New GSA Book details Dominica's unique features and hazards

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Boulder, CO, USA - Dominica, a Caribbean island in the Lesser Antilles, features rugged topography and a vulnerability to volcanic and volcano-seismic activity. This new GSA Special Paper provides a review of past geological studies of the island and illustrates extensive field work. Because of this work, the 2005 geologic map of Dominica has been revised, and island officials now have a better understanding of existing volcanic and seismic hazards by which to construct an island-wide crisis management plan.

Beginning their field work in 2001, the book's authors made a thorough study of the island via boat, taking more than 3,000 photos, many of which are reproduced in the book, along with figures and maps on almost every page. Part of the impetus for the author's long-time work on Dominica is that it shows unique characteristics not seen on other islands in the Lesser Antilles island arc or on many island arcs worldwide.

These unique features include present-day island-wide seismic and geothermal activity as well as the eruption of rocks, since the upper Pleistocene, of a very restricted compositional range from multiple centers throughout the island.

This volume presents the results of geological mapping, detailed stratigraphy, petrography/mineral chemistry, and geochemistry that have allowed the authors to develop a model to explain these features. The model, which traces the development of the island since the upper Miocene, suggests that during the Pleistocene, partial melting of the island-arc crust eventually generated a single magma body of batholithic proportions beneath the island.

The distinctive phenomena from Dominica are therefore thought to reflect the volcanic and related responses associated with the formation and development of this unexposed batholith.

The authors of this GSA Special Paper hail from the University of Puerto RicoMayagez, The University of Texas at Arlington, California State University, and Miami University.

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Individual copies of the volume may be purchased through The Geological Society of America online store, http://rock.geosociety.org/store/, or by contacting GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.

Book editors of earth science journals/publications may request a review copy by contacting April Leo, aleo@geosociety.org.

The Volcanic Geology of the Mid-Arc Island of Dominica, Lesser AntillesThe Surface Expression of an Island-Arc Batholith

By A.L. Smith, M.J. Roobol, G.S. Mattioli, J.E. Fryxell, G.E. Daly, and L.A. Fernandez

Geological Society of America Special Paper 496

SPE496, 249 p., $70.00; Member price $49.00

ISBN 978-0-8137-2496-6

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Boulder, CO, USA - Dominica, a Caribbean island in the Lesser Antilles, features rugged topography and a vulnerability to volcanic and volcano-seismic activity. This new GSA Special Paper provides a review of past geological studies of the island and illustrates extensive field work. Because of this work, the 2005 geologic map of Dominica has been revised, and island officials now have a better understanding of existing volcanic and seismic hazards by which to construct an island-wide crisis management plan.

Beginning their field work in 2001, the book's authors made a thorough study of the island via boat, taking more than 3,000 photos, many of which are reproduced in the book, along with figures and maps on almost every page. Part of the impetus for the author's long-time work on Dominica is that it shows unique characteristics not seen on other islands in the Lesser Antilles island arc or on many island arcs worldwide.

These unique features include present-day island-wide seismic and geothermal activity as well as the eruption of rocks, since the upper Pleistocene, of a very restricted compositional range from multiple centers throughout the island.

This volume presents the results of geological mapping, detailed stratigraphy, petrography/mineral chemistry, and geochemistry that have allowed the authors to develop a model to explain these features. The model, which traces the development of the island since the upper Miocene, suggests that during the Pleistocene, partial melting of the island-arc crust eventually generated a single magma body of batholithic proportions beneath the island.

The distinctive phenomena from Dominica are therefore thought to reflect the volcanic and related responses associated with the formation and development of this unexposed batholith.

The authors of this GSA Special Paper hail from the University of Puerto RicoMayagez, The University of Texas at Arlington, California State University, and Miami University.

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Individual copies of the volume may be purchased through The Geological Society of America online store, http://rock.geosociety.org/store/, or by contacting GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.

Book editors of earth science journals/publications may request a review copy by contacting April Leo, aleo@geosociety.org.

The Volcanic Geology of the Mid-Arc Island of Dominica, Lesser AntillesThe Surface Expression of an Island-Arc Batholith

By A.L. Smith, M.J. Roobol, G.S. Mattioli, J.E. Fryxell, G.E. Daly, and L.A. Fernandez

Geological Society of America Special Paper 496

SPE496, 249 p., $70.00; Member price $49.00

ISBN 978-0-8137-2496-6

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Are We Moving To A World With More Online Surveillance?

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was angered by reports that the National Security Agency was spying on her. She has called for giving individual countries greater control over the Internet.

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was angered by reports that the National Security Agency was spying on her. She has called for giving individual countries greater control over the Internet.

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Many governments around the world have expressed outrage over the National Security Agency's use of the Internet as a spying platform. But the possible response may have an unforeseen consequence: it may actually lead to more online surveillance, according to Internet experts.

Some governments, led most recently by Brazil, have reacted to recent disclosures about NSA surveillance by proposing a redesign of Internet architecture. The goal would be to give governments more control over how the Internet operates within their own borders.

But privacy advocates warn that some of the changes under consideration could actually undermine Internet freedom, not strengthen it.

"Unfortunately, there is enormous blowback," says Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert who has worked closely with Britain's Guardian newspaper in reporting on NSA surveillance activities.

Schneier says some of those who advocate changes in Internet governance are acting unwisely, though he blames the NSA for having undermined global confidence in the Internet and prompting ill-advised reform moves.

"The NSA's actions embolden these people to say, 'We need more sovereign control,'" Schneier says. "This is bad. We really need a global Internet."

An Absence Of Government Control

Those who have closely followed the Internet, such as Milton Mueller of Syracuse University, say its free and open character is due largely to the absence of government control.

"The reason the Internet worked, the reason it created this massive amount of innovation, is precisely because, for a brief period of about 10 years, it just completely overcame the telecommunications system of national boundaries," Mueller says. "It created a virtual space that was completely interconnected and globalized, and governments had to react to that after the fact."

To the extent one country has dominated the Internet, it's been the United States. The only organization with a significant Internet governance function, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), was set up by the United States. Also, the companies most associated with the Internet around the world, such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, are U.S. firms.

Prior to the uproar over N.S.A. surveillance on the Internet, an argument could be made that American control of the Internet had served the cause of Internet freedom.

"In the area of free speech, I think it's been a great thing that the United States has had this hugely disproportionate role in providing the Internet's infrastructure," says Andrew McLaughlin, an Internet entrepreneur and formerly the deputy chief technology officer for the United States. "Our First Amendment traditions have meant that freedom of speech and freedom of expression have prevailed and really characterized the Internet globally."

Suspicion Of American Surveillance

But McLaughlin sees that record now in jeopardy.

"We've kind of blown it," he says. "The global fear and suspicion about American surveillance is pushing countries to centralize their [Internet] infrastructures and get the U.S. out of the picture. Ultimately, I think that will have negative consequences for free speech as well as for protection of privacy."

Some of the countries pushing for more international control over the Internet are ones that were never all that supportive of Internet freedom, like Russia and China. But they've now been joined by countries like Brazil, whose president Dilma Rousseff was furious when she read reports that she was herself an N.S.A. target.

Speaking at the United Nations last month, Rousseff called for a new "multilateral framework" for Internet governance and new measures "to ensure the effective protection of data that travel through the web."

At home, Rousseff has suggested that Brazil partially disconnect from U.S.-based parts of the Internet and take steps to keep Brazilians' online data stored in Brazil, supposedly out of the N.S.A.'s reach.

But Schneier says such moves would lead to "increased Balkanization" of the Internet.

One indication of the discontent with the dominant U.S. role on the Internet came at a meeting in Uruguay last week. Directors of major Internet organizations, including ICANN, endorsed a call for all governments to be treated equally in Internet governance.

The ICANN president, Fadi Chehade, actually praised Rousseff for her "leadership" and personally backed her effort to challenge the United States on Internet governance issues.

In Europe, policymakers have discussed the possibility of writing new rules for how information can flow around the world. Some proposals would introduce restrictions on how US companies like Google can operate overseas.

Mueller, who teaches at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, says such a move would be costly.

"Is it practical in the sense that you can create regulations that block off trade in these information services? Yeah, you can do that," Mueller says. "There will be massive sacrifices of economic efficiency. But you can introduce barriers, definitely."

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Senate's 1815 clock, frozen by shutdown, ticking again

By Amanda Becker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's time keeper is ticking again after being wound by a museum specialist who returned to work when the federal government reopened for business on Thursday.

The arms on the nearly 200-year-old timepiece, known as the Ohio Clock, had been frozen on 12:14 p.m. since it stopped ticking on October 9.

The Senate specialists who normally wind it were among the roughly 800,000 federal employees who were sent home when the U.S. Congress could not reach a budget deal and government operations largely shuttered on October 1.

Richard Doerner from the U.S. Senate Commission on Art wound the clock on Thursday during a brief ceremony.

The Ohio Clock was commissioned by Connecticut Senator David Daggett in 1815. Ever since it was delivered, it has sat near the Senate Chamber, where lawmakers debate legislation and cast votes. Today, it is often the site of news conferences as reporters speak to senators as they come and go from the chamber.

Daggett requested a clock "about two feet in diameter" with an eagle on the top and the "United States arms" at its foot, according to the order Daggett placed with clock maker Thomas Voigt.

"We wish it good and handsome and expect to pay accordingly," Daggett wrote, according to Senate artifacts.

Its name is a misnomer. People call it the "Ohio" clock because that was the 17th U.S. State and on the clock's case there are 17 stars.

But, Senate historians point out, there were already 18 states at the time the clock was ordered, when Ohio was already a state. The clock's first caretaker, Senate employee Isaac Bassett, left voluminous manuscripts in which he refers to the timepiece as simply the "Senate Clock."

(Reporting By Amanda Becker; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Doina Chiacu)

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After Sept. 11, Special Ops Were 'Injected With Steroids'

Two recent operations in Libya and Somalia offer a vivid example of how members of U.S. Special Operations are being deployed around the world to go after terrorists. Renee Montagne talks to author Jeremy Scahill about his newest book, Dirty Wars, which is about the rise of special forces.

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

This time last week an alleged terrorist known as Abu Anas al Libi was on a Navy ship being interrogated after being snatched from his home in Libya by U.S. Special Forces. Yesterday, al Libi was arraigned in a federal court in New York accused in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa that left 224 dead.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Now, on the same day that Special Forces were seizing al Libi in Libya, Navy SEALS in Somalia met heavy resistance in a failed attempt to storm a terrorist stronghold. Those two operations offer vivid examples of how Special Ops are being deployed around the world to go after terrorists.

MONTAGNE: Many military experts, in fact, believe that Special Forces, highly trained and mostly invisible, are the future of American warfare. Jeremy Scahill wrote the bestselling "Blackwater" and he's now out with "Dirty Wars," which documents the rise of America's Special Ops forces. Thank you for joining us.

JEREMY SCAHILL: My pleasure.

MONTAGNE: Now, from what you know about these two recent raids in Somalia and Libya, just simply how do they fit into the increasing reach and use of American Special Forces?

SCAHILL: Well, you know, since 9/11 the role of Special Operations forces, particularly the most elite units that comprise the Joint Special Operations Command or JSOC, have been given a very wide mandate to strike in countries across the world where the president of the United States determines there are plots against America or there are terror leaders that the United States has intelligence on, particularly with their whereabouts.

And they can go in and snatch someone or kill them. President Obama has been very willing to give them the authorization to do that and these operations are called F-cubed operations - find, fix, finish. You find the target, you fix their location, and then you finish them off. And that could come in the form of a night raid, a missile strike, a drone strike, or in the case of Libya, actually sending Delta Force in to snatch someone off the streets of another nation.

MONTAGNE: The fact is, though, Special Operations, they date back. They go as far back as the Green Berets of Vietnam. But where do you date the rise of Special Forces to become such a dominant part of military operations?

SCAHILL: Well, you know, I think there's very little new in warfare, except technology, and you know, a lot of the strategies that we see being employed by President Obama and President Bush before him have been tested before on the battlefields of Korea or Vietnam. But really, after 9/11 the Special Operations world was injected with steroids of sorts and a lot of money was poured into the operations.

And I think because of technology, because of the ability of the U.S. to monitor communications around the world, there are just more operations.

MONTAGNE: Name a few of the countries that would seem to have the most concentration or the most important operations of Special Operations forces.

SCAHILL: Well, there's no doubt that right now, the center of activity is based out of Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. You have a growing presence of U.S. Special Operations forces in East Africa and the Horn of Africa targeting Somalia, as we saw recently, certainly on the Arabian Peninsula targeting Yemen. But also it's not just kinetic operations that they're doing, in other words kill or capture.

In many cases, JSOC forces, they embed with militaries of other nations to either fight terrorists or to train their military. So for instance, we have Special Operations forces in the Philippines right now working with Philippine Special Forces to go after Islamic militant organizations. You have U.S. Special Operations forces in Mexico and Columbia working alongside the counter-narcotics units of those governments.

They really do have a global mandate, and in some cases it's to train other militaries. In other cases it's to conduct lethal operations against terrorists.

MONTAGNE: And of course, we're there to help train and in many countries we're there to target terrorists. They are there with the permission and even welcomed by host countries, but Libya, for instance, came out after this recent raid and said that they had not been invited into Libya. How much of it is in the shadows in the sense that the countries do not even know what's going on?

SCAHILL: Well, I think you have sort of dueling realities here. In the case of Yemen, the Yemeni regime, under Ali Abdullah Saleh, at times used the United States by feeding it bad intelligence to kill domestic political opponents of the dictatorship. Also there have been incidents where U.S. forces are deployed as trainers and then have sort of gone off the ranch and done unilateral activities that have angered the host government.

But, you know, in the case of Libya and Yemen in particular, those governments really don't have much of a leg to stand on in confronting the United States because they're too dependent on U.S. aid and, quite frankly, U.S. military support.

MONTAGNE: Couldn't it be said that they need this?

SCAHILL: Well, I mean, that gets into a very complicated area or arena. In the case of Yemen, the drone program that the U.S. has been engaged in has caused very serious political problems for the Yemeni government because there's a perception that Yemen is allowing another nation to come in and drop bombs in tribal areas throughout the South.

And you know, I think a reasonable argument could be made that in some areas of both Yemen and Pakistan, U.S. operations have contributed to the propaganda efforts of Islamist movements or, quite frankly, al-Qaida in some cases. I heard in several language in different countries the same basic sentiment, which is that the United States says al-Qaida is terrorism, but we view your operations against us as terrorism.

MONTAGNE: Okay. But in this recent raid in Libya, the aim was to capture a militant alleged to have been connected to the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The idea is to bring him to trial. So is that a good thing?

SCAHILL: Well, I mean I've long advocated that we back away from this idea that we're in a war against terrorism and go back to viewing it as the crime that it is and trying to bring these people to justice, not by simply saying, well, we're going to zap them from the sky with drones or we're going to do a night raid and put a bullet in their head, but actually try to take custody of them so that they can stand trial for the crimes that they've been involved with.

I still have problems with the way that these operations are conducted, where people are flown out to ships in the Indian Ocean or elsewhere and are held at times for weeks incommunicado without access to lawyers. But I think it's a step in the right direction to actually say we're going to prosecute them in civilian courts and not just simply assassinate them.

MONTAGNE: You've characterized Special Operations as conducting a perpetual war - that is, a worldwide battlefield going on and on and on. What exactly do you mean by that?

SCAHILL: Well, the phrase the world is a battlefield is not my own. It's a play on something that Donald Rumsfeld said very early on after 9/11, and that was that he believed that the U.S. military should be able to go into any country where the U.S. perceived that there could be future hostilities and that mentality has sort of endured over the years and from one administration to the next.

President Obama, in his second inaugural address, said that he didn't want the United States to exist in a state of perpetual war, and that in fact it couldn't exist in a state of perpetual war. And yet my sense from investigating this story is that his administration has systematized the very program implemented by Bush and Cheney early on after 9/11 and has virtually insured that whoever is president after Obama is going to continue to use these forces in a way that guarantees we're going to be in a perpetual state of war.

MONTAGNE: Well, thank you very much for talking with us.

SCAHILL: Thank you, Renee.

MONTAGNE: Jeremy Scahill is out with a book and documentary about the rise of Special Forces called "Dirty Wars." This is NPR News.

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Joel Edgerton, Baz Luhrmann, Jacki Weaver to Be Honored at Australians in Film Awards

Joel Edgerton, Baz Luhrmann and Jacki Weaver will be among the beneficiaries at Oct. 24’s Australians in Film Awards dinner, instituted by Australians in Film, the Los Angeles-based industry guild for Australian filmmakers and performers in the United States.

Edgerton and his acting, directing and producing colleagues at the Sydney-based collective, Blue Tongue Films, will receive the Orry Kelly International award. Blue Tongue members include Kieran Darcy-Smith, Luke Doolan, Edgerton and his sibling Nash Edgerton, Mirrah Foulkes, David Michod and Spencer Susser – who have made films including Animal Kingdom and Wish You Were Here -- are being recognized for their success in introducing Australian filmmakers to an international audience.

They will share the Orry Kelly International Award with The Great Gatsby writer, director and producer Luhrmann, who is being recognized for his continued input and development of Australian talent at home in Sydney and abroad.

The international award is named after Australian costume designer Orry George Kelly who moved from Australia to the U.S. in 1921. Kelly was Australia’s most prolific Oscar winning costume designer, winning three statues in the 1950s for An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some Like It Hot.

A second international award, named by locations marketing agency Ausfilm, is being given to Warner Bros. president of worldwide physical production Steve Papazian, who is being honored for his work in bringing 38 projects totaling nearly $2 billion to Australia over several decades. Projects include 1992 TV movie Survive the Savage Seas to more recent films like Gatsby, made entirely in Australia, and Gravity, with Adelaide-based Rising Sun Pictures a key visual effects provider on the film.

The L.A.-based organization that serves as the industry guild for Australian filmmakers and performers will also present actors Alex O’Loughlin and Animal Kingdom's Sullivan Stapleton and Weaver with the AiF Breakthrough Award.

According to Australians in Film president Tracey Viera, the Breakthrough award, handed out for the past seven years, is given to Australian actors whose talent has catapulted them into the international spotlight, while the international award honors those who are nurturing colleagues’ careers in Australia and making a meaningful contribution to the Australian film industry. Last year’s inaugural international award recipient was Harvey Weinstein.

O’Loughlin currently stars in CBS' Hawaii Five-0, while Stapleton appears in the upcoming Warner Bros./Legendary feature 300: Rise of an Empire. The in-demand Weaver stars opposite Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

The AiF Awards benefit dinner is aimed at supporting the organization’s mission: helping usher Australian filmmakers into the international market and to provide educational programs for the 500 AiF members.

Presenters include Robert Pattinson, David O. Russell, David Michôd and Andy and Lana Wachowski. Other new initiatives for the organization are also expected to be announced at the dinner.

The AiF Awards dinner takes place during Ausfilm Week in Los Angeles, which kicks off Sunday, Oct. 20.

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Amazon's Brutal Promotion System - Business Insider

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Jeff Bezos

Getting a promotion at Amazon isn't easy, Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek reports. 

Here's the way it works. 

To get ahead at Amazon, your boss has to debate why you deserve a promotion with other managers from the company. If he or she makes an effective case on your behalf, then you get the nod. If not, you wait another 12 months. 

These debates take place at two different meetings during the year. 

In the first meeting of the year, usually in February or March, according to a leaked presentation of how the system works, the senior staff talks about employees to see who's doing well, and who isn't, and who is getting a promotion.

In the second meeting, which takes place in September or October, the leaders talk some more about who's getting a promotion, and talk about who is doing well and who is doing poorly. 

Amazon's managers group employees into three tiers: The top 20%, who are groomed for promotions, the next 70% who are kept happy, and the bottom 10%, who are either let go, or told to get it together.

This system, which was created by Jeff Bezos, is supposed to cut down on politics and in-fighting. Unfortunately, Stone says it has the opposite effect.

"Ambitious employees tend to spend months having lunch and coffee with their boss’s peers to ensure a positive outcome once the topic of their proposed promotion is raised in [the meetings]," says Stone.

Stone also notes that promotions are very limited at Amazon, so if you fight for your employee to get a promotion, it means someone else's employee gets snubbed. And anyone in the room can nuke someone else's promotion.

Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his
personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

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Kendrick Lamar Slams "Sensitive" Drake at 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards, Plus the Complete Winners List

Kendrick Lamar took home five awards at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. But it was the emcee's controversial verse that actually swept Tuesday evening's telecast.

Before he even took to the stage to perform, #KendricksVerse was already trending on Twitter.

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The artist, whose pointed dig at Drake and other hip-hop contemporaries stirred trouble after the release of his guest verse on Big Sean's "Control," finally responded to the feud during the show, which was taped Sept. 28 at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Ga. In two minutes of an emotionally-fueled TDE cypher, Lamar spewed, "Yeah, and nothing's been the same since they dropped 'Control.' And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes."

"Pin the tail on the donkey, boy you been a fake," he continued.

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While the Nothing Was the Same artist was not present at the show to react to the jab, Drake nabbed a healthy helping of awards including the People's Champ honor for his single, "Started From the Bottom." He also won Best Hip-Hop Video for the same track. Other winners included Jay Z and J. Cole. View the complete list below.

Best Hip-Hop Video: Drake - "Started From the Bottom"

Best Collaboration, Duo or Group: A$AP Rocky (ft. Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar) - "F---in' Problems"

Best Live Performer: Jay Z

Lyricist of the Year: Kendrick Lamar

Video Director of the Year: Benny Boom

Hustler of the Year: Jay Z

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Best Hip-Hop Style: A$AP Rocky, Nicki Minaj

Best Hip-Hop Online Site: World Star Hip-Hop

Best Club Banger: French Montana (feat. Rick Ross, Drake and Lil Wayne) - "Pop That"

Album of the Year: Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Sweet 16: Kendrick Lamar - "F---in' Problems"

Impact Track: J. Cole (feat. TLC) - "Crooked Smile"

MVP of the Year: Kendrick Lamar

Track of the Year: Mike Zombie and Noah "40" Shebib - "Started From the Bottom" 

Producer of the Year: Mike Will Made It

DJ of the Year: DJ Drama

Best Mixtape: Big Sean - Detroit

Rookie of the Year: A$AP Ferg

People's Champ Award: Drake - "Started From the Bottom"

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kendrick-lamar-slams-drake-2013-bet-hip-hop-awards-complete-winners-list-20131610
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