$195 million ?Sea Shadow? stealth sub for sale, only $10,000 deposit required

The $195 million Sea Shadow is up for sale. (U.S. Department of Defense)The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has placed its famous Sea Shadow stealth ship up for auction. And while the high-tech military sea vessel cost more than $195 million to develop, its opening bid was for as little as $50,000, with only a $10,000 deposit required.

The Courier Mail reports that the ship was made famous to a broader audience when it served as the inspiration for the villainous home of James Bond's foil in the film "Tomorrow Never Dies."

The General Services Administration auction for the ship is scheduled to end this Thursday, with the current bid at the time of publishing up to just over $100,000.

However, before you begin finalizing your plans for global dominance, there is one major catch to the auction: The ship will be dismantled and reduced to scrap before being handed out to the auction's eventual winner.

"The ex-Sea Shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the USA," reads the item's description on the GSA website. "Dismantling is defined as reducing the property such as it has no value except for its basic material content."

The 164-foot experimental craft was first constructed in 1983 by Lockheed for the U.S. Navy and contains the same stealth technology used by its more famous aerial counterparts. Although it appears almost flimsy on the surface, it actually contains two submerged twin hulls underneath the surface and is specifically designed to withstand very rough ocean waves of up to 18 feet.

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A Glimpse of What's Below: Logging While Drilling

Greetings from Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu! We are floating precisely at N37?57? E143?54?. I know we are precisely there because this unusual ship with its five working thrusters can maintain position to within meters. The sixth thruster was damaged on March 11, 2011 when D/V Chikyu, with full crew and elementary students aboard, was struck by the tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake as it arrived at the port of Hachinohe. Thanks to quick thinking by the captain and crew, no one onboard was injured and the children were returned safely to land1.

This memory is fresh in the minds of the crew and science party aboard this ship, many of whom experienced the events of March 11. The earthquake was larger than expected for this part of the coast, and the seismological community has been very active in the past 13 months revisiting everything we thought we understood about the earthquake hazard. What?s more, the tsunami generated by this earthquake was bigger than expected ? as you have seen in the photos and videos of waves topping the seawalls in towns along the Tohoku coast. For its size, this earthquake was alarmingly effective at transmitting motion from the fault at the seafloor to the water column above.

Why? What was so special about this earthquake? Clues started emerging in the days and weeks after March 11. Japan has the most detailed network of seismometers and GPS stations in the world, all collecting data in real time. The seismometers recorded the seismic waves generated by the earthquake, and the GPS stations tracked the motion of the Japanese islands toward the deep ocean trench. Data were collected from sensors on the ocean bottom and recorded the changes in water depth related to ground deformation, and ships carried out studies of the bathymetry which showed the horizontal displacement of the Eurasian plate toward the west.

Within two months, the Japanese journal Earth, Planets and Space collected the first scientific results and made them available for free to the public: you can download the papers here. These and other rapid reports started to paint a picture of a very unusual earthquake. First, the distance the fault slipped in less than 3 minutes seemed to have been greater than any earthquake ever observed (as much as 60 m)2. Second, whereas earthquakes usually show a pattern of larger slip at depth, decreasing toward the surface, the Tohoku earthquake actually increased to maximum slip near the surface, right to the ocean floor in the Japan Trench3. This bumped the sea floor straight up about 5 m ? pushing the base of the water column in a sudden undercut4. It was this great bump from below that created the tsunami wave.

So, what was so special about this fault on that particular day, which made it behave differently than faults do in typical very large earthquakes (if there are such things)? That?s what D/V Chikyu is here to find out. This expedition was rapidly assembled to learn from this unusual event, by accessing the fault that has slipped so much, while the fault is literally still hot from the friction. We know from studying faults on land, like the Chelungpu Fault in Taiwan or the Median Tectonic Line in Japan, that after an earthquake the fault zone rapidly changes. Cracks close up, groundwater flows through and cools things down, new minerals grow to make new rock, all of which overwrite the records of what happened during the earthquake. So if we want to see the earthquake source when it?s hot and fresh, the only option is to drill into it, as soon as possible after the earthquake. The Tohoku earthquake, with its extreme slip at shallow levels, is offering us a window into the fault processes during great slip, that usually only occur at greater depths. As our expedition co-chief Jim Mori recently told Nature, we have a rare ?opportunity, maybe even a responsibility? to learn what we can from this event, and apply that to other areas where the risks are still unknown5.

Figure 1: Paleomagneticist Toshi Mishima from Osaka City College and legendary subduction geologist Casey Moore from UC Santa Cruz examine the LWD tools with Schlumberger engineer Michael Weng Feng.

We are here 6912 m above the sea floor at the Japan Trench, joining drill pipe segments 40 meters at a time, as the drill bit descends almost 7 km below us. Built into the drill pipe are sensitive instruments that will reveal images of the world below the seafloor. Some data, the roughest picture, will be sent by the instruments up to the ship by acoustic signals running up through the down-flowing drilling mud. More detailed data, and higher resolution images, will be recovered from the instruments? memory when they are back aboard ship. This will give us the first view of that rock which slid more than 50 m eastward on March 11, 2011. We?ll use the measurements of rock properties and maps of rock layers (and the damage) to try to precisely pinpoint the position of the fault. Then when we return to the seafloor with the coring bit to collect a long, thin, vertical sample of the fault zone, we will use these images and curves of properties to help us decide where to core to find the fault, and extrapolate out of our 56 mm-wide window into the earth.? We will also use this information to place sensors in a borehole for a long term temperature observatory.

Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) and Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD)

On this expedition we are using two downhole measurement techniques: Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) and Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD). LWD tools measure properties of the rock in the wall of the borehole, while MWD tools collect information about the condition of the borehole, and transmit the data to the drillers and scientists in real time so they can maximize drilling efficiency and borehole stability.

Logging-While-Drilling allows us to get a picture of the subsurface strata before we drill to recover core samples, much in the way that a doctor might X-Ray before operating, and is a commonly used technique in the oil and gas industry. Without LWD, after drilling a hole, the bit is pulled out, then a string of similar tools on a ?wireline? can be lowered into the hole to make measurements of the rock properties ? assuming that the hole stayed open and stable! With LWD, the measurements are made just behind the bit while the hole is drilled and while the hole is in the most pristine condition.? Generally, in the case of drilling into faults, drill holes do not stay open long enough to run wireline tools; we tend to drill in fast and get the tools out before the hole collapses and traps the tools and the data.

The tools are built into pieces of pipe (Figure 1) and fitted between the bit and the drill string. Some tools carry their own batteries, while others use small turbines to gain power from the flow of drill mud pumped from the ship above. These also use the flow of mud as a means of communication back to the drillers. By slight constrictions in the flow, they create an acoustic pulse that travels up through the down-flowing mud to code for pressure, hole deviation, and temperature. A wire or cable to transmit the information would be problematic due to the rapidly rotating drill pipe. The instruments collect a lot more data than can be sent in real time up the pipe, so the data are stored in the instrument memory to be downloaded when they return to the ship.

Figure 2: Electrical resistivity images of a borehole drilled off the coast of southwest Japan on Expedition 314 in the Nankai Trough subduction zone.6

Figure 2 shows two electrical resistivity images of borehole walls taken in a similar subduction zone offshore southwest Japan6. The darker areas are conductive ? often because there is more water there ? and the bright yellow areas are resistive, solid rock. So the resistivity image allows logging scientists to pick out the details of the rock structure ? beds of different types of sediment, or dark lines representing water-filled cracks. The great utility of LWD/MWD data is that they are a continuous, in situ dataset of the physical properties of the formations drilled downhole, and they enable drilling decisions to respond to the conditions we encounter. In fragile, fractured and potentially unstable formations, this may be the only information that can be recovered. In our case, these data will be used to decide at which depths we will collect time-consuming core. Physical properties will later be measured on pieces of core, in the ship?s laboratories, and in the home laboratories of the scientists on board, but these are small samples, and it?s impossible to completely avoid disturbance when coring. So the LWD information is a valuable field check on core observations, and offers a view of fractures in the wall rock that might not be measurable in drill core, but might be important for permeability around the fault. In the case that there are gaps in the core we recover (and there usually are a lot of gaps when drilling in damaged rock) we can compare our samples to the LWD logs to try to place them back in the right position.

Figure 3: Drilling crew tighten the logging tools into place in the drill string on the rig floor of Chikyu.

Logging While Drilling is one component of our research mission on Expedition 343, the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST).? For more information about JFAST and to track our progress with daily updates and tweets, see the Expedition website, in English or Japanese: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/exp343/e/index.html.

1 Web Magazine of the CHIKYU, The Tsunami and the CHIKYU, What Happened on 3/11: An Interview with Chikyu Captain Yuji Onda March 2012

2 Lay, T., Yamazaki, Y., Ammon, C. J., Cheung, K. F. and Kanamori, H. (2011) The 2011 M2 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake: Comparison of deep-water tsunami signals with finite- fault rupture model predictions. Earth Planets Space 63 797-801.

3 Fujiwara, T., Kodaira, S., No, T., Kaiho, Y., Takahashi, N. and Kaneda, Y. (2011) The 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Displacement reaching the trench axis. Science 334 1240.

4 Ito, Y., Tsuji, T., Osada, Y., Kido, M., Inazu, D., Hayashi, Y., Tsushima, H., Hino, R. and Fujimoto, H. (2011) Frontal wedge deformation near the source region of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 38 L00G05.

5 Jones, N. (2011) Drilling ship to probe Japanese quake zone. Nature 479 16. October 31, 2011

6 Proceedings of the International Ocean Drilling Program Volume 314/315/316, Site summaries, Site C0001. Image provided by J. C. Moore.

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Summer Rayne Oakes: The Facts on Fracking: Interview with Barbara Arrindell of DCS

I AM PICTURES in association with I HEART H2O has just launched a trailer for their "ANYBODY of WATER" campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of unregulated fossil fuel extraction. A topic of controversy for the last number of years, hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has become a serious concern among citizens, particularly in the Northeastern United States. In this interview, Barbara Arrindell, Director of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS), one of the organizations behind the I HEART H2O PSA, shares the 101 on natural gas exploration.

Summer Rayne Oakes: Give us the 101 on fracking for those of our readers who might misinterpret it for Urban Dictionary's ribald definition?

Barbara Arrindell: Hate to say it but hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is an even dirtier term than what's presented in Urban Dictionary. It is used to describe a method of drilling into the earth to obtain natural gas, using toxic drilling muds, high volumes of water with tons of chemicals -- some known and some unknown -- and very high pressure to fissure and break geological layers to shake the gas loose.

SRO: So the natural gas industries haven't been able to "charm" the gas up from it's 400 million year old resting place using less invasive methods?

BA: Not at all. And natural gas exploration is exempt from our current legislative laws like the Safe Drinking Water Act, which was designed to protect our nation's public drinking water supply. So it seems that the one thing that the natural gas industry has been able to charm are our politicians.

SRO: That is dirty indeed. Isn't there something called the FRAC Act that was currently reintroduced to the Senate and House of Representatives?

BA: Yes, but the FRAC Act, (which stands for Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals), only removes about one and a half of the loopholes for the natural gas industries.

SRO: Which ones are those?

BA: Well, it removes the exemption for oil and gas exploration and production from the Safe Drinking Water Act -- and part of the Community Right to Know Act, which provides the public and local governments with information concerning potential chemical hazards present in their communities. The FRAC Act will not halt drilling or even require any additional permits. It will possibly put liability for some damages back on the drillers, but until then the citizens living in affected areas AND DOWNSTREAM will have to foot the bill.

SRO: What's the status of the FRAC Act?

BA: It is currently stuck in committees. The FRAC Act will be a good first step if we can get it passed. It's important to encourage your senators and congresspeople to support it, but they need to hear from their citizens. American Rivers has an easy way for you to do so here, but I encourage anyone to be more proactive and actually write, call or visit with your Representative or Senator.

SRO: I hear an awful lot in the media that "natural gas is a cheap energy alternative." However, Amory Lovins, Chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, mentioned in the Sustainable Operations Summit this past week that natural gas isn't all that cheap, especially considering price volatility and other externalities. Tell us about the costs associated right now with fracking.

BA: Amory is right on the price volatility front -- but it's also a question of how long the supplies will last. The decline rate of fracked gas wells is very steep -- only 15 percent remains in two years -- so they have to keep on drilling new wells. The wells are expensive and most of the companies are losing money on each well, which means as stockholders keep on giving them more money, they spend it and it's clear that the bubble will eventually burst.

SRO: So who pays the bills if your water gets contaminated?

BA: The general public or you personally. Listen, the true costs of natural gas exploration and extraction are completely disregarded. External damages are rarely covered by the natural gas industries because they don't need to.

What the general public doesn't realize is that they [public citizens] are the ones footing the bills. For example, all equity in any area where the water is contaminated is lost. Try selling your home with contaminated water -- or with a view of a fracking mine behind your house. It's next to impossible.

If the water is contaminated, it is the citizens that will have to pay for their own clean water -- and that may mean traveling to the supermarket to get bottled water, or in many cases, having to have it trucked in from somewhere else where the water is not contaminated. Plus there are health impacts and mounting medical bills, which aren't factored into the equation.

SRO: I'm sure all of that information is not included in the pamphlet you get when the natural gas industry says they'll pay you upfront to frack your land.

BA: The true costs are never disclosed. You want to play Russian Roulette with your water quality and property value? You want to potentially be sued by your neighbor for destroying their water supply because he/she had foresight not to sell fracking rights to the natural gas companies? Those are some of the risks you run. Not to mention playing Russian Roulette with your health.

SRO: In the 1970s, the Eastern Gas Shales Project conducted by the Department of Energy found a wealth of natural gas locked up tightly far beneath the ground in shale rock formations -- the same gas that is being exploited today. One of the many problems as I see it is that the technologies to extract those fuels didn't (and still don't) consider the human and environmental impact of the toxic fracking fluids. What do you think?

BA: All of the toxic fracking fluids are a definite cause for concern -- but also something to consider is the fact that the hydraulic fracturing technique permanently shatters the underground geology and can connect gas bearing layers with water bearing layers.

There is so little fresh drinkable water on the planet and this technique breaks the geological barriers that have protected fresh water aquifers and the surface for millennia. The human and environmental impact is being ignored -- and yes, those very large volumes of fracking fluids left underground will move and are already moving and contaminating aquifers and surface waters.

SRO: Speaking of that -- Josh Fox's Gasland and youtube provide hours of sick enjoyment of watching people in fracking-affected areas light their water on fire due to the flammable chemical concoctions, which no pun intended. It blows my mind. What do you think it'll take for people and the government to realize that this is seriously Fracked up?

BA: What it will take is a lot of screaming -- and demanding -- and educating everyone. Young people, my generation and those who are yet to be born cannot live with this rolling disaster taking and spoiling our water and air.

SRO: So if we had a list of demands, what would it look like?

BA: We must demand that the cumulative impacts are looked at. That proper legislation be in place so that the industry is held accountable if they destroy water and air quality -- and that the huge subsidies are ended.

We must use the already developed non-carbon and non-nuclear solutions. This can be done by 2030. We are so creative, and if given the opportunity, we can switch to sustainable and renewable fuels very quickly if the demand and will to do it is there.

SRO: Alright, so what can each individual do?

BA: Be aware, get your local community engaged, help the organizations working on this issue. And like I said before, it's important to encourage your senators and congresspeople to support the FRAC Act, demand and be very critical when listening to rosy predictions from those promoting gas drilling.

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Usher Says 'Scream' Is 'Just In Time For Summer'

Following 'Climax,' singer tells MTV News his latest single 'represents the other side' of Looking for Myself album.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Bumping beats, sexy lyrics and Usher's signature R&B bad-boy swagger can only mean one thing: the singer has once again hooked up with superstar pop producer Max Martin. Their latest collaboration, "Scream," picks up where "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" left off back in 2010.

Usher used that track to convince us to go home with him after a dizzying night of partying, and for "Scream," he's got us back at his pad and he's rocking our world, one fist-pumping moment at a time. While he opted to slow it down on "Climax," Usher is back to large-scale dance tracks on Looking for Myself's second single. And, he told MTV News, both tracks reflect the sound of the album.

"This album has many different views and many different perspectives," he told MTV News while rehearsing for his one-night run as the lead in NYC's off-Broadway spectacle "Fuerza Bruta," which also served as a place for Usher to debut the album ahead of its release. "And me and Max Martin, we've had success together in the past, and this was a record I felt represented the other side of the [album]."

"Scream" and "Climax" truly are polar-opposite tracks. Where "Climax" sears and broods, "Scream" celebrates and dances. Usher is excited for the chance to show all those sides with the two lead singles from the June 12 release.

"Whereas the first song was a little bit more artistic and a little bit more soulful, and it has done everything, it probably exceeded my expectations, I mean, from the moment I was able to give it away. I was able to kind of be reintroduced in a way musically, and thank you to [producer] Diplo, but 'Scream' is really like the next step. It's just in time for summer and the type of experience that I want people to get out of the album."

But the Atlanta-bred singer notes that the album can't be defined just by "Climax" or "Scream." There's a lot there to keep fans tuning in. "It's a ton of other experiences and a ton of other walks ... as I've had this long journey over the last year [and] every bit of what I've experienced I've put into a creative, artistic way," he said.

As for the video, well, that still has to be shot, but he joked that "Fuerza Bruta" might serve as the perfect backdrop for the clip — or maybe not. "We might be shooting it while we're here," he laughed. "This is like a movie set, damn near — sh-- you don't normally see with the launch of an album. This is pretty spectacular."

What are you expecting from Usher's next album? Let us know in the comments!

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Our society's moral fabric continues to tear: a Pennsylvanian boy has been charged with "institutional vandalism and criminal mischief" after destroying a cartful of MacBooks. With his own peepee. More »

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Janice Dickinson: I Don't Like Anyone On ANTM And They Don't Like Me!

The one and only Janice Dickinson has never shied away from airing her grievances about Tyra Banks ? and she has no plans to stop! The self-proclaimed "first supermodel" recently joined the Derek and Romaine show on SiriusXM radio and shared her strong opinions about the news that the majority of America's Next Top Model judges will not be returning.

The recent star of Celebrity Rehab didn't hold back, sharing her dislike for media mogul Tyra. ?She?s one selfish, greedy woman,? Janice said, adding, ?She doesn?t have a creative bone in her body, so someone else is pulling the strings on this one.?

As far as the other judges not returning to the reality competition, the 57-year-old did single out modeling coach Miss J as one whom she praises and adores. But everyone else? ?I don?t like any of them. Fact. And they don?t like me!?

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Sabathia, A-Rod deliver for Yankees

By HOWIE RUMBERG

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updated 5:19 p.m. ET April 29, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) - Yankees manager Joe Girardi was hoping CC Sabathia would give one of those performances that has made him one of the most dependable pitchers in baseball - his bullpen really needed a break.

The ace obliged.

Sabathia steadied New York's rocky rotation with eight sharp innings, Alex Rodriguez passed Willie Mays for eighth on the career RBIs list and the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 6-2 on Sunday despite leaving an astonishing 14 men on base in the first six innings.

"It just feels good to go out there and give those guys a rest," Sabathia said of a `pen that had thrown 73 1-3 innings entering the game, third most in the AL.

A-Rod drove in two runs for 1,904 RBIs without hitting the ball out of the infield. According to information provided by the Yankees from Elias, he is eighth in major league history.

He singled on a dribbler down the third base line with the bases loaded in the second, the Yankees' only hit in six plate appearances with three men on. Chris Stewart slid under catcher Gerald Laird's tag on Rodriguez's grounder to short in the seventh.

Curtis Granderson homered in the fourth inning - barely. He had to stop between second and third to look back after center fielder Austin Jackson nearly made a spectacular catch above the wall in right-center.

Granderson also walked with the bases loaded to force in the game's first run in the second, one of a career-high seven walks by Detroit starter Max Scherzer (1-3).

The Yankees walked nine times and left 15 on base overall, but won the three-game series. Detroit has lost eight of 10.

"We were really fortunate to have a shot in that game the way the game was going," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "In this ballpark, with a lineup like that, normally that doesn't happen. And it won't happen."

Andruw Jones homered in the eighth. He pinch ran for Nick Swisher in the third after the right fielder left with a tight left hamstring following a walk.

Swisher has a low grade strain and will be out several days. Giradi says it's not serious enough for a trip to the disabled list.

With New York's bullpen taxed by Freddy Garcia's horrid 1 2-3 innings start on Saturday, Manager Girardi said before the game, "I would love to get a good seven or eight strong innings out of CC."

Sabathia (3-0) came through. He gave up a double in the first then retired 10 in a row before Prince Fielder, his former teammate at Milwaukee, hit his first home run in the Bronx and third this year overall with two outs in the fourth.

The big lefty had little trouble with the Tigers - all except for Fielder and his nemesis Miguel Cabrera, who hit a long RBI double in the sixth inning to close it to 3-2. Cabrera is 10 for 19 against Sabathia.

Sabathia struggled early to a 5.27 ERA on a staff with a 6.37 ERA, 29th in majors, entering Sunday. Garcia was dropped from the rotation before Sunday's game and rookie David Phelps will get a start before the expected return of Andy Pettitte in mid-May.

But Sabathia was sharp this time, yielding four hits and striking out eight. He walked two.

"When you have your ace on the mound and you talk about trying to win all the series and you're tied 1-1 you feel pretty good going into that day," Girardi said..

Fielder homered to close the score to 2-1 before Granderson matched him in the bottom of the fourth.

With one out, Granderson connected but Jackson made a long run and leaped where the outfield wall meets a fence that separates fans from the New York bullpen in right-center. The former Yankees minor leaguer who was sent to Detroit in the trade for Granderson had the ball in his glove but momentum carried the glove into that fence, knocking the ball loose for Granderson's eighth homer.

"I didn't see what happened right away," Granderson said.

Despite all the walks and seven hits in 4 2-3 innings, Scherzer got away with allowing just three runs.

Luke Putkonen made his major league debut with the bases loaded and two outs in fifth. He got Granderson to ground out to second base then received a bunch of fist bumps when he returned to the dugout.

"To be honest with you, that was the last thing I wanted to do, but sometimes it doesn't want to work out the way you want to," Leyland said of bringing in Putkonen. "I was hoping (Scherzer) could get through the inning and I could start the kid in an inning."

Scherzer was pulled after throwing 119 pitches.

Putkonen gave up Rodriguez's fielder's choice RBI in the seventh. Collin Balester relieved and gave up a sacrifice fly to Robinson Cano. Putkonen walked two.

NOTES: The major league record for runners left on base is 20 for a nine-inning game, set by the Yankees in 1956. ... Jeter's two infield singles gave him 36 in April, topping the best April of his career, 35 in 2006. ... Tigers RHP Doug Fister (left side strain) will make a rehab start Wednesday for Triple-A Toledo. ... Cabrera has hits in 31 of 33 games against Yankees. Brennan Boesch had two hits and has hits in 13 of 15 games against New York.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ? Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia's largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon.

Malaysian police said in a statement that 222 people were arrested. Lawyers said most were expected to be released soon after having their details recorded, but it was not immediately clear if they would be charged later with any offense.

Officials said three demonstrators and 20 police were injured.

At least 25,000 demonstrators swamped Malaysia's largest city, hoping to pressure Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling coalition ? which has held power for nearly 55 years ? to overhaul electoral policies before polls that could be held as early as June.

Authorities insist the elections will be free and fair, rejecting activists' claims that the Election Commission is biased and that voter registration lists are tainted with fraudulent names.

Demonstrators wearing yellow T-shirts, waving banners and chanting slogans poured into downtown Kuala Lumpur, massing near a public square that police had sealed off with barbed wire and barricades.

"I'm here because I'm a Malaysian and I love my country," said information technology manager Burrd Lim. "There's no election that's perfect, but I want one that's fair enough."

Authorities had refused to allow an opposition-backed pressure group that organized the rally to use Independence Square, a nationally renowned venue that hosts parades and patriotic celebrations.

The demonstration remained peaceful for several hours, prompting organizers to declare it a success and ask people to head home. But when a small group appeared to suddenly breach the police barriers, authorities began firing tear gas and water laced with stinging chemicals at the crowd.

Baton-wielding police backed by trucks mounted with water cannon sporadically fired tear gas at some demonstrators for at least an hour before much of the crowd was dispersed. People fled into streets and stores nearby, leaving shoes, bottles and other belongings scattered on the ground.

Police said one protester snatched a pistol from its personnel during the chaos, though the weapon was later recovered, and others destroyed public property.

Video footage by independent news website Malaysiakini showed angry demonstrators overturning a police car that allegedly hit two people.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said 20 policemen and three demonstrators received treatment for unspecified injuries. He insisted that police acted "with utmost restraint," but opposition leaders and rights groups said the use of tear gas was unjustified.

"By launching a crackdown on peaceful protesters on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian government is once again showing its contempt for its people's basic rights and freedoms," said Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch's deputy director for Asia.

Federal police spokesman Rasdi Ramli estimated there were about 25,000 demonstrators, but many witnesses and some Malaysian news organizations said there were far more. Malaysiakini said there were 100,000, while The Sun newspaper estimated 80,000.

"We all want change today," said Ambiga Sreenevasan, one of the demonstration's leaders.

The rally's organizers have also sought longer election campaigning periods and changes to ensure citizens living abroad can cast ballots, as well as international observers for the polls and fairer access for all political parties to the government-linked media.

But despite the large turnout for Saturday's demonstration, there was no indication that Prime Minister Najib's National Front coalition would agree to major changes to satisfy the activists.

"If (elections) are not clean, not fair, show the evidence," Najib was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama, on Saturday. "We do not want to be elected through cheating. We are a government chosen by the people. The majority of the people chose us because they know (we) are better" than the opposition.

After about 20,000 demonstrators staged a similar rally that was also dispersed by tear gas last July, authorities established a panel to study electoral regulations and agreed for voters to have their fingers stained with indelible ink while casting ballots to curb multiple voting.

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Speculation has intensified that Najib might dissolve Parliament next month and seek a new mandate in June, even though polls do not need to be held until mid-2013.

The National Front, which has governed Malaysia since independence from Britain in 1957, suffered its worst performance in 2008 elections, when it lost more than a third of Parliament's seats amid public complaints about corruption and racial discrimination.

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MIAMI (Reuters) - A pair of lead actors from a prize winning film about escaping Cuba have emerged from hiding to confirm they are seeking political asylum in the United States.

The young Cuban actors went missing last week while en route to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York where they were due to appear at the movie's U.S. premiere.

Actress Anailin de la Rua and actor Javier Nunez, cast members of "Una Noche" ("One Night"), broke their silence Friday night in a TV appearance on the Miami-based Spanish language channel America TeVe.

In an interview with Reuters, de la Rua and Nunez said their life imitating art saga was not quite as dramatic in real life as the harrowing story depicted in the film.

"Una Noche" follows three Cuban teenagers who try to escape their homeland by sea on a raft to start a new life in Miami. De la Rua and Nunez, who fell in love during filming, play a brother and sister, but only one of them survives the risky journey.

The pair said their real-life decision to leave Cuba stemmed from the success of the film and invitations to travel to festival premieres - Berlin in February and then New York.

They spent six days in Germany in February, their first overseas trip, but returned to Cuba and only began to think of leaving the island permanently when they got news of the invitation to New York.

"In part it's hard to leave your family and friends behind," said de la Rua, who has two sisters and divorced parents in Havana. "But at the same time you do it so you can help them. There's no future in Cuba."

Nunez said his mother lives alone in Cuba and he plans to help her out economically along with his older brother who left Cuba for Ecuador several years ago and works as a waiter.

The actors, both aged 20, said they were surprised by the film's success, especially as it was their first - and only - acting roles. They were 15 when they auditioned separately for the film, and then spent two years preparing for their roles after being selected by the film's director Lucy Mulloy.

"She told us what she liked and didn't like. She likes very natural acting," said de la Rua.

But nearly three years passed before the film's release, during which time the pair took regular day jobs. "Our friends in Cuba kept on asking us 'when is the film coming out,' and they almost didn't believe it was for real," said de la Rua, who worked at a Havana street stall selling home-made handicrafts and jewelry to tourists. Nunez worked in a pizza restaurant.

ATHLETES AND ARTISTS

"It never entered our minds that we would get to travel because of the film. We never imagined that it would go this far," de la Rua added.

There is a long history of Cuban athletes and artists defecting to pursue careers outside their home country, including the 1997 defection of baseball pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez who smuggled his way out of Cuba by boat and became a star with the New York Yankees.

More recently the desertions have included talented ballet dancers and soccer players.

A Miami immigration lawyer, Wilfredo Allen, who is representing the actors, said he planned to file for political asylum on their behalf in the next two weeks "based on possible persecution if they return to Cuba."

Under U.S. law Cuban citizens enjoy special immigration rights to remain in the United States, either by applying for permanent residency or by seeking political refugee status.

The couple's reappearance came a day after Nunez shared the best actor award at the Tribeca festival, along with Dariel Arrechada, a fellow actor in "Una Noche." Arrechada accepted the award on his own, and apparently plans to return to Cuba.

"Una Noche" also picked up the Tribeca Festival's best cinematography award and best new narrative director for Mulloy.

Mulloy, a London-born 32-year-old who shot the low-budget film in Havana and was inspired by a tale she heard on a trip to the island nation 10 years ago, told Reuters she wished the missing actors could have attended the award ceremony.

"I haven't heard from them," she said. "Honestly, it's all happened so quickly ... it's a shock," she added.

"I'm sad for them because they are my friends," Arrechada told Reuters in broken English and Spanish after accepting his award on Thursday, referring to his missing fellow actors.

"I wish they were here, but ... you could be happy for them, for Javier and for Anailin and for everyone. It's weird. I miss him."

The couple is staying with de la Rua's uncle in Miami and plans to move into their own place as soon as they find jobs. They said they would like to act again, but are willing to do any kind of job to kick off their new lives.

They said the director of "Una Noche" is hoping to make a sequel, titled "Una Noche Mas" (One More Night).

"We'd like to do that," said Nunez.

(Additional reporting by Christine Kearney and Tara Cleary; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Chad Dawson throws a right at Bernard Hopkins in the third ound of their light heavyweight boxing match in Atlantic City, N.J., Saturday, April 28, 2012. Dawson won a majority decision. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Bernard Hopkins, left, ducks a punch by Chad Dawson in the 10th round of their light heavyweight boxing match in Atlantic City, N.J., Saturday, April 28, 2012. Dawson won a majority decision. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Bernard Hopkins, left, hits Chad Dawson with a punch in the 11th round of their light heavyweight boxing match in Atlantic City, N.J., Saturday, April 28, 2012. Dawson won a majority decision. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ? Bad Chad is a champion again.

He has his belt back ? and gave the ageless Bernard Hopkins a major decision to make about his fighting future.

Dawson defeated Hopkins by a 12-round majority decision Saturday night and won the WBC light heavyweight title, taking the rematch at Boardwalk Hall without the controversy and ugliness of their first bout six months ago.

The 29-year-old Dawson (31-1, 17 KOs) never let a deep cut near his left eye affect his methodical approach at taking out Hopkins.

At 47, Hopkins (52-6-2) may have fought his last fight, though it seems impossible to count him out for one more bout as he pushes 50.

Dawson, though, may have shut the faucet on Hopkins' Fountain of Youth.

"I believe there's a lot of people out there that won't fight me," Hopkins said. "It all depends on the motivation."

This rematch was no classic, but it was an improvement on their first bout in October in Los Angeles.

Dawson had his TKO victory over Hopkins overturned and the decision was ruled a no-contest and the belt returned to the Philadelphia fighter. Dawson lifted Hopkins and tossed him to the canvas in that one.

This time, Dawson was the victim of at least one accidental head-butt that busted open a cut near his left eye.

He kept his composure and cranked up the pressure in the later rounds. No fighter has ever knocked out Hopkins and Dawson never came close.

He didn't have to lay him out to win this one.

Dawson held the belt high over his head and slung it over his shoulder in celebration.

"My head is hurting from all the head-butts," Dawson said. "I've got to give him a lot of credit. He's a future Hall of Famer, he's a hell of a fighter. But he's a dirty fighter. But if you can get through 12 rounds with him, you can get through anything."

Hopkins will likely return to Philadelphia and consider his options. Hopkins held his own against the younger, more talented fighter, but was never a serious threat to retain.

Hopkins said he will decide his future on his own terms after talking with friends and promoters.

"I could be a mentor in the game if I choose to go out that way," he said.

Hopkins looked like he wanted to keep going after the 12th round. While Dawson's face was battered and bloodied, Hopkins' mug wasn't much more than swollen.

He stood on the ring apron after the bout and barked at the crowd, "Look at my face!"

Dawson could have told him to look at the scorecard.

Two judges scored it 117-111 and a third scored it 114-114.

Dawson vowed to finish Hopkins and earn the win and championship he felt he was wrongly denied after Los Angeles.

Mission accomplished.

"I did what I came to do," Bad Chad said. "I got my belt back."

Hopkins had forged a reputation of running his mouth as much as winning title bouts, but fell silent for this fight until the week leading up to the bout. Even then, he bypassed the traditional trash talking and refused to explain much about his future fighting plans.

That didn't change in the ring after the fight. He was visibly angry when the decision was announced and quickly headed toward the locker room.

"What did he do to win that fight?" Hopkins said. "The only way I knew I would win is if I knocked him out. Let the public judge for themselves."

Knowing he needed a knockout to win, Hopkins gamely tried attacking Dawson early in the 11th. The two of them tussled and crashed to the canvas, making the crowd of more than 7,000 howl at the sight.

"I didn't see him get tired not once the whole fight," Dawson said. "He looked alive the whole fight."

The fight nearly turned in the fourth.

Hopkins nailed Dawson with an accidental head-butt on his way up and sliced open a cut near the challenger's left eye. Blood trickled down Dawson's face and ran into his eye the remainder of the round.

Later in the round, Dawson appeared to try and lift Hopkins again, the same tactic that marred the first fight.

Hopkins couldn't capitalize and do additional damage to Dawson's eye ? at least not serious enough to ever consider stopping the fight.

Hopkins gestured toward the pro-B-Hop crowd and they cheered their champ to end the ninth. But down on the scorecard, Hopkins needed a sizzling final three rounds to retain the title.

He didn't get it.

Dawson held the WBC and IBF versions of the light heavyweight title before. He'd like to make the first defense of this new reign against Andre Ward.

But that's for another day.

"Let the man enjoy his championship," Hopkins said of Dawson. "Hopefully he can defend it for a long time the way I defended mine."

In the co-main event, Seth Mitchell (25-0-1, 18 KOs) beat Philadelphia's Chazz Witherspoon via third-round TKO to win the vacant NABO heavyweight title.

Mitchell was clobbered in the first round before rebounding in the next two. He knocked down Witherspoon in the third then slugged him against the ropes before the match was stopped 2:31 in the third.

Mitchell used a flurry of body shots to hurt Witherspoon (30-3) in a wildly entertaining heavyweight bout in the same arena where Mike Tyson made a home as heavyweight champ.

"I knew he was coming to fight," Mitchell said. "I'm going to be honest, I was a little nervous for the fight."

It showed in the opening round. But he must have had the nerves punched out of him because he made a nice recovery to put away Witherspoon. Mitchell outlanded Witherspoon 51-11 in power shots in the second and third rounds after the Philly fighter held a 24-7 edge in the first round.

"I got a little excited after I had him hurt," Witherspoon said. "I never got back to fighting smart."

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Osama bin Laden is dead and gone but his demise has been trotted out as a campaign issue by President Barack Obama, whose new ad questions whether his Republican rival would have ordered such a risky military raid.

The video features ex-president Bill Clinton hailing Obama for a brave call to take out the Al-Qaeda leader in a Navy SEALs operation one year ago.

Aides to White House challenger Mitt Romney and a top Republican rapped Democrats for politicizing the raid in the run-up to its May 2 anniversary, saying it was "unbecoming" of Obama to reduce the historic moment to a campaign slogan.

"He had to decide. And that's what you hire a president to do. You hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it," Clinton said in the 90-second video, which sought to contrast Obama with the presumptive Republican nominee.

Entitled "One Chance," the ad uses images of Obama and his cabinet in the White House Situation Room, and news footage including quotes from Romney during his 2008 failed presidential bid in which the former Massachusetts governor appeared ambivalent about going after the elusive bin Laden.

Clinton saluted Obama for greenlighting the clandestine raid in Pakistan despite knowing that the consequences would be disastrous if it went wrong.

"Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there, and it hadn't been bin Laden," Clinton said.

"Suppose they'd been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him.

"But he reasoned, 'I cannot in good conscience do nothing.' He took the harder and the more honorable path, and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result."

The operation plunged US-Pakistani ties to an all-time low but it was seen as a huge strategic and popular success for Obama given the decade-long hunt for the terror mastermind.

The ad's on-screen text asks: "Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?" and features a screen grab highlighting Romney's doubts about the merits of searching for bin Laden.

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person," Romney was quoted as saying in a news report shown on CNN from when he was a Republican candidate four years ago.

Vice President Joe Biden had seized on the same remarks Thursday in a foreign policy speech.

"If you're looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it's pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive," Biden said.

The White House pushed the narrative even further on Thursday, when Obama gave a US network an extraordinarily rare interview in the Situation Room and discussed the key moments in the dramatic run-up to bin Laden's demise.

"This is another window into that remarkable day," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

NBC News described the access to the most secure part of the White House as "a first for network television," adding that the president, his national security staff and military advisers relived key moments in the dramatic run-up to bin Laden's demise.

Romney's campaign argued that while Romney congratulated the president and military on that day last year, a "desperate" Obama was seizing on the achievement to distract voters "from the failures of his administration."

"Killing Osama bin Laden was a momentous day for all Americans and we all give the president credit," former defense secretary Frank Carlucci and former navy secretary John Lehman, who both served under president Ronald Reagan, said in a Romney campaign statement.

"But we are saddened to see the president of the United States politicize that event, even reducing it to a campaign slogan. This is unbecoming of the commander-in-chief."

Romney's campaign attacked Obama's "remarkably flailing" reelection bid, saying the president is refusing to run on his record.

So did Senator John McCain, who beat Romney to the Republican nomination in 2008 but lost the election to Obama.

"Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad," McCain said in a statement.

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