of war over who can claim her erupted with Meek making the triangle a very complicated quad, according to the gossips.

All it took was for all of the players to touch down in place, and on Wednesday night, they did.

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Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead

TORONTO (AP) ? Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert.

They say two other people were injured and are being assessed.

Some at Downsview Park ahead of the show are saying on Twitter that the area has been cleared by emergency crews.

The venue said on its website that the concert has been canceled.

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Wednesday, June 13, 2012, purports to show black smoke rising from buildings in Homs, Syria. Fireballs of orange flames exploded over the central city of Homs, where Syrian forces fired a continuous rain of shells that slammed into the rebel-held neighborhoods of Khaldiyeh, Jouret al-Shayyah and the old city. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL

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BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's state-run news agency says a car bomb has exploded in a suburb of the capital Damascus, wounding at least two people.

It was not immediately clear what the target of Thursday's blast was. SANA says the car bomb detonated in a parking lot near the Imam Sadr Hospital in Sayyida Zainab, a Damascus suburb that is home to a Shiite Muslim shrine popular with Iranian and other Shiite pilgrims.

It says the bomb caused substantial material damage. At least two people were wounded.

Car bombs and suicide bombings have become common in Syria as the 15-month uprising against President Bashar Assad has become increasingly militarized.

Associated Press

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