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Monday, August 5, 2013
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Analysis: Israeli-Palestinian riddle won't answer Middle East's wider woes
By Crispian Balmer
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which once transfixed the Arab world, has lost much of its resonance in a Middle East riven by religious strife, political upheaval and economic woes.
News that the two sides had resumed peace talks last week after a three-year halt was largely overshadowed by turmoil in Egypt and the Syrian civil war, which has set Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims against one another.
U.S. officials still hope that resolving the decades-old confrontation will help to unlock the region's wider problems, but analysts say it no longer lies at the strategic heart of a troubled Middle East.
"That was probably the case before the Arab uprisings, but a number of other struggles have now joined it, such as the Sunni-Shi'ite struggle and an intra-Sunni conflict," said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center think tank.
"The issue is a sideshow now, but it might take center-stage again if there was genuine progress," he said, underscoring deep skepticism in many quarters about the chances of a deal.
Much has changed in the Middle East since the last talks broke down in 2010. Autocratic leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been ousted, Islamist radicalism has spread and sectarian warfare between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims has surged.
More than 100,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict and violence has flared again in Iraq, with over 1,000 killed there in July alone, many at the hands of al Qaeda. Tensions over Iran's disputed nuclear program have also risen, while a struggle for power between Islamists and the military is playing out on the streets of predominantly Sunni Egypt.
Arguably, none of these crises will come any closer to being settled should, by some miracle, Israel and the Palestinians finally agree to divide the land where they live.
LINKAGE
Few people could deny that a resolution of the conflict is long overdue. However, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's devotion of so much energy to the issue, which has been drained of much violence in recent years, has raised some eyebrows given the fires raging elsewhere.
To explain American thinking, you only need listen to retired general James Mattis, head of the U.S. military's Central Command until March. Addressing a security forum in Colorado on July 20, he said U.S. interests were being damaged because of the failure to establish an independent Palestine.
"I paid a military security price every day as the commander of Centcom because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel," he said, suggesting that this was holding back moderate Arabs from endorsing U.S. policymaking.
Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, bristles at such a link. Gold, who used to be a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policy making circle, argues that Arab rhetoric on the issue belies the reality.
"It is ironic that a Western officer would speak about Israel being a source of political difficulty when, under the table, Arab states are seeking closer ties with Israel because of the shared threat coming from Iran," he said.
Despite Iranian denials, Western experts think Shi'ite Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. This alarms many Sunni Arab leaders as much as the Israelis.
A review of thousands of U.S. classified documents posted on the WikiLeaks website suggests that in private, Sunni officials were indeed more interested in discussing Iran and other topics than the fate of the occupied Palestinian Territories.
FRUSTRATIONS
In public, Muslim leaders have traditionally railed against Israel, happy to fan ordinary Arabs' sincere anger about the plight of the Palestinians - and perhaps deflect criticism of their own failure to make badly needed reforms.
Arab leaders can no longer get away with this. The uprisings of the last 2-1/2 years have shown that domestic problems cannot be swept under the carpet. These include a deep economic malaise that a peace deal would do nothing to heal.
According to an International Monetary Fund report from 2012, unemployment in the Middle East and north Africa was the highest in the world. It put the jobless rate amongst youths at about 25 percent, again the worst regional level in the world.
The survey criticized rigid labor laws, overbearing central government and a lack of economic competitiveness, factors in the frustrations that drove the Arab uprisings.
In a 2011 newspaper interview, President Bashar al-Assad said Syria was immune to unrest partly because he had united it in common cause against Israel. It was a hollow claim; just weeks later, violence erupted among Syrians that still rages.
Assad's Lebanese Shi'ite ally, the militant group Hezbollah, is now fighting by his side against the Sunni rebels, wrecking the respect it had won in Sunni circles for its uncompromising confrontation with Israel over more than two decades.
Aware of its battered reputation and the fact that the Arab world is not focused on Israel, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wrapped himself in the cloak of Palestinian resistance on Friday, issuing a rallying cry for fellow Muslims.
"The elimination of Israel is not only a Palestinian interest. It is the interest of the entire Muslim world and the entire Arab world," he said in a rare appearance in Beirut.
Such thinking suggests that even if the Palestinian leadership does get its wish to create a state on land seized in the 1967 war, this will not satisfy die-hard militants who reject Israel's very right to exist.
CONSPIRACIES
A deal would also not end all anti-Western sentiment in the region. True, it would empty one important reservoir of poison from the relationship, but suspicions of U.S. and European dealings go much deeper than simply their close ties to Israel.
This was laid bare by a 2011 survey conducted in Muslim nations by PewResearch, which showed that a median of 53 percent thought that U.S. and Western policies were one of the top two reasons why Islamic nations were not wealthier.
Likewise, the median saying Westerners were selfish, violent, immoral and arrogant exceeded 50 percent, while there was no Muslim nation in which even 30 percent could accept that Arabs conducted the 9/11 attacks on U.S. cities in 2001.
"The notion of conspiracy is deeply entrenched in the Middle East and we are a central piece of it," said Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. State Department adviser on the peace process, now at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
"Nothing in the Middle East that happens that is bad goes unattributed, and a lot of it is placed on us."
While scoffing at the idea that a peace deal could be a panacea for the region's ills, Miller said it would help to protect Israel's diplomatic ties with Egypt and Jordan, where popular anger at the treatment of the Palestinians is deep.
Underlining the importance Washington puts in Jordan's stability, Kerry announced the resumption of the peace talks in its capital, Amman. Egypt, however, has much more to worry about now than the predicament of the Palestinians.
Last year crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square, celebrating the election of the Islamist Mohamed Mursi as president, chanted: "in millions we shall march to Jerusalem". Today, the square is filled with supporters of the army which ousted Mursi last month.
These Egyptians are preoccupied with their own problems. "Of course a peace agreement would be a blessing from Allah to us and all Arabs, but first we must rid ourselves of the dictators and tyrants who steal from us and bend to the West," said Faris Ismael, the owner of a bakery in downtown Cairo.
(Additional reporting by Tom Finn in Cairo and Phil Stewart in Washington; editing by David Stamp)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-israeli-palestinian-riddle-wont-answer-middle-easts-113735479.html
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Matt Janning has an NBA out in his contract with Cibona Zagreb
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Eric Cantor defends House GOP?s ?Stop Government Abuse? bills
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Sunday defended GOP efforts last week to pass a series of measures billed as ?Stop Government Abuse? legislation while President Obama was pressing for investments aimed at job growth.
?First of all, government doesn?t create jobs, the private sector does,? Cantor said on ?Fox News Sunday.? ?Stop burdening our economy, that?s what the purpose of these bills were.?
Before leaving town for a five-week recess on Friday, House Republicans voted last week on a?package of bills?in large part responding to recent IRS controversies and the final phases of implementing President Obama?s health-care legislation.
The Republican-sponsored bills would place limits on taxpayer-funded conferences and block the IRS from enforcing the Affordable Care Act, among other proposals.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) last week accused Republicans of playing ?partisan games and advancing political messaging bills? instead of creating jobs before the long recess.
Congressional leaders and the White House showed no signs last week of reaching accord on a new budget before lawmakers left town on Friday.?Congress?s current spending plan ends Oct. 1, creating the prospect of a government shutdown if a funding deal is not struck by then.
House Republicans last week withdrew a measure to continue the deep automatic spending reductions that started this year, while their Senate colleagues killed a proposal to end the sequester and restored funding for transportation and housing.
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Tea party plans to abandon GOP stars
The Associated Press
MIAMI -- This was not the revolution the tea party had in mind.
Four years ago, the movement and its potent mix of anger and populism persuaded thousands of conservatives to protest the deficit and President Barack Obama's health care law.
The tea party swept a crop of no-compromise lawmakers into Congress and governor's offices and transformed political up-and-comers, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, into household names.
But as many tea party stars seek re-election next year and Rubio considers a 2016 presidential run, conservative activists are finding themselves at a crossroads.
Many of their standard-bearers have embraced more moderate positions on bedrock issues such as immigration and health care, broadening their appeal in swing states but dampening grass-roots passion.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/04/3542091/tea-party-plans-to-abandon-gop.html
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Journ?e des terroirs du Canada : un sondage de BMO d?montre que les Canadiens soutiennent avec vigueur les agriculteurs pr?s de chez eux
- Les perspectives demeurent positives pour les agriculteurs canadiens - La Journ?e des terroirs du Canada souligne l'importance d'utiliser des aliments cultiv?s au Canada, et de soutenir les agriculteurs et les p?cheurs qui les produisent - Suivez la Journ?e des terroirs du Canada sur Twitter, en entrant @FoodDayCanada ou #FoodDayCanada
MONTR?AL, QU?BEC--(Marketwired - 2 ao?t 2013) - En pr?vision de la Journ?e des terroirs du Canada, qui se tiendra le samedi 3 ao?t prochain, BMO a publi? les r?sultats d'un sondage selon lesquels le fait de soutenir l'?conomie, les agriculteurs et les emplois ? l'?chelle r?gionale, en plus de profiter d'aliments d'une fra?cheur et d'un go?t sup?rieur, compense pour les co?ts plus ?lev?s de la nourriture dans le cas des gens qui font le choix de consommer des produits locaux.
Le rapport publi? ? la suite du sondage r?v?le ?galement quels sont les produits que les Canadiens ach?tent ? l'?chelle locale et pourquoi, et d?montre certaines disparit?s d'une province ? l'autre, sur un certain nombre de produits. Voici les principales raisons qui incitent les Canadiens ? consommer des aliments cultiv?s ? l'?chelle locale :
- la nourriture est plus fra?che et a meilleur go?t (97 pour cent);
- cela soutien l'?conomie locale (97 pour cent);
- cela appuie les agriculteurs de la r?gion (96 pour cent);
- cela cr?e des emplois locaux (93 pour cent);
- c'est meilleur pour l'environnement (88 pour cent);
- cela permet d'acheter des produits biologiques (76 pour cent);
- cela co?te moins cher (71 pour cent).
? Les consommateurs canadiens continuent de profiter d'un secteur agricole stable et solide, offrant des sources alimentaires fiables partout ? l'?chelle du pays ?, a expliqu? David Rinneard, directeur g?n?ral, Services financiers aux agriculteurs et aux agroentreprises, BMO Banque de Montr?al. ? Les r?sultats de ce sondage d?montrent qu'un nombre grandissant de Canadiens appuient vigoureusement leurs producteurs locaux, un mouvement qui permet de dynamiser l'?conomie nationale et de cr?er des emplois. ?
Le mouvement visant ? promouvoir une Journ?e des terroirs du Canada a ?t? cr?? voil? une d?cennie par Anita Stewart, une activiste culinaire de premier plan. Cette journ?e se tiendra en fin de semaine, et durant celle-ci, 280 restaurants de partout au Canada proposeront un menu sp?cial compos? uniquement d'aliments cultiv?s au Canada. Ces chefs de file de la restauration ont adopt? l'utilisation d'ingr?dients canadiens depuis des d?cennies. La Journ?e des terroirs du Canada propose ?galement un guide ? l'intention des cuisiniers amateurs, de sorte que peu importe l'endroit o? ils se trouvent - dans la cuisine, autour du barbecue ou en camping sur le bord de la rivi?re - les Canadiens pourront eux aussi se ? joindre ? la f?te ?, et profiter d'aliments cultiv?s ? l'?chelle locale.
? Les ingr?dients cultiv?s localement repr?sentent un choix de plus en plus populaire, et les Canadiens commencent ? se rendre compte que les aliments de saison ont un meilleur go?t. Cela entra?ne un repositionnement notable de l'ensemble de notre syst?me ?conomique culinaire, ce que les r?sultats de l'?tude publi?e par BMO d?montrent clairement ?, a d?clar? Anita Stewart, pr?sidente et fondatrice, Journ?e des terroirs du Canada. ? Les Canadiens savent qu'en soutenant les producteurs locaux, nous favorisons la diversit? qui nous permet de profiter d'une s?lection d'aliments sains d?s aujourd'hui, et que, ce qui est le plus important, nous aiderons les g?n?rations futures ? en profiter. ?
Selon Aaron Goertzen, ?conomiste, BMO March?s des capitaux, les perspectives concernant le secteur agricole au Canada demeurent positives pour cette ann?e, les conditions de croissance paraissant bonnes dans la r?gion des Prairies, et les prix demeurant sup?rieurs ? la normale pour un certain nombre de cultures-cl?s. Les prix ?lev?s et l'accroissement de la demande en g?n?ral ont permis de r?cup?rer en partie des mauvaises r?coltes de l'ann?e derni?re aux ?tats-Unis, ? la suite de la s?cheresse qui a frapp? le Midwest am?ricain. L'augmentation des stocks ? la suite des r?coltes de cette ann?e - et de la reprise chez les agriculteurs am?ricains - entra?nera probablement une baisse des revenus pour les agriculteurs canadiens, mais elle devrait ?galement contribuer ? r?duire les prix ? la consommation pour les consommateurs nord-am?ricains.
Les r?sultats du sondage, d'un oc?an ? l'autre
Les r?sultats d?montrent par ailleurs des diff?rences marqu?es dans les produits que les Canadiens ach?tent ? l'?chelle locale, en fonction de la disponibilit? des aliments produits localement.
| Aliment | Fr?quence d'achat (ensemble des r?gions) | C.-B. | Alberta | Prairies | Ontario | Qu?bec | Canada atlantique | ||||||||||||||
| L?gumes | 82 | % | 85 | % | 74 | % | 74 | % | 84 | % | 81 | % | 79 | % | |||||||
| Pain | 75 | % | 71 | % | 73 | % | 72 | % | 71 | % | 82 | % | 81 | % | |||||||
| Fruits | 74 | % | 80 | % | 54 | % | 60 | % | 79 | % | 76 | % | 72 | % | |||||||
| Volaille | 64 | % | 64 | % | 64 | % | 63 | % | 66 | % | 61 | % | 70 | % | |||||||
| B?uf | 60 | % | 59 | % | 74 | % | 60 | % | 58 | % | 55 | % | 66 | % | |||||||
| Fromage | 59 | % | 52 | % | 50 | % | 46 | % | 60 | % | 71 | % | 53 | % | |||||||
| Poisson | 44 | % | 55 | % | 27 | % | 35 | % | 43 | % | 40 | % | 66 | % | |||||||
| Vin | 31 | % | 32 | % | 16 | % | 17 | % | 40 | % | 27 | % | 26 | % |
Suivez la Journ?e des terroirs du Canada sur Twitter, en entrant @FoodDayCanada ou #FoodDayCanada.
Les r?sultats cit?s dans ce rapport proviennent d'un sondage effectu? en ligne par la firme Pollara, du 14 au 17 juin 2013, aupr?s d'un ?chantillon de 1 000 Canadiens. Un ?chantillon al?atoire de cette taille entra?ne une marge d'erreur de plus ou moins 3,1 pour cent, 19 fois sur 20.
? propos de BMO et des services financiers aux agriculteurs
Les racines de BMO dans le secteur agricole canadien remontent ? 1817, lorsque nous avons commenc? ? travailler avec les agriculteurs afin de soutenir l'industrie agricole, aujourd'hui l'un des principaux vecteurs de l'?conomie canadienne, et d'en favoriser l'expansion. De nos jours, BMO fournit des solutions sur mesure de cr?dit, de d?p?t, de gestion de tr?sorerie et de paiement par carte aux exploitants d'entreprises agricoles du Canada, qui constituent le plus important secteur commercial de base servi par BMO.
? propos de BMO Groupe financier
Fond? en 1817 sous le nom de Banque de Montr?al, BMO Groupe financier est une soci?t? nord-am?ricaine de services financiers hautement diversifi?s. Fort d'un actif de 555 milliards de dollars au 30 avril 2013 et d'un effectif de plus de 46 000 employ?s, BMO Groupe financier offre une vaste gamme de produits et de solutions dans les domaines des services bancaires de d?tail, de gestion de patrimoine et de banque d'affaires et de services aux soci?t?s.
Source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1817212&sourceType=3
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LCSW or RN Home Visitor - NASW Joblink - National Association of ...
Home Visitors are supportive and caring LCSWs and RNs who have extensive experience working with Families and young children and are sensitive to the unique challenges faced by military Families. Home Visitors provide comprehensive services to support high-quality parenting in Families with expecting parents and children from birth to age three. They play a critical role in safeguarding early childhood experiences and fostering family resilience. The program provides regular opportunities to receive information and support including parenting classes and seminars, infant first-aid classes, play-groups and assistance with referrals to community services. Intensive home visitation services are also provided for Families that show risk factors for potential maltreatment.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Providing effective, timely and confidential services for Families who have been assessed as being at risk for child maltreatment and/or Family violence. Protect the privacy and confidentiality of client information. Identifying and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect and domestic abuse. Assessing developmental milestones and referral procedures for indicators of special needs or developmental delays. Assessing and strengthening adaptation to parenthood. Assessing and strengthening parental capacity for problem-solving, building and sustaining trusting relationships, and seeking help when necessary. Promoting developmentally appropriate parenting skills and disciplinary techniques, and parent and child communication skills. Facilitating informal and formal community networks to build positive relationships and reduce social isolation. Developing relationships with local community and military installation officials and organizations that can maximize NSPS effectiveness. Utilizing community-based services and formal and informal community networks to provide concrete support for families who may be in crisis. Utilizing methods for screening for, assessing, and addressing protective and risk factors associated with child abuse and neglect using a strengths-based Family centered developmental approach. Enter data into the Army Community Service (ACS) Client Tracking System (CTS) including intake assessments, home visit progress notes, Family Service Plans and progress notes within 3 work days. Enter data into the CTS including the numbers of home visits, parenting/education classes, play groups, referrals made for community resources, hospital/clinic visits, new cases established and closed cases. Participate in monthly conference calls and annual training events.
Qualifications:
Home Visitors must have at least two (2) years of direct work experience in child abuse or domestic abuse, or maternal or child health or medical social work. Licensed Clinical Social Workers must possess a current, valid, unrestricted clinical license and a master?s degree in Social Work to practice social work independently. Registered Nurses must have at least a bachelor?s degree in nursing, a current unrestricted license in one of the States or U.S. territories, and at least two (2) years of direct work experience with child abuse or domestic abuse, maternal or child health, public/community health, or mental health. Must have home visitation experience. Must complete and update criminal history background checks. Must complete Department of Defense Anti terrorism Standards Training. Must have a valid driver?s license, auto insurance and ability to operate a motor vehicle. Must have working knowledge of basic computer skills and be able to use Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel programs
Desired Qualifications:
Professionally-related experience working with military families. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing and possess strong interpersonal communication skills necessary to relate to families (parents and children) from varied backgrounds. Strong organizational skills. Facilitate individuals and small groups.
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Armed Forces Services Corporation (AFSC) is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Source: http://joblink.socialworkers.org/jobs/5598814/lcsw-or-rn-home-visitor
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
97% The Act Of Killing
All Critics (74) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (2)
A horrifying yet mesmerizing work, "The Act of Killing" instructively meanders at times as in a Werner Herzog film.
Better characters could hardly have been invented.
What Oppenheimer is after is a parallel story, a glimpse into the minds of men who can recount mass killings and think "Those were the days."
"The Act of Killing" works on so many levels -- psychodrama, horror movie, Orwellian nightmare, Poe story -- that sifting through your reactions could take days.
I can't be more direct. "The Act of Killing" is one of the most extraordinary films you'll ever encounter, not to mention one of the craziest filmmaking concepts anywhere, and that includes the whole Bollywood thing.
This riveting documentary about political mass murder in Indonesia incorporates the killers' own movie fantasies about their massacres and deepens our understanding of the fascist brain.
It's a tough watch, but it's not like anything you've ever seen.
Anwar Congo may be the scariest person you'll see on screen this year.
If director Joshua Oppenheimer occasionally loses his way in his own narrative, where this picture demands attention is in its chilling portrait of indoctrination and evil.
It's a gut-wrenching and emotionally exhausting look at impunity that resonates far beyond its obscure central conflict.
A cynically exploitative film made in the name of human rights, which it has about as much to do with as the Punked show on MTV.
Presenting a terrifying view of a hidden holocaust and a moral apocalypse in which the most basic humanities have become twisted beyond recognition, The Act of Killing is a towering achievement in filmmaking, documentary or otherwise.
The magnitude of this achievement, this depiction of a diseased and corrupt society that is in so many ways similar to our own, cannot be understated.
I have watched hundreds of hours of war crimes, genocides and miscarriages of justice carried out by unremarkable men with dimly lit souls. "The Act of Killing" bids to outdo them all.
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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_act_of_killing/
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Suspect in Mass. poisoning pleads not guilty
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) ? A man who said he had been extorted by James "Whitey" Bulger and hoped to testify at his trial was given iced coffee laced with cyanide that killed him, authorities said Friday, and a Massachusetts man was charged with attempted murder in his death.
The poisoning was apparently unrelated to the case of reputed gangster Bulger, though the body of the potential witness, Stephen Rakes, was found July 17 in the woods in suburban Boston the day after he learned he would not be called to testify.
Investigators found that the suspect in Rakes' death, 69-year-old William Camuti of Sudbury, owed Rakes money and acted alone, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
Camuti pleaded not guilty to the charge and was being held without bail until a Tuesday hearing. A message seeking comment was left with his attorney.
A murder charge has not been filed because the medical examiner is still waiting for test results.
Prosecutors say Rakes and his former wife were forced to sell Bulger their South Boston liquor store in 1984 to use as a headquarters for his gang. Bulger once ran Boston's feared Winter Hill Gang before being tipped off that he was about to be arrested and fleeing the city. He was captured in California two years ago and brought back to Massachusetts, where he is accused of participating in 19 murders.
Rakes had looked forward to testifying at Bulger's trial but learned the day before his body was found that prosecutors wouldn't call him.
Ryan said surveillance video from the Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse, where the Bulger trial is being held, showed Rakes leaving that day after attending as he had been every day. He was wearing the same clothing when he was found in the woods with no identification, keys or cellphone.
Camuti and Rakes were business associates who had known each other for years and were involved in various deals.
Ryan says Camuti asked Rakes to meet him July 16 to discuss a potential investment property, but the deal was fake. They met at a McDonald's in Waltham and Camuti allegedly bought two iced coffees, adding two teaspoons of potassium cyanide to one and giving it to Rakes, who drank it. She said investigators found he had made inquiries online about buying cyanide.
Ryan said Camuti drove around for hours with Rakes in the car, then dumped his body in Lincoln.
Steve Davis, the brother of one of Bulger's alleged murder victims, called Rakes' death a sad situation. The two met and became good friends two years ago, after Bulger was apprehended in California.
"It's sad, the guy was full of life," Davis said. "He was happy. He had two grandchildren who he always talked about."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-mass-poisoning-pleads-not-guilty-203043332.html
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Renovations at NY Public Library strike a nerve
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, pedestrians walk past the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York, Monday, July 22, 2013. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, pedestrians walk past the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York, Monday, July 22, 2013. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, patrons use the Rose Reading Room at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, patrons use the Rose Reading Room at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, patrons use the Rose Reading Room at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, patrons use the Rose Reading Room at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. Plans for a major change within the New York Public Library?s landmark main building have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Like the famous marble lions out front, the New York Public Library's flagship building has long symbolized serene endurance in the service of knowledge. But plans for a major change within the landmark have kindled an intellectual culture clash over its direction and the future of libraries themselves.
The $300 million-plus proposal entails moving millions of books out of the Fifth Avenue building's storied research stacks and into storage to make way for a lending library with other volumes, computers and a cafe.
Library officials say it will save the research books and millions of dollars and adapt the grand building further to the wired world. But a roster of scholars, preservationists and other critics suspect the library of masking a real estate ploy as a public benefit and say the project will turn a singular institution into "library lite."
Bibliophiles protested outside a trustees' meeting, Pulitzer Prize-winning historians have sued the library, and novelists including Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Lethem and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa signed a petition. While library leaders have made sizable concessions and say the plans are being redrawn, the uproar continues in a chorus of anxieties about libraries' roles when information is only a touchscreen away.
For libraries in general, "this is a moment of transformation," library President Anthony Marx said in an interview. "And certainly the controversy over this building and its renovation is, I suppose, the most visible aspect of that transformation."
In recent years, many libraries have grappled to balance ? and pay for ? new demands for electronic services and livelier environments against their commitments to provide repositories for books and settings for study. Their efforts have spurred commentary about the line between catering to changing times and morphing into a book-themed mall.
Those choices have come under scrutiny in cities including Seattle, where the striking, 9-year-old Central Library has been praised as a design jewel, tourist draw and boon to book circulation but faulted as short on amenable spots to, well, read. After San Francisco's new main library opened in 1996, novelist Nicholson Baker publicly deplored plans ? ultimately abandoned ? to eliminate its card catalog in favor of an online system.
But perhaps no other U.S. library has the profile of the New York Public's 102-year-old main building. Scenes from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Network" were filmed there. More than 100 books have been at least partly researched or written there, including Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Power Broker" and Karen Russell's acclaimed 2011 novel "Swamplandia!"
The building draws up to 2 million people a year. Any of them can request a book from the research collection, and 4 million of those volumes have been in the stacks, available for perusal in generally about 15 minutes.
Under the overhaul plan, about 1 million or more of those books would go permanently to a repository in New Jersey; the library would aim to fill requests within a day but acknowledges it sometimes can't now. Initial plans called for sending the entire research collection there, but the controversy prompted an $8 million donation to put at least 3 million volumes in an existing underground book storage adjoining the library.
In place of the staff-only stacks would be an airy space where visitors could browse and borrow from a collection of more than 500,000 books, moved in from the Mid-Manhattan Library across the street and a science and business library about half a mile away. Their spaces would be sold to generate an estimated $200 million; the city doesn't run the library but has pledged another $150 million. Officials say the initial $300 million price tag is in flux, with a new design due in the fall.
Library officials say the project would get books out of stacks that don't meet current preservation and fire-safety standards, create a better setting for the shopworn Mid-Manhattan Library's roughly 1.5 million annual visitors, and generate more than $15 million a year in savings and income from investing the proceeds of the real estate sales.
And, Marx says, "we want the public to enjoy this building more."
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris, a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits seeking to block the plan, says researchers accustomed to leapfrogging from one volume to another would be frustrated if they had to stop and wait for books.
For now, no changes are imminent. Amid the lawsuits, the library agreed last month not to do construction work on the stacks until at least mid-October.
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Friday, August 2, 2013
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: The Red Barn survives
Friendly competition reigns in war canoe race
SKOWHEGAN -- Professional canoeists mingled with amateurs at the 13th annual Sundowner race, where competitors for the first time traded in two-seat canoes for 12-seat war canoes.
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HTC One dual SIM with expandable storage listed on company's India website
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Source: www.ndtv.com --- Friday, August 02, 2013
HTC has quietly listed the dual-SIM version of its flagship smartphone HTC One on its India website. ? ? ? ? ...
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Cartman, Stewie tackle 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
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Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a musical classic -- who can forget Wayne and Garth rocking out to it in the car in "Wayne's World"? And now, talented impressionist and viral-video king Paul Vlahos has put the song in the mouths of a dozen or so pop-culture characters.
Vlahos switches effortlessly from voice to voice. You'll hear the classic tune sung by cartoon characters -- including "South Park's" Cartman and practically the entire cast of "Family Guy" -- as well as Gollum from "Lord of the Rings." Real-life people take a turn, with Vlahos imitating Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson and even President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush. "Simpsons" members Homer and Marge make appearances too, as do Meatwad and Carl from one of Vlahos' favorite cartoons, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
And Vlahos doesn't sing it straight -- he throws in comedy bits as he proceeds, including a classic bit with "Family Guy" patriarch Peter Griffin. And he plays instruments too, even though they may be from the video game "Guitar Hero."
Vlahos has also posted different versions of the main video, including an a capella version and a reel of outtakes and goofs.
Vlahos, who lives in Sacramento, Calif., writes on his website that he dreams of being a full-time comedian some day. He regularly posts new videos on his YouTube page.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/cartman-stewie-tackle-bohemian-rhapsody-viral-video-6C10809570
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Microsoft covers its mobile Office bases with Android, buys time
Microsoft's launch of Office Mobile for Android just a few weeks after the iPhone version illustrate how the software giant is gradually coming around to the reality that it may not be the big dog on post-PC platforms.
In the end, Microsoft Office Mobile for Android and iPhone are nice hedges should Windows Phone and Windows 8 fail to garner significant mobile share. Mary Jo Foley noted that Microsoft has a roadmap for stronger core Office apps for Android, iPhone and iPad, but appears to be giving those products some time possibly for the Windows mobile ecosystem to develop further.?
The Android and iPhone versions of Office are tethered to an Office 365 account and optimized for Word, Excel and PowerPoint editing. Selling Office outright on those platforms would be a better move.
But here's the catch. Microsoft wants the best Office experience on its mobile platforms, but needs more share. If Microsoft's mobile efforts on smartphones and tablets fail to develop garnering Office 365 subscriptions isn't a bad consolation prize.
What will be interesting to watch is the adoption of Office Mobile for Android and iPhone. Will Microsoft garner new cloud Office subscriptions or largely cater to existing customers?
Bottom line: Microsoft is a software vendor and can still make gobs of money with Office on any platform. The best bet for Microsoft is to spread its bets around.
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Stocks open higher; S&P 500 cracks 1700-point barrier
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Stocks soared to fresh closing highs on Thursday, one day before the government releases critical jobs figures that could help determine whether the economy is healthy enough for the Federal Reserve to begin to slow down its stimulus package.
The rally, in which the S&P 500 went through the 1,700-point level for the first time, was sparked by a plethora of upbeat economic data ahead of the widely-watched jobs report set for Friday morning.
Analysts polled by Reuters expect to see a gain of 184,000 jobs in July, after a 195,000 uptick in the previous month.?
(Read more:?July jobs report key to Fed action)
"The jobs numbers have been decent as of late, but the problem is the quality of employment," said Lance Roberts, chief economist at StreetTalk Advisors. "There's also clearly a divergence between the stock market and real economy and that's because of the artificial stimulus from the Fed.
"The problem is that they're not seeing that stimulus being translated into the economy so the worry we should have is that we're inflating valuations and the issue of potentially blowing an asset bubble is very real."
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve?declined to signal when it would start tapering its bond-buying program, which has buoyed the markets. However, it did raise concerns about rising mortgage rates and flagged the risks of inflation falling too far below its target. In addition, the central bank slightly downgraded its outlook for economic growth.
But several reports on Thursday boosted the views of many analysts that the economy is getting healthier. Weekly jobless claims?dropped to a 5-1/2 year low, according to the Labor Department. And the number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms?declined modestly in July, with employers announcing 37,701 cuts last month, down 4.2 percent from June, according to the report from consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
In another positive sign, the pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector accelerated in July to the?highest level since June 2011 as new orders surged, according to the Institute for Supply Management.?
The positive economic data have stimulated the stock markets recently. Major stock averages closed out their?best July since 2010 on Wednesday and so far this year, the Dow and S&P 500 have spiked more than 19 percent, while the Nasdaq has surged an impressive 21 percent.
On Thursday, the?Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked to close 128 points higher and set a fresh all-time high of 15,650.69, lifted by Bank of America and P&G. ExxonMobil was among the few Dow components in the red.
The?S&P 500 and the?Nasdaq both put on 1 percent, with the S&P 500 piercing the 1700 barrier to close at 1706.87. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, slid below 13.
All key S&P sectors closed in positive territory, led by financials and industrials.
"The rising asset prices will help instill confidence and that will breed more confidence," said Matthew Kaufler, portfolio manager of the Clover Value Fund at Federated.?
"However, we've had a great run in the market and at some point there will be a correction in the near point?still, my sense would be that there's enough momentum that we'll end the year up a few percentage points higher than where we currently are."
(Read more:Short the S&P atall-time highs? Absolutely!)
Asian stocks rallied after China's official PMI (purchasing manager's index) data showed the country's manufacturing sector continued to expand in July, defying forecasts of a contraction. But the picture was mixed, with a private gauge of factory activity by HSBC showing an 11-month low of 47.7 in July. Japan's Nikkei rallied to a one-month peak on the news, the Shanghai Composite hit a one-week high and South Korea's Kospi touched a seven-week high.
"Official PMI is more skewed to larger companies, and the HSBC figure reflects the smaller companies and that is where you get this divergence," said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economics research at HSBC.
(Read more: Will China PMI mark the end of negative data surprises?)
In Europe, the European Central Bank kept its main interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent, and reiterated that rates would remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time.
"Labor market conditions remain weak. Looking ahead to the remainder of the year and 2014, euro area growth should benefit from a gradual recovery in global demand," said ECB president Mario Draghi in a press conference following the announcement. "Our monetary policy stance remains accommodative for as long as necessary. We have unanimously confirmed the forward guidance we gave last time."
Euro zone manufacturing activity grew for the first time in two years in July, with the purchasing manager's index (PMI) climbing to 50.3 in July. A reading above 50 indicates an expansion.
And the Bank of England left its interest rates unchanged at 0.5 percent, as expected, under its new governor, Mark Carney.
(Read more:July jobs report key to Fed action)
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Marriage to stay as a union of a man and a woman... for now
Marriage to stay as a union of a man and a woman... for now
7:00am Wednesday 31st July 2013 in News 
By Fran Bardsley, covering Education, East Oxford and Cowley. Call me on 01865 425439
THE OXFORD English Dictionary has distanced itself from reports that it plans to redefine marriage in light of changes to the law to allow same-sex unions.
It followed reports in a number of national newspapers and online publications that the dictionary, published in Oxford by Oxford University Press, had confirmed it would be changing the definition of the word marriage.
But Nicola Burton, of OUP, said although it may change in the future they didn?t have any immediate plans to do so.
She added: ?Many of our dictionaries including the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as oxford dictionaries.com, already include references to same sex-marriage as part of their definitions.
?Dictionaries reflect changes in the use of language, rather than changes in law, and we are constantly monitoring usage in this area in order to consider what revisions and updates we may need to make.
?We will monitor the usage of marriage in the same way we monitor any other word as circumstances change in how we start to use them. We don?t have a timeline on it, it will be a case that as we monitor it and see it has changed in use we may well change it in the future.?
Currently, OUP describes marriage as ?the formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognised by law, by which they become husband and wife?, clarifying ?(in some jurisdictions) a union between partners of the same sex?.
Tanner Efinger, 29, general manager of the Jam Factory in Hollybush Row, and Nick West, 31, a DPhil student at Wolfson College, were married in the USA last month.
Mr Efinger said: ?This is a really big deal, it?s not a small thing. The fight for marriage equality had been a really complex one that involved not only rights and responsibilities that are granted to every couple, but also the definition of the word which is what a lot of people had been fighting against. It goes to the point of being separate but equal, or actually equal.?
Tony Brett, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Oxford who is himself in a civil partnership, pointed out the dictionary did not define words, but described how they were used.
He said: ?It is a natural thing to happen, given the law has now changed. I would expect any decent dictionary to keep its descriptions and words up to date to reflect what?s happening, and I would be surprised if it did not happen.?
But not everyone believes the definition should change.
David Snow left the Conservative Group on West Oxfordshire District Council in protest against the party?s stance on gay marriage.
He said: ?While it is inevitably looking to go that way, from a Christian perspective I believe marriage should be exclusively a male female union.?
HOW LANGUAGE IS CHANGING
THE Oxford English Dictionary is updated four times a year.
The most recent update, in June, included the addition of words and phrases including dad dancing, epic, fiscal cliff, flash mob, follow, geekery, pay day lending, the silent treatment, and tweet.
In March, the additions included credit crisis, friend with benefits and friend in high places.
It also saw the Paralympic sports of boccia and goalball included for the first time, as well as podium as a verb.
December 2012 saw the imagined and humorous American disease of ?senioritis?, described as ?a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or university, esp. characterized by a decline in motivation or performance?.
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US STOCKS-S&P 500 ends flat; Fed gives no word on tapering
* Fed statement offers no hint of stimulus pullback
* Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB - news) falls after trading above IPO price of $38
* Dow off 0.1 pct; S&P 500 off 0.01 pct; Nasdaq up 0.3 pct
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 finished a volatile session nearly flat on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve gave no hint that a reduction in the pace of its bond-buying program is imminent.
After paring most of the day's gains just before the close, the S&P 500 ended July up 5 percent - its best monthly percentage increase since January.
In a statement following its two-day policy meeting, the Fed said the economy continues to recover but still needs support.
Stocks mostly extended gains following the Fed's statement, led by S&P indexes tracking consumer discretionary, energy and other growth sectors. The S&P consumer discretionary index ended up 0.5 percent.
At the same time, dividend-paying stocks such as utilities slipped. The S&P utility index slid 0.7 percent.
"The Fed continues to try to talk down the concerns of kind of a premature taper. In fact, there were even tones in this piece that were a little disinflationary," said Burt White, chief investment officer of LPL Financial (NasdaqGS: LPLA - news) in Boston.
The Fed's stimulus has been credited by many as central to the S&P 500's gain of 18.2 percent so far this year. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke jolted markets in late May by saying the central bank planned to ease back on its stimulus efforts once the economy improves.
Late in the session, shares of J.C. Penney sank 10.2 percent to $14.60 after commercial lender CIT Group (NYSE: CIT - news) stopped supporting deliveries from smaller manufacturers to the retailer, according to a New York Post report. The stock was the S&P 500's biggest percentage loser.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 21.05 points, or 0.14 percent, to end at 15,499.54. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dipped 0.23 of a point, or 0.01 percent, to finish at 1,685.73.
In contrast, the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 9.90 points, or 0.27 percent, to close at 3,626.37.
The Dow set an all-time intraday high of 15,634.32 early in the session, while the Nasdaq reached a session high of 3,649.35, its highest since late 2000.
All three major U.S. stock indexes posted healthy gains for the month of July. The Dow rose 4 percent, the S&P 500 climbed 5 percent and the Nasdaq gained 6.6 percent.
The S&P 500 rose to less than 2 points from hitting 1,700, considered a key level of resistance for the market. The index has struggled to break above the mark, and for 10 straight sessions, it has traded within 10 points of 1,700. A rise above that level could signal that stocks have more room to rise.
In Wednesday's session, the shares of credit card companies ranked among the biggest losers. Shares of Visa (NYSE: V - news) dropped 7.5 percent to $177.01 and had the biggest negative impact on the S&P 500. Shares of American Express, a Dow component, slid 1.9 percent to $73.77.
In another milestone set earlier in the session, Facebook Inc's stock traded above its initial public offering price of $38 for the first time since its market debut in May 2012. The stock rose as high as $38.31. Facebook closed at $36.80, down 2.2 percent.
Comcast Corp gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost after the U.S. cable provider posted a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday, as it added more Internet customers than expected on the cable side and booked an increase of more than 20 percent in operating cash flow at its NBC Universal unit. Comcast's Class A stock rose 5.6 percent to close at $45.08.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-stocks-p-500-ends-205744701.html
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