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On this week?s Slate Political Gabfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz discuss how Apple and other corporations avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes. They also discuss Obama?s new drone policy and the debate over education reform.

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IRS replaces official who revealed targeting

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.

Lois Lerner was put on administrative leave on Thursday, said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and two congressional aides.

Without naming Lerner, new Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel emailed employees that 27-year IRS veteran Ken Corbin would become acting head of the exempt organizations division ? a move the Obama administration was hoping would help ease the controversy.

Grassley said Lerner rejected a request by Werfel to resign. One congressional aide said Lerner, a career civil servant, will be on paid leave. The congressional aides spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a personnel matter.

A day earlier, Lerner proclaimed her innocence of any wrongdoing to a House committee, then invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions.

Republicans have shown no taste for dropping their demands for more answers about the matter, which has become a major political liability for President Barack Obama. Three congressional committees are investigating the episode and the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation.

"The agency needs to move on to fix the conditions that led to the targeting debacle," Grassley said, adding about Lerner, "She shouldn't be in limbo indefinitely on the taxpayers' dime."

Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said replacing Lerner was a "strong step" for improving the IRS but added, "This and further corrective action are vital in restoring the confidence of the American people."

Lerner oversaw the IRS unit that in early 2010 started subjecting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to long-lasting, tough reviews, according to a report by a Treasury inspector general.

That report said Lerner learned of the activity in June 2011. Higher-ranking IRS officials say they didn't learn of the problem until nearly a year later.

Lerner revealed the wrongdoing May 10 in response to a question at a legal conference that IRS officials later conceded they planted in an attempt to get the news out before the inspector general's report was released.

Steven Miller was forced out this week as acting IRS commissioner. Joseph Grant, one of Miller's top deputies, announced last week that he will retire June 3.

All IRS offices will be closed Friday, one of five days the agency plans to be shuttered this year because of mandatory, across-the bard budget cuts that are affecting most government agencies.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-replaces-official-revealed-targeting-074204686.html

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Sherpa developing voice-controlled digital assistant for Google Glass, other Android-based wearables

Sherpa has announced that it is developing a voice-controlled digital assistant specifically for Android-based smart glasses and wearables, such as Google Glass.

Talking at the first Sherpa Summit in Bilbao, Spain, Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria, CEO and founder of Sherpa, said: "Sherpa is committed to delivering rich and natural interfaces for our digital lives, and we are confident that we can make the user experience with Google Glass and other wearable computing devices much better than it is today."

Sherpa was announced in the UK in April 2013, following a successful launch initially in Spain and Latin America. The intuitive digital assistant aims to make more of your query, providing clever responses, rather than just links.

READ: Sherpa personal assistant for Android launches in the UK

With a collection of partnerships in place, you can, for example, make PayPal payments via Sherpa, as well as doing normal things like post updates to Facebook or Twitter, check your calendar, trigger navigation directions and a whole lot more.

The aim is to take the voice-control functions of Android above and beyond what is natively offered by Google.

Whilst Sherpa is working on a version to make Google Glass more useful, you can get Sherpa on your Android smartphone? for free via Google Play.

Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121234-sherpa-developing-voice-controlled-digital-assistant-for-google-glass-other-android-based-wearables

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Norway spruce genome sequenced: Largest ever to be mapped

May 22, 2013 ? Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) -- a species with huge economic and ecological importance -- and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The genome is complex and seven times larger than that of humans.

The results have been published in the journal Nature.

In addition to its scientific interest this new knowledge has immense importance to the forestry industry in many countries.

This major research project has been led by Ume? Plant Science Centre (UPSC) in Ume? and the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm.

"Forest tree breeding is now entering a new era, and Sweden has the potential to be in the forefront of development," says Professor Ove Nilsson from UPSC. "Newer and more effective methods can begin to be used to ensure that the over 200 million tree seedlings planted each year in Sweden are as strong, healthy and well-adapted as possible for both poor and rich soil areas in different parts of the country."

The scientists have identified about 29,000 functional genes, marginally more than humans have, but the question arises: why is the spruce genome still seven times larger than ours? According to the study an explanation is "genome obesity" caused by extensive repetitive DNA sequences, which have accumulated for several hundred million years of evolutionary history. Other plant and animal species have efficient mechanisms to eliminate such repetitive DNA, but these do not seem to operate so well in conifers.

"It is remarkable that the spruce is doing so well despite this unnecessary genetic load," says Professor P?r Ingvarsson at UPSC. "Of course, some of this DNA has a function but it seems strange that it would be beneficial to have so very much. This appears to be something special for conifers."

The greatest challenge in the project has been to get the approximately 20 billion "letters" found in spruce's genetic code into the correct order, rather than obtaining the actual DNA sequences.

"Imagine a library with ten thousand books as thick as the bible, written in a language with only four letters," explains Professor Stefan Jansson at UPSC. "If someone took one hundred identical copies of each of the ten thousand titles, passed them all through a document shredder and mixed all the shreds, and you then were asked to piece together an accurate copy of each title, you can realize that it can be a bit problematic."

"We had to customise computers and rewrite many of the computer programmes used in similar studies in order to handle the large amount of DNA sequences," says Professor Joakim Lundeberg from SciLifeLab. The national data storage system was stretched to the limit, and there were many other practical problems that had to be solved along the way to pull through the project.

"But the timing was optimal; when the new DNA sequencing machines were unpacked at our newly established laboratory, DNA arrived from our model spruce tree. By sequencing and analysing the largest genome in the world so far, we have shown that SciLifeLab has both technical and scientific capacity for research at the highest international level," concludes Joakim Lundeberg.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_environment/~3/nacexskwN0k/130522131039.htm

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Northeast Ohio high school sports scoreboard for Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Plain Dealer staff, May 22, 2013 11:04 p.m.

Baseball

District tournament

DIVISION III

EUCLID DISTRICT

Finals

Garrettsville 4, Wickliffe 2 (susp. in top of the sixth)

PARMA DISTRICT

Finals

Keystone 7, Elyria Catholic 6

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DIVISION IV

BARBERTON DISTRICT

Semifinals

Dalton 5, Rittman 1

Windham 5, Lake Center Christian 1

EUCLID DISTRICT

Semifinals

Cuyahoga Hts.002 45--11 12 1

Maplewood000 00-- 0 3 2

CH (12-8): Lowther (W, 6-2). M (17-12): Jones (L)

Notable: Rosenlieb (CH) 3-3, 3B, 3R, 3 RBI

Softball

District tournament

DIVISION I

BARBERTON DISTRICT

Finals

Brunswick002 000 0--2 5 0

Medina020 024 x--8 11 1

B: Sherry (L). M (22-7): Paradise (W, 18-5).

Notable: Peak (M) 2H, 2R

BOARDMAN DISTRICT

Finals

Austintown Fitch 5, Aurora 2

MENTOR DISTRICT

Finals

Mentor003 000 0--3 5 3

Riverside010 000 0--1 4 1

M (17-10): Golic (W). R (22-5): Lynch (L).

Notable: Valvoda (M) 1-3, 2 RBI.

N. RIDGEVILLE DISTRICT

Finals

Avon Lake000 000 0--0 3 0

Elyria000 003 x--3 8 0

AL: Wennerberg (L). E: Minney (W). HR: Bachna (E)

Notable: Bachna R, 2 RBI.

PARMA DISTRICT

Finals

Midpark020 000 3--5 10 6

St. Joseph Ac.108 100 x--10 10 2

M (12-13). SJA (13-18): Heffernan (W).

Notable: Miles (SJA) 2-3, BB, R, RBI.

SOLON DISTRICT

Finals

Solon100 010 4--6 6 0

Brecksville000 000 0--0 1 3

S (21-7): Maxson (W, 18-7). B (23-6): Best (L, 7-4). HR: Confroy (S).

Notable: Confroy 2-3, RBI, 3 R.

DIVISION II

AKRON DISTRICT

Semifinals

Crestwood000 000 0--0 1 0

Walsh Jesuit200 000 0--2 8 0

C (15-9): McKinley (L, 14-9). WJ (23-5): Rahach (W, 16-5).

Notable: Piper (WJ) 2-4 2-1B, R.

Other score

Field 1, Tallmadge 0

JEFFERSON DISTRICT

Semifinals

Beaumont000 000 0--0 2 0

NDCL001 002 x--3 7 1

B (17-7): Iott (L, 17-7). NDCL (22-7): Hetki (W, 19-6). HR: NDCL, Melvin

Notable: Hetki (NDCL) CG, 11K, 2H

LAGRANGE DISTRICT

Semifinals

Firelands000 010 0--1 3 0

Keystone000 000 0--0 4 0

F (15-12): Dostall (W). K (23-5): Cornish (L).

Notable: Kowalski (F) GWRBI.

Other score

Clearview 8, Holy Name 5

NAVARRE DISTRICT

Semifinals

Fairless 3, Manchester 2

Springfield 6, Canal Fulton Northwest 2 (12)

Boys track

District meet

DIVISION I

AMHERST DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. Medina 30; 2. Midpark 24; 3. (tie) North Royalton, Berea 19; 5. Avon Lake 16; 6. Amherst 11; 7. Strongsville 7; 8. (tie) Midview, Olmsted Falls 6; 10. Avon 5; 11. (tie) Avon, North Ridgeville 4; 13. (tie) Rocky River, Westlake 2; 15. Brunswick 1.

Discus: 1. Hierholzer (Medina) 174-9; 2. Seipel (Avon Lake) 169-10; 3. Hazek (Medina) 157-1; 4. Sturm (Avon) 142-7. Long jump: 1. Harris (Berea) 21-3; 2. Robinson (N. Royalton) 21-0; 3. Hopkins (Midpark) 20-11; 4. Colon (Olmsted Falls) 20-31/2. Pole vault: 1. Owens (Midpark) 16-0; 2. Repasy (Midpark) 14-6; 3. Doehne (Midview) 14-0; Hutchinson (Medina) 14-0. 4x800: 1. Amherst (Glowacki, Burgett, Klingshirn, Kardos) 8:01.20; 2. Medina 8:01.22; 3. Berea 8:05.40; 4. Avon Lake 8:07.70.

MENTOR DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. Mentor 27; 2.Chardon 20; 3. Lake Catholic 19; 4. Mayfield 17; 5. Euclid 15; 6. (tie) Eastlake North, Willoughby South, Brush 13; 9. Riverside 8; 10. Cleveland Heights 7; 11. Madison 4.

Discus: 1. Maurins (Mentor) 160-4; 2. Peters (Euclid) 149-1; 3. Sharpnach (Riverside) 144-7; 4. Pipoly (Lake Catholic) 143-8. Long jump: 1. Hunt (Will. South) 22-61/4; 2. Perry (Brush) 21-11; 3. Markovic (Mayfield) 21-9; 4. Muir (Chardon) 21-83/4. Pole vault: 1. Ludwig (Lake Cath.) 13-6; 2. Raser (Mentor) 13-3; 3. Bukovec (Chardon) 13-0; 4. Reimer (Mayfield) 12-9. 4x800: 1. Eastlake North 8:03.84; 2. Mentor 8:06.36; 3. Chardon 8:12.26; 4. Euclid 8:14.26.

DIVISION II

PERRY DISTRICT (A)

How they stand: 1. Chagrin Falls 34; 2. Perry 27; 3. Hawken 22; 4. Grand Valley 17; 5. Benedictine 15; 6. Buchtel 12; 7. Fairview 10; 8. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin 7; 9. Beachwood 4; 10. Warrensville 3; Cleveland Central Catholic 2.

Shot put: Oscar (Grand Valley) 48-9; 2. Woods (Buchtel) 45-11; 3. Marabito (Hawken) 44-3; 4. Goebel (Chagrin Falls) 42-9. High jump: Conte (Chagrin Falls) 5-8; 2. Stapulionis (Chagrin Falls) 5-8; 3. Vormelker (Grand Valley) 5-8; 4. Lawson (Benedictine) 5-6. 4x800: Fairview (Beard, Miles, Kerchenski, Krabil) 8:26.54; 2. Chagrin Falls 8:30.44; 3. Hawken 830.73; 4. Perry 8:32.67.

PERRY DISTRICT (B)

Note: Top four individuals and teams advance to regional meet

How they stand: 1. Jefferson 30; 2. (tie) University, Orange 25; 4. Edgewood 22; 5. Bay 20; 6. Padua 15; 7. Wickliffe 8; 8. Cardinal 7; 9. John Hay 4.

Discus: O'Connor (Jefferson) 142-2; 2. Fitchet (Edgewood) 135-1; 3. Singer (Orange) 132-5; 4. Sullivan (Bay) 131-2. Long jump: 1. Carter (Orange) 21-111/2; 2. Minosky (Padua) 21-4; 3. Bell (University) 21-4; 4. Manhard (Edgewood) 19-111/2. Pole vault: 1. Hamilton (Jefferson) 13-6; 2. McGee (University) 12-6; 3. Hutchinson (Edgewood) 12-0; 4. Cahn (Orange) 11-6. 4x800: Bay (Fell, Mertic, Orr, Baumgard) 8:28.98; 2. Wickliffe 8:33.34; 3. University 8:35.30; 4. Jefferson 8:45.83.

DIVISION III

INDEPENDENCE DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. (tie) Gilmour Academy, Cuyahoga Heights, Berkshire 20; 4. Kirtland 19; 5. Maplewood 18; 6. Independence 16; 7. St. Martin de Porres 15; 8. Trinity 12; 9. Villa Angela-St. Joseph 6; 10. Bristol 4; 11. Southington 3; 11. Vienna Mathews 3.

Shot put: 1. Mathews (Kirtland) 52-51/4; 2. Wright (Gilmour) 51-03/4; 3. Mayer (Berkshire) 48-13/4; Long jump: 1. Gooch (St. Martin) 21-1; 2. Ludlow (Berkshire) 20-61/2; 3. Ross (VASJ) 20-41/2; 4. Pinkney (St. Martin) 20-41/2. Pole vault: 1. Rospierski (Cuy. Hts.) 14-11/4; 2. Kaloger (Cuy. Heights) 12-0; 3. Montague (Ind) 12-0; 4. Carr (Ind) 11-0. 4x800: 1. Maplewood 8:07.31; 2. Gilmour Academy 8:12.51; 3. Berkshire 8:26.52; 4. Independence 8:35.24.

Girls track

District meet

DIVISION I

AMHERST DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. Medina 22; 2. Avon Lake 18; 3. (tie) Strongsville, Amherst 11; 5. North Royalton 101/2; 6. Avon 9; 7. Brunswick 8; 8. Westlake 7; 9. Rocky River 61/2; 10. Bay 6; 11. Elyria 5; 12. North Olmsted 3.

Shot put: 1. Bohan (Avon Lake) 43-11/4; 2. Pallini (Medina) 39-0; 3. Lyle (Westlake) 35-33/4; 4. White (Elyria) 35-31/4. High jump: 1. Martin (Strong) 5-6; 2. Bohan (Avon Lake) 5-4; 3. (tie) Medic (N. Royal), Kasper (Amherst) 5-2. 4x800: 1. Medina (Smith, Scavuzzo, Vidika, Pack) 9:30.63; 2. Brunswick 9:33.85; 3. Bay 9:37.37; 4. Rocky River 9:38.68.

MENTOR DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. Mayfield 25; 2. Mentor 24; 3. Madison 15; 4. Euclid 14; 5. Riverside 12; 5. Willoughby South 12; 7. Cleveland Heights 7; 8. Chardon 6; 9. Brush 1; 9. Eastlake North 1.

Shot put: 1. Gavorski (Madison) 37-111/2; 2. Dipippo (Mayfield) 37-61/4; 3. Sullens (Mentor) 37-0; 4. Harris (Euclid) 35-103/4. High jump: 1. (tie) Eiben (Mentor), Dlugosz (Mayfield), 3. Cunningham (Euclid) 5-1; 4. Scott (Will. South) 5-0. 4x800: 1. Mentor 9:50.46; 2. Riverside 9:55.94; 3. Chardon 10:05.48; 4. Madison 10:10.28.

DIVISION III

INDEPENDENCE DISTRICT

How they stand: 1. (tie) Gilmour Academy, Cuyahoga Heights 20; 3. Independence 21; 4. Cuyahgoa Heights 181/2; 5. Maplewood 131/2; 6. Badger 101/2; 7. Newbury 10; 8. Hawken 91/2; 9. Berkshire 9; 10. Grand Valley 7; 11. Fariport 3; 12. Bristol 1.

Discus: Young (Trinity) 113-5; 2. Andexler (Ind) 106-7; 3. Lest (Ind) 102-8; 4. Yoder (Maplewood) 99-7. Pole vault: 1. Zedar (Gilmour) 9-0; 2. Rayokovich (Cuy. Heights) 9-0; 3. Giangrande (Trinity) 8-6; 4. Zupanc (Gilmour) 8-0. High jump: MacPherson (Newbury) 5-0; 2. (tie) Preske (GV), Baumiller (Badger) 4-10; 4. (tie) Francis (Trinity), Satterfield (Hawken), Stamm (Maplewood), Agnew (Badger) 4-8. 4x800: 1. Gilmour Academy (Whetstone, Ha. Markel, Hal. Markel, Anton) 9:41.92; 2. Berkshire 9:53.60; 3. Hawken 9:57.39; 4. Maplewood 10:21.95.

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Source: http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/-8006035283697883807/northeast-ohio-high-school-sports-scoreboard-for-wednesday-may-22-2013/

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Moore Woman Goes Into Labor During Tornado

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