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Sunday, June 30, 2013
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Golf pro Mullavey looking toward retirement so he can finally play golf
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LOWELL -- Mike Mullavey has been head pro and a respected gentleman at Mt. Pleasant Golf Club for 40 years. Come December, though, Mullavey will shed his "club pro" title and finally get to play some golf.
Mullavey is "retiring" as club pro, though plans to remain on as club manager for a few more years.
"Right now, I play about five rounds of golf a year," says Mullavey, 66. "I'm looking forward to playing five rounds a week ... and fishing."
Mullavey, 66, grew up in Portsmouth, N.H., where he caddied at Portsmouth Country Club. Among those he caddied for during pro-ams there was Peter Hanscom, then the pro at Mt. Pleasant. Mullavey at 24 became Hanscom's assistant. Two years later, he succeeded Hanscom as the head pro at Mt. Pleasant.
Mullavey has always loved teaching golf and soaking in the surroundings on a course. He says as a young player he easily became distracted admiring course layouts. He played golf at St. Thomas Aquinas High in Dover, N.H., and at the University of New Hampshire.
Mullavey from 1971-76 gave lessons at King's Bay Yacht & Country Club in Miami during the winter, and later did so at Lehigh Acres in Florida. But home has been Mt. Pleasant, where Mullavey has watched four generations of local families tee it up.
Mt. Pleasant prides itself on its family atmosphere. The kindly Mullavey has nurtured that. He is proud also that the club for 20 years has provided golf lessons for students from the Perkins School
for the Blind."Mt. Pleasant is a pretty special place," says Mullavey. "I've found it to be very rewarding. We have squabbles like any family. But when it comes to the important stuff, everybody stands behind you."
As for his real family, Mullavey's son, Mike Jr., 25, is a law student at the University of Florida, who played golf at St. John's Prep and Emory University. Mike Jr. has been a club champ at Mt. Pleasant and is a City Tournament regular.
Mullavey's wife Sarah is a non-golfer who is principal at the Rita Edwards Miller School in Westford. Their daughter, Jaclyn, 32, teaches seventh-grade in Dracut. She is a former Celtics dancer who has a 2008 championship ring.
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Reports: Retired general target of leaks probe
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to media reports.
Retired Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A "target" is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.
"Gen. Jim Cartwright is an American hero who served his country with distinction for four decades," his lawyer, Gregory Craig, said Friday. "Any suggestion that he could have betrayed the country he loves is preposterous."
The Justice Department referred questions to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, where a spokeswoman, Marcia Murphy, declined to comment.
The investigation of the leak about the Iran cyberattack is one of a number of national security leak investigations that have been started by the Obama administration, including ones involving The Associated Press and Fox News.
In June 2012, the New York Times reported that Cartwright was a crucial player in the cyber operation called Olympic Games, started under President George W. Bush.
Bush reportedly advised President Barack Obama to preserve Olympic Games.
According to the Times, Obama ordered the cyberattacks sped up, and in 2010 an attack using a computer virus called Stuxnet temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges that the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.
Congressional leaders demanded a criminal probe into who leaked the information, and Obama said he had zero tolerance for such leaks. Republicans said senior administration officials had leaked the details to bolster the president's national security credentials during the 2012 campaign.
The Times said Cartwright was one of the crucial players who had to break the news to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that Stuxnet at one point had escaped onto the Internet.
An element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it out on the Internet, the Times reported. After the worm escaped onto the Internet, top administration officials met to consider whether the program had been fatally compromised.
Obama asked if the program should continue, and after hearing the advice of top advisers, decided to proceed.
Cartwright, a four-star general, was cleared in February 2011 of misconduct involving a young aide. An anonymous accuser had claimed Cartwright acted inappropriately during a 2009 overseas trip on which the aide traveled as a military assistant. Several sources confirmed that the former aide was a young woman.
The Pentagon inspector general quickly cleared Cartwright of the most serious allegations, which involved claims that he may have had an improper physical relationship with the woman. The report did find that Cartwright mishandled an incident in which the aide, drunk and visibly upset, visited his Tbilisi, Georgia, hotel room alone and either passed out or fell asleep on a bench at the foot of his bed. Cartwright denied any impropriety and was later cleared of all wrongdoing.
Cartwright, once considered the leading candidate to become Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, resigned from the military in August 2011.
NBC said Cartwright did not respond to request for comment and that his attorney, former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, said he had no comment.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/reports-retired-general-target-leaks-probe-020959907.html
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Getting cat management wrong: 'Who's for cats?' - Saving Pets
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More than 53% of us (that?s over 12 million) share our homes, lives and often our beds, with a dog or cat, or both. We consider them members of our families and spend more than $4.62 billion every year caring for them.
Given this groundswell of love for animals, there is enormous potential to tap into this compassion to promote effective and humane management of homeless cats and dogs in our communities.
This begs the question, why did the Victorian Government choose to spend over $220,000 on a two-year cat management campaign that succeeded only in driving up kill rates while demonising free-roaming cats and all those who choose to care for them? The ?Who?s for cats?? campaign was hailed a success in changing behaviour by all bodies involved, but the bigger picture reveals some damaging and costly end results.
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Source: http://www.savingpets.com.au/2013/06/getting-cat-management-wrong-whos-for-cats/
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Space Can Turn Bacteria Into Supercharged Mutant Monsters
While it's still questionable whether or not humans could really thrive in space, we now know that, even if our own bodies are doomed to become weak and decrepit, any bacteria we tote along has every chance of living a full, happy life. Because according to new research, space might be exactly what bacteria needs to become a thicker, stronger, superpowered mutant version unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth.
More specifically, though, the two astronaut crews involved in the study were growing colonies of biofilms?some of which are strongly associated with disease. And what they found proved to be a bit unsettling, depending on how you feel about giant, nearly unmanageable colonies of bacteria. According to NASA:
The space-grown communities of bacteria, called biofilms, formed a ?column-and-canopy? structure not previously observed on Earth. Biofilms grown during spaceflight had a greater number of live cells, more biomass, and were thicker than control biofilms grown under normal gravity conditions.
And the biofilm they used (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) was lovingly cultivated in artificial urine for three days aboard two different shuttle missions?meaning that these results are coming from the very same environment that humans on longterm space flights would face. With waste management and water recycling being an ongoing issue, bacteria would have even more time to multiply, so what we're seeing in this study could really just be a fraction of a possible gargantuan bacteria biosystem.
Of course, this applies strictly to zero-gravity spaceflight, and conditions for human colonies on other planets?oh, say Mars, for instance?could mean stunting the prolific biofilm in much the same way our atmosphere does here on Earth. But the research has practical applications, too. NASA notes:
Examining the effects of spaceflight on biofilm formation can provide new insights into how different factors, such as gravity, fluid dynamics, and nutrient availability affect biofilm formation on Earth. Additionally, the research findings could one day help inform new, innovative approaches for curbing the spread of infections in hospitals.
Even if it turns out that it's just as easy to keep bacteria in check on other planets, our attempts to understand its growth could do worlds of good to curb bacteria growth here on Earth, which is still a very real problem. So for now, let's just be glad that the only bacteria we have to grapple with is, in fact, of the non-crazy-mutant persuasion. [NASA via PopSci]
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/space-can-turn-bacteria-into-supercharged-mutant-monste-608436698
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Specialized treatment helps cholesterol patients who suffer side effects from statins
June 28, 2013 ? Up to 15 percent of patients who take cholesterol-lowering statin medications experience muscle pain or other side effects, and many patients simply stop taking the drugs.
But a Loyola University Medical Center study has found that "statin-intolerant" patients still can significantly reduce their cholesterol by going to a lipid clinic staffed with physicians specially trained in treating cholesterol problems.
Among 22 statin-intolerant patients referred to Loyola's Lipid Clinic, total cholesterol dropped from 257 mg/dl to 198 mg/dl. LDL ("bad") cholesterol dropped from 172 mg/dl to 123 mg/dl, the study found.
By comparison, in a control group of 21 statin-intolerant patients who were not referred to a lipid clinic, total cholesterol dropped by only 3 points, and LDL cholesterol dropped by only 1 point.
"Stain intolerance can be a significant barrier to patients in meeting their cholesterol goals," said Binh An P. Phan, MD, senior author of the study. "Referring to a formal lipid clinic may be an effective strategy to help improve cholesterol treatment in this challenging population."
Findings were presented at the 2013 National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions by Taishi Hirai, MD, a co-author of the study.
Clinical trials of statins have reported low rates of side effects. But patient surveys conducted in real-world settings have found that as many as 15 percent of patients experience side effects.
The most common side effect is muscle soreness, fatigue or weakness.
At Loyola's Lipid Clinic, a cardiologist who has received advanced training in lipidology (cholesterol management) performs an in-depth evaluation of a patient's statin intolerance, and prepares an in-depth treatment regimen. Properly adjusting a patient's medication can enable the patient to continue taking statins. The physician adjusts medication by, for example, switching to a different statin or changing the dose or frequency of the drug, Phan said.
Phan is medical director of Loyola's Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Program. The program helps prevent heart attacks and other cardiac-related disorders and provides advanced treatment of cholesterol disorders.
Phan is an assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/bNBxuroXl-U/130628113158.htm
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The Beautiful Visualization of Relationships in Your Favorite Movies
Movies exist in their own world, with their own rules, with the characters having their own relationships. And though we may know every one of those characters, they might not all be connected together. These visualizations show how characters connect with each other in a beautiful constellation. You can almost gauge a movie by how its characters connect.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Stocks rise on good economic news
Stocks moved higher on Wall Street Thursday, bolstered by good news on jobs and consumer spending.?Stocks have rallied since Tuesday as investors took advantage of lower prices after a sell-off that lasted till Monday.
By Steve Rothwell,?AP Markets Writer / June 27, 2013
EnlargeBetter news on jobs and consumer spending pushed U.S.?stocks?higher Thursday.
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The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose for a third straight day. Bond yields fell for a second day, easing worries that a sudden spike in interest rates could hurt the economy.
Consumer spending rose 0.3 percent last month as incomes increased at the fastest pace in three months, the government reported. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 9,000 to 346,000 last week. The report added to evidence that the job market is improving modestly.
Stocks?have rallied since Tuesday as investors took advantage of lower prices after a sell-off that lasted till Monday. The plunge came after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank could cut back on its stimulus later this year and possibly end it next year, if the economy continued to improve.
The Dow sank 560 points over Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Even with the gains this week the index is still 293 points below where it was June 18, the day before the Fed laid out its plans for how it might wind down its stimulus.
The central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds every month to hold down long-term interest rates and encourage borrowing and spending. Fed stimulus has underpinned a?stock?market rally that started in March 2009 by encouraging investors to put money into risky assets.
"What's driving that market up is that people are realizing that they are in a 'win-win' situation," said Rick Robinson, a regional Chief Investment Officer at Wells Fargo Private Bank. "If you have good economic data that should be good for?stocks, if you have poor economic data ... that means the Fed will probably have its (stimulus) longer."
The Dow closed up 114.35 points, or 0.8 percent, to 15,024.49. The S&P 500 index climbed 9.94 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,613.20.
Nine of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose, led by financial?stocks. Materials companies were the only group that fell.
In a sign that investors were once again more confident in holding riskier assets, the Russell 2000 index of small-company?stocks?rose 16.09 points, or 1.7 percent, to 979.92, more than twice as much as the rest of the market.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.48 percent from 2.54 percent late Wednesday. The yield climbed as high 2.66 percent on Monday, the highest since August 2011. The rate has surged since May 3, when it touched its low for the year of 1.63 percent. Concern that the Fed is poised to start pulling back on its stimulus prompted investors to sell bonds, pushing the yield higher.
Investors who have added bonds to their portfolios at the expense of?stocks?should consider reducing their fixed income holdings because yields are likely to rise further, said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management. Bonds rallied from 2007 to 2012, years that encompassed the financial crisis and the Great Recession. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to a record low of 1.39 percent in July last year.
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/EJvFpFRD9Fk/Stocks-rise-on-good-economic-news
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interested party: A great generation sends another one home
Harriet M. Craig was born 13 February, 1922 in Norfolk, Nebraska to Ralph A. and Frances (Beidinger) Craig.
After the family moved to Columbus, Harriet attended and graduated St. Bonaventure Catholic School. Ralph, a Union Pacific Railroad brakeman then conductor, relocated Frances (Frankie) and four girls to Omaha where Harriet excelled, completed secretary/stenographer coursework, went to work for the UP Railroad, and in 1944 met Sgt. Lawrence E. Kurtz whom she married. A daughter, Leslie, was born to the couple in 1945.
The young family entered military life moving from Nebraska to Colorado Springs then to Panama. In 1947 after the Department of the Air Force was created, Harriet entered civil service in the stenographer's pool where she enjoyed a top security clearance.
A transfer sent the family to Castle Air Force Base and in 1954 a son, Larry, was born. The birth of the Strategic Air Command near the Union Pacific rail head took the family back to Nebraska where daughter Lynn was delivered.
In November, 1957, CMsgt. and Mrs. Kurtz moved the family to Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid, Spain where they remained until 1961. When the family wasn't exploring western Europe, Harriet managed the household while Lawrence was attache' to the Inspector General of the Air Force.
Harriet returned with her family to the United States, and in 1962 after Lawrence's retirement from the Service, a city girl became a farm wife near Elkton, South Dakota. In 1964 she elected to become a high school teacher, enrolled at South Dakota State College and graduated in 1968. Harriet taught Spanish and English at Lake Benton High School just across the state line in Minnesota until her retirement.
A devout lifetime Catholic, Harriet co-authored a comprehensive history of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish. She was very proud of that accomplishment.
In 1979 Lawrence and Harriet built a house in Elkton, sold the farm in 1984 then took to the road and traveled the United States extensively until 1995. The couple loved parties and friends and hosted many gatherings. Harriet played bridge until her eyesight failed.
She is survived by daughter Leslie (David) Leech, Elkton; son, Larry, Santa Fe, New Mexico; son-in-law David Larson, Flandreau, a sister Elizabeth, Omaha, Nebraska; eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence, daughter, Lynn, two sisters, and her parents.
She will be missed.
Source: http://interested-party.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-great-generation-sends-another-one.html
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Israeli, Palestinian leaders serious on talks: Kerry
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders are both committed to reviving peace talks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, but he acknowledged that progress on the long-stalled negotiations would be difficult.
Israeli-Palestinian talks broke down in late 2010 in a dispute over construction of Jewish settlements on occupied West Bank land that Palestinians want as part of their future state.
Kerry, who held separate talks with both sides in May, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wanted the peace process to move forward. This would be Kerry's fifth attempt to restart talks.
"I believe they believe the peace process is bigger than any one day or one moment, or certainly more important to their countries than some of their current political challenges," he told a news conference in Kuwait with Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah.
"That is why both of them have indicated a seriousness of purpose. I would not be here now if I didn't have the belief this is possible," he said.
Kerry said he did not want to set any deadlines for the peace process but added that there needed to be progress before the U.N. General Assembly in September.
(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Sylvia Westall; Editing by Gareth Jones)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-palestinian-leaders-serious-talks-kerry-122607681.html
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World Briefing | Asia: China: Astronauts Return Safely
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/world/asia/china-astronauts-return-safely.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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'Boy's voice' called for help, testifies eyewitness in Trayvon Martin case
Three witnesses in the Trayvon Martin shooting offered testimony Wednesday that appears to contradict defendant George Zimmerman's account of events. Two said they believed a boy's voice was the one yelling for help.
By Patrik Jonsson,?Staff writer / June 26, 2013
EnlargeIn arguably the boldest testimony yet in the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, three witnesses ? including a friend who was talking to Trayvon on the phone ? on Wednesday described a scene in which they believe a boy was yelling for help while being attacked by a larger and ?dominant? man.
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Rachel Jeantel, 19, cried on the stand as she described Trayvon saying on the phone that he was being followed by a ?creepy ass cracker? and then, a bit later, overheard him saying, ?Why are you following me for?" ?Then I heard a hard-breathing man say, 'What are you doing around here?' ? Ms. Jeantel testified. After hearing a ?bump,? she said she heard Trayvon say, "Get off, get off,? before the phone disconnected.
Two eyewitnesses, meanwhile, said they thought Trayvon cried out for help during a struggle on the sidewalk.
?I felt like it was the boy?s voice,? Jayne Surdyka told jurors about the deadly scene that unfolded on a rainy February night last year in her Sanford, Fla., neighborhood.
If true, those statements appear to contradict Mr. Zimmerman?s story, which is that an unarmed young black man, whom the world came to know as Trayvon Martin, attacked him, broke his nose, bashed his head, tussled for his gun ? all before Zimmerman found his 9mm pistol and fired once, killing Trayvon almost instantly.
Police in Sanford, Fla., let Zimmerman go without charges, saying his claims of self-defense could not be?countered. Zimmerman was indicted 44 days later by a special state prosecutor, whose assistants are now in the unusual position of proving that local police made the wrong call given the evidence at the scene. Zimmerman faces a second-degree murder charge for pursuing and confronting an unarmed teenager, who then ended up dead. He faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in state prison.
The case has divided America along racial and cultural lines. Many Americans believe Zimmerman acted in the role of a criminal vigilante by pursuing an innocent young black teenager without any evidence he?d done anything wrong, and against the advice of a nonemergency police dispatcher.
Others point to evidence ? including photos of Zimmerman with a broken nose and cuts on the back of his head ? that suggests that Trayvon was the aggressor. Social media postings indicating that Trayvon smoked pot and talked about guns and martial arts fighting, Zimmerman?s defenders say, raise questions about whether Trayvon in fact targeted Zimmerman and put him in a position where he had to defend himself with deadly force. ?You?re going to die tonight,? Zimmerman told police Trayvon said as he was beating him up.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Universal Design Tips | Rebuilding Together OKC
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At Rebuilding Together OKC, our mission is to improve the lives of senior citizens by providing free home remodels and safety modifications.? As clients age, they need homes more specifically tailored to their changing health and lifestyle.? Our goal is to make updates that allow elderly homeowners to remain independent in their homes.
Last week, the Woodworking Network put out an amazing press release titled ?Universal Design is Smart Design.?1? The term ?universal design? was coined by the architect Ronald L. Mace to describe the concept of designing all products and the built environment to be aesthetic and usable to the greatest extent possible by everyone, regardless of their age, ability, or status in life.2
The press release notes four areas of universal design that can be helpful for anyone when modifying a home for a senior neighbor, family member or friend.
?Zero barriers, which mean there are no steps in the home, especially for entryways. All living quarters are on the first floor, with the exception of an upstairs area that was converted into an apartment with the purpose of housing a caregiver at some point.
?Wide hallways, open living spaces and dual entries in all rooms are common design elements used in wheelchair accessibility. Also, two entryways in all rooms?including the living room, dining room and kitchen?allows for ample traffic flow throughout the house.
?Microwaves drawer and/or refrigeration drawers are also common in universal design, but Long says it is also a stylistic feature.
?Hardwood flooring is superior over carpeting for wheelchair accessibility. The new flooring also allowed for a five zone, energy-efficient radiant heating system throughout the house, which couldn?t have been accomplished with carpeting.
1. http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/wood-market-trends/woodworking-industry-trends-press-releases/Universal-design-is-smart-design-212048341.html?ref=341#sthash.FniDNBtU.lw8n8Jsk.dpuf
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Afghan Taliban attack in Kabul throws peace talks into further doubt
By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants attacked key buildings near Afghanistan's presidential palace and the U.S. CIA headquarters in Kabul, a brazen assault that could derail attempts for peace talks to end 12 years of war.
The Taliban, who have said they are willing to take part in talks with the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration, said they launched the early morning assault, which triggered a 90-minute firefight.
A U.S. envoy was in Kabul on Tuesday to try to smooth the way forward for the stalled talks in the Gulf state of Qatar ahead of the pullout from Afghanistan of most of the NATO-led troops next year. He had been expected to meet reporters at the palace.
Karzai was also due to attend, but his whereabouts were not known. A palace official said he was safe.
A Reuters reporter at the palace said the attack began soon after 6.30 a.m. (0200 GMT) when at least one man opened fire with an automatic rifle close to a gate to the palace in central Shash Darak district. The fighting was over before 8 a.m.
Reporters at the palace gates for security checks took cover when the firing started.
A senior government official told Reuters four or five attackers had used fake identify papers to try to make their way through security gates in the Shash Darak district, which leads to Kabul's most tightly guarded areas.
One car made it through, but a second vehicle was stopped and those inside began shooting. Grenades were thrown.
The area is home to the presidential palace compound, the Ministry of Defence and an annexe of the U.S. embassy at the old Ariana Hotel. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Afghanistan station is based there.
Afghan forces and U.S. servicemen returned fire and explosions resounded through the area. Children walking to school were caught in the shooting, but escaped serious injury.
A thick plume of smoke was seen rising from the Ariana at the height of the exchanges.
One of the attackers was killed when he detonated a bomb on his body, the government official said, and three or four were killed by security forces. At least two Afghan security guards were killed.
The U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Jim Cunningham, condemned the attack and called on the Taliban to once again commit to the nascent peace process in Doha.
"We remain steadfast in supporting the Afghan government and people against the scourge of terrorism and the violence directed against them," he said.
REJUVENATING PEACE TALKS
U.S. officials have been trying to rejuvenate peace talks in Qatar, thrown off course after rows last week over the opening there of a Taliban office.
The U.S. envoy appointed to help Kabul pursue peace with the Taliban, James Dobbins, arrived on Monday and met Karzai and the Afghan body intended to negotiate with the insurgents.
He told reporters that Washington was trying to determine if the Taliban were willing to engage in talks.
In claiming responsibility for the attack, the Taliban said it had targeted the presidential palace, the CIA office and the defence ministry.
But Afghan security officials told Reuters they believed it had been carried out by the Taliban-linked Haqqani Network. The Haqqani Network is accused of masterminding high-profile attacks in Kabul and is believed to have close links to al Qaeda.
Adela Raz, a spokeswoman for Karzai, dismissed the suggestion that the palace had been under threat, saying any shooting had taken place far from the compound's walls.
The defence ministry said the assault had been aimed at the Ariana.
In southern Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed eight women, two children and an elderly man travelling in a minivan in southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Kandahar government said.
(Additional reporting by Dylan Welch; Writing by Dylan Welch; Editing by Ron Popeski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-attack-afghan-presidential-palace-reuters-witnesses-022942464.html
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Death at Albania polling station
TIRANA, Albania (AP) ? One person died and two were injured Sunday in an exchange of gunfire close to a polling station in Albania, police said, as the country held crucial elections already marred by a dispute that could leave the result up in the air and the country without a government.
Both Conservative Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his close rival, Socialist leader Edi Rama, have hopes for eventual entry to the European Union, but the bloc has expressed concern over whether the country can manage to run fair and free elections.
Once one of the world's hardest-line communist countries, the impoverished country has had a rocky road to democracy, plagued by corruption and with past elections marred by violence and vote-rigging.
Police spokesman Tefik Sulejmani said that Gjon Gjoni, 53, died after being shot in an exchange of fire with Mhill Fufi, 49, a candidate for Berisha's governing Democratic Party, in the town of Lac, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tirana. Fufi and another person were injured.
Sulejmani said the shooting started with an argument, but gave few other details. Rama postponed voting to head to Lac.
Some 3.3 million registered voters are eligible to cast their ballots in the eighth national polls since the fall of communism in 1990. Because of a battle over the country's election commission, it is uncertain when results will be announced, though the law mandates they be revealed no later than three days after the vote.
Berisha invited all Albanians to take part in the vote and turn Sunday "into a day of festivities and good understanding."
"I assure you that your vote will be fully respected," Berisha told reporters after casting his ballot.
The premier declined to comment on the killing, saying he needed more information first.
Following aggressive campaigns by both Berisha's Democrats and the Socialists, streets in the capital of Tirana were uncommonly empty, but had long queues of people at polling stations.
The country's seven-member election commission, which prepares and holds votes, is down by three people, meaning it may be unable to certify the election. If the election is not certified, it means Parliament cannot be convened and no government formed.
In April, one of Berisha's main government allies withdrew from the coalition to join forces with the opposition. He was then ousted and replaced at the election commission by Berisha's Democrats. That move drew sharp criticism from the United States and the EU, who said it would erode people's confidence in the electoral process.
Three members affiliated with the opposition withdrew in protest, leaving the commission short of the people necessary for 5-2 approval. They have said they would consider returning to the commission to certify the election once they see the results.
Albania joined NATO in 2009 but has failed to gain candidate status from the EU, which is pressing for broader democratic reforms and an improved election record.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/death-albania-polling-station-084210861.html
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World worried about nuclear terrorism, but little action at talks
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - More than 100 states meeting next week will warn of the threat of nuclear terrorism but without deciding on any concrete new steps to counter the danger, a draft ministerial statement showed on Monday.
The document, which member states of the U.N. nuclear agency have been negotiating since March, looked unlikely to satisfy those who advocate stronger international action to ensure that potential nuclear bomb material does not fall into the wrong hands.
Still, Vienna-based diplomats said it would form a basis for future measures to improve global nuclear security, and stressed that the responsibility was mainly national.
To get all countries on board, "you are not going to have a document as ambitious" as some may have wanted, one envoy said.
Analysts say radical groups could theoretically build a crude but deadly nuclear device if they have the money, technical know-how and the amount of fissile material needed.
They say groups such as al Qaeda have been trying to get the components for such a nuclear bomb. Obtaining weapons-grade fissile material - highly enriched uranium or plutonium - poses their biggest challenge, so keeping it secure is vital, both at civilian and military facilities, experts and officials say.
Experts describe the threat of a crude fissile nuclear bomb - technically difficult to manufacture and requiring hard-to-obtain bomb-grade uranium or plutonium, as a "low probability, high consequence act" - that is, with the potential to cause massive harm to life and property.
On the other hand, a "dirty bomb", where conventional explosives are used to disperse radiation from a radioactive source, is a "high probability, low consequence act" with more potential to terrorize than cause large loss of life.
Diplomats say many countries regard nuclear security as a sensitive political issue that should be handled primarily by national authorities, and this was clearly reflected in the language of the ministerial statement.
MORE PROGRESS NEEDED
The statement, to be formally adopted at a July 1-5 conference hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said substantial progress has been made in the past few years to strengthen nuclear security, but that more is needed.
Ministers "remain concerned about the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism and other malicious acts or sabotage related to facilities and activities involving nuclear and other radioactive material", said the document, obtained by Reuters.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told Reuters last week that he saw "persistent risks" of nuclear terrorism. The information the U.N. watchdog receives about illicit nuclear-related trafficking may be the "tip of the iceberg", he said.
The international nuclear security regime "is not sufficiently robust" to protect against this kind of threat, an expert group said in a report this year.
An apple-sized amount of plutonium fashioned into a nuclear bomb and detonated in a highly populated urban area could instantly kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people, the Nuclear Security Governance Experts Group said.
"Preventing one of the world's major threats deserves bold action and new thinking," they added.
One of them, former Danish ambassador to the IAEA John Bernhard, said on Monday he believed the U.N. agency should have both more powers and resources to help enhance nuclear security.
U.S. President Barack Obama last week said he would host a summit in 2016 on securing such materials and preventing nuclear terrorism. He put on such a summit in 2010, a second was held in Seoul in 2012 and a third will be in The Hague next year.
Unlike those meetings, attended by leaders from around 50 countries, next week's conference in Vienna is open to all members of the 159-nation IAEA, which says it expects officials from some 112 countries as well as 20 organizations.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-worried-nuclear-terrorism-little-action-talks-142724325.html
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These Trippy Dripping Ink Portraits Are Face-Meltingly Creepy
When you're painting, drips are usually bad. But if you're clever enough, you can put 'em to good use. That's what artist Ben Dehaan did with his project "Uncured," by using a print loaded with some ultraviolet cured ink to create face-melting portraits worthy of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The process relies on the nature of ultraviolet cured ink, which is used in most commercial digital printers. When explosed to UV light, the ink dries almost instantly, which allows printers to churn out nice, crisp images. But when it's not cured with UV rays, things get messy.
Dehaan explains:
When uncured, the ink remains toxic and fluid. I am exploring the use of these printers without their essential element, UV light, in what I like to think of as a new process ? UV uncurable inkjet printing perhaps? The images are printed uncured and flat, then positioned vertically allowing the ink to run. The images are not digitially manipulated but are rather representations of different moments during the process.
The before and after shots are unsettling and awesome all on their own, but over on Dehaan's website, you can watch a timelapse of the pictures slowly deforming as the ink rolls down the canvas. It's disturbingly cool. Suddenly, I think I might be in the market for a portait. [Ben Dehaan Photography via Andrew Del-Colle]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-trippy-dripping-ink-portraits-are-face-meltingly-564560206
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Ohio air show crash leaves wing walker, pilot dead
Ohio air show crash: A Stearman aircraft crashed Saturday. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio.The crash killed the pilot and his wing walker.
By Ashley Thomas and Dan Sewell,?Associated Press / June 22, 2013
EnlargeA plane carrying a wing walker crashed at an air show and exploded into flames Saturday, killing the pilot and stunt walker, authorities said.
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The crash of the 450 HP Stearman happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton in front of thousands of horrified spectators. No one else was hurt.
A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.
Ian Hoyt, an aviation photographer and licensed pilot from Findlay, was at the show with his girlfriend. He told The Associated Press he was taking photos as the plane passed by and had just raised his camera to take another shot.
"Then I realized they were too low and too slow. And before I knew it, they hit the ground," he said.
He couldn't tell exactly what happened, but it appeared that the plane stalled and didn't have enough air speed, he said. He credited the pilot for steering clear of spectators and potentially saving lives.
"Had he drifted more, I don't know what would have happened," Hoyt said. He said he had been excited to see the show because he'd never seen the scheduled performer ? wing walker Jane Wicker ? in action.
On the video, the announcer narrates as the plane glides through the sky and rolls over while the stuntwoman perches on a wing.
"Now she's still on that far side. Keep an eye on Jane. Keep an eye on Charlie. Watch this! Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world," the announcer said, right before the plane makes a quick turn and nosedive.
Federal records show that biplane was registered to Wicker, who lived in Loudon, Va. A man who answered the phone at a number listed for Wicker on her website said he had no comment and hung up.
One of the pilots listed on Wicker's website was named Charlie Schwenker. A post on Jane Wicker Airshows' Facebook page announced the deaths of Wicker and Schwenker and asked for prayers for their families.
A message left at a phone listing for Charles Schwenker in Oakton, Va., wasn't immediately returned.
Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed that a pilot and stunt walker had died but declined to give their names. The air show also declined to release their identities.
The show was canceled for the rest of the day, but organizers said events would resume Sunday and follow the previous schedule and normal operations. The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the crash.
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Demi Lovato?s Estranged Biological Father Dies (VIDEO)
Demi Lovato’s Estranged Biological Father Dies (VIDEO)
Demi Lovato didn’t attend a judge’s photoshoot for “X Factor” after the passing of her biological father Patrick. Lovato’s older sister Dallas tweeted, “Rest in peace daddy I love you…”. Patrick, who had been estranged from his daughters for over a decade, had battled cancer the past few years. Demi Lovato touched on her troubled ...
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Baby rescued from drains in Spain, mother arrested
MADRID (AP) ? A 26-year-old woman has been arrested in the eastern Spanish city of Alicante on suspicion of attempting to murder her newborn baby who had to be rescued from inside a building's drains, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
The ministry said the two-day old boy, who still had his umbilical cord attached and was found wrapped in plastic bags, could have been trapped for 40 hours at a point where the building's drains converged into a 1 square meter (1.2 square yard) manhole in a courtyard.
A neighbor had alerted firefighters at 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) Sunday to what was originally thought to be a meowing cat trapped inside the drains, the ministry said in a statement.
The baby, who weighed 2.1 kilograms (4.6 pounds), is said to be in a serious but not life-threatening condition in hospital, having suffered a fracture to a bone in one arm. The baby had other injuries too, which have yet to be detailed.
The ministry said police investigators have been able to determine that the unnamed woman lived in the building, but had been admitted to Alicante's General Hospital on June 21 where she told medical staff she had suffered a miscarriage.
When police arrived at the hospital to question her, the mother acknowledged to officers that she had tried to get rid of the baby but had not had enough money to pay for an abortion.
The statement said the mother was under arrest and that an investigation was under way to try and discover whether she acted alone, or if a third party could have been involved in the ditching of the baby in the building's communal drains.
Last month rescue workers in eastern China had to extract a newborn baby who had become stuck in a sewer pipe after its mother had tried to give birth in secret.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/baby-rescued-drains-spain-mother-arrested-115823521.html
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Whole Human Brain Mapped in 3D
he 10-year 'BigBrain' effort has yielded a 10-trillion-byte atlas of fine-scale cerebral anatomy
By Helen Shen and Nature magazine
Researchers used a special tool called a microtome cut a human brain preserved in paraffin wax into 20-micrometer thick slivers and map its anatomical structure with high resolution. Image: Image courtesy of Amunts, Zilles, Evans et al.
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An international group of neuroscientists has sliced, imaged and analyzed the brain of a 65-year-old woman to create the most detailed map yet of a human brain in its entirety (see video at bottom). The atlas, called ?BigBrain?, shows the organization of neurons with microscopic precision, which could help to clarify or even redefine the structure of brain regions obtained from decades-old anatomical studies.
?The quality of those maps is analogous to what cartographers of the Earth offered as their best versions back in the seventeenth century,? says David Van Essen, a neurobiologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, who was not involved in the study. He says that the new and improved set of anatomical guideposts could allow researchers to merge different types of data ? such as gene expression, neuroanatomy and neural activity ? more precisely onto specific regions of the brain.
The brain is comprised of a heterogeneous network of neurons of different sizes and with shapes that vary from triangular to round, packed more or less tightly in different areas. BigBrain reveals variations in neuronal distribution in the layers of the cerebral cortex and across brain regions ? differences that are thought to relate to distinct functional units.
The atlas was compiled from 7,400 brain slices, each thinner than a human hair. Imaging the sections by microscope took a combined 1,000 hours and generated 1 trillion bytes of data. Supercomputers in Canada and Germany churned away for years reconstructing a three-dimensional volume from the images, and correcting for tears and wrinkles in individual sheets of tissue.
The researchers describe their results today in Science, and will make the full data set publicly available online. It shows the brain at a resolution of 20 micrometers ? 50 times higher than the typical 1 millimeter resolution of atlases based on whole-brain scans.
?This completely changes the game in terms of our ability to discriminate very fine structural and physiological properties of the human brain,? said study co-author Alan Evans, a neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Canada, at a press conference on 19 June.
?Their quality really looks very high,? says Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. The Allen Institute maintains its own human brain atlas, which provides structural data at slightly lower resolution than that of the latest study but includes extensive annotations and maps of gene expression.
Research roadmap
BigBrain is part of the Human Brain Project, a 10-year, ?1-billion European initiative to create a supercomputer simulation of the human brain. Detailed knowledge of neuronal clustering could help to set realistic parameters for the simulation, says lead author Katrin Amunts, a neuroscientist at the Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf in Germany.
Although the atlas shows data from only one person?s brain, it is an important starting point for interpreting data from other brains in the future, adds Van Essen, who compares BigBrain to the sequencing of the first human genome. ?Getting a really accurate map in one individual is, I think, very valuable,? he says.
The atlas will serve as a reference with which other data sets can be aligned, and the BigBrain team plans to work with the Allen Brain Institute to link information from their two databases.
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d
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Obama nominating Comey as FBI director
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama has chosen a former George W. Bush administration official best known for a dramatic hospital bedside standoff against a warrantless wiretapping program to head the FBI for the next decade.
White House officials are hoping that James Comey's bipartisan background and two decades of law enforcement experience will help him win Senate approval to replace outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller. Mueller took over the agency the week before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and will have served longer than any director besides J. Edgar Hoover when he steps down Sept. 4.
Mueller transformed the agency into one the country's chief weapons against terrorism, leading Obama to ask him in 2011 to stay on two years beyond his initial 10-year term. The new director would take over as the agency grapples with a privacy debates surrounding a host of recently exposed investigative tactics, and the White House said Obama would announce Comey as the man for the job Friday afternoon in the Rose Garden.
Comey was a federal prosecutor who served for several years as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York before coming to Washington after 9/11 as deputy attorney general. In recent years he's been an executive at defense company Lockheed Martin, general counsel to hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, board member at HSBC Holdings and lecturer on national security law at Columbia Law School.
He has shown a willingness to take on battles over government surveillance in the age of terrorism ? an issue that remains prominent in current Washington debate. In a confrontation he has called the most difficult night of his career, he rushed to the hospital bedside of his boss, John Ashcroft, in 2004 to stop two senior Bush White House aides from getting the ailing attorney general's approval to reauthorize a post-9/11 program that allowed government wiretaps to be used without warrants.
Comey's defiance won him respect in Washington, and Republicans have said they see no major obstacles to his confirmation. But he is certain to face tough questions about his recent hedge fund work and his ties to Wall Street as well as how he would handle current, high-profile FBI investigations.
The FBI is responsible for both intelligence and law enforcement, with more than 36,000 employees. It has faced questions in recent weeks over media leak probes involving The Associated Press and Fox News; the Boston Marathon bombings; the attack at Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans; and two vast government surveillance programs into phone records and online communications.
The leaker of those National Security Agency programs, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, also is the subject of a criminal investigation. And just this week, Mueller revealed the FBI uses drones for surveillance of stationary subjects and said the privacy implications of such operations are worthy of debate.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which doesn't take positions on nominees, is raising questions about Comey's record on national security. ACLU senior policy counsel Mike German said while Comey stood up to some surveillance, he eventually approved the NSA program, along with interrogation techniques that included waterboarding, as well as defended the indefinite detention of Jose Padilla, an American terrorism suspect.
"We want to make sure whoever sits in that chair has a determined interest in protecting the rule of law, particularly since they will be there 10 years, outlasting this president and potentially the next president," German said.
But the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will oversee Comey's confirmation hearing expressed support for his nomination. Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called for senators to give Comey "the swift and respectful confirmation he deserves."
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Comey's experience on national security would benefit the FBI. Grassley also said he wanted to question Comey on his work in the hedge fund industry and on the Obama administration's efforts to prosecute Wall Street for its role in the economic downturn.
In dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007, Comey said he thought the no-warrant wiretapping program was so questionable that he refused to reauthorize it while serving as acting attorney general during Ashcroft's hospitalization. Comey said when he learned that the White House chief of staff and counsel were heading to Ashcroft's room despite his wife's instructions that there be no visitors, Comey beat them there and watched as Ashcroft turned them away.
"That night was probably the most difficult night of my professional life," Comey testified. He said he and Ashcroft had reservations about the program's legality, but he would not discuss details since the program was classified.
Comey was deputy attorney general in 2005 when he unsuccessfully tried to limit tough interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists. He told then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that some of the practices were wrong and would damage the department's reputation.
As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Comey headed one of the nation's most prominent prosecutorial offices and one at the front lines in the fight against terrorism, corporate malfeasance, organized crime and the war on drugs.
As an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia, Comey handled the investigation of the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. military personnel.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-nominating-comey-fbi-director-081049082.html
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