Little PSY goes solo after 'Gangnam Style' cameo

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2013 file photo, South Korean rapper PSY performs before President Park Geun-hye's presidential inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. Sporting a black suit and a sleek haircut, a 7-year-old boy, Hwang Min-woo performed at a news conference in South Korea on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The impish boy nicknamed ?Little PSY? is releasing an electro pop song next week through iTunes. Min-woo says he wants to gain global fame like his ?big brother,? PSY. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, FIle)

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2013 file photo, South Korean rapper PSY performs before President Park Geun-hye's presidential inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. Sporting a black suit and a sleek haircut, a 7-year-old boy, Hwang Min-woo performed at a news conference in South Korea on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The impish boy nicknamed ?Little PSY? is releasing an electro pop song next week through iTunes. Min-woo says he wants to gain global fame like his ?big brother,? PSY. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, FIle)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? The impish boy who showed off his dance moves alongside PSY in "Gangnam Style" is hoping to go viral, too.

The 7-year-old nicknamed "Little PSY" is releasing an electro pop song next week through iTunes. The boy whose real name is Hwang Min-woo says he wants to gain global fame like his "big brother," PSY.

Sporting a black suit and a sleek haircut, Min-woo performed at a news conference in South Korea on Wednesday. He is the latest recruit in the increasingly global K-pop industry.

Min-woo is a second-grader and his mother comes from Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the big PSY has released a "Gangnam Style" remix and is continuing his worldwide tour. The video released on YouTube in July has a record 1.39 billion views.

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Even after death, Chavez gets choice of successor

The flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

The flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

A supporter of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him above a crowd waiting for Chavez's coffin to be taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, second from right, links arms with Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, as they arrive to the Military Hospital where Chavez died in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The coffin containing the body of is being taken from the hospital to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral Friday. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

The flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy, where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday.(AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez cry outside the military hospital where President Hugo Chavez, aged 58, died on Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all school was suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? A flag-draped coffin carrying the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez floated over a sea of supporters Wednesday on its way to a military academy where it will lie in state. Away from the procession route, jittery Venezuelans facing an uncertain future without their larger-than-life leader flocked to supermarkets and gas stations to stock up on supplies, preparing for the worse a day after Chavez succumbed to cancer.

Tens of thousands lined the streets or walked with the casket in the capital, many weeping as the body approached, led by a grim drum major. Other mourners pumped their fists and held aloft images of the late president, amid countless waving yellow, blue and red Venezuelan flag.

"The fight goes on! Chavez lives!" shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night.

Chavez's bereaved mother Elena Frias de Chavez leaned against her son's casket, while a priest read a prayer before the procession left the military hospital where Chavez died at the age of 58. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's anointed successor, walked with the crowd, along with Cabinet members and uniformed soldiers.

"I feel so much pain. So much pain," said Yamile Gil, a 38-year-old housewife. "We never wanted to see our president like this. We will always love him."

The former paratrooper will remain at the military academy until his Friday funeral, which promises to draw leaders from all over the world. Already, the presidents of Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia have arrived to mourn a man whose passing leaves an enormous void in the region's anti-American left.

"The Chavez-less era begins," declared a front-page headline in Caracas's El Universal newspaper.

But even in death, Chavez's orders were being heeded in a country covered with posters bearing his image and graffiti pledging "We are all Chavez!"

Maduro will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and will stand as candidate of Chavez's socialist party in an election the country's constitution requires be called within 30 days.

In a late-night tweet, Venezuelan state television said Defense Minister Adm. Diego Molero had pledged military support for Maduro's candidacy against likely opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, despite a constitutional mandate that the armed forces play a nonpolitical role.

For die-hard Chavistas who camped out all night outside the military hospital, Wednesday was the first full day without a leader many described as a father figure, an icon in the mold of the early-19th century liberator Simon Bolivar. Others saw the death of a man who presided over Venezuela as a virtual one-man show as an opportunity to turn back the clock on his socialist policies.

For both sides, uncertainty ruled the day.

It was not immediately clear when the presidential vote would be held, or where or when Chavez would be buried following Friday's pageant-filled funeral.

Venezuela's constitution specifies that the speaker of the National Assembly, currently Diosdado Cabello, should assume the interim presidency if a president can't be sworn in.

But critics say the officials left in charge by Chavez before he went to Cuba in December for his fourth cancer surgery have not been assiduous about heeding the constitution, and human rights and free speech activists are concerned they will flaunt the rule of law. Many took to Twitter to cite Article 233 of the constitution, which they said establishes Cabello as the rightful interim president.

Just a few hours before announcing Chavez's death, Maduro virulently accused foreign and domestic enemies, clearly including the United States, of trying to undermine Venezuelan democracy. The government said two U.S. military attaches had been expelled for allegedly trying to destabilize the nation, and Maduro insisted that Chavez was purposefully "attacked" with cancer. He said a scientific commission would be set up to investigate.

There has been no word on any plans for an autopsy, and while the government has said Chavez suffered from cancer, it has never specified the exact location or type of cancer.

Many mourners Wednesday took their cue from Maduro, venting anger at Washington and accusing Venezuela's opposition of conspiring with far-right U.S. forces to undermine the revolution.

"The government of the United States is not going to rest," said Oscar Navas, a 33-year-old fruit vendor and Chavez supporter who joined the procession. "It's going to continue conspiring against our revolution because we are anti-imperialists. I don't have the slightest doubt the CIA is here, undercover, doing whatever it can to destabilize our country."

Venezuela and the United States have a complicated relationship, with Chavez's enemy to the north remaining the top buyer of Venezuelan oil. But Chavez's inner circle has long claimed the United States was behind a failed 2002 attempt to overthrow him, and he has frequently used anti-American rhetoric to stir up support. Venezuela has been without a U.S. ambassador since July 2010 and expelled another U.S. military officer in 2006.

U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell denied Washington was trying to destabilize Venezuela and said the claim "leads us to conclude that, unfortunately, the current Venezuelan government is not interested in an improved relationship."

Ventrell added that the suggestion that the United States had a hand in Chavez's illness was "absurd." He hinted the U.S. could reciprocate with expulsions of Venezuelan diplomats.

Capriles, the youthful governor of Miranda state who lost to Chavez in October presidential election, was conciliatory in a televised address Tuesday. He is widely expected to run against Maduro.

"This is not the moment to highlight what separates us," Capriles said. "This is not the hour for differences; it is the hour for union, it is the hour for peace."

Although the armed forces chief, Gen. Wilmer Barrientos, reported "complete calm" in the country late Tuesday, several incidents of political violence flared after Chavez's death.

A group of masked, helmeted men on motorcycles, some brandishing revolvers, reportedly attacked about 40 students on Tuesday who had been protesting for more than a week near the Supreme Court building to demand the government give more information about Chavez's health.

The assailants, who didn't wear clothing identifying any political allegiance, burned the students' tents and scattered their food just minutes after Chavez's death was announced.

"They burned everything we had," said student leader Gaby Arellano. She said she saw four of the attackers with pistols but none fired a shot.

Outside the military hospital, an angry crowd also roughed up a Colombian TV reporter.

"They beat us with helmets, with sticks, men, women, adults," Carmen Andrea Rengifo said on RCN TV. Video images showed her bleeding above the forehead, but she was not seriously injured.

Maduro and other government officials have railed against international media for allegedly reporting rumors about Chavez's health, although RCN wasn't one of those criticized.

Chavez leaves behind a political movement in control of a nation that human rights activist Liliana Ortega, director of the nongovernmental group COFAVIC, describes as a badly deteriorated state where institutions such as the police, courts and prosecutor's offices have been converted into tools of political persecution and where most media are firmly controlled by the government.

Javier Corrales, an Amherst College political scientist, said he was concerned about the "virulent, anti-American discourse" under Maduro. "It seems to me this is a government that is beginning to blame the United States for all its troubles."

"This is very dark," he said. "This is the most nebulous period, the most menacing that the government has been, and the actions have been pretty severe."

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Associated Press writers Christopher Toothaker, Fabiola Sanchez and Paul Haven in Caracas contributed to this report.

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Graphene antenna could increase wireless speed 100 times

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 6 hrs.

Frustrated by slow Wi-Fi speeds? Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on antennas that could transfer your files so fast that you might miss it if you blink. Their solution uses graphene, a miracle material that is starting to affect many industries.

Graphene is a material made up of just a single-atom layer of carbon, giving it many interesting properties. One such property is that it conducts electricity extremely well, meaning it can replace silicon or metals in electronics, conferring huge improvements to speed and efficiency.

In this case, the team at Georgia Tech, led by Ian Akyildiz, is proposing an antenna made of the stuff. A graphene antenna could work at terahertz frequencies, far beyond the megahertz and gigahertz rates found in even the most advanced wireless devices today.

The end result could, under the right circumstances, provide data rates of up to 100 terabits per second, Akyildiz told MIT's Tech Review. That's enough to transfer the contents of any ordinary hard drive in just a fraction of a second ? the blink of an eye.

More conservative estimates, which take into account greater distances between the antennas and other factors, still suggest terabit speeds would be achieved, requiring just a few seconds to transfer the contents of a 1 TB hard drive.

It's still very much just a theory, though; No one has built such an antenna and there are serious obstacles yet to tackle. Graphene is difficult to make in the first place, and many systems will have to be completely redesigned around it. But so many interesting applications for the material have been lofted that scientific minds all over the world are racing to find solutions.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Re: Sub not acting right (I think) - Techtalk Speaker Building, Audio ...

1. Sub not acting right (I think)

   I built a sub a couple of years ago and while it sounds great for HT stuff, it's practically not even there for music. The box is roughly 1.6 cu-ft (2 cu-ft minus speaker, amp, and bracing) and is stuffed with poly-fill. My driver is a Dayton RSS315HF-4 and my amp is the Dayton 250 W plate amp. My stereo is a relatively new Yamaha 5.1 HD receiver. I have a choice of using either LFE inputs or speaker-level inputs for the sub.
   First I tried the speaker-level inputs, wiring the sub in series with my mains. Again, sounded great for HT, not much going for music. I tried fiddling with the crossover frequency and the gain and I could get some very low frequency boom (~30-40Hz), but nothing like I was expecting at usual low-end musical frequencies (45-70Hz). Since my mains are Dynacos which play well down into the mid-50s, having weak, muddled bass was a step down from what I was used to.
   Next I tried hooking it up to my stereo's LFE output and setting it to decode 2-channel stereo as 5.1. Sounded about the same. I tried setting my mains to "small" thinking maybe the stereo was only sending the lowest of the lows - virtually no difference.
   I don't mean to complain because for movies, the sub will knock pictures off the wall. It's just that I thought adding a sub, especially a big 400Wmax 12" sub, would really make the low end of my music come alive and it just doesn't. On most songs that are boomy on my dinky car stereo, I can barely tell it's there.
   So after the very long winded introduction, what could I be doing wrong or am I just expecting my sub to do something it won't?

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3. Re: Sub not acting right (I think)

   To determine if anything's wrong you need to measure the in-room response. You could spend big bucks on an Omnimic, or get a USB mic and freeware, or just use an SPL meter and hand plot response using a test CD or downloaded sine wave generator as a source. Once you've determined if something's broken you can proceed on fixing it.

   I was planning on doing that this weekend, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Something about a sick wife and a sick car keep getting in the way of tinkering with my speakers. However, would you agree that I should be getting some serious, noticeable "boom" when listening to music? In other words, regardless of how my sub is performing, am I at least expecting something that it SHOULD be capable of doing?

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4. Re: Sub not acting right (I think)

   Does that plate amp have an adjustable crossover by any chance? Maybe it's set to lowpass at 40 or 50hz or something? Similarly, is there a lowpass xover point in the receiver settings?

   Maybe i'm misunderstanding, but it sounds kinda like a settings issue?

   "Filled with Polyfill" leads me to believe it's a sealed sub? If it was ported i might also think maybe you just have a giant hump in your box's response at lower home-theatre-special-effects region, then a flatter response in the musical range. I think that can happen with ported designs, but i don't remember if that is possible with sealed. Bill's advice about measuring equipment would sort this out.

   Good luck.

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9. Re: Sub not acting right (I think)

   You should be using the LFE output of your AVR and then the first thing I would do is check your Yamaha 5.1 HD receiver manual for a setting in the SUB/LFE output section that is a "PLUS" setting - ie that setting will allow the sub output to work with any input settings not just when using your BD player.

   Most modern AVRs have a "PLUS" or similar setting to allow the sub(s) to be used with the mains for music/gaming,etc but if not enabled in your settings you won't here anything much from the sub from your music/gaming inputs if this function isn't enabled in the AVR.

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10. Re: Sub not acting right (I think)

    Try running test tones? That will make it blatantly obvious what's going on. Maybe the variable crossover on the amplifier is messed up, try setting it in the middle, it may be wired in reverse or something silly like that, causing the highest crossover to be the lowest, etc.

    I'll be po'ed if that's it, but you could be right based on what I'm seeing. You should be using the LFE output of your AVR and then the first thing I would do is check your Yamaha 5.1 HD receiver manual for a setting in the SUB/LFE output section that is a "PLUS" setting - ie that setting will allow the sub output to work with any input settings not just when using your BD player. I'll check this when I get home.

    Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

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11. Re: Sub not acting right (I think)

    Try turning off the main speakers using a Speaker A/B/Off button, for e.g., or just pulling the wires. See if your sub is doing anything at all.

    Are your inputs different depending on music and movies? In other words, are you using a "CD" input and "BD/DVD" input or something? My receiver remembers decoder configuration per input, so I can have the audio input on 2-channel while the TV/Sat input is on auto format decode (5.1) with Pro Logic II upmix from 2.0. My receiver also has a display with "SW", "L", "C", "R", "SL", "SR" etc... They light up when they're active for whatever decoding mode is enabled. (Just L and R for stereo; L, R, and SW for 2.1, etc..)

    This is all really basic stuff and you might be well beyond this by now, but it doesn't hurt to check. :-)

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Global warming will open unexpected new shipping routes in Arctic, researchers find

Mar. 4, 2013 ? Shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean won't put the Suez and Panama canals out of business anytime soon, but global warming will make these frigid routes much more accessible than ever imagined by melting an unprecedented amount of sea ice during the late summer, new UCLA research shows.

"The development is both exciting from an economic development point of view and worrisome in terms of safety, both for the Arctic environment and for the ships themselves," said lead researcher Laurence C. Smith, a professor of geography at UCLA.

The findings, which explore accessibility during the Arctic's most navigable month of the year, September, appear in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plus. The first thorough assessment of trans-Arctic shipping potential as global temperatures continue to rise, the study is based on independent climate forecasts for the years 2040 to 2059.

By mid-century, even ordinary shipping vessels will be able to navigate previously inaccessible parts of the Arctic Ocean, and they will not need icebreakers to blaze their path as they do today, the researchers found.

"We're talking about a future in which open-water vessels will, at least during some years, be able to navigate unescorted through the Arctic, which at the moment is inconceivable," said co-author Scott R. Stephenson, a Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of Geography.

Just as surprisingly, the Arctic ice sheet is expected to thin to the point that polar icebreakers will be able to navigate between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by making a straight shot over the North Pole, Smith and Stephenson predict.

"Nobody's ever talked about shipping over the top of the North Pole," Smith said. "This is an entirely unexpected possibility."

The route directly over the North Pole is 20 percent shorter than today's most-trafficked Arctic shipping lane, the Northern Sea Route, which hugs the coast of Russia. For vessels traveling between Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Yokohama, Japan, the Northern Sea Route is already approximately 40 percent shorter than the traditional route through the Suez Canal.

Even the fabled and notoriously treacherous Northwest Passage, which traces Canada's coastline and offers the most direct route from Asia to eastern Canada and the northeasternmost part of the U.S., is expected to become more viable for Polar Class 6 vessels -- a common type of ship that has been strengthened against ice -- and possibly even ships with unreinforced hulls, which make up the lion's share of the world's commercial fleet.

Today, the Northwest Passage is theoretically navigable only one out of seven years, on average, making it too unreliable to be a viable option for commercial shippers, the researchers said. But by mid-century, sea ice will melt in September to the point that it is accessible every other year, on average. Choosing whether to ship through the passage "will become a coin toss," Smith said.

The predictions, however, do not foresee access beyond late summer. "This will never be a year-round operation," Smith stressed.

Smith is an authority on the ways in which climate change is affecting the Arctic, where average temperatures have risen faster than the global average since the mid-1980s. He has quantified the disappearance of more than 1,000 Arctic lakes. He also is the author of "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future," a 2010 book that looks at new economic opportunities, as well as environmental degradation, taking shape in the northern quarter of the globe. With Stephenson, Smith has calculated the toll global warming will take on Arctic ice roads and the communities and businesses that depend on them.

For centuries, the Arctic Ocean has captured the imagination of explorers because of the possibility it offers for traveling between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans through the Bering Strait. Until recently, however, sea ice has blocked access to the potential shortcut between Asia and North America or Europe. But in the past two years, the ice has begun to melt in late summer to such an extent that even ordinary seagoing vessels, albeit with escorts, have been able to enter its frigid waters. In summer 2012, a total of 46 voyages successfully crossed the Northern Sea Route.

To arrive at their predictions, Smith and Stephenson studied these emerging shipping routes and the degree of ice melt that has made them possible. They then took the results from seven respected forecasts for the sea ice cover in the Arctic and averaged predictions for the extent of the Arctic ice sheet in September, historically the month when the ocean has the least amount of ice coverage, for every year between 2040 and 2059.

The researchers factored in two scenarios for climate change: one that assumed a 25 percent increase in global carbon emissions, which is generally expected to produce a medium-low increase in temperatures, and one that assumed an additional 10 percent increase in emissions, which is expected to produce a higher increase in temperatures. To their surprise, changes in accessibility were similarly dramatic under both scenarios.

"No matter which carbon emission scenario is considered, by mid-century we will have passed a crucial tipping point -- sufficiently thin sea ice -- enabling moderately capable icebreakers to go where they please," Smith said.

The mid-century projections may seem distant when measured against the lifespan of adults living today, the researchers concede. But the period falls well within the long lead times of commercial and governmental planning efforts. As such, the projections have implications for port construction, acquisition of natural resources and the establishment of jurisdiction of shipping lanes, Smith and Stephenson stress.

Canada, for instance, has long maintained that the Northwest Passage falls under Canadian sovereignty, while the U.S. maintains it is an international strait. As long as the passage was essentially unnavigable, the issue was moot, but increasing accessibility could bring the U.S. into dispute with its northern neighbor, the researchers warn.

The increasing viability of shipping routes through the Arctic is also likely to increase pressure on the U.S. to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Some newly accessible shipping lanes would pass through waters over which the U.S. could make internationally accepted sovereignty claims if it ratified the treaty, the researchers said. Countries that claim sovereignty are able to lay down rules for the vessels that pass through their waters. Russia, which controls the Northern Sea Route, currently requires shipping companies to pay steep fees for escort vessels to accompany their fleets.

The unprecedented new navigation routes that are expected to open up could allow shipping companies to sidestep these escort fees and other Russian regulations, but these new lanes could take Polar Class 6 vessels and even common ships into less-regulated international waters.

While attractive to business, the lack of regulations poses safety, environmental and legal issues that have yet to be resolved, the researchers stress. The prospect of open-water ships entering the Arctic Ocean in late summer heightens the urgency for comprehensive international regulations that provide adequate environmental protections, vessel safety standards and search-and-rescue capability, they said.

"The Arctic is a fragile and dangerous place," Smith said.

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Hawaii Senate passes Steven Tyler Act on privacy

HONOLULU (AP) ? The Hawaii state Senate passed the so-called Steven Tyler Act Tuesday, a bill that seeks to protect celebrities from overeager paparazzi by creating a civil violation if people take unwanted photos or videos of others in their private moments.

The Aerosmith frontman from Massachusetts asked Sen. Kalani English to sponsor the legislation after unwanted photos were taken of him and his girlfriend last December and published in a national magazine, causing family drama.

Tyler owns a multimillion dollar home in Maui, which is part of English's district. English said the proposal could help increase celebrity tourism in Hawaii.

Twenty-three of the state's 25 Senate members voted in favor of the bill, which now goes to the House for consideration.

Sen. Sam Slom, the body's only Republican, opposed the measure.

"We have been the butt of many editorials and jokes across the country for this proposed legislation," he said.

Slom said senators had fun with the bill, but Hawaii has adequate laws protecting privacy and this proposal is an attack on First Amendment rights.

"My final remarks to Steven Tyler as he sang so eloquently are, 'Dream on, dream on,'" Slom joked.

Sen. Les Ihara also voted against the measure.

Besides Tyler, other celebrities have supported the bill, including Britney Spears, Mick Fleetwood and the Osborne family.

They say intrusive paparazzi make it difficult to enjoy simple activities with family and friends.

But national media organizations worry about the proposal's impact on freedom of the press. The National Press Photographers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists were some of several national media organizations that submitted testimony opposing the bill.

The Senate Judiciary Committee responded to criticism of the measure's vague language by replacing the original version with the text of an existing California anti-paparazzi statute.

But longtime media lawyer Jeff Portnoy said the bill is still problematic.

"It's better, but it doesn't change its fatal flaws," he said. The measure's language is still ambiguous and it is unnecessary, given Hawaii's existing laws, Portnoy said.

"Our only chance to get some sanity into this is in the House," he said.

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Pedersen On Sports | Pedersen on Sports | Tucson Weekly

By the end of this column?assuming you read the whole thing?you'll either be thinking to yourself, "What have I done to deserve this?" or "This was just what the Tucson Weekly needed to cement itself as the top media source in the region."

I get paid either way, so it's no bother to me what the verdict is.

But be warned: This space will be reserved for analysis, bluntness, commentary, discussion and exposition on all facets of sports, recreation and entertainment in Southern Arizona, and maybe even Phoenix if I'm feeling particularly saucy.

DISCLAIMER: This means there will be talk not just about the University of Arizona but also of professional and high school sports as well as bowling, gambling (especially poker), board games and Little League. They're all areas that, frankly, deserve some attention but just don't get enough of it from this region's UA-and-nothing-else slant.

The approach will be a mix of promotion, kudos and character evisceration?if necessary, of the throwing-them-under-the-bus variety. Punches won't be pulled for fear of getting kicked out of the press box or having credentials revoked. That ship sailed with my predecessor a long time ago.

I have opinions, and I like to voice them when appropriate?and also when it's not appropriate, as anyone who follows me on Twitter has learned. These viewpoints come from more than 18 years of witnessing the comings and goings of the sporting and pop culture worlds in Tucson, both as a fan and as a reporter for various local publications.

I even picked up a gig coaching youth basketball, which I heard was a prerequisite for Weekly sports coverage.

My legacy lives on from more than a decade writing for the morning daily, where a certain cup is awarded to the top prep athletic program (yup, I came up with that), a certain approach is taken to selecting prep all-stars (me again) and a certain series of stories chronicles odd attractions found around town (guilty as charged).

But this isn't going to be a place for rehashing what's been done before, or what others are still doing. The only things seen here will be truly relevant in the local sports community, the things people really want to know about. I'm not going to chronicle the music playlists from sporting events?you have my word.

So, let's get the ball rolling:

? Tucson needs to distance itself from its annual rodeo as much as possible if we ever want to be considered a truly progressive and trendy (read: well-heeled-tourist-friendly) locale. Sure, it's nice to be home to the world's largest nonmechanized parade, but we also have a world-class golf tournament here at the same time. And with Tucson also becoming the western hub for Major League Soccer's preseason, we're more than just a rodeo town.

Yet we still let the kids out of school for two days to celebrate "Rodeo Days," a practice that dates back to when people actually went to the rodeo. I've always felt that it should be a requirement to attend at least one calf roping or barrel racing event in exchange for the time off. If that doesn't fly, then please change the name to something else, like midwinter break (that's what we called it back in New Jersey; I used that break in 1994 to visit the UA, and the rest is history) or something all-inclusive like Sports Break.

Just not Rodeo Days. That makes us sound like a podunk community, the kind that shuts down not just schools but all of the businesses on Main Street so everyone can participate in the county fair.

? No matter what changes the Arizona Interscholastic Association makes, Southern Arizona teams are going to get the short end of the stick. It's a Phoenix-centric governing body, with only token advisers from outside Maricopa County, and it's never going to give us a fair deal.

How else can you explain the fact the girls' soccer team at Sierra Vista's Buena High went undefeated in the regular season yet found itself uninvited to the Division I state tournament? The Colts had one tie and 11 wins in games that counted toward the power points system the AIA instituted this school year in reaction to complaints that the previous system was flawed. But somehow this proprietary formula that MaxPreps uses managed to make it possible for an unbeaten club to finish 18th (only the top 16 made the playoffs).

The saddest part was that Buena coach Marilyn Piduch knew that not making state was a distinct possibility despite the team's record. Piduch had no say in who her team played this season thanks to the AIA using a computer program to match schools against their closest opponents in hopes of cutting down on travel.

"It's like our schedule is automatically putting us at a disadvantage," said Piduch, noting that her team had to face the "closer" teams on Tucson's southside instead of tougher opponents a few miles farther away like Catalina Foothills, Ironwood Ridge, Mountain View and Sahuaro.

Some believe things will get better for Tucson next year when all of our larger schools move down to Division II or Division III to avoid battling enormous Phoenix schools for playoff spots. I'm reserving judgment on that.

? Weather and attendance aside, it's a safe assumption that FC Tucson's monthlong SoccerFest was a raging success. It gave local soccer lovers a chance to immerse themselves in the game and created an opportunity for new fans to take a gander at a variety of competitions. Overall, it created a fun atmosphere that permeated throughout the city at a time when so many other big-ticket events (the aforementioned rodeo and golf events, plus the gem shows) are already entrenched.

That being said, a few tweaks could keep Tucson's evolution into a pro soccer mecca moving forward.

Most notably, the ticket prices are going to need to come down to keep growing the fan base. Putting on games involving MLS teams, even in the preseason, is pricey? it's ridiculous how much referees have to be paid just for an exhibition?but the lighter the burden placed on fans to subsidize this soccer effort the better.

One thing FC Tucson and the local soccer machine unfortunately won't be able to benefit from is the use of Arizona Stadium for games, such as a much-desired contest involving either the U.S. or Mexican national teams. Most pro soccer outfits view playing on anything but grass with disdain. So the stadium's artificial turf, and its "ghost lettering" set to be in place for the 2013 football season, all but kill any chances of having a big-time contest held there.

Source: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/pedersen-on-sports/Content?oid=3654074

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