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Monday, April 29, 2013
Algeria president sent to Paris after mini-stroke
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as they pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Algiers, Algeria, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as they pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Algiers, Algeria, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ? Algeria's president was transferred to Paris for medical treatment following a mini-stroke and tests show he isn't seriously ill, the state news agency reported Sunday.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika had a brief blockage of a blood vessel known as a transient ischemic attack and was sent to the French capital for further tests under the recommendation of his doctors.
The 76-year-old president had been checked into Val de Grace hospital, where he was treated in 2005 for a bleeding ulcer.
"Medical tests conducted at the Val de Grace hospital in Paris confirmed that there is no worry about the state of his health," according to a statement from the prime minister's office. "Daily life will continue as normal."
There have long been concerns about Bouteflika's health, especially since the president rarely appears in public.
Bouteflika, president since 1999, is credited with seeing Algeria through the end of a bloody civil war against Islamists and ruling in an uneasy partnership with the powerful military.
The last few years of his reign, however, have been slammed with accusations of corruption. Bouteflika was also widely believed to be planning to run for a fourth term in next year's presidential elections.
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Caught at border: Bangladesh factory owner arrested
Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested just as he was about to flee into India. So far,?377 people are confirmed to have died in the collapse of his illegally-constructed building.
Mohammed Sohel Rana, shown to the media shortly after his capture trying to flee Bangladesh.
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EnlargeThe fugitive owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed in?Bangladesh in a deadly heap last week was captured Sunday at a border crossing with India by members of a commando force.
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Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested in Benapole in western?Bangladesh, just as he was about to flee into India's West Bengal state, said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, junior minister for local government. Rana was brought back by helicopter to the capital Dhaka where he faced charges of negligence.
Rana's capture by the Rapid Action Battalion brought cheers and applause when it was announced on a loudspeaker at the site of the collapsed building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, where search and rescue operations were continuing through the night.
At least 377 people are confirmed to have died in the collapse of the 8-story building on Wednesday. Three of its floors were built illegally. The death toll is expected to rise but it is already the deadliest tragedy to hit Bangladesh's?garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annually and is a mainstay of the economy. The collapse and previous disasters in garment factories have focused attention on the poor working conditions of workers who toil for as little as $38 a month to produce clothing for top international brands.
Disheveled, sweating
Rana was presented before the media briefly at the commando force's headquarters in Dhaka. Wearing a printed shirt, an exhausted and disheveled Rana was sweating as two security officers held him by his arms. A security official helped him to drink water after he gestured he was thirsty. He did not speak to the media during the 10-minute appearance after which he was taken away. He is likely to be handed over to local police who will have to charge him and produce him in court within 24 hours.
A small-time politician from the ruling party, Rana had been on the run since Wednesday. He last appeared in public in front of his Rana Plaza on Tuesday after huge cracks appeared in the building. However, he assured tenants, including five garment factories, that the building was safe, according to witnesses.
A bank and some shops on the first floor shut their premises on Wednesday after police ordered an evacuation, but managers of the garment factories on the upper floor told workers to continue their shifts.
Hours later, Rana Plaza was reduced to rubble, crushing most victims under massive blocks of concrete and mortar. A garment manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed. About 2,500 survivors have been accounted for.
On Sunday, rescuers were supposed to start using heavy equipment to drill a central hole from the top to look for survivors and dead bodies. But the operation was delayed after rescuers located a woman inside the building, and were trying to pull her out.
Army Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the coordinator of the rescue operations, said so far rescuers have been manually shifting concrete blocks with the help of light equipment such as pickaxes and shovels.
The next phase will involve manual efforts as well as heavy equipment, including hydraulic cranes and cutters to bore a hole from the top of the collapsed building, he told reporters.
The purpose is to "continue the operation to recover both survivors and dead bodies. In this stage, we have no other choice but to use some heavy equipment. We will start it within a few hours. Manual operation and use of small equipment is not enough," he said.
The work will be carried out carefully so as not to mutilate bodies, he said. All the equipment is in place, "from a small blade to everything. We have engaged many private sector companies which supplied us equipment, even some heavy ones."
Woman pulled out alive
In rare good news, a female worker was pulled out alive on Sunday. Hasan Akbari, a rescuer, said when he tried to extricate a man next to the woman, "he said his body was being torn apart. So I had to let go. But God willing, we will be able to rescue him with more help very soon."
On Saturday, police arrested three owners of two factories. Also under detention are Rana's wife and two government engineers who were involved in giving approval for the building design. Local television stations reported that the?Bangladesh?High Court has frozen the bank accounts of the owners of all five garment factories in the collapsed building.
Rana was a local leader of ruling Awami League's youth front. His arrest, and that of the factory owners, was ordered by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the Awami League leader.
The disaster is the worst ever for the country's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve worker-safety standards. But since then very little has changed in?Bangladesh, where low wages have made it a magnet for numerous global brands.
Bangladesh's?garment industry was the third largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy, having grown rapidly in the past decade. The country's minimum wage is the equivalent of about $38 a month.
7 million pieces a year
Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style, and New Wave Bottoms. Altogether, they produced several million shirts, pants, and other garments a year.
The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for several major North American and European retailers.
Britain's Primark acknowledged it was using a factory in Rana Plaza, but many other retailers distanced themselves from the disaster, saying they were not involved with the factories at the time of the collapse or had not recently ordered garments from them.
Wal-Mart said none of its clothing had been authorized to be made in the facility, but it is investigating whether there was any unauthorized production.
* AP writers Farid Hossain and Gillian Wong in Dhaka contributed to this report.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Suspect in Canada terror plot denies charges
TORONTO (AP) ? One of two men accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada became radicalized to the point that his father reached out to a Muslim support group for help and advice, a local religious leader said Wednesday.
Muhammad Robert Heft, president of the Paradise Forever Support Group Inc., a non-profit organization that provides support to Muslims in Canada, said Mohammad Jaser came to him several times citing concerns about the radicalization of his son.
"He came to me about his son saying he how concerned he was getting about the rigidness of his son and his interpretation of Islam. He was becoming self-righteous, becoming pushy, pushing his views on how much they (his family) should be practicing as a Muslim," said Heft.
Jaser's son Raed, 35 has been charged along with Chiheb Esseghaier, 30 with conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group in their plot to derail a train that runs between New York City and Montreal.
Canadian investigators say the men received guidance from members of al-Qaida in Iran. Iranian government officials have said the government had nothing to do with the plot.
"His son was becoming overzealous and intolerant in his understanding of the religion," Heft. "Those are the telltale signs that can lead into the radicalization process."
The discussions took place between 2010 and 2011, while the father was renting a basement apartment in Heft's home in Markham, Ontario.
On Wednesday, the other suspect appeared briefly in court where he made a statement suggesting he did not recognize the court's jurisdiction.
Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on rail target, is led off a plane by an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto... more? Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on rail target, is led off a plane by an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto on Tuesday April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. In a brief court appearance in Montreal Tuesday, Esseghaier declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. He made a brief statement in French in which he called the allegations against him unfair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young) less? "This criminal code is not a holy book," Esseghaier said at the hearing. "We cannot rely on the conclusions taken out from these judgments."At the hearing Esseghaier rejected the allegations against him and declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer.
Jaser had appeared in court Tuesday and did not enter a plea. The court granted a request by his lawyer, John Norris, for a publication ban on future evidence and testimony.
Both men were ordered to return to court on May 23.
"We are waiting for the disclosure and we will be defending against the charges," Norris said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Norris declined to comment when asked if he wanted his client's case separated from Esseghaier, who has spoken out twice in court despite being advised not to.
Police ? tipped off by an imam worried by the behavior of one of the suspects ? said it was the first known attack planned by al-Qaida in Canada. The two could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
The case has raised questions about the extent of Shiite-led Iran's relationship with al-Qaida, a predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network. It also renewed attention on Iran's complicated history with the terror group, which ranges from outright hostility to alliances of convenience and even overtures by Tehran to assist Washington after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Canadian police said this week they didn't think it was a case of state sponsored terrorism.
Law officials in New York with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press the attack was to take place on the Canadian side of the border. They are not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Norris has questioned the timing of the arrests, pointing to ongoing debates in the Canadian Parliament over a new anti-terrorism law that would expand the powers of police and intelligence agencies.
Norris has noted Jaser was a permanent resident of Canada who has lived there for 20 years. Norris refused to say where Jaser was from, saying that revealing his nationality in the current climate amounted to demonizing him.
Canadian police have declined to release the men's nationalities, saying only they had been in Canada a "significant amount of time." But a London-based newspaper Al Arab reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources in the Gulf, that Jaser is a Jordanian passport holder with full name Raed Jaser Ibrahim Amouri, who had visited the UAE several times and most recently in September 2011. The newspaper reported that the suspect also visited other Gulf countries including Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It was not possible to independently confirm the report.
Esseghaier, in a profile on a university department website ? which has since been removed ? says he was born in Tunis, Tunisia.
The investigation surrounding the planned attack was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Canadian police said the men never got close to carrying out the attack.
The warning first came from an imam in Toronto, who in turn was tipped off by suspicious behavior on the part of one of the suspect.
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Associated Press writers Benjamin Shingler in Montreal, Tom Hays in New York, Kimberly Dozier in Washington and Brian Murphy in the United Arab Emirates contributed to this story.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-canada-terror-plot-denies-charges-220238197.html
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Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet ...
Scared that CISPA might pass? The federal government is already using a secretive cybersecurity program to monitor online traffic and enforce CISPA-like data sharing between Internet service providers and the Department of Defense.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has obtained over 1,000 pages of documents pertaining to the United States government?s use of a cybersecurity program after filing a Freedom of Information Act request, and CNET reporter Declan McCullagh says those pages show how the Pentagon has secretly helped push for increased Internet surveillance.
?Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws,? McCullagh writes.
That practice, McCullagh recalls, was first revealed when Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn disclosed the existence of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Pilot in June 2011. At the time, the Pentagon said the program would allow the government to help the defense industry safeguard the information on their computer systems by sharing classified threat information between the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Internet service providers (ISP) that keep government contractors online.
?Our defense industrial base is critical to our military effectiveness. Their networks hold valuable information about our weapons systems and their capabilities,? Lynn said. ?The theft of design data and engineering information from within these networks greatly undermines the technological edge we hold over potential adversaries.?
Just last week the US House of Representatives voted in favor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA ? a legislation that would allow ISPs and private Internet companies across the country like Facebook and Google to share similar threat data with the federal government without being held liable for violating their customers? privacy. As it turns out, however, the DIB Cyber Pilot has expanded exponentially in recent months, suggesting that a significant chunk of Internet traffic is already subjected to governmental monitoring.
In May 2012 less than a year after the pilot was first unveiled, the Defense Department announced the expansion of the DIB program. Then this past January, McCullagh says it was renamed the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) and opened up to a larger number of companies ? not just DoD contractors. An executive order signed by US President Barack Obama earlier this year will let all critical infrastructure companies to sign-on to ECS this June, likely in turn bringing on board entities in energy, healthcare, communication and finance.
Although the 1,000-plus pages obtained in the FOIA request haven?t been posted in full on the Web just yet, a sampling of that trove published by EPIC on Wednesday starts to show just exactly how severe the Pentagon?s efforts to eavesdrop on Web traffic has been.
In one document, a December 2011 slideshow on the legal policies and practices regarding the monitoring of Web traffic on DIB-linked systems, the Pentagon instructs the administrators of those third-party computer networks on how to implement the program and, as a result, erode their customers? expectation of privacy.
In one slide, the Pentagon explains to ISPs and other system administrators how to be clear in letting their customers know that their traffic was being fed to the government. Key elements to keep in mind, wrote the Defense Department, was that DIB ?expressly covers monitoring of data and communications in transit rather than just accessing data at rest.?
?[T]hat information transiting or stored on the system may be disclosed for any purpose, including to the government,? it continued. Companies participating in the pilot program were told to let users know that monitoring would exist ?for any purpose,? and that users have no expectation of privacy regarding communications or data stored on the system.
According to the 2011 press released on the DIB Cyber Pilot, ?the government will not monitor, intercept or store any private-sector communications through the program.? In a privacy impact assessment of the ECS program that was published in January by the DHS though, it?s revealed that not only is information monitored, but among the data collected by investigators could be personally identifiable information, including the header info from suspicious emails. That would mean the government sees and stores who you communicate with and what kind of subject lines are used during correspondence.
The DHS says that personally identifiable information could be retained if ?analytically relevant to understanding the cyber threat? in question.
Meanwhile, the lawmakers in Congress that overwhelmingly approved CISPA just last week could arguably use a refresher in what constitutes a cyberthreat. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told his colleagues on the Hill that "Recent events in Boston demonstrate that we have to come together as Republicans and Democrats to get this done,? and Rep. Dan Maffei (D-New York) made unfounded claims during Thursday?s debate that the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is pursuing efforts to ?hack into our nation?s power grid.?
Should CISPA be signed into law, telecommunication companies will be encouraged to share Internet data with the DHS and Department of Justice for so-called national security purposes. But even if the president pursues a veto as his advisers have suggested, McCullagh says few will be safe from this secretive cybersecurity operation already in place.
The tome of FOIA pages, McCullagh says, shows that the Justice Department has actively assisted telecoms as of late by letting them off the hook for Wiretap Act violations. Since the sharing of data between ISPs and the government under the DIB program and now ECS violates federal statute, the Justice Department has reportedly issued an undeterminable number of ?2511 letters? to telecoms: essentially written approval to ignore provisions of the Wiretap Act in exchange for immunity.
"The Justice Department is helping private companies evade federal wiretap laws," EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg tells CNET. "Alarm bells should be going off."
In an internal Justice Department email cited by McCullagh, Associate Deputy Attorney General James Baker is alleged to write that ISPs will likely request 2511 letters and the ECS-participating companies ?would be required to change their banners to reference government monitoring.?
"These agencies are clearly seeking authority to receive a large amount of information, including personal information, from private Internet networks," EPIC staff attorney Amie Stepanovich adds to CNET. "If this program was broadly deployed, it would raise serious questions about government cybersecurity practices."
Source: http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/
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Could the Boston Bomber Have Fled from Infrared?
Late last Friday a terrible week that began with the bombing of the Boston Marathon came to a satisfying, if somber, conclusion. The last alleged perpetrator of the horrific events at the marathon and MIT was arrested after a most dangerous game of hide and seek.
To help bring Dzhokhar Tsarneav to justice, officials took advantage of what is usually invisible to us?heat.
Photos (and videos) like these highlight just how far detective technology has come. Specifically, Tsarneav was indentified with the aid of a FLIR (forward-looking infrared) camera mounted to a police helicopter. But how does this apparent X-ray vision work, and is there any way the alleged bomber could have hid from this seemingly all-seeing eye?
What You Don?t See Gives You Away
Infrared (IR) radiation is able to make it through a lot of interference like smoke or fog or a boat tarp because it is composed of long electromagnetic waves. Take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum and you?ll see that infrared has longer waves than visible light (right before?infra, beneath?red light). And as we have all seen from thermal images, it just so happens that heat throws much of its energy across the universe as infrared. In fact, if you heat something up enough, these long infrared wavelengths bunch closer together until some bleeds into the visible spectrum. This is why you can heat something up until it ?glows red.? Keep heating it and it will glow blue, following the same spectrum. (Note that most of the color thermal images have this scale reversed. This is because it is more intuitive to think of redder areas as hotter.)
So when you look at an infrared image, you aren?t actually ?looking through? anything. Infrared is just another kind of electromagnetic radiation that happens to make it through the material your camera is focused on. When police ?looked through? the tarp of the boat Tsarneav was hiding in, they saw him because his body?s output of long wavelengths were making it through the boat tarp material, not some Superman-like X-ray vision.
But because seeing someone or something with infrared requires the radiation to make it through whatever is between it and the camera, there are bound to be materials that effectively block out IR. Slipping behind a material like that makes you invisible to a camera that sees the invisible.
Nowhere to Run, One Place to Hide
Glass, specifically the kind of glass you have in your home, is designed to block infrared radiation. Keeping in all that heat is important for keeping heating bills down. Point an IR camera at most glass and it will seriously distort, if not completely block, any IR radiation coming from behind it. You?ll get the relative surface temperature of the glass and that?s about it.
You can prove this pretty easily. First notice the difference in this video between a car with a window up and a window down in terms of what you can see (the camera is the same FLIR technology used to catch the Boston bomber). Next find a device that puts out near-infrared radiation (shorter wavelengths close to visible light), like your TV remote. The signal it sends is still invisible to you, but I bet you can change the channel through a window. The shorter wavelengths emitted by your remote make it through glass while the FLIR can?t make it past the passenger window. (This is partly why your car gets so unholy hot in the summer; the glass traps the IR radiation!)
If Tsarneav wanted to hide from infrared cameras, he couldn?t have picked a worse spot.
The ideal place to shield your heat signature would be in a glass greenhouse. Surrounded by glass that is designed to reflect heat on all sides, you would be invisible to IR cameras (and Predator). Visible light comes in but IR can?t get out. In fact, this is partly why humans are able to live on this planet. Light from the Sun penetrates our atmosphere, heats up the surface, and then that heat attempts to leave. Greenhouse gases reflect the IR down back at Earth, keeping the heat in?the greenhouse effect. By masking yourself in glass and hiding in an envelop of greenhouse gases, a helicopter like the one used in Watertown, Mass., would be blind.
Unless he knew some critical physics, the alleged Boston bomber could have never escaped infrared detection. Of course, knowing how to shield yourself from the seeing eye in the sky has one key disadvantage: putting yourself behind glass puts you squarely back in the visible spectrum. And now he is behind bars.
Images: Infrared photos courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police; IR behind glass photo from MoistureView.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Become An Online Marketing Expert With These Top Tips | Answer ...
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Tart cherries linked to reduced risk of stroke
Apr. 23, 2013 ? For the millions of Americans at risk for heart disease or diabetes, a diet that includes tart cherries might actually be better than what the doctor ordered, according to new animal research from the University of Michigan Health System.
A class of drugs called PPAR agonists that help regulate fat and glucose was considered promising by doctors who prescribed them for patients with metabolic syndrome -- a collection of risk factors linked to heart disease and type 2. However, studies have shown the long-term use of these drugs can also increase stroke risk, which has prevented many from securing FDA approval.
The new research from the U-M Cardioprotection Research Laboratory suggests that tart cherries not only provide similar cardiovascular benefits as the prescribed medications, but can also reduce the risk of stroke, even when taken with these pharmaceutical options.
The results, which were seen in stroke-prone rats, were presented April 23 at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting in Boston.
The group's previous research has shown that intake of U.S.-produced, Montmorency tart cherries activates PPAR isoforms (peroxisome proliferator activating receptors) in many of the body's tissues. Researchers believe that anthocyanins -- the pigments that give the fruit its red color -- may be responsible for PPAR activation.
PPARs regulate genes involved in fat and glucose metabolism, and when modified can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. PPAR agonists, among them medications such as Actos (pioglitazone), act in a similar way but cardiovascular side effects have limited their use.
"Our previous research has shown that Montmorency tart cherries can have a positive effect on cardiovascular health and can reduce risk factors like high cholesterol and diabetes," says E. Mitchell Seymour, Ph.D., supervisor of the Cardioprotection Research Laboratory. "While prescribed drugs improve the outlook for certain risk factors, they've also shown to have undesirable side effects. We wanted to see if a tart cherry-rich diet might provide similar cardiovascular benefits without the risk of heart attack or stroke."
The researchers compared the effect of tart cherries and the drug Actos in stroke-prone rats by measuring the animals' systolic blood pressure as well as locomotion, balance, coordination, all of which can show the aftereffects of a stroke.
By putting the rats through various physical tests, such as walking on a tapered beam and climbing a ladder, the researchers found that compared to Actos, tart cherry intake significantly improved balance and coordination, and at the same time lowered blood pressure.
While the research results indicate that rats who consumed only tart cherries had the best results, those who had the combination of tart cherries and Actos also did better than those who only took the drug. Seymour cautioned that the results can't be applied directly to humans, but they are a potentially positive sign for those taking medications.
"We weren't sure if the risk for stroke would decline in animals taking both tart cherry and the drug," Seymour says. "It turns out that the cherries did have a positive effect even when combined with the medication."
Steven Bolling, M.D., a U-M cardiac surgeon and the laboratory's director, said the study adds to the group's growing body of research linking cherries to positive heart health. The results provide the groundwork for continued investigation into the topic, he says.
"This research is the first to link to cherries to a reduction in stroke-related symptoms," Bolling says. "It gives us a good preclinical model to further explore the positive stroke-related benefits of an anthocyanin-rich diet."
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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Israeli president to meet new pope next week
JERUSALEM (AP) ? The Israeli president's office says President Shimon Peres will meet the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week.
A statement Wednesday said the pope invited Peres. The Israeli Nobel Peace laureate would be among the first world leaders to visit the new pope, who took office last month. Peres will also meet Italian leaders.
The statement said Peres plans to talk to the pope about peace negotiations with the Palestinians, ties between Israel and the Vatican and improving relations between Christians and Jews.
The Vatican and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1993.
Israel and the Vatican have been discussing the status of church properties in the Holy Land and other issues.
The statement said Franciscan monks will give Peres an award, the "Medal of Honor for Peace."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-president-meet-pope-next-week-145639098.html
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More rain expected for already swollen rivers
AmeriCorps member Cody Turner directs a hose pumping floodwater back into the Mississippi River Monday, April 22, 2013, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen river has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
AmeriCorps member Cody Turner directs a hose pumping floodwater back into the Mississippi River Monday, April 22, 2013, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen river has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
A pickup truck from the Grafton Marina takes two men across a flooded section of marina entrance road, Monday April 22, 2013, in Grafton, Ill. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River have closed the main entrance forcing residents to use a back road away from the river. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, John Badman)
Jeremiah Poitra, right, and Chase Nygaard work to fill TrapBags on Monday April 22, 2013, along fifth street south as part of the city's flood preparation efforts in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/The Forum, Michael Vosburg)
Richard Conttrell sits on the front porch of his riverfront home and looks out at the flooded Mississippi River Monday, April 22, 2013, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen Mississippi River has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating two trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Volunteers work to fill sandbags Monday, April 22, 2013, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen Mississippi River has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) ? Communities along the Mississippi River and other Midwestern waterways are vigilantly eyeing ? and in some cases hastily fortifying ? makeshift levees to hold back floodwaters that meteorologists say could worsen or be prolonged by looming storms.
An inch of rain was expected to fall from Oklahoma to Michigan through Tuesday, a new drenching that led the National Weather Service to heighten the forecast crest of some stretches of rivers while blunting the progress of other waterways' slow retreat.
Mark Fuchs, a National Weather Service hydrologist, said the latest dousing could be especially troubling for communities along the Illinois River, which he said is headed for record crests.
"Along the Illinois, any increase is going to be cause for alarm, adding to their uncertainty and, in some cases, misery," he said late Monday afternoon.
Last week's downpours brought on sudden flooding throughout the Midwest, and high water is blamed for at least three deaths. Authorities in LaSalle, Ill., spent Monday searching for a woman whose van was spotted days earlier near a bridge, and a 12-year-old boy was in critical condition after being pulled from a river near Leadwood, Mo., about 65 miles south of St. Louis.
The additional rain isn't welcome news in Clarksville, Mo., about 70 miles north of St. Louis.
Days after bused-in prison inmates worked shoulder to shoulder with the National Guard and local volunteers to build a makeshift floodwall of sand and gravel, the barrier showed signs of strain Monday. Crews scrambled to patch trouble spots and build a second sandbag wall to catch any water weaseling through.
In Grafton, Ill., some 40 miles northeast of St. Louis, Mayor Tom Thompson said small community was holding its own against the Mississippi that by early Monday afternoon was 10 feet above flood stage. Waters lapped against some downtown buildings, forcing shops such as Hawg Pit BBQ to clear out and detours to be put up around town ? one key intersection was under 8 inches of water.
"If it gets another foot (higher), it's going to become another issue," Thompson said. Many businesses "are kinda watching and holding their breath. ... Some things are going to really be close to the wire."
Elsewhere, smaller rivers caused big problems. In Grand Rapids, Mich., the Grand River hit a record 21.85 feet, driving hundreds of people from their homes and flooding parts of downtown.
Spots south of St. Louis aren't expected to crest until late this week, and significant flooding is possible in places like Ste. Genevieve, Mo., Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Cairo, Ill. Further downriver, flood warnings have been issued for Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Salter reported from St. Louis.
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Japan shrine visits, isles dispute stir East Asia tensions
By Kaori Kaneko
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tensions flared between Japan and its Asian neighbors after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, and Chinese patrol vessels played cat-and-mouse with a flotilla of Japanese nationalists near disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Beijing protested over the voyage by 10 boats carrying about 80 Japanese activists into waters near the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
"Regarding the Japanese right-wing activists' illegal entry into the waters of the Diaoyu islands that is causing trouble, the Chinese foreign ministry has lodged stern representations with Japan, and has strongly protested," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a news conference.
Japan also protested at what it called an intrusion by eight Chinese patrol vessels into its waters near the uninhabited Japanese-controlled islands, which are near rich fishing grounds and potentially lucrative maritime gas fields.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pressed in parliament to say how Japan would react to a Chinese attempt to land on the tiny islands, said it would be "natural to force them to leave".
But Tokyo appeared keen to avoid a clash between the nationalists' flotilla and the Chinese ships. Japan's Coast Guard, which had 13 vessels shadowing the boats, urged them to leave and escorted them away.
Last year members of the same group, "Ganbare Nippon" (Stand Firm! Japan), landed on one of the rocky islets and triggered anti-Japanese protests in China, where lingering resentment over Japan's wartime aggression has been rekindled in recent days.
China chastised Japan for Tuesday's visits by at least 168 lawmakers to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal along with Japan's war dead. The pilgrimage came after Abe made an offering and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and two other ministers visited Yasukuni over the weekend.
Homage paid by leading Japanese politicians at the Tokyo shrine typically angers Japan's neighbors, who contend that it glorifies wartime aggression.
"Regardless of what method or what identity these Japanese leaders take in visiting Yasukuni Shrine, fundamentally it is intentionally denying Japan's militaristic invasionist history," Hua said.
"We urge Japan to be responsible to history, to be responsible to the people and take a responsible attitude to the future and take realistic actions to win the trust of the international community, stop causing harm to itself and stop isolationist measures."
BITTER MEMORIES
Some Japanese experts said that, despite the latest tensions, the Asian rivals might avoid a re-run of the violent anti-Japanese protests last September that hurt economic ties between Asia's two biggest economies. Those protests were sparked when Japan's government bought the islands from a private owner.
"It may be things as usual. The mood will get worse but as time goes by, it may come back to more or less the same place," said Yoshihide Soeya, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Tokyo's Keio University. He noted China had reacted most strongly to Yasukuni visits in the past when they were made by premiers, foreign ministers or chief cabinet secretaries.
South Korea, where bitter memories of Japan's 1910-1945 colonization run deep, has canceled a trip to Japan by its foreign minister following the weekend shrine visits.
On Tuesday, a South Korean foreign ministry spokesman in Seoul said matters of history should be kept separate from efforts to cooperate over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
"It is helpful that the region's countries and the international community work together and pool their wisdom to solve this problem (of North Korea)," said Cho Tae-young. "But when it comes to history issues like the Yasukuni visit, our government takes a firm stance. That must not be mixed."
Conservatives in Japan argue they should be able to pay their respects to the nation's war dead in their own way.
"It is natural for lawmakers to worship at a shrine for people who died for the nation and every nation does this," Hidehisa Otsuji, a ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) lawmaker who chairs the parliamentary group behind the visit, told a news conference. "I don't understand why we get a backlash."
The group typically visits the shrine during its annual spring and autumn festivals, although the delegation of lawmakers was unusually large this year.
Aso also shrugged off overseas rebukes. "I first visited Yasukuni on April 28, 1953 and often went there ever since," Aso, who doubles as finance minister, told reporters.
"I go there two or three times every year and it's not something that should be taken up now. There's a reaction from overseas? But that's their reaction and I don't think it will much affect Japan's diplomatic relations with other countries."
Abe has enjoyed sky-high popularity ratings of more than 70 percent since he took office in December and launched his "Abenomics" plan to boost growth and beat deflation with hyper-easy monetary policy, spending and structural reform.
The prime minister, who has said he regretted not visiting Yasukuni during his 2006-2007 term in office, has been walking a fine line between talking tough in the territorial row with China and leaving the door open for dialogue.
Voters want Abe to put priority on fixing the economy rather than other issues close to his heart, such as revising Japan's pacifist constitution, an opinion poll showed this week.
(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo, Ruairidh Villar in the East China Sea, Ju-min Park in Seoul and Sui-lee Wee in Beijing; Writing by Antoni Slodkowski and Linda Sieg; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-nationalists-near-disputed-isles-mps-visit-shrine-022810883.html
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Ke$ha's 'My Crazy Beautiful Life' Debuts: Sex, Sweat ... And Some Stalking
In the first episode of her new MTV series, Ke$ha takes fans behind the scenes of her 'Crazy Beautiful Life.'
By James Montgomery
A scene from Ke$ha's "My Crazy Beautiful Life" premiere
Photo: MTV
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
AT&T revenue disappoints as it loses cellphone subscribers
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc reported a net loss of cellphone subscribers in the first quarter as it lost market share to bigger rival Verizon Wireless, sending its shares down about 2 percent.
As a result AT&T's revenue missed Wall Street expectations as its subscriber growth was driven by tablet computer users who pay lower monthly fees than phone users.
Since most U.S. consumers already have smartphones, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service provider and its rivals are rushing to put wireless connections in everything from tablet computers and consumer electronics to medical devices and home security systems.
But while customers with devices like tablets are less costly to attract than smartphone users, which require hefty subsidies, tablet customers bring in less revenue, raising analyst concerns about AT&T's prospects for top-line growth.
"It's going to take so many connected devices to make up for losing a phone subscriber," said Nomura analyst Michael McCormack, adding that slowing phone customer growth is also a concern for smaller rivals such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom.
AT&T maintained its target for 2013 overall revenue growth of 2 percent and said it still expects net additions of phone customers for the full year due to a boost in sales in launch quarters for popular phones like Apple Inc's iPhone.
But Susan Johnson, senior vice president for investor relations, said other devices would be increasingly important.
"It's not just about smartphones any more," Johnson told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday after the company's quarterly conference call during which analysts peppered executives with questions about the net loss of phone customers.
AT&T said it added 296,000 subscribers in the quarter, ahead of Wall Street expectations for just over 195,000, according to six analysts contacted by Reuters. But this included a net addition of 365,000 subscribers using tablet computers, implying a net loss of 69,000 higher-value phone subscribers.
In comparison its bigger rival Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, said last week that it added 677,000 subscribers in the first quarter.
Sprint, the No.3 U.S. mobile service provider, is scheduled to report its quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
Nomura's McCormack said AT&T's 0.9 percent growth in average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) missed his expectation for 1.9 percent growth.
"The concern's going to be how we should be thinking about ARPU going forward," the analyst said.
AT&T's revenue fell to $31.36 billion from $31.82 billion in the year-ago quarter, before the company sold its telephone directory business. Analysts, on average, had expected revenue of $31.74 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
While AT&T's wireless profitability was better than analysts expected, McCormack said that a 29.5 percent profit margin for its wireline business missed his expectation for 30.4 percent.
AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens told analysts on the conference call that the wireline business was hurt by weak demand from business and customers who are slowing spending due to concerns about the economy.
"The economy continues to be the issue," Stephens said.
AT&T's overall profit rose to $3.7 billion, or 67 cents per share, from $3.58 billion, or 60 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter.
It reported a wireless service margin of 43.2 percent based on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, up from 42.3 percent in the year-ago quarter and beating the six analysts' expectations for 42.3 percent.
On the plus side AT&T cut its capital spending target for 2014 and 2015 to $20 billion each year from its previous expectation for $22 billion as a network upgrade it is working on will cost less than it had previously expected.
The company kept its capital spending budget for 2013 in the $21 billion range.
It ended the quarter with 8.7 million U-verse high-speed Internet and television subscribers. It added 731,000 U-verse Internet subscribers, which was a record for the company, and 232,000 U-verse TV subscribers - its strongest growth rate in nine quarters.
AT&T shares fell about 2 percent to $38.24 in after-hours trade from their $39 close in the regular New York Stock Exchange session.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Jim Marshall, Tim Dobbyn and Phil Berlowitz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/t-revenue-disappoints-loses-cellphone-subscribers-002301192--sector.html
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Transit officer still critical after shootout
In this 2010 photo provided by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Richard Donohue Jr., left, and Sean Collier pose together for a photo at their graduation from the Municipal Police Officers' Academy. On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Collier was fatally shot on the MIT campus, and transit police officer Donohue was shot and critically wounded. Authorities allege that Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were responsible. (AP Photo/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)
In this 2010 photo provided by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Richard Donohue Jr., left, and Sean Collier pose together for a photo at their graduation from the Municipal Police Officers' Academy. On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Collier was fatally shot on the MIT campus, and transit police officer Donohue was shot and critically wounded. Authorities allege that Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were responsible. (AP Photo/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? Doctors say the Boston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the marathon bombing suspects had lost nearly all his blood and his heart had stopped from a single gunshot wound that severed three major blood vessels in his right thigh.
Surgeons at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge say 33-year-old Richard Donohue is in stable but critical condition. He is sedated and on a breathing machine but opened his eyes, moved his hands and feet and squeezed his wife's hand Sunday.
Emergency workers started CPR on the scene to restart his heart. Doctors say he is expected to make a full recovery and that nerves and muscles in his leg are intact.
Transit officials say Donohue had gotten out of his cruiser and was shooting at the suspects when he was hit late Thursday night in a gunbattle in Cambridge.
"He went in there and engaged people who were shooting at his fellow officers," Donohue's brother, Edward, said at a news conference Sunday at the hospital. "I cannot describe the pride I have," said the younger Donohue, who is a patrolman for the Winchester Police Department.
The fellow officers included a friend, MIT police officer Sean Collier, who died in the shootout.
Richard Donohue has been a transit officer for three years, said Paul MacMillan, chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
The bullet wound did not injure bone but severed the femoral vein and both branches of the femoral artery in Richard Donohue's right thigh, doctors said.
"The officer's blood volume was almost entirely lost to the point of the heart stopping," said Dr. Russell Nauta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn. It was a 45-minute effort to get it beating again, he said.
Doctors say Donohue's prognosis is good, and family members expect his sense of humor to return.
"His wife said: 'We'll never live this down. He'll never have to make himself another sandwich,'" the brother said.
Richard Donohue's wife, Kim; 6-month-old son, Reggie; father; sister; grandmother and others were with him at the hospital.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Rizon Jet awarded Best Fixed Base Operator and Best Charter ...
Rizon Jet, the Middle East and UK-based luxury flight?services company, are proud to announce that its FBO / VIP Terminal at its headquarters in Doha, State of Qatar has been awarded ?Best?Fixed Base Operator?Middle East? by Business Destinations Travel Awards for the second consecutive year. Furthermore its VIP Charter Flight Division has been named ?Best Charter Company Middle East?.
?The team at Rizon Jet has continued to forge higher standards, offering wholly better services and standing head and shoulders above the competition for this category,? said the magazine?s Feature Editor, William Owen. ?The company?s dedication to fantastic customer service and expansion is certainly the benchmark for others within the industry.??
The Business Destinations Travel Awards are designed to showcase those companies whose products and services represent the pinnacle of the business travel industry. Unique in travel accolade platforms, the Business Destinations Travel Awards are chosen not by a select, elite panel of judges but rather by a vast and diverse cross section of primary users and purchasers of corporate travel that make up the magazine?s readership.
Captain Hassan Al-Mousawi, Rizon Jet?s CEO states; ?Being passionate about all areas of our business and investing in our people will always remain one of our first priorities. It?s not just the facility, but the people that make the difference. Our business in the Middle East and Europe continues to grow while new opportunities keep presenting themselves. Those recognitions are very stimulating and we are committed to maintain the momentum we have gained in terms of providing the highest service levels and we are pleased to set a new benchmark for our competitors.?
Business Destinations is distributed to corporate travel executives and company travel buyers from Fortune 500 companies, MICE solution providers, members of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE), as well as other influential members of the business travel community. The magazine?s editorial board believes strongly that this exceptional recognition should be determined by the widest possible audience, whose first-hand experience of frequent travel is best suited to select the overall winners.
?The ratings come from important sections of our industry and add enormous weight to our credibility, which is something we treasure?; Hassan Al-Mousawi elaborates, ?They are fantastic endorsements and a clear indication that we are getting things right when it comes to providing innovative and outstanding turnkey business aviation services.?
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Facebook Home hits 500,000 installs, but what about active users?
Sometimes a big number is just... a big number
The new "love it or hate it" app out there, Facebook Home, has surpassed a pretty notable milestone in the Play Store today: 500,000 installs. That's half a million installs of an app that many said would appeal to a very small section of people -- those who are presumably "all in" with Facebook. But what does that 500,000 number even mean? Not that much, actually. Any time that someone clicks "install" on the Google Play store, it counts as an install. It doesn't matter if the user never actually launches the app, whether they set it as a default launcher or even whether it stays installed on their phone for more than 10 minutes.
It's kind of like a hamburger restaurant saying "10 million customers served". Well, sure they were served, but did they actually enjoy the food? Lots of users may be taking one bite out of Facebook Home and throwing it in the trash, and the Google Play numbers simply don't reflect that.
The real number we'd love to take a look at is active installs. How many people have installed Facebook Home, then continued to use it. Given the current ratings it is receiving in the play store -- an average of 2.2 out of 5 -- we have to guess that number is well below 500,000. And without that "active installs" number, we don't believe there's any comment to be made about the success of Home this early in the game.
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On Columbine anniversary survivor says gun bill fight isn?t over yet
Katie Lyles was a sophomore at Columbine High School when her math class was interrupted by the sound of gunfire on April 20, 1999.
She fled the class, and survived. But by the end of the day, she would find out that her lab partner from science class and one of her teachers were among the 13 people killed by a pair of seniors who went on a shooting rampage that day.
Fourteen years later, Lyles, now an art teacher at an elementary school in the same Colorado community, decided to become an advocate for expanded background checks and other gun safety measures after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14. In the aftermath of that tragedy, Lyles became alarmed when some gun rights enthusiasts suggested that teachers or volunteers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons into school to prevent the next shooting.
With the help of her teachers' union, the National Education Association, Lyles has lobbied lawmakers and shared her personal experience as a Columbine survivor and teacher to try to get new gun laws passed. She testified in front of the Colorado statehouse for stricter background checks and limits to high-capacity magazines, which eventually passed and were signed into law in March.
But her advocacy on the national level was not so successful. On Wednesday, senators refused to bring a background check bill to a vote, dealing a significant blow to President Barack Obama's stated goal of passing what he calls commonsense gun reforms. The Senate came five votes short of clearing the procedural hurdle that would have allowed lawmakers to actually debate the bill.
The failure came despite a compromise between Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) and Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) that scaled back an earlier Democratic proposal to require background checks for nearly every single gun transaction, including those among friends and relatives. The Manchin-Toomey compromise would have covered just commercial transactions, including online and gun show sales, to ensure people with criminal records can't buy weapons. The National Rifle Association opposed the background check compromise, saying it would not "reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools."
Lyles said she is disappointed the bill failed, but will continue to fight for the legislation.
"This isn?t the end of the fight, this is the first inning of a nine inning game," Lyles said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/columbine-survivor-gun-bill-failure-not-over-151457085.html
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