Why a NFL Franchise in London Would Spell Disaster

At least one National Football League owner is open to the idea of increasing the league's presence overseas to include a team in London full-time. What at first may seem like a novel idea is actually just a disaster waiting to happen.

Since 2007, one regular season game each season has pitted a pair of teams squaring off at Wembley Stadium in London, with this year's matchup in October set to face the St. Louis Rams and New England Patriots.

However, Patriots owner Robert Kraft doesn't necessarily think that one game a season is enough. In a recent interview with Sky Sports, Kraft indicated that he feels the time is right for an NFL team in London, although he reiterated that it won't be his franchise.

"I personally think we should have a franchise in London and that is something I am going to push for," Kraft said. I think that would be right for the NFL and this fan base has proven they deserve it. For us to grow the game, we have to expand globally. Having seen the kind of support we have received here in London, it is the intention of the NFL owners to get two games here, starting next year.

"The only bad part of putting a franchise in London is that I can assure you it won't be the Patriots who are moving here."

The thing is, whether you like the "International Series" or not, there's a big difference between playing one game overseas and placing an NFL franchise there full time, and doing so would be fraught with potential problems.

The first, and likely biggest, is the simple fact that London is nearly 3,500 miles from New York City and almost 5,000 miles from Seattle. London is also five hours ahead of the former and seven (or eight, depending on Daylight Savings Time) ahead of the latter, which would make traveling to an away game in the UK problematic to say the least.

The NFL has tried to mitigate the impact of this journey for the annual contests now by giving each team participating in the London Game their bye week following their hop across The Pond.The long flight has still impacted the games in London though, as the quality of play in many of these contests has been choppy at best.

That wouldn't be an option if eight games a season were played in the UK, putting the teams forced to make the trip at a significant competitive disadvantage, not only during their week in London but also the week after as players recover from jet lag.

The same problem would only be magnified for the London team, as they would have to travel stateside several times every year, even if the league tried to schedule their road games in bunches.

The Monarchs (might as well use the old NFL Europe team's moniker for argument's sake) would never be able to get into any kind of rhythm, whether it's due to perpetual jet lag or being stuck on the road, away from their facilities, for weeks at a time.

Second, there's the small matter of which team would be placed there. Sure, there are a number of teams in the National Football League that have threatened relocation in recent years in an attempt to procure a new stadium, but do you really think any of those teams wants to not only follow through on that threat but do so by moving their club to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean?

Lastly, none of the teams in serious danger of relocation are exactly what one would call an "elite" franchise. Sure, attendance has been strong for the NFL games played in London to this point, due in large part to the novelty of the event.

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That novelty will wear off pretty quickly once fans in the UK are treated to the Jacksonville Jaguars eight times a year (settle down Jags fans, it's just an example), and attendance would all but certainly plummet as a result.

We won't even get into the idea of playoff games in London, as odds are the team banished to the UK wouldn't sniff the postseason for some time. As to the Super Bowl being held there? An argument for another day.

And for the record, forget expansion. 32 teams is a nice round number that has allowed the league to group teams into eight tidy divisions of four teams each. It's perfect, so don't mess with it.

I will freely admit that I've never been a fan of playing regular season games overseas. In my opinion it's nothing more than a gimmicky money grab that puts a pair of teams in an unnecessary hole from a competitive standpoint, costing one a home game and throwing a monkey wrench into the routines of both.

Putting a team in London would only magnify that problem tenfold, but since there's money to be made it's all but certain it will happen, logic and reason be damned.

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1241179-why-a-franchise-in-london-would-spell-disaster-for-the-nfl

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Dollars & Scents: Coty plans to raise $700M in IPO

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Energy companies push for carbon market bailout

With a turnover of some ?90 billion in 2010, the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is the world's largest carbon market. Around 80% of it is traded in futures markets and 20% in spot markets.

The ETS aims to encourage companies to invest in low-polluting technologies by allocating or selling them allowances to cover their annual emissions. The most efficient companies can then sell unused allowances or bank them.

After a series of VAT "carousel" and "phishing" frauds in 2009, the European Commission proposed tighter security measures. But a number of member states declined to implement them because they said they could not afford to.

One Commission official pointed out that tens of thousands of euros spent on security could prevent millions of euros in losses.

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Recon Instruments defrosts its Android SDK at Google I/O (video)

Ski season (in the northern hemisphere at least) was in full swing when Recon Instruments announced that it'd be providing developers with an Android SDK for its HUD alpine goggles. Now, most of that snow may have melted, but the SDK is finally a cold, hard reality. Made available to the developing masses at Google I/O this week, frosty-fingered devs can use the tool to hook-in to Recon's visual display tools, including its MOD Live series. Given that this opens up the goggles' altimeter, barometer, accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer and temperature reader, that's a lot of detail to tuck into. Itching to get that downhill leaderboard app going? Slide on over to the source for the details.

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Barclays suffers stock fallout after massive fines

LONDON (AP) ? A day after it was slapped with fines worth over $450 million, British bank Barclays PLC lost around 9 percent of its stock market value Thursday, while its peers saw their share prices dragged lower on concerns they would be dragged into the rate-fixing scandal too.

Lloyds Banking Group PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, were under pressure too after regulators on both sides of the Atlantic confirmed that other traders were involved in the manipulation of key interest rates that are used in everyday transactions such as buying a house.

"Banks were clearly acting in concert," said Andrew Tyrie, a British lawmaker, who is also chairman of the influential Treasury Committee in the House of Commons. "I fear it's not going to be the end of the story, that we are going to find that other banks have been involved."

Tyrie said his committee would summon Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond to explain what happened at the bank.

Though Diamond has decided to waive his 2012 bonus in the wake of the $453 million fines, he's facing calls to do more.

Prime Minister David Cameron, when asked whether Diamond should resign, said he thinks "the whole management team have got some serious questions to answer. Let them answer those questions first."

The fallout from the fines was clearly hitting Barclays' share price, which was trading 9 percent lower at 178 pence. That means the company is worth nearly 1.4 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) less than at the close of business on Wednesday.

Its peers Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland were down around 6 percent amid concerns they would be dragged into the scandal too.

On Wednesday, U.S and British regulators imposed the fines on Barclays for providing false figures on borrowing rates between 2005 and 2009. Those false figures manipulated the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) to Barclays' advantage.

The LIBOR is an average rate set by banks each morning that measures how much they're going to charge each other for loans. That rate, in turn, affects rates on many loans for consumers and businesses.

The U.S. Justice Department said Barclays would not face criminal prosecution, subject to certain conditions, but individual employees or officers could be prosecuted.

In response, Diamond waived any bonus for this year, as did finance director Chris Lucas, chief operating officer Jerry del Missier and Rich Ricci, the chief executive of corporate and investment banking.

Diamond said the decision reflected "our collective responsibility as leaders."

Martin Taylor, who was CEO of Barclays between 1995 and 1998, said the bank's board will have to make a decision whether Diamond can carry on in his post.

Though Taylor does not believe Diamond ordered anyone to fiddle the rates, and thinks Diamond should stay if he can "help clean out the stables," he told BBC radio that only the board can make that judgment.

The traders involved in the manipulations worked in Barclays Capital, the investment bank which Diamond headed between 2005 and 2009.

Former Barclays chief Taylor said he was confident that Diamond hadn't sanctioned the misbehavior in the unit, but added that the company's culture might have been a factor behind the misdemeanors.

"Bob runs an extraordinarily competitive and aggressive ship, and that is one reason why Barclays Capital has been very successful in the first decade of the century," Taylor said.

"And I think that when people are pushed to go to the limit, you know what traders are like, they sometimes go beyond it. They don't need to have an instruction from headquarters to go beyond it, they think it is what the bank might expect, perhaps."

"Somebody at senior level somewhere will certainly have known. I can't believe that Barclays haven't identified who that is," Taylor added.

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Obama viewing fire damage in swing state Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? President Barack Obama absorbed the devastation of Colorado's wildfires Friday, visiting a neighborhood struck by the flames and taking in the acrid smells of charred homes while plumes of smoke rose from the surrounding mountains.

After declaring a "major disaster" in the state early Friday and promising federal aid, Obama got a firsthand view of the fires and their toll on residential communities. More than 30,000 people have been evacuated in what is now the most destructive wildfire in state history.

"Whether it's fires in Colorado or flooding in the northern parts of Florida, when natural disasters like this hit, America comes together," Obama said after touring a neighborhood where the fire left some homes standing but leveled surrounding properties. "We all recognize that there but for the grace of God go I. We've got to make sure that we have each others' backs."

Obama's appearance in Colorado took on added significance coming less than five months before the Nov. 6 presidential election. The state is a crucial bellwether in the contest between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and the president's visit illustrated the enormous power of incumbency he enjoys to deliver not only assistance but to show compassion and command.

Stopping to greet firefighters and other first responders, Obama said: "The country is grateful for your work. The country's got your back." He later stopped at a YMCA shelter, where he was greeted with cheers and told volunteers "you guys are making us proud."

Obama spent a swift three hours in Colorado Springs, meeting only a handful of evacuees from fire-affected or threatened neighborhoods. The trip offered images of the president inspecting charred remains of a neighborhood but presented few opportunities for emotion-packed moments. Most of his time was spent with firefighters, or walking with state and local officials through evacuated neighborhoods.

The president first saw the fires and the smoky mountains as Air Force One approached Colorado Springs. His motorcade then weaved slowly through the neighborhood of Mountain Shadows, passing the wreckage of dozens of burned down homes and charred cars, including a melted Ford Taurus and a Toyota RAV-4.

He had special words for a group of firefighters who had just recently managed to save some houses in a subdivision attacked by the flames.

"They're genuine heroes," he said. He was accompanied by Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and members of the state's congressional delegation.

Obama also praised the cooperation between all levels of government.

A Wendy's restaurant across the street from a command post Obama visited had a sign that read: "We will get through this together."

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by the blaze that has encroached on the state's second-largest city and threatened the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The White House said Obama made the trip to get a firsthand look at the wildfire damage and to assess whether additional federal resources are necessary.

But election-year political concerns also created an imperative for Obama to be on the ground. The presidential contest in Colorado is close, and Obama and Romney are looking to swing the state in their favor anyway they can.

About 46 percent of registered voters backed Obama, 42 percent backed Romney and 8 percent were undecided in an NBC News/Marist poll conducted in late May.

Colorado, with huge swaths of independent-minded voters, holds significant political weight in November. In a tight election, the state's nine electoral votes could make the difference between a win or a loss. Obama won Colorado in 2008.

Obama's campaign and a political action committee supporting him have spent more than $8 million on television advertisements in the state, according to Republican officials who track ad buys. Romney and outside groups backing his candidacy have spent more than $4 million.

Besides viewing the fire damage, Obama also has walked tornado-stricken streets in Missouri and Alabama, and met with flood victims in Tennessee ? all states that voted against him in the 2008 presidential election.

Every decision the Obama White House makes to send him to a disaster zone is done under the shadow of Bush's botched response to Hurricane Katrina, which irrevocably damaged his presidency.

Bush was widely criticized as detached and uncaring when he viewed the flooding of New Orleans from the air rather than meeting with people on the ground. White House officials said at the time that they didn't want Bush's presence to distract from the recovery efforts.

Obama faced criticism that Friday's trip could divert time and resources away from the firefighting effort, assertions that were rejected by White House press secretary Jay Carney.

"We are not in any way pulling resources away," he told reporters traveling with the president. "We make sure that we don't."

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Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont and AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.

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Dave Scheidt: 44 Flood -- a New Publisher That's Blurring the Line Between Comics, Art and Everything in Between

We all want to do things our way. The most freeing thing in the world is to be able to express oneself whether that be through writing, music, art. It's what makes us who we are. It's even more freeing to let others enjoy something you have created.

There has always been that hindrance that limited the work of countless artists throughout the years. Certain type of music doesn't "sell" or certain publishers wouldn't be caught dead printing certain comics. That crazy painting you spent months on? No gallery would be caught dead hanging that on their walls.

That's where 44 Flood comes in -- comprised of Menton Matthews aka Menton 3, Kasra Ghanbari, Ben Templesmith and Nick Idell. They were tired of answering to everyone else and set out to create things they love and that they'd want to see themselves.

After launching their proposal via the crowd funding site Kickstarter, they met their goal of $18,000 in less than four hours. People believed in what they set out to do almost immediately and the guys we're floored, overcome with endless gratitude and love from their supporters. This crazy idea they had suddenly wasn't so crazy any more. It was a reality. As each day passes, more and more people are contributing to their project which still has about 40 days left to raise money.

I got a chance to talk to them about it.

Dave: So starting off, What makes the combination of the four of you special? Each of you brings something different to the table. Was that a specific formula you looked at to cover all grounds?

Kasra: You can't always predict these things and a lot of good things happen overtime. We've all gotten to know each other over a real amount of time. You become more and more conscious of what people can do, things with their personality, their professional experience and it just started getting even a little strange to us when we were starting to think about working together. How the four of us kind of filled four different quadrants. Our spheres of influence were complementary to each other and when we saw that, we saw that as a little sign that something special might be here. We use the analogy of a little bit of a band where the bass player is just as important as the guitar player, just as important as the drummer and the singer. If one of those is off, you don't have that special thing. I think we've had enough time to build this that when we work together for us at least, it's pretty special and explosive.

Dave: So you think it wasn't really so much as a conscious effort so much as things kind of just we're there once you got together?

Menton 3: You know how when you are on a date with a girl and you're watching the moon and there's a shooting star or something? A lot of it was just totally synchronicity. It just lined up perfectly, things coalesced in a way that was just perfect for the outcome. I couldn't be happier working with anyone else. We do have two other guys we work closely with Steve Niles and David Stoupakis so in that way it's kind of 66 Flood. We work very well together. It was a very organic thing even though it was something we intended to put together. There is no leader of this business.

Dave: So all boy and jokes aside?

Menton 3: (Laughs) Yeah all boy band and beard jokes aside, it's actually something very special to us. Our friendship is special to all of us. We take brotherhood very seriously. I'm very lucky to work with these men.

Kasra: What more could you ask for to look at the other three guys you are working with and say that if any one of them were gone, you wouldn't have done this?

Dave: I think it's good that you guys aren't limiting yourselves to one medium. It's not just "Hey I'm gonna do comics." You're going out on all fronts, and not limiting yourselves to one particular audience.

Menton 3: I love art. That's poetry, photography you know writing. Paintings. We love art. We're big fans of the expression of oneself. The imagery, the storytelling, these things are the things that for me, make life worth living. We are making something that we would want ourselves.

Dave: That kind of fits into my what I was going to ask with my next question, The fact that you guys are grouping all these things together, with comics, fine art, prose, with this was it part of the attempt at trying to get people to take comics more seriously and as an art form?

Ben Templesmith: Yeah, I mean if you look at any other industry or any other medium it's regarded as a serious art form. When someone thinks of music, they don't think of Mary Poppins or when someone mentions a painting, "oh that's a painting people made those things 500 years ago." The comic book scene is a fleeting, childhood adolescent sort of power fantasy still in Anglo-American culture. I think there's a huge untapped area there, and I'd just like a bigger audience for my work and I think the other guys would agree.

Menton 3: Yeah I mean I know for me, I don't really see the distinction but I know in popular culture comic books are kind of seen in a particular way. I know I say this a lot but what is the Sistine Chapel but a graphic novel all over the walls of an amazing building? Storytelling with narrative imagery is as old as humanity. The fact that comics focus on one particular type of comic is a little absurd to me. I mean I like those comics, I collect them, I read them I enjoy them, but for example the work of Bill Sienkiewicz people know him from his work from New Mutants very few people know about Stray Toasters, I think that's one of the most phenomenal comics ever. I think that it's there, people just don't know how to access it. I think one of the things we are trying to be as an easy vehicle for people to find that type of content.

Dave: Yeah I think one of the hardest things to get someone into reading a comic, is getting them over that stigma of actually reading a comic. Just to get it in front of them to open it up and read is hard.

Menton 3: If you think of a young kid who is hipper and smarter and younger than me and they walk into a comic book shop, there's a wall of comics and of course they are going to go for the ones that are the most represented. What they get confronted with is the biggest comics they don't see any of the little ones, and they walk out of the store thinking that that's what comics are. There is a huge kinda gap between people who collect Juxtaposed magazine and comics all though there is just the same amount of relative and important art going on in comics, they just don't know how to connect it. I'm not saying we are going to connect it, again we're just making something we really want as fans.

Dave: So Nick, as an owner of a comic book shop, this obviously is something that could get people into comics. What do you think you need to get people into comics who normally wouldn't be into them?

Nick: Anything that strays away from the typical book and hopefully gets people into shops. The books that we're gonna create are gonna be a great catalyst to do so. I feel the same way as you, when I recommend a book to someone It's rarely ever a capes book or something that I grew up with that I love, it's more a book that has phenomenal story with great plot and character development that just so happens to be in the medium of comics. We're gonna try to make that quality of fiction.

Kasra: Maybe one thing we are gonna attempt is drawing the distinction perhaps between the comic book medium and the comic book industry. Whereas the industry tends to be a little insular why not just look at the medium in its broad application? We see it in magazines and newspapers like the New York Times. We see subgenres of it in books like Palestine and books by people like Lynda Barry. They're not really looked at it as part of the comic book industry, It's regarded as a higher form of art.

Dave: Yeah it's taken a lot more seriously than traditional mainstream comic books, for sure.

Kasra: Yeah, they are never really identified as just comic books. They are treated like an art form.

Dave: When you originally came up with the idea of Tome, was it always as developed as it is now? To feature such different yet similar forms of art or did things fall into place more and more?

Menton 3: The concept for Tome was pretty much there. it's kind of weird to talk about but it was always just there. The original concept hasn't changed at all. More than anything whatever happens with the book, we can't wait to get our hands on it. We're the biggest fans of it. We're talking about a huge 12x18 book., you're gonna see art in a lot of ways the way it was it was intended to be seen. Tome is a concise shot across the bow of what we really love. Some of the guys we have involved, it's a dream come true for us.

Dave: Anything else you guys wanted to talk about?

Menton 3: I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to anyone who has backed us on this. Honestly and truthfully we are touched beyond absolute articulation. We have no idea, even emotionally how to deal with this. This means the world to us. We live in a time period in which art seems to be less important. When the highest form of art you see when you go out is an advertisement, we're in trouble.

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Are you looking for a way to beat the heat this summer? How about renting an inflatable water slide? Considering the increasing cost of water park admissions, why not bring the fun to your own back yard?! Whether you are celebrating a birthday, graduation, or just looking for something to keep the kids happy, renting an inflatable water slide is the perfect solution!

When looking for a water slide rental, or any inflatable, you want to be sure of the company you are dealing with. Make sure the company has a good reputation and is insured. Most cities need companies to be insured to be providers for parks and other city venues. This could be a good place to start in your search for a company. Most cities have a list of approved vendors that they can share with you.

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Pioneer SMA wireless speakers put AirPlay, HTC Connect in one happy family (update: hands-on photos)

Apple and HTC might be at each other's throats in court, but they're living in peace and harmony in Pioneer's world. The fresh new SMA wireless speaker line supports both Apple's AirPlay format and HTC Connect-certified DLNA to take audio over WiFi no matter whether it's coming from an iPhone or a One S. Proof that we can all get along is good in itself, but Pioneer is also throwing in Wireless Direct, a trick that turns the speaker into its own WiFi access point if it can't latch on to a nearby router. Pioneer's stratification of the range is dictated by whether you value freedom or raw power. The XW-SMA1 is the baseline with two 3-inch speakers and a 3 / 4-inch tweeter, with a bass reflex port doing its best to mimic a subwoofer; the XW-SMA3 is the exact same with a lithium-ion battery good for six hours of cord-free play, and the XW-SMA4 goes battery-free but rolls in a proper 4-inch subwoofer and an extra tweeter. The lot arrives in August and costs either $299 for an SMA1 or $399 for either of its premium siblings.

Gallery: Pioneer SMA wireless speakers hands-on

Zach Honig contributed to this report.

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????????? The benefits of HIIT are synergistic: increase calorie burn, increase cardiovascular fitness and decrease time and equipment. The key to this type of workout is short bursts of activity near your maximum ability alternated with short episodes of rest during which you allow your breathing to steady and recover. By using short bursts of intense body weight exercise, you put your body into oxygen deficit and your body responds by converting to anaerobic metabolism and using glycogen stores in the muscles. Using the adaptation principle to your advantage, you overload your muscles for brief periods and challenge them to recover quickly, and then to perform again. One of the wonderful advantages of this type of conditioning is that the workouts are necessarily brief, usually 20 minutes or less, and burn a superior amount of calories to many traditional forms of training. Some intervals are as short as 20 seconds, making this the ultimate challenge to boredom and a wandering mind. Just when you think you can?t do any more, you realize you have only 5 seconds left and find the power to finish.

????????? The most specific, stylized and rapid of the HIITs is the Tabata workout. Named for its creator, this interval regime specifies 5 minutes of warm up followed by 8 cycles consisting of 20 second bursts of effort alternating with 10 seconds of recovery for 4 minute sets. A common regime repeats this set 4 times for a total of 21 minutes of conditioning. Add in that you can use body weight exercises at home, and you have the ultimate no excuse workout. One example of this workout demonstrates modifications and the simplicity of the routine.

????????? Intervals in general can be adapted to any exercise and are an excellent method of upping your game. If you have been walking for a few weeks and want to challenge yourself, consider increasing your pace for 30 second intervals. You might start with one 30 second interval every 5 minutes and decrease the recover time every week until your increasing your pace for 30 seconds of each minute. Over time, this will build to significant gains in fitness, well being and health.

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Britain's queen shakes hands with ex-IRA chief

BELFAST (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the first time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including that of her cousin.

The meeting with McGuinness, who is now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, comes 14 years after the Irish Republican Army ended its war against British rule in the province, and is one of the last big milestones in a peace process whose success has been studied around the world.

The queen met McGuinness, Northern Ireland's Unionist first minister Peter Robinson and Irish President Michael D.Higgins for just under 10 minutes behind closed doors in a theatre in a leafy suburb of Belfast cordoned off by hundreds of police.

McGuinness shook the gloved hand of the queen a second time as she left the theatre, this time in front of television cameras, but unlike other guests chose not to bow his head.

The queen's bright green outfit appeared to have been chosen with Ireland's national color in mind, and McGuinness wished a smiling monarch well in Irish, saying "Slan agus beannacht", which he told her means "Goodbye and God speed".

There has been scattered opposition to the gesture of reconciliation from dissident Irish militants and from some of the IRA's victims. But the vast majority of the province's politicians backed the meeting, the first between the queen and a top member of the IRA or its former political wing, Sinn Fein.

"Today is a huge event and it is, in a sense, the ultimate handshake," John Reid, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2002, told the BBC.

"On all sorts of levels this is a hugely significant step but it is only one more step in a long process. This may take generations - to get back to absolute reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland."

OBSTACLE REMOVED

Ireland's president said the handshake was "something that had to be done" to remove an obstacle to reconciliation. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said the gesture was symbolic but added that "the journey isn't near completion".

A few hours later, the queen waved to crowds from an open-topped car at a celebration of her Diamond Jubilee attended by over 20,000 people - a stark contrast to the armored limousines that have been a mandatory precaution on previous visits.

The queen regularly meets senior Unionist politicians, Protestants who want Northern Ireland to stay inside the United Kingdom, but not Sinn Fein - the largest party representing Catholic nationalists who want a united Ireland.

McGuinness is a hero to Republican hardliners, but has long been a hate figure to Unionists, many of whom harbor deep suspicions about his past.

He admits he was on the front line in the war with British forces, including on Bloody Sunday in 1972, when troops shot dead 13 unarmed protesters, but says he never killed anyone.

A British report said that McGuinness probably was armed with a submachinegun on Bloody Sunday, but did nothing to provoke the massacre. He has said he left the IRA in 1974, but most historians believe he was active for most of its campaign.

For the queen and her consort Prince Philip, who shook McGuinness's hand more cursorily, the conflict had a personal edge.

The queen's cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was also Philip's uncle, was killed by the IRA in 1979 with three others, including his 14-year-old grandson, when his boat was blown up while he was on holiday in Ireland.

More than 1,000 members of the British security forces were among 3,600 people killed during the 30 years of the "Troubles".

McGuinness told the queen that he agreed with comments she made last year that all victims of the conflict should be remembered, according to a source who was at the meeting.

"STILL A REPUBLICAN"

McGuinness said on Tuesday that, while he represented people who had been badly hurt by British state violence, he was also big enough to understand that the queen and other families in Britain had also lost loved ones.

Asked by reporters after the meeting if his convictions had changed, he said he was "still a Republican".

Sinn Fein, which has become increasingly popular south of the Irish border as the main party opposing an EU/IMF bailout, is keen to bolster its image as a mainstream party and distance itself from a violent past that alienates many southern voters.

It still wants a referendum on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of Britain, but in the short term its aim is to be in government in the north and south simultaneously.

Only last year, Sinn Fein rejected invitations to attend events during the queen's landmark visit to the Irish capital Dublin, the first by a British monarch since the republic won independence from Britain in 1921.

Some Republicans branded McGuinness a traitor for meeting a queen who is also commander-in-chief of Britain's armed forces.

"People are not unhappy that someone is shaking her hand, just not him. He's a hypocrite," said Martin, a 42-year-old unemployed man who said he and his friends had got criminal records defending their neighborhood in working-class Belfast.

"He sent people out to fight. To die. And now he's putting on a suit and shaking her hand? I don't want war (but) this shouldn't have happened till the next generation."

With splinter groups continuing to attack British targets, security forces say the risk of an attack is at its highest level since the Good Friday peace agreement was signed in 1998.

Nine police suffered minor injuries on Tuesday night when they were pelted with petrol bombs and other missiles.

(Additional reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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Dell outs XPS 14 with optional mobile broadband, XPS 15 with Kepler graphics

Dell's XPS 13 Ultrabook has been rather lonely since it launched in early 2012, but the company is introducing two new laptops to round out the updated XPS line. Today it announced the 14-inch XPS 14 and the 15-inch XPS 15, both of which feature the same aluminum chassis as the XPS 13 and run Core i5 or Core i7 Ivy Bridge processors.

The XPS 14 Ultrabook will be available in two configurations, both of which include a backlit keyboard and a 400-nit, 1600 x 900 display. The main difference between the two models is connectivity: the higher-end XPS 14 comes with integrated mobile broadband and uses Dell's NetReady "pay as you go" service to get online when Wi-Fi is out of range. Both versions come with up to 8GB of RAM and can be configured with a 500GB drive spinning at 5,400 RPM paired with a 32GB SSD or a standalone 512GB SSD, and the WWAN model comes standard with a 500GB drive with a free fall sensor on board. Another difference is graphics: the base model ships with Intel HD Graphics 4000, while the WWAN model offers an NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M GPU. Dell claims the notebook provides up to 11 hours of runtime, "the longest battery life of any Ultrabook." The XPS 14 starts at $1,099 and is available today. It just so happens that we've already taken the laptop for a full test drive: check out our review here.

Next up is the XPS 15, which weighs 5.79 pounds and sports a 1920 x 1080 Corning Gorilla Glass display. The laptop includes either a DVD-RW or Blu-Ray drive and comes with up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. As far as graphics go, you get a choice of NVIDIA's GeForce GT 630M chip with 1GB of dedicated memory or GeForce GT 640M graphics with 2GB of RAM. Pricing starts at $1,299, and like the XPS 14 this laptop is available today. Check out our hands-on gallery below.

Gallery: Dell XPS 14 and 15 hands-on

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