Researchers discover workings of brain's 'GPS system'

Mar. 6, 2013 ? Just as a global posi?tion?ing sys?tem (GPS) helps find your loca?tion, the brain has an inter?nal sys?tem for help?ing deter?mine the body's loca?tion as it moves through its surroundings.

A new study from researchers at Prince?ton Uni?ver?sity pro?vides evi?dence for how the brain per?forms this feat. The study, pub?lished in the jour?nal Nature, indi?cates that cer?tain position-tracking neu?rons -- called grid cells -- ramp their activ?ity up and down by work?ing together in a col?lec?tive way to deter?mine loca?tion, rather than each cell act?ing on its own as was pro?posed by a com?pet?ing theory.

Grid cells are neu?rons that become elec?tri?cally active, or "fire," as ani?mals travel in an envi?ron?ment. First dis?cov?ered in the mid-2000s, each cell fires when the body moves to spe?cific loca?tions, for exam?ple in a room. Amaz?ingly, these loca?tions are arranged in a hexag?o?nal pat?tern like spaces on a Chi?nese checker board.

"Together, the grid cells form a rep?re?sen?ta?tion of space," said David Tank, Princeton's Henry L. Hill?man Pro?fes?sor in Mol?e?c?u?lar Biol?ogy and leader of the study. "Our research focused on the mech?a?nisms at work in the neural sys?tem that forms these hexag?o?nal pat?terns," he said. The first author on the paper was grad?u?ate stu?dent Cristina Dom?nisoru, who con?ducted the exper?i?ments together with post?doc?toral researcher Amina Kinkhabwala.

Dom?nisoru mea?sured the elec?tri?cal sig?nals inside indi?vid?ual grid cells in mouse brains while the ani?mals tra?versed a computer-generated vir?tual envi?ron?ment, devel?oped pre?vi?ously in the Tank lab. The ani?mals moved on a mouse-sized tread?mill while watch?ing a video screen in a set-up that is sim?i?lar to video-game vir?tual real?ity sys?tems used by humans.

She found that the cell's elec?tri?cal activ?ity, mea?sured as the dif?fer?ence in volt?age between the inside and out?side of the cell, started low and then ramped up, grow?ing larger as the mouse reached each point on the hexag?o?nal grid and then falling off as the mouse moved away from that point.

This ramp?ing pat?tern cor?re?sponded with a pro?posed mech?a?nism of neural com?pu?ta?tion called an attrac?tor net?work. The brain is made up of vast num?bers of neu?rons con?nected together into net?works, and the attrac?tor net?work is a the?o?ret?i?cal model of how pat?terns of con?nected neu?rons can give rise to brain activ?ity by col?lec?tively work?ing together. The attrac?tor net?work the?ory was first pro?posed 30 years ago by John Hop?field, Princeton's Howard A. Prior Pro?fes?sor in the Life Sci?ences, Emeritus.

The team found that their mea?sure?ments of grid cell activ?ity cor?re?sponded with the attrac?tor net?work model but not a com?pet?ing the?ory, the oscil?la?tory inter?fer?ence model. This com?pet?ing the?ory pro?posed that grid cells use rhyth?mic activ?ity pat?terns, or oscil?la?tions, which can be thought of as many fast clocks tick?ing in syn?chrony, to cal?cu?late where ani?mals are located. Although the Prince?ton researchers detected rhyth?mic activ?ity inside most neu?rons, the activ?ity pat?terns did not appear to par?tic?i?pate in posi?tion calculations.

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'Wave after wave of snow' to hit New England hard

By Matthew DeLuca and Erin McClam, NBC News

A winter storm was expected to bring up to a foot of snow to parts of New England on Friday.

Forecasters said Boston could get up to 6 inches of snow and New York as much as 3 inches. Interior Massachusetts could be hit harder ? up to 12 inches.

The system was expected to hang out through Saturday morning.

"We are watching a conveyor belt of wave after wave of snow coming in over the Atlantic," Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service told the AP. "The morning commute will definitely be a challenge," he added, especially for those headed into Boston from the south.

NBC Connecticut warned that "isolated power outages are possible from the combination of wet snow accumulating on trees and power lines and gusty winds."

"Late Friday into Friday night, the storm will finally shift out to sea with impacts limited to lingering breezy winds along the Northeast coast by Saturday morning," according to weather.com.

In some of the towns hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, residents are anxiously awaiting another storm to swing through. NBC's Ron Allen reports.

Parts of the Jersey shore, still struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, were dealing with a new bout of flooding on Thursday.?

Pounding surf broke through a temporary dune in Mantoloking during the early-morning high tide, sending?water flowing onto a section of Route 35, which was closed for several hours.

New Jersey's Department of Transportation, Mantoloking's public works crews and contractors on Thursday were scooping and pushing sand back into the breach.

"They're trying to keep the dune system intact," Police Chief Mark Wright told the AP.?

Other shore towns also had trouble with flooding, including Sea Bright, where firefighters put out a blaze in a vacant commercial building sparked by a downed power line.

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Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast in Scituate, Mass., on Thursday.

Along the Massachusetts coast, which was hammered by a blizzard four weeks ago, people braced for surging seas. Homeowners were encouraged to evacuate. Photos showed two-story-high waves crashing against seawalls.

?We still have remnants of the last storm in the yard,? Paula Polasky, who lives in the coastal town of Scituate, told NBC station WHDH in Boston before packing up and leaving. ?I?m not going to take any chances this time.?

Parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio woke up to as much as 6 inches of snow Thursday, with the possibility of more in the Philadelphia suburbs into Friday, NBC Philadelphia reported.

The system was a no-show in Washington, where predictions of the worst snowfall in two years came to nothing more than a slushy annoyance. It was far more impressive to the west: Parts of Virginia got 20 inches of snow.

People in the nation's capital didn?t even need to break out snow shovels after the storm left only a scattering of flakes.

Federal offices closed, schools were shut and Congress postponed hearings on Wednesday as the city braced for what people online dubbed Snowquester, after the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester.

?They just say that it might snow and the whole city shuts down,? Sheri Sable told The Associated Press as she walked her dogs in a slight drizzle in Washington on Thursday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A storm system stretching from the Dakotas to the Florida Panhandle is predicted to bring snow to the mid-Atlantic states.

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Gano Excel - Criminal Felony Charges Against CEO Leow Sun ...

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Public Ministry Office
Criminal Prosecutor Twenty First Province of Lima
Complaint No. 643-2012
NOTIFICATION OF RULING
Attention: FERNANDO IVAN FLORES ZUNIGA. Legal Representative of ZAPATA S.A.
Address : JIRON MONTERREY N? 341. OFICINA 1002. CHACARILLA.
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Date: 29 th day of January 2013
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?You are herewith notified of the Public Ministry?s ruling in the complaint filed against LEOW SUN SENG and other responsible parties regarding alleged crimes committed against company assets: 1) Fraudulent misappropriation of equity in the administration of a legal entity; and 2) Criminal conspiracy committed against the Public Good. In compliance with the law, a copy of the ruling is attached.? Public Ministry Office Criminal Prosecutor Twenty First Province of Lima January 29, 2013 RE: Complaint: 643-2012 LET IT BE KNOWN:
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In the complaint filed by Zapala S.A., a Panamanian corporation registered in the Public Registry of Panama, represented by Ivan Flores Fernando Zu?iga, against LEOW SUN SENG and other responsible parties, for the alleged commission of crime against company assets: 1) Fraudulent misappropriation of equity in the administration of a legal entity; and 2) Criminal conspiracy committed against the Public Good.

FINDINGS:
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Defendant LEOW SUN SENG, Malaysian citizen with passport Number A24778610, residing in: No 3, Susuran Shabab Shabab Perdana, Lebuhraya Sultanah Baniyah, 05150 Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia, and with registered address in Panama being Calle Aquilino de Ia Guardia No. 8, IGRA Building, PO Box 0823-02435, Panama, Panama, is the agent of record for GANO EXCEL SAC a Peruvian business entity founded in 2006 and dedicated to the importation, distribution, wholesaling and retailing of coffee combined with "ganoderma lucidum", natural or synthetic, through multilevel marketing, Unilaterally, without authorization and / or power of attorney, LEOW SUN SENG transferred, on November 14 th of 2010, 432 of the 437 shares issued to Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC by sister company GANO EXCEL SA (a Colombian business entity) to GANO RISING CORP (a Panamanian business entity), owned by LEOW SUN SENG.

Doing so without proper notice or the necessary authority to take such action constitutes an act of conspiracy against the greater good of Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC shareholders, in that to date LEOW SUN SENG has failed to reinstate the shares illicitly misappropriated and transferred to GANO RISING CORP. As a result of LEOW SUN SENG?s actions, the Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC went from holding 88% of the shares issued by Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA, to holding 1% of the shares. LEOW SUN SENG?s unauthorized transfer was further done without remuneration to shareholders at market value, so shares were transferred well below face value.?

Once the shares in Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA were transferred to GANO RISING CORP, LEOW SUN SENG began to hire Malaysian staff in the Colombian entity in order to strategically place them in key positions where they were provided with a number of questionable benefits used to justify the withdrawal of cash from the company. Also the defendant LEOW SUN SENG had Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA sign a false trademark license agreement with yet another company belonging to the accused LEOW SUN SENG identified as GANO EXCEL INDUSTRIAS OF BRUNEI, by which the Brunei entity licensed the trademarked GANO EXCEL brand to the Colombian entity so they
could claim the right to market the GANO EXCEL branded products in Colombia without proper approval of the Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC which holds title to those rights.
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The Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC was deceived by LEOW SUN SENG who committed fraud by never informing the shareholders of the Peruvian entity of his actions and abused his authority as its legal agent by failing to act in the best interests of the Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA. As for the crime of fraud and misappropriation of equity in the administration of a legal entity, LEOW SUN SENG abused his status as legal agent with the sole intent of harming
the aggrieved Colombian entity by obtaining cash benefits surreptitiously. Finally, regarding criminal conspiracy, it is evident that to commit these criminal acts, the accused acted in collusion with third parties. His actions were organized and structured to achieve his purpose, which was none other than to transfer assets from the aggrieved Peruvian entity into the Colombian entity where he simultaneously assumed control while acting as agent.

LEGAL?PRECEDENCE

First: Constitutional Law. The Constitutional Court?s ruling of Article 159, subsection 1 of the Peruvian Constitution, File Number 6167-2005-PHC/TC, dated February 28, 2006, charges the Public Ministry?s Office with responsibility to prosecute ex officio or upon request and take any legal action necessary to protect the rights and interests of the public. Also, in item 5) of this same Constitutional Article, the Public Ministry?s office is charged with prosecuting criminal acts ex officio or upon request. Therefore, the Criminal Prosecutor of the Public Ministry is charged with taking legal action once a criminal complaint becomes known and with bringing said action before the criminal court when deemed appropriate, according to the constitutional law that established and governs the Public Ministry?s office and was approved by Legislative Decree Number 2.

Second: Jurisdiction. The sovereignty of the State, understood here as the ability to effectively impose a criminal penalty for the realization of a crime, is limited to the geographic territory in which that State is located. For this reason, contemporary legislation, must consider jurisdictional application of criminal law to determine which criminal laws shall be adjudicated within that territory. Jurisdictional law dictates that Peruvian criminal law is applicable to all criminal
infractions committed within the national territory, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator or the nature of legal interests.

According to Article 1 of the Criminal Code: "Peruvian Criminal Law applies to anyone who commits a punishable offense within the territory of the Republic, subject to exceptions delineated in international rules of law. Sovereign jurisdiction also applies to punishable offenses committed in: 1) Publicly owned transportation, whether by land, sea or air, wherever they may be located, and 2) Privately operated transportation by land, sea or air, where no other state exercises sovereign jurisdiction".

Third: Application. Upon preliminary evaluation of the case, we find that the alleged criminal actions of LEOW SUN SENG took place outside of Peruvian jurisdiction since LEOW SUN SENG, is a foreign citizen of Malaysian nationality
who, without authorization of the Peruvian entity GANO EXCEL SAC, transferred shares of the Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA, constituted in Colombia in 2009, to the Panamanian entity GANO RISING CORP which the defendant
owns. LEOW SUN SENG is also accused of hiring Malaysian staff in the Colombian entity GANO EXCEL SA, in order to justify withdrawals from company funds. Since there is no evidence whatsoever on record to infer that these criminal actions took place inside Peruvian sovereign jurisdiction, especially when the transfer of shares went to yet another foreign entity owned by the accused, therefore according to Article 1 which governs sovereign jurisdiction, the Peruvian Penal Code does not apply.

Fourth: Exceptions. Notwithstanding the precedent mentioned above, Article 2 of the Penal Code provides for exceptions to sovereign jurisdiction, allowing the Peruvian Penal Code to prosecute certain offenses and injurious behaviors
committed outside the territory when these offenses break Peruvian law as outlined in Section 2 of the Penal Code which justify the punishment of acts not covered by sovereign jurisdiction. These rules of sovereign jurisdiction consider
whether an infraction is Active or Passive. Sovereign Jurisdiction, Active/Passive Test

"The Peruvian Criminal Law applies to any offense committed abroad when:
1. The perpetrator is a government official or public servant in discharge of their public duties; 2. The infraction threatens the security or the public peace or constitutes acts described by treaties as money laundering, or other infractions that may circumvent the laws and interests of the Republic 3. The infraction threatens national security, interferes with constitutional order of the government or economic order; 4. The infraction was perpetrated against or by a Peruvian citizen when said crime is subject to extradition under Peruvian law, and when said crime is also punishable in the jurisdiction where it was committed if and when the perpetrator enters the sovereign jurisdiction of the Republic; 5. Peru is obliged by international treaty to prosecute punishable offences. Fifth: Analysis. As mentioned previously and having made the respective analysis in the present case to determine whether it is possible to justify the punishment of acts not covered by jurisdictional principle, as required by Article 2 of the Penal Code.

We determine the following:? 1, Accused LEOW SUN SENG is not a Peruvian citizen charged with acts made while performing duties as a government official or public servant. It is understood that it is in the State?s interest to monitor the proper execution of public duties by government officials and public servants who perform their duties abroad, such that crimes committed within this context shall be punishable under Peruvian criminal law

2. The allegations made are not deemed to threaten the public good or security, nor is the offense related to money laundering or misappropriation of legal assets in a collective nature. Although one of the offenses is criminal conspiracy which legally threatens the public good, according to Article 317 of the Penal Code, criminal conspiracy occurs when two or more people conspire to commit a criminal act. The illicit setting required to legally define the existence of criminal
conspiracy is that a group, formed by agreement or pact between two or more people, is created in order to commit crimes. This agreement may be explicit or implicit. When conspiracy is explicit there is a clear expression of will by participants. When conspiracy is implicit, participants? commit a number of crimes in union as demonstrated by various other criminal proceedings. The requirements for conspiracy are not met in the present case. Although the
accused LEOW SUN SENG conspired with others in an organized and structured way to achieve their joint purpose, LEOW SUN SENG is not charged with belonging to or being included in any unlawful group whose sole purpose is to
commit crimes.

Furthermore, there is no supporting evidence of conspiracy. Furthermore, according to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the Criminal Code, acts of conspiracy must result in wrongful acts against the public good to establish jurisdiction in Peruvian territory. Nevertheless, the results of the crime committed should not be viewed as typical, due to the disturbing detrimental consequences associated with a legally protected good.

3. According to the statement of facts, the State is not aggrieved, nor is there any threat to national security, rule of government, constitutional order, economic order and no publicly owned assets have been harmed.

4. Another precedent demanded by Peruvian criminal code: in order for criminal law to be enforced with regard to criminal acts committed abroad, said acts must be perpetrated against or by a Peruvian citizen wherein the infraction is deemed susceptible to extradition under Peruvian law, and is also deemed punishable in the sovereign jurisdiction where it was committed, and wherein the perpetrator has entered the territory of the Republic. This requirement does not apply.

However, let it be noted that according to the passive principle of jurisdiction, offenses deemed punishable by Peruvian criminal law committed by Peruvians abroad or against Peruvians abroad, the Peruvian state must have a factual
possibility of successfully prosecuting and convicting the perpetrator who committed said crime. If the accused is not found in the national territory, given the intent of the principles of jurisdiction, it is logical that the sovereign jurisdiction of the State in which the crime was committed should apply and said State should process and procedure punishment of the crime.

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UN calls for clampdown on illegal wildlife trade

BANGKOK (AP) ? The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency warned Sunday, calling it a multibillion-dollar criminal business that is threatening to wipe out some of the planet's most iconic species.

Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, made the call during the opening meeting of the 178-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok. He cited the massive upsurge in poaching of Africa's endangered elephants and rhinos, whose slaughter ? the worst in two decades ? is being driven by rising demand in Asia for their tusks and horns.

"The backdrop against which this meeting takes place should be a very serious wakeup call for all of us," Steiner told some 2,000 delegates assembled at a convention center in the Thai capital.

Wildlife trafficking "in a terrible way has become a trade and a business of enormous proportions ? a billion-dollar trade in wildlife species that is analogous to that of the trade in drugs and arms," Steiner said. "This is not a small matter. It is driven by a conglomerate of crime syndicates across borders."

Slowing the slaughter of African elephants and curbing the trade in "blood ivory" will be at the top of the agenda during the global biodiversity conference, which lasts two weeks. Around 70 proposals are on the table, most of which will decide whether member nations increase or lower the level of protection on various species. These include polar bears, rays and sharks that are heavily fished for shark fin soup.

There are proposals, too, to regulate 200 commercially valuable timber species ? half from Madagascar ? and ban their trade unless it can be shown they were harvested legally and sustainably.

Steiner said up to 90 percent of the world's timber trade is illegal, a business worth at least $30 billion per year.

Prior to the establishment of CITES in 1973, there was no international regulation of the cross-border trade in wildlife. Most of the agreements regulating the 35,000 animals under CITES' purview aim not to outlaw trade, but to ensure it remains sustainable.

One of the convention's success stories since then has been the African rhino, which numbered just 2,000 four decades ago. The population swelled to 25,000, but over the last five years poaching has skyrocketed again. Last year, 668 rhinos were killed in South Africa alone. As with the elephant crisis, the culprit is largely demand from Asia, where their horns are highly desired because they are believed to have medicinal properties.

CITES Director-General John Scanlon said the slaughter of African elephants and rhinos was at its worst in decades, a level that "could threaten the survival of the species themselves." He blamed poachers, rebel militias and mafia-like crime syndicates that smuggle animal parts across borders.

"This criminal activity poses a serious threat to the stability and economies of these countries. It also robs these countries of their natural heritage, their culture heritage, and it undermines good governance and the rule of law," Scanlon said. "These criminals must be stopped, and we need to prepare to deploy the sorts of techniques that are used to combat the trade in narcotics to do so."

"We know the way. We now need the collective will," Scanlon said. "Right here, right now in Bangkok is when we must come together to turn the tables on serious wildlife crime."

CITES banned all international ivory trade in 1989. But the ban never addressed domestic markets like the one in Thailand, where it remains legal as long as only ivory from domesticated elephants is bought and sold.

The problem, conservation groups say, is that African ivory is being smuggled into Thailand and mixed with legal stocks ? thus fueling demand from Africa. The wildlife monitoring network TRAFFIC says Thailand is one of the world's top destinations for smuggled ivory ? second only to China.

As host of the CITES meeting, Thailand has been under particular pressure to act. On Sunday, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra vowed her country would amend "national legislation with the goal of putting an end (to the) ivory trade and to be in line with international norms."

It wasn't clear, however, whether she intended to push for her country's domestic trade to be outlawed.

Theerapat Prayurasiddhi, deputy director general of Thailand's department of parks and wildlife, told The Associated Press that there presently were plans to end the domestic trade, but that authorities were stepping up measures to make sure African ivory does not enter Thai markets.

He said Thai authorities hoped to get national laws amended to add African elephants onto Thailand's own lists of protected species, a move that would allow law enforcement to impose higher fines and harsher jail terms on smugglers.

Theerapat also said that all ivory vendors would have to register and declare their stocks, and that domesticated and some wild Thai elephants would be identified and registered in a nationwide DNA database to track them.

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Google Hangouts receive sign language interpreter support, keyboard shortcuts

Video chat can be an empowering tool for hard-of-hearing internet citizens for whom sign language is easier than voice. Most chat software doesn't easily bring an interpreter into the equation, however, which spurred Google into adding a Sign Language Interpreter app for Google+ Hangouts. The web component lets chatters invite an interpreter that stays in the background while they verbalize hand gestures. Google is also helping reduce dependencies on the mouse for those who can't (or just won't) use one during chat: there's now keyboard shortcuts to start or stop chats, disable the camera and other basics that would normally demand a click. Both the interpreter app and shortcuts are available today.

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Employees Sue Union in Asbestos Case | Mesothelioma Survival Rate

An employees? group is suing Union Pacific in an asbestos-related case. The suit claims that the plaintiffs developed asbestos-linked lung diseases because of their exposure to the substance for several decades.

Henry Buckley, Ronald Morale, Gilbert Curtis, Walter Williams, and Jesse Sasser are the plaintiffs who have filed lawsuit against the railroad company Union Pacific on 21st January in a federal court in Texas.

According to the suit, the claimants were working as track laborers with the railroad company from different times beginning from 1969 until 2012. The workers argue that they were regularly exposed to toxic asbestos and materials containing asbestos all through their employment with the company. Because of this exposure, they all contracted a lung disease, according to the complaint.

The employees group says Union Pacific were negligent in exposing them to the dangerous carcinogen. The company is accused of: Using materials containing asbestos for several decades even though it was aware of the hazardous and/or harmful features of the substance; failing to properly inspect and remove the company?s equipment and cars for asbestos presence; failing to provide warnings to the plaintiffs about asbestos presence or about the risks of asbestos exposure coupled with smoking; failing to adequately train its employees; failing to give the workers quality respirators; failing to carry out air monitoring for finding out the levels of airborne asbestos fibers; failing to offer the workers comprehensive medical checkups; and failing to monitor the workers medically for asbestos-related issues.

According to experts, there is nothing like safe levels of asbestos exposure. Asbestos exposure can be dangerous even in very low levels. Asbestos exposure is especially dangerous when it combines with smoking. Inhalation of the tiny fibers of asbestos could result in devastating diseases like lung cancer and asbestosis. So far, the only known reason for mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of cancer, is the exposure to asbestos fibers. In spite of all these horrifying features of asbestos, it was once widely used in various industrial and construction purposes because of its low cost and good qualities like insulating properties.

The suit is asking for compensation for medical costs, physical pain, mental anguish, cancer concerns and physical impairment. The plaintiffs are also seeking interest and legal costs. They are
requesting a jury trial to resolve the issues. A Houston law firm is representing the plaintiffs.

Ron Clark, the Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, will preside over the case.

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HBT: Simmons' big day pushes Dutch past Korea

After defending champion Japan barely survived Brazil?s upset bid, South Korea was dealt quite a blow in its attempt to return to the World Baseball Classic finals, losing to The Netherlands 5-0 in Pool B play.

Diegomar Markwell, Orlando Yntema, Leon Boyd and Mark Pawelek combined on the shutout for the Dutch. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons went 3-for-5 with two doubled from the leadoff spot, and Andrew Jones went 2-for-4 with a double as the DH.

Korea played an uncharacteristically sloppy game, committing four errors. The team also collected just four hits, all of them singles.

While The Netherlands has a nice lineup ? the team also features Nationals outfielder Roger Bernadina, Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien and top Red Sox prospect Xander Bogaerts ? pitching figured to be its undoing. Korea, though, could get no handle on today?s journeymen, none of whom are employed by major league clubs. The 32-year-old Markwell pitched in the Blue Jays system from 1997-2003, going 5-7 with a 7.04 ERA in Double-A his final season. Pawelek was a 2005 first-round pick of the Cubs, but he never made it past A ball in the Cubs or Reds systems.

Korea will now likely have to come back and beat both Chinese Taipei and Australia in order to advance in the WBC. The Netherlands will be aiming to go to the second round for the second straight tournament. In 2009, the Dutch advanced on a tiebreaker as one of three Pool D teams to go 1-2.

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