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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
CA-BUSINESS Summary
TSX slides as mining, energy issues stumble
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock market finished lower on Friday as natural resource stocks slumped and market sentiment soured following U.S. economic growth data that fell short of expectations. U.S. gross domestic product expanded at a 2.5 percent rate, an increase from the fourth quarter's dismal 0.4 percent pace but shy of the 3 percent growth analysts were hoping for. The weaker-than-expected data in Canada's biggest trading partner weighed on Canadian stocks.
Ethiopian Airlines first to fly 787 Dreamliner since grounding
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines
Italian court rejects Nomura seizure order: sources
SIENA, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian judge has rejected an order to seize around 1.8 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of assets from Nomura as part of a probe into suspected fraud involving troubled lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Merger of drugmakers Valeant, Actavis on hold: source
(Reuters) - A proposed merger of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc
Vodafone investors want bigger bid or full takeover by Verizon
LONDON (Reuters) - Six major Vodafone investors
Renault hopes to have approval for Chinese plant by summer: CEO
PARIS (Reuters) - Renault-Nissan
Volkswagen committed to European plants: CEO
VIENNA (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen
Boeing ready to build seven Dreamliners a month by mid-year
TOKYO (Reuters) - Boeing Co
TransCanada sees Keystone XL delayed till second-half 2015
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp
Exclusive: Brazil's Vale says signs accord to quit Argentine Potash project
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Global miner Vale SA signed an agreement with the Argentine government on Friday that will allow the Brazilian company to leave the $6 billion Rio Colorado potash mining project, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. The agreement could put an end to months of uncertainty for Vale
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So, while American TV news was mesmerized by the Royal baby ...
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. - Howard Zinn
Someone pointed out to me that North Korea has been awfully quiet this week, all things considered. Or, at least, our crackerjack news networks haven?t seen fit to cover them.
True, we have had two major events happen in close succession - the Boston bombing and the plant explosion in Texas. Oh, and how our ?lawmakers? sprang into action when airline profits were threatened by the government budget battles.
Other than that, though, what else (other than stories about the Boston bomber) have we learned about?
We have seen endless footage of the Royal ?baby bump,? with anxious Americans being informed of the child?s role when it comes to succeeding the current Queen of England - roughly, a few thousand supermarket openings and other photo ops to go, kid.
We don?t actually know anything about the oddly-bland made for TV Royal couple, other than what press releases tell us . . . but then, modern journalism lives on press releases.
The opening of the George Bush Presidential Library, which featured fawning reporter after fawning reporter talking to the former president about his new found love for painting.
Som yes, Wagnerian Reader, one might possibly be forgiven for thinking that nothing else happened in the world this week. Except for . . .
I picked up a copy of the New York Times yesterday, just to see if there might have been one or two stories the networks might have let slip through the cracks, and here are some of the nuggets I found:
North Korea Issues Threat At Ceremony For Military - North Korean generals warned that not only were their forces ready to launch ICBM attacks against this country, but that the North is ? . . . one click away from pressing the launch button.? The claim was made that pilots, instead of loading up with fuel for a return trip, would be prepared to launch ?kamikaze-like? attacks against this country.
Venezuela Says U.S. Citizen Plotted Unrest - Timothy Hallett was arrested on accusations that he was working with right-wing groups hoping to promote violence, and possibly even a civil war.
Cuba: U.S. Bars Raul Castro?s Daughter from a Forum - Castro?s daughter was to attend a gay rights conference in Philadelphia next week, when she was to receive an award. No explanation was given for the decision to bar her from the conference.
South Africa: Lawmakers Pass Contentious Secrecy Bill - The South African government approved a highly criticized bill would increase the government?s power to restrict access to information.
Agency Halts Trials for AIDS Vaccine - A trial of a possible Vaccine against AIDS was halted because it appeared not to be working, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Cancer Specialists Attack High Drug Costs - More than 100 cancer specialist from around the globe met to take what has been described as the ?first step? in banding together in the hopes of persuading drug companies to bring their prices down.
Wouldn?t it be nice if ?lawmakers? who get campaign donations from drug manufacturers also felt such concern?
And if this wasn?t bad enough, it takes the excellent HBO documentary series VICE to lay open just what is happening in Europe, while on American TV news all we hear is that folks are in an uproar due to ?austerity measures.?
I still cling to the old-fashioned view that knowing things (real things, not conspiracy drenched crap) is important to our culture, and to ourselves as human beings. It sets good example for our friends, and for the young people in our lives, while being pig ignorant, on the other hand . . .
Maybe it?s too late to expect anything of local and national news, but we can expect more of ourselves, and it only takes a few minutes a week to stay informed.
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And here is one bit of news a local anchor and weatherman twisted out of all proportion
A local anchor and weatherman were practically giving each other high fives a few days ago, because ?the drought is over.?
This headline from the New York Times:
In Midwest, Drought Gives way To Flood.
Deep, deep sigh.
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CSN: Phillies' bats spoil shaky Marcum's 2013 debut
NEW YORK -- When it comes to offensive production, the Phillies? outfield has been a sinkhole during the first month of the season.
Phillies outfielders entered Saturday afternoon?s game against the Mets at Citi Field with the second-worst combined on-base and slugging percentage (.562) in the majors. Only the Miami Marlins? outfield at .548 had a worse OPS than the Phillies outfielders.
It was a long time coming, but the Phillies finally got some thunder from their outfield in beating the Mets, 9-4, Saturday (see Instant Replay).
Domonic Brown, John Mayberry Jr. and Laynce Nix combined for four hits and five RBIs in 13 at-bats. Brown and Mayberry both homered to key a five-run fifth inning.
?That?s definitely good,? manager Charlie Manuel said. ?That?s what we?ve been waiting for. We?ve got to get it more often.?
Mayberry started in center field as Ben Revere got his third day off with a strained left quad muscle. It?s not clear which is hurting more, Revere?s quad or his batting average (.207) and on-base percentage (.242). It?s likely that Revere will get another day off Sunday as Manuel could stick with the right-handed hitting Mayberry against Mets? lefty Jonathon Niese.
Eventually, the Phillies will insert Delmon Young into their outfield. He?s in the home stretch of his rehab from offseason ankle surgery. Young is currently playing on minor-league rehab at Triple A Lehigh Valley. He got a planned day off Saturday night.
The Phillies arrived in New York after three straight losses to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They scored just seven runs in those three games and were a dreadful 4 for 29 with runners in scoring position.
In two games against the Mets -- both wins -- the Phils have scored 13 runs while going 7 for 18 with runners in scoring position.
?We?ve got to do better,? Brown said. ?This is more like we?re capable of.?
Most of Saturday?s offense came at the expense of Mets? right-hander Shaun Marcum, who lasted just four innings in his first start of the season, and lefty reliever Robert Carson, who was tagged for four hits and five runs in the fifth inning.
All this offense helped make a winner out of 22-year-old Jonathan Pettibone in his second big-league start. Pettibone was not sharp -- he threw 96 pitches in five innings -- but he protected the lead well, minimized damage and picked up his first big-league win.
He even came away with a souvenir from the game. As he spoke with reporters he reached into his locker and produced a ball that looked as if it had been retrieved from the bottom of nearby Flushing Bay.
Ah, the ol? fake game ball trick.
As Pettibone laughed about the fake game ball, equipment man Phil Sheridan was gathering up an official scorecard and some legitimate game balls to give Pettibone a proper souvenir from his first win.
?It was definitely a battle from the first pitch on,? Pettibone said. ?My teammates picked me up.?
Pettibone, called up when John Lannan went on the disabled list, has earned another start.
?He?s in our rotation right now,? Manuel said. ?He deserves it.?
The Phillies, 11-14 on the season, are 4-11 in games started by Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee. They are 7-3 in games started by Pettibone, Lannan and Kyle Kendrick.
?Someone is going to pay for that,? Manuel said. ?Our top three starters will get hot.?
Pettibone actually helped the offense with his first big-league hit, a single that started a three-run rally in the third.
On the mound, he survived allowing three straight runners to open the fourth. He allowed just a sacrifice fly to keep things in check.
The Phillies? offense did its most damage in the fifth inning. Jimmy Rollins doubled and Michael Young walked with one out. Ryan Howard then came up and scorched a one-hopper toward shortstop Ruben Tejada. If Tejada comes up with the ball, it?s a double play. He did not come up with it, however. Rollins screened him just enough and the ball rocketed into the outfield for an RBI hit. Brown (a three-run blow) and Mayberry (a solo shot) followed with homers off Carson to give the Phils an 8-2 lead.
Howard has hit the ball hard in both games. He crushed a long homer to center in Friday night?s game.
If Tejada had been able to handle Howard?s smash in the fifth inning and start a double play, it could have been a backbreaker.
Manuel was more than happy to take the hit.
?That?s baseball,? he said. ?Sometimes things go your way. The other day, Cliff Lee pitched real well but gave up a couple Texas Leaguers. There?s a lot of luck in baseball. You can?t put a percentage on luck. There?s a lot of things that happen in a game that comes down to inches. When you?re going bad those little things can go against you.?
The Phillies? offense will get another boost Sunday when Carlos Ruiz returns from suspension (see story). Manuel said Ruiz would hit fifth or sixth in the lineup.
?He got a lot of big hits for us in the clutch last season,? Manuel said. ?We?re going to be better when he?s back. The guys here have done a good job, but Chooch is our regular catcher.?
Source: http://www.csnphilly.com/baseball-philadelphia-phillies/outfield-pop-leads-phillies-past-mets
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Grizzlies beat Clippers 104-83, tie series at 2
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? When Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph click together, the Memphis Grizzlies are very, very tough to beat.
Gasol and Randolph had 24 points apiece and led a strong rebounding effort by the Grizzlies in a 104-83 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday that evened their first-round playoff series at 2-all.
"Their synergy is pretty amazing you know what I mean," Clippers guard Chris Paul said. "Z Bo on the inside and big fella Marc, that's another guard the way he passes the ball and shoots the ball. You just got to run them. You got to run them. You got to try to get them tired. You can't just leave them in a rocking chair."
Gasol also contributed 13 rebounds and Randolph had nine boards as Memphis won its second straight to ensure another stop in Tennessee for Game 6. Mike Conley had 15 points and 13 assists, and Tayshaun Prince scored 15 in his best game of the series.
"Now we got to go out there and try to get a win," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said.
Paul and Blake Griffin had 19 points apiece for the Clippers, and Griffin also grabbed 10 rebounds for his first double-double this postseason. Los Angeles' reserves outscored its counterparts again, 43-16. But DeAndre Jordan was the only other starter besides Paul and Griffin to score for the Clippers, and he had two points. Chauncey Billups and Caron Butler went a combined 0 for 10 from the floor in being shut out.
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
"We got to go back, and we got to take care of business in Game 5 at home in front of our fans," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "But there's no question we're going to have to get back to playing the way we did the first couple games."
The team that controls the boards has won each game of the series so far, with Memphis owning a 45-28 advantage in Game 4. That led to a 22-2 difference in second-chance points, boosted by a 13-5 edge on offensive boards.
The Grizzlies used their prowess on the glass to beat the speedy Clippers when it came to fast-break points, 18-6.
Memphis' biggest advantage is its big men, and Randolph and Gasol each took turns helping the Grizzlies turn this into a best-of-three series. Gasol had six points at halftime, and Tony Allen said Hollins chewed out the 7-foot-1 Spaniard at the break, reminding him to score.
"The second half he was just phenomenal," Allen said.
Gasol said Hollins didn't tell him to try to score more because the center noted he had been trying to do just that in the first half.
"We had Zach going in the first half, so we played through Zach," Gasol said. "It doesn't matter who scores. At the end of the day, what matters is we win."
Randolph had 16 points and seven rebounds in the first half as Memphis got off to a quick start, leading 33-25 after the first quarter. Gasol scored 18 in the second half, using an effective jumper to avoid the paint after picking up his third foul with 7:54 left in the third. Randolph got his third 7 seconds later.
It didn't matter.
The Clippers never led by more than two, the last at 60-58 on a pair of free throws by Paul with 5:58 left in the third. Gasol then hit a 23-footer that beat the shot clock and made a pair of free throws to put Memphis ahead.
Ronny Turiaf's layup tied it for the sixth and final time. Gasol found Randolph for a layup that put the Grizzlies ahead to stay at 64-62 on the 10th and final lead change with 3:21 left in the third.
Memphis opened the fourth with a 19-5 surge and went up as much as 20, the first on a drive by Quincy Pondexter with 3:45 left at 96-76. The Grizzlies outscored the Clippers 33-16 in the quarter and 55-36 for the half.
Del Negro then subbed in from his bench with 3:02 remaining and had all his starters on the sideline for the final 2 minutes.
"They kind of blew us away in the fourth quarter," Billups said.
The Grizzlies set the tone from the start and led by as much as 12 in the first quarter. They went cold in the second when Paul scored nine of his 14 first-half points to help the Clippers to a 47-46 lead at halftime.
The Clippers wanted to be aggressive in what's been a physical series with lots of wrestling, especially between Randolph and Griffin. All the pounding appeared to take a toll in the second quarter as the Clippers had a chance to take their first lead only to have Griffin travel on back-to-back possessions. They couldn't even connect on a dunk as Prince tipped away a lob to Griffin.
Gasol was the key in the third. He even connected on a 23-foot jumper off an inbounds pass from Prince late in the shot clock. That tied it at 60 with 4:35 left and cranked new energy into the arena.
NOTES: The Grizzlies went 15-3 in the regular season when Gasol posted a double-double. ... Memphis improved to 17-1 when shooting at least 50 percent. ... The Grizzlies sold out their 12th straight postseason game. ... The Grizzlies played without veteran guard Keyon Dooling, who sat out with a strained muscle. ... Prince had only 10 points in the first three games combined. ... The Clippers shot 13 of 39 in the second half, compared to 20 for 35 for Memphis.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Italy forms new government after 2-month stalemate
Italian Premier-designate Enrico Letta speaks during a press conference at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Italian Premier-designate Enrico Letta speaks during a press conference at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Italian premier-designate Enrico Letta, right, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meet the media at the Quirinale presidential palace, in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Italian designate-Premier Enrico Letta, right, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meet journalists the Quirinale, presidential palace, in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Italian designate-Premier Enrico Letta and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meet journalists the Quirinale, presidential palace, in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Italian designate-Premier Enrico Letta, right, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meet journalists the Quirinale, presidential palace, in Rome, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Italy has finally has a new government, a coalition of Berlusconi's forces and center-left rivals who forged an unusual alliance to break a two-month stalemate following inconclusive elections. Enrico Letta, a center-left leader, will be premier in the government, which marks the latest political comeback by Silvio Berlusconi. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
ROME (AP) ? Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, an unusual alliance of bitter rivals that broke a two-month political stalemate from inconclusive elections in the recession-mired country.
The daunting achievement was pulled off by Letta, who will be sworn in as premier along with the new Cabinet at the presidential Quirinal Palace on Sunday.
Letta, 46, is a moderate with a reputation as a political bridge-builder. He is also the nephew Berlusconi's longtime adviser, Gianni Letta, a relationship seen as smoothing over often nasty interaction between the two main coalition partners.
Serving as deputy premier and interior minister will be Berlusconi's top political aide, Angelino Alfano. He is a former justice minister who was the architect of legislation that critics say was tailor-made to help media mogul Berlusconi in his many judicial woes.
The creation of the coalition capped the latest political comeback for Berlusconi, a former three-time premier who was forced to resign in 2011 as Italy slid deeper in to the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.
On Monday, Letta is expected to lay out his strategy to Parliament, before required confidence votes from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
"We negotiated for the formation of the government without throwing up any stop signs," Berlusconi told one of his TV networks. "That's how we contributed to forming a government in short time" after Letta was tapped Wednesday.
Berlusconi, a fervent anti-Communist, views Italy's left as a personal nemesis, and Letta's Democratic Party has some of its roots in what was the West's largest Communist Party.
Letta expressed "sober satisfaction over the team we put together and its willingness" to form a coalition.
Although Letta strove to fill his Cabinet with new faces, a longtime Italian central bank official, Fabrizio Saccomanni, who also served a stint at the International Monetary Fund, was chosen for the key economy ministry portfolio.
In the role, Saccomanni will have to balance European Union insistence on rigorous austerity to heal Italy's finances with politicians' sensitivities to voters. The public's patience has been tried by spending cuts and higher taxes without seeing the start of any economic revival.
Only a few weeks earlier, the head of the Democrats, Pier Luigi Bersani, resigned from the party post in humiliation and he refused Berlusconi's offer for a "grand coalition" and futilely tried to form a government without the center-right. Letta was a Bersani loyalist.
Bersani hailed the coalition formula as a "necessary compromise" that gives the country "freshness and solidarity."
The No. 3 bloc in Parliament, the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement, is led by comic Beppe Grillo, who ruled out any alliance with the largely sullied political class that has ruled Italy for decades.
President Giorgio Napolitano, who tasked Letta with creating a government out of bitter rivals, called upon the coalition partners to work "in a spirit of absolute, indispensable cohesion" as they work for sorely needed political and economic reforms.
The 87-year-old head of state sounded almost breathless as he expressed confidence the rivals could work together "without conflict or prejudices to find the right solutions" to the country's pressing economic and political problems.
Napolitano didn't name the challenges, but they include fighting unemployment, especially for young people, and corruption sullying much of the political class.
Napolitano said: "It was and is the only possible government," and one "whose formation couldn't be delayed further, in the interest of our country and of Europe."
He reluctantly agreed to be re-elected by Parliament earlier this month for another seven-year term because of the political instability.
Italy's economy is No. 3 among eurozone members, and financial markets have been anxiously watching to see if an effective government could be formed to carry on with outgoing Premier Mario Monti's efforts to keep the country from sliding into the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.
Some Italian political observers have predicted such a hybrid government might last only a few months of Parliament's five-year term, before collapsing in squabbling.
But the fear of elections, especially after the lightning-quick rise of comic Grillo's grassroots movement, could prove to be strong glue.
Giovanni Orsina, deputy director of LUISS university's school of government in Rome, ventured that Letta's new coalition could "last more than we expect, 18 to 24 months, more or less."
The history professor cited "lack of alternatives, and because I believe Parliament's members are not particularly eager to get back to the polling booth and face new elections."
Voters, fed up with new and higher taxes, including a despised property tax revived by Monti, rejected his severe austerity policies.
The small centrist party created in time for the election by Monti, an economist and former European Union commissioner, will participate in the coalition, although Monti won't be in the Cabinet, which is heavy on two novelties ? a large presence of female ministers and Italy's first black minister.
A native of Congo, Cecile Kyenge is a doctor who will serve as minister of integration. Proposals to make it easier for Italy' growing immigrant population to become citizens have gone nowhere in Parliament amid fierce opposition from the anti-immigrant Northern League party. The party, a Berlusconi ally, isn't in the new government.
Prominent among the women in the Cabinet is Emma Bonino, a former EU commissioner and Radical Party leader who will serve as foreign minister. Olympic gold medal kayaker Josefa Idem was tapped as minister of equal opportunity and sports.
Letta comes from a moderate wing of the left-rooted Democratic Party that is close to the Vatican. Since Parliament always includes an array of lawmakers enjoying good ties to the politically influential Catholic church in Italy, this was one more qualification on Letta's bridge-building resume.
The father of three sons, he lives in Rome's working-class Testaccio neighborhood. When he was tapped by Napolitano on Wednesday, he drove his own car to the Quirinal Palace, in what was seen as a photo opportunity gesture to Italian taxpayers who widely despise the huge fleet of luxury cars that shuttles around ministers and lawmakers.
In 1998, when he was 32, Letta became the youngest minister in Italy's history when he served as minister for European policy for then-Premier Massimo D'Alema, an ex-Communist leader. Letta seemed a natural for that post. He spent his childhood in Strasbourg, home to the European Parliament, and studied international law before jumping into politics.
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Not 'brainwashed': American women who converted to Islam speak out
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Lauren Schreiber, 26, converted to Islam in 2010 after a study-abroad trip. She and others want to dispel stereotypes that have sprung up after news reports about Katherine Russell, 24, the U.S.-born wife of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
When an American convert to Islam was revealed as the wife of the dead Boston bombing suspect, Lauren Schreiber wasn?t surprised at what came next.
Comments from former acquaintances and complete strangers immediately suggested that 24-year-old Katherine Russell, a New England doctor?s daughter, must have been coerced and controlled by her husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week in a firefight with police.
?She was a very sweet woman, but I think kind of brainwashed by him,? reported the Associated Press, quoting Anne Kilzer, a Belmont, Mass., woman who said she knew Russell and her 3-year-old daughter.
That kind of assumption isn?t new to Schreiber, 26, a Greenbelt, Md., woman who became a Muslim in 2010.
?The moment you put on a hijab, people assume that you?ve forfeited your free will,? says Schreiber, who favors traditional Islamic dress. ?
The Boston terror attack and the questions about whether Russell knew about her husband?s deadly plans have renewed stereotypes and misconceptions that U.S. women who have chosen that faith say they want to dispel.
?It?s not because somebody made me do this,? explains Schreiber, who converted after a college study-abroad trip to West Africa. ?It?s what I choose to do and I?m happy.?
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Rebecca Minor, 28, of West Hartford, Conn., converted to Islam five years ago. Wearing a hijab "reminds me to be a good person," she said.
Her view is echoed by Rebecca Minor, 28, of West Hartford, Conn., a special education teacher who converted to Islam five years ago. When her students, ages 5 to 8, ask why she wears a headscarf, she always says the same thing:?"It's something that's important to me and it reminds me to be a good person," says Minor, who is secretary for the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut.?
Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, according to studies by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. In 2011, about 1.8 million U.S. adults were Muslim, and about 20 percent had converted to the faith, Pew researchers say. Of those converts, about 54 percent were men and 46 percent were women. About 1 in 5 converts mentioned family factors, including marrying a Muslim, as a reason for adopting the faith.?
Accusations are 'harsh'
Women convert for a wide range of reasons -- spiritual, intellectual and romantic -- says Yvonne Haddad, a professor of the history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at Georgetown University.
?Islam is attractive to women that the feminist movement left behind,? says Haddad, who co-authored a 2006 book, ?Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today.?
Women like Lindsey Faraj, 26, of Charlotte, N.C., say that wearing a headscarf and other traditional Islamic garb in public often leads people to assume she sacrificed her American life to please a man.
?'You must have converted in order to marry him,' I hear it all the time,? says Faraj, who actually converted simultaneously with her husband, Wathek Faraj, who is from Damascus, about four years ago.?
She?s also heard people say that her husband is allowed to beat her, that she?s not free to get a divorce, that she and her two children, ages 4 months and 2, are subservient to the man. Such concepts are untrue, of course, she says.
Lindsey Faraj, 26, of Charlotte, N.C., converted to Islam four years ago. She says it was thoughtful, heart-felt choice that changed her life.
?In the beginning, it did offend me a lot,? says Faraj, who grew up in a Christian family in Florida. ?But now as my sense of my new self has grown, I don?t feel offended.?
She?s able to joke, for instance, about the woman who screamed insults from a passing car.
?They screamed: ?Go back to your own country? and I thought, ?It doesn?t get more white than this, girl,?? says Faraj, indicating her fair features.?
Like all stereotypes, such views are steeped in fear, says Haddad.
?Accusations of brainwashing are harsh,? she says. ?They cover up the fact that we don?t comprehend why people like ?us? want to change and be like ?them.??
All three women say they came to Islam after much thought and spiritual searching.
Islam 'entered my heart'
Schreiber, who is a community outreach and events coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says she was drawn to the religion after meeting other Muslims on her trip abroad before graduating from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2009.?
She grew up in an agnostic family where she was encouraged to discover her own faith.?
"It was, whatever you decide to do -- temple, church, mosque -- I support you finding yourself," says Schreiber. She's now married to a Muslim man, Muhammad Oda, 27, whose parents were both converts to Islam. She said came to the faith before the relationship.??
Faraj, a stay-at-home mom, says she never saw herself "as a religious person, in the least," but became enthralled after trying to learn more about Islam before a visit to see her husband's family.?
?The concept of Islam hit me,? Faraj recalls. ?It was just something that entered my heart.?
Minor, who is single, says she was intrigued by Islam in college, when she was?close friends with?a deployed?American Marine but had Muslim friends at school.
"I saw a huge discrepancy in the negative things I heard coming from my?(friend)?and the actions I could see in my co-workers," she recalls. After spending 18 months learning about Islam, she decided to convert.?
The response from family and friends has been overwhelmingly supportive, Minor says.?
"The more you can do to educate people about Islam, not by preaching, but by actions, the better," she says.?
Reports that Katherine Russell might have been embroiled in an abusive relationship, or that her husband intimidated her aren?t an indictment of Islam, Haddad says.?
"Abusive men come in all colors, nationalities, ethnicities and from all religions," she says. "No one says that Christianity teaches abuse of women because some Christian men are abusive."
Schreiber says she frequently gets comments from people surprised to see her fair skin and hear her American accent from beneath a scarf. She says she appreciates it when people actually ask questions instead of making assumptions.
?I just want people to know that there are American Muslim women who wear hijab by choice because they believe in it and it feels right to them, not because anyone tells them to.?
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Talk is cheap: South African Regulator Allows Pornographic TV ...
South Africa?s communications regulator, ICASA, on Wednesday gave permission for satellite television network TopTV to broadcast three ?sexually explicit? channels, saying there was no legal basis to reject the application.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) said channels Playboy TV, Desire TV and Private Spice would likely be on the air within six months.
?It is the authority?s view that indeed there is no basis or law for the rejection of TopTV?s application,? ICASA spokesman Paseka Maleka said in a statement.
A previous bid by TopTV last year was turned down. This time, its management cited constitutional guarantees of
freedom of expression and choice, arguing that programs would not breach the law on hate speech or incitement to violence nor would they demean women or children.Maleka said the sexually explicit channels would be accessible from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., and TopTV needed to ensure security measures, including a double pin code, were in place to protect children.
TopTV, owned by On Digital Media and whose shareholders include Luxembourg-based telecoms operator SES Astra, was not available immediately for comment.
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Square Enix discounts select games through online store sale | VG247
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 | 20:20 BST
Square Enix is holding a sale through its online store called April Savings Brings May Gaming where you can get 75% off select digital and boxed titles. The sale starts today and runs through May 2, and includes savings on titles such as: Tomb Raider, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Dead Island, Final Fantasy 13-2, Hitman: Absolution, Risen 2: Dark Waters Special Edition, Sleeping Dogs and more. Head through the link to check out the savings.
Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/26/square-enix-discounts-select-games-through-online-store-sale/
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PSN online purchases now automatically queue to download on your PS3, like your Xbox already does
There's now no need to dig around your PlayStation's downloads section for that fresh digital copy of Ni No Kuni you just picked up online at Sony's Entertainment Network store. Finally catching up to the likes of Steam (and other competition), your orders will now automatically start downloading a few minutes after booting up your PS3. PSN Stores has even uploaded a guided tour of the new function -- you'll find it after the break.
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New study: debt limit deadline likely extended
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The likely deadline for Congress to prevent the government's first default will be later than earlier thought, a Washington think tank has found.
The Bipartisan Policy Center said Friday that the government probably won't reach the brink of default until early September or early October. It had previously said default would come in July or August.
Congress acted to suspend the government's borrowing cap in February, and it will be reset next month. The Treasury Department then can resort to accounting steps to prevent the government from defaulting on bondholders or other obligations such as Social Security.
A 2011 battle between President Barack Obama and Republicans controlling the House over raising the so-called debt ceiling brought the nation close to default and resulted in a hard-fought budget deal. Obama says he won't be bullied on the debt limit again, but many in Washington believe the need to increase the borrowing cap later this year will prompt some kind of budget bargain.
The think tank said higher tax revenues and lower spending ? in part because of across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in after Congress couldn't agree on a follow-up budget pact ? are responsible for the additional leeway. It added that if the government can get through a cash crunch in early September, it will be able to make it until early October before default.
Treasury is declining to reveal its estimate of when the default date would come, saying there's too much uncertainty.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Israel charges Arab who fought with Syria's rebels
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel has arrested and charged an Israeli Arab for traveling to the "enemy state" of Syria to fight on the side of the rebels in the neighboring country's civil war.
The Shin Bet internal security service says it arrested Hakmat Matzrawa last month. It says the 29-year-old Matzrawa admitted that he received military training by the rebels in Syria and was questioned about Israel extensively.
The service says the rebels asked Matzrawa to carry out a suicide attack against President Bashar Assad's regime and an attack in Israel, but that he refused.
He was charged on Wednesday with contacting a foreign agent, receiving military training and leaving Israel illegally.
Israel is trying to stay out of the Syrian civil war, which has inched dangerously close to its northern border.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-charges-arab-fought-syrias-rebels-085052879.html
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Mini Display review: Use your iPhone or iPad as a 2nd display for your Mac.
Mini Display is a new app by Edovia that converts your iPhone or iPad into a second display for your Mac. Need extra screen space for your Twitter client or a place for your Photoshop palettes? Then Mini Display may be the perfect solution.
To use Mini Display, you must first download the Mini Display Connect client onto your Mac and enable Screen Sharing in your Mac's preferences.
Once your Mac is ready to go, you're all set to connect with your iPhone and iPad. Simply login with your Mac's credentials, choose if you want to restore windows, and if you're using a Retina iPad, decide if you want high resolution and less space, or low resolution and more space. You can also choose to leave the password field blank so that you are required to enter your password every time you use the app. Edovia also makes Screens VNC, so they know how to handle iOS device to Mac interactivity, and it shows.
Once you connect, you've got a second display for your Mac! Its default location is to the right of your Mac's display, but you can change it in the Display settings in System Preferences on your Mac. You can also interact with windows on the screen with gestures, using a three finger swipe to bring up the iOS keyboard, for example, and logout by simply pinching to zoom out.
The good
- Easy setup and use
- Can be used in both portrait and landscape orientations
- Use your iPad's Retina display to create an ultra-crisp external screen
- Restores windows you place in it.
- Use your device keyboard and touch gestures
- Option to prompt you with your password when you connect to your Mac
The bad
- Display refresh can lag
The bottom line
Mini Display is a really great companion to any Mac, especially 11" and 13" MacBook Pros that have limited screen real estate. Unfortunately, it doesn't run perfectly smooth and the lag is bit annoying, but if you choose to use Mini Display for things like a Twitter feed, to-do list, email client, or anything else that you aren't constantly interacting with, then you'll find it to be a great asset. And it's much cheaper than buying second monitor.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Ariz. Legislature Approves Bill Making Gold, Silver Legal Tender: A ...
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The Arizona House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill making gold and silver legal tender, a growing trend as state lawmakers have become increasingly wary of the Federal Reserve?s never-ending, easy-money policies.
?This is the type of currency we have had over the history of mankind,? said Republican state Rep. Steve Smith of the legislation.
The bill makes it so that gold and silver are treated no differently than the U.S. dollar. The law also states that as legal tender, gold and silver would not be subject to tax or regulation as property.
?Senate Bill 1439 would let people use the precious metals as money as long as businesses agree to take them. If made law, it would take effect in 2014,? the Associated Press notes, adding that the metals would not have a set monetary value.
The state Senate first approved the measure in February. However, the Republican-controlled House amended the bill so as to exempt the state Department of Revenue from having to accept gold as legal payment.
?State officials want no part in the bill because they are wary of how it would work in practice,? the Associated Press notes, citing Republican Rep. David Livingston, who crafted the exemption. ?But Livingston said the state?s reluctance to participate in the measure is not indicative of larger problems with the bill.?
?They wanted to make sure they wouldn?t be required to take gold and silver,? said Rep. Livingston. ?They just didn?t want to have to deal with it right now.?
The bill now heads back to the state Senate for final approval.
Arizona isn?t the only state to push legislation that would declare privately minted gold and silver coins legal tender.
?Arizona is one of more than a dozen states to incorporate similar laws into their roster,? the Daily Mail notes. ?Lawmakers in Minnesota, North Carolina, Idaho, South Carolina, Colorado and other states have debated similar laws in recent years.?
Utah in 2011 became the first state to pass a law recognizing gold and silver as legal tender.
?The measure reflects a growing distrust of government-backed money amid the declining value of the dollar. Many?investors?have invested their money in precious metals in recent years, and the value of gold and silver is on the rise,? the AP notes.
?Democrats oppose the measure. They say it would be a bureaucratic nightmare because businesses don?t have the equipment to determine the value of gold and silver,? the report notes.
?This should be addressed by the Federal Reserve and not by the state,? said Democratic Rep. Rosanna Gabaldon during a debate on the bill.
Here?s the full text of Senate Bill 1439:
It also follows the recent trend of ?Bitcoins? ? a digital currency gaining popularity as of late ? as an increasing amount of people seem to be hedging on the American dollar. You can read up on TheBlaze?s coverage of Bitcoins here.
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Beamz teams up with Virtual DJ on interactive music system, we go lasers-on (video)
Beamz has been firing lasers in the name of gesture-based performance for a few years. Today, it's announced it's working with popular music-mixing software Virtual DJ to provide tighter integration between the device and the program. The controller is the same four-beamed multi-button affair we've seen before, but now with a custom version of the aforementioned DJ application to call its own, and make the set-up a cinch. On screen you'll see two representations of the Beamz controller (instead of decks) with instant visual feedback to let you know which beam is mapped to what. You can configure four different triggers at one time, controlling cue points, looping and so on. To add functionality, you can then use the large buttons at the base of the device to rotate through different mappings. The emphasis, of course, is on performance here with nary a rotary nor fader in sight (we imagine you'd be using your other controller for that, right?). The software and hardware combo are being bundled together as a deal, and if you want in, you can do so right away for $200. Not sure if it'll fit in your workflow? Perhaps head past the break, and see if that video doesn't change your mind.
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Michelle Obama to talk youth violence in Chicago
Michelle Obama In what may be her most comprehensive remarks on gun violence to date, the first lady is expected to deliver a deeply personal speech today about what can be done to halt the youth violence epidemic in her home town.
Visiting Chicago, Obama will speak to local business and community leaders as a mother and a Chicagoan about how to create opportunities for youth to achieve their full potential.
Obama will speak at a luncheon hosted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, where she will urge Chicago's business leaders to invest in expanded opportunities for youth across Chicago.
READ MORE: Michelle Obama Sees 'Movement' in Improving Childhood Obesity
The speech comes two months after the first lady attended the funeral for slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton.
"She did everything she was supposed to do. She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids grew up, where our house is, and she was caught in the line of fire. I just don't want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first," Obama later told ABC News' Robin Roberts.
Following her remarks at the "Joint Luncheon Meeting: Working Together to Address Youth Violence in Chicago," the first lady will meet with a small group of students and counselors at Harper High School to hear firsthand about their experiences.
The first lady's speech comes during a critical week, as the Senate is expected to debate the president's gun-control agenda.
READ MORE: Obama's Moving Moment with Sister of Newtown Victim
Does this signal a new policy push by the first lady?
"The negotiations with Congress, the legislative effort that's under way, the attempt to convince senators directly that they should not filibuster these bills is being led by and undertaken by the president and his team," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Tuesday.
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Researchers find avian virus may be harmful to cancer cells
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
A study at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has identified a chicken-killing virus as a promising treatment for prostate cancer in humans.
Researchers have discovered that a genetically engineered Newcastle disease virus, which harms chickens but not humans, kills prostate cancer cells of all kinds, including hormone-resistant cancer cells. The work of Dr. Elankumaran Subbiah, an associate professor of virology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at Virginia Tech, along with Dr. Siba Samal, associate dean and chairman of the University of Maryland's Department of Veterinary Medicine, and Shobana Raghunath, a graduate student in Subbiah's laboratory, appears in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Virology.
"This potential treatment is available for immediate pre-clinical and clinical trials, but these are typically not done at the university level," Subbiah said. "We are looking for commercial entities that are interested in licensing the technology for human clinical trials and treatment. Newcastle disease virus has yet to be tested as a treatment for prostate cancer in patients."
About one in six men will develop prostate cancer. Patients typically receive hormone treatments or chemotherapy, both of which have adverse side effects. Subbiah hopes that the development of new treatment methodologies will not only better fight prostate cancer, but also lessen the side effects commonly associated with hormone treatments and chemotherapy.
Newcastle disease virus affects domestic and wild bird species, especially chickens, and is one of the most economically important viruses to the poultry industry.
Although it can cause mild conjunctivitis and flu-like symptoms in humans who have been in close contact with infected birds, it does not pose a threat to human health.
Scientists first documented the cancer-fighting properties of Newcastle disease virus in the 1950s, but it is only with recent advances in reverse genetics technology that they have turned to the genetically engineered virus as a possible treatment.
"We modified the virus so that it replicates only in the presence of an active prostate-specific antigen and, therefore, is highly specific to prostate cancer. We also tested its efficacy in a tumor model in vitro," Subbiah said. "The recombinant virus efficiently and specifically killed prostate cancer cells, while sparing normal human cells in the laboratory, but it would take time for this to move from the discovery phase to a treatment for prostate cancer patients."
Earlier human clinical trials for other types of cancer with naturally occurring strains of Newcastle disease virus required several injections of the virus in large quantities for success. Subbiah believes that the recombinant virus would be able to eradicate prostate cancer in much lower doses. It would also seek out metastatic prostate cancer cells and remove them. Because it is cancer cell-type specific, "the recombinant virus will be extremely safe and can be injected intravenously or directly into the tumor," Subbiah added.
Subbiah received a $113,000 concept award from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop his prostate cancer treatment under a Congressionally directed medical research program. He is seeking additional foundation and corporate funds to take his research to the next level.
The researchers have also received a National Institutes of Health exploratory grant to develop the cell type-specific Newcastle disease virus for several other types of cancer cells, including breast, pancreas, brain, prostate, and multiple myeloma. "Although the virus can potentially treat many different types of cancer, we are focusing on these five," Subbiah said.
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Research Holds Revelations About an Ancient Society's Water ...
Research Holds Revelations About an Ancient Society's Water Conservation, PurificationPublished: April 9, 2013.??by??University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati research at the ancient Maya site of Medicinal Trail in northwestern Belize is revealing how populations in more remote areas ? the hinterland societies ? built reservoirs to conserve water and turned to nature to purify their water supply. Jeffrey Brewer, a doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati's Department of Geography, will present his findings on April 11, at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Los Angeles.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Exec threatens to pull Fox signal if Aereo goes on
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A top executive with the owner of the Fox broadcast network on Monday threatened to convert the network to a pay-TV-only channel if Internet startup Aereo Inc. continues to "steal" Fox's over-the-air signal and sell it to consumers without paying for rights.
Anyone with an antenna can pick up a TV station's signals for free. But cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers. Industrywide, those retransmission fees add up to billions of dollars every year.
Last week, that business was shaken after a federal appeals court issued a preliminary ruling siding with Aereo, which contends that it doesn't have to pay those fees because it relies on thousands of tiny antennas.
News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said that not being paid by Aereo jeopardizes the economics of broadcast TV, which relies on both retransmission fees and advertising.
"This is not an ideal path we look to pursue, but we can't sit idly by and let an entity steal our signal," Carey said at the annual gathering of broadcasters, called NAB Show, in Las Vegas. "If we can't do a fair deal, we could take the whole network to a subscription model."
If realized, Carey's proposal would amount to a sea change in how Fox does business. Currently, Fox sends its signal to TV stations across the country, including 27 that it owns directly. Those stations relay Fox programming such as "Glee" and "Family Guy" for free over the airwaves in local markets and add their own local news and other programming. While most people get Fox through a pay TV provider anyway, millions of other Americans rely on the free signal coming over their own antennas.
Carey didn't explain how TV stations would be affected if Fox shut off the signals it sent to broadcasters and went straight to a pay TV model. Later, the company said in a statement that any change would occur "in collaboration with both our content partners and affiliates."
Aereo takes broadcast signals for free from the air with thousands of little antennas, recodes them for Internet use and feeds that to subscribers' computers, tablets and smartphones. Plans start at $8 a month, which is much cheaper than a cable package, though the service is mostly limited to broadcast channels.
Last week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said that Aereo could continue its service despite a legal challenge by broadcast networks Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS.
In a split ruling, the court accepted Aereo's position that having individual antennas meant that Aereo wasn't retransmitting signals. Rather, the appeals court said that Aereo enabled its subscribers to do what they already could on their own with their own antenna and video recorder.
In a separate case, broadcasters are suing a different Internet company called Aereokiller LLC. It also takes broadcast signals using mini antennas and transmits them to paying customers. That case is now before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Gordon Smith, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, was interviewing Carey onstage when he made the comments. Smith said he hopes that the courts will eventually rule against Aereo and force it to get in line with other pay TV operators.
"We think in the end, we'll be on the right side of the law and we will never get to the 'what-if' scenarios," Smith said.
Smith said he hopes that a different ruling at the 9th Circuit will prompt the U.S. Supreme Court to take over the matter.
Ultimately, Congress could step in and update a cable law governing retransmission fees. It was passed in 1992, before the world even had a commercial Web browser let alone viable Internet video technology.
Aereo, backed by billionaire Barry Diller, was limited to New York City when it debuted early last year, but has since expanded to the New York City suburbs, including parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. It plans to expand to Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and 18 other U.S. markets this spring.
Aereo Chief Executive Chet Kanojia said the legal OK for Aereo's service is now the "law of the land" with or without Fox.
"We believe that broadcasting in this country, irrespective of Fox, is a very powerful, fundamental presence," he said. If Fox exits the space, "we think somebody will be there to take advantage of that great idea of reaching this mass audience."
Analyst Todd Juenger of Bernstein Research speculated in a research note in January on what would make broadcast networks transition to a pay TV model.
Such a system would result in the loss of local news programs, broadcast personalities and advertising. But a pay TV system could be better for network owners such as Fox if services like Aereo were to thrive, because doing so would cut off technology that siphons away customers from pay TV operators, he wrote.
News Corp.'s stock rose 77 cents, or 2.5 percent, to close Monday at $31.41.
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