Monday, April 22, 2013

Boston Bombings Create Three New Stress Points for Obama

President Obama seemed like a man ready to exhale after the surviving Boston Marathon bomber suspect was captured, but he shouldn?t breathe too easy. Going forward, the tragic episode and its timing have created at least three new areas of stress for his already beleaguered administration.

Immigration setback? The public rollout of comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform legislation the same week as the marathon bombings was timing at its most unfortunate. The misfortune was compounded by later news that the two suspects in the bombings, which killed three and injured more than 170, were Muslim brothers of Chechen heritage from an area of Russia near Chechnya.

It?s beyond obvious that there are millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who are working at jobs, maybe creating jobs, who are paying taxes or are prospective taxpayers making contributions to their adopted country. But immigration is an emotional issue, and reform opponents now have a perfect hook in the case of the Tsarnaev brothers --?Tamerlan, 26, a legal U.S. resident killed in a shootout with police, and Dzhokhar, 19, a naturalized U.S. citizen taken into custody in serious condition after an intensive day-long manhunt.

The reform package laboriously crafted by the Senate?s bipartisan Group of 8 (and blessed this week by Obama) would grant provisional legal status to most of the 11 million people in the United States without legal documents. Some of them would have a potential path to citizenship years down the road after many border enforcement conditions have been met.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., made what he called ?a conservative case? for the package Saturday in National Review, focused heavily on its border control provisions. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., ?the Florida senator and much-mentioned Republican presidential possibility, has been issuing a series of ?Myth vs. Fact? releases to counter misinformation. Speaking Saturday to the Nevada GOP, Rubio said the bombings might make passage tougher, but he noted that the brothers got into this country under the broken system he is trying to fix.

Still, reform advocates are up against rising GOP opposition fueled by the bombings. A sampling: After Suspect No. 1 -- Tamerlan -- was killed, conservative Ann Coulter tweeted: ?It?s too bad Suspect #1 won?t be able to be legalized by Marco Rubio, now.? Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the conservative American Family Association, tweeted Saturday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a citizen ?because of our insanely misguided immigration policy.? He wondered why Muslims are being allowed in at all.

In contrast, Obama has spent the week tacitly reminding the country of the Latin motto on the seal of the United States: E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one.

The American spirit, he said Friday night after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, ?includes staying true to the unity and diversity that makes us strong -- like no other nation in the world.? Part of the greatness of America and Boston., he added, is that ??we welcome people from all around the world -- people of every faith, every ethnicity, from every corner of the globe. ?So as we continue to learn more about why and how this tragedy happened, let's make sure that we sustain that spirit.?

Obama also celebrated immigration at the prayer service for bombing victims on Thursday. ?Boston opens its heart to the world,? he said. ?Over successive generations, you?ve welcomed again and again new arrivals to our shores -- immigrants who constantly reinvigorated this city and this commonwealth and our nation.?

Some reform proponents are already making a more explicit and practical counter-argument to counter those who view the Boston bombings as a rationale to kill the reform package. They say the current dysfunctional immigration system is a recipe for more terrorism -- not less. ?Immigration reform will strengthen our nation?s security by helping us identify exactly who has entered our country and who has left,? Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham said Friday.

That case, always a hard political sell, has become even more difficult over the past week.

FBI Goof? The FBI says ?a foreign government? asked in early 2011 for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the second suspected bomber, who was killed in a shootout with police this week at age 26. The request was ?based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country?s region to join unspecified underground groups,? the FBI said.

The changes in Tamerlan were obvious. His aunt said that several years ago he became very religious and started praying five times a day. He grew a long beard. He also married a young American woman, Katherine Russell, and had a daughter with her. Russell ? the daughter of a doctor and nurse from North Kingston, R.I. -- converted to Islam and wore Islamic dress.

When the request for information came in 2011, the FBI said it checked into ?derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history? and ?did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign.? But clearly there was no follow-up, or the FBI would probably have noticed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev posted Islamic extremist videos on a YouTube account created in 2012, and flew from New York to Russia in January 2012 and stayed there until July.

Criminal or Combatant? In the latest flare-up of a longrunning conflict between the administration and conservatives, there is already pressure from the right to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a potential enemy combatant who is not entitled to legal protections (such as the right to remain silent) ? rather than as a potential criminal who is.

?We remain under threat from radical Islam and we hope the Obama Administration will seriously consider the enemy combatant option,? ?Graham wrote on Facebook right after Tsarnaev was taken into custody. He said the accused perpetrators of last Monday?s two bombings were ?not common criminals? but terrorists, and ?the least of our worries is a criminal trial which will likely be held years from now.?

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Y Combinator Grad ReelSurfer Gets A Makeover, Now Lets You Clip & Share Any ESPN Or New York Times Video

Screen shot 2013-04-12 at 2.10.56 PMY Combinator grad ReelSurfer is an instant video editor, born out of its founders frustration of trying to find clips, quotes and scenes from their favorite movies on YouTube and other video sites. The process is probably familiar to you: Search for clip, don't find it; if you do find it, it's part of a larger clip, so you have to download, convert and clip the video yourself.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: This Is J03

Like a modern-day Dante traversing the pits of Hell before ascending into Paradise, J03 is a man far out of his depth and just looking for the road home. Well, not so much a man as an 8-bit robot trapped in the digital revolution. Check out this cool live action/3D animated short by Once Were Farmers and The Gate Films. More »
    


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Russia tells North Korea not to provoke more tensions

April 12 (Reuters) - Arsenal forward Andrei Arshavin is likely to leave the club when his contract runs out at the end of this season, manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday. "I don't think he will stay here because he doesn't play enough," Wenger told a news conference. The Russian, who joined the north Londoners in early 2009 after shining for his country at Euro 2008, enjoyed a bright start to his time at the club including scoring four goals against Liverpool at Anfield but has seen little action of late. ...

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Duedil Raises $5M For Open Data Platform To Conduct The Due Diligence Companies Need

duedliDuedil?has raised $5 million for its platform that uses open data to help companies conduct due diligence. The Series A round was led by?Notion Capital. Also participating were Oak Investment Partners as well as Passion Capital and Spotify investor Shakil Khan.?With the funding, Duedil is hiring data scientists and beefing up its resources for expansion. Duedil is a company that shows what innovation can come when governments open their data. That’s what has happened with Duedil, which directly benefits from open data policies in the United Kingdom and those emerging in the European Union. With open data, Duedil?can link data from different sources, aggregate it and provide it free or soon to come, on a?subscription?basis. At its core, Duedil?offers a data analytics and visualization engine. Using the service, for example, a corporate lawyer can research a company’s corporate structure. The lawyer can visualize in a mind-map the company’s shareholders and investments. Last fall, Mike Butcher wrote about Duedil?opening its API. Developed with Mashery, Duedil?offers up to 20 years of information?on all companies registered in the UK and Ireland. With the EU opening its data, Duedil?will extend its network across the continent. This is some pretty cool stuff. The data analysis is detailed and the visuals bring the information to life. Just take a look at this blog post about how it developed its new credit rating service. It draws from GitHub’s Histogram and the colored bands resistors to show data in a new dimension. This is not your old school credit score. This is something to marvel at both in terms of the analysis it provides and the elegance of the design.

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Zuckerberg, Schmidt, Mayer and others back FWD.us tech political lobby group

Zuckerberg, Schmidt, Mayer and others back FWDus tech political lobby group

If you thought that Mark Zuckerberg's aspirations ended at commanding your smartphone, then think again. The Facebook chief has teamed up with a raft of other tech heavyweights including Eric Schmidt, Marissa Mayer and Elon Musk to form FWD.us, a political lobby group designed to promote tech-friendly causes. The first issue it wants to tackle is immigration reform to make it easier to woo foreign engineering talent, but it also has designs on scientific research, education reform and job creation. Evidently, these people still have spare time even after their stressful day jobs.

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The Old DVD Player Sitting in Your Garage Can Test for HIV

Remember DVD players? Well, looks like they won't be going the way of VHS tapes and cassettes (ask your parents) just yet. Because researchers have just figured out a way to turn them into affordable, blood-analyzing, cellular-imaging, laser-scanning microscopes capable of completing HIV tests in mere minutes. More »
    


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Lightbank Invests $650,000 In Walk.by, A New Platform Connecting Local Merchants With Online Shoppers By Way Of Smartphones

screen-follow-2Lightbank has invested $650,000 in its own Founder-in-Residence Josh Hernandez's new startup, Walk.by, a platform for bringing local merchants into the e-commerce world by way of smartphones. The company is today announcing the release of its consumer-facing iPhone app which lets shoppers browse and follow offline retailers, the brands they carry, as well as very specific items, like "brown leather boots" or "black Kate Spade maxi dress," for example.

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Zuckerberg Unveils New Political Group (ABC News)

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Whoa! Bidder Pays $6 Million for Crick DNA Letter

A bidder paid over $6 million at an auction today (April 10) for a letter British scientist Francis Crick wrote to his 12-year-old son explaining the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule, which he and James Watson had just discovered.

The winning bid was $5.3 million, with the final price tag for the "Secret of Life" letter coming in at $6,059,750, according to Christie's, which handled the sale.

The seven-page handwritten note, dated March 19, 1953, contains diagrams that outline the scientists' model for how "des-oxy-ribose-nucleic-acid (read it carefully)" replicates and encodes instructions for the development and function of living things.

"In other words we think we have found the basic copying mechanism by which life comes from life," Crick wrote to his son, Michael, who was at boarding school at the time, signing off, "lots of love, Daddy." [See Images of Crick's 'Secret of Life' Letter]

As legend has it, when Watson and Crick made their discovery on Feb. 28, 1953, Crick announced inside a local Cambridge pub called the Eagle, "We have discovered the secret of life." Their findings wouldn't be published in the journal Nature until two months later, and the note to Michael is likely one of the first written explanations of the discovery.

"As far as we know this is the first public description of these ideas that have become the keystone of molecular biology and which have spawned a whole new industry and generations of follow on discovery," Michael Crick wrote in Christie's catalogue.

The auction was handled by Christie's, which had valued the letter at $1-2 million dollars, comparing it to a letter Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning about the potential of nuclear weapons. Christie's sold that letter in 2002 for just over $2 million.?

According to Christie's, Crick's family plans to give half of the proceeds from the sale of the DNA letter to the Salk Institute in California, where the scientist, who died in 2004, studied consciousness later in his career.

One of Crick's notebooks, (valued between $4,000 and $6,000) snagged a $17,000 bid. And a drawing of Crick made by his wife, Odile Crick, an artist who drew the double helix for her husband and Watson, was auctioned off for $14,000 today. (Christie's had estimated it would sell for $8,000-$12,000).

Those three items were among the Crick-related mementos on sale this week in New York. Tomorrow (April 11), Heritage Auctions will sell the Nobel medal, struck in 23-carat gold, that Crick received for the discovery in 1962, alongside Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

Heritage Auctions has valued the medal and accompanying diploma at $500,000. As of Wednesday afternoon, the standing bid on the items was $280,000. Thursday's sale will also include Crick's award check with his endorsement on the back, the scientist's lab coat, his gardening logs, nautical journals and books.

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Burglars steal Vudu account IDs, passwords

Streaming video provider Vudu announced that a break-in March 24 resulted in the theft of hard drives containing customer information, including names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth and the last four digits of some credit card numbers.

According to Vudu, full credit card numbers were not stolen and that user passwords were encrypted. However, Vudu provided no details on the type of encryption used and whether it could be easily broken.

A statement from Vudu was not encouraging, "We believe it would be difficult to break the password encryption, but we can't rule out that possibility given the circumstances of this theft."

Therefore, all Vudu users should immediately change their passwords on any other sites on that use the same password as your Vudu account. Also, because emails addresses and other personal information were stolen, Vudu customers should be extremely cautious of phishing emails requesting passwords or other personal or financial information.

To help assist with future problems related to the data theft, Vudu ? which was bought by Walmart in 2010 ? has arranged for all customers to receive one year of identity protection services from AllClearID. Enrollment is not required. AllClear services can be accessed, if needed, from your Account Information page on the Vudu site.

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US expected to increase aid to Syrian rebels

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of a meeting in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London, Wednesday April 10, 2013. Kerry is meeting in London with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat, a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up aid to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Kerry is in London for a G8 foreign ministers' meeting today and Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, pool)

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of a meeting in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London, Wednesday April 10, 2013. Kerry is meeting in London with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat, a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up aid to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Kerry is in London for a G8 foreign ministers' meeting today and Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, pool)

(AP) ? The Obama administration's next step in aid to Syrian rebels is expected to be a broader package of nonlethal assistance, including body armor and night-vision goggles, as the U.S. grapples for ways to stem the bloodshed from Syria's civil war.

Administration officials say an announcement of the new aid is not imminent. But Secretary of State John Kerry says the administration had been holding intense talks on how to boost assistance to the rebels fighting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"Those efforts have been very much front and center in our discussions in the last week in Washington," Kerry said Tuesday, a day before meeting with Syrian opposition leaders in London. "I'm not sure what the schedule is, but I do believe that it's important for us to try to continue to put the pressure on President Assad and to try to change his calculation."

The United Nations estimates more than 70,000 people have been killed during more than two years of fighting between rebels and government forces.

Britain and France have already been shipping armor, night-vision goggles and other military-style equipment to the rebels.

Earlier this year, the U.S. announced a $60 million nonlethal assistance package for Syria that includes meals and medical supplies for the armed opposition. The aid package marked the first direct American assistance to the opposition forces trying to overthrow Assad.

But thus far, the U.S. has resisted providing lethal weapons to the rebels, in part out of fear that the arms could fall into the hands of jihadi groups that are designated as terrorist fronts linked to al-Qaida. However, the U.S. has said it would not stand in the way of other nations that decide to arm the rebels.

Senior officials from the White House, State Department and Pentagon held a high-level meeting Friday that focused on Syria.

In London, Kerry attended a British-hosted lunch alongside several leading members of the Syrian opposition. They included the interim prime minister, Hassan Hitto; Vice Presidents Suheir Atassi and George Sabra; Secretary-General Najib Ghadbian and the opposition's envoys to the United States and Britain.

Kerry then was to meet one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks on the Syrian civil war and several U.S.-Russian disputes that have strained the relationship. Discussions on Syria are expected to continue into Wednesday night when the top diplomats from all the Group of Eight industrialized nations get together.

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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper in London contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Bringing Cable to the Far Corners of America - CableTechTalk

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and Internet will hold a hearing titled ?State of Rural Communications? to examine the successes and challenges that companies face serving rural consumers.

The cable industry has long recognized that quality broadband services are crucial drivers of economic development in communities large and small. ?When cable delivers broadband to small communities, it?s what links them to the rest of the country and the world, creates jobs, improves educational opportunities, and delivers health care more efficiently.

Since 1996, the cable industry has invested over $200 billion to upgrade and expand its networks and facilities to provide broadband access. This investment has delivered broadband to roughly 15 to 20 million rural households. The vast majority of these households are offered service with downstream transmission speeds of 10 Mbps or greater, certainly comparable to the services available in urban areas.

Last October, we wrote about GCI?s efforts in Alaska to bring a terrestrial, fiber-rich cable broadband network extending into some of the most isolated Alaskan villages. These connections (online since July 2012) are both speedy and affordable. Entry-level prices are as inexpensive as they are in major metropolitan areas.

Here in the lower 48 we?ve seen the rollout of rural cable communications from Midcontinent?s Northern Plains Network that is especially designed to support business. There are over 6,400 miles of fiber in North and South Dakota and rural Minnesota that is scalable to a monster four terabits per second, is redundant, self-healing, and monitored 24/7.

One of the smallest cable providers, Eagle Communications, is an employee-owned company with 270 employees, operating 32 cable systems focused on serving just 18,000 customers. Ninety-nine percent of the homes passed by its cable plant have access to broadband connections.

And Mediacom?s cable network is based primarily in rural America, providing state-of-the-art information services to smaller cities and towns in 22 states. Mediacom passes over 2.85 million homes and offers blazingly fast services to many local businesses that reach symmetrical broadband speeds of one gigabit per second.

These are just a few examples of the ways in which rural cable companies are investing in their local communities. But our work isn?t done. We need to continue to support and protect the success of these small businesses and rural communities by promoting further private investment.

The best way for government to address the challenge of rural broadband deployment is to ensure that scarce taxpayer funds are directed specifically to areas that currently do not have broadband service and are unlikely to attract private investment. ?Without this focus, we not only fail in directing government support to its intended purpose, but we also run the risk of discouraging private investment in communities already served by private Internet providers. The FCC has done a commendable job in starting to reform the outdated universal service support regime in a way that redirects subsidies from served areas to un-served areas.

As the FCC continues to implement the reforms adopted in 2011, it must ensure that subsidies are being used to connect the millions of Americans that still do not have broadband, not to compete with businesses already supplying broadband services.

Cable?s commitment to supporting small and large businesses, hospitals, schools and government entities in rural communities helps fulfill the promise of an Internet that everyone can access and through it, improve their lives. The Internet isn?t just for big cities, provided by big companies ? it?s for everyone, provided by the large and small cable companies of America.

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To learn more about the businesses that deliver broadband to the far corners of America, you can visit their websites:

Mediacom, which offers its residential customers up to 105 Mbps broadband speeds.

Midcontinent Communications, which connected small town libraries with 100 Mbps fiber circuits.

Eagle Communications, which offer local businesses web hosting solutions and full data storage warehousing for ?back up recovery.?

BendBroadband, which invested over $100 million in its Central Oregon operations to include 2,000 miles of fiber and coax infrastructure.

GCI, which recently opened a 9,000 square foot state-of-the-art data services center.

Suddenlink, which built a redundant 860 MHz broadband plant as part of the company?s statewide broadband network in West Virginia.

Sjoberg?s Inc., which, since 1993, has installed fiber to connect almost every one of the towns it serves.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Avon plans to cut over 400 jobs, exit Ireland

(Reuters) - Avon Products Inc said on Monday it will slash more than 400 jobs as part of a turnaround plan aimed at restoring the cosmetics maker to profitability.

Avon, the world's already showing signs of improvement biggest direct seller of cosmetics, is under its new chief executive, Sheri McCoy, who was brought in a year ago.

"We continue to work aggressively toward turning around the business," McCoy said on Monday. In February, Avon reported surprisingly strong fourth-quarter earnings after reversing sales declines in top markets like Brazil and Russia.

Job will be cut across all regions and functions and will include the restructuring or closing of smaller, underperforming markets, primarily in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Avon said. It will leave the Ireland market.

The cuts, which will be completed by the end of the year, are expected to generate $45 million to $50 million in annual savings. They are part of McCoy's plan to cut overall costs by $400 million.

Total charges related to the cuts are expected to range from $35 million to $40 million, with about $20 million of that being recorded in the first quarter of 2013, the company said.

Avon has some 39,000 associates and more than six million active representatives who sell its products, according to its 2012 annual report.

(Reporting by Martinne Geller in New York; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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To Republicans, Margaret Thatcher was first conservative-as-insurgent

Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, embodied much of what inspires US Republicans with her iron-willed stand on the effectiveness of conservative principles.

By David Grant,?Staff writer / April 8, 2013

In this Feb. 1985 file photo, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meets with her friend and political ally President Ronald Reagan during a visit to the White House in Washington. Thatcher, who led Britain for 11 years, died Monday morning.

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Ms. Thatcher?s death on Monday generated an outpouring of personal memories from Republican members of Congress across the country.

Indeed, in an age where conservative Republicans style themselves as revolutionaries bucking a stale liberal order, it is Thatcher, even before her brother-in-arms President Ronald Reagan, who was the first successful conservative-as-insurgent.

?Thatcher is the first point in modern Western political history at which you can say the conservatives become the reformers or the revolutionaries and the left becomes the defender of the status quo,? says Ted Bromund, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. ?Thatcher was a revolutionary and a conservative simultaneously.?

The Iron Lady, who rose to the rank of prime minister in 1979 and retained the post until 1990, had a steely, ramrod-straight alignment with conservative principles and brandished tomes by conservative economists on a handful of moments throughout her long career.

That relish at joining the philosophical debate combined with a forthright espousal of conservative beliefs and her long-running political success is an inspiring mixture to many similar-minded GOP politicos today.

?Lady Thatcher was a towering figure and a hero of mine,? said Sen. Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania, elected to the Senate in the tea party wave of 2010 and former head of the fiscally arch-conservative Club for Growth, in a statement.

Thatcher?s place in political history aside Mr. Reagan is also a source of her influence. The indelible victories of Reagan lore ? from foreign-policy triumphs like the fall of the Berlin Wall and victory in the cold war to rolling back government control of industry at home ? are achievements shared by both figures.

?She was the British version of Ronald Reagan,? said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee in a statement, ?or perhaps he was the American version of her.?

Thatcher?s resonance with the contemporary GOP is also related to her dedicated appreciation for America and its global power. As Mr. Bromund points out, in a ?world that isn?t overpopulated with foreign leaders who are both successful ... and also vocally pro-American,? it is just that attitude that continues to set Thatcher apart.

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Monday, April 8, 2013

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French in Mali face Islamist insurgency of unknown strength

Insurgent raids into Timbuktu and Gao in supposedly secured northern cities put a question mark over France's aspirations to wrap up its military intervention in Mali soon.

By Robert Marquand,?Staff writer / April 1, 2013

A Malian soldier walks in Gao, northern Mali, in early February. Timbuktu has been hit by a prolonged battle between Islamic extremists and the Malian and French armies, residents and a Malian military spokesman said Sunday.

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Handfuls of Islamist radicals are slipping in and out of towns in northern Mali on hit and run operations, putting a question mark over France's aspirations to neatly wrap up its military intervention soon.

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This weekend brought a suicide car bomb in Timbuktu that rattled residents and sparked a brief, intense skirmish with French and Malian troops who say they will now more strongly garrison the ancient trading post town.?The French deployed air craft to crack down on rebels, whose identity in this attack remains unclear. Malian officials said 21 rebels were killed.

As French politicians and senior officers prepare to partly exit Mali this month, having largely assuaged fears of a new Afghanistan developing in northwest Africa, they are facing a new low-level radical insurgency of yet uncertain numbers, capability, and intent.

"The fighting is heavy and it is ongoing," Malian Army Capt. Modibo Naman Traore told Reuters on Sunday, adding that the Army was in the process of "encircling" the militants.?

Last week in Gao, the largest city in the Malian north, rebels killed six locals in a similar attack. That operation, which French forces reportedly rebuffed quickly, was claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, a group that partly controlled the city last fall.

In January the French quickly drove out a loose but effective Islamist insurgency that last year took over huge swaths of Mali using weapons siphoned out of Libya after its civil strife ended.

But having liberated Gao, Timbuktu, and other northern towns, the French have focused on Islamists in the northern mountains; days back French forces confirmed killing a significant rebel leader Abou Zeid. Yet apparent French?indifference to, or even collaboration in recent weeks with, ethnic Tuareg rebels, reported here by Peter Tinti in The Christian Science Monitor, has strained relations between government, military, and local populations.

Much of the media coverage and information of sensitive war operations in Mali by the French is under strict control. The New York Times today, reporting out of Paris, writes about the rebels in Timbuktu that,

?They had said Timbuktu was secured,? the mayor [of Timbuktu] lamented. The fighting had ceased by about 3 p.m. on Sunday, he said, though military aircraft, presumably French, continued to circle in the skies above Timbuktu. Two patrols of French fighter aircraft had been sent to Timbuktu, according to Colonel Burkhard, the military spokesman, but they did not fire any munitions.

Analysts continue to ask whether, after a successful effort to put Al Qaeda-linked rebels on the run, Mali itself can continue to hold together.

Mali has announced new elections in July and the French force levels are to draw down from more than 4,000 to 2,000 by that time.?

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Recognize Your "Escape Mode," and Identify the Root Cause

Recognize Your "Escape Mode," and Identify the Root Cause When we're subconsciously trying to avoid something, many of us fall into an "escape mode" where we pick up slightly unusual habits. It could be something fairly innocuous like obsessive cleaning or overeating, or even something dangerous like aggressive driving or heavy drinking. Either way, if you can identify the symptoms of your escape mode, you can work on breaking out of it.

Trent at The Simple Dollar realized that he played a lot of video games and read a lot of books when avoiding problems in his life:

For the longest time, I didn't recognize the things I would do to "block out" the problems I was having. I viewed such activities as a sign that I was "down," not necessarily that I was trying to avoid facing a specific problem in my life.

Today, though, I recognize that response. I know that when I'm drawn to spend a significant chunk of my spare time playing video games or most of my spare time reading, I'm trying to avoid something in my life.

While a little escapism isn't necessarily a bad thing, you should try to figure out the root cause, and correct it if possible. Some stresses in life are subtle, or build slowly over time, but by self-diagnosing our escape mode, we can focus our energy on identifying and eliminating them. Trent actually used this method to identify the cause of his minor chronic leg pain, and eliminate it. For more of his story, be sure to check out the source link.

Blocking What We Can't Deal With | The Simple Dollar

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Does Boston need a CEO as mayor?

Boston?s first open race for mayor in a generation has yet to attract a candidate from the ranks of business, an executive in the mold of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who could tap a vast fortune to finance a bid for City Hall.

As in baseball, Boston plays a different game than New York when it comes to politics, a house-to-house shoe-leather contest that can make the Hub of the Universe seem like a small town. Mayoral candidates here can expect to spend muggy days in August pounding on the doors of triple-deckers, pitching their candidacy to any voter willing to listen.

?This isn?t New York. It?s not an air war. It?s not something where you can do this gigantic media buy,? former city councilor John M. Tobin Jr. said. ?It?s expected you?re knocking on doors.?

There are executives weighing a run, and a candidate may materialize in the next few weeks, according to John F. Fish, chief executive of Suffolk Construction Co. Fish declined to identify potential candidates but said he would not enter the race.

But political observers and corporate executives say Boston voters may not necessarily be looking for a candidate to emerge from a downtown boardroom ? someone, say, in the mold of former advertising mogul Jack Connors. And business leaders may be comfortable with many of the candidates who hail from Boston?s political class.

?The city works. You don?t need a Jack Connors or a John Fish to come in on a white horse and be the business candidate,? said Kevin Phelan, an executive with the real estate firm Colliers International. ?I think we?re trying to create a Mike Bloomberg or [former Los Angeles mayor] Richard Reardon, but I?m not sure that exists here.?

One potential candidate with a business background is Bill Walczak, a founder of the Codman Square Health Center, who said in an interview that he planned to meet Saturday with advisers to ask tough questions about whether he could run a successful bid for mayor. Walczak?s business savvy was earned in the city?s neighborhoods, not in downtown salons.

Over 30 years, Walczak built a base anchored in Dorchester, starting as a probation officer in 1976. He cofounded the Codman Square Health Center in 1980, and as chief executive officer, used it as a vehicle to revitalize the neighborhood. He traveled in business circles as he raised more than $70 million for the health center, which eventually came to employ more than 300.

Walczak is president and cofounder of the Codman Academy Charter Public School, and from 2011 to 2012 served as president of Carney Hospital, part of the Steward Health Care System. He is now vice president at Shawmut Design and Construction, where he represents the company before government and community groups. Now, he said, he would like to do more.

?The ability of the mayor of Boston to get things accomplished and improve the quality of life in the city is enormous,? Walczak said Friday. ?This is something that comes along once in a generation and the opportunity has to be looked at seriously.?

Four elected officials have already entered the race: Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley; city councilors John R. Connolly and Rob Consalvo; and state Representative Martin J. Walsh. Two other candidates ? Will Dorcena and Charles Clemons ? have also said they are running. Several other people have said publicly they are considering a campaign.

On Friday, Conley addressed the 265 employees of the district attorney?s office to explain why he launched his bid earlier this week. ?We serve people who have no one else to speak for them,? Conley said. ?I decided to make this run for mayor because I hope that we can carry our cause and theirs beyond the justice system and into the realms like economic opportunity, housing, education, and more.?

Conley asked his staff to pay careful attention to the laws governing employees? involvement in political activity and said he would not accept political donations from staff at the district attorney?s office.

The race to succeed Mayor Thomas M. Menino is only a week old. Candidates have until May 13 to file for nomination papers, the first step in getting on the ballot for the Sept. 24 preliminary election. The top two vote-getters will face off Nov. 5.

?There is still time to get into the race and for the business community, there is going to be time to assess the candidates,? said Paul Guzzi, president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

For the preliminary election, at least a half-dozen candidates appear likely to battle over the 100,000-plus voters expected to turn out. That may mean a candidate who garners 20,000 votes ? the equivalent of a small town ? may be catapulted into the final round. Continued...

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Kristen Stewart: Dedicated to Saving Robsten!

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How Lincoln Kept The Border States In The Union ? Dick Morris TV: History Video!

By Dick Morris on April 6, 2013

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Mad Men, Season 6

A confession: I got worn out last year. It was a mopey season. Don felt not so much conflicted as crabby. There was too much press about the show (I?m sure I?ll be more forgiving now that I?m part of the problem). There were times last season when it felt that the original humor that marked the show had been outsourced to?Archer.

And yet, here we are. And of course I?ll watch every minute of this ridiculous, fascinating television entertainment program. I haven?t seen this Matthew Weiner letter. I?ve yet to watch the screener. The only thing I know about this season is that Jon Hamm's?penis has been in the news. I don't even know?how?I know that.

What I?d love to see more than anything is the show opening in 1983 and Don's career winding down. Sterling Cooper Draper has been acquired by, I don?t know, J. Walter Thompson. I would welcome thirteen straight episodes of a lonely Don screaming at a Wang word processor that keeps crashing, while insisting that his new overseers give him back his secretary. But I doubt that we?ll skip forward quite so far. Perhaps in Season 7.

Another wish is that a person of color has a role on the show that requires them to be more than a peg from which to hang some ennui. That situation has been weird, and it remains weird.

I do think this will be Pete's season. Of all the characters he seems the best-prepared for a truly grand torment. I would much enjoy watching him struggle with lupus. Several episodes of exhausting medical treatments, punctuated by the rest of the characters facing their own mortality. The suspense?will Pete die? Can Pete find meaning? Do we, the audience, want him to die???would be unbearable.

I would also like to see Pete do more with firearms. The combination of an insufferable prick with a dangerous weapon makes for great TV. (Here's a?useful reference page showing all the guns used on Mad Men. Fun fact: The guy who mugged Joan and Roger in Season 4, triggering all manner of erotic consequences, used a Colt Detective Special.)

Speaking of Roger, it?d be a pleasure to see him on acid more often. More spontaneous male nudity would also pick up the pace, and would be good for television in general. And I do hold out hope that he and Don might actually do some advertising. Watching them come up with the campaigns, pitching their very souls to cretins, is the pleasure last season kept holding out to the viewers, then pulling back for yet more office drama and unsatisfying death.

On the home front, can we move Betty along? She's become a picklepuss, an inconvenience?it?s almost as if the writers are punishing her for continuing to exist by making her ever more purselipped. She used to ride horses. She modeled. She had anonymous sexual intercourse as a form of revenge. Now she nibbles corn snacks and hates everyone, especially herself. Is there no fun for mother? Suggestion: She takes the kids to an amusement park. Betty on a roller-coaster, enjoying a momentary thrill. Then, just as she forgets herself and a smile forms, the coaster could get stuck and while she and Sally sit there waiting for a repair Betty could say something terrible?something about how slutty girls die alone, for example. Fade to black, cue ?Mrs. Robinson? (if it?s 1968).

Alternately, this would be a wonderful time, both in terms of narrative dynamics and American history, for Betty to become a fundamentalist Christian. We've already seen her at Weight Watchers. Sally and Bobby forced to attend church with their mother, and all the bizarre psychosexual dynamics thereof, would be a treat. Or even better, a church retreat where they discuss?The Late, Great Planet Earth. Let her search for meaning like everyone else. Fade to black, cue ?Jesus Is Just All Right? (if it?s 1972).

Of course Matthew Weiner will give us exactly the season we deserve. The collective cultural freak-out is about to begin. David Brooks will explain how Joan represents lost cultural values. Tom Friedman will compare Jon Hamm?s genitals to Afghanistan. And it will just get weirder. I leave you with this?stanza from a poem by Jennica Harper, part of a cycle of poems written in the voice of Sally Draper:

But today I?ll wear red.
The red of a cherry
on a sword in a virgin
cocktail I?ll have to sip
through a straw.

History will judge us by this show.

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Clean Energy Solutions for a Renewable Future

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Jennifer Garner on Ben Affleck Oscar Speech: A Compliment!

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Facebook to release new software for Android devices

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has unveiled new software for devices that run Google Inc.?s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook ?Home? gives the social networking company?s content top placement on smartphones.

Instead of displaying a phone's traditional menu of apps, the Journal says, Home takes over a handset?s cover screen and populates it with posts from a user?s news feed, photos and messages from friends.

Home will be pre-installed on a new smartphone from HTC Corp. and will be available for download from the Google app store on April 12.

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