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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Egyptians flood streets to force Mursi out
By Shaimaa Fayed and Yasmine Saleh
CAIRO (Reuters) - Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.
Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed on Cairo's central Tahrir Square. It was the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
"The people want the fall of the regime!" they shouted, echoing the Arab Spring rallying cry that brought down Mubarak - this time yelling it not against an ageing dictator but against the first elected leader in Egypt's 5,000-year recorded history.
While the main protests were peaceful, four people were shot dead in the Nile valley towns of Assiut and Beni Suef, south of Cairo, and the Health Ministry said nearly 200 were injured in clashes in several provincial towns.
A military source said as many as 14 million people in this nation of 84 million took part in Sunday's demonstrations in temperatures of 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit). There was no independent way of verifying that estimate, which seemed implausibly high, but the armed forces used helicopters to monitor the crowds.
The Brotherhood's national headquarters in a Cairo suburb came under attack from militants hurling petrol bombs and rocks and firing shotguns. Flames gushed from an upper floor of the building, which did not have police protection.
The liberal opposition National Salvation Front coalition declared victory in what it styled "Revolutionary Communique No. 1" saying the masses had "confirmed the downfall of the regime of Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood".
Organizers called on demonstrators to continue to occupy central squares in every city until Mursi quits and to blockade peacefully the only functioning house of parliament. The Tahrir crowd roared with approval as an army helicopter hovering overhead dropped Egyptian flags on the protesters.
The military source said the move was intended to encourage patriotism and was not a gesture of political support.
"COUP ATTEMPT"?
Many demonstrators bellowed their anger at the Brotherhood, which they accuse of hijacking Egypt's revolution and using electoral victories to monopolize power and impose Islamic law.
Others, including some who said they had voted for Mursi, have been alienated by a deepening economic crisis and worsening personal security, aggravated by a political deadlock over which he has presided. Even some Islamists have disavowed Mursi.
The veteran leaders of Egypt's secular, liberal and left-wing opposition, including former chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei and leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, joined protest marches in Cairo.
A Reuters journalist said hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters also marched through the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, Egypt's second city, and a military source reported protests in at least 20 towns around the country.
Mursi, an engineering professor propelled from obscurity to power by the Brotherhood, was monitoring events from the heavily guarded Qubba presidential palace, where a presidency spokesman appealed for the demonstrations to remain peaceful.
A senior Brotherhood politician, Essam El-Erian, denounced the protests as a "coup attempt".
In a statement on the group's website, he challenged the opposition to test public opinion in parliamentary elections instead of "simply massing people in violent demonstrations, thuggery or shedding the precious blood of Egyptians".
The leader of the second biggest Islamist party, Younis Makhyoun of the Salafist Nour party, urged Mursi to make concessions to avert bloodshed and presented himself in an interview with Reuters as a potential mediator.
LEGITIMACY
Security sources said three Brotherhood offices were set on fire by demonstrators in towns in the Nile Delta - the latest in more than a week of sporadic violence in which hundreds of people have been hurt and several killed, including an American student.
Tens of thousands of Mursi supporters congregated outside a Cairo mosque not far from the main presidential palace, where a much bigger anti-Mursi sit-in swelled from Sunday evening.
Interviewed by a British newspaper, Mursi voiced his resolve to ride out what he sees as an undemocratic attack on his electoral legitimacy. He offered to revise the Islamist-inspired constitution, saying clauses on religious authority, which fuelled liberal resentment, were not his choice.
He made a similar offer last week, after the head of the army issued a strong call for politicians to compromise. But the opposition dismissed it as too little to late. They hope Mursi will resign in the face of large numbers on the streets.
Some Egyptians believe the army may force the president's hand, if not to quit then at least to make substantial concessions to the opposition.
Chief-of-staff and Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was following the situation from a special operations room, the military source said.
In Cairo, marchers stopped to shake hands and take pictures with soldiers guarding key buildings. At least six high-ranking police officers took to the Tahrir Square podium in support of the demonstrators, a Reuters witness said.
Mursi and the Brotherhood hope the protests will fizzle as previous outbursts did in December and January. If not, some form of compromise, possibly arbitrated by the army, may be on the cards.
VIOLENCE
Both sides insist they plan no violence but accuse the other - and agents provocateurs from the old regime - of planning it.
The U.S.-equipped army shows little sign of wanting power but warned last week it may have to step in if deadlocked politicians let violence slip out of control.
U.S. President Barack Obama called for dialogue and warned trouble in the most populous Arab nation could unsettle an already turbulent region. Washington has evacuated non-essential personnel and reinforced security at diplomatic missions.
In his interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Mursi repeated accusations that what he sees as entrenched interests from the Mubarak era are plotting to foil his attempt to govern. He dismissed the demands that he give up and resign.
If that became the norm, he said, "well, there will be people or opponents opposing the new president too, and a week or a month later, they will ask him to step down".
Liberal leaders say nearly half the voting population - 22 million people - has signed a petition calling for new elections, although there is no obvious challenger to Mursi.
Religious authorities have warned of "civil war". The army insists it will respect the "will of the people", though the two sides have opposing views of what that means. To the Brotherhood, it means the result of elections. To the opposition, it means the demands of popular protests.
Having staged shows of force earlier this month, the Brotherhood did not call on its supporters to go out on Sunday.
The army, half a million strong and financed by Washington since it backed a peace treaty with Israel three decades ago, says it has deployed to protect key installations.
Among these is the Suez Canal. Cities along the waterway vital to global trade are bastions of anti-government sentiment. A bomb killed a protester in Port Said on Friday. A police general was gunned down in Sinai, close to the Israeli border.
(Reporting by Asma Alsharif, Alexander Dziadosz, Shaimaa Fayed, Maggie Fick, Alastair Macdonald, Shadia Nasralla, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh. Paul Taylor and Patrick Werr in Cairo, Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia and Abdelrahman Youssef in Alexandria; Writing by Alastair Macdonald and Paul Taylor; Editing by Peter Graff)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-protests-set-showdown-violence-feared-003343388.html
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Kerry steps up shuttle talks with Abbas and Netanyahu
By Lesley Wroughton
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accelerated his Middle East shuttle diplomacy on Friday in the hope of persuading Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace negotiations.
After seeing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, Kerry flew by helicopter to Jerusalem for evening talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a sign that he may be making progress in his mission to bring the sides together, a State Department official announced late on Friday that Kerry would return to Amman for another meeting with Abbas on Saturday, then return to Israel for additional meetings.
The frenzied back-and-forth is reminiscent of Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy as secretary of state to mediate conflicts in the Middle East throughout the 1970s.
The State Department official said a three-hour meeting with Netanyahu on Friday, the second in as many days, involved a "detailed and substantive conversation about the way forward".
Israeli President Shimon Peres praised Kerry for his determination.
"I know this is difficult, there are many problems, but as far as I'm concerned I can see how (among) people, there is a clear majority for the peace process, a two-state solution, and a great expectation that you will do it and that you can do it," he told Kerry.
Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in 2010 in a dispute over Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories that the Palestinians seek for a future state.
Abbas has insisted that building in the settlements, viewed as illegal by most world powers, be halted before talks resume. He also wants Israel to recognize the boundary of the West Bank as the basis for the future Palestine's border.
MORE TALKS AHEAD
Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaineh said a "clear response" was needed from Israel before talks could resume.
Israel wants to keep settlement blocs under any future peace accord and has rejected Abbas's demands as preconditions. But it has also quietly slowed down housing starts in settlements.
Palestinian and U.S. officials did not immediately comment on the results of the Abbas-Kerry meeting. Zeev Elkin, Israel's deputy foreign minister, placed the peacemaking onus on Abbas.
Asked on Israel Radio whether Kerry's visit - his fifth - could bring a breakthrough, Elkin said: "The only one who knows the answer to that question is not Kerry, nor Netanyahu, but Abu Mazen (Abbas)."
Kerry has divulged little of his plan to bring the sides together, but has said he would not have returned to the region if he did not believe there could be progress.
He is also keen to clinch a peacemaking deal before the United Nations General Assembly, which has already granted de facto recognition to a Palestinian state, convenes in September.
Netanyahu is concerned that the Palestinians, in the absence of direct peace talks, could use the U.N. session as a springboard for further statehood moves circumventing Israel.
State Department officials believe the sides will return to negotiations once there is an agreement on confidence-building measures - for example, partial Israeli amnesty for Palestinian security prisoners - and a formula for fresh talks.
Part of the incentive for the Palestinians to return to talks is a $4 billion economic plan led by former British prime minister Tony Blair, whom Kerry also met in Jordan.
The plan involves investments from large private-sector firms that will boost jobs and spur economic growth in agriculture, construction and tourism.
(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-steps-shuttle-talks-abbas-netanyahu-193706170.html
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News Summary: Gas pipeline to go through Greece
GASSING UP: A new pipeline to bring gas to Europe from the Caspian Sea will go through Greece and then undersea to Italy.
PIPE DREAMS: BP, the main developer of the huge Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea, said the project was awarded to the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline. The other contender, the Nabucco West, would have run across Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria.
GETTING AROUND RUSSIA: The EU and the U.S. support building connections to Azerbaijan's gas as a way to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian gas.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news-summary-gas-pipeline-greece-150613268.html
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Markets remain calm as half-year comes to an end
A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A man looks at an electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Tokyo Stock Exchange employees work at the computer terminal in Tokyo, Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A man looks at a cell-phone in front of an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A worker stretches on a chair during a trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in Tokyo, Friday, June 28, 2013. Asian stock markets were boosted Friday by encouraging indicators from Japan and further proof that the U.S. economy is on the upswing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 3.6 percent to 13,684.37. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
LONDON (AP) ? Markets were ending the half-year on a settled note Friday after a month of volatility that pushed many of the world's major stock indexes down from multi-year and record highs.
The coincidence of the end to the month, quarter and half year may prompt some volatility in trading, as some investors try to make their portfolios look better for financial reports. But the prevailing market mood was calm, particularly compared with last week.
That's due to a number of factors, including solid U.S. economic data and a seeming attempt by the U.S. Federal Reserve to ease investor concerns over the pace of any reduction in its monetary stimulus.
Japan also got a dose of upbeat economic news when the government said industrial production rose 2 percent in May from April, the fourth straight monthly increase. Perhaps more importantly, the consumer price index stopped falling for the first time in seven months. That's important as the Bank of Japan is engaged on a massive monetary stimulus to get prices rising again after a near two-decade period of deflation.
"The latest Japanese economic data just published highlighted encouraging signs of recovery," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.
The news gave Japan's main stock index, the Nikkei 225 index, a big lift as it finished 3.5 percent higher at 13,677.32. The Nikkei's gains fed through across Asia and helped shore up Europe at the open.
Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent to 6,251, while Germany's DAX was more or less unchanged at 7,989. The CAC-40 in France fell 0.4 percent to 3,749.
Wall Street was poised for another solid performance, with Dow futures up 0.3 percent and the broader S&P 500 futures 0.4 percent higher.
The main U.S. economic data later will be a manufacturing survey around the Chicago region and the University of Michigan's latest assessment of consumer confidence around the country. They may determine whether the Dow finishes the month in positive territory. It needs to add 200 points to do so, a tough ask.
"It's arguably going to be close as to whether the Dow can manage to finish the month positive," said Fawad Razaqzada, market strategist at GFT Markets. "The bulls would need to remain in a rampant move."
One reason stock markets have calmed this week is that Fed officials appear to be trying to calm investor jitters over an upcoming reduction in the financial assets the central bank buys every month to help the economy. The so-called tapering of the purchases raised fears because the stimulus has been one of the drivers for stocks over recent years.
Earlier in Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 1.8 percent to 20,803.29 while mainland Chinese shares also rose as fears eased of a credit crunch in China. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.5 percent to 1,979.21, while the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index edged up less than 0.1 percent to 887.68.
The central bank had allowed rates that banks pay to borrow from each other to soar last week, part of an attempt to clamp down on massive credit in the informal lending industry. Later, however, Chinese policymakers softened their stance with the promise to provide "liquidity support" if needed.
In currency markets, the dollar has been making further gains against the yen, trading up 0.5 percent higher at 99.01 yen on Friday. The euro was up 0.2 percent at $1.3059.
Oil prices were steady too with the benchmark rate up 60 cents at $97.65 a barrel.
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Stocks snap three-day winning streak, open lower
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Stocks skidded back into the red on Friday, as investors seemed reluctant to jump in following a three-day winning streak and after a Fed governor outlined a hypothetical start date for the slowing down of asset purchases.
Fed Governor Jeremy Stein highlighted the upcoming September policy meeting as a possible time when the central bank may need to consider paring back its QE program, adding that the Fed considers the overall economic improvements since it launched the stimulus instead of giving undue weight to the most recent round of tepid economic data.
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Stein's comments contradicted comments from other Fed policymakers who have suggested the central bank will bide its time before scaling back its bond purchases.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average eased and was down 56 points in early afternoon trading, after logging its third-straight three-digit rise on Thursday. The Dow is on track for its strongest first half of the year since 1999.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also poked back into negative territory. The S&P 500 is on pace for its best first half since 1998.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, slid near 16.
Among key S&P sectors, consumer discretionary and utilities led, while techs held small losses.
Meanwhile, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said markets should brace for more volatility as they digest news the Fed will scale back bond buying later this year, but the swings will not derail growth. Lacker said he expects U.S. growth to remain around 2 percent for the "foreseeable future."
Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto and San Francisco Fed President John Williams were also scheduled to speak throughout the day. Williams' speech may attract particular interest, as he has previously advocated tapering back bond purchases as early as this summer.
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On the economic front, business activity index in the Midwest fell in June to 51.6 from 58.7 in May, according to the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago. A Reuters survey of economists on average expected a median reading of 56.0 in June versus the May figure of 58.7.
Meanwhile, consumer sentiment improved in late June, with the final reading on the overall index at 84.1, above the preliminary reading of 82.7, according to Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the final June reading of 82.8.
Japan's benchmark stock index hit a three-week high on Friday on the back of positive economic reports that include much stronger than expected industrial output and retail sales numbers.
"We had better job market numbers, better production numbers, and even consumer prices are picking up. So data-wise, today is a pretty good day for Japan," said Takuji Okubo, principal and chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
Traders will closely watch gold prices, as the precious metal dipped below a key level of $1,200 per ounce. Analysts warned that miners could be severely affected if prices remain this low.
(Read More: Three Reasons Gold Will Go to $800)
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Debenhams' sales growth slows in volatile UK market
By James Davey
LONDON (Reuters) - Debenhams
The company, like many other British retailers, is finding the going tough as consumers, whose spending generates about two thirds of Britain's gross domestic product, fret over job security and a squeeze on incomes.
Debenhams' sales at stores open over a year were flat in the 16 weeks to June 22 - a period which includes its fiscal third quarter. That compares with a first-half like-for-like sales rise of 3.1 percent and analyst forecasts for growth of about 2 percent.
"Any retailer that you speak to will tell you that it's not easy out there ... I think in the context of the market backdrop these are robust results," CEO Michael Sharp told reporters.
The 200-year-old department store group, which trails rival John Lewis
Shares in the firm, down 23 percent since the start of the year, were up 1.75 pence at 92.6 pence at 0912 GMT, valuing the business at 1.13 billion pounds ($1.73 billion).
"This is not a high quality update, but we think that the market had been expecting another warning," said Sanjay Vidyarthi, analyst at Espirito Santo Investment Bank.
Forecasts had been cut after a profit warning in March that was blamed on January snow.
Analysts' consensus forecast is a pretax profit of around 153 million pounds, down from 158.3 million pounds in 2012-13.
Debenhams published a graph to illustrate the volatile trading conditions in Britain, which showed like-for-like sales swinging wildly from one week to another. They were down more than 20 percent in the second week of March, the coldest March since 1962, but up over 15 percent in the last week of April.
Sharp highlighted market share gains in clothing, beauty and home and a 40 percent rise in online sales, saying that was a clear manifestation of the strength of the group's offer.
Across Europe fashion retailers have suffered so far this year as the economic downturn has been exacerbated by unusually cold weather in spring and early summer.
Earlier this month, global fashion retail leader Spain's Inditex
But there are still strong performers in Britain despite the tough trading conditions. John Lewis's total sales were up 7.9 percent in the 20 weeks to June 15, while online fashion retailer ASOS recently reported a 45 percent jump in third quarter sales.
Debenhams is spending 25 million pounds on a refurbishment of its flagship Oxford Street store in central London. The company said this was on track for completion in December, and would create 430 new jobs.
In line with previous guidance, Debenhams also said gross margin would be flat for the full 2013-14 year, while cost savings had been eked out from, for example, the UK online business. ($1 = 0.6520 British pounds)
(Reporting by James Davey; editing by Neil Maidment and Jane Merriman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/debenhams-sales-growth-slows-062438795.html
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'Parrot dinosaur' walked on all fours, then graduated to two
New research suggests that Psittacosaurus, China's 'parrot dinosaur,' walked on four feet ? and then two feet.
A Psittacosaurus skeleton is shown in the permanent collection of The Children?s Museum of Indianapolis.
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New research suggests that Psittacosaurus, the 'parrot dinosaur,' walked on four feet ? and then two feet ? some 100 million years ago in what is now China. It would have grown up much like the modern human, at first exploring its world on all fours, like a toddler, and then graduating to upright motion.
Qi Zhao, a Ph.D student at the University of Bristol and a researcher at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology in Beijing, studied a total of 16 fossil specimens ranging in from less than 1 year old to 10 years old. He found that the 1-year-old Psittacosaurus?specimens had long arms and short legs, meaning that the toddler dinosaur was biologically equipped to walk on all fours.
The arm bones showed continued growth in the dinosaurs between 1 and 3 years old, but the arm growth was dwarfed when the animal?s legs began to rapidly grow between 4 and 6 years old. At the age of 6, the Psittacosaurus?had legs twice as long as its arms and would have walked upright.?
That discovery, published in the scientific journal Nature Communications,?suggests not only that individual?Psittacosauruses went from four to two legs, but that the species had also evolved over time from four-legged adults to two-legged adults, adapting to environmental pressures.
?Having four-legged babies and juveniles suggests that at some time in their ancestry, both juveniles and adults were also four-legged, and Psittacosaurus and dinosaurs in general became secondarily bipedal,? said Mike Benton, a professor at the University of Bristol.
Measuring dinosaur growth is difficult, since enough samples are seldom available to track the species? development through its life cycle. Psittacosaurus, an herbivore distantly related to Triceratops, is a popular dinosaur for study, given the uniquely wide availability of viable fossils. The dinosaur?s genus includes between nine to 11 species, found in China, Mongolia, Russia, and Thailand.
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How we're renegotiating our marriage with our yearly "relationship ...
When I was in my 20s I went to acting school in NYC. I had a terrible and abusive teacher whom I ended up despising. Despite that, she mentioned something one day that had a great influence on me. She was approaching her 35th wedding anniversary and offhandedly said that she and her husband renegotiated their marriage each year on their anniversary. I loved the idea and 13 years later, when I started dating my husband, incorporated it on the anniversary of our first date.Homie Cassandra left this awesome comment on our post about long-term relationships. So of course we asked her to elaborate and turn it into an awesome guest post.
So for our anniversary we have our "relationship summit" or our "State Of The Union" address. We talk about where we are and what we want and if changes need to be made. This can be anything from "I don't want children, and if you do I love you and don't want to deprive you of them, so maybe we should part ways" (dating anniversary #2), to "pick up your socks" (somewhere around wedding anniversary #3 or 4), to "I see recurring patterns that cause you suffering. And even though this isn't about me, I don't want to get to old age and still see you suffering. Will you please think about getting some counseling, for the both of us?" (last year).
But what's more important is the time when we come to "I want to stay married to you for another year." It really is optional. A few years ago when mid-life crisis hit my husband and I was afraid he was thinking about leaving I reminded him that he had re-upped for at least another 10 months and he owed it to me to hang and see if we could work it out. We did.
We shared this practice at our wedding, which was on our anniversary (which happens to be Valentine's Day). We even had a wedding "intermission" where we went off into seclusion to do the summit. It was a great opportunity to be alone for 15 minutes and to really center ourselves.
These are the big issues. Ones that can't be solved when things are heated and doors are slamming. Ones that won't resolve themselves with makeup sex.
I remember once talking to a younger person about it in our early years and he said "That's great. That means you actually talk about stuff." It may seem like an artifice but we do, indeed, talk about stuff. Usually over a nice dinner (before drinks). And it's not just limited to that once a year.
A few weeks ago, after I had a disturbing dream where my husband told me he was leaving for greener pastures, I talked to him and said "I don't want to be just the greener pasture, I want to be the greenest pasture. And I want you to think about it for our next summit." These are the big issues. Ones that can't be solved when things are heated and doors are slamming. Ones that won't resolve themselves with makeup sex.
So even though that teacher wasn't great she did teach me som'n. Wasn't about acting but it was about life. And though I still wouldn't thank her to her face I will spread her lesson. Think about it. It works for us. We've been together for 19 years now and married for 13 and I see a long future ahead. One that we'll live without feeling terminally trapped but with freedom of choice.
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interested party: A great generation sends another one home
During an early summer thunderstorm on the morning of 26 June, 2013 Harriet Kurtz checked out of the Brookings Hospital for the last time.
Harriet M. Craig was born 13 February, 1922 in Norfolk, Nebraska to Ralph A. and Frances (Beidinger) Craig.
After the family moved to Columbus, Harriet attended and graduated St. Bonaventure Catholic School. Ralph, a Union Pacific Railroad brakeman then conductor, relocated Frances (Frankie) and four girls to Omaha where Harriet excelled, completed secretary/stenographer coursework, went to work for the UP Railroad, and in 1944 met Sgt. Lawrence E. Kurtz whom she married. A daughter, Leslie, was born to the couple in 1945.
The young family entered military life moving from Nebraska to Colorado Springs then to Panama. In 1947 after the Department of the Air Force was created, Harriet entered civil service in the stenographer's pool where she enjoyed a top security clearance.
A transfer sent the family to Castle Air Force Base and in 1954 a son, Larry, was born. The birth of the Strategic Air Command near the Union Pacific rail head took the family back to Nebraska where daughter Lynn was delivered.
In November, 1957, CMsgt. and Mrs. Kurtz moved the family to Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid, Spain where they remained until 1961. When the family wasn't exploring western Europe, Harriet managed the household while Lawrence was attache' to the Inspector General of the Air Force.
Harriet returned with her family to the United States, and in 1962 after Lawrence's retirement from the Service, a city girl became a farm wife near Elkton, South Dakota. In 1964 she elected to become a high school teacher, enrolled at South Dakota State College and graduated in 1968. Harriet taught Spanish and English at Lake Benton High School just across the state line in Minnesota until her retirement.
A devout lifetime Catholic, Harriet co-authored a comprehensive history of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish. She was very proud of that accomplishment.
In 1979 Lawrence and Harriet built a house in Elkton, sold the farm in 1984 then took to the road and traveled the United States extensively until 1995. The couple loved parties and friends and hosted many gatherings. Harriet played bridge until her eyesight failed.
She is survived by daughter Leslie (David) Leech, Elkton; son, Larry, Santa Fe, New Mexico; son-in-law David Larson, Flandreau, a sister Elizabeth, Omaha, Nebraska; eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence, daughter, Lynn, two sisters, and her parents.
She will be missed.
Source: http://interested-party.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-great-generation-sends-another-one.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
With $38M To Play With, NumberFour Could Become A Global ...
The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin ? which has today announced a $38m Series A round ? throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may be the case that we are looking at a tipping point in the European tech startup scene, which will play out over the next few years. Indeed, this business platform may be Europe?s answer to the global consumer platform created by Google and Facebook.
The first point to note is the location. For the last few years Berlin has become a hotbed of startups. Everything from the execution-led factories of Rocket Internet, to the cool innovation of Soundcloud and Wooga, we?ve seen a cross-section of technology emerge in Berlin. The city was almost built for technology startups on purpose. With high unemployment, cheap offices and housing, and almost no incumbent industries other than cafes, galleries and the government civil service, tech startups are free to roam the badlands of Berlin, throwing the proverbial startup mud against the wall to see what sticks.
Right now, the cost of failure in Berlin is pretty low. Admittedly, it still doesn?t have the end-to-end capabilities of London ? meaning that there is a lot more money in London from early to late, and a potential pipeline towards acquisition or a public market listing. But at the early stage right now, and if you can find the talent amid Berlin?s tiny population (3.5 million versus London?s 8m) Berlin has a strong hand. And importantly, NumberFour, while it is HQ?d in Berlin, it also has an office in the U.S. It shows that smart European entrepreneurs always have one foot in the important American market, and don?t cut off the possibility of raising large second rounds in the U.S. if they need to.
The second is the people. Let?s just have a look. CEO and founder Marco Boerries is one of the most experienced executives in the world, let alone Europe. He was former head of Yahoo EMEA and knew Yahoo founder Jerry Yang very well. It is little surprise Yang is an investor. Then there is Mike Volpi of Index Ventures; Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems and wrote the first $100,000 check to Google; Simon Levene, a former partner of Accel Partners, and executive at Excite@Home and Yahoo; Klaus Hommels has invested in Skype, Facebook, Xing and Spotify ? not a bad track record; Lars Hinrichs, Founder of XING, has been one of Europe?s most active Angels and has a well-earned reputation as someone who really understand technology under the hood. And lets add a non-investor, Ian Formanek, NumberFour?s Director of Engineering. Formanek was formerly VP of Engineering at GoodData, the cloud platform allows 6,000 global businesses to monetize big data. It is also worth noting that Allen&Co has been involved in almost every interesting mezzanine round or IPO in the tech or new media space for some time.
A curious side note is who missed out on this deal. The obvious answers are Index?s arch-rivals, Balderton and Accel. Whoever over at those firms couldn?t convince Boerries to take their money must feel like the guy who didn?t sign the Beatles right now.
Then there is the money. $38 million is a lot of bug fixes, and is reminiscent of the $41m the ill-fated Colour raised at its launch.
But Color appeared in 2011 during the white heat of the social app gold rush. NumberFour is very, very different ? it has an amazing team and it?s aiming at that sweet spot around small business and enterprise.
Admittedly one thing missing is the product. No-one has publicly seen it yet and the secrecy around the project is enormous. There are rumors of hundreds of engineers involved already. Current job openings on the newly unveiled web site include Sr. Java / Scala Software Engineer, Senior Software engineers and Mobile Software Engineers. No doubt there will be many more.
But we can be pretty confident that this team, with this funding, ought to produce something pretty amazing. And they?ve been taking their time to think about it, clearly. Fingers crossed they will pull it off.
And if there?s one thing about having $38m in Berlin ? it will take some time to burn through that cash, so they have quite a big runway ahead of them to get this right.
It?s now up to a delegation from the City of London to fly over and convince these guys to eventually IPO, in Europe, not on the NASDAQ.
But all that is a long way off. For now, we wait with bated breath for ? after de-cloaking in the middle of Europe ? this particular starship to start firing its photon torpedoes.
Founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries to re-imagine how small businesses are run, NumberFour is building a business platform paired with a great collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. This solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities and insights normally only available to larger companies.
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Ten thousandth near-Earth object discovered in space
June 25, 2013 ? More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding.
Ninety-eight percent of all near-Earth objects discovered were first detected by NASA-supported surveys.
"Finding 10,000 near-Earth objects is a significant milestone," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "But there are at least 10 times that many more to be found before we can be assured we will have found any and all that could impact and do significant harm to the citizens of Earth." During Johnson's decade-long tenure, 76 percent of the NEO discoveries have been made.
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that can approach the Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers). They range in size from as small as a few feet to as large as 25 miles (41 kilometers) for the largest near-Earth asteroid, 1036 Ganymed.
Asteroid 2013 MZ5 is approximately 1,000 feet (300 meters) across. Its orbit is well understood and will not approach close enough to Earth to be considered potentially hazardous.
"The first near-Earth object was discovered in 1898," said Don Yeomans, long-time manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found. But then, with the advent of NASA's NEO Observations program in 1998, we've been racking them up ever since. And with new, more capable systems coming on line, we are learning even more about where the NEOs are currently in our solar system, and where they will be in the future."
Of the 10,000 discoveries, roughly 10 percent are larger than six-tenths of a mile (one kilometer) in size -- roughly the size that could produce global consequences should one impact the Earth. However, the NASA NEOO program has found that none of these larger NEOs currently pose an impact threat and probably only a few dozen more of these large NEOs remain undiscovered.
The vast majority of NEOs are smaller than one kilometer, with the number of objects of a particular size increasing as their sizes decrease. For example, there are expected to be about 15,000 NEOs that are about one-and-half football fields in size (460 feet, or 140 meters), and more than a million that are about one-third a football field in size (100 feet, or 30 meters). A NEO hitting Earth would need to be about 100 feet (30 meters) or larger to cause significant devastation in populated areas. Almost 30 percent of the 460-foot-sized NEOs have been found, but less than 1 percent of the 100-foot-sized NEOs have been detected.
When it originated, the NASA-instituted Near-Earth Object Observations Program provided support to search programs run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (LINEAR); the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NEAT); the University of Arizona (Spacewatch, and later Catalina Sky Survey) and the Lowell Observatory (LONEOS). All these search teams report their observations to the Minor Planet Center, the central node where all observations from observatories worldwide are correlated with objects, and they are given unique designations and their orbits are calculated.
"When I began surveying for asteroids and comets in 1992, a near-Earth object discovery was a rare event," said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center. "These days we average three NEO discoveries a day, and each month the Minor Planet Center receives hundreds of thousands of observations on asteroids, including those in the main-belt. The work done by the NASA surveys, and the other international professional and amateur astronomers, to discover and track NEOs is really remarkable."
Within a dozen years, the program achieved its goal of discovering 90 percent of near-Earth objects larger than 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) in size. In December 2005, NASA was directed by Congress to extend the search to find and catalog 90 percent of the NEOs larger than 500 feet (140 meters) in size. When this goal is achieved, the risk of an unwarned future Earth impact will be reduced to a level of only one percent when compared to pre-survey risk levels. This reduces the risk to human populations, because once an NEO threat is known well in advance, the object could be deflected with current space technologies.
Currently, the major NEO discovery teams are the Catalina Sky Survey, the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS survey and the LINEAR survey. The current discovery rate of NEOs is about 1,000 per year.
NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program manages and funds the search for, study of and monitoring of asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them close to Earth. The Minor Planet Center is funded by NASA and hosted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch and via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asteroidwatch .
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~3/YH3ceC95U68/130625112104.htm
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Thirsty? Take a swig from your tie? Ummm what?
Remember the Pillow Tie that inflated to create your own little desktop nap oasis? Well, keep that tie in mind if you partake a little too much from the FlaskTie. Each FlaskTie? comes equipped with a TieBladder? holding approximately 6 fluid ounces for your drinking pleasure. Located at the end of the back slip is [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/06/25/thirsty-take-a-swig-from-your-tie-ummm-what/
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Microsoft 'approaching' 100,000 apps in the Windows Store, boasts app downloads in the 'hundreds of millions'
Companies love milestones nearly as much as bees love honey, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that Microsoft would take advantage of Build 2013 to announce as much positive news as it possibly can. This time, MS head Steve Ballmer has revealed to us that he expects the Windows Store to hit the 100,000 mark (in terms of total apps) sometime this month. Sounds about right if you monitor services like MetroStore Scanner to get a good feel for the OS's progress: it lists over 95,000 apps, which certainly fits the bill.
Additionally, Microsoft also claimed that the very same Windows Store has witnessed app downloads in the vicinity of "hundreds of millions." This vague indicator is not as impressive as it could certainly be if an actual number was attached, but we have a feeling that our friends in Redmond are trying to keep the specifics as hush-hush as possible.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Microsoft
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Is a two-day weekend enough?
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Paula Deen Apologizes In Video Statement Addressing Racism Scandal (VIDEO)
On Friday, embattled Food Network star Paula Deen released a video statement addressing her past use of racial slurs, which overnight became a national scandal.
In the clip, Deen appears visibly upset and at times close to tears. "I beg for your forgiveness ... please forgive me for the mistakes that I've made," she said.
The apology, which looks to have been filmed in multiple takes, comes the same day as a cancelled appearance on the "Today" show, where she was expected to address the allegations of racism leveled against her.
UPDATE 6/21, 3:50 P.M.: The video has been made private, but Eater has a copy of the 46-second clip.
UPDATE 6/21, 4:02 P.M.: TMZ has published an embeddable version of the full video. See it above.
UPDATE 6/21, 4:20 P.M.: A second apology video has surfaced. "I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is wanting to say we are," she says. "This comes from the deepest part of my heart." Watch the video below.
UPDATE 6/21, 4:51 P.M.: And now a third apology video...
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Samsung Shows Off New Tablets, Galaxy Camera
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Israel PM: Sanctions on Iran should increase
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the international community on Sunday against easing sanctions on Iran following the election of a reformist-backed president, as the country's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of Iran's extremist ruling clerics.
Netanyahu made the comments a day after the surprise victory by Hasan Rowhani in Iran's presidential election was announced. Although Rowhani is considered a relative moderate and had the backing of Iranian reformists, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the ultimate authority on all state matters and key security policy decisions? including nuclear efforts, defense and foreign affairs ? remain solidly in the hands of the ruling clerics and their powerful protectors, the Revolutionary Guard.
Netanyahu said that the Iranian clerics disqualified candidates they disagreed with from running in the election. He said the international community must not get caught in "wishful thinking" and ease the pressure on Tehran saying "Iran will be tested by its deeds."
Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Iranian calls for Israel's destruction, its support for anti-Israel militant groups and its missile and nuclear technology.
Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, a claim that Israel and many Western countries reject.
Netanyahu said that sanctions on Iran should be increased to pressure Tehran to end its suspect nuclear program. "The more pressure increases on Iran so will the chance of ending Iran's nuclear program which remains the biggest threat to world peace," Netanyahu said.
Earlier, Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister of intelligence and strategic affairs, made similar remarks to Army Radio. "It's good to see the Iranian people protest against the radical regime," Steinitz said of the Iranian election results. But he cautioned, "As long as we don't see a change it's better to be wary and not celebrate prematurely."
Steinitz is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear program.
He said he doubted that the election of the new president will soften Iran's stance in its nuclear standoff with the west. "Therefore the international community needs to work hard to tighten sanctions and present a clear ultimatum to Iran in order to maybe bring about change," Steinitz said.
Israel has said that it prefers diplomacy and sanctions to end Iran's nuclear program but has hinted that military action would be an option if other peaceful attempts fail. It has called on the international community to issue a clear ultimatum to Iran to curb its nuclear program.
Meir Litvak, head of Iranian studies at Tel Aviv university, told Army Radio that Rowhani's "smiley face to the west" might make the option of military action harder.
Rowhani's predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on multiple occasions made references to the destruction of the Jewish state.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-pm-sanctions-iran-increase-090537956.html
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Lego Figures: No More Mr. Nice Toy
Lego, maker of the plastic toy pieces and figures that spawned a global empire, isn't playing nice anymore.
That's the finding of a recent study, which showed that an increasing number of Lego figures' faces are scowling, frowning or snarling rather than smiling.
In the 1970s, when Lego added human figures to their successful line of construction blocks, most of the figures wore happy, contented expressions, The Guardian reports.
But all that started to change in 1989, according to Christoph Bartneck, a social robotics researcher at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and lead author of the study.
Bartneck found a greater variety in the facial expressions of Lego figures after 1989. He and his colleagues separated the expressions into six general categories: disdain, confidence, concern, fear, happiness and anger.
Over time, the authors observed a trend: The proportion of happy faces decreased, while the proportion of angry faces increased. Their study will be presented at the First International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction in Sapporo, Japan, in August.
Most Lego sets are sold with a particular theme, such as pirates or Harry Potter. "It is our impression that the themes have been increasingly based on conflicts," the authors wrote in their study paper. "Often, a good force is struggling with a bad one."
While the study stops short of analyzing the effect that scowling, angry figures could have on children, this may be an important and overlooked avenue of research.
"Children's toys and how they are perceived can have a significant impact on children," the authors wrote. "We cannot help but wonder how the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts ... how children play."
Lego isn't overly concerned about the effects that facial expressions on its toys might have on the kids who play with them. "The conflict between good and evil is nothing new," Lego spokesman Roar Rude Trangb?k told The Guardian. "But the characters always have classic Lego humor ? the good guys always win in the end."
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Quality cyclical stocks paving way for positive Canadian equity ...
Amidst the noise and turmoil of volatile day-to-day markets, it is beneficial to take a step back and ponder the age old question, ?What is going on out there?? ?When describing the angst in the market, two great quotes come to mind.
The first is from the great British economist John Maynard Keynes. According to Keynes:??Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.?
At Leon Frazer, we are romantics. We truly believe the best way to create wealth is by owning well-managed, well-capitalized companies.
The second comes from Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investment minds of our times.??We believe that according the name ?investors? to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ?romantic,?? said Buffett.
Implicit in the Keynesian view is the idea of investing in a piece of paper called a stock, with the hopes of selling that stock?for a higher price some time in the future. In its simplest terms, the Keynes camp treats markets as clearinghouses for paper transactions in securities. A good investment is one that is sold at a higher price, with the seller having properly anticipated the anticipation of others.
In contrast, the Buffet view of investing revolves around ownership. Investors own shares in a company, and participate in the rewards the company creates. Markets are viewed as allocators of capital. Rewards come in the form of dividends, as well as any appreciation in value of the ownership interest.
In the 1960s, Richard Nixon quoted Milton Friedman: ?We are all Keynesians now.? Little did Nixon know how accurate he would be in describing our current investment environment.
In a world where short-term performance dominates attention, for many managers, trying to outguess the competition has become crucial to earning big bonuses or share option grants. With a financial press increasingly in need of content to cater to the fear and greed of investors, a short-term, trading-oriented investment style has flourished. The proliferation of hedge funds, algorithmic traders and activist investors over recent years is perfect evidence of Buffett?s non-romantic behaviour.
At Leon Frazer, we are romantics. We truly believe the best way to create wealth is via an ownership position in well-managed, well-capitalized companies. We recognize that well-managed companies tend to have a history of making sound business decisions, rewarding share owners, via increasing dividends, with the fruits of their decision-making. Well-capitalized companies not only weather economic storms, they also have the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities not available to companies which require continual financing.
For over seven decades, Leon Frazer has managed client portfolios with a singular focus on growing the income stream generated by the investments held. We look at the investing world today and see two historic anomalies. First, as we have discussed many times over the past few years, the dividend yield on stocks is now in excess of the yield on bonds. In our view, this has created a world that will continue to favour investments in equities, which offer owners not only high current income, but income that can grow. Second, we are now seeing traditional low- or no-yield cyclical resource and energy stocks with good balance sheets offering yields that are in many cases above the yield on the market in general. For the first time?in decades, quality cyclical stocks are offering income opportunities on par with the more traditional dividend-growing consumer-oriented stocks.
In constructing portfolios that pass the test of time, assessing historical anomalies is more important than anticipating short-term economic events. As long as interest rates remain at historically low levels, dividend-paying equities, and especially dividend-growing equities, should continue to remain in the headlights of income-seeking investors rotating out of bonds.
Furthermore, with cyclical stocks now offering fundamental investment characteristics not seen in years, the outlook for Canadian equities is particularly good, especially as the Canadian market has been such a poor performer over the past year. George Frazer always said that ?time in the market is more important than timing the market.? Amidst all the noise in markets today, that sage wisdom is well remembered.
Adapted from?LFA Market Perspectives, May 2013
Source: http://www.leonfrazer.com/the-outlook-for-canadian-equities-its-good
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