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Friday, March 22, 2013
'The Croods' is sweet, but lacks wit, robust plot
By David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
DreamWorks
REVIEW -- Two of the principal plot drivers in "The Croods" are an athletic Neanderthal chick with a wild titian mop top and a rockin? bod packed into a tiger-fur sheath and a brainy boy babe with skater-dude hair, perfect pecs and the waistline of a supermodel, not to mention a pioneering flair for accessories. But the core audience for DreamWorks? 3D animated prehistoric family adventure is probably less the tweens and teens those adolescent lovebirds would suggest than the younger tykes who flocked to a comedy franchise situated elsewhere on the paleontology chart,?"Ice Age."
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The humor and charm in?Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco?s film is too uneven to help it approach that series' mammoth market share. But its mostly fast-moving roller coaster of kinetic action and its menagerie of fantastic creatures ? from cute to menacing ? should keep kids entertained. They?ll also have no trouble grasping the simple message to face your fears and embrace change.
The film evolved out of a project first announced at Cannes in 2005 under the title "Crood Awakening," which was to reteam DreamWorks with artisanal British toon shop Aardman Animation after successes like "Chicken Run." That earlier version was being co-written by DeMicco with John Cleese, who retains a story credit here.
While his neighbors steadily have succumbed to the perils of the Stone Age, Crood brood patriarch Grug (Nicolas Cage) has kept his family safe by sticking to the simple rules mapped out in the cave paintings. His credo is: ?Fear keeps us alive. Never not be afraid.? (Grammar obviously isn?t his strong point.) ?No one said survival was fun.? Curiosity, for Grug, equals danger.
The hell they have to go through for sustenance is outlined in a dizzying hunting sequence near the start that?s like an over-caffeinated pro football game with a giant bird egg in place of the pigskin. Everyone in the family plays a role on the team, from wife Ugga (Catherine Keener) to plucky teenage daughter Eep (Emma Stone), lunkhead son Thunk (Clark Duke) and leathery Gran (Cloris Leachman), Grug?s barely tolerated mother-in-law. Even the feral infant, Sandy, is deployed on cue with the battle cry, ?Release the baby!?
But despite their tight synergy, the Croods? world literally is crumbling around them. Eep?s growing rebellion against the physical and mental darkness of cave life also is causing friction with Dad. When she follows the light one night and meets Guy (Ryan Reynolds), with his mysterious invention of fire and his warnings of the destruction to come, Eep propels the family onto a quest toward the higher ground of tomorrow. Once she?s seen fire and she?s seen rain, there?s no looking back.
Aside from the earth opening up beneath them, the boulders flying and the predators at every turn, the chief conflict is between brawny Grug?s belief in his strength and Guy?s revolutionary reliance on ideas. The protective father?s anxiety over his daughter?s first crush adds to this still-somewhat-undernourished friction. Guy has a de rigueur animal sidekick in a sloth named Belt (?voiced? by co-director Sanders), who serves to hold up his pants as well as bring a cheeky sense of the dramatic.
Sanders and DeMicco?s script doesn?t have the robust plotting, consistent wit or flavorful character development of the best family animation. And some of the voice actors have too little to work with. Keener?s Ugga, for instance, is a strictly standard-issue caring Mom, while much of the humor built around Thunk?s obtuseness is soft. And like Betty White?s raunchy oldsters, Leachman?s ornery crones are starting to get as tired as those funky rapping grannies from ?90s New Line comedies.
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With his weary rasp, however, Cage makes Grug a touching figure -- a knuckle-dragger at first and then steadily more resourceful as he sees the light. Stone?s smoky-voiced sweetness is nicely paired with the character?s butt-kicking physicality (it?s refreshing to see an animated teen girl more strapping than the cookie-cutter slender-princess model), and Reynolds brings the right note of earnestness to his forward-thinker.
Basically a journey tale with its erratic momentum pumped up by Alan Silvestri?s hard-working score, "The Croods" has its share of rambunctious episodes and frantic narrow escapes. Notable among them is the threat of a tornado-like flock of vicious Piranhakeets, razor-toothed birds that can strip a beast to its bones in seconds. ?Stay inside the family kill circle!? warns Grug as they descend.
There?s a large assortment of fantasy animals to keep the merchandise division busy, among them parrot-hued giant felines, dogs with crocodile jaws, land-dwelling whales, monkeys with killer right hooks and owl-headed bears that owe a debt to Maurice Sendak. These critters give the film more in common with the slapsticky Looney Tunes era than with animation of recent vintage.
"The Croods"?mercifully refrains from leaning too hard on anachronistic dialogue for laughs, settling for the occasional ?awesome? or ?sucky.? And it?s light on pop cultural cross-referencing, which also is a blessing. But especially after so many animated movies have raised the bar, the shortage of sophisticated humor likely will narrow the appeal here chiefly to the 4-to-10 age range.
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There are some decent gags built around inventions and accidental discoveries, such as snapshots, shoes (?Aaahhh!!! I love them,? squeals Eep in her prototype Uggs) and popcorn, in a crowd-baiting wink to the multiplex populace. Other touches, like the birth of the hug (rhymes with Grug), tap into an innocuous vein of schmaltz. But another polish or two to punch up the script wouldn?t have hurt.
Aside from teen dreamboat Guy, the character animation is not the prettiest; even Eep is slapped with rough-hewn features on an ultra-wide face. But there?s considerable imagination in the rendering of the landscapes, ranging from barren rock to lush jungle vegetation full of vibrantly exotic flora. Cinematography luminary Roger Deakins is credited as visual consultant, his influence perhaps discernible in the glow of stars, sun and fire, which is fitting given the thematic centrality of stepping into the light after hiding in darkness.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Crack Open a Cold One and Let Joe Biden Tell You a Story
The ever-savvy White House digital team has a new bid to turn the administration's pop culture currency into internet traffic: you can now stream to story time with Vice President Biden. If this new strategy works because public perception of Joe Biden the credit is mostly due to?The Onion ??a paunchy, above-middle-aged party animal who is perfectly happy with the attitudes, styles, and automobiles of Tennessee, circa 1982. It would be hard to associate that profile with a lifelong politician from Delaware were it not for three things: Joe Biden loves people, Joe Biden says goofy things, and Joe Biden takes one hell of a photo.
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Joe Biden also works for a White House that has proven exceptional at turning gaffes and weird, unflattering moments into self-effacing victories. This is a White House that took the president's dumb joke about a "Jedi mind meld" and turned it into joke image a few hours later. That burned Clint Eastwood on Twitter after the actor's (weird) convention speech. The White House takes any lemon, makes some lemonade, and Instagrams it.
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And so: The pivot on Diamond Joe Biden. Man, wouldn't you love to hear Biden the the story behind some of those pictures he's in? Here you go. Presenting "Being Joe Biden", the administration's new photo/podcast series in which Biden does exactly that.
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Maybe you think Biden's will tell bawdy tales about cocktail waitresses at a dive bar in Tuscaloosa. Maybe you expect grandfatherly stories about bouncing one of his five grandchildren on his knee. Maybe you're hoping he'll accidentally admit that the Obama administration plans to deport the rich. Whatever you might expect, the White House knows you're going to tune in to find out. And so the White House is happy to oblige.
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As episode one demonstrates, you're getting something quite different. Click play below to hear Biden tell the story of the photo at the top of this page.
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What you get is a flat-but-not-uninteresting story about a flat-but-not-uninteresting photo. Hunters meeting the vice president, which serves as an opportunity for Biden to tout his support for the Second Amendment. It's the White House's "spoonful of sugar" media strategy, best exemplified in the response to the Death Star petition: lure people in, then drop some talking points on them.
No, the first episode isn't that great. It's not bawdy or touching or sinister. But the White House didn't need this first one to be. It knew that the Legend of Joe Biden was enough to get that first click. If traffic ever starts to dip, they'll bring out the big gun: this photo. Wouldn't you love to hear that story? Guaranteed, you will. And guaranteed, it will be related to some policy initiative the White House is working on.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crack-open-cold-one-let-joe-biden-tell-201851908.html
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Friday, March 15, 2013
The Galaxy S4 has everything for Mr. Generic - Crave - Mobile ...
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 shows a different type of engineering--engineering for the masses. This reminds me of someone I work with--he is the world. What I mean is, he is Mr. Generic--his tastes mirror the world. He drinks wine and is sufficiently appreciative of it but he buys all sorts and isn't exactly a wine geek, but will buys wine aerator accessories and a super-expensive hydraulic cork remover. He prefers auto transmission cars, preferably the Direkt-Schalt-Getriebe type which has two clutches, with high-tech wizardry making shifts seamless and smooth. He likes a big turbo engine but never goes to the race track, never totally appreciative of the special skills required in track driving. He is the casual user for everything, so he is the world.
And he sings praises about the Samsung Galaxy S3, but no more, now it's the S4, with all the bells and whistles which geeks have been using all along, includingheart rate monitoring and being able to interface with weighing machines.
Obviously it must wow the world with an octa-core CPU, double the already overkill four cores in today's killer phones. The S4 even has a sensor to track your eye, and when you look away from the screen while watching a video, the video pauses. And if you move and gesture your hand, the page scrolls. It has a replaceable 2600mAh battery which is substantially bigger than the competition--a remarkable feat of engineering. In addition, it has the newest Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for its screen, a 5-inch full-HD display and a 13-megapixel camera which doesn't lose to the competition.
It is a phone which spec-based buyers like Mr. Generic would have no qualms buying. No matter how ugly it is, it would be his top choice. And the world's. It is truly the greatest phone the world has ever known, spec-wise. It has plucked all the fruits of greatest yield--LTE, big replaceable battery, a full-HD display. It has achieved every popular function a phone needs, and now even starts to take on questionably useful functions and markets them like they are the newest things in the world. Interfacing with weighing machines is no more innovative than Apple selling videoconferencing as Facetime.
Look at Mercedes Benz. After having everything destroyed during the war, it worked hard to build cars to sell to the world, especially to the US. The Mercedes Benz Ponton marked its true awakening--the first truly new chassis after the war, the precursor of the E-Class. This was Mercedes' S2. Then it made increasingly superb cars, all of them with well-engineered core car functions, until the Mercedes Benz 600--the behemoth of a car, the pinnacle of automotive achievement, with all the bells and whistles and the choice of all the popes, dictators, warlords, conmen and heads of state.
That Mercedes 600 is the Mercedes' S4.
The rest is history. Mercedes went on to sell stuff with great success, making feature-laden cars full of useless features not really related to the joy of driving, with the A class hamster-like car, C-class for aspirants, E-class for towkays who'd rather not make a choice and the S-Class for captains of industry and the CLS for men undergoing midlife crisis. Overall, a great success.
But the engineering for Mercedes changed from making great cars to great appliances. Appliances are cars made for Mr Generic, people who think themselves enthusiasts who aren't true petrol heads, but pore endlessly over spec sheets for number wars alone without any appreciation of whether it's truly a good car.
Great cars continued to be made by BMW, where Mercedes left off, but even BMW started making appliances, too. The last guy left standing is now Porsche, faithfully churning out light, reliable sports cars with race-proven engines. They are not terribly overpowered with great finesse in feel, weightage of controls, nimbleness and generally a great pleasure to drive. Porsche doesn't care that much for the spec sheet, with one of their best cars, the Cayman, being on the same power level as a Volkswagen Golf R, with a meager spec (there's the story of the Yamaha audio engineer who stepped into a Cayman and commented that the radio sounds like a postwar Sony transistor radio, but later switched off the radio commenting that in a Cayman, the engine is all the soundtrack he needs) but Porsche sell cars to people who really enjoy cars. Of course, Porsche sells automatic cars too, but at least the company sticks to its guns and keeps the manual cars available for the customers they really want.
For the auto guys, yes, there's Honda and Lotus but this is not an auto Web site and I've already written far too much about cars.
Samsung has made its last smartphone for enthusiasts today. The pinnacle of achievement. After this, everything would be an appliance.
I'm not about to buy the S4 because I need the OS from the source--so it's got be a Nexus. Why don't they just make a 8 core 5-inch LTE phone out of carbon fiber, with a big 3,000mAH battery, a 5-megapixel camera with big fat pixels for great low light performance instead of small little ones, with plain vanilla unadorned Android OS with no bloatware from the manufacturer? Is it that difficult? They'd save so much on the engineering and the company which makes it would be the next Porsche. I'd pay a big premium to the brave manufacturer simply because it dares to make something which even the great giant Samsung is afraid to.
So who will step up and make the Porsche of phones?
Source: http://asia.cnet.com/the-galaxy-s4-has-everything-for-mr-generic-62220848.htm
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DNA study clarifies how polar bears and brown bears are related
Mar. 14, 2013 ? At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and mated with female polar bears, eventually transforming the polar bear population into brown bears.
Evidence for this surprising scenario emerged from a new genetic study of polar bears and brown bears led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The findings, published March 14 in PLOS Genetics, upend prevailing ideas about the evolutionary history of the two species, which are closely related and known to produce fertile hybrids.
Previous studies suggested that past hybridization had resulted in all polar bears having genes that came from brown bears. But the new study indicates that episodes of gene flow between the two species occurred only in isolated populations and did not affect the larger polar bear population, which remains free of brown bear genes.
At the center of the confusion is a population of brown bears that live on Alaska's Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof Islands, known as the ABC Islands. These bears--clearly brown bears in appearance and behavior--have striking genetic similarities to polar bears.
"This population of brown bears stood out as being really weird genetically, and there's been a long controversy about their relationship to polar bears. We can now explain it, and instead of the convoluted history some have proposed, it's a very simple story," said coauthor Beth Shapiro, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
Shapiro and her colleagues analyzed genome-wide DNA sequence data from seven polar bears, an ABC Islands brown bear, a mainland Alaskan brown bear, and a black bear. The study also included genetic data from other bears that was recently published by other researchers. Shapiro's team found that polar bears are a remarkably homogeneous species with no evidence of brown bear ancestry, whereas the ABC Islands brown bears show clear evidence of polar bear ancestry.
A key finding is that the polar bear ancestry of ABC Islands brown bears is conspicuously enriched in the maternally inherited X chromosome. About 6.5 percent of the X chromosomes of the ABC Islands bears came recently from polar bears, compared to about 1 percent of the rest of their genome. This means that the ABC Islands brown bears share more DNA with polar bear females than they do with polar bear males, Shapiro said.
To understand how hybridization could lead to this unexpected result, the team ran simulations of various demographic scenarios. "Of all the models we tested, the best supported was the scenario in which male brown bears wandered onto the islands and gradually transformed the population from polar bears into brown bears," said first author James Cahill, a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
This scenario is consistent with the known behavior of brown bears and polar bears, according to coauthor Ian Stirling, a biologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Mixing of polar bears and brown bears is seen today in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, where adult male brown bears wander onto the remaining sea ice in late spring and sometimes mate with female polar bears, he said. In areas such as western Hudson Bay and the Russian coast, polar bears are spending more time on land in response to climate warming and loss of sea ice, a behavior that could have left polar bears stranded on the ABC Islands at the end of the last ice age.
Young male brown bears tend to leave the area where they were born in search of new territory. They may well have dispersed across the water from the Alaskan mainland to the ABC Islands and hybridized with polar bears stranded there when the sea ice disappeared.
"The combination of genetics and the known behavior of brown and polar bears hybridizing in the wild today tells us how the ABC Islands bears came to be: they are the descendants of many male brown bear immigrants and some female polar bears from long ago," Stirling said.
The findings suggest that continued climate warming and loss of arctic sea ice may lead to the same thing happening more broadly, said coauthor Richard E. (Ed) Green, an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering. "As the ice melts in the Arctic, what is going to happen to the polar bears? In the ABC Islands, the polar bears are gone. They're brown bears now, but with polar bear genes still present in their genomes," he said.
The first genetic studies of ABC Islands brown bears looked at their mitochondrial DNA, which is separate from the chromosomes and is inherited only through the female lineage. The mitochondrial DNA of ABC Islands brown bears matches that of polar bears more closely than that of other brown bears, which led some scientists to think that the ABC Islands brown bears gave rise to modern polar bears.
The new study looks at the "nuclear DNA" carried on the chromosomes in the cell nucleus. It is the latest in a series of genetic studies of polar bears published in recent years, each of which has prompted new ideas about the relationship between polar bears and brown bears. A 2010 study of fossils and mitochondrial DNA supported the idea that polar bears evolved from the ABC Islands brown bears. But a 2011 study of mitochondrial DNA from extinct Irish brown bears showed an even closer match to polar bears and suggested that polar bears got their mitochondrial DNA from hybridization with Irish bears. Shapiro, a coauthor of that study, said she now thinks the Irish brown bears may be another example of what happened in the ABC Islands, but she can't say for sure until she studies their nuclear DNA.
"In retrospect, I think we were wrong about the directionality of the gene flow between polar bears and Irish brown bears," she said.
Two studies published in 2012 sought to determine when the polar bear lineage diverged from the brown bear lineage using nuclear DNA data. The first, published in April in Science, put the split at 600,000 years ago and concluded that polar bears carry brown bear mitochondrial DNA due to past hybridizations. The second, published in July in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested that brown bears, black bears, and polar bears diverged around 4 to 5 million years ago, followed by repeated episodes of hybridization between polar bears and brown bears.
The new study does not address the question of how long ago polar bears diverged from brown bears, but it may help sort out the conflicting results of recent studies. "It's a good step in the right direction of understanding what really happened," Shapiro said.
The study does indicate that the divergence of polar bears from brown bears was only half as long ago as the split between the brown bear and black bear lineages, said Cahill. "We can tell how long brown bears and polar bears have been separate species as a proportion of how long ago they separated from more distantly related species, but putting a year on it is very difficult," he said.
Green noted that efforts to understand the relationship between polar bears and brown bears has been complicated by the unusual case of the ABC Islands brown bears. "It's as if you were studying the relationship between humans and chimpanzees and your analysis included DNA from some weird population of humans that had hybridized with chimps. You would get very strange results until you figured that out," he said.
In addition to Cahill, Green, Shapiro, and Stirling, the coauthors of the new paper include postdoctoral researchers Tara Fulton and Mathias Stiller, undergraduate Rauf Salamzade, and graduate student John St. John at UC Santa Cruz; Flora Jay and Montgomery Slatkin at UC Berkeley; and Nikita Ovsyanikov at the Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve in Russia. Green and Shapiro direct the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab. This research was funded by the Searle Scholars Program.
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- Cahill JA, Green RE, Fulton TL, Stiller M, Jay F, et al. Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution. PLoS Genet, 9(3): e1003345; 2013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003345
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Can we refund an employee's pretax contribution for a transit pass ...
Question: An employee had pretax deductions made from her pay for mass transit passes. She terminated in the middle of January with a balance in her account, which she now wants refunded. Can we do this? If we can, how do we tax the refund?
Answer: You?re off the hook. Refunds of pretax contributions can?t be made to any employee. Under the tax regs, employees can?t revoke their pretax deductions after the beginning of the period (usually a month) for which a pass is provided. Revocations would trigger constructive receipt and, therefore, taxes, since employees could choose whether to receive a benefit or cash.
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Relive Samsung Unpacked 2013 and the launch of the Galaxy S 4, if you dare (video)
Came in late and missed the live festivities as Samsung took the wraps off of its new Galaxy S 4? No problem -- thanks to its livestream on YouTube, you can check out the unedited video stream right now in full, or just skip to your (least) favorite parts. There was a tapdancing kid, a host from a TV show you probably don't watch and a dancing group of bridesmaids. No, seriously, that happened. There was also a new phone, so check out our event hub if you want to get straight to the details, or strap in and experience it all in video form, embedded after the break. (FYI: It doesn't really get started until about 41 minutes in.)
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - Pakistani men, part of an angry mob, react after burning belongings of Christian families in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2013. A mob of hundreds of people in the city attacked a Christian neighborhood and set fire to homes after hearing accusations that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam's prophet. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - The mother of Ram Singh, the man accused of driving the bus on which a 23-year-old student was gang raped in December 2012, cries as she speaks to journalists outside the family's home in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 11, 2013. Indian police confirmed that Ram Singh, one of the men on trial for his alleged involvement in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide in an Indian jail Monday, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - A fishing boat washed ashore by the March 11, 2011 tsunami sits in a deserted port area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, at dawn on Monday, March 11, 2013. Japan marked the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe that killed nearly 19,000 people. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - A member from the production Le Noir performs at the Marina Bay Sands on Tuesday March 12, 2013 in Singapore. Le Noir has a crew of twenty cirque performers from around the world like Russia, Australia, Lithuania, Canada, Bulgaria who specialize in different acrobatic acts, some of which were formerly from the production Cirque du Soleil. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
This week's collection includes a barefoot man kneeling in prayer in St. Peter's Square, a soaring slam dunk by LeBron James, a show of athletic prowess during the production "Le Noir" in Singapore and One World Trade Center emerging from the clouds in a dark New York City sky.
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Don't delay, even for one day! Assault allegations demand response ...
Here?s a reminder for all supervisors and managers: Tell them they must spring into action immediately if an employee reports some form of sexual assault.
Any touching, grabbing or other offensive physical conduct is serious until proven otherwise. It must be immediately reported to HR. There?s no waiting allowed?not even one day. Otherwise, a repeat performance the next day may create liability.
Recent case: Sheila reported to her supervisor that a co-worker had tried to sexually assault her. The next day, the co-worker allegedly again touched her in an intimate place.
She sued, alleging she had been sexually harassed.
The case was initially dismissed because the lower court assumed a few hours? delay after the report wasn?t enough to make the employer liable. Sheila appealed.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court and reinstated the lawsuit. It concluded that a jury should hear the case and decide whether the overnight delay was an unreasonable response to an allegation of physical sexual assault. (Davis v. City of Charlottesville School Board, et al., No. 12-1646, 4th Cir., 2012)
Final note: Have an HR rapid response team ready to act in any emergency, including potential sexual assault. They should make sure that the alleged victim is immediately separated from the alleged assailant and contact local law enforcement if necessary. Err on the side of caution anytime an employee reports that she was groped, kissed or otherwise physically touched in a way that appears sexual.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
avast! Premier 8
Most security vendors offer a standalone antivirus tool as well as a security suite that rounds out protection with such features as a firewall, a spam filter, and parental control. These days quite a few vendors offer a higher-level suite with additional features such as backup, performance tune-up, or password management. avast! Premier 8 ($89.99 direct for three licenses) does add several features not found in avast!'s basic suite, but the additions really don't merit a $20 bump in price.
The program's main window looks exactly like that of avast! Internet Security 8, except for the window title. It has the same Windows 8-inspired touch-friendly buttons, and the same big panel that reflects overall security status. You'll have to dig a little to find those premier-only features.
Same Antivirus Protection
Antivirus protection in this suite is exactly the same as in the basic suite, and in avast!'s free antivirus. Please read my review of avast! Free Antivirus 8 for details beyond the brief summary that follows.
Getting avast! installed on a couple of my twelve malware-infested test systems required hours of remote-control diagnosis and repair by tech support. On my new scale defining ease of installation, that rates two stars. A product that installed and ran with no hassle would earn five stars; one that utterly failed to install on one or more test systems would get just one.
Tested with a brand-new malware collection, avast! detected 75 percent of the samples and scored 5.5 points. Both detection rate and score are very close to the average of products tested using my previous collection of malware. With 6.6 points each, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete 2013 and Norton 360 (2013) scored much better. For details on how I perform this test, see How We Test Malware Removal.
Avast! did a good job of blocking access to malware-hosting websites, but its overall score in my malware blocking test was 8.5 points, a little below the average of products tested with the previous malware set. Webroot owns the top score in that test, 9.9 of 10 possible points. To learn more about my malware blocking test, please read How We Test Malware Blocking.
All of the independent labs I follow include avast! in their tests. It gets high scores in some tests, but not all of them. Top products like Bitdefender Total Security 2013 earn high scores across the board. For more about the independent labs and their testing methods,
see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests
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To Boost Music Subs, Deezer Turns On Affiliate Deals, Gaming APIs ...
Music streaming may not be making much money right now, but that?s not stopping music streaming hopefuls from trying. The latest development comes from Deezer, which is announcing a series of new services based around its APIs to drive more users to its service. They include an affiliate marketing program; more social and gaming integration; and the ability to port apps made for the Deezer App Studio into Deezer?s mobile apps for Android and iOS devices. This last point gives Deezer a leg up on Spotify, which has yet to incorporate third-party apps into its mobile platform ? although we spotted a while ago that Spotify seems to have laid the groundwork for this already.
Deezer says it currently has 26 million customers, with some 3 million of them paying as of January 2013. As a point of comparison, Spotify now has 24 million subscribers, 6 million of them paying. But with Spotify?s service reaching 26 countries and Deezer?s, via its web app, 180 (its developer site lists 215 live countries), it?s clear that Deezer has a long way to go to keep up with Spotify?s rate of penetration.
And as we mentioned yesterday in a story about Rdio expanding its geographical footprint, competition is only going to get tougher as Spotify gears up to launch its web-based version and continue its gradual build-out in other ways. ?Right now,? Spotify Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Levick told Cnet, ?all the conversations we have are about how do we accelerate this business.?
Today?s upgrades are part of Deezer?s bigger push to make itself more attractive by differentiating on services, with the belief that competing on a basic music streaming service or landgrab not enough in today?s market. This is a theme that CEO Axel Dauchez has been pushing for some time now, going back to the company?s $130 million fundraise in October 2012, through to a keynote in February at the Mobile World Congress, and again today:
?Music streaming isn?t about giving people access to soulless databases of songs,? he said in a statement. ?We want to build an immersive and entertaining experience that gets people hooked on Deezer. Our affiliate scheme and API improvements will help developers seamlessly bring music into their greatest apps. We can?t wait to see what they?ll build.?
The affiliate program, Deezer says, is accessible through its Open API (first launched in May last year), and it?s essentially an incentive to developers not only to use Deezer?s API for any music needs in their apps, but also to make a point of promoting it. Deezer says that each time a user subscribes to Deezer via these apps, the developer gets a payment equivalent to a month-long Deezer subscription, priced at the local equivalent of ?9.99. (As with Spotify and Rdio, the other usage tier is priced at ?4.99.)
Meanwhile, the updates to the API are also adding in more functionality. They include more social integration including an appearance on the social bar in Deezer?s main app. And Deezer is trying out a new twist on where the music may get used by adding features ?to enable and encourage the development of gaming experiences.? To give an idea of how this would work, Deezer has also developed a Songpop-style gaming app, Askking Music, ?an app which combines gaming with music discovery. People using Askking Music can challenge their Deezer contacts and Facebook friends to identify tracks from shared favourites and playlists.?
Deezer is also adding more apps to its third party App Studio (the equivalent of Spotify?s App Center), a dating app called Moosify and music discovery app Seevl, taking the total to 35 added in the last six months.
While Deezer has yet to go live in the U.S. ? currently Spotify?s biggest market, and perhaps the biggest and most mature market for streamed music overall ? ?it is passing its competitor in another piece of functionality by making its apps available on mobile, specifically making all apps in the App Studio available via Deezer?s apps for all iOS and Android devices. Mobile is one of the key drivers of usage for Spotify ? specifically for paid subscribers ? so Deezer is hoping that by making its mobile service more attractive, it will see the same effect.
The idea, too, is that this greater ubiquity will make Deezer a more attractive platform for developers. But as with all consumer services, they?re often only as successful as the number of people using them, so the big question will be whether third party apps on mobile, social integration, gaming, and prominent Deezer promotions will be enough to stand above the rest.
Deezer is a International leader in the streaming industry. It is a 100% web-based solution, instantly accessible with no need to download any software. This allows consumers to listen to music on any device (smartphones, tablets, TV, Cars?), at any time and anywhere, connected or not. With 18 million licensed tracks, and more than 30.000 SmartRadio channels, Deezer is set to become the number one destination for all music fans. Deezer is simple, intuitive and responds to fans...
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Valerie Harper Brain Cancer ? 'Rhoda' Star Opens Up In New TV ...
After revealing that she has terminal brain cancer, the ?Rhoda? star said in a new interview that she is ?scared? for her family, but she is ready to die. So sad.
Valerie Harper, 73, made the tragic announcement on March 6 that she had been?diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and in two new interviews she revealed how scared she is. The iconic TV actress appeared on?The Today Show?on March 11 to talk about her tragic illness, and she told host?Savannah Guthrie?that she ?doesn?t want to go? but she is ready to say ?bye bye? to her family. On The Doctors, she admitted that she wants to be ?less afraid of death.? So inspirational.
Valerie Harper Talks About Her Illness On ?The Today Show?
Valerie looked stunning when she appeared on The Today Show, and she certainly did not look like someone who has been given three months to live. She opened up to Savannah, and admitted that her terminal illness scares her.
?It is incurable so far,? said Valerie, who admitted that ?she is ready to say bye bye? to her family. She was so sad and honest when she said ?I don?t wanna go? and ?I?m scared. I?m scared for my family.?
The Rhoda star even revealed that she has tried to reason with her cancer!
?I said listen you little guys [the cancerous cells], you can live if you don?t kill me.?
Valerie said her?husband of 34 years, Tony Cacciotti, ?got hit like a ton of bricks? by the diagnosis, but they are ?committed to facing this challenge together.?
Valerie was also interviewed on The Doctors on March 11, where the doctors noted that her brain cancer could be a secondary cancer related to the lung cancer she suffered in 2009.
Valerie Opens Up About Her Cancer On ?The Doctors?
Following her Today Show interview, Valerie sat down with the The Doctors doctors?Travis Stork,?Lisa Masterson, and?Andrew Ordon, along with her own team of doctors to examine her diagnosis of brain cancer.
?What I have is rare. It?s also incurable, so far. [Those are the words] I?m looking up ? ?so far? ? because they?re doing research as we speak,? Valerie told the doctors.??More than anything, I?m living in the moment.?
?I really want Americans and all of us to be less afraid of death,? said the inspirational Valerie.??Know that it?s a passage, but don?t go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. While you?re living, live.?
Valerie admitted that she has broken down several times over her illness.
?I have moments of really sobbing, but I let myself do it.?I really cry and then I go, ?OK, you?ve been the drama queen. Are you over it? OK, now, make the pasta.? And I do.?
Valerie was then shocked by surprise appearances by former co-stars?Ed Asner?and?Cloris Leachman. Ed said via telephone??I think you?re the greatest.?
?I?m absolutely devastated by this news. Valerie has given such joy, laughter and love to the world. I join her fans and send much love and positive thoughts to her and her family during this difficult time.? said Valerie?s former co-star Mary Tyler Moore.
Valerie then admitted that her loving husband Tony knew about her diagnosis before she did.
?I didn?t get [the diagnosis] because my husband hid it,? Valerie shared. ?Poor baby. He was so bereft. [The doctors] said there is nothing we can do for her, and [she has] three to six months, maybe.?
The doctors admitted that Valerie?s cancer is extremely rare.
?I?ve taken care of over 10,000 patients with lung cancer in my career, and I?ve never seen this exact presentation,? said Dr. Ronald Natale.
?The blood-brain barrier is part of the problem with brain tumors, explained Dr. Rudnick. ?This blood-brain barrier, from an evolutionary standpoint, was designed to protect us. It was there to protect you against bacteria and infections, but unfortunately, now, what we find is that this barrier also protects us against chemotherapy.?
Valerie finished her interview by saying that she had been overwhelmed by the amount of support she had gotten from her fans and the public.
?There?s so much love out there for me.?It?s been great. It?s been an actually lovely experience for me.?
Valerie Reveals She Has Terminal Brain Cancer
In an interview with PEOPLE magazine,?The Mary Tyler Moore?star bravely announced that she has been diagnosed with?leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare kind of cancer where cancer cells fill the fluid membrane surrounding the brain.
?I don?t think of dying. I think of being here now,? Valerie says.??I?m well past my expiration date already.?
Valerie is so inspirational. She has remained so upbeat and positive with her diagnosis, and her main concern is her family.
What do YOU think HollywoodLifers? Does Valerie have the right attitude?
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wall Street slips after seven-day rally, tech shares fall
By Leah Schnurr
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks sagged on Tuesday as investors paused after a seven-session string of gains, sending large-cap technology shares lower.
Investors' confidence has grown in recent months, leading to a gain of more than 10 percent for the year by the Dow and nearly 9 percent by the S&P 500. Signs of improvement in the economy and the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing have helped to drive the advance.
Heading into Tuesday, both the Dow and benchmark S&P 500 index had rallied for seven consecutive sessions, with the Dow closing at another record high on Monday. The S&P is within reach of its all-time closing high of 1,565.15, set on October 9, 2007.
Tech shares, which have lagged the rally, pulled indexes lower as heavyweights such as Apple and Google
Apple dropped 1.3 percent to $431.99. An analyst said the company has a 25 percent chance of missing its quarterly revenue forecast as iPhone sales slow.
Google fell 1.1 percent to $825.60, while the S&P tech sector lost 0.8 percent.
"I think we're in a little bit of a regroup after a nice week last week," said Kurt Brunner, portfolio manager at Swarthmore Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After a light economic calendar the last couple of days, investors will start to turn their attention to retail sales data due on Wednesday to get a sense of how consumers are faring, Brunner said. Sales are expected to have increased 0.5 percent in February.
Adding to the weakness, Jens Weidmann, head of Germany's central bank and a member of the European Central Bank's governing council, said the euro zone crisis was not over.
While it was a relatively small decline, it was the worst day for the S&P since late February. Pullbacks during the rally so far this year have not been too deep as investors look for a good place to buy. Market moves have also been more muted in recent days, even as stocks have ground higher.
Offsetting the decline, the healthcare sector rose 0.4 percent. Traditionally considered a defensive bet, the sector has been one of the leaders of the rally so far this year, accelerating by nearly 12 percent.
In the short-term, however, healthcare appears to be overbought, suggesting investors may start to put their money elsewhere or take profits. Based on the relative strength index, healthcare has been overbought since the beginning of the month.
The drop in tech shares brought the sector below the overbought level after briefly crossing above it on Monday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 15.12 points, or 0.10 percent, to 14,432.17. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 5.18 points, or 0.33 percent, to 1,551.04. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 17.00 points, or 0.52 percent, to 3,235.87.
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'Great Gatsby' to open Cannes Film Festival
PARIS (AP) ? The Cannes Film Festival has an American flavor this year, with a Hollywood icon heading the jury and a quintessential U.S. literary figure opening the event: The Great Gatsby.
Organizers said Tuesday that the film "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will open this year's Cannes festival ? in 3D, no less.
Luhrmann stressed the film's French connection, saying in a statement that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "some of the most poignant and beautiful passages" of "The Great Gatsby" at a French Riviera villa not far from Cannes. Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan also star in Luhrmann's version of the 1925 novel.
Steven Spielberg is heading the jury at the Cannes festival this year, which runs May 15-26.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/great-gatsby-open-cannes-film-festival-081702307.html
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BMW, An ULTIMATE Work of Art | BucketListWheels.com
Two bucket list items here: See the Saratoga Automobile Museum (!) and see the BMW exhibit at the same museum? not necessarily in that that order. Courtesy of BMW.
BMW?s rich heritage will be showcased at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in an exhibition called ?BMW ? The Ultimate Driving Machine.? The exhibition, which will feature a retrospective of BMW cars and motorcycles, will run from May 6 ? November 3, 2013. The array of BMW automobiles will include road cars and race cars, both from the modern era, as well as pre-war. The exhibition will also celebrate 90 Years of BMW Motorcycles.
?This exhibition at the Saratoga Automotive Museum will provide visitors a great look at BMW?s long heritage and provide a sense of how the company has evolved to become the leading premium automobile and motorcycle manufacturer in the world,? said Ludwig Willisch ? President and CEO of BMW of North America. ?It will also show just how integral motorsports has been throughout the company?s history.?
?This exhibit looks to be one of the best we?ve ever had at the Museum,? said Museum Chairman Charlie Montano.? ? Working with BMW to create this one of a kind auto experience in upstate New York was thrilling,? continued Exhibit Committee Chair Alan Rosenblum.? Exhibit Committee member Bob Bailey added ?Both BMW of North America and our local dealer, Keeler Motor Car have contributed hours of time, effort and resources to make this a reality?.
The display of BMW automobiles will feature the marque?s most renowned prewar model, the BMW 328. The 328 dominated the racing scene ?in the late 1930s and early 1940s and will be shown both in road form as well as a custom-bodied 328MM, prepared for the Mille Miglia, one of the most vaunted endurance races of its day. The 1950s saw BMW produce such divergent models as the Isetta ?bubble? car as well as the 507 Roadster, designed by Count Albrecht Goertz. The exhibition will include the spiritual successor to the 507, the BMW Z8 which arrived in 2000 ? 45 years after the 507.
For many, the car that put BMW on the map in the US was the 2002, which received wide-spread media attention, including a review in the April 1968 edition of ?Car and Driver? entitled ?Turn Your Hymnal to 2002?.?? The higher-performance 2002tii, introduced in 1972, will be featured.
On March 21, 1975 just days after BMW of North America was founded as a subsidiary of BMW, a BMW 3.0 CSL won the 12 Hours of Sebring at the hands of Brian Redman, Sam Posey, Hans Stuck and Alan Moffat. A 3.0 CSL similar to that Sebring-winning car will be included. That car was fourth of four factory FIA Group 2 CSL cars built for 1973 German Touring Car Championship. Dieter Quester and Toine Hezemans won the European Sedan Championship with this car in 1973. It is thought to be the car that won the 24 Hrs of Spa (1973) with Quester and Hezemans driving. It was sold to John Buffam (US) in December 1973 and by Hurtig Team Libra in the 1974 season. The car is currently owned and made available to the museum by Scott Hughes.
BMW?s racing success continued in the 1970s with the BMW 320 Turbo with which driver David Hobbs scored four wins in 1977-78 in the IMSA GT series. It was powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged four cylinder engine capable of 600 horsepower. That engine was the test-bed for the 1,200 hp engine that powered Nelson Piquet to the Formula One World Championship in 1983. Many current BMW models are powered by the latest-generation of 2.0-liter TwinPower Turbo 4-cylinder engine that combines a unique blend of performance and efficiency.
Today, BMW M is widely recognized as the pinnacle of performance but in the 1980s, it was all new. One of the first M cars to arrive in the US was the 1988 M5. It was based on the second-generation BMW 5 Series Sedan and powered by 3.5-liter inline six similar to the engine used in the M1 super car.
The second generation BMW M5 stunned the racing world when the large four-door Sedan took to the track in the IMSA Super Car series? and won! A mate to the car that David Donohue drove to the 1994 Super Car Championship will be part of the exhibition.
The mid-1990s also saw the introduction of the second generation BMW M3, which will be featured. The BMW M3 took to the track in the US in 1995 and began an era of motorsports success that lasted for more than 15 years and spanned three generations of M3. In fact one of BMW M3 GTs, which competed in the American LeMans Series from 2009 ? 2012, will also be on display.
BMW?s two-wheeled heritage will also be a key part of the exhibition. ?BMW?s motorcycle heritage dates back even farther than its automotive heritage,? stated Peter Nettesheim, renowned BMW motorcycle collector, curator of the motorcycle portion of the exhibit, and operator of the Nettesheim Museum in Huntington, New York.? In 2013 the company celebrates 90 years of BMW Motorcycles. In the 1920s BMW quickly earned a reputation for speed and reliability. The use of an opposing-twin ?boxer? engine and shaft drive, unique in those early days, remains in use today on many models of BMW Motorcycles. The exhibit will feature three motorcycles from the 1920s including a 1925 R32, the first model, as well as a 1928 R63, featuring a 750 cc engine and a 1929 R62 Touring model which established BMW?s reputation for producing motorcycles ideally suited to long distance travel, a reputation that remains to this day. 1929 saw the first racing championships for BMW on two-wheels, a trend that continues to this day.
Also featured will be a 1931 R16 and a 1934 R11 with a stamped-steel frame. One highlight of the exhibition will be an unrestored military 1942 R12 found in a barn in France.
A 1955 R25/3 featuring a very economical single-cylinder engine is an example of a model best suited for?a recovering post WWII Germany. Throughout its history BMW motorcycles have gained a solid reputation for authority use, even here in the United States. A 1969 R60/2 German ?Polizei? police motorcycle will represent an earlier example.
BMW Motorcycles have been widely known for their two-cylinder engines, a legacy which continues to this day. A later example can be seen in the R100RT on display.
Innovation is every-bit a hallmark for BMW Motorcycles as it is for BMW automobiles. In the?1980s BMW gained a reputation for the performance and smoothness of its 4-cylinder motorcycle engines. In 1989, BMW became the first manufacturer to offer ABS brakes on a motorcycle. In the same year, BMW also introduced the K1,?it was the most aerodynamic motorcycle on the road, which?will also be seen in the exhibit. That innovation can be seen today with BMW?s first-ever super bike, the S1000RR.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
The Yeshiva World Eichler: We Will Remain Loyal to Yishuvim ...
Eichler: We Will Remain Loyal to Yishuvim Despite Bennett
(Sunday, March 10th, 2013)
When asked if the chareidim will take revenge against the settlers for Bayit Yehudi?s union with Yesh Atid, MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yisrael Eichler told Channel 99 on Sunday 28 Adar 5773 ?No this will not occur but we will stand behind them. Despite Bennett?s actions we will stand behind the settlers when they ask to vote about giving away their homes. From a humanistic point of view we must support them and stand behind them and then their tzibur will question what happened? Why did Bennett treat them this way??
Eichler explained that despite?s Bennett?s actions he cannot see turning his back on the residents of the yishuvim when it is known to all that Yair Lapid will not do the same.
(YWN ? Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Freed peacekeepers cross into Jordan from Syria
AMMAN (Reuters) - Twenty-one United Nations peacekeepers held by rebels for three days in southern Syria crossed into Jordan on Saturday, after an ordeal which highlighted how Syria's civil war is ratcheting up tensions on its volatile borders.
The Filipino peacekeepers - part of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that has been monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights since 1974 - were seized by the Martyrs of Yarmouk rebel brigade on Wednesday.
They were taken by the rebels on Saturday to the Jordanian border, about 10 km (6 miles) south of the village of Jamla where they had been held since being captured.
"They are all on the Jordanian side now and they are in good health," said Abu Mahmoud, a rebel who said he had crossed over into Jordan with them.
In the Syrian capital, Mokhtar Lamani, who heads the Damascus office of U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, confirmed that the men had crossed into Jordan.
Jordan appeared surprised by the arrival of the peacekeepers - who had been expected to be retrieved instead by a U.N. convoy inside Syria and possibly taken to Damascus - and Syria expressed dismay at how they were spirited across the border.
The move would "encourage terrorists to repeat these events", the foreign ministry in Damascus said, adding that Syria had complied fully with its commitment to ensure the peacekeepers' safety.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the release of the peacekeepers but called on "all parties to respect UNDOF's freedom of movement and the safety and security of its personnel", Ban's spokesman said.
The peacekeepers had been held in Jamla, a village one mile east of the Israeli-occupied Golan and 6 miles north of the Jordan border. After their capture insurgents described them as "guests" and said they would be freed once President Bashar al-Assad's forces withdrew from around Jamla and stopped shelling.
A brief truce was agreed on Saturday morning to allow for the peacekeepers' retrieval. Although the two-hour window of that ceasefire passed at midday (1000 GMT) before they could be extracted, the relative calm prevailed long enough for the rebels to take them south to Jordan, rebels said.
A rescue effort on Friday was delayed by heavy bombardment and abandoned after nightfall, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said.
REGIONAL SPILLOVER
Syria's two-year-old civil war has spilled periodically across the Golan Heights ceasefire line and Syria's borders with Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, threatening to engulf the region. The conflict began as peaceful protests, but turned violent when Assad ordered a crackdown on the demonstrations.
Ladsous warned on Friday that once the peacekeepers were freed, "we would strongly expect that there would not be retaliatory action by the Syrian armed forces over the village and its civilian population".
Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said the army had been targeting areas outside Jamla where he said the rebels were concentrated, not the village itself. "We know for sure what we are doing and we know where the peacekeepers are," he said.
"The Syrian government forces are doing exactly what they have to do in order to bring back safely the peacekeepers, guarantee the safety and security of the inhabitants of these villages (and) get these armed group terrorists out of the area."
In several videos released on Thursday, the peacekeepers said they were being treated well by civilians and rebels.
The United Nations said the captives had been detained by about 30 rebel fighters, but Abu Issam Taseel, a Martyrs of Yarmouk activist, said the men were "guests", not hostages, and were being held for their own safety.
Under an agreement brokered by the United States in 1974, Israel and Syria are allowed a limited number of tanks and troops within 20 km of the disengagement line.
(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Mariam Karouny in Beirut, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Stephen Powell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/freed-u-n-peacekeepers-cross-jordan-syria-035138534.html
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Memorabilia vendors prep for new pope
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Souvenir religious statues, some depicting the pope, are displayed for sale in Rome.
By Alastair Jamieson and Le Li, NBC News
ROME, Italy -- It is a significant event in world history, so what better way to commemorate the choosing of a new pope than with a decorative plate, or maybe a set of prayer cards and matching rosary beads?
While officials at the Vatican began physical preparations for the papal conclave, including the installation on Saturday of the chimney stack from which white smoke will indicate the new pope, Rome?s souvenir industry was also making plans.
Vendors said tens of thousands of ornaments and posters bearing the image of the new pope are expected to be on sale ? sometimes within hours of the announcement of his name.
?As soon as the new pope is chosen, our suppliers are ready to go to work straight away ? boom, boom, boom, just like that,? explained Rosanna Barone, a sales assistant at one of the shops and stalls that line the Via della Conciliazione, the thoroughfare linking St Peter?s Basilica to the west bank of the River Tiber.
?Some of the things are made in Rome and we can have them quickly,? she said. ?For the cards and maybe mugs, things that are easier to make, maybe we will have them the next day or the day after.?
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Souvenir statues of Pope John Paul II are displayed on in Rome, Italy.
Alabaster figurines, typically made in Italy?s Tuscany region, and items from China will take longer.
Even for a storied city that attracts tourists year-round, the sheer range of religious keepsakes, icons and trinkets on offer on the Via della Conciliazione and around St Peter?s Square is a remarkable sight.
From crucifixes to cigarette-lighters, key-rings to refrigerator magnets, all manner of items come adorned with the pope?s face or signature.
Among the items on sale on Saturday were a Pope Benedict XVI bottle-opener ($5), an ashtray featuring St Peter?s Basilica ($6.50) and a pair of men?s polyester boxer shorts with an anatomically-enhanced image of Michaelangelo?s Statue of David ($2.50).
At the other end of the scale, pilgrims can choose from table-top nativity scenes ($110), official certificates blessed by the Vatican ($35, plus postage) or a 3-foot ceramic statue of the Virgin Mary ($685).
It?s a serious business both for the small stalls and shops, and the Vatican itself. More than?5 million tourists see inside the Vatican?s grounds and museums?every year ? almost as many as New York?s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Museum tickets and official merchandise sales contributed most of the Vatican City state?s $113 million income in 2011, keeping its accounts in the black: it made a $12.m surplus.
The unexpected abdication of Pope Benedict created a headache, but also an opportunity.
The cardinals will fill out ballots in the Sistine Chapel until all 77 ballots ? two-thirds plus one of the cardinal electors ? reach a consensus. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
An official set of stamps commemorating the sede vacante ? the period during that the church is without a leader ? was on sale Saturday for $32.
?That is a big seller, a collector?s item,? said Maria, sales assistant in a store on the Piazza del Papa Pio XII (she declined to give her family name).
Also becoming collector?s items ?were the Pope Benedict XVI 2014 calendar and the official Vatican Pope Benedict XVI 2013 diary.
Who buys all these items?
?Our biggest customers are Spanish,? said Mario Rosid, 54, who has run a stall in the shadow of the Vatican for almost 25 years.
The most popular items? ?Anything with John Paul II,? he said. ?He is the most popular.?
That was echoed by Barone, who said rosary beads, keyrings and other keepsakes with John Paul II?s picture outsold those of Benedict XVI ten-fold. Many items feature the name or picture of both the last two popes.
About half the souvenirs are made in Italy, with the rest mostly from China, where factories are expected to begin making items with the face of the next pope as soon as the announcement is made.
Chen Shaojiang,, from Tiantai Tantou Huanan Craft Factory, which exported Catholics keepsakes to Europe and the United States, is capable of producing up to 300,000 sets of rosary beads a month. He said it would take up to 25 days to ship new items.
The gap doesn?t worry Rome?s street vendors.
?It?s the Vatican, and people will always come here, whoever is the pope,? said Rosid. ?The different name doesn?t matter to people. The pope is the pope is the pope.?
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Will cardinals go off European grid to choose new pope?
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