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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/cnbc/51053258/
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Silicon Valley Has Hit Peak Lameness
Hey Bros of Virool, I know you think it’s cool that your launch party is being written up in TechCrunch.?But seriously, half-naked girls in silver mono-kinis dancing in front of floating arithmetic, fractions and percentage signs? Why would women want to work for this company? When did Silicon Valley become so thin on actual technology that startups had to have ?nerd? or ?science?-themed parties to have cred? You’re YC-backed for chissake. How much of your $6 million round went into hiring contortionists? What would Jessica Livingston think? ? P.S. In case anyone thinks Jack McKenna doesn’t know how to party, Jack McKenna thought of this post while dancing in a “rave cave” at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Because Jack McKenna rolls all weekend long. Sans fake hand and tentacle fingers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RlzM0lLZzXg/
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U.S. efforts on Iran not working, Syria planning underway: Mattis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. general said on Tuesday that American efforts aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon were not working, even as he voiced support for crippling sanctions and diplomatic efforts aimed at isolating the Islamic state.
"I still support the direction we're taking. I'm just paid to take a rather dim view of the Iranians, frankly," General James Mattis, the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, told a Senate hearing.
Mattis also painted a daunting portrayal of events on the ground in Syria, where he said the situation was too complex at this point for him to support arming rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
"We don't want to inadvertently, with the best of intentions, arm people who are basically sworn enemies," he said before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed in a fierce conflict that began with peaceful anti-Assad protests nearly two years ago. Some 860,000 have fled abroad and several million are displaced within the country or need humanitarian assistance.
Iran supports Assad and Mattis predicted that a fall of the Assad regime would represent a major setback for Tehran, prompting an Iranian backlash that would see it arming militias in Syria to "try to create a Lebanese-Hezbollah-type effect."
"The collapse of the Assad regime, sir, would be biggest strategic setback for Iran in 25 years," Mattis said in response to a question from Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
Asked by Reed whether the United States would plan for that scenario explicitly, Mattis responded: "And we are, Senator."
Mattis said "quiet planning" was also underway with regional allies for potential stability operations if needed after the Syrian regime's collapse, and pointed to regional organizations like the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as groups "that may be able to take this on."
"We are doing some planning with the regional militaries and getting basically a framework for what this would look like," he said.
Still, Mattis said the situation in Syria remained "fundamentally unpredictable," even though Assad's power base and geographic area of control were eroding.
Asked how long he believed Assad could hold onto power, at least in a sub-region of Syria, Mattis said: "I really don't have the ability to forecast this well, Senator."
"I'd hate to give you some kind of certainty that I don't sense right now," he said.
TIME RUNNING OUT FOR IRAN
Israel, Iran's arch-enemy and convinced Tehran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons, has grown impatient with the protracted talks and has threatened pre-emptive war against Tehran if it deems diplomacy ultimately futile.
Mattis at one point was asked point blank whether he thought diplomatic efforts and sanctions were working to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"No sir," he said.
Later, when pressed, Mattis said he fully supported economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation.
"I believe they are trying to buy time with the negotiations but that should not be in any way construed as 'We should not try to negotiate,'" Mattis said, noting President Barack Obama's warning that military intervention was an option if all else were to fail.
At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said during talks with his Israeli counterpart that Washington was committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"He stated that the United States continues to believe there is still time to address this issue through diplomacy, but that window is closing," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with ABC World News that persistent Iranian stalling raises the risks and that "confrontation becomes more possible."
Mattis spent much of the hearing discussing budget cuts in the United States that prompted a decision to reduce the U.S. aircraft carrier presence in and around the Gulf from two to one carriers. Mattis said the cuts, known in Washington jargon as "sequester," would hurt the military but warned potential adversaries that he could respond if needed to any scenario.
"I would just caution any enemy that might like as an opportunity to take advantage of this situation, that that would be very ill advised," Mattis said.
"If the president orders into action, I have what it takes to make it the enemy's longest day and their worst day. And we'll get the other carrier out there quickly to reinforce."
(Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-efforts-iran-not-working-syria-planning-underway-220440935.html
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Monday, March 4, 2013
BABY FAB - The Young, Black, and Fabulous
Rapper Lola Monroe celebrated the pending arrival of her bundle of joy with a Hollywood Hills baby shower thrown by Cassie. See pics from the party inside...?
Former stripper turned video vixen turned rapper Lola Monroe was spotted glowing during her baby shower in the Hollywood Hills over the weekend.
The party was thrown by Diddy's gal Cassie whom Lola thanked for the beautiful celebration tweeting, '"Thaank u @CassieSuper 4 being so special n throwing me such a beautiful baby shower!!ur such a great friend #Rare #Genuine Love u so much! ?"
Casse was all smiles as she rubbed Lola's baby bump. And you'll recall that Lola made an appearance on Cassie's "All Gold, All Girls (Remix)."
Guests included singer Teairra Mari, top model Toccara Jones, rapper Hazel-E and eye lash guru Jammal Buster. ?Lola tweeted,?"So much love today...friends and family..in town to the ones that flew in. Thank you for joining us to be apart of something special."
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Lola's body hugging maternity dress was by BCBG.?
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EXTRAS:
1. ?New Orleans rapper Mr. Magic, who was once signed to No Limit records, died Friday night in a car accident. ?The crash, which occured in Hattiesburg, MS, also claimed the life of his wife. ?Reportedly, the couple's 12-year-old daughter survived the accident. ?Story. ?
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Mennonite minister gets prison in kidnapping case
(Reuters) - A Mennonite minister was sentenced in Vermont on Monday to more than two years in prison for helping a woman flee to Nicaragua with her daughter to evade court orders granting visitation rights to the woman's former lesbian partner.
Kenneth Miller, 45, was convicted in August of aiding and abetting international kidnapping. Prosecutors said he helped orchestrate Lisa Miller's flight to Canada and then on to Nicaragua in 2009 with her daughter after she decided to reject her homosexuality and her former partner.
Kenneth Miller and Lisa Miller are not related.
The case drew widespread attention as gay rights and evangelical Christian groups took opposing sides in the custody battle between Lisa Miller and her former partner, Janet Jenkins, over their daughter, Isabella Miller-Jenkins, now 10.
After Monday's hearing at U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont in Burlington, Kenneth Miller's lawyer said his client would not start serving his sentence until a higher court hears his appeal.
"Our hope is that he does not ever have to serve any time," said the lawyer, Brooks McArthur. He said the defense team would likely challenge the decision to try the case in Vermont rather than in Virginia, where Lisa and the couple's daughter lived.
Jenkins and Miller were joined in a civil union in Vermont in 2000 and, using in vitro fertilization, Miller gave birth to a daughter two years later.
Miller filed to dissolve the union in 2003. She won custody but a Vermont court granted Jenkins visitation rights.
Miller increasingly embraced conservative Christian ideals and renounced homosexuality.
Kenneth Miller, an Amish-Mennonite pastor in Virginia who worked in his family's garden-supply business, contacted Mennonites to drive Lisa Miller and her daughter to an airport in Canada in 2009 and pick her up in Nicaragua where the group runs a mission, according to court documents.
Lisa Miller was indicted on international kidnapping charges in 2010 but federal agents have been unable to locate her or Isabella. Nicaragua does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of up to three years.
"From the beginning we thought this was a serious crime," U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin said after the sentencing. "Mr. Miller was involved in removing a child from the visitation custody of a parent, and that's an extremely significant act."
(Reporting by Daniel Lovering; Editing by Edith Honan and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mennonite-minister-sentenced-international-kidnapping-case-020849190.html
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Scientists Transplant Functional Eyes On the Tails of Tadpoles
New submitter physlord writes in with a story about tadpoles with eyes on their tails. "Using embryos from the African clawed frog (Xenopus), scientists at Tufts' Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology were able to transplant eye primordia?basically, the little nubs of flesh that will eventually grow into an eye?from one tadpole's head to another's posterior, flank, or tail....Amazingly, a statistically significant portion of the transplanted one-eyes could not only detect LED changes, but they showed learning behavior when confronted with electric shock."
Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/ROdFCsj6r4I/story01.htm
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
ME's office set up shop at tattoo fest | WAVY.com | Hampton, Va.
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - Tattoos could help crack cold cases for the Norfolk Medical Examiner's office.
Investigators set up a booth at the Tattoo Arts Festival in Hampton this weekend.
They brought pictures of sculptures of unidentified people, and of the tattoos found on their respective bodies. The hope is someone in the tattoo community will recognize one of the pictures.
"We were hoping to come to the convention and present these tattoos in hopes that one of the artists might recognize the tattoo as being one of theirs," said Paul Yoakam, an investigator with the Medical Examiner's Office. "Or, an individual might recognize the particular tattoo on the person."
Some of the cases are 30 years old.
The festival continues Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton.
Source: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/hampton/mes-office-set-up-shop-at-tattoo-fest
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