Sapulpa coach arrested on child porn

An assistant Sapulpa softball coach is in police custody and has been relieved of his duties after a video recording device in the girls' locker room was traced back to him.

Howard Harjo, 54, faces a charge of child pornography and use of photographic, electronic or video equipment in a clandestine manner, 2News has learned.? Harjo was arrested around 8:30 Wednesday night.

Police say an employee found the recording device in a locker room trash can Wednesday. A search warrant of his home accrued additional evidence.

Harjo admitted to filming the girls, according to Sapulpa Police. He had coached for the school since 2008.

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PST: Did Spain cement itself as Group C's best?

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Group C ?Power? Rankings

Sorting through the group dynamic, for whatever that?s worth.

1. Spain -?Fernando Torres as a force multiplier? Perhaps, though I don?t?really know what a force?multiplier?is (and military analogies scare me out of my moccasins). Not only was Torres the focal point Spain?s attack needed, but if he continues to produce, they may be the tournament?s favorites.

2. Italy - Their first half against Croatia hinted the team could contend for the title. The second half showed you can change the coach, you can change the players, but you can?t change Italy?s satisfaction with a 1-0 lead.

3. Croatia - If somebody ranked them number two, ahead of Italy, I wouldn?t waste a second of my life worrying about it. The teams played each other to a stand-still. It wouldn?t be shocking to see both teams finish on five points.

4. Ireland - But the fans are top of the supporters power rankings.

Crystal Ball: What Needs to Happen Next Round

Group C resumes play Monday, with both matches kicking off simultaneously

Spain vs. Croatia

If Fernando Torres merely shows up, Croatia?s central defense is in trouble. If he plays like he did on Thursday, Vedran Corluka and Gordon Schildenfeld are toast. They?re the worst central defense pairing in the tournament, they don?t play behind a Dutch-esque two-man shield, and Spain almost exclusively attacks down the middle. This should be sufficiently ugly.

At the other end, it will be interesting to see how Vicente Del Bosque deals with Slaven Bilic?s two-forward set up. Against Ireland, his fullbacks were released knowing the Republic uses only one forward. Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique could be left alone. Against Croatia, expect defensive midfielder Sergio Busquets to help keep the man advantage against Nikica Jelavic and Mario Mandzukic.

Italy vs. Ireland

As bad as Ireland looked today, they match up well against Italy. The Italians are at their best when opponents come after them. That?s not going to happen against Ireland. In addition, Italy doesn?t possess a passing game like Spain?s, and they lack the type of target men Croatia used to score on Sunday.

Another approach: Try to generate as many chances as possible. Eventually, one will find net. At least, that?s what happened for France against England. Daniele de Rossi being able to help in the attacking phase (with Ireland only using one forward) can?t hurt.

For Ireland, the two big questions concern motivation and adaptation. Will Ireland be at their best when all they?re playing for is pride? And will Trapattoni finally change things up, having been outscored one-to-seven through two matches.

PST?s Euro 2010 ?More Powerful? Rankings

Taking a long term look, toward teams? title hopes

1. Germany (-) ? With one day?s perspective, we might have given Germany too much credit for their win over the Netherlands. It?s entire possible the Dutch are quite bad.
2. Spain (-) ? Yesterday we said Germany are clear favorites. Not so clear anymore.

3. Italy (-) ? I have them at three, the strength they?ve shown at their best drawing my eye. Others might rank them as low as seven.
4. Russia (-) ? Their high points are arguably as strong as Italy?s, just against weaker competition.
5. France (-) ? Les Bleus get to make their case tomorrow against Ukraine.
6. Croatia (+1) ? Their defense is just too poor to rank higher.

7. Portugal (-1)
8. England (-)

? and PST?s Player of the Tournament Wunderlist

1. Alan Dzagoev, Russia
2. Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine
3. Andres Iniesta, Spain
4. Andrea Pirlo, Italy
5. Mario G?mez, Germany
6. Daniele de Rossi, Italy
7. Andrei Arshavin, Russia
8. Mesut Ozil, Germany
9. Fabio Coentr?o, Portugal
10. Xavi Hernandez, Spain

ProSoccerTalk is doing its best to keep you up to date on what?s going on in Poland and Ukraine.?Check out the site?s Euro 2012 page?and look at the site?s previews, predictions, and coverage of all the events defining UEFA?s championship.

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Gruesome photos put spotlight on China?s one-child policy

Family photo

Photos of Feng Jianmei on her hospital bed after a forced abortion have been circulating on the web. The photos were taken by her sister who in turn contacted the media about the story. The photos originally appeared in a local newspaper report online and then they were picked by netizens and distributed online.

By Bo Gu, NBC News

BEIJING ? Feng Jianmei? says she was manhandled by seven people, some of them local family planning officials, some of whom she didn?t know.?

Feng, 22 years old and seven months pregnant, was dragged out of her relative?s home, carried and shoved into a van that headed straight to a hospital on June 2, she told NBC News in phone interview.

She was blindfolded, thrown on a bed, and forced to sign a document that she couldn?t read with the blindfold still on her eyes. Then two shots were injected into her belly. Thirty hours later, on the morning June 4, she gave birth to a dead baby girl.

Feng is one of the many Chinese women who have been forced to have abortions under China?s strict one-child-only policy started in late 1970s to contain the country?s fast growing population, which has now topped 1.3 billion people.


One-child policy
China?s long time Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong originally encouraged women to have as many children as possible during the Cold War-era when human power was believed to be an important force if war broke out. But the country?s rulers soon found it too difficult to feed the huge population ? so they adopted a harsh policy that allows urban citizens to have only one child, and rural couples to have two, if the first child is a girl. ?

The policy has been carried out for more than three decades despite public opposition, from human rights activists to ordinary people. Thousands of years of Chinese culture fostered the belief that ?more children is more blessing,? especially in remote and rural areas where the elderly lack adequate social benefits and depend on children as they grow old.

Government family planning officials are also under pressure to make sure their constituencies follow the quota of babies allowed. When there?s no clear law telling them what they can and cannot do, forced abortions, often on late-terms pregnancies, have become the norm, particularly for the poor who are unable to pay the hefty fines to have additional children. ??

Advocates on behalf of these women are usually ignored or face government repression. For example, Chen Guangcheng, the famous blind lawyer and human rights activist, represented victims of family planning abuse in Shandong Province. Chen was jailed for four years for his advocacy and put under house arrest until he recently escaped illegal detainment and fled to the U.S. last?month.

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There are no official figures of how many women in China unwillingly terminate pregnancies every year. ?All Girls Allowed,? an organized founded by former 1989 student protest leader Chai Ling, claims there are 1.3 million forced abortions annually.?

?How can I agree to do that, as a mother??
Feng Jianmei didn?t realize she wasn?t allowed to have a second child (her first daughter was born in 2007) since everyone else around her was permitted to have a second child. Both she and her husband Deng Jiyuan took for granted that they would have the same right.? But the family planning office in Zengjiazhen, a small town in Shaanxi province in the heart of China, thought differently. ?

Through a rigorous and rigid household registration system designed to control population movement, the central government classifies all its citizens as either city dwellers or rural peasants.? The registration, also known in Chinese as hukou, determines not only a citizen?s residence but also what kind of?social services individuals are eligible for.

It is very difficult to change one?s hukou although there are many ways, including marrying a person with a different registration status, applying for a new status through one?s job, or paying an enormous sum of money.?

The local family planning office decided that Feng wasn?t allowed to have a second child because she didn?t have the necessary permit ? apparently she had failed to relocate her hukou to Zengjiazhen when she moved from her original province of Inner Mongolia.

But the couple says they had no idea their plan to have a second child was connected with Feng?s hukou.

They were given another option that would solve the problem: pay a fine of $6,400. But that was an impossible amount for the couple to afford ? Deng is a migrant worker and Feng is a farmer.?

?I told you, $6,400, not even a penny less. I told your dad that and he said he has no money,? the family planning official wrote to Deng in a text message that has been made public. ?You were too careless, you didn?t think this was a big deal.?

Feng?s sister received the same warning;? if they couldn?t afford to help pay the fine, it was only a matter of time before her sister had to get rid of the baby, whether she wanted to or not.

Things came to a head on June 2, but according to the local government, Feng agreed to the abortion.

The Zhenping Population and Family Planning Bureau released on June 11 an official stamped document, which says ?that ?after government cadre?s repeated persuasion, Feng Jianmei agreed to have an abortion at 15:40 on June 2.??

?No, I didn?t agree to do it,? Feng told NBC News. ?How can I agree to do that, as a mother??

She sobbed when asked what happened next, and said she was too upset to think about it. She said all those officials who kidnapped her disappeared after the abortion, and she?s still suffering from a constant headache.

Two appalling photos of her were taken and posted online that show her lying in bed, looking weak and helpless, with a dead and bloody baby next to her. The photos were taken by her sister who in turn contacted the media about the story. The photos originally appeared in a local newspaper report online and then they were picked by netizens and distributed online.

?If this evil policy is not stopped, this country will have no humanity?
Forced abortions in China are not new, but Feng?s story spread rapidly via social media, and outrage was immediate and unanimous. On Weibo, China?s Twitter-like microblogging site, netizens left thousands of angry comments, although many of the posts were quickly deleted by government censors.???

?The purpose of family planning was to control population, but now it has become murder population,? wrote Li Chengpeng, a well-known Chinese writer. ?It was a method to contain population, but now it is a way to make money. When you can make money by killing, what else are you afraid to do? A seven-month baby can think already. I want to ask the murderer, how do you face your own mother when you go home? If this evil policy is not stopped, this country will have no humanity.?

Zhao Chu, another writer, called it pure murder. ?This is not about enforcing the policy, it is about depriving someone?s right to live. We avoid the nature of it by using a medical word ?enforced abortion.? For so long family planning seems like something completely irrelevant of human life. It?s like coal mining or digging mushrooms. Human life has become lifeless indexes, some cold, meaningless numbers.

?Also, pushed by heavy fines, the controversial policy has become profit-oriented activities that everyone hates. The worst victims are those of low-class rural people who have no power to fight. Their tears and cries are not heard by so called mainstream society and the victims become worse than the untouchables,? said Zhao.

Many called for the one-child policy to be outlawed. ?We feel so sorry for the dead baby girl, we criticize those so-called law enforcers. But we should rethink the 30-year-long family planning policy. It?d be worth it if this could help to change the policy! We keep our eyes open!? commented user A-Kun on his Weibo page.

Even Hu Xijin, chief editor of Global Times, one of China?s most pro-government newspapers, criticized the forced abortion on his Weibo account.

?I strongly oppose the barbarous forced abortion to this 7-month-pregnant mother. Time has changed and the intensity of enforcing family planning has changed. We should promote civilized family planning,? Hu wrote.

But he added that he didn?t think the whole policy should be abolished. ?Don?t use Hong Kong and Japan as an argument to deny China?s population policy. Those places are small and developed early, fed by the whole world?s resources. But the world resources cannot afford to feed a China with billions of people.?

?This has damaged the image of family planning work?
NBC News tried to contact both town and city level family planning offices in Zengjiazhen and Ankang, but the calls went unanswered. ?

A report from Xinhua, China?s official government news agency, released on Thursday said that the Shaanxi Provincial Family Planning Committee has sent an investigation team to Zengjiazhen and requested local government to have the responsible parties held accountable.

?This has damaged the image of family planning work, and had an adverse effect on the society. The committee will resolutely prevent such things from happening again,? the Xinhua news report said.

Feng?s conversation with NBC News was interrupted three times by what she said were government cadres entering her hospital ward to talk.

When asked what she would do next or whether they will seek legal help, she uttered an answer in a very low voice: ?I have no idea.??

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Cave art sparks a Neanderthal mystery

Rodrigo De Balbin Behrmann

A researcher from the University of Bristol removes samples from Tito Bustillo Cave in Spain. The stalactite is painted with a red figure that dates back 29,000 to 36,000 years.

By Alan Boyle

When archaeologists tried out a new technique to determine the age of Spain's most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, they were surprised to discover that the paintings were thousands of years older than previously thought?? so old that it's conceivable they were painted by Neanderthals.

The technique just might change the way we think about the paintings, and the way we think about our long-extinct, long-maligned Neanderthal cousins as well.?

"Neanderthals, of course, have had this bad press for a long time," the University of Barcelona's Joao Zilhao, a member of the research team, told reporters. "But the research developments over the last decade have shown that this is probably not deserved."


The findings being reported today represent just an initial step in an "ongoing program" to date hundreds of European cave paintings more accurately, said the University of Bristol's Alistair Pike, lead author of a paper published in the journal Science. It's still too early to say conclusively whether Neanderthals were behind at least some of the artistry. However, Pike and his colleagues are confident that the earliest paintings go back at least 40,800 years. That time frame matches up with the earliest evidence of the presence of anatomically modern humans in Europe. It's also thousands of years earlier than the previously accepted maximum age, based on carbon dating.

"We were not expecting these results," Zilhao said. "When we put this project together, the idea was to improve the chronology of rock art, and particularly in the case of Spain."

Penn State archaeologist Dean Snow, who wasn't part of the research team but has worked on some of the same cave paintings that were recently put to the test, was impressed by the results. "The basic findings are the sorts of things you could take to the bank," he told me.?But he also acknowledged that the latest findings produce "three or four new problems that we didn't have before."

"Now, with these older dates, we have to entertain the possibility that there might have been some Neanderthal involvement in some of these paintings," Snow said. "We've never really seriously considered that before."

Pedro Saura

Hand stencils and the outlines of animals dominate "The Panel of Hands" in Spain's El Castillo cave. One of the stencils has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago, and a red disk goes back at least 40,800 years, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe.

Rodrigo De Balbin Behrmann

Six-foot (2-meter) paintings of horses in Spain's Tito Bustillo Cave overlay earlier red paintings that, from dating elsewhere in the cave, might be older than 29,000 years.

How the tests were done
The tests were conducted on 50 Paleolithic paintings in 11 Spanish caves, including the famous pictures of horses and human hands at the Altamira and El Castillo caves. In the past, the paintings have been dated using radiocarbon tests, but Pike's team used a different technique that analyzed the proportions of uranium, thorium and related elements in the calcite deposits that formed above and below the paintings. Those proportions vary over time, due to radioactive decay, and can tell you how long it's been since the calcite was formed.

That's an interesting approach for several reasons: First, the scientists don't have to depend on getting a reading from the paint itself, which may be contaminated or may not even be amenable to carbon dating. Also, the calcite deposits are scraped away, using a knife or a drill, until the pigment just begins to appear beneath it. "That does two things," Pike explained. "It means we stop before we damage the painting, and secondly it proves to us and our audience that these things are directly above the art itself."

The scientists can thus be confident that the age they get will be the minimum age for the artwork. In some cases, the scientists could sample flowstone deposits beneath the layer of paint to get a maximum age as well.

The tests took advantage of the state of the art in mass spectrometry, which means the scientists didn't require much of a sample. The scrapings amounted to as little as 10 milligrams, which is about the weight of a grain of rice. "Perhaps 20 years ago, we would have needed a whole gram of material, and now we need one-hundredth of that size," Pike said.

That minimizes the impact on the caves, which is a sensitive topic for the officials in charge of the caves.?"Getting permission to work in a cave is really difficult," Snow explained. "The bureaucratic and political difficulties of getting this work done are substantial."

Pike and his colleagues pioneered this process years ago, in a project aimed at verifying the dates for 12,800-year-old cave engravings in England's Creswell Crags, but the tests reported today represent the highest-profile application of what's known as uranium-series disequilibrium dating.

What the tests found
The uranium tests, like previous radiocarbon tests, showed that there was wide variation in the age of the paintings. The El Castillo paintings yielded a time frame stretching from 22,600 years ago all the way back to at least 40,800 years ago. That farthest-back age is particularly telling. Previously, archaeologists had thought the paintings went back to about 38,000 years. The new tests push the age back to near the time when modern humans were first thought to have inhabited the area, around 42,000 years ago.

Pike said that raises three scenarios: El Castillo's modern humans might have developed their cave-painting skills during their migration out of Africa, and put it to use when they arrived in Europe. After all, communities of Homo sapiens who lived in Africa and the Near East showed evidence of artistic behavior going back as far as 75,000 to 100,000 years. Another possibility is that humans started painting cave walls soon after their arrival in Europe ? perhaps as the result of cultural competition with the native Neanderthals, who are known to have inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago. Or the Neanderthals themselves could have created the first paintings, and Homo sapiens picked up the artistic habit while Homo neanderthalensis faded away.

Pedro Saura

The "Corredor de los Puntos" lies within Spain's El Castillo cave. Red disks here have been dated to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago, and elsewhere in the cave to 40,800 years ago, making them examples of Europe's earliest cave art.

Zilhao said the Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens debate could shed light on the roots of our own culture. "Cave painting is of course one of the most exquisite examples of human symbolic behavior," he said. "And that's what makes us human."

Although cave art has not previously been linked to the Neanderthals, Zilhao pointed out that the past few years have provided ample evidence that the species had an artistic bent. In 2010, he led a research team and fellow researchers suggested that Neanderthal cave-dwellers wore ornaments and painted their bodies with mineral-based pigments. Other researchers have found a perforated bear bone that may or may not have been shaped as a flute for Neanderthals, as well as bird feathers that may have been used as Neanderthal ritual objects or fashion statements.

Pike et al. via Science

This hand stencil in Spain's El Castillo cave dates back at least 37,300 years, based on uranium-series testing, and could conceivably show a Neanderthal hand outline.

The researchers noted that the earliest paintings were not figurative works, but instead reflected simpler motifs such as dots, disks and lines. For example, the 40,800-year-old painting in the El Castillo cave was a large red disk, probably created by blowing pigment onto the rock surface. Nearby, there was the red outline of a hand, most likely made by placing the hand on the rock and blowing pigment over it. That stencil was found to be at least 37,300 years old.

"What's really exciting about the possibility that this is Neanderthal art is that anyone, because it's open to the public, can walk into El Castillo cave and they can see a Neanderthal hand on the wall," Pike said.

Just how possible is that?

"In probabilistic terms, I would say there is a strong chance that these results imply Neanderthal authorship," Zilhao said. "But I will not say we have proven it, because we haven't, and it cannot be proven at this time. It's just, you know, my gut feeling."

What lies ahead
Pike said further tests would show whether Zilhao's gut feeling was correct.

"I think it's a fairly straightforward thing to prove if they were painted by Neanderthals. ... All we have to do is go back and date more of these samples, and find a date that predates the arrival of modern humans in Europe," he told me.

The research team is currently concentrating on hand stencils and red disks, which appear to be the oldest types of cave paintings in Spain. If the minimum dates turn out to be significantly older than 42,000 years, that would be strong evidence that Neanderthals were involved, Pike said.

Snow said the big issue with uranium-series dating has to do with the accuracy of the process. "You've got to have measurement capabilities that are really, really precise," he said. "They can't tolerate anything like the kind of sloppiness and standard error that we had to tolerate in the past, using carbon dates."

He said it was a good sign that the research team ran multiple tests on succeeding layers of calcite and got back results that showed a consistent progression of dates. This suggests that uranium-series dating can go back to time frames where carbon dating becomes less reliable. "For the profession, part of the excitement is going to be that we've got some technologies that are going to be viable for sites in the 30,000- to 50,000-year range," Snow told me.

Zilhao said the research could eventually smash our stereotypical view of the Neanderthal tribe ??which died out more than 20,000 years ago. Scientists suspect that the Neanderthals fell victim to competition with us Homo sapiens types,?but they also have found that the species?contributed to our genetic heritage through interbreeding.

"This evidence is, at least to my mind, sufficient for us to think about Neanderthals as fundamentally human beings that were simply, if you want, racially distinct. This is quite visible in aspects of their skeletons," Zilhao said. "What will change with the demonstration, if it comes, that Neanderthals were also the first cave artists? I guess [it would be] corroboration of the already-existing evidence, and perhaps if you want a catchphrase, the last nail in the coffin of the notion of Neanderthals as the archetypal 'dumb.'"

Update for 9:30 p.m. ET: University of Arizona geochemist Warren Beck got back to me with his outside perspective on the uranium-series test, and in a word, he thinks it's an "improvement" on previous methods when it comes to figuring out the age of rock art. It doesn't render radiocarbon dating totally obsolete: If you're trying to nail down the chronology of a charcoal drawing on a cave wall, carbon dating is what you want. But if you're trying to determine the age of a painting left behind in red ochre, or if you're working with paintings that go back further than, say, 40,000 to 45,000 years, "this is the way to do it," Beck told me.

Beck thought Pike and his team took "a very conservative approach here." Because the samples were taken from calcite deposits that formed over the paint in the Spanish caves, the team could be significantly underestimating the actual ages of the paintings themselves. "They could be substantially older," Beck said. That's one of the reasons behind Zilhao's gut feeling about Neanderthal involvement.

A few of today's reports about the research have included skeptical comments from Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "There is no clear evidence of paintings associated with Neanderthal tools or fossils, so any such evidence would be surprising," Delson told The Associated Press' Seth Borenstein. He said his view was that Neanderthals were moving away from these caves around 41,000 years ago.

Delson told Reuters' Sharon Begley?that the oldest Homo sapiens in Europe "may date from 45,000 to 42,000 years ago. ... There is no need to hypothesize that Neanderthals created these paintings." Could further tests by Pike and his team change Delson's mind? "The evidence will become very straightforward if we have these dates of 45,000 years or so," Pike said. Which is another way of saying, "Stay tuned."?

More about ancient cave art:


In addition to Pike and Zilhao, the authors of "U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain" include D.L. Hoffmann, M. Garcia-Diez, P.B. Pettitt, J. Alcolea, R. De Balbin, C. Gonzalez-Sainz, C. de las Heras, J.A. Lasheras and R. Montes. The 11 caves that were sampled are Pedroses, Tito Bustillo, Las Aguas, Altamira, Santian, El Pendo, El Castillo, La Pasiega, Las Chimeneas, Covalanas and La Haza.

Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Mad Men, Season 5

It?s a pretty grim state of affairs. And yet, there were also wonderful moments of connection this season. Don?s chaste night out with Joan, in which he revives her spirits and confides his affection and respect for her. (And earlier, the tender exchange between Lane and Joan, in which he reassures her of her indispensability to the firm.) Don and Peggy?s run-in at the movies, unlikely as it may have been, in which Don seems at peace with the fact that his prot?g? has moved on, observing that this is the natural order of things, and wishing her well. (And surely taking some pride in the fact that his lesson about how to clear out the cobwebs stuck.) The scenes between Betty and her daughter after Sally gets her period?for all of Sally?s complaints about her mother, she still needs her in that moment, and Betty, for once, is there for her. We may all have to rely on ourselves in the end, but it doesn?t mean that we?re always alone. Colleagues, friends, and parents occasionally come through for these characters, often when they?re most in need, and these moments keep the series from getting too bleak. I?m grateful for that.

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US government sues to halt Florida purge of voter rolls

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Apple fends off Android challenge with maps, Siri

Apple says it is planning to rev up the software running its coveted gadgets, training its sights on the China market -- and tossing Google Maps aside in the process.

Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San francisco Monday to show off upgrades to the software running iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices including its own Siri-infused mapping technology and features tailored for Chinese users.

The hundreds of improvements in the iOS 6 mobile operating system due out before the end of the year come as Apple seeks to outdistance rivals powered by Google's Android software.

Apple chief Tim Cook kicked off the California company's annual WWDC by showing off new capabilities built into software for its hot-selling devices and slimmer, more powerful MacBook laptop computers.

Apple booted Google Maps from iOS 6, opening up another front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system.

Apple's new operating system for the iPhone and iPad includes "an entire new mapping solution from the ground up, and it is beautiful," Apple's Scott Forstall told the standing-room only crowd in San Francisco.

"We are doing all the cartography ourselves. We are covering the world."

Apple has "ingested hundreds of millions of business listings around the world," he added, and has integrated with the consumer review service Yelp for reviews and ratings.

Although Maps does little to generate revenues directly, it often links to searches for products and services such as restaurants or businesses.

"You can now do local search even in China," said Forstall, who added that an array of new iOS 6 features was tailored for that country.

Analysts say the Apple maps program could over time move iPhone and iPad users away from Google search and reduce revenues for the search giant.

"Make no mistake, with maps and some expanded Siri features, Apple is now in the search business," said analyst Greg Sterling on the technology blog Search Engine Land.

Google last week beefed up its maps program, which had been pre-installed on Apple devices.

Apple said that iOS 6 will also include a better-educated Siri personal assistant, which performs many of the search functions of Google.

"Siri has been out only eight months," Forstall said.

"In these eight months Siri has been studying up and learning a lot more."

Siri, which made its debut with the release of the iPhone 4S, will be extended to recent generation iPad tablet computers, according to Forstall.

Another improvement to the iOS will be to incorporate Facebook in the operating system.

"We have been working very closely with Facebook to create the best Facebook experience ever on a mobile device," Forstall said.

Apple also pulled back the curtain on slimmer, more powerful Macintosh laptops.

The move keeps Apple, which has been dominating the market for tablet computers like the iPad, in the game against a new line of slimmer laptops using Microsoft Windows or the Google Chrome operating system.

"Today we've updated the entire MacBook line with faster processors, graphics, memory, flash storage and USB 3 connectivity," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing.

The MacBook Air is as thin as 0.68 inches (1.7 centimeters) and weighs as little as 2.38 pounds (1.08 kilos). Its price starts at $999.

Improved models will see a boost in speed and memory and cost $100 less than previous versions.

The high-performance MacBook Pro will include the "Retina" display used on the new iPads, giving an extra high resolution screen.

"With a gorgeous Retina display, all flash architecture and a radically thin and light design, the new MacBook Pro is the most advanced Mac we have ever built," Cook said.

Prices start at $1,399.

The new MacBook Pro is "a screamer of a machine," according to Gartner analyst Van Baker.

"Apple is doing some amazing things with the notebook form factor," Baker said. "It is a shame to see Apple is the only notebook manufacturer doing innovation as opposed to driving costs down."

Improvements to the software powering Macintosh computers included dictation technology so that "wherever you can type you can now talk," according to Apple senior vice president of software Craig Federighi.

Apple was also "really improving our Chinese input method" with a better dictionary, special fonts for characters, and support for search engine Baidu and other major Internet services in that country, Federighi said.

"Get your apps ready for China," he told developers.

The new Mac operating system, called Mountain Lion, will be in new machines and available as an upgrade next month for a price of $20.

Equity Research managing director Trip Chowdhry summed up the Apple announcements as "nice refresh, but no breakthroughs."

"I'm totally impressed, mostly on the software side of things," said independent software developer Carlos Oliva, who traveled from his hometown on the Chilean coast to attend WWDC.

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