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Academy Award winners who went on a little too long in their acceptance speeches Sunday night received an ominous warning from the orchestra at the Dolby Theater ? the theme music from "Jaws" started playing.
Da nuh. Da nuh. Da nuh ...
Anyone familiar with movies should recognize the music, by composer John Williams, used to signal a coming shark attack in?Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic about a very hungry great white. The?haunting bass tones struck us as a?little jarring compared to the gentle string orchestras usually used to urge people to leave the?stage.
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The music was used Sunday when "Life of Pi"?won the Oscar for best visual effects and again when "Searching for Sugar Man" won for best documentary feature. Actress Nicole Kidman?was even caught on camera mouthing "poor thing" to her husband Keith Urban as the music got louder to drown out winning "Sugar Man" director Malik Bendjelloul as he rambled on.
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Samsung's really playing up its media chops here at Mobile World Congress. In addition to demoing the new HomeSync Android box, the Korean company is showing off its recently announced service for finding and watching TV content. The product was originally called TV Discovery, but just five days later it's resurfaced under the moniker Video Discovery. This new name is more accurate, as the service does deliver content recommendations for both live programming and movies and TV shows on demand.
We saw Video Discovery demoed with a Galaxy Note 8.0 and a Samsung Smart TV. You'll need a device with an IR blaster to adjust the TV channel or volume, with the app serving as a touchscreen remote. There are several modes for browsing content, including a timeline view that looks almost identical to the standard TV guide menu. You can also browse by genre or view current programming across all channels. When we skimmed through live TV listings, we simply had to tap the large "Watch Now" button next to a listing for the show to turn up on screen a few seconds later.
Perhaps the most useful feature, at least for those of you who know what you want: type in a search, and you'll see results from several content providers, including Blockbuster and Netflix (in the US) in addition to cable channels. Samsung reps said Discovery will also deliver personalized recommendations based on viewing preference and history, but the trade show employees on hand didn't seem entirely confident on some of the features, so we'll have to play with the service a bit more after it launches in April to confirm final functionality. But why not take a look for yourself now? Hit up the hands-on video after the break.
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Palm's ill-fated WebOS has been bought again, this time by Korean electronics giant LG, ostensibly to support the company's development of smart TVs. But don't expect a Palm TV ? the once-admired OS is more likely to just fade into the background.
The purchase includes the OS itself and most of its critical components, including patents (although not its meager app catalog). Fans of the OS will be happy to hear that the open source projects started by HP will continue as before, albeit under the "stewardship" of LG. Still have a WebOS handset? HP will continue to provide support.
The financial terms of the deal were not announced, suggesting the purchase price was not particularly high; HP would probably like to avoid highlighting a poor return on their investment in Palm. Regardless, neither party believed the transaction would affect either of their stock prices.
HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion three years ago ? a short time in the business world, but an eternity in software and technology. Palm's WebOS, widely hailed at its 2009 launch as an innovative and powerful alternative to both iOS and Android, was slated to power a new generation of HP consumer devices, none of which ever materialized.
LG states that WebOS was purchased to augment their next wave of smart TVs, and certainly the intuitive interface and patents in Palm's swan song could help with that. The world may be eagerly awaiting an Apple TV set, but in the meantime existing companies are fighting tooth and nail for space in the living room, and a novel and user-friendly OS (as LG seems to be planning) could be a coup.
But a few ideas and interface patents are likely all that can be salvaged from WebOS at this point for LG's purposes. Anyone who's hoping for a second (or third) coming of WebOS in the form of a smart TV will likely be disappointed.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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Apple hasn't done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the mobile OS that has remained the most fundamentally the same since its introduction, at least among those that are still in active use. But while Apple hasn't been making huge changes to the basic iOS user interface, third-party developers have been pushing the boundaries and creating great examples of how things could be better for a next-generation version of Apple's mobile OS.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1AvJuDZgK24/
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Glen Delaney has promised London Irish will get back to basics in their bid to avoid relegation from the Aviva Premiership.
Irish had won five of their previous six games in all competitions going into Saturday?s 40-16 defeat at Bath.
And forwards coach Delaney said: ?We did not put our best effort on the park, but what we?ve been doing since the end of December has been working for us. We have to put on the park what we have been doing in the last seven weeks.
?Wasps possess dangerous weapons in Joe Simpson, Tom Varndell and Christian Wades. They also have Billy Vunipola and Ashley Johnson to carry in the pack.
?You don?t get in the top four without being a good team. But we have fancied ourselves against the top sides and we can raise our game.?
Delaney, formerly director of rugby at Nottingham, believes there are players in the Championship that Irish should consider for next season. Exiles have been linked with Rotherham centres Fergus Mulchrone and Eamonn Sheridan.
And Delaney said: ?I would not be surprised if those two made it into Premiership clubs.
?I tried to sign Fergus Mulchrone at Nottingham two years ago when he was coming out of Sale. He looked a decent prospect back then.
?There are a lot of very good Championship players out there.
?Jon Fisher has done incredibly well. He was released by London Irish and became battle-hardened at Bedford before rejoining the club.
?There are a lot of guys in the England team who took the Championship route.
?You get players from a very tough competition, who are desperate. Economically they tend to play well above their rate.?
Irish have included Chris Hala?ufia and Ofisa Treviranus in their side to face Wasps.
Treviranus comes in at openside flanker for Jebb Sinclair who is rested. Hala?ufia has recovered from the flu, which kept him out of last weekend?s match, to be named at number 8. Sailosi Tagicakibau has recovered from a knee injury and is named as a replacement. Bryn Evans will captain the side.
London Irish director of rugby Brian Smith said: ?Wasps are a formidable team riding high in the Aviva Premiership so they?ll give us a very tough test on Sunday. In saying that we do pretty well against the top four teams at home and our boys are itching to put in a big performance for our supporters on Sunday.?
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15. Tom Homer; 14. Topsy Ojo; 13. Guy Armitage; 12. Shane Geraghty; 11. Marland Yarde; 10. Ian Humphreys; 9. Pat Phibbs; 1. Max Lahiff; 2. Scott Lawson; 3. Halani Aulika; 4. George Skivington; 5. Bryn Evans (Captain); 6. Matt Garvey; 7. Ofisa Treviranus; 8. Chris Hala?ufia
Replacements: 16. Davy McGregor; 17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa; 18.Leo Halavatau; 19. Kieran Low; 20. Jamie Gibson; 21. Jon Fisher; 22. Sailosi Tagicakibau; 23. Jack Moates
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The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins today (Friday, 22 February, 2013) became only the second person ever to be awarded the Honorary Freedom of the Town of Ennis.
?Print View ?? February 22, 2013 (FPRC) -- The President, who was reared and educated in County Clare, attended a Civic Reception hosted in his honour by Ennis Town Council. President Higgins was joined in Ennis by his wife Sabina and family members, many of who live in the County.
Muhammad Ali, the three-time World Heavyweight Champion, was the inaugural recipient of the Honorary Freedom of the Town of Ennis during his historic visit to the Clare County Capital the birthplace of his great grandfather Abe Grady.
President Higgins was welcomed to Waterpark House today by members of Ennis Town Council before being led into the Councils Civic Room by piper Michael John Quigney of the Tulla Pipe Band. Local traditional musicians presented a specially-arranged musical tribute to the President, while members of the Ennis Brand Band provided a trumpet fanfare after the President was officially awarded Freedom of the Town of Ennis.
Addressing todays Civic Reception, Mayor of Ennis Cllr. Peter Considine acknowledged the Presidents close connections with the Clare County Capital.
Outside of the time you spent in Ennis particularly as a student in St. Flannans College, I know that from a personal and professional perspective you are very familiar with the town of Ennis, its history and the people who live here. During your time as Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, you supported numerous projects and initiatives which sought to protect and promote the culture and heritage of towns such as Ennis.
The Mayor added: A Uachtarn your lifelong contribution to politics has inspired many. You have transcended all politics, promoted integration, instilled hope of a brighter future through pragmatism, embraced positive change within Irish society, and most importantly upheld the Office of President with dignity and honour.
Mayor Considine raised a laugh from the gathered audience when he suggested that the President and Muhammad Ali shared more than an honorary title.
He said: In your days as a T.D. and Minister, some might agree that you also did Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your pragmatic approach to dealing with issues in Irish society and indeed abroad, is internationally recognised and certainly has not gone unnoticed here. Your close ties with Ennis and County Clare along with your continued, valuable contribution to Irish society means we are proud and honoured that you have accepted this award.
While born in Limerick, President Higgins was raised near Newmarket-on-Fergus, and educated at Ballycar National School and St. Flannan's College in Ennis.
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The pic shows Jason Kenney visiting the Jaffari Community Centre, it was sent to me by a concerned citizen. Kenney has walked out on ethnic community groups in the past when he felt they were attempting to exploit him to further a sordid political agenda. He should have done the same in this instance as well.
I find it hard to believe that Kenney could not have been aware of the Jaffari Centre?s direct links to Iran?s Khomeinist regime. The Jaffari Centre is run by the ISIJ, The Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat. The ISIJ Maulana, Seyed Mohammad Rizvi, is one the founders of the Ahlul Bayt Assembly of Canada. The Ahlul Bayt Assembly takes it?s orders directly from Tehran, as detailed in this Memri.org report, its purpose is to spread Khomeinist doctrine in Canada.
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Hey CERN, think you've got a big particle detector? Try using the entire Earth to hunt for a new fundamental force of nature.
So say Larry Hunter of Amherst College in Massachusetts, and colleagues. They have created a map of the spins of electrons deep within the Earth's mantle, which could be used to reveal the as-yet-unseen force as well as the strange particles ? known as "unparticles" ? that might carry it.
Such an experiment could also yield new insights into the planet's lower mantle, hundreds of kilometres below the surface.
We currently know of four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. The hypothetical fifth force can be thought of as a version of magnetism that does not weaken as quickly with distance.
Electromagnetic fields are produced when two particles exchange virtual photons that pop in and out of existence. But some physicists think another kind of virtual particle could also be exchanged, giving rise to a fifth fundamental force.
One candidate is the
Theory says this fifth force should tweak the amount of energy needed to flip the spin of an electron or neutron, due to interaction with another particle far away. Detectors have been set up to measure the effect of particles a few metres away on the spins of neutrons in the lab, but those have so far come up empty.
So Hunter's team suggest taking a different tack. "We realised you can get a much bigger source if you use the whole Earth," he says.
Extreme conditions in the planet's mantle can affect the spins of electrons in various minerals, and these in turn affect the Earth's magnetic field. So by looking at geomagnetic field data, the researchers were able to infer the electron spins and how these spins would interact with particles in the lab via the fifth force.
They combed the results of three previous laboratory spin experiments to look for signs that electrons in Earth's mantle had influenced what was measured ? and found nothing.
But that doesn't rule out the fifth force, says Hunter. Rather, it tells us that this force must be very weak. Indeed, it suggests that any interaction between an electron in the mantle and a neutron in the lab via this weird new force must be a million times weaker than their gravitational attraction.
That's a useful new constraint on the theory, which originally said the two forces should have similar strengths, says Hunter, and means newer hunts for the force will have to be much more sensitive.
"We often spend a decade struggling to get a factor of 10 improvement in a measurement," says Hunter. "This was like an incredible gift, as we didn't even have to do a new experiment."
It might sound like a long shot, but Hunter reckons it's worth it ? since a positive result would be evidence of a fifth force. "It's one of those low probability but high pay-off activities," he says. "Boy, if you see something, it really is exciting."
The experiment also raises another possibility: if future, more sensitive experiments reveal the fifth force, it could allow geophysicists to map out the electrons in the lower mantle in more detail by looking at how they influence particles on the surface. "You could set up detectors at various places on the Earth and probe down," says Hunter.
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The Weather Channel has dwelt mostly on its iOS apps as of late, but don't worry -- it's lavishing attention on forecast-minded Android users today. As of version 4.0, the Android app is optimized for tablets and gives a better heads-up for the conditions ahead from your Nexus 7. Other tweaks are more for feature parity, including precisely-timed warnings for significant weather changes, faster radar maps and higher-detail forecasts. Favorites also help with Android-specific widgets. Should you need to know more about the rain or snow than a Google Now card can deliver, the Weather Channel revamp is ready at the source.
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Last Saturday I noted how the On Faith feature in the February 9 Washington Post celebrated Muslim modesty while trashing American Catholic bishops as being prudish on sex and stubborn in their opposition to the ObamaCare contraception mandate. Well this weekend, the Post continued its hypocritical attack on the Church by complaining that it doesn't listen to women while, well, squelching the op-ed piece of a conservative Catholic woman.
The February 16 On Faith section published two items related to Pope Benedict's announcement on Monday that he was abdicating the papacy at the end of February. Editors ran Lisa Miller's column headlined "Some nuns hope new pope will listen to women," in which the Post religion writer highlighted the calls of feminist nuns for, among other things, an openness by the Church to female priests. Also featured on the page B2 feature was a 7-paragraph item by one Annie Selak, headlined "The church young Catholics want," which included a call for the Church to "dialogue concerning the ordination of women and church teaching on homosexuality." Yet On Faith editors declined to feature in print an excellent piece by a conservative Catholic woman that was published online earlier in the week.
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In?"The Catholic Church can't change," one?Ashley McGuire (pictured below, photo via The Catholic Association)?explained why calls for women priests and a watering down of biblical sexual ethics is not going to, nor should happen in the Catholic Church (emphasis mine):
In layman?s terms: What the church?s critics, especially those now giddily wondering if Pope Benedict?s successor will shake things up, just don?t seem to understand, is that church teachings on these issues are unchangeable.
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[N]ot only will the church remain orthodox with Pope Benedict?s successor, it should.
Our call to live counter-culturally is as old as the church itself. We believe in a God who lived among us, died for us, and showed us the way to live lives of courage and conviction--whatever our culture. Catholics are called, yes, to engage with the society around them, but not to adapt ourselves to the popular sentiments of our time. Instead, Catholics are called to live in radical service to our God. This includes loving our neighbor as ourselves. This also includes letting go of pleasure as the path to happiness (spoiler: it?s not). There?s nothing modern --or moderate --about that.
And besides, a quick scan of the world shows: suffering, suffering, and more suffering. Men using women for sex and leaving them to hold the bag. Children without fathers. Mothers killing their babies. The definition of marriage sold to the highest, or most aggressive, bidder.
Many are already rushing to exclaim, ?Maybe we will get a pope who will respect women?s rights!?
We have a pope who respects women?s rights. A woman?s right to be born, despite a world that values women less than men. A woman?s right to preserve fertility equality with men as a part of the sexual experience. A woman?s right to be respected for the socially cheapened roles of mother and wife.
Thankfully, the next pope will defend these women?s rights as well.
The Catholic Church has an Old Man River thing going on. She just keeps rolling, she keeps on rolling along. You can stand on the shores. Or jump in. It?s your choice. But she?s not changing course. Thank God.
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Smoke rises from the site of a bomb blast in a market in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said the bomb went off in a Shiite Muslim-dominated residential suburb of the city of Quetta. Residents rushed the victims to three different hospitals.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Smoke rises from the site of a bomb blast in a market in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said the bomb went off in a Shiite Muslim-dominated residential suburb of the city of Quetta. Residents rushed the victims to three different hospitals.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani security forces take positions in a street leading to the site of a bomb blast, top left, in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. A bomb ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southern Pakistani city Saturday, killing scores of people in a horrific attack on the country's minority Muslim sect. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani volunteers carry the lifeless body of a girl, who was killed in a bomb blast, at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. A bomb ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southern Pakistani city Saturday, killing scores of people in a horrific attack on the country's minority Muslim sect. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
A Pakistani man who was injured in a bomb blast is brought to a hospital in a Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. A bomb ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southern Pakistani city Saturday, killing scores of people in a horrific attack on the country's minority Muslim sect. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani medics and volunteers cover the lifeless bodies of a bomb blast victims, at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. A bomb ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southern Pakistani city Saturday, killing scores of people in a horrific attack on the country's minority Muslim sect. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? The death toll from a horrific bombing that tore through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of southwestern Pakistan climbed to 81 with many of the severely wounded dying overnight, a Pakistani police official said Sunday.
Police official Fayyaz Saumbal said 164 people also were wounded by the explosion Saturday in the city of Quetta just as people shopped for produce for their evening meal. The bomb was hidden in a water tank and towed into the market by a tractor, Quetta police chief Zubair Mahmood told reporters.
It was the deadliest incident since bombings targeting Shiites in the same city killed 86 people earlier this year, leading to days of protests that eventually toppled the local government.
Shiites have been increasingly attacked by militant groups who view them as heretics and non-Muslims in the country, which is dominated by Sunni Muslims. Many of the Shiites in Quetta, including those in the neighborhood attacked Saturday, are Hazaras, an ethnic group that migrated to Pakistan from Afghanistan more than a century ago.
The remote-controlled bomb destroyed shops, caused a two-story building to collapse and left a massive crater where it exploded.
Local residents rushed the victims to three different area hospitals, often in private vehicles because there weren't enough ambulances to transport them.
Angry members of the minority Shiite sect protested in the streets, blocking roads with burning tires and throwing stones at passing vehicles. Some fired into the air in an attempt to keep people away from the area in case of a second explosion. Sometimes insurgents stagger the explosions as a way to target people who rush to the scene to help those killed or wounded in the first, thus increasing the death toll.
On Sunday morning, the city was completely shut down as people observed strike called by the Hazara Democratic Party as a way to honor the dead and protest the repeated slaughter of members of their ethnic and religious community.
Bostan Ali, the Quetta chief of the Hazara Democratic Party, said the group is planning another protest in the city similar to one held in January after twin bombings in Quetta killed at least 86 people. During that protest, Hazaras refused to bury their dead for four days, instead protesting in the streets alongside coffins holding their loved ones.
"We will not bury our dead until stringent action is taken against terrorists who are targeting and killing Shiites," Ali said.
The rally in January sparked similar events across the country and an outpouring of sympathy for Shiites. The prime minister flew to Quetta and after meeting with protesters dismissed the local government.
But Saturday's massive blast indicated that the militant groups are still capable of targeting Shiites.
The police chief said investigators were not certain who was behind the bombing but a local television station reported that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni extremist group that has targeted Shiites in the past, had called to claim responsibility.
Most of the Shiites in the area are Hazaras, and they were quick to blame Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
"This evil force is operating with the patronage of certain elements in the province," said Qayum Changezi, the chairman of a local Hazara organization.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, the country's largest but also the one with the smallest population.
The province is facing challenges on many fronts. Baluch nationalist groups are fighting an insurgency there to try to gain a greater share of income from the province's gas and mineral resources. Islamic militants, like the sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, are also active in the province. And members of the Afghan Taliban are believed to be hiding in the region.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi took its name after a firebrand Sunni cleric who gave virulently anti-Shiite sermons.
Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite. Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 2001, but the group continues to operate fairly freely.
Last year was particularly deadly for Shiites in Pakistan. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 were killed in targeted attacks across the country. The human rights group said more than 125 were killed in Baluchistan province, most of whom belonged to the Hazara community.
Rights groups have accused the government of not doing enough to protect Shiites in the country.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai addesses military officers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he plans to issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under ``any circumstances.? The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.(AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai addesses military officers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he plans to issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under ``any circumstances.? The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.(AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
An Afghan military officer poses a question to President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he plans to issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under "any circumstances.? The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.(AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
Afghan military officers listen to President Hamid Karzai's speech in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he plans to issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under ``any circumstances.? The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.(AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Angry over civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai announced plans Saturday to ban Afghan security forces from requesting international airstrikes on residential areas.
If he issues the decree as promised, the move would pose a significant new challenge to government troops who have relied heavily on foreign air power to give them an advantage against insurgents on the battlefield even as the U.S. and other countries prepare to end their combat mission in less than two years.
The declaration came as anger mounted over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.
"I will issue a decree tomorrow that no Afghan security forces, in any circumstances, in any circumstances can ask for the foreigners' planes for carrying out operations on our homes and villages," Karzai said in a speech at the Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul.
Civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces, particularly airstrikes, have been among the most divisive issues of the 11-year-old war and have complicated negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the foreign presence in the country after 2014.
The U.S.-led coalition has implemented measures to mitigate them, but the Afghan military also relies heavily on air support to gain an upper hand in the fight against Taliban militants and other insurgents.
Many Afghan and international officials have expressed concern that the impending withdrawal of international combat forces by the end of 2014 will deprive government security forces of that crucial weapon. President Barack Obama has announced that he will withdraw about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan within a year.
Karzai has frequently denounced airstrikes and even demanded that they cease. But his speech Saturday was the first time he threatened to formalize his concern with a decree.
The U.S.-led military coalition already said in June that it would limit airstrikes to a self-defense weapon of last resort for troops. That followed a bombardment that killed 18 civilians celebrating a wedding in Logar province, which drew an apology from the American commander.
Afghan and coalition officials frequently offer differing accounts of military operations, with local residents claiming civilians were killed while foreign troops insist they targeted insurgents. The line is often blurred because insurgents don't wear a uniform and are usually part of the community, with airstrikes and night raids hitting areas where women and children also are asleep.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said 83 civilians were killed and 46 wounded in aerial attacks by international military forces in the first half of 2012. That figure was down 23 percent from the same period of 2011, which was the deadliest year on record for civilians in the Afghan war. It said two-thirds of the casualties last year were women and children.
Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, declined to comment on Karzai's remarks because alliance officials had not seen the decree.
But Gen. John Allen, the former top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said before leaving that the coalition can provide air support to troops on the ground anywhere in Afghanistan within 12 minutes of a request. He said Afghan forces would have to get used to not having the same abilities in the future.
Karzai said Allen's successor, U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford, told him that Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, had requested the airstrike late Tuesday in Kunar's Shigal district, which borders Pakistan. When Dunford met with Karzai two days later, the coalition said the general expressed "his personal condolences for any civilians who may have died or been injured as a result of the operation" and said investigators were trying to assess what happened.
Karzai said Afghan forces were ready to take over their own security despite concerns about persistent violence that have cast doubt on their capabilities.
"We are happy that foreign forces are withdrawing from our country," he said. "We are happy for all their help and assistance so far, but we don't need foreign forces to defend our country. We want our Afghan forces to defend their homeland."
However, former Afghan Gen. Amrullah Aman was surprised by the remarks, saying international air power is essential since one of Afghanistan's main weaknesses in defending itself is the lack of a fully developed air force.
"In a country like Afghanistan where you don't have heavy artillery and you don't have air forces to support soldiers on the ground, how will it be possible to defeat an enemy that knows the area well and can hide anywhere?" he asked.
"There must be air support to help all those ground forces on the battlefield."
The U.N. has said the number of civilian deaths and injuries attributed to foreign and Afghan forces, including airstrikes, has declined as both groups strengthened policies to protect civilians, but it also expressed concern there could be an uptick as the summer fighting season approaches.
Local Afghan officials claim five boys, four women and one man were killed in the bombardment. Four insurgents also were reported killed, but Karzai said that did not justify the loss of so many civilian lives. He said the public had complained not only about foreign forces but about Afghans as well.
"The people must not be afraid of you," Karzai told the military audience. "They must feel safe when they see you in their areas and villages."
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Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.
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At Federal Way
Team scores -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 267; 2, Sehome 237; 3, Anacortes 197. Also: 5, Hockinson 156; 19, Mark Morris 38; 27, Woodland 11.
State champions, plus locals
200 medley relay -- 1, Sehome 1:41.91; 3, Hockinson (Cullyn Newman, Jonah Rodewald, Dylan Osborne, Dylan Butler) 1:42.60.
200 freestyle -- 1, Ian Schleh (Anacortes) 1:45.07.
200 individual medley -- 1, Stephen Boden (Archbishop Murphy) 1:56.38; 2, Jonah Rodewald (Hockinson) 2:04.94; 5, William Morris (Hockinson) 2:10.43.
50 freestyle -- 1, Alec Barnard (Archbishop Murphy) 21.45; 10, Dylan Osborne (Hockinson) 23.25; 13, Dylan Butler (Hockinson) 23.46.
Diving -- 1, Rylan Korby (Squalicum) 374.65.
100 butterfly -- 1, Alec Barnard (Archbishop Murphy) 50.24; 3, Cullyn Newman (Hockinson) 56.00; 12, Josh Risley (Woodland) 1:00.22.
100 freestyle -- 1, Benjaim Scott (Steilacoom) 48.25; 11, Dylan Butler (Hockinson) 51.47.
500 freestyle -- 1, Stephen Boden (Archbishop Murphy) 4:36.26; 10, William Morris (Hockinson) 5:15.57.
200 free relay -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 1:28.50.
100 backstroke -- 1, Benjamin Scott (Steilacoom) 51.46; 7, Jonah Rodewald (Hockinson) 57.26; 9, Cullyn Newman (Hockinson) 59.36;
100 breaststroke -- Not available
400 free relay -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 3:14.26; 3, Hockinson (Dylan Osborne, Dylan Butler, Cullyn Newman, Jonah Rodewald) 3:22.63.
Source: http://www.columbian.com/weblogs/highschoolsports/2013/feb/16/2a-state-swimming-finals-results/
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Scott Rasmussen, founder of Rasmussen Reports, writes today on the split within the Republican Party. He says for both its base and its establishment, ? there?s plenty of learning to go around?:
To end the party?s civil war, both sides need to change. The Republican base needs to make its message of limited government more palatable to more Americans. Bigger fixes are necessary for the party establishment. Right now, it acts as if only cosmetic changes are needed. ?
As for the GOP base, sincere talk about limited government clearly doesn?t work. Not enough voters care about limited government as a goal unto itself. People care about the kind of society a limited government can create. Too often when Democrats propose an idea that sounds good and addresses a perceived need, Republicans say it?s not what the Founders would have wanted. From a messaging perspective, voters want to hear positive solutions rather than theoretical objections.
Source: http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/02/15/scott-rasmussen-gop-palatable/
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Carnival CEO Micky Arison has yet to speak to media or grant interviews. Instead, that task was left to a regional cruise manager.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
One is the billionaire deeply involved in the success of his professional basketball team, the Miami Heat. That Arison is close with the players, attends nearly every home game and talks often about the team on Twitter.
The other is the CEO of cruise company Carnival (CCL) -- he remains largely silent during company disasters.
It happened in 2010, when an engine fire knocked a cruise ship offline and forced nearly 4,500 to spend three days stranded in the Pacific. It happened last year during the Costa Concordia shipwreck, which killed 32 off the coast of Italy.
And it's happening again.
This week, an engine fire left 4,229 trapped for five days aboard the Carnival Triumph surrounded by pools of urine and feces piling in hallways.
His only reference to the incident came Friday afternoon, when he tweeted, "We are very sorry for the difficult conditions experienced by our guests on #CarnivalTriumph but glad that all guests are off safe & sound."
Related: Carnival says profit to be hurt
Arison has yet to speak to the media or grant interviews. Instead, that task was left to a regional cruise manager. The company's cruise line chief executive, Gerry Cahill, spoke as the ship finally arrived Thursday night in Mobile, Ala.
"I know the conditions onboard were very poor," Cahill told reporters. "I know it was very difficult, and I want to apologize again for subjecting our guests to that. We pride ourselves in providing our guests with a great vacation experience, and clearly we failed in this particular case."
The difference between the two Arisons became even more apparent on Tuesday night. While the Triumph slowly drifted toward land, Arison sat in the stands at Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena and watched as his players defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 117-104.
Neither Arison nor Carnival provided immediate responses to questions sent by CNNMoney on Friday.
In the past, Arison has said he thinks it unnecessary "to get in front of a camera."
During the time of the Costa Concordia, Arison issued a statement of condolence and did not attend a few Miami Heat games. But he avoided speaking publicly for another two months, eventually granting an interview with the Miami Herald.
This time around, until Friday, he had simply retweeted Carnival company statements. He also tweeted a reminder about the Heat game versus the Trail Blazers.
It's a different world for Arison the basketball team owner. He openly talks about the team, sometimes unabashedly, to the point where the NBA actually fined him $500,000 for using Twitter as a sounding board. A pay dispute between players and owners had the league at a lockout at the time in 2011, and Arison was responding to a fan that called him a greedy "pig."
"You are barking at the wrong owner," Arison said via Twitter.
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It's not that Arison shies away from dark moments. He's taken to Twitter several times after Heat losses, like the Dec. 5 game against Washington Wizards and Jan. 14 game against the Utah Jazz.
There are signs that basketball is closer to his heart. In 2011, Arison made his son, Nick, the team's chief executive officer. It's not the first time an Arison has passed along the family empire. Micky Arison inherited the cruise company founded in 1972 by his father, Ted Arison. Its growth has inflated Micky Arison's net worth, estimated by Forbes at $5 billion.
Scott Sobel, a crisis public relations manager in Washington D.C., said: "I don't think his reputation is going to suffer. He's going to score more by being a friendly, open sports team owner. He's not going to be penalized by being more cautious with his cruise line business.
First Published: February 15, 2013: 3:36 PM ET
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Editor?s note:?Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of?Wealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means. They mistake better products for disruptive ones. Silicon Valley was built on a culture of designing products that are ?better, cheaper, faster,? but that does not mean they're disruptive.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CN7wwSbdrv0/
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Have anything planned this Family Day weekend? There are tons of activities in the GTA for you to choose from, plus there are those you can enjoy at home. Can-India has 10 great ideas, feel free to improvise.
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Tags: Downsview Park, family, Family Day, home, play, Science Centre
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When it comes to expanding her celebrity, Michelle Jenneke still has some wiggle room. The Australian hurdler now appears in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and those interested in getting a behind-the-scenes look at her photo shoot can watch the video above.
Jenneke, 19, has used her killer smile, world-class bod and YouTube fame off her pre-race bouncing at the IAAF World Junior Championship last summer to overcome moderate cred as a competitor. (She's still more than a second slower than fellow Aussie and Olympic champ Sally Pearson.)
But at least for Jenneke's SI bikini shoot, the stopwatch is off.
"I looked at the pictures and I think, wow, is that really me?" Jenneke says in video.
In December, the young athlete appeared as a lonely man's fantasy object in a comedy short by The Chive. She did her well known gyrating dance in the skit, just as she did when the Internet took notice of her charms.
By the looks of her Sports Illustrated shoot, she's just getting warmed up.
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Towards the end of Apple CEO Tim Cook's keynote appearance today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, he dedicated a good-sized monologue to the state of Apple's retail operation, where he confirmed a new store in Turkey and more international growth; noted that stores have become so important in their communities that you can't really call them stores anymore; and (joked?) that walking into one is akin to taking a Prozac.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2eZPDd2ykAs/
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