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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Council on Foreign Relations Hacked by Chinese Hackers

In a report?published?by?right-wing?Washington Free Beacon,??an advanced malware attack against one of America?s most powerful decision making ?foreign policy groups was conducted last week, in which the website of ?Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its servers were infected.

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The cyber experts are now investigating the attack have reveled that?the attack is one of its kind and relatively new?ploy called a ?drive-by? website cyber attack, detected around 2:00 p.m. on 26th December.

The experts added that they suspects the Chinese hackers behind the attack in which the servers operating the CFR?s website were infected, then via infected servers the CFR members and others who visited or ?drove by? the site were infected.

However, the malware was removed on Thursday, the experts believe that the attackers removed the malware themselves to prevent further tracing or the IT experts at CFR got rid of it.

?The malware was apparently pushed onto the systems of visitors via a vulnerability in Internet Explorer,? writes?Softpedia?s Eduard Kovacs. ?The malicious software planted on the server used Mandarin Chinese language, experts from a private security firm told the Free Beacon. Also, it appears that the attack targeted only people or intelligence related to China because the malware was configured to infect only visitors who had set their browsers to support Chinese language characters.?

EsecurityPlanet?s Jeff Goldman,?writes that in an email conversation, the member of CFR?David Mikhail?confirmed the attack.

According to the email confirmation:

?The Council on Foreign Relations? Web site security team is aware of the issue and is currently investigating the situation,? he wrote. ?We are also working to mitigate the possibility for future events of this sort.??

Council on Foreign Relations is a powerful group that consist of elite class of the country and commonly known as the?? Shadow Government of the United States?.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

H5N1: Dr. Carroll: Haiti's general hospital is still very sick

Via his blog Dying in Haiti, Dr. John Carroll posts a video:?Haiti's General Hospital is Still Very Sick. His introduction:

The General Hospital in Port-au-Prince is still broken. ?And so the patients remain broken.?The political will is just not there to fix it.

Highly recommended.

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Carol Stack is the former Director of Admissions at Macalester College and Augsburg College. For the past 15 years, Stack has worked as a principal at Hardwick-Day, an enrollment consulting firm that works with the admissions and financial aid offices of private colleges and universities. Through Hardwick-Day, she has consulted on financial aid policy at dozens of colleges, including Whittier, Grinnell, Mills, Randolph-Macon, and Xavier University.Ruth Vedvik has held the position of Director of Admissions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ball State University, and Agnes Scott College. For the past 9 years, Vedvik has worked as a principal at Hardwick-Day, an enrollment consulting firm that works with the admissions and financial aid offices of private colleges and universities. Through Hardwick-Day, she has consulted on financial aid policy at dozens of colleges, including Whittier, Grinnell, Mills, Randolph-Macon, and Xavier University.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Gulmarg A Hot Identify For Awesome Winter Weather Sports

For winter game fans, a journey to Gulmarg Kashmir in the center of winter can be an thrilling experience. The ski hills and snow skiing features attracts several lovers here. But Gulmarg has a lot to offer even its summer time guests. The wonder opinions, mdw and plant packed landscapes are a cure for the sight.

Getting to Gulmarg

You can access Gulmarg either through Srinagar (52 kilometers) or Jammu (300 kilometers). If you are on a funds, Jammu is the better bet as it has a train place. Srinagar is the nearest terminal to Gulmarg. The Srinagar-Gulmarg range can be protected by cab and takes around two hours.

Gulmarg Hotels

Gulmarg is well prepared for guests throughout the year. There are nearly 40 resorts in the small city and they range across the wide range from high-class to primary.

Here's a look at some of the funds Gulmarg resorts.

Hotel Welcome

The resort is situated on the town's main street, known as the Blvd. The place has a wide range of bed rooms such as luxurious, professional and presidential. Each of the bed rooms comes prepared with a tv and heating and cooling features. The place also has a multi-cuisine cafe.

Hotel Zam Zam

The Zam Zam resort is in the center of Gulmarg and is right next to the cab take a position. The place provides relaxed bed rooms with tv and intercom features. Space heating units are available on ask for. The place has a cafe for its guests and room support is also available. There is also a washing laundry support.

Gulmarg Inn

The Gulmarg Inn has all the services that are required for a relaxed stay. The bed rooms are huge and slightly prepared. Each room has an connected shower, tv, operating hot and chilly water. The place also has a quality cafe that provides multi-cuisine food. Though the cafe ends down at 10 pm, room support is available at all times. The place also provides washing laundry support and a travel table to give advice on local sight-seeing. There is also a physician on call at the resort.Hotel Khaleel Palace

The resort has a wonderful wood made framework and is situated at Gandola in Gulmarg. The place is separated into two pizza known as the Hawa Mahal and the Pari Mahal. Both the pizza together have 13 bed rooms. In addition, the resort provides features like spa and rub room. The place cafe, known as Sarposh, provides Native indian, China and Navigator dishes. The place also has Wi-Fi connection and safe down payment features.

Gulmarg provides a lot of accommodations options for both guests and activities lovers.

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Americans from Central African Republic capital evacuated

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Hundreds protest in front of the French Embassy in the Bangui, Central African Republic, on Wednesday, expressing anger over the lack of response by the former colonial power to rebels advancing on the capital.

By NBC News and wire services

U.S. diplomats and other American citizens have been evacuated from the Central African Republic and U.S. embassy operations have been suspended in the capital, Bangui, the State Department said Thursday. The move came as?rebel forces?advanced on the city.

"This decision is solely due to concerns about the security of our personnel and has no relation to our continuing and long-standing diplomatic relations with the (Central African Republic)," said State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell.

Insurgents on motorbikes and in pickup trucks have driven to within 45 miles of Bangui after weeks of fighting, threatening to end President Francois Bozize's nearly 10-year rule over the turbulent, resource-rich country.

Bozize appealed to the United States and France to help push back the rebels.

Some U.S. Special Forces are operating in the country, trying to track down the Lords Resistance Army, a rebel group responsible for killing thousands of civilians across four African nations.?There was no indication that these forces would be used to aid Bozize against the advancing insurgents.

Earlier a senior defense official told NBC News that there were "several hundred" civilians, including Americans and citizens of close U.S. allies who may be evacuated, but comments by the State Department's Ventrell suggested fewer had left:?

"Ambassador (Laurence) Wohlers and his diplomatic team left Bangui today along with several private U.S. citizens," according to Ventrell.

The non-combatant evacuation operation transported "U.S. citizens and designated foreign nationals to safe havens in the region," according to a statement from?Defense Department spokesman Todd Breasseale. The flight out of Bangui was "wheels up" at about 7:15 p.m. ET.?

Paris said its troops would protect French nationals, but not be involved in repelling the rebels.?

Some 1,200 French nationals live in the CAR, mostly in the capital, according to the French Foreign Ministry, where they typically work for mining firms or aid groups.

French nuclear energy group Areva mines the Bakouma uranium deposit in the CAR's south ? France's biggest commercial interest in its former colony.?

Bozize on Thursday appealed for French and U.S. military support to stop the SELEKA rebel coalition, which has promised to overthrow him unless he implements a previous peace deal in full.

France: 'Those days are over'
He told a crowd of anti-rebel protesters in the riverside capital that he had asked Paris and Washington to help move the rebels away from the capital to clear the way for peace talks which regional leaders say could be held soon in Libreville, Gabon.

"We are asking our cousins the French and the United States, which are major powers, to help us push back the rebels to their initial positions in a way that will permit talks in Libreville to resolve this crisis," Bozize said.

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Central African Republic President Francois Bozize in 2008.

France has 250 soldiers in its landlocked former colony as part of a peacekeeping mission and Paris in the past has ousted or propped up governments ? including by using air strikes to defend Bozize against rebels in 2006.

But French President Francois Hollande poured cold water on the latest request for help.

"If we have a presence, it's not to protect a regime, it's to protect our nationals and our interests and in no way to intervene in the internal business of a country, in this case the Central African Republic," Hollande said on the sidelines of a visit to a wholesale food market outside Paris.

"Those days are over," he said.

France is increasingly reluctant to directly intervene in conflicts in its former colonies. Since coming to power in May, Hollande has promised to put ties with its former colonies on a healthier footing.

The rebel advance has highlighted the instability of a country that has remained poor since independence from Paris in 1960 despite rich deposits of uranium, gold and diamonds. Average income is barely over $2 a day.

Regional African leaders, meantime, tried to broker a ceasefire deal and rebels said they had temporarily halted their advance on Bangui to allow talks to take place.

Officials from around central Africa were to meet in Bangui later on Thursday to open initial talks with the government and rebels.

A rebel spokesman said fighters had temporarily halted their advance to allow dialogue.

"We will not enter Bangui," Col. Djouma Narkoyo, the rebel spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.

Previous rebel promises to stop advancing have been broken, and a diplomatic source said rebels had taken up positions around Bangui on Thursday, effectively surrounding it.

The atmosphere remained tense in Bangui the day after anti-rebel protests broke out, and residents were stocking up on food and water.

Government soldiers deployed at strategic sites and French troops reinforced security at the French embassy after protesters threw rocks at the building on Wednesday.

Bozize came to power in a 2003 rebellion that overthrew President Ange-Felix Patasse.

The government holds little sway outside the capital, and in some parts of the country, the consequences of conflicts in troubled neighbors Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo have spilled over.

This report includes reporting by Reuters and NBC News' Courtney Kube.

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House Ethics Committee finds no violations among lawmakers who received Countrywide VIP loans (Star Tribune)

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Obamas Share the Story Behind The Hug | YourTango

obamas election night hug photo — Obama tweeted this photo along with "Four more years" when he won the election.

Hear the heartwarming story behind Barack and Michelle's famous photo.

On election night, the image of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his victory warmed hearts across the country. After the president tweeted it, the viral hug became the most shared photo in Facebook and Twitter history.

Now the first couple is sharing the story behind one of the most iconic, love-filled images of 2012, along with the secrets to their successful marriage, in an interview with Barbara Walters.?

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Elevated levels of C-reactive protein appear associated with psychological distress, depression

Dec. 24, 2012 ? Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammatory disease, appear to be associated with increased risk of psychological distress and depression in the general population of adults in Denmark, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication.

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability and previous studies suggest that low-grade systemic inflammation may contribute to the development of depression. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a commonly used marker of inflammation, and inflammatory disease is suspected when CRP levels exceed 10 mg/L. Researchers are unclear whether and to what extent elevated CRP levels are associated with psychological distress and depression in the general population, according to the study background.

Marie Kim Wium-Andersen, M.D., of Herlev Hospital and Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether elevated plasma levels of CRP were associated with distress and depression. Researchers analyzed CRP levels using data from two general population studies in Copenhagen, which included 73,131 men and women ages 20 to 100 years.

"The main finding of this study consisted of an association of elevated CRP levels with an increased risk for psychological distress and depression in the general population," the authors comment.

Increasing CRP levels were associated with increasing risk for psychological distress and depression in analyses. For self-reported antidepressant use, the odds ratio was 1.38 for CRP levels of 1.01 to 3 mg/L, 2.02 for 3.01 to 10 mg/L, and 2.7 for greater than 10 mg/L compared with 0.01 to 1 mg/L. For prescription of antidepressants, the corresponding odds ratios were 1.08, 1.47 and 1.77, respectively; for hospitalization with depression they were 1.30, 1.84 and 2.27 respectively. Other analyses suggest that increasing CRP levels also were associated with increasing risk for hospitalization with depression, according to the study results.

"More research is needed to establish the direction of the association between CRP and depression because this study and others are primarily cross-sectional. The results also support the initiation of intervention studies to examine whether adding anti-inflammatory drugs to antidepressants for treatment of depression will improve outcome," the authors conclude.

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Monday, December 24, 2012

NRA chief: 'If it's crazy to call for armed security in school..call me crazy' (Reuters)

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Watchdog: Fannie, Freddie may have lost over $3B

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal watchdog has found that government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have lost more than $3 billion from big banks' alleged rigging of a key interest rate.

The staff of the inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the two mortgage giants, gave the estimate in an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. It recommended that the FHFA consider suing banks over the LIBOR rate.

Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, agreed Wednesday to pay $1.5 billion in fines, becoming the second bank fined for trying to manipulate LIBOR. The rate is used to price trillions of dollars in contracts including mortgages and credit cards.

LIBOR, or the London Interbank Offered Rate, is set daily using information that banks provide.

The memo says Fannie and Freddie sustained the losses on $1 trillion in mortgage securities and other investments linked to the key rate. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the memo Wednesday.

Taxpayers so far have paid about $170 billion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, which suffered huge losses from risky mortgages and were bailed out by the government in September 2008 at the onset of the financial crisis.

Fannie and Freddie together own or guarantee about half of all U.S. mortgages, or nearly 31 million home loans.

Legal action against banks by the FHFA on Fannie and Freddie's behalf would add to a flurry of lawsuits filed by cities and municipal agencies in the U.S. against some of the banks that set the LIBOR rate. The cities and agencies are seeking damages for losses they say they suffered as a result of an artificially low rate, because they hold bonds and other investments whose value is pegged to LIBOR.

The FHFA said in a statement Wednesday that it hasn't determined specific losses from LIBOR for the two companies and hasn't decided whether to pursue legal action against the banks.

"We continue to evaluate issues associated with LIBOR and monitor LIBOR-related developments," the agency's statement said.

Spokesmen for Fannie and Freddie declined to comment.

The LIBOR scandal is likely to make headlines again in coming weeks and months. Other big global banks in several countries also are being investigated for rigging the rate and are expected to be fined.

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Potentially Habitable Planet Detected Around Nearby Star

A sun-like star in our solar system's backyard may host five planets, including one perhaps capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports.

Astronomers have detected five possible alien planets circling the star Tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from Earth ? a mere stone's throw in the cosmic scheme of things. One of the newfound worlds appears to orbit in Tau Ceti's habitable zone, a range of distances from a star where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface.

With a minimum mass just 4.3 times that of Earth, this potential planet would be the smallest yet found in the habitable zone?of a sun-like star if it's confirmed, researchers said.

"This discovery is in keeping with our emerging view that virtually every star has planets, and that the galaxy must have many such potentially habitable Earth-sized planets," study co-author Steve Vogt, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in a statement. "They are everywhere, even right next door." [Gallery: 7 Potentially Habitable Exoplanets]

The five planet candidates are all relatively small, with minimum masses ranging from 2 to 6.6 times that of Earth. The possibly habitable world, which completes one lap around Tau Ceti every 168 days, is unlikely to be a rocky planet like Earth, researchers said.

"It is impossible to tell the composition, but I do not consider this particular planet to be very likely to have a rocky surface," lead author Mikko Tuomi, of the University of Hertfordshire in England, told SPACE.com via email. "It might be a 'water world,' but at the moment it's anybody's guess."

Spotting signals in the noise

Tau Ceti is slightly smaller and less luminous than our sun. It lies 11.9 light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale) and is visible with the naked eye in the night sky. Because of its proximity and sun-like nature, Tau Ceti has featured prominently in science fiction over the years.

Astronomers have searched for exoplanets?around Tau Ceti before and turned up nothing. But in the new study, researchers were able to pull five possible planetary signals out from under a mountain of noise.

Tuomi and his team re-analyzed 6,000 observations of Tau Ceti made by three different spectrographs, instruments that allow researchers to detect the tiny gravitational wobbles orbiting planets induce in their parent stars.

The three instruments are the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile; the University College London Echelle Spectrograph (UCLES) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Siding Spring, Australia; and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, or HIRES, on the 10-meter Keck telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Using new analysis and modeling techniques, the team spotted the five faint signals, successfully separating them from noise caused by stellar activity and other factors.

"We pioneered new data modeling techniques by adding artificial signals to the data and testing our recovery of the signals with a variety of different approaches," Tuomi said in statement. "This significantly improved our noise modeling techniques and increased our ability to find low-mass planets."

The new analysis methods should aid the search for small planets, allowing more and more of them to be spotted throughout the galaxy, researchers said. [A Galaxy Full of Alien Planets (Infographic)]

A nearby planetary system?

The five planets remain candidates at this point and will not become official discoveries until they're confirmed by further analysis or observations. And that's not a sure thing, researchers said.

"I am very confident that the three shortest periodicities are really there, but I cannot be that sure whether they are of planetary origin or some artifacts of insufficient noise modelling or stellar activity and/or magnetic cycles at this stage," Tuomi said, referring to the potential planets with orbital periods of 14, 35 and 94 days (compared to 168 days for the habitable zone candidate and 640 days for the most distantly orbiting world).

"The situation is even worse for the possible habitable zone candidate, because the very existence of that signal is uncertain, yet according to our detection criteria the signal is there and we cannot rule out the possibility that it indeed is of planetary origin," he added. "But we don't know what else it could be, either."

If the Tau Ceti planets do indeed exist, their proximity would make them prime targets for future instruments to study, researchers said.

"Tau Ceti is one of our nearest cosmic neighbors and so bright that we may be able to study the atmospheres of these planets in the not-too-distant future," James Jenkins, of the Universidad de Chile and the University of Hertfordshire, said in a statement. "Planetary systems found around nearby stars close to our sun indicate that these systems are common in our Milky Way galaxy."

If confirmed, the Tau Ceti planets would not be the closest exoplanets to Earth. That title still goes to Alpha Centauri Bb, a roasting-hot, rocky world recently spotted just 4.3 light-years away, in the closest star system to our own.

The new study has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwallor SPACE.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebookand?Google+.?

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Monday, December 17, 2012

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Will Congress take up guns issue? Don't count on it

By Tom Curry, NBC News

Even after one of its members was shot and nearly killed last year by gunman Jared Loughner, Congress did not enact legislation to make it more difficult to buy or carry a gun.

In the immediate wake of the shooting at?Sandy Hook Elementary School?in Newtown, Conn., it's too soon to know whether federal or state governments will enact new restrictions on gun purchases or ownership. It?s also too early to foresee whether Congress or state legislatures will enact new policies to deal with mentally ill Americans.

For better or worse, the new policies would need to be determined in the political arena, with electoral accountability, and most members of Congress have shown no interest in going beyond the last major legislation to regulate gun purchases or ownership in 1994.

President Barack Obama?s initial comment Friday afternoon at the White House suggested that he wishes the policy decisions could be made above or aside from politics. ?We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,? Obama said.

There have been several mass shootings in 2012 alone, and on Friday President Obama said politicians will need to come together to take action regardless of the politics. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

But the pattern of elected officials who saw the shootings as proof of the need for further restrictive legislation suggested that the politics haven?t changed in the past few years.

Those from the Northeast and California?who've?supported gun restriction measures in the past were the ones on Friday urging Congress to act:

Rep. George Miller, D- Calif., said, ?We must come together as a nation to honestly discuss how to prevent people intent on carrying out these savage attacks from so easily obtaining guns and ammunition.?
Rep. Nita Loewy, D- N.Y., contended that ?easy availability of the deadliest weapons to the most dangerous people has cost countless lives and caused immeasurable suffering, never more so than today. Our expressions of sympathy must be matched with concrete actions to stop gun violence.?
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that ?perhaps an awful tragedy like this will bring us together so we can do what it takes to prevent this horror from being repeated again."
And New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential contender, said the nation must ?once and for all crack down on the guns that have cost the lives of far too many innocent Americans. Let this terrible tragedy finally be the wake-up call for aggressive action and I pledge my full support in that effort.?

But a guarded response came from another Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, the state where 12 people were shot at a movie theater last July.

?I guarantee someone is going to come forward and say that the guards in the schools if people had guns everywhere there would be greater protection,? Hickenlooper observed at a press conference. ?I am not opposing that, I am just saying you are going to hear every color under the spectrum over the next few months.?

There is legislation that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could bring to the floor: Schumer?s bill to withhold federal law enforcement funds from states that do not fully report their background check information on would-be gun buyers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Schumer would also require colleges and universities that receive federal funding to implement a mental health assessment plan to identify students who pose a safety risk to themselves or others. And his bill would impose back check requirements on most private sales or transfers of guns.

Pivotal players in any legislative action would be the half dozen Democratic senators up for re-election in 2014 who represent states that tend to be more protective of gun owners? rights: Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota, and Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska.

President Obama addressed the nation in an emotionally charged speech Friday, wiping away tears as he expressed sympathy for the families of the victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Begich introduced a bill last year to liberalize interstate firearms sales, a measure supported by the National Rifle Association.

?Current laws restricting interstate commerce of firearms not only lag behind common sense and new technology, they are unfair and burdensome," Begich said at the time. "This legislation cleans up decades-old laws that are unnecessarily restricting the rights of Alaskans and other Americans to purchase and sell firearms."

Begich contends that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System has made restrictions enacted in the 1968 Gun Control Act obsolete.

Two other Democrats also crucial to any Senate action would be Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and senator-elect Joe Donnelly of Indiana.

The NRA endorsed Donnelly in his 2008 and 2010 House races. Last June, Donnelly backed a measure the NRA strongly supported, voting to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents about the ?Fast and Furious? gun-tracking operation.

Any effort to pass a gun control measure would be a test of clout and lobbying power, which the NRA undoubtedly has.

Whether Obama decides that he wants to lead an effort to persuade Congress to enact new measures to limit access to guns may in part depend on how the public responds in the next week.

Obama knows from his own experience in 2008 how sensitive the gun issue can be. In the midst of his struggle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama made a comment about Americans living in small towns with high unemployment. These people, he said, ?get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them ? .?

That comment immediately drew sharp criticism from Clinton. The anger and sarcasm of Obama?s counter-response seemed to indicate the pressure he felt. ?She is running around talking about how this (his ?cling to guns? remark) is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment,? he said at a campaign rally. ?She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. Hillary Clinton is out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter.?

Source: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/15/15918666-after-shooting-some-democrats-demand-action-but-prospects-unclear?lite

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

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Jenni Rivera's Family Accompanies Her Remains Back Home ...

LAKEWOOD (CBSLA.com) ? The family of popular banda singer Jenni Rivera accompanied her remains from Mexico to Long Beach Airport Thursday evening.

Rivera?s private plane crashed Sunday killing her and six others on board.

Louisa Hodge, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, was outside Rivera?s mother?s Lakewood home Thursday evening where hundreds of fans also turned out to support the Rivera family.

The private plane carrying Rivera?s remains and her family landed just after 9 p.m.

After landing, the plane taxied into a small hanger away from the media.

The remains were driven by hearse ? with a three-car police escort ? to All Souls Mortuary in Long Beach.

Today, it was also reported that two Mexican police officers were found with stolen property from the plane?s crash scene. Investigators did not specify what the items were.

Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/12/13/jenni-riveras-family-accompanies-her-remains-back-home/

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River Cruising with Avalon Waterways | Leisure Travel Reports

By Bobbie Green ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

Boarding our Avalon Ship, the Affinity, in Basel, to cruise the upper Rhine and the Danube River to Vienna, we had high expectations. Avalon Waterways can boast of many awards.? Cruise Critic?s Best River Cruise Line in 2010, Travel Weekly Magellan named them Best Overall River Cruise Line in 2011.? Conde` Nast Traveler named Avalon as one of top five River Cruise Lines for 2012.???

We are traveling in a Category P cabin on the Royal Deck. ?The cabin is 172 square feet with Floor to Ceiling sliding glass doors making the room light and airy. The bath and shower are average in size. We have experienced smaller showers. The ship has 65 guest cabins spread over three decks.? There is an elevator for those who cannot manage the stairs.

The aft end of the Royal Deck is a small guest lounge and game room, with coffee, cookies and juice always on tap.? We found this most convenient. There was also a small workout room on board with a few treadmills and exercise bike.?

We found the dining room on the Affinity (an older ship) had a poor lay out. They served breakfast and lunch buffet style and the lay out created inconvenient traffic jams. I hope that the newer ships have a better dining room design.? ?We found the food good and the service poor.? There did not seem to be enough dining room help to serve everyone in a reasonable amount of time.? The only night we were served properly was the one night an Avalon ship inspector was on board.? The wines included with dinner were of good quality and regional. The wine seemed to flow well, but it was difficult to get a glass of water. Some nights we skipped dessert so we would not miss the entertainment.

On our galley tour, we learned the menu was set by the home office and not by the chef.? This explained the lack of attention for guest with special dietary needs.? I have food allergies. The friendly ma?tre d? came to my table every night, to tell me what I could NOT eat.? They could not accommodate special needs as most other ships can.

The entertainment brought on board for the guest enjoyment was excellent. We were amazed with the variety and quality. Unique entertainer?s that guest will not see elsewhere. Even the Staff?s show was quite unique, as well as hilarious. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

Tours are included at each stop; they also offer optional tours for a fee.? This is especially beneficial for repeat guest. They also offered some evening events on shore.

The pleasant days we were on board cruising down the river enjoying the shoreline sights was marred only by the fact that this ship did not announce upcoming sights like castles, or famous places as most other ships do.? We missed that and apparently, most of the other guest did also.? Guests were given a paper with mile marker numbers on it and an explanation of what we should see there.? This did not seem to work for many guest, if we found the marker by the time we saw it and read about it we missed the sight.

?There is a Jacuzzi on the Sun deck, which many guests did enjoy. My most favorite time on the ship (besides the excellent entertainment) was sailing down the river past Frankfurt at night. The lights were fantastic.? Everyone was on the sundeck and it was a special evening, one that makes memories. The limited number of passengers on these River cruises enable guest to get to know one another easier. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

Although we did not find that this Avalon Cruise met our expectation, because of its first-class reputation, I would try another newer ship.? I would not hesitate to recommend you try Avalon Waterways. I believe, after talking to other past Avalon guest, that these problems were atypical of Avalon Waterways, but particular to the Affinity itself.

Source: http://leisuretravelreports.info/go/2012/12/river-cruising-with-avalon-waterways/

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Friday, December 14, 2012

How to Cope With Fear After School Shootings

In the aftermath of a Connecticut mass shooting that may rank among the deadliest in U.S. history, many parents are struggling with a visceral fear for their own children, as well as questions about how to explain the horrific school shooting to young kids.

As many as 27 people may be dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., after a gunman (or two, as this hasn't been confirmed) began shooting at around 9:40 a.m. ET this morning, according to news reports. Most of the dead are children, according to ABC News. Officials have identified the suspected gunman, whose brother is reportedly in police custody, and whose mother is reportedly among the school fatalities.

The thought of losing a child in a random act of violence struck many parents after the attack. "Imagining being a parent outside that school with my son unaccounted for. I can't. I just can't," Aaron Gouveia, who blogs about parenthood at www.daddyfiles.com, wrote on his Twitter account.

"Already I've had a couple of phone calls from parents saying, 'My anxiety is over the top now, and what can I do?'" said Deborah Gilboa, a family physician who advises parents through her website www.AskDoctorG.com.

Coping with fear

Indeed, the thought of sending your kid out into a world where even schools can be dangerous is understandably terrifying. It's important to keep perspective, Gilboa told LiveScience, and to remember "there are a lot of 'God forbids' in our kids' lives, and yet we and they go on living in the world." [5 Ways to Foster Self-Compassion in Your Child]

Remembering the relative rarity of school shootings may do little to ease the pain while the images from Connecticut are still fresh, however, Gilboa said.

"The first thing I say, to be honest, is to turn off the television," Gilboa said. Following the news coverage minute-by-minute may seem helpful or as if it's somehow making the events less terrible, she said, but it's not.

"If it's causing you a great deal of anxiety, it is alright to step away from the computer and away from the television, and find out the entire story, as much as possible, in a few days," she said. The American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends limiting your child's exposure to media reports about traumatic events.

It may help to realize that fear and anxiety are normal reactions to an event like this, said Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, a psychiatrist at Georgetown University Medical Center who specializes in violence and trauma.

"That is a very fast reaction when anything bad happens," Dass-Brailsford told Livescience. "You immediately think of the people that are close to you, and you want to reach out to them to make sure they are safe."

Talking with your kids about tragedy

Parents may also face the challenge of explaining the shootings to their own children. It's important to let kids express their emotions, Gilboa said, and to help them find ways to feel helpful. Just as adults may feel the urge to donate to charity or do something useful in the wake of a tragedy, kids can be comforted by simple actions like making cards for survivors or coming up with ways their school can help.

Helping your children focus on the goodness that often follows tragedy can also help them cope, Gilboa said. [Watch: How to Help Kids Cope with Trauma]? ??

Taking some control over your own emergency plans can also help ease both parents' and children's fears, Gilboa said. FEMA provides guidelines on how to prepare emergency plans and emergency kits in case of disasters that hit midday, when school and work keep families separated. Parents might also call their children's schools to find out their emergency protocols, Gilboa said.

Tips for talking with kids about difficult subjects in the news, according to the Public Broadcast Corporation, include: finding out what your child knows and understands by asking open-ended questions; explaining events in simple, age-appropriate terms; acknowledging the child's feelings and expressing reassurance.

In the case of fear about school shootings, Gilboa said, parents can explain to their children that the adults in their lives do everything they can to keep the kids safe.

Parents also need to take care of themselves in order to take care of their children, Dass-Brailsford said. Know your own emotions and handle them by talking with other parents, mental-health professionals or even by calling a parenting hotline, Gilboa and Dass-Brailsford suggested. Kids look to parents for emotional cues, and appearing overly anxious may make it more difficult for kids to cope.?

"Parents might get really, really anxious," Dass-Brailsford said. "Make sure you don't communicate that to your children. Communicate love and care, but don't communicate anxiety."

Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas?or LiveScience @livescience. We're also on Facebook?& Google+.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cope-fear-school-shootings-221648756.html

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

'Pacific Rim' Rocket-Punches Its Way Into Our Hearts

Back in July during San Diego Comic-Con, when thousands of fans started rolling on the ground and speaking in tongues about the robots punching monsters, the general public wasn't privy to the awesomeness that is Guillermo del Toro's "Pacifc Rim." Until now... The first trailer for the jaegers versus kaiju epic launched last night. You [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/12/13/pacific-rim-trailer/

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Facebook takes down Taliban recruiter page

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Suzanne Choney , NBC News

Facebook removed a page set up?by the Taliban in Pakistan, after a monitoring group reported on its existence as a fresh example of a social media tool being?used for the recruitment of terrorists.

SITE, a non-governmental organization that monitors terrorist propaganda online and how terrorist groups use the Internet, called attention?on Dec. 3?to the Facebook page that belonged to Umar Media TTP, the media arm of the?Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.

Noted was Umar Media's?October posting?for "online job opportunities" for "video editing, translations, sharing, uploading, downloading and collection of required data."?

Then, in late November, page administrators posted a new item seeking writers, SITE said in its?report. The Facebook?solicitation said, in part:

Dear brothers and sisters 'Pen is mightier than the sowrd [sic]' Now you have a chance to use this mighty weapon.
?'AHYAH-E-KHILAFAT' is an official quarterly magazine of 'TEHREEEK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN'.
?Would you like to be a writer for 'AHYAH-E-KHILAFAT'?

"Umar Media's recruitment drive highlights the extent to which Jihadist groups recruit online as well as the professionalism of Jihadist propaganda production houses," SITE said in its report.

The page,?which Facebook took offline in the past few weeks,?has not been the only Taliban-related one on Facebook???there are others, including one supportive of the Afghanistan Taliban and another about Taliban news?(neither of which appear to be very active).

A Facebook spokesperson told NBC News in an email that the social network ? with more than 1 billion users worldwide now ? does have rules that "bar direct statements of hate, attacks on private individuals and groups and the promotion of terrorism."

"We have?a large team of professional investigators both in the U.S. and abroad who enforce these rules," the spokesperson said.?

"Where abusive content is posted and reported, Facebook removes it and disables accounts of those responsible. Whenever we become aware of possible violations of our terms, we will investigate these instances and take action if violations of our statements of rights and responsibilities take place."

Facebook, however, will not comment on specific pages, other than to tell NBC News: "Yes,?we have removed the page."

The?SITE report suggested that the group knew it might not stay visible?on Facebook. "Knowing that their Facebook account may be taken down,?the call for contributors was also posted on a page for the 'Ghaza-E-Hind'?Facebook group." That group?no longer appears to be on the social network, either.

The Pew Research Center's new report about social networking worldwide says that those in Arab countries are more likely than others around the globe?to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to talk politics and religion, finding freedom of expression?flowing more easily online than in real life, although several?Middle Eastern countries having squelched Internet use at various times in recent years.

In more recent months, online propaganda campaigns?even monitored the moment-by-moment actions of war in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

"It's a new method (of propaganda) added onto other methods,"?Charles Ries,?former ambassador to Greece and vice president of the international division of the?RAND Corporation,?told NBC News at that time. "Both?sides combine whatever they do in kinetic fashion with an effort to mobilize international opinion."

Check out Technology, GadgetBox, Digital?Life and InGame on?Facebook,?and on?Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-takes-down-taliban-recruiter-page-1C7577892

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Familiar names line up for Golden Globe noms

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? A familiar lineup of Hollywood awards contenders are expected among Golden Globe nominations, whose prospects include past Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro and Sally Field.

Nominations come out Thursday morning for the 70th Globes ceremony, Hollywood's second-biggest film honors after the Academy Awards.

Among potential contenders are two-time Oscar winners Day-Lewis and Field for Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln," whose Globe possibilities also include past Oscar recipient Tommy Lee Jones.

Two-time Oscar winner De Niro is in the running for the lost-soul romance "Silver Linings Playbook," along with the film's lead performers, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

The field of contenders is loaded with other Oscar recipients such as Mirren and Anthony Hopkins for "Hitchcock," Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master," Helen Hunt for "The Sessions," Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone," Russell Crowe for "Les Miserables" and Alan Arkin for "Argo."

One of the year's big action hits, the James Bond adventure "Skyfall," could bring the latest Globe nomination for past Oscar winner Javier Bardem, who elevates his super-villain role into one of the year's most entertaining performances.

Presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a relatively small group of about 90 reporters covering Hollywood for overseas outlets, the Globes sometimes single out newcomers to Hollywood's awards scene. Hilary Swank's Globe win for 1999's "Boys Don't Cry" helped put her on the map on the way to winning her first Oscar.

The possibilities this time include veteran French performers Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, who star as an elderly couple in "Amour," and first-time actors Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry for the low-budget critical darling "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

Globe acting winners often go on to receive the same prizes at the Oscars. All four Oscar winners last season ? lead performers Meryl Streep of "The Iron Lady" and Jean Dujardin of "The Artist" and supporting players Octavia Spencer of "The Help" and Christopher Plummer of "Beginners" ? won Globes first.

The Globes have a spotty record predicting which films might go on to earn the best-picture prize at the Academy Awards, however.

The Globes feature two best-film categories, one for drama and one for musical or comedy. Last year's Oscar best-picture winner, "The Artist," preceded that honor with a Globe win for best musical or comedy.

But in the seven years before that, only one winner in the Globe best-picture categories ? 2008's "Slumdog Millionaire" ? followed up with an Oscar best-picture win.

Along with 14 film prizes, the Globes hand out awards in 11 television categories.

Jodie Foster, a two-time Oscar and Globe winner for "The Accused" and "The Silence of the Lambs," will receive the group's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Jan. 13 ceremony.

Tina Fey, a two-time Globe TV winner for "30 Rock," and Amy Poehler, a past nominee for "Parks and Recreation," will host the show, which airs live on NBC.

Fey and Poehler follow Ricky Gervais, who was host the last three years and rubbed some Hollywood egos the wrong way with sharp wisecracks about A-list stars and the foreign press association itself.

With stars sharing drinks and dinner, the Globes have a reputation as one of Hollywood's loose and unpredictable awards gatherings. Winners occasionally have been off in the restroom when their names were announced, and there have been moments of onstage spontaneity such as Jack Nicholson mooning the crowd or Ving Rhames handing over his trophy to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/familiar-names-line-golden-globe-noms-051207923.html

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