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Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Google Field Trip serves as a tour guide on your mobile phone
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Google's new Field Trip app is a virtual local tour guide that's always running in the background. It pops up interesting local information???from local history and architecture to the best restaurants and shopping???without you having to ask for it.
After you choose whether you want just occasional notifications or frequent ones, Field Trip runs quietly in the background, looking for anything notable around you. The app pulls in information from a ton of sources, including Zagat and Eater in the food and drinks category; Architizer for architecture; and The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations and Atlas Obscura for unique (and possibly bizarre) finds.
When it finds something, Field Trip notifies you with a ringtone and/or vibration. It can even read the title and description to you. View the event, place, or thing on a map and read more about it within the app. You can also choose to get more or fewer notifications from individual sources.
The Android?app has a really pleasant interface and definitely encourages you to step out and go explore (as the video above suggests). Google says the app is like having a local friend with you as you explore a city. You can download this virtual friend on Google Play now; an iOS version is coming soon.?
NOTE:?If Google Play?says?your phone is incompatible, it might not really be. I got the incompatibility warning too on my Galaxy S2, but was able to download it directly from the phone and it works!
Field Trip?| on?Google Play?via?The New York Times
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World T20: Sri Lankan women snatch victory from Windies
Galle (Sri Lanka), Sep 29
West Indies women lost the momentum in a dramatic penultimate over as Sri Lanka scraped through to a narrow five run win by the Duckworth Lewis method in the rain-affected Group B match of the World Twenty20 Championship.
Chasing a modest D/L target of 48 runs in eight overs, the West Indies appeared on course to victory before imploding in a match twice interrupted by rain Friday at Galle International Stadium, reports CMC.
Tremayne Smartt smashed a boundary off the first ball and collected nine runs in the opening over as the Caribbean side seized control.
Stafanie Taylor was run out for three in the first ball of the second over, a minor setback then as Deandra Dottin opened her account with a boundary to keep the game in the West Indies' control.
Despite the loss of two quick wickets in the third over, the West Indies continued to attack, taking 10 runs off the fourth over.
A total of four batters went via the run out route but West Indies were always ahead until a match defining moment when they needed 12 off 12 with six wickets.
A nerve racking six ball spell, in which Juliana Nero and Shemaine Campbelle were stumped and Shanel Daley was run out, swung the match around and put the Sri Lankans in the driver?s seat.
Earlier, the West Indies had put Sri Lanka in to bat in a match reduced to 17-overs a side after a wet outfield had delayed the start by an hour.
Sri Lanka made a good start with 21 off three overs, but the loss of their openers in consecutive overs slowed them down.
The rains came again and Sri Lanka's innings was halted at 50 for 3 after 10.3 overs, with the West Indies getting a revised D/L target of 48.
West Indies' loss meant that all four teams in the group are now tied on points.
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a330967.html
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Video: BlackBerry Fans Speak Out!
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U.S. intelligence now says Benghazi attack "deliberate and organized"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence authority issued an unusual public statement on Friday declaring it now believed the September 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was a "deliberate and organized terrorist attack."
The statement by the office of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that it represented a change in the U.S. intelligence assessment of how and why the attack happened. During the attack on two U.S. government compounds in the eastern Libyan city, four U.S. personnel, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed.
Shawn Turner, spokesman for Clapper's office, said that in the immediate aftermath of the attack, U.S. agencies came to the view that the Benghazi attack had begun spontaneously after protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo against a short film made in California lampooning the Prophet Mohammad.
Turner said that as U.S. intelligence subsequently learned more about the attack, "we revised our initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists."
He said it remained "unclear" if any individual or specific group commanded the attack. U.S. agencies nonetheless believe that some of the militants involved in the attack were "linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaida."
In an apparent reference to a series of contradictory statements by some top Obama administration officials, Turner said intelligence agencies' "initial assessment" had been passed on "to Executive Branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly and provide updates as they became available."
One U.S. official familiar with the background to the shifting intelligence assessments said the process of figuring out from scraps of intelligence who perpetrated an event like the Benghazi attack was "imprecise" and "evolving."
Debate over whether militant groups planned the assault or whether the violence resulted from protests against the film insulting Islam has become U.S. election-year fodder. Republican lawmakers have demanded answers about the incident from the Obama administration.
Within hours of the attacks ending, some government sources in Washington were already acknowledging they might well have been planned and organized in advance, and that members of two militant factions, Ansar al Shariah and al Qaeda's North Africa-based affiliate, known as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, may have been involved.
But top administration officials later made public statements that contradicted that assessment.
SHIFTING ASSESSMENTS
On September 14, three days after the attacks, President Barack Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, said the United States had no evidence the Benghazi attack was planned.
Two days later, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said preliminary information suggested the attacks were not premeditated and were protests against the anti-Muslim film that provoked demonstrations in Egypt.
On September 19, Carney echoed Rice, saying, "Our belief based on the information we had was that it was the video that caused the unrest in Cairo and the video that ? and the unrest in Cairo that helped ? that precipitated some of the unrest in Benghazi and elsewhere."
A day later, on September 19, Carney was still insisting, "Based on the information that we had at the time and have to this day, we do not have evidence that it was premeditated."
But that same day, one key administration official moved back toward the assessment that the Benghazi assaults had been organized and intentional.
At a congressional hearing, Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, part of the National Intelligence Director's office, labeled the assaults a "terrorist attack on our embassy" and said the United States was examining information that people involved in the attack had connections to al Qaeda or its North African affiliate.
By the next day, Carney was asserting it was "self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack."
In his statement on Friday, Turner said that while U.S. intelligence agencies now believed the Benghazi attacks were well organized and deliberate, with some involvement of people connected to militant factions, it was not clear if "any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate."
(Editing by Warren Strobel and Peter Cooney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-now-says-benghazi-attack-deliberate-organized-201611151.html
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Should We Retire the Term 'Illegal' Immigrant? - NYTimes.com
A vigorous discussion is taking place online about the word ?illegal? as an adjective for certain immigrants. An immigrant activist named Jose Antonio Vargas, a former reporter, is urging news organizations like The New York Times to stop using it. He says the word is inaccurate, improper and demeaning.
The Times?s public editor, Margaret Sullivan (an independent voice who writes about The Times but is not part of its news or opinion operations), has been looking into this, interviewing editors and reporters and soliciting readers? opinions. She says she will weigh in soon.
I figured I should, too, because I have thought about ?illegal? a lot (I write immigration editorials). Five years ago I wrote an Editorial Observer called ?What Part of ?Illegal? Don?t You Understand?? explaining why I didn?t like the word, but used it anyway. Not surprisingly, the article didn?t settle the debate. It?s still going around, in circles.
Those who agree with Mr. Vargas say ?illegal? should be banned because it suggests that ?illegal immigrants? are criminals, which often isn?t true. No human being is illegal, they say.
Those who disagree say Mr. Vargas is trying to whitewash the truth. Words like ?undocumented? ignore the fact that the people so described have broken the law.
As so often happens in the immigration debate, these people end up talking past one other. ?(Look at the comments on Ms. Sullivan?s blog, and the ones that I expect will attach to this post.)
I?m in roughly the same spot I was in five years ago: I use ?illegal? somewhat interchangeably with ?undocumented,? recognizing that both words are imperfect. I also use ?unauthorized,? which is unfamiliar and a little clunky, but has a distinct advantage: while it acknowledges the unlawfulness of someone?s immigration status, it also recognizes that this status can be fixed.
This is where ?illegal? causes the most trouble, and where I find myself empathizing with Mr. Vargas. What bothers both of us is the way ?illegal? in ?illegal immigrant? defines an entire person, not merely? an unlawful act. It taints everything that person does, and suggests an irreparable offense.? ?How do you legalize an illegal person?
This is ?what many people can?t get their heads around, and why the simple act of legalization through punishment and reparation ? paying a fine and back taxes, getting to the back of the citizenship line ? is unthinkable to them.
And if immigrants are ?illegal,? then it follows that they don?t deserve legal protections. You can do anything you want to them ? abuse them, insult and berate them, arrest and detain them, split up their families ? because their ?illegality? severs them from any rights. That?s the argument used in Arizona and Alabama, and it has the advantage of being easy to understand.
As one of my immigration-activist sources says, it?s very hard to fight for civil rights and fair treatment for ?illegal immigrants? because you can never complete the sentence ?Illegal immigrants should?.?
Of course they shouldn?t ? they?re illegal!
The word ?turns 11 million people into a suspect class of quasi-criminals. It is a class-action adjective. It is the reason the country has not yet passed sweeping immigration reform, which in theory should be an easy thing to do ? it?s a simple reordering of the labor market with the labor supply. How many visas do we need? Let?s get them. How many people work off the books and owe back taxes? Let?s bring them out of the shadows and allow them to earn legal status? by meeting reasonable conditions, like learning English and waiting until the legal immigration backlogs are cleared. ?You deal with lawbreakers as you always do ? by giving them a chance for restitution, with penalties, fines and other punishments that are proportional to the offense. You recognize that the vast majority of ?illegal immigrants? had no criminal intent, but are aspiring workers who have a critically important place in? the economy and society at large, as employees, entrepreneurs, taxpayers, parents ? and as Americans-to-be.
Here?s what?s so frustrating: The word I find necessary is also one that is powerfully useful ? for the reasons above ? to the many passionate participants in the immigration debate who don?t want any ?illegals? to ever become ?legal.?
These are the people who hate pressing ?1? for English. They are the anti-immigration groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Numbers USA and the Center for Immigration Studies, created by a zero-population-growth zealot named John Tanton. Those groups have distanced themselves from their founder?s xenophobia, but are pursuing his dream of lower immigration rates and increased deportation, and staunchly oppose any and all legalization programs, which they deride as ?amnesty for illegals.?
And then there are the racists, who see ?illegal immigrant? as shorthand for ?Latino.? For them ?illegal? is a perfect slur, because it cloaks their bigotry with the sheen of virtue. People who hate immigrants can fling ?illegal? as viciously and effectively as the N-word ? and I have heard them do this at rallies on street corners in Phoenix? and yet when they do, they do so indignantly, taking great offense if anyone suggests their words were motivated not by scrupulosity about the law, but by hatred.
All the while, people like me keep trying to use ?illegal immigrant? dispassionately, to describe someone from another country who enters this one without permission, who has no legal right to be here, no documents conferring authorized status, whose presence poses a challenge to the economy and society.
The United States has absorbed wave upon wave of people who fit that exact definition. The first ones wore big black shoes and buckles on their hats. We mark their arrival every year with a celebration of America?s first great immigrant amnesty, also called ?Thanksgiving.?
Maybe Mr. Vargas and others will succeed in driving out ?illegal.? It won?t be the first time a word has? become defunct through misuse or changing times. Many a well-meaning person has innocently used words like ?Negro? and ?retarded,? for example, and one is long gone, the other (I hope) is on the way out.
But a change in usage won?t necessarily change hearts. As the linguist and former senator S.I. Hayakawa used to say, the word is not the thing, the map is not the territory, the symbol is not the thing symbolized. ?You don?t change the word, you change the attitude,? Mr. Hayakawa said.
Source: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/the-illegal-trap/
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Methodist Health System Breaks Ground on New Richardson Hospital
DALLAS, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Methodist Health System celebrated its latest expansion in North Texas during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Methodist Richardson Medical Center ? Bush/Renner hospital. The new 125-bed, four-story acute care hospital will be located at the southeast corner of Renner Road and President George Bush Turnpike. Scheduled to open in the fall of 2014, the technologically advanced facility will offer enhanced health care services to residents in Richardson, Garland, Murphy, Plano, Sachse, Wylie, and surrounding areas.
"Methodist Health System is excited to begin its highly anticipated expansion to our second location in Richardson today," said Stephen L. Mansfield, PhD, FACHE, president and CEO, Methodist Health System. "Our Campbell Road location has served the Richardson area's health care needs for more than 40 years. We look forward to expanding our presence and capabilities to serve the medical needs of North Texas with the Bush/Renner expansion."?
Among the new hospital's features are a women's pavilion; level III neonatal intensive care unit; labor, delivery, and recovery services; an advanced neurosciences program; outpatient surgical services with a focus on minimally invasive surgery with the robotic da Vinci? Surgical System; advanced cardiac care including catheterization procedures and electrophysiology; and comprehensive imaging technologies for enhanced diagnostics and treatment. The new hospital will employ almost 900 professionals, and physicians representing more than 35 specialties are expected to join the medical staff.
Upon completion of the Bush/Renner hospital, plans for the Campbell Road campus include a renovation to maintain emergency/urgent care, primary care, and diagnostic and outpatient services, as well as expanding post-acute care services such as inpatient rehabilitation and long-term acute care. Other added services will include expansion of the behavioral health unit to include geriatric behavioral health.
"This day marks the beginning of a new chapter for health care in Richardson and its surrounding communities," said Ken Hutchenrider Jr., FACHE, president, Methodist Richardson Medical Center. "We're building for the future, and our two Richardson campuses will equip us to be the trusted health care provider for this area." ?
Methodist Richardson began as a community-owned hospital in 1966 and currently has two medical campuses, Campbell Road and Bush/Renner. The Methodist Health System partnership, which began in 2009, has accelerated the expansion at the Bush/Renner campus, which is currently home to a medical office building as well as an outpatient hospital and cancer center that opened in October 2008.?
"Methodist Health System is one of Richardson's most important community partners, and the new hospital is about to become the crown jewel of health care in our community," said Richardson Mayor Bob Townsend. "Since our partnership began, Methodist Health System has recruited and brought new physicians with a wider variety of skills, talents, and abilities to the city, and it has expanded medical services in the community and region. We could not have hoped for a better health provider and partner to locate in the city of Richardson, and we look forward to the expanded level of service and additional 100 jobs this new regional health center will provide."
The Bush/Renner expansion will be supported by a $9 million capital campaign ? the largest in the hospital's history. The "Your Health. Your Hospital. Building for your future." campaign will be spearheaded by Methodist Richardson Advisory Board and Capital Campaign Committee Chair Joe Snayd.
"Many have generously supported Methodist Richardson Medical Center, contributing to its success and making the Bush/Renner expansion possible," said Snayd. "We are grateful for the efforts of both the current and past Methodist Richardson advisory boards and Methodist Richardson Foundation boards. Today we stand at the threshold of a bright future, and with the support of the community, we can strengthen Methodist Richardson Medical Center ? Bush/Renner's standing as the health care provider and hospital for future generations."??
Upon completion of the new hospital, acute care services will be centralized at the Bush/Renner facility, and the Campbell Road facility at 401 W. Campbell Road will continue to offer a full-service emergency department, outpatient diagnostic and laboratory services, behavioral health services, and physician offices. New to the Campbell Road campus will be post-acute care and rehabilitation services.
"Our Methodist Richardson expansion fully reflects future patterns of health care delivery, concentrating specialty acute inpatient and most outpatient services at the Bush/Renner location, while consolidating post-acute care services such as rehabilitation at the Campbell Road campus," said Dr. Mansfield. "The design supports our goal of transformative medicine while meeting the needs of the health system for many years to come."
Since 2007, Methodist Health System has experienced unprecedented growth ? effectively doubling the size of the 85-year-old health care system in the past five years ? and allowing Methodist to maintain and expand a deep commitment to serving the health care needs of people from all walks of life in North Texas. Earlier this month, Methodist Dallas Medical Center broke ground to mark the beginning of construction on the new $108 million Charles A. Sammons Trauma and Critical Care Tower.
Note to editor: Renderings available at www.MethodistHealthSystem.org/RichardsonExpansion
About Methodist Health System
Guided by the founding principles of life, learning, and compassion, Methodist Health System (Methodist) provides quality, integrated care to improve and save the lives of individuals and families throughout North Texas. Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Methodist Charlton Medical Center, Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Methodist Midlothian Health Center, and Methodist Family Health Centers are part of the nonprofit Methodist Health System, which is affiliated by covenant with the North Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. Additional information is available at www.MethodistHealthSystem.org. Connect with them on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter at www.MethodistHealthSystem.org/SocialMedia.
About Methodist Richardson Medical Center
Methodist Richardson Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in Richardson, Texas, has offered compassionate medical, surgical, and behavioral health services for more than 40 years. In June 2009, the hospital joined Methodist Health System and changed its name from Richardson Regional Medical Center to Methodist Richardson Medical Center. The hospital was the first health care facility to receive the Texas Award for Performance Excellence, patterned after the renowned Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Methodist Richardson Medical Center is one of only a few in the Dallas area to be named a Cycle III Chest Pain Center and Heart Failure Center, the highest level of accreditation by the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Other recognitions include Sleep Disorders Center accredited by American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Cancer Center accredited by American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, and Advanced Primary Stroke Center designation by American Stroke Association. Additional information is available at www.MethodistHealthSystem.org/Richardson.
Texas law prohibits hospitals from practicing medicine. The physicians on the Methodist Health System medical staff are independent practitioners who are not employees or agents of Methodist Health System or any of its affiliated hospitals.
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Exclusive: Groupon reshuffles execs, seeks to fix Europe business
(Reuters) - Groupon Inc
According to an internal memo obtained by Reuters, Chris Muhr, SVP of sales, will now head the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, while Veit Dengler, SVP International, will be leaving the company.
The memo did not give any reason for Dengler's departure. He will be the latest in a slew of executives, including Lee Brown, who oversees national sales, who have left or decided to leave Groupon in recent months.
Fixing its European operations has become an imperative for Groupon after the second-quarter revealed big problems with that business, driving the company's already weak share price even lower.
In addition to the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis and economic slowdown, Groupon offered discounts that were too big, annoying some merchants in the region.
Groupon, one of a crop of consumer Internet companies that debuted on markets with much fanfare in late 2011, has lost more than three quarters of its market value since its initial public offering at $20 with CEO Andrew Mason, a music graduate, pummeled with questions about its ability to sustain revenue growth.
The stock now trades at $4.78.
Muhr hails from Citydeal, a company acquired by Groupon in 2010 as its entry into international markets. Along with Citydeal co-founders Emanuel Stehle, Jens Hutzschenreuter and Rajen Ruparell, he had moved to North America to improve sales in its domestic market ahead of Groupon's IPO.
"We've made great progress in the last few months, but we still have a lot of work to do, particularly in Europe," Groupon's operations chief Kal Raman said in the internal memo.
"While our challenges in Europe are no secret, after spending two weeks there, I am energized by the great team and clear opportunities to improve," he said.
(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Chicago; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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Top Tips on Acne Reduction
Acne breakouts are the most common skin problem with which so many people are suffering. Typically it is categorized like moderate, severe or gentle. Even though it is not really fatal, this leads to ugly alterations in the entire physical appearance of the individual who is struggling with it. Proper pimples reduction treatment method can certainly prevent your emotional and physical scarring, which are associated with this particular. Acne not only diminishes your self-esteem, and also leads to long lasting scarring.
A healthful dermis along with free from pimples is important for your social interaction, especially if you are young person. Acne can't be completely prevented or avoided; here are several beneficial ideas that can be ideal for bad spots lessening, such as:
? ?Face washing: Just before going to bed, it's essential to carefully clean the make-up through facial skin to avoid the blocking of pores of the skin. Strenuous or unpleasant washing or skin rubbing should also be prevented. Rather than all these smoothly clean your face with gentle soap and water twice daily, rinse out your skin carefully and completely pat it to dry out.
? ?Make-up: Despite the fact that there was no evidence, that helps the concept that the make-up may lead to zits, still it's necessary to be away from cosmetics, that have essential oil solutions. And as well stay away from products and solutions those consist of isopropyl myristate, lanolins, D & C red eyes, sodium lauryl sulphate and laureth-4.
It's very secure to work with noncomedogenic or even nonacnegenic and it is recommended to prevent using excessive make-up.? ?Face clothes, makeup brushes and also cushions: Pillows can come in contact with facial skin when you're in deep sleep, therefore it is safer to make use of fully clean covers with regard to cushions. Additionally, the face towels ought to be often washed and maintained clean. If you utilize filthy pillowcases as well as other toiletries, then that could harbors harmful bacteria and also germs that cause skin disease such as pimples and itchiness. Same as these, utilize clean cosmetic brushes for make-up.
? ?Healthful Diet plan: For acne reduction, adhere to a well-balanced diet plan which contains nourishing substances. This can fight against formation of the acne. Components which present in your food may determine the skin condition. Extreme amounts of Sugar and also soaked food items may interrupt the balance of natural oils creation and they may also reduce strength of skin pores to fight against all toxic aspects, which could affect it in our daily program. By consuming more vegetables and also fruits you can decrease the possibilities for occurrence of pimples.
? ?Decrease Stimulating elements: You need to reduce intake of coffee, tea and also sugars for acne reduction. These all can increase the creation of natural oils.
? ?Exposure To The Sun: Skin ought to be protected against exposure to the sun as it can dry the skin. Exposure to the sun while you are within some acne treatments may bring some unwanted side effects.
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JK Rowling New Book - More Harry Potter Books
On The Eve Of A New Book, J.K. Rowling Talks Sex, Fantasy, & More (!!) Potter
Here is a brilliant career move: Write one of the most addictive, beloved series of all-time over the course of, say, 18 years, and then, when your devoted audience is finally all grown up, come out with an adult novel. The result is a guaranteed win. And while J.K. Rowling's newest book isn't exactly in Fifty Shades Of Grey-territory, the once-YA author is definitely experimenting with a little adult content in her new book, The Casual Vacancy, which hits shelves (and our e-readers) tomorrow. Sex, apparently, is on the writer's mind, as are class warfare, local elections, and the issues of teendom. Speaking to The New Yorker, Rowling talked about the freedom she is experiencing, writing about something that doesn't have the pressure and history of Harry Potter. And also, being able to really stretch her creative legs. ?I had a lot of real-world material in me, believe you me,? Rowling said. ?The thing about fantasy ? there are certain things you just don?t do in fantasy. You don?t have sex near unicorns. It?s an ironclad rule. It?s tacky.? Well, sure. That said, she continues from there to make clear that it wasn't exactly sex she wanted to write about: It was the mundane world of being a muggle an adult.
However, on a note of holy-crap-could-this-be-real?, Potter fans need not despair that the gateway to Hogwarts is irreversibly closed. In fact, being the vigilant perfectionist that she is, Rowling mentioned to the BBC that she isn't ruling out a director's cut of the famed series (she lamented to The New Yorker over the overstuffed nature of Order Of The Phoenix).
When it came to leaving her beloved characters behind, the writer is firm: "I have always left the door ajar because I'm not that cruel. If I had a fabulous idea that came out of that world, because I loved writing it, I would do it. But I've got to have a great idea, I don't want to go mechanically into that world and pick up odds and ends and glue them together and say 'here we go, we can sell this'. It would make a mockery of what those books were to me. They really kept me going through some very rough times.... So, I just don't want to betray them in that sense."
But, this is still the author who had her diehard readers hunting for Horcruxes over the course of hundreds of pages. So, of course, she added, "You know what, if I did have a great idea for something else, I probably would do it. I'm very averse to the prequel/sequel idea." She then said, "A sidestep. Well...we'll see." (BBC, The New Yorker)
Photo: Via JKRowling.com
Source: http://www.refinery29.com/j-k-rowling?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss
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Insight: In U.S. soldier's death, a window into Afghan insider killings
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - In the weeks before his death, 21-year-old Mabry Anders had grown increasingly worried that he might not come home from Afghanistan. The Army specialist was battling insomnia and would send brief, worried messages back to his family.
"He talked to me in the day, which would be in the middle of his night," his father, Dan Anders, said. "He didn't sleep. He was just worried."
There were good reasons for concern. During his six-month tour, the Taliban staged a major attack at his base, a suicide bomber had killed one of his brigade's most revered leaders, and an Afghan villager threw a fire-bomb at a vehicle he was traveling in.
But what Anders may not have expected is that his killer would be an Afghan army soldier, one of those the U.S. military is supposed to be training to take over security of the country ahead of the withdrawal of most U.S. troops by the end of 2014.
A surge in insider attacks (also known as green on blue attacks) has prompted NATO to temporarily curtail some joint operations. The move casts doubt on what exactly international forces can accomplish in those places where they cannot work alongside their Afghan allies.
Interviews in Afghanistan and the United States have uncovered new details about the attack on August 27, which also took the life of another U.S. soldier, Sergeant Christopher Birdwell. These include Taliban claims that the insurgents prepared the Afghan soldier for the killings.
"After the shooting incident a group of Taliban came to my house and said that Welayat Khan was their man," said Nazar Khan, the brother of the Afghan soldier who was killed by U.S. forces after he opened fire on the Americans.
"'We have trained him for this mission and you must be proud of his martyrdom,'" the brother quoted a local Taliban commander as saying.
Interviews with Afghan officials suggest that Welayat Khan was not properly vetted. He was admitted to the force seven months before the attack, despite presenting a fake birth certificate and having gotten a flimsy recommendation from a commander who vouched for him simply because the two men were ethnic Pashtuns, according to Afghan sources speaking on condition of anonymity.
Insider attacks now account for one in every five combat deaths suffered by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, and 16 percent of all American combat casualties, according to 2012 data. The rising death toll has alarmed Americans and raised new, troubling questions about the unpopular war's direction.
The Pentagon is promising better vetting of Afghan recruits like Welayat Khan, and NATO last week announced it was scaling back cooperation with Afghans to reduce risk to Western troops. That includes Anders' unit, stationed at Combat Outpost Xio Haq in Laghman province, in eastern Afghanistan, which, for the moment, has halted joint operations.
But it's unclear whether the United States or NATO or the Afghan government forces they're training will be able to stop the next Welayat Khan before he strikes.
SAVE US FROM THE INFIDELS
Khan was raised in a deeply religious family in the mountain village of Shor Khil, a collection of about 100 mud-built houses near the Tora Bora mountains not far from the Pakistan border.
Relatives said they were taken by surprise when he joined the Afghan army. His cousin Rahman recounted that Welayat had lambasted Western military forces.
"Welayat had a small radio and liked to listen to news about Afghanistan. He became very upset and angry when there were reports about civilians being killed by air strikes," Rahman said. "'May Allah save us from the hands of these infidels,'" he quoted Welayat as saying.
According to family members, Welayat had shown signs of mental instability since an accident at work when he slipped on a mountain while breaking rocks for construction. Nazar Khan, Welayat's older brother, said he would suffer mental breakdowns and "get angry at minor things."
In Welayat's pictures, provided by his brother Nazar Khan, he appears clean-shaven, young, stern looking, with a mass of thick black hair. He has a long face and slender build. In one picture he is gently holding his green beret in his right hand, with his left hand resting on the barrel of a machine gun.
Work with the Afghan army meant steady paychecks of about $240 a month, helping his 15-member family. Still, his relatives asked him to quit out of fear of reprisals by the Taliban, who have warned villagers not to join the Afghan security forces.
"We have all warned him to leave the army and find another job," Rahman said.
Reprisals from the Taliban, it turns out, wouldn't be a problem.
IN COLD BLOOD
Although the Taliban claim to have trained Khan for his mission, there is nothing to suggest at this point that he knew where, when or even if he would strike on the morning of August 27. By all accounts, he did not know the two U.S. soldiers he shot.
Anders, an Army mechanic from a small town in Oregon, and Birdwell, from Windsor, Colorado, were part of an early morning clearance mission near the Afghan town of Kalagush when the lead vehicle in their convoy hit a bomb.
Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are hardly a novelty and, after 11 years of war, troops know how to respond. Soldiers in the convoy quickly secured the area and Anders went to help load the damaged vehicle for transport.
The American patrol had the road blocked to ensure security. But the Afghan soldiers approaching in another convoy were not seen as a potential threat, and were allowed to pass. On board that convoy was Welayat Khan.
"They are trained to trust the Afghan soldiers," Anders' mother, Genevieve Woydziak, said.
Welayat Khan was sitting at the gun turret mounted on a vehicle in the Afghan convoy. At 8:10 in the morning, as his vehicle passed Anders and Birdwell, Welayat Khan took aim at the Americans and fired.
"The rest of the Afghan soldiers at that point laid their weapons down" to avoid being shot, Woydziak said.
Welayat Khan then jumped out of the Afghan vehicle and started to run. But he didn't get very far.
An American helicopter arrived in minutes and shot Khan dead less than a kilometer away, according to a U.S. Army spokesman.
Khan's older brother said the body was so riddled with bullets that it was unrecognizable.
"The coffin was sealed," Nazar said, adding that the government declined to provide any money for the funeral because of Khan's links to the Taliban.
In hunting for an explanation, Reuters learned of an alternative narrative. Khan's brother heard from Afghan forces and an Afghan eyewitness that there was a dispute at the American roadblock, involving a pregnant women who needed to pass. In this scenario, an American at the scene told her to wait and Khan retaliated.
"My brother is a martyr and the whole family is proud of his martyrdom but we blame the Americans for inciting him to shoot," Nazar Khan said.
But a U.S. Army spokesman said there was no indication so far that Khan had any interaction with the American soldiers he killed, or with any of the other American forces, for that matter. The Army investigation is ongoing.
The Taliban appears to be claiming they were in on the attack from the start, before Welayat Khan even joined the army.
"Mullah Abdul Samad and his men came to my house a day after I buried my brother and they were saying that Welayat joined them before enrolling in the army," Nazar Khan said, referring to the village Taliban commander.
It's unclear what, beyond perhaps Welayat Khan's fake birth certificate, NATO might have caught with its newly enhanced steps to weed out dangerous Afghan soldiers, announced in the weeks after the shooting.
Many of the attacks are chalked up to personal grudges, in a country where disputes are frequently settled at gunpoint and where asking after a wife's health could be seen as offensive.
Brigadier General Roger Noble of Australia, deputy chief of staff of operations in Afghanistan, said NATO was working on creating "shooter profiles" from past cases to see if it is possible to identify worrying traits or characteristics.
Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan until July, warned that "the Taliban have found a niche."
"I think they're finding that ... relatively easy to do," he said at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "And our own vetting in the U.S. military is not that great, let's face it."
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, told Reuters that "a large number" of fighters have infiltrated the Afghan security forces.
"A HERO COMES HOME"
Anders' mother was at her office on August 27 when she got a call from workers at her house in Baker City, Oregon. They told her that two Army soldiers had arrived at her doorstep.
"I served in the Army myself. We knew why they were there," she said.
It was a long, 15-mile drive back to her home, where she would learn with certainty about her son Mabry's death earlier that day on the other side of the world. She has learned more details about it since then.
The parents are still wrestling with agonizing questions.
Dan Anders, Mabry's father, who lives in Wyoming, is concerned about the U.S. rules of engagement - saying, for example, that he had learned the helicopter that shot Welayat Khan as he attempted to flee had to request authorization to fire, even though Khan had just killed his son and Birdwell.
His mother is deeply concerned about the insider threat itself, saying that her son's Army friends in Afghanistan are afraid of some of the Afghans they serve with.
"They're training with these Afghan people and they're doing their thing and they know it's wrong," she said. "They know who they can trust. They know who they can't trust. They are in fear. Every day."
Some analysts see NATO's decision last week to scale back some joint operations as a worrying sign.
Nora Bensahel at the Center for a New American Security think tank said it raised serious questions about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. "This will create a vicious cycle, where an emboldened Taliban increases its threats against any future joint patrols in order to make this temporary suspension permanent," Bensahel wrote.
Other critics of the war, including in Congress, have seized upon the insider attacks as an additional reason to accelerate the American withdrawal from the country.
Still, the Afghan conflict is not a top issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign and the insider attacks have not yet sparked widespread national outrage.
Mabry Anders' home town of Baker City, Oregon appears to have been largely untouched by the war until his death. His hometown newspaper noted in an editorial that Anders' killing had "erased our collective complacency" about the 11-year-old Afghan war.
The newspaper, the Baker City Herald, estimated that some 2,000 people turned out on the streets for Anders' funeral procession. Hundreds held tiny flags.
Anders was just 10 years old at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and he enlisted in the Army shortly after graduating from high school. He posted lots of photos on Facebook - many showing his sense of humor, even in Afghanistan. (www.facebook.com/mabry.anders)
On the day of his service, the Herald wrote a touching article called "A Hero Comes Home," noting the different ways people in the community paid tribute to Anders. Among them was a story about a man who went to a bar after the procession and bought a shot for Anders. He left it untouched, along with a handwritten note.
"It said: 'Mabry Anders, thank you, all gave some and some gave all,'" bartender Sarah Heiner told Reuters. She kept the shot until it evaporated, days later.
(Editing by Warren Strobel and Claudia Parsons)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-u-soldiers-death-window-afghan-insider-killings-230406407.html
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Vial of Life
I consider myself pretty savvy and informed about aging and senior health issues.? So, last weekend? when I attended the Alzheimer?s Association 2012 Walk to End Alzheimer?s in Dallas, TX. I was surprised to learn about a simple, practical, in home health idea that has been out for at least three years.? I don?t know how I missed it.
Before the walk began I strolled amongst the tables of sponsors who had helped to make the walk such a success.?? Professional Caretakers, Inc., a professional home health care agency in Texas, was distributing a pretty blue bottle labeled the Vial of Life.
The Vial of Life is a way to make your medical and health records available to family and emergency professionals should you have a medical emergency.? I have done this for me and my husband by maintaining up-to-date records of our contact information, medical histories, prescriptions, allergies, and insurance information in a spreadsheet on my computer. I keep a printout in a folder by the front door.
The Vial of Life takes it a couple of steps further.? It is a community-based program that provides lifesaving Information for Emergencies.?? The Vial contains a page that you can fill out with Primary Medical Conditions, Health Information, Current Medications, Previous Medical Conditions, and Emergency Contacts.? In addition the Vial contains a refrigerator magnet. ? The paper work is placed inside the pretty blue bottle, which is then placed visibly in the refrigerator.? Emergency workers are trained to look for a Vial of Life sticker or magnet either by the front door or on the refrigerator.
Providing your medical information to emergency personnel could save your life or the life of a family member.
I took two Vials? home with me, placed my records in one and my husbands records in the other.? The magnet is now on the refrigerator door and we have yet one more safety net in place.? Some times the best things in life really are free.
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Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Might be Vulnerable to Malicious Wiping
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Belarus elects entirely pro-government parliament
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ? Not a single opposition politician won a seat in Belarus' parliament in a weekend vote that has been condemned by international observers and looks set to deepen the former Soviet nation's diplomatic isolation.
Critics also said the 74.3 percent turnout reported by the Central Elections Commission chairman on Monday was way too high and indicated widespread fraud.
The main opposition parties, which were ignored by state-run media, boycotted the election to protest the detention of political prisoners and ample opportunities for election fraud.
The vote filled the parliament with representatives of three parties that have backed the policy agenda of President Alexander Lukashenko.
"This election was not competitive from the start," said Matteo Mecacci, leader of the observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "A free election depends on people being free to speak, organize and run for office, and we didn't see that in this campaign."
Belarus' parliament has long been considered a rubber-stamp body for Lukashenko's policies. He has ruled the former Soviet nation since 1994 and Western observers have criticized all recent elections in Belarus as undemocratic.
Local independent observers estimated the overall turnout as being almost 19 percent lower than the official 74.3 percent figure.
"Belarus gets ever closer to the worst standards of Soviet elections," said Valentin Stefanovich, coordinator of the Rights Activists for Free Elections group.
At least 20 independent election observers were detained, according to rights activists.
Political analyst Leonid Zaiko said the way the elections were held highlighted Lukashenko's desire to prepare for another beckoning economic crisis. "He plans to control the situation with an iron fist. He has no time for any opposition, not on the street and certainly not in parliament," Zaiko said.
Lukashenko's landslide win in the 2010 presidential election triggered a mass street protest against election fraud that was brutally suppressed. Some of the 700 people arrested at that protest are still in jail, including presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich.
Opposition politicians have cautioned supporters to refrain from holding protest rallies this time.
The opposition had hoped to use this election to build support, but 33 of 35 candidates from the United Civil Party were barred from television, while the state-owned press refused to publish their election programs.
The United Civil Party and another leading opposition party, the Belarusian Popular Front, pulled their candidates off the ballot and urged voters not to show up at the polls a week before the election.
The United States and the European Union have imposed economic and travel sanctions on the Belarusian government over its crackdown on opposition groups and independent news media.
"The aim of giving President Lukashenko's regime the appearance of democratic legitimacy has clearly failed," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement. "In view of the glaring irregularities in these elections, it is clearly visible for everyone what Belarus is today: the last dictatorship in the heart of Europe."
Westerwelle said Germany and its European partners would step up their efforts to push for the release of political prisoners and isolate Lukashenko and his regime.
EU foreign ministers are due to hold talks in Brussels next month on political freedoms in Belarus. They are expected to consider possible revisions to sanctions against the country aimed at more specifically targeting those in the leadership deemed responsible for the political crackdown.
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Geir Moulson contributed to this report from Berlin.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/belarus-elects-entirely-pro-government-parliament-084059471.html
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Toepfer cuts forecast of UK wheat crop after bad weather
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Romney Solidifies Major Shift On Health Care (VIDEO) - TPMDC
Comments made by Mitt Romney on Sunday night to CBS News reveal again, in stark relief, how fully he?s abandoned the basic tenets of the health care reform law he enacted in Massachusetts.
?The guy has come completely full circle,? says Jonathan Gruber, a professor at MIT who advised Romney on the Massachusetts law and has expressed his dismay about Romney?s shift in several public fora.
In the 60 Minutes interview, Romney protested the idea that government doesn?t already provide health care to the uninsured: ?Well, we do provide care for people who don?t have insurance,? he said. ?If someone has a heart attack, they don?t sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.?
The new message reflects a Republican Party consensus against using government power to help insure the tens of millions of Americans who lack coverage ? the Affordable Care Act?s key accomplishment. In 2008, President George W. Bush created an election year controversy when he boasted, ?[P]eople have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.? But for Romney, it?s the culmination of a years? long conservative pressure campaign, which has forced him to abandon the premise of his 2006 Massachusetts health care law.
To fully appreciate the enormity of Romney?s shift, you need go no further than Romney?s own book or a series of public statements he made, some as recently as 2010.
?After about a year of looking at data ? and not making much progress ? we had a collective epiphany of sorts, an obvious one, as important observations often are: the people in Massachusetts who didn?t have health insurance were, in fact, already receiving health care,? Romney wrote in No Apology.
Under federal law, hospitals had to stabilize and treat people who arrived at their emergency rooms with acute conditions. And our state?s hospitals were offering even more assistance than the federal government required. That meant that someone was already paying for the cost of treating people who didn?t have health insurance. If we could get our hands on that money, and therefore redirect it to help the uninsured buy insurance instead and obtain treatment in the way that the vast majority of individuals did ? before acute conditions developed ? the cost of insuring everyone in the state might not be as expensive as I had feared.
?The whole idea of Romneycare was to avoid this kind of free riding,? Gruber told TPM.
The Republican nominee made the same point while running for president in 2008. In March 2010, the year ?Obamacare? was enacted, he was still arguing that the guarantee of emergency room coverage ought to be supplemented by bringing Americans into the insurance system.
?It doesn?t make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance, and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility, particularly if they?re people who have sufficient means to pay their own way,? Romney said at the time on MSNBC?s ?Morning Joe.? ?And so we said, look, we?ve got an idea. Let?s take all the money we?ve been spending to give out free care ? paying hospitals who give out free care ? and help people who can?t afford it buy insurance.?
Watch Romney?s position evolve over the years:
Sahil Kapur Sahil Kapur is a congressional reporter for TPM. He previously covered politics and public policy for numerous publications including The Guardian and The Huffington Post. He can be reached at sahil [at] talkingpointsmemo.com.
Source: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-romney-uninsured-emergency-room.php
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