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India: Maoists Reverses In Maharashtra ? Analysis
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By SATP
July 15, 2013
By Fakir Mohan Pradhan
The uncertain gains that Maharashtra had secured in its campaigns against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) through 2012 appear to have been further consolidated in the first half of 2013.
On July 7, 2013, Maharashtra Police?s C-60 Commandos, along with a section of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), shot dead six woman CPI-Maoist cadres, in an encounter near Mandri village in the Etapalli Division of Gadchiroli District. All the Maoists were in uniform. Police feel that the Maoists may have suffered a greater loss, but managed to drag bodies of some of their comrades into the jungles. A carbine, a .303 rifle, five 12-bore guns, 13 hand grenades and 20 rucksacks were recovered from the encounter site. Sources indicated that the Maoists were preparing for a meeting at Sawari village in the vicinity when their plans were leaked to the Police. The success of Security Forces (SFs) was reportedly engineered under difficult conditions, with odds stacked against them, as they had to cross a full flowing river and negotiate thick vegetation. The commandos also crawl some distance in the slush to avoid being spotted.
Since the beginning of 2013, Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra has witnessed several successful counter-insurgency operations, prominently including:
April 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres and one C-60 Commando were killed in an encounter, in the forests near Sindesur village, Dhanora tehsil (revenue unit), Gadchiroli District. Two villagers were also killed in the crossfire. Several other Maoists were injured in the firing. Bodies of three women and one male rebel were recovered. The slain Maoists belonged to the Dhanora Local Organizational Squad (LOS) and Platoon 15. One SLR and a Bharmar (country made muzzle loading) rifle were also recovered from the encounter site. A month later, on May 12, SFs stumbled on the decomposed body of a woman inside the forest near the Sindesur village. One .303 rifle with 33 rounds, two backpacks and a pair of shoes were also found near the body. Police believe that the body may be of a Maoist killed in the April 12 encounter.
April 4: Seven Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with Police near Bhatpar village in the Bhamragad Division of Gadchiroli. Police managed to recover five bodies. Police also recovered eight weapons, including one .303 gun, and seven Bharmars.
January 20: Six Maoists, including some senior cadres, were killed by SFs during an encounter near Jimulgatta, in Aheri tehsil of Gadchiroli District. The deceased Maoists included the ?secretary? of the CPI-Maoist Aheri Area Committee, Shankar aka Munneshwar Jaktu Lakada; Aheri dalam (armed squad) commander, Vinod aka Chandrayya Kodape; and ?deputy commander? of the Aheri dalam, Mohan Kowase.
Moreover, as a result of the growing strength of their intelligence network, the Gadchiroli Police were able to successfully execute a counter-ambush against a group of 50 to 60 Maoists, who were waiting to ambush Police search parties in Hetalkasa Forest under the Malewada Police Station in Gadchiroli on May 19. After the encounter, Police recovered the body of a Maoist and a small cache of arms and ammunition.
Common to these significant operational successes against the Maoists is the fact that the rebels were taken by complete surprise, a crucial departure from the experience of the past in Gadchiroli as well as most other theatres of Maoist violence. This point is driven further home by the fact that, in these operations, the Maoists did not even have the time and opportunity for orderly withdrawals, as evidenced by the high number of bodies recovered. Maoists generally do not leave behind the bodies of their fallen comrades. Moreover, SF casualties in these operations have been minimal, in sharp contrast to the ratio of fatalities in 2012.
Fatalities in Left-Wing Extremist Violence in Maharashtra: 2005-2013
| Years | Incidents | Civilians | SF personnel | LWE | Total |
| 2005 | 94 | 29 | 24 | 3 | 56 |
| 2006 | 98 | 39 | 3 | 19 | 61 |
| 2007 | 94 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 30 |
| 2008 | 68 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 31 |
| 2009 | 154 | 41 | 52 | 4 | 97 |
| 2010 | 94 | 35 | 10 | 3 | 48 |
| 2011 | 109 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 57 |
| 2012 | 134 | 27 | 14 | 4 | 45 |
| 2013* | - | 8 | 3 | 26** | 37 |
| Source: 2005-2012 Ministry of Home Affairs | |
| ** 23 bodies recovered in five encounters, in one case the claim was seven but five bodies were recovered and another killing was reported by Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh) Police, perhaps in an encounter with AP Police in Gadchiroli]. |
Maharashtra Police has lost three personnel to Maoist violence in 2013, with just one of these killed during an encounter. A second Policeman was killed while he was returning from a hospital with his wife and two children, and the third Police victim was a Police patil who was accompanying the Llyod?s Vice President and a subcontractor who were killed near Nender village in Etapalli tehsil in Gadchiroli on June 13. The Maoists carried out the last killing purportedly to protest against the attempt to start mining in Surajagad and Damkodvadavi Hills in the Gatta area despite ?popular sentiment? against mining in the area.
Out of the eight civilians killed in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-related violence, two were killed in crossfire during an encounter and another two, by Maoists over the mining issue. Three persons were killed by the Maoists as suspected Police informers; one of the three was reported to be ?mentally deranged?. The eighth man, a shopkeeper, was killed by Maoists in Gondia District over some payment disputes with tribals.
All the incidents of killing in Maharashtra in 2013 have been reported from Gadchiroli District, with the exception of one civilian killing in Gondia District.
Fatality data alone makes it amply clear that the balance is gradually tilting in favour of the SFs in Maharashtra in 2013. Even, in the second-half of 2012, though the number of encounters with Maoists increased, the Maoists had failed to inflict any fatalities on the SFs.
Media reports in February 2013 cited a senior officer of the Aheri Police in Gadchiroli, stating that the Maoists used to deploy around 75 to 80 persons in their ?company? formations in the District. This strength has come down to around 55 to 60 at present. The officer was relying on interrogations of several Maoists in custody. Similarly, the platoon formations have also lost considerable manpower, with average strength declining from 25 to 30 members to 12 to 16 cadres, and even less in some cases. The dalam?s earlier strength was around 15, but it has come down to around 8-12.
The pressure on the Maoists is also visible in other patterns of Maoist violence. Just one incident of abduction (of three persons) and three incident of arson, have, thus far, been recorded in the State, all in Gadchiroli District, in 2013. On the other hand, at least four Maoists have been arrested and another 28 have surrendered in the District. Maoists belonging to different dalams in Gadchiroli and border areas of Chhattisgarh have surrendered before Gadchiroli Police as a result the ?Campaign Navjeevan? [Campaign New Life] initiative, under which senior Police officials visited the families of Maoist cadres and appealed to them to surrender, assuring them of fair treatment. The campaign was quietly launched in December 2012. It is significant that, in the past, surrendering Maoists generally preferred neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which offers a better ?surrender package?.
Explaining the turnaround, Maharashtra Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP) (Special Operations), Prem Kisan Jain, told media, ?We have reorganised the setup within the Department, in which all anti-Naxal operations, including intelligence, training and action, have been brought under one chain of command.? Further, Jain claimed that increasing the duration of the stay of the forces in the forests to 3 to 5 days, instead of short durations, had helped them immensely in disrupting Maoist logistics: ?we have not only managed to confine Maoists in their areas, but have also been able to penetrate into hitherto impregnable areas, which has put them on the defensive.? Coordination among the State Police Force, the special force (C-60) and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), had also improved dramatically. Advanced training centres, manned by Army personnel, were set up and more specialised equipment has been provided to the counter-insurgency (CI) troops. The ?economical use of ammunition? has also helped the Police, with better firing skills and restraint in the use of ammunition during encounters. In the past, panicked and indiscriminate firing by SFs had often resulted in units running out of ammunition during an ambush or encounter.
In addition to operational improvement, there has been a visible transformation in the capacities and processes of intelligence gathering. While surrendered Maoists have provided crucial operational information, Police appear to have infiltrated Maoist ranks in Gadchiroli.
On a downside, an Assistant Sub-Inspector, Omprakash Singh Thakur, who was in charge of the Jungle Tactics and Survival Course, was arrested on July 4, 2013, after an investigating team found out that he had pilfered arms and ammunitions that were found in a well behind the Gadchiroli Police Headquarters. The Police are now investigating if the pilfered weapons were meant for the Maoists. Further, Gadchiroli Police have registered cases against Prime Minister?s Rural Development Fellow (PMRDF) Mahesh Raut and his friend Harshali Potdar from Mumbai after two arrested Maoists revealed that the pair were travelling with them to meet top Maoist leaders.
As things appear to change in Maharashtra, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is mulling a tactical shift in anti-Maoist operations, with greater emphasis on intensive intelligence gathering leading to the setting up village-level database at Police Stations in all affected Districts in the country. The proposed changes are reportedly to come up for discussion at a meeting called by the MHA in July-end. The meeting is to bring together Superintendents of Police of the 26 worst-affected Districts across seven States and officers of the CAPFs. The District Police Chiefs would be urged to take the initiative to collect information about each village, its residents, amenities and infrastructure available. The Andhra Pradesh Police had benefitted immensely from such village-level data bases in its effort to develop an effective intelligence network at the grassroots and to plan effective operations against the Maoists. The MHA, keen to go beyond the ?Greyhounds? model that it has been harping on for the past several years, and to replicate more nuanced elements of the success in Andhra Pradesh, now wants to ?go back to basics and revitalize Police Stations?.
Despite dramatic improvements in Gadchiroli, there is little scope for complacency. After killing 14 Maoists in 2006, the Police had claimed, in 2007, that the Maoist movement in most affected Gadchiroli and Gondia districts had ?weakened? with some of the dalams operating in the area virtually winding up due to a cadre crunch and no fresh recruitment. But the Maoists came back even stronger in subsequent years. The Maoist capacity for revival has been repeatedly underestimated in the past, and far greater consolidation is necessary before the present gains can be thought to be irreversible.
Fakir Mohan Pradhan
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Source: http://www.eurasiareview.com/15072013-india-maoists-reverses-in-maharashtra-analysis/
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Wall Street extends losses; energy, utilities drag
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to losses in late morning trade on Tuesday, weighed by declines in the energy and utilities sectors.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> was down 32.42 points, or 0.21 percent, at 15,451.74. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> was down 5.66 points, or 0.34 percent, at 1,676.84. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> was down 10.33 points, or 0.29 percent, at 3,597.16.
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James Armitage, Westminster City Council?s Food Safety Manager, Whacks Celebrity Chef of London?s Five-Star Berkeley Hotel
Chef cooked for the Queen on her 80th birthday and his withering judgments on aspiring chefs have made him the star of the BBC?s Great British Menu series.
And the Chef?s response:? ?Food safety, and the health of my team and customers, is not something I would knowingly jeopardize.?
I am glad that was one restaurant I missed in London.
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Cespedes steals show from All-Stars, wins HR Derby
NEW YORK (AP) ? Yoenis Cespedes certainly made his mark at the All-Star game ? and he's not even on the roster.
Actually, it was a dent.
Oakland's second-year slugger won baseball's Home Run Derby with a dazzling display of power Monday night, becoming the first player left out of the Midsummer Classic to take home the crown.
Cespedes beat Bryce Harper 9-8 in the final round at reconfigured Citi Field, hitting the decisive drive with five swings to spare. The outfielder from Cuba flipped his bat aside and raised his left arm in triumph when he sent his 32nd homer of the night some 455 feet to center field, where it caromed off the back wall of the black batter's eye.
He was swarmed by the American League All-Stars near the third base line.
"You come for a show in New York. He put on a show," said Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer, set to start for the AL on Tuesday night.
The final addition to the field, Cespedes was the fourth player not selected for the All-Star game to compete in the event.
Right off the bat, he proved he belonged. With family in the stands, Cespedes hit a whopping 17 home runs in the first round ? more than any other player managed in their first two trips to the plate.
"I felt that I was getting into a very good rhythm, and that as long as the ball was right over the plate, I felt like I was in a good groove," he said through a translator. "That was the key."
Baseball's big boppers took aim at two trucks parked beside the home run apple behind the center-field fence, a popular staple at Mets games dating to their days in Shea Stadium.
With a shiny prize to shoot for, Cespedes dinged the hood on one and elicited a rousing cheer.
Cuban reliever Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds brought Cespedes water and a towel during the first round, and 2010 champion David Ortiz strolled over to offer encouragement and advice.
The Rockettes danced atop the dugouts and did their famous kickline between first-round batters.
"It's far different from in Cuba," Cespedes said. "There might be two people at our games. There's only one photographer, and this is completely different and foreign to me. But I'm very happy to be here."
His first-round outburst was enough to send him straight into the finals, though he added six long balls in round two for good measure. Some of his drives were especially impressive, too.
Cespedes hit about a half-dozen balls into the upper deck in left, never reached by anyone in a game, and banged another couple of shots off the restaurant windows in the corner just below.
The 27-year-old Cespedes has struggled as a sophomore, batting .225 with 15 home runs, but hardly anyone in the game doubts his ability.
"This trophy will motivate me so that things continue to go well for me, and I just want to thank the people that believed in me, that thought I could play at this level," he said.
The 20-year-old Harper, wearing shiny gold spikes as his father pitched to him, hammered eight homers in all three rounds. But the Washington Nationals phenom couldn't keep up with Cespedes.
"He's incredible," Harper said. "He's an absolute machine."
Colorado outfielder Michael Cuddyer and Baltimore first baseman Chris Davis, who leads the majors with 37 homers, were eliminated in the second round. Davis tied Reggie Jackson (1969) for the AL record before the All-Star break.
"I had a little blister come up second round. It's just one of those things," Davis said. "I usually get one once a year and it just happened to be tonight. It actually popped during a swing. My main concern is obviously not to hurt myself and to hang onto the bat.
"It's something that I've dealt with in my career since I can remember. You've just got to kind of wear it for a couple of days and then it hardens up and you're good to go."
Citi Field opened in 2009 with a cavernous outfield and yielded the fewest home runs in the majors over its first three seasons, according to STATS. But the Mets erected a new fence in front of the old one, dubbed the Great Wall of Flushing, before last season. That trimmed dimensions by up to 12 feet and lowered the height of the wall from as high as 16 feet to 8 all around.
Since then, the ballpark has ranked closer to the middle of the pack in home runs, 18th out of 30. But it's still no hitter's haven. In fact, hometown favorite David Wright had joked he would take his Derby swings from second base.
Cespedes, however, and most of the other sluggers had little trouble clearing the old wall. When they got good wood, it was long gone.
"This stadium may be very difficult, but it's not as difficult as Oakland. And if I can do it in Oakland, I thought, why can't I do it here?" Cespedes said.
Wright and another hometown darling, Pirates slugger Pedro Alvarez, were both eliminated in the first round. Alvarez went to high school in New York City and grew up in the same Manhattan neighborhood as Manny Ramirez.
Wright managed five home runs as the sellout crowd of 43,558 chanted "Let's Go Mets!"
"I ran out of gas," he said.
Also knocked out early were defending champion Prince Fielder, the only player besides Ken Griffey Jr. to win multiple times, and American League captain Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees, who made Cespedes his final pick.
NOTES: Cespedes' home run total matched Ortiz (2010) and Cano (2011) for the third-highest behind Bobby Abreu (41 in 2005) and Josh Hamilton (35 in 2008). ... Davis was credited with the longest drive of the night at 502 feet. ... Oakland third base coach Mike Gallego pitched to Cespedes, who averaged 405 feet on his home runs. He became the first A's player to participate in the Derby since Jason Giambi in 2001 and joined Mark McGwire (1992) as the team's only winners. "Before I left, they asked me to bring home the trophy," Cespedes said. ... The American League topped the NL 53-50. ... Cano showed up at the afternoon news conference in a snappy suit. Harper was in a T-shirt, mesh shorts, sneakers and his spiky mohawk. At least he was dressed in blue and orange, Mets colors. ... By hitting 103 home runs in all, the sluggers raised $529,000 for charity.
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Talking Tech While Merging Identities in Munich (Video) - Ina Fried ...
One of the refreshing things about DLDwomen is that it is a technology-and-women?s conference that is not afraid to stretch beyond those confines.
DLDwomen (Digital-Life-Design) is the kind of place that welcomes multiple identities rather than forcing one to check all but the relevant one at the door.
Last year, I had the chance to do an onstage interview with the head of Telefonica?s German operations. But I also got to hear talks from Alanis Morissette and the granddaughter of Columbian artist Fernando Botero.
At this year?s event, which kicks off on Monday, I will be talking with a top executive from Deutsche Telekom about the challenges and opportunities for both European companies and telecom operators. It?s a topic that is clearly front-of-mind for me, as I?m covering an ever more global mobile industry.
But I am also taking part in a small discussion on LGBT families on Tuesday, joining a pair of filmmakers and Carl Djerassi, the 91-year-old inventor of the birth-control pill. As the recent new mom of a six-month-old, that?s also a subject that is never far from my mind.
I spent Sunday in Munich getting in touch with all of my identities. Fortunately, that was easy.
In the morning, I paid homage to my family?s heritage, visiting the small but powerful Jewish Museum. A particularly poignant temporary exhibit spoke to an often overlooked element of the Holocaust, the widespread sexual abuse of women and men at the hands of the Nazis.
Sobered, and looking for more uplifting enlightenment, I went to the Deutsches Museum ? an amazing venue that chronicles the history of technology and mechanics dating from the Middle Ages through the present day.
There I got to walk inside one of those room-size 1960s IBM mainframes that I have often heard about but haven?t seen. The Museum is home to a number of pieces of early computer history, including an impressive Univac 1 (seen here) and some less-well-known German computers of similar size.
The museum also pasy tribute to the early minicomputers of my youth, from the IBM PC and Commodore PET to the iconic orange-and-yellow Speak & Spell (For all you young rsquo;uns, that was the LeapPad of its age).
One floor down, an exhibit traced photography from the earliest cameras to the present. In addition to the legions of early film cameras, there was a small tribute to the dawn of the digital age, with a Palm Pilot camera attachment, a Kodak MP3 player/camera, and one of the early Nokia camera phones.
Other collections traced the history of musical instruments, textile equipment and industrial machines. One of the most popular areas was the aviation section, which houses an impressive array of airplanes ? from a Wright Brothers craft to modern jets ? as well as helicopters, gliders and spacecraft.
On the way back from the Deutsches Museum, I managed to bump into Munich?s Pride festival, which happened to be wrapping up. There wasn?t too much tech there to speak of, although I did spot a woman in a Google shirt featuring two Android mascots and a rainbow flag.
After such an eventful day ? as well as the DLDwomen kick-off dinner ? I am even more excited for the conference. On Monday, I will be interviewing Claudia Nemat, Deutsche Telekom?s head of European operations.
Also speaking at the event are women from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners, as well as Juliana Rotich, the Ushahidi founder who spoke at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in April.
Here?s a bit of video from the day:
Check back later on Monday and Tuesday for more coverage from DLDwomen.
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Apologies for Hitler mural, says Chulalongkorn University
Chulalongkorn University on Monday issued an apology on Facebook for a graduation mural in the middle of the campus that featured an image of former German dictator and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler among a host of comic book superheroes.
"On behalf of the Student Club of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, we apologise for the misunderstanding caused by the mural during the graduation ceremony on July 11 and 12, 2013.
"The painting, which has now become a topic of debate, is not intended to refer to anyone particularly," said the university's statement.
A graduate on stage in front of a massive image of former?German dictator Adolf Hitler, part of the contentious campus mural, ?gives a Nazi? salute at Chulalongkorn University during the graduation ceremony. (File photo)
According to Chulalongkorn university, the graduation mural was?created by a group of students who were?not fully aware of the likely consequences.
Assoc Prof Supakorn Dispan, dean of the?faculty of fine and applied arts, said he had words with his students in connection with the painting and they told him that they had no malicious intentions.
"The students only wanted to show through the mural that different superheroes are there to protect the world and that there are both good and evil people.
"Please do not forget that they are?first year students and have been here for only a few months," Mr Supakorn said.
Chulalongkorn University has a policy to develop students as good, competent and ethical people, he added.
Reports said the Hitler mural was removed from the campus.
After the controversial banner was erected on the campus of what is widely regarded as Thailand's most prestigious institution of education, and the picture?later posted on the internet, many people criticised the university and its students for their "ignorance" of world history.
On Friday, an official from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre - a United States-based Jewish human rights organisation - said the centre was "outraged and disgusted" by the silence of the university's elites.
"Hitler as a superhero?" said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Jewish human rights and Holocaust memorial organisation, in comments on the website.
He questioned whether "a genocidal hate monger" was an appropriate role model for Thai young people.
"The Simon Wiesenthal Centre is outraged and disgusted by this public display at Thailand's leading school of higher education," he said, adding that the mural had been displayed for days near the university's history faculty.
The Nazi swastika, Hitler and other images apparently glorifying the World War II regime have caused controversy in Thailand on several occasions in the past and have been blamed on a lack of historical understanding.
In 2011 a Catholic school apologised after students dressed up in Nazi uniform for a sports day parade, some with swastikas painted on their faces.
The incident mirrored a similar parade held by another school in 2007.
In 2009, the Louis Tussaud's Waxworks museum took down its giant poster of Hitler giving a Nazi salute with the Thai-language slogan "Hitler is not dead" after the Israeli and German embassies lodged complaints.
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Apple to investigate iPhone-related death
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Apple is investigating an accident in which a Chinese woman was killed by an electric shock when answering a call on her iPhone 5 while it was charging, the U.S. technology company said on Monday.
Last Thursday, Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from China's western Xinjiang region and a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines, was electrocuted when she took a call on the charging mobile telephone, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying on Sunday.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family. We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter," Apple said in an e-mail.
Apple declined to comment on details, such as whether this was an isolated case.
Ma's sister tweeted on Sina's microblog saying that Ma collapsed and died after using her charging iPhone 5 and urged users to be careful, a message that went viral on the site.
In April, Apple apologized to Chinese consumers and altered iPhone warranty policies in its second-biggest market after its after-sales service suffered more more than two weeks of condemnation by the state-run media.
(Reporting by Lee Chyen Yee; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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Penclic Bluetooth Mouse B2
The Penclic Bluetooth Mouse B2 takes ergonomic mice in a different direction, eschewing the unusual designs of the Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 for Mac (Right-Hand) or the Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse, and embracing something that's been around much longer: the pen. The Penclic Bluetooth Mouse B2 may be a little pricey, but it's a small price to pay to avoid carpal tunnel and other repetitive stress injuries common in offices across the country.
Design and Features
True to the Penclic name, the B2 Mouse puts the functionality of a mouse into a swiveling pen, giving you an interface that is at once ergonomic and intuitive. The swiveling pen swings freely on a gliding base, letting you swipe and glide with or without a mouspad. The pen portion of the mouse also features five distinct mouse buttons?right, left, and middle click, forward and backward browser buttons?and a scroll wheel on the base.
The bulk of the B2 Mouse is actually in the base, which houses the battery compartment, laser sensor, and Bluetooth components. As you grip the pen and move it about, the base glides easily, in no small part because it weighs a mere 1.6 ounces. The base measures 1.5 by 2.5 inches, with the pen standing six inches tall.
The mouse uses a single rechargeable AAA battery, which charges off of a USB-to-mini USB cable (included). The cable comes with a handy recoil device, making it convenient for travel.
Setup
Connecting the Penclic B2 Mouse is as simple as most Bluetooth mice. It requires no extra software installation, and works with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems alike. Once you've put a charged AAA battery into the base and powered the device on, simply open up device discovery on your PC, and select the mouse from the pairable devices. It's not quite as easy as pairing the HP Touch-to-Pair Mouse, but it's not difficult.
Once you're paired, an LED on the mouse will glow green, and you're good to go. The Bluetooth connection lets you use the mouse without having to worry about occupying a USB port, and it gives you a roughly 15-foot range for freedom to move around.
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In actual use, the Penclic B2 Mouse is one part intuitive, one part confusing. Controlling the cursor with a pen-style action is natural, and a comfortable change from the usual mouse, and will certainly reduce the joint stress caused by routine mouse use. Less intuitive is the button setup. It took me a fair amount of use to remember which button was which, and to grip the pen-shaped handle without accidentally pressing a button.
Once I got the hang of both navigation and the button layout, however, the Penclic B2 Mouse worked easily and never gave me any problems. The sensor always tracked accurately, and the design never hindered my workflow.
While it may not look like any mouse you've used before, the Penclic Bluetooth Mouse B2 is a smartly designed alternative to regular computer mice. The design allows intuitive pen-like control, with Bluetooth providing a simple, secure connection. While the Penclic Bluetooth Mouse B2 is a bit on the pricey side, it's on par with the Evoluent VerticalMouse 4, and offers equally good ergonomic design.
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Charity swimmer dies during England-to-France bid
Courtesy Rainbows Children's Hospice
Susan Taylor, 34, died while trying to swim from England to France to raise money for charity.
By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor
LONDON -- An accountant has died while trying to swim across the English Channel to raise money for two charities.
Susan Taylor, 34, was unable to complete the 21-mile journey between Britain and France, her sister posted on?Facebook.
"Whilst attempting to swim the English Channel yesterday my sister, Susan collapsed suddenly in the water,? Taylor's sister wrote.?
Taylor was removed from the water and was treated on a support boat before being airlifted to a hospital in Boulonge, France, but "tragically passed away," her sister added.
Taylor's father, Arthur Wright, said he was ?devastated? by her death. ?
?I've lost the best person in the world. She was just wonderful," the 68-year-old said.
Wright added that her brother David was the paramedic on the support boat and had battled to save his sister?s life.?
?He tried to help. He pulled her onto the boat," he said.?Wright said that her husband, who had been Taylor's swimming coach since she was eight, was also on board and had been acting as support swimmer. ?
Taylor had described the swim across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world as a "challenge tougher than Everest" on her fundraising page. ?
But she added that she determined to complete the swim, to raise money for Diabetes UK and the Rainbow Children?s Hospice near her home in Barwell, England.
?We are extremely said to hear of the tragic death,?Diabetes UK?chief executive Barbara Young said in a statement. ?We have spoken to Susan?s family and offer our support and our heartfelt condolences.?
Geoff Ellis, the chief executive at the hospice, describe Taylor as a "wonderful women who would do anything for anybody."
By early Monday, Taylor had raised a total of about $4230 for the charities. That figure had grown to almost $18,000 by 9:30 a.m. ET.
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Outfielder Chris Rahl leads the hit parade as Syracuse Chiefs rout Lehigh Valley, 8-3
With Syracuse Chiefs outfielder Chris Rahl cutting down on the number of times he's getting himself out, opposing pitchers are finding that challenge increasingly difficult for themselves.
The locked-in Rahl delivered five hits, drove in two and scored three times as the Syracuse Chiefs rolled their way to a 8-3 win over Lehigh Valley on Saturday at NBT Bank Stadium.
Rahl's hit haul equaled a Syracuse individual season-high for a game, which he already held with a five-hit outing on May 15. Rahl also has eight hits in his last two contests, following a three-hit effort in a suspended game against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday.
"I've just been trying to stay consistent. When I try to do too much, a lot of times I get myself out,'' said Rahl, who has a five-game hitting streak. "I think the biggest thing for me is to stay in that zone (where) I want to attack and let everything else go. When things are going well, you see the ball really well, it looks big and fat.''
Visions of plump baseballs danced through all the Chiefs' hitters heads on Saturday.
Syracuse eliminated any chance of drama early by posting five runs in the first inning. Eury Perez and Josh Johnson each collected three hits for Syracuse, which pounded out 17 overall to match a season high. Every Chiefs position player delivered at least one hit.
"For me, you can definitely feel momentum shift in baseball. When you start out hitting like that (with five runs), everybody relaxes,'' Rahl said. "As long as we do what we're supposed to do at the plate, we're going to score runs.''
Syracuse starter Ryan Tatusko (3-3) pitched seven scoreless innings before giving up two in the eighth. Tatusko surrendered three hits, whiffed five and walked six.
The Chiefs busted out the heavy lumber right away to chalk up five runs against IronPigs starter Tom Cochran (3-5) and drive him from the game after two-thirds of an inning.
Perez led off with a double, and Rahl followed with another two-bagger to produce the first run of the game. Danny Espinosa was next up in the parade, swatting a single for a 2-0 Chiefs lead.
Tyler Moore drew a walk, and Chris Marrero's single brought in Espinosa. Zach Walters then doubled to plate Moore, but Marrero was thrown out at home. One out later, Johnson finished the damage to bring around the fifth run of the frame and chase Cochran after 33 pitches.
The outburst marked the seventh time this season that Syracuse has scored at least five runs in an inning.
Perez was the catalyst again as Syracuse tacked on another in the second, off reliever Zach Miner. Perez led off with a single, stole second and took third on a throwing error by IronPigs catcher Steven Lerud. Rahl cashed in with a single that scored Perez for a 6-0 Chiefs cushion.
"It was one of those nights tonight where everything he hit found holes,'' said Syracuse manager Tony Beasley. "He's been swinging the bat well all year. The whole thing with him is making sure he swings at pitches in his zone.''
Syracuse kept piling on in the fourth when Lehigh Valley third baseman Cody Asche's booted Moore's grounder, allowing Rahl to score from second.
The Chiefs picked up their final run in the eighth. Rahl led off with a triple to center and Espinosa drove him in with a sacrifice fly.
Tatusko was coming off an outing in which he tossed seven shutout innings against Buffalo on July 6. He made a strong bid to turn in Syracuse's first complete-game shutout of the season, but Beasley pulled him after the walked the first two IronPigs in the eighth.
"He was starting to lose it a little bit,'' Beasley said. "He had a good outing. I just wanted to get him out of there, and on a good note.''
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Asiana flight attendants make news with bravery
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Before Asiana Flight 214 crash-landed in San Francisco, the last time the Korean airlines' flight attendants made news it was over an effort by their union earlier this year to get the dress code updated so female attendants could wear trousers.
Now, with half of the 12-person cabin crew having suffered injuries in the accident and the remaining attendants receiving praise for displaying heroism during the emergency evacuation, the focus has shifted from their uniform looks to their heroic actions.
In the July 6 crash three members of the crew were ejected from the plane's sheared off tail section while still strapped in their seats. Those who were able, meanwhile, oversaw the emergency evacuation of nearly 300 passengers ? using knives to slash seatbelts, calling pilots who slung axes to free two colleagues trapped by malfunctioning slides, fighting flames and bringing out frightened children.
"I wasn't really thinking, but my body started carrying out the steps needed for an evacuation," head attendant Lee Yoon-hye, 40, said during a news conference Sunday night before federal safety investigators instructed the airlines not to let the crew discuss the accident. "I was only thinking about rescuing the next passenger."
Such conduct has given a measure of pride to members of a profession who often are recognized only for their appearance and customer service skills.
"In the face of tremendous adversity and obstacles, they did their job and evacuated an entire wide-bodied aircraft in a very short period of time," said Veda Shook, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants and an Alaska Airlines flight attendant.
"It's such a shining reflection, not just of the crew, but of the importance of flight attendants in their roles as first responders," Shook said.
Along with training in first aid and firefighting, flight attendants every year are required to practice the moves needed to get passengers off a plane in 90 seconds or less, Shook said. They go through timed trials, practicing skills that include shouting over pandemonium and engine noise, communicating with people frozen in fear and opening jammed doors and windows, she said. The goal is to make performing these tasks automatic.
"We have the muscle memory," Shook said.
It's a significant departure from the days when flight attendants were always women and known as stewardesses or air hostesses. In that era decades ago, members of the cabin crew weren't expected to play much of a role in emergencies.
Laura Brentlinger, who spent 31 years as a United Airlines flight attendant, recalled having no idea how much danger everyone was in during one of her first emergency landings in 1972. She didn't realize the severity of the situation until it was over and she saw the pilot's face.
"In those days, it was like pat you on the head, just go back and keep the people nice and smile. That's how far we've come, thank the Lord," Brentlinger said. "We were just little Barbie dolls back there."
The role of flight attendants in the U.S. expanded significantly in 1989 after Air Ontario Flight 1363 crashed after taking off in Canada. An investigation revealed that a flight attendant had seen ice on a wing but did not speak up, assuming the pilots knew and would not welcome the information from her.
Since then, FAA rules have required that cabin crew members be incorporated into the communications system known as "crew resource management" that empowers all airline personnel to voice concerns to the cockpit even if it means challenging senior pilots.
The philosophy also authorizes flight attendants to order emergency evacuations. Hearing that the pilots of Asiana Flight 214 told the flight attendants to delay an evacuation for 90 seconds after the crash landing in San Francisco, giving the order only after a flight attendant spotted flames outside, made Brentlinger wonder whether Asiana Airline's attendants have the same authority.
"I'm sure they have a very different hierarchy and can't do anything without the pilot's permission," she said. "There is no doubt in my mind I would have evacuated that aircraft immediately."
Brentlinger said her heart aches when she thinks about what Asiana's flight attendants are going through now and are likely to go through in the months to come.
She was aboard a 747 that lost a cargo door at 22,000 feet, sucking nine passengers to their deaths over the Pacific Ocean in 1989.
After the disaster aboard United Flight 811, Brentlinger said she suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder and was unable to get back on a plane for more than four years. Handling the emergency itself was "the easiest part of the whole process ... because you train for it and you just do it," she said.
She went on to say that "after the dust settles, so to speak" and one tries to get on with life, "it's horrific, at least it was for me."
The Flight 214 cabin crew consisted of 11 women and one man, ranging in age from 21 to 42, according to the airline. Spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said Asiana is not sharing information on emergency training hours of its flight attendants because the National Transportation Safety Board asked it not to share any information related to the accident while it's being investigated.
Jean Carmela Lim, 32, a Sydney-based travel consultant, spent a year working as an Asiana flight attendant eight years ago and posted pictures from her experience on her travel blog, Holy Smithereens, this week. She recalls her weeks-long safety training as rigorous.
"We needed to be able to swim while dragging another human ? dead weight ? in one hand, and hoist ourselves and the dead weight onto the safety raft," Lim said.
The appearance standards were almost as demanding. Lim, who was 23 when she applied for the job, initially was told she too old. During the interview, she was required to wear a short skirt without stockings. Flight attendant school included sessions on hair, makeup and comportment. During flights, the cabin manager inspected the attendants to make sure they were wearing the right color of nail polish and had their aprons properly ironed.
Lim said that appearance is important, but seeing pictures of Flight 214's attendants outside the burned-out aircraft in skirts made her hope their union prevails on the pants issue.
"If there's evidence that wearing a skirt will enable you to save more lives than wearing pants, then by all means keep them in skirts," she said. "If I'm trapped in a burning aircraft , I doubt I'll notice if the cabin crew saving me had lipstick on her teeth or had a tuft of hair out of place."
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Lee reported from Seoul, South Korea.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asiana-flight-attendants-news-bravery-032726377.html
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