17 mutilated bodies found in central Mexico

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - Mexican federal police secure the area where 17 dismembered bodies were found by a highway in the town of Tizapan el Alto near the border between Jalisco and Michoacan states, Mexico, Sept. 16, 2012. The Jalisco state prosecutor, Tomas Coronado Olmos, didn't reveal the identities of the slain but said the bodies were naked, mutilated and stacked with chains around their necks. (AP Photo/Bruno Gonzalez)

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - Mexican federal police secure the area where 17 dismembered bodies were found by a highway in the town of Tizapan el Alto near the border between Jalisco and Michoacan states, Mexico, Sept. 16, 2012. The Jalisco state prosecutor, Tomas Coronado Olmos, didn't reveal the identities of the slain but said the bodies were naked, mutilated and stacked with chains around their necks. (AP Photo/Bruno Gonzalez)

JALISCO, Mexico (AP) ? The dismembered bodies of 17 men were found Sunday on a farm in central Mexico, in an area disputed by violent drug cartels, officials said.

The bodies were dumped in the town of Tizapan el Alto by the border between Jalisco and Michoacan, said Jalisco state prosecutor Tomas Coronado Olmos. The bodies were discovered as Mexicans celebrated their Independence Day.

Coronado Olmos didn't reveal the identities of the slain men but said the bodies were naked, mutilated and stacked with chains around their necks near the highway linking Guadalajara and Morelia. They had been killed elsewhere and dumped on the property.

"Our border regions with other states are vulnerable to this kind of action and the dumping of bodies," the prosecutor said.

Authorities haven't said who they think was behind the killings but the area is a cartel battleground and Mexico's crime groups regularly leave behind such grisly remains as they battle for control of trafficking routes and markets..

Michoacan state is home to the Familia Michoacana and the Caballeros Templarios organized crime groups, and Jalisco has seen violence by the brutal Zetas and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartels.

Signs were put up last week in various Jalisco municipalities in which the Caballeros Templarios threatened the Zetas and Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

A shootout between local police and an armed convoy last Monday left two people dead and two injured in the same municipality near the border between Jalisco and Michoacan.

In May, authorities found 18 human heads and remains packed into two abandoned cars along the highway connecting Chalapa and Guadalajara, Jalisco.

On Friday in Tamaulipas, 16 bodies were found across the state just two days after the arrest there of one of the region's top drug bosses, Gulf Cartel head Eduardo Costilla Sanchez. Nine of the bodies were found in Nuevo Laredo along the Texas border and seven were found in near the town of San Fernando, where 74 dead migrants were found in August, 2010.

More than 47,500 people have been killed in Mexican drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against the cartels, according to the latest official figures. Some civil groups and activists say the figure is higher.

Associated Press

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How To Select The Natural Allergy Remedies? | NC BEA Health Blog

Before taking the natural allergy remedies, you need to select a remedy for your treatment. Without selecting the natural allergy remedies, you can?t get it perfectly and understand your pain. You need to apply some of the remedies on your body so that you can understand that what remedy will be useful for your allergy problem. Among all the remedies, you can apply and then select the allegory remedy for you treatment so that you can remove allergy from your body very easily. Moreover, when you find little bit difficulty by taking the remedies, you need to change the allergy remedy from your body and understand what you actually need to them.?

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With lockout looming, NHL and union get back in touch but no new negotiations are set

NEW YORK - The NHL seemed headed for another lockout Friday as neither team owners nor players showed interest in getting back to contract negotiations a day before the old labor deal was set to expire.

Brief conversations late Thursday and Friday between leaders on the two sides failed to spur more formal talks ? in fact, the idea of restarting negotiations didn't even come up. The current collective bargaining agreement that ended the season-long lockout in 2005 expires at midnight EDT on Saturday, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said a lockout would kick in immediately if a new deal hasn't been reached.

"It's their decision," defenseman Mike Weaver, the Florida Panthers' player representative said Friday. "When that padlock comes out, it's pretty much Bettman's decision on there."

The lockout would mark the NHL's fourth work stoppage since 1992.

On Thursday night, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke to players' association special counsel Steve Fehr, the brother of union executive director Donald Fehr. The discussions mostly dealt with answering questions each side have about current proposals.

Bettman has said the season won't start without a new deal. Preseason games are scheduled to start on Sept. 23, and the regular season is to begin on Oct. 11.

"We have been clear that the collective bargaining agreement, upon its expiration, needs to have a successful agreement for us to move forward," Bettman said Thursday. "The league is not in a position, not willing to move forward with another season under the status quo."

On Friday, the Quebec labor relations board turned down a request from the players' association for a temporary injunction against a potential lockout in Quebec.

But the board also ruled Friday that more hearings are needed to make a final decision on a request by 16 members of the Montreal Canadiens and the players' association to declare a lockout illegal in the province.

No date was set for further hearings.

With the ruling, Canadiens players will be locked out with their colleagues if a work stoppage goes ahead on schedule.

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly was happy with the decision.

"We are pleased but not surprised with the Quebec labor board's ruling tonight that any lockout of players will be effective on a league-wide basis, including in Quebec, and we are extremely appreciative of the expeditious and decisive manner in which the matter was handled," he said in a statement. "We are hopeful that this ruling will cause the players' association to cease pursuing these needless distractions and instead focus all of its efforts and energies on making progress at the bargaining table."

The union also saw the decision as a positive development.

"We are pleased with the ruling that the commission released tonight." NHL players' association general counsel Don Zavelo said in a statement. "While the commission denied the players' request for emergency relief, it also rejected the NHL's request to dismiss the case. The ruling acknowledges that the players have raised issues about the legality of the NHL's planned lockout that require a full hearing on the merits."

"We remain confident that the lockout is prohibited by the Quebec labor code and look forward to presenting our case to the commission in the near future. Should the NHL carry out its threat to lock out the players in Quebec, it will do so at its own risk."

A similar request was filed late Thursday with the Alberta labor relations board. NHLPA director of operations Alexandra Dagg said the aim was to prevent players from the Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames from being locked out.

The NHLPA argued that because it isn't certified as a union with the province, its members can't locked out under Quebec labor law. In Alberta, the union will argue that proper procedure wasn't followed, including using a mediator.

On Thursday, players turned out in force in midtown Manhattan, while the league's board of governors met nearby in another hotel.

The last labor stoppage caused the cancellation of the entire 2004-05 season, a lockout that ended only when players accepted a salary cap and a 24 percent rollback of salaries.

"If we're not going to start camp on time, it's disappointing, for sure," Panthers forward Stephen Weiss said Friday. "We're all training all summer to be ready to play, and if we don't get that opportunity, it's disappointing. But I'm optimistic that we'll get a deal done sooner than later.

"There's smart enough people involved in this thing that I don't think it'll take too long. We just have to make sure whatever deal they do agree on, it makes sense for both sides and it will be lasting."

Following lockouts last year by basketball and football owners, Bettman says hockey management is determined to come away with economic gains, even if it forces another work stoppage.

"Two other leagues ? the NBA and the NFL ? their players have recognized that in these economic times there is a need to retrench," Bettman said after a two-hour owners' meeting Thursday.

Damage from another lockout will occur almost immediately, and there is no telling how jilted fans and sponsors will react to another shutdown, especially if it lasts stretches through the fall and into the winter.

Management's latest offer has a short shelf life. Once the lockout begins, Bettman says the economic damage would cause owners to offer players a less beneficial deal.

Players currently receive 57 percent of hockey-related revenue, and the owners want to bring that number down as far as perhaps 47 percent ? which is an increase from their original offer of 43 percent.

"The fact is, we believe that 57 percent of HRR is too much," Bettman said.

The union offered a deal based on actual dollars, seeking a guarantee of the $1.8 billion players received last season. Annual industry revenue has grown from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion under the expiring deal.

Players are concerned management hasn't addressed the league's financial problems by re-examining the teams' revenue-sharing formula. Having made several big concessions to reach a deal in 2005, the union doesn't think it should have to make more this time after record financial growth.

The current contract was agreed to in 2005, and Bob Goodenow resigned as union head two weeks later. After stints by Ted Saskin and Paul Kelly, the union in 2010 turned to Fehr, who led baseball players through three work stoppages in the 1980s and `90s.

Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller said Fehr is doing a far better job communicating with members than leadership did in the last lockout. The 30 league owners are prohibited by NHL bylaws from publicly commenting about negotiations.

"I doubt that all the owners are as well informed as all the players," Miller said. "I don't know if that's going to get me in trouble or not. I just feel like it's kind of whatever they are told by Gary. I guess it's a little bit like politics. ... You have this whole thing where I'm sure they feel like a lot of what we're saying is spin."

Players struck in April 1992, causing 30 games to be postponed.

This would be the third lockout under Bettman. The 1994-95 lockout ended after 103 days and the cancellation of 468 games. The most recent lockout was finally settled in July 2005 ? 301 days into the work stoppage and a month after the league would usually have awarded the Stanley Cup.

"The players very much want to reach an agreement, provided that it is one which is fair and which is equitable and treats them appropriately," Donald Fehr said.

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AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report.

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Obama honors memory of Libya attack victims

Carry teams move flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, from a transport plane during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Carry teams move flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, from a transport plane during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A carry team stands by the flag draped transfer case containing the remains of one of the Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, during a Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A carry teams moves a flag-draped transfer case of the remains of one of the Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, from a transport plane during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attend the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Four hearses, containing the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, drive onto the tarmac from the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) ? Four Americans killed in an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya returned home Friday, their remains each carried in a slow procession by six Marines as a military band filled a vast air base hangar with the mournful hymn "Nearer My God to Thee."

President Barack Obama led the ceremony, recalling their lives in deeply personal terms and declaring the United States will never pull back on its principles or "retreat from the world."

"Their sacrifice will never be forgotten," Obama said as four flag-draped cases rested near him. He had come to witness the return of those slain in the assault on the American diplomatic mission, including the U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens.

In the heat of a presidential election year, the scene was a gripping reminder of the danger facing Americans in diplomatic and military service every day, and of the turmoil in an incendiary region of the world that continues to test Obama's leadership.

Always in the background, campaign politics gave way to a sense of sheer loss. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's voice broke as she spoke before the president, and she appeared to be fighting tears as she listened to him.

In addition to Stevens, the ceremony also honored three other Americans killed in Benghazi ? Sean Smith, an Air Force veteran who worked as an information management specialist for the State Department; Glen A. Doherty, a former Navy SEAL who worked for a private security firm and was protecting the consulate in Benghazi; and Tyrone S. Woods, also a former Navy SEAL who had served protective duty in various U.S. posts.

"They knew the danger, and they accepted it," Obama said. "They didn't simply embrace the American ideal. They lived it."

The ceremony recalled one 14 years ago, when President Bill Clinton led a ceremony at Andrews for the return of remains of 10 Americans killed in a bombing in Nairobi.

The presidential election, however, did not recede for the day. Less than two hours after the ceremony, Obama took his motorcade on an unscheduled trip to the Democratic Party headquarters to hold political meetings. In the evening, he planned to attend a previously arranged fundraiser in Washington.

The transfer of remains came three days after an attack on the consulate, one of a series of assaults on U.S. outposts in Muslim countries that U.S. officials blame on an anti-Muslim video made in the United States.

Clinton said the rage and violence aimed at American missions was prompted by "an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with."

The president met privately with family members of the fallen before stepping into a cavernous hangar at this base he knows well, home to Air Force One. Emerging from a C-17 cargo plane, six Marines each carried the cases on top of stands before four waiting hearses, as a color guard led the somber procession. When the funeral hymn stopped, a deep silence took over, interrupted only by the quiet steps of the Marines.

Clinton and Obama both spoke of how the four men lived their lives ? and how their mission would go on.

"This work, and the men and women who risk their lives to do it, are at the heart of what makes America great and good," Clinton said. "So we will wipe away our tears, stiffen our spines, and face the future undaunted."

Said Obama: "The United States of America will never retreat from the world. We will never stop working for the dignity and freedom that every person deserves."

Also attending the ceremony were Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

The searing images of burning flags, breached embassies and smoldering cars have shocked the nation.

The deaths on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the anti-American sentiment behind them underscored a foreign policy paradox for Obama. Many of the protests in the Arab world were in countries that underwent Obama-backed revolutions during the Arab Spring.

"The people Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Tunisia did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of the mob," Clinton said. "Reasonable people and responsible leaders in these countries need to do everything they can to restore security and hold accountable those behind these violent acts."

Illustrating the volatility, Friday's ceremony unfolded as a Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen's capital as protests erupted there.

Associated Press

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SuperTooth Disco 2

SuperTooth is known for its speakerphone accessories for phones. The company's SuperTooth HD ?earned our Editors' Choice for hands-free Bluetooth speakerphones last year. The Disco 2??is SuperTooth's new portable wireless speaker for music, and at $99 (direct) it's affordable, and sounds pretty good. But in an era when nearly every portable Bluetooth speaker doubles as a speakerphone accessory, the Disco 2 lacks that function. Coming from a company like SuperTooth, that absence is more surprising than the speaker's attractive design and decent sound quality. It just seems like something's missing.

Design
With a distinct slight hourglass profile, the Disco 2 stands 7.2 inches tall, 4.3 inches wide, and 2.8 inches deep. It's available in multiple colors, including black, blue, red, green, and pink, all of which share the same black plastic base and controls surrounded by a colored fabric grille that wraps around the speaker. It weighs a scant 1.2 pounds, making it easy to carry around in a bag despite its slightly larger-than-Jawbone-Jambox size. The top of the speaker holds Power, Volume, and Playback buttons that light up when in use. The base of the speaker has a power port, a 3.5mm audio input, and a charging light.

You can pair the speaker to your smartphone, tablet, or other A2DP-enabled Bluetooth-capable device by holding down the Bluetooth button until the buttons' lights flash. You can pair up to eight devices with the speaker, but like most Bluetooth speakers and headphones you can only use one paired device at a time. If you pair more than eight, the oldest pairing will be deleted from the speaker.

While SuperTooth is best known for its speakerphone accessories, the Disco 2 won't handle your cell phone calls. Most Bluetooth speakers throw this feature in, including the Editors' Choice Logitech UE Mobile Boombox?,?and the Jabra Solemate.

Performance
Music sounds relatively clear, but treble notes sound overly bright and loud songs suffer from slight vibration and distortion that lends a radio-like quality. The guitar notes in Jonathon Coulton's "You Ruined Everything" were slightly muffled, and the singer's voice was slightly bright and buzzy. Our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout," suffered from significant distortion, while not feeling particularly powerful. The speaker does fill a small room with sound, however. The Disco 2 is certainly louder and clearer than your smartphone or tablet's speaker, but compared with, say, the Jabra Solemate it doesn't sound particularly good.

According to SuperTooth, the Disco 2 can last up to 10 hours at medium volume or four hours at maximum volume. Curiously, the speaker uses a 12V power cord and not a microUSB cable like most portable Bluetooth speakers. This is slightly inconvenient, because you need to bring that cable and a power outlet to charge the speaker instead of using a USB port or USB adapter like almost every other portable electronic device you have. That's an extra plastic brick to carry with you.

The SuperTooth Disco 2 is eye-catching and inexpensive for a portable Bluetooth speaker, but its oddly phone-free feature set and disappointing sound make it a harder sell than the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox, our Editors' Choice, which costs the same $100 as the Disco 2.

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Hard coating extends the life of new ultrahigh-density storage device

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2012) ? Probe storage devices read and write data by making nanoscale marks on a surface through physical contact. The technology may one day extend the data density limits of conventional magnetic and optical storage, but current probes have limited lifespans due to mechanical wear.

A research team, led by Intel Corp., has now developed a long-lasting ultrahigh-density probe storage device by coating the tips of the probes with a thin metal film.

The team's device features an array of 5,000 ultrasharp probes that is integrated with on-chip electronic circuits. The probes write tiny bits of memory as small as a few nanometers by sending short electrical pulses to a ferroelectric film, a material that can be given a permanent electric polarization by applying an electric field. High-speed data access requires that the probes slide quickly and frequently across the film. To prevent tip wear, which can seriously degrade the write-read resolution of the device, the researchers deposited a thin metal film of hafnium diboride (HfB2) on the probe tips.

As the researchers describe in the American Institute of Physics' journal Applied Physics Letters, the metal film reduces wear and enables the probe tips to retain their write-read resolution at high speeds for distances exceeding 8 kilometers -- greatly increasing the device's lifetime. The data densities of the device exceed 1 Terabit per square inch. The work is an important step toward the commercialization of a probe-based storage technology with capacities that exceed those of hard disk and solid-state drives.

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Apparently, This Is Happening: Silicon Valley Bank Hosts An ?American Idol For The Geek Set?

Not a joke, not an imaginary story: Silicon Valley Bank and Coverflow are hosting an event next month that was described in an invite as "American Idol for the geek set." Now, there's nothing special about getting a bunch of startup assholes to sing karaoke. (Heck, I hear that the TechCrunch team held not one, but two karaoke parties this week.) However, Silicon Valley Voice, which will be held on Oct. 3, looks kinda-sorta legit.

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