Everyone has felt that feeling. You posted something on Facebook that pissed off a friend. You Instagrammed a mortifying picture of your sister. They're pissed. How do you smooth things over?
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"Ask not what your country can do for you ? ask what you can do for your country." These iconic words were first heard in the inaugural address of one of the most popular presidents (11th overall, according to Wikipedia) in the history of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was America's youngest president, its only non-Protestant president, and the country's only president to win a Pulitzer prize. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Boston, and assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Here are 12 quotes from America's 35th President.
?A man does what he must ? in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures ? and that is the basis of all human morality.?
?Profiles in Courage (1956)
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Please join me in welcoming Lauren to my blog as she shares this fabulous guest post about how to massage and release trigger points with just a tennis ball:
You like to run, jump, keep healthy and exercise right? Me too! Getting your exercise on is a great feeling, but sometimes when we workout we run into roadblocks. One of the most common ones is injury.?
My Story
I?m a Volleyballer and I spend a lot of time overseas playing. As soon as I get an injury or even suffer from muscle pain it really affects my game. About five years ago I was having severe shoulder pain. One night I was lying in bed and couldn?t deal with it anymore and I grabbed my mobile phone (an old Motorola brick) and stuck it under my rotator cuff muscles in my shoulder. I could have screamed with pain, but as I moved around I could feel my shoulder loosening and releasing. After a nightmare ten minutes I could lift my shoulder above my head without an issue and my pain was reduced a ton. Later on I figured out I had just released some crazy trigger points that were the cause of my pain.
Obviously I thought I was a genius and started to work on some other areas where I was tight and sore. It was a little awkward with the phone and I couldn?t really move around on it. I had a few tennis balls in the backyard so went out and grabbed them and my new technique was born. Your muscles and fascia can both get tight aggravated, and if you do suffer from trigger points you can feel the pain in other areas. This is seriously one of the easiest ways to keep yourself pain-free and always ready to exercise. You can increase your recovery and make sure that you don?t get injured.
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The How To:
It really only takes some experimentation and work in the areas you feel immobile, but here are some common places and techniques I use to keep my legs and hips feeling great.
Glutes
Your bum is where you get all your power from and when you have tightness or trigger points in there all kind of crazy things can happen. You can refer pain through your hips and all the way down to your knees. To begin, cross one leg over the other, sit on the ball and get to work. Move around and discover the whole muscle and stop on any points you find.
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ITB
Your ITB is a really big band of fascia that runs down the side of your leg. When this gets really tight it wreaks havoc with your knee. It is also the main contributor to runners knee. If you suffer from knee pain, do this now. Get on your side so you can put pressure through the ball. Slowly move up and down the area.?
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Calves
Trigger points in this area can really attack your Achilles and heel. Most people will have tightness there and not even know it?s causing issues. Sit on the floor with your leg outstretched. Roll slowly over the ball and stop on any points you find. You can place your other leg over the one on the floor to put more pressure on the area.
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Go and start experimenting on keeping your body pain and injury free!
Lauren is a fitness coach from Melbourne, Australia. During the day she plays professional Volleyball all over Europe and blogs over at LaurensFitness.com. After the tennis ball epiphany she wrote Tennis Ball Series where you can find a lot more ways to release your body. You can go and chat with her on Facebook!
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Source: http://fitnesscheerleader.com/ask-janice/injuries/tennis-ball-massage/
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Animation fans might want to update their calendars -- all the way to the end of 2018.
Walt Disney Pictures has unveiled the planned release dates for no less than eight animated films from Disney and Pixar between 2016 and 2018. As of now, all of the films are untitled, and no log lines have been revealed. However, each of them are planned to be released in 3D.
Without further ado, here's what Disney revealed today:
- Untitled Disney animation is set for March 4, 2016
- Untitled Pixar animation?is set for?June 17, 2016
- Untitled Disney animation?is set for?November, 23, 2016
- Untitled Pixar animation?is set for?June 16, 2017
- Untitled Pixar animation?is set for?November 22, 2017
- Untitled Disney animation?is set for?March 9, 2018
- Untitled Pixar animation?is set for?June 15, 2018
- Untitled Disney animation?is set for?November 21, 2018
It's worth noting that the release dates primarily fall into either June or November, months where Disney and Pixar have consistently struck box office gold. Pixar's "Cars 2," "Toy Story 3" and "Brave" were all released in June, while November saw the release of the Disney Animation hits "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Tangled."
Meanwhile, closer in the future, we'll get the Pixar prequel "Monsters University," which opens in June, followed by?Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Frozen" on November 27. Next year brings us Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" for release on May 30, 2014, and?Disney's first animated Marvel movie, "Big Hero 6," in November of 2014.
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Dave Lewis has been a Los Angeles-based entertainment writer and editor for nearly ten years. Originally hailing from Minneapolis, he moved to L.A. in 1996 to attend USC, before working for various periodicals and web sites including a lengthy stint at Variety.com. He joined the HitFix staff in 2011.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927560/news/1927560/
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Every year, Lapland erects a hotel made of ice in Jukkasj?rvi, Sweden. And every year, when the weather turns warmer, the IceHotel melts back into where it originated: the Torne River.
Here's what the twenty-third incarnation of the IceHotel looked like when we visited it last year:
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And here's what it looks like now that temperatures have hit 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit):
Only about half of the single-story structure, which was constructed on the banks of the Torne River, remains; the rest has melted away.
A new version of the hotel is conceived and built every winter using ice from the Torne River.
Annually, the hotel hosts approximately 60,000 guests before it closes in mid-April. The currently melting incarnation had 65 rooms, including 15 one-of-a-kind art suites designed and sculpted by artists from around the world.
Ulrika Hellby, who travels to Jukkasj?rvi to help build the hotel each year, says "It's a strange feeling to wander the ruins of the hotel, it feels like yesterday that temperatures were minus thirty degrees Celsius and the hotel was about to open for the season, but now it is almost gone?completely still except for the sound of water dripping."
Find out more about how IceHotel is made here.
All photos by Arne Bergh.
Erin McCarthy is the deputy editor of Mental Floss, where this piece originally appeared. You can follow her on Twitter here.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/incredible-photos-of-a-melting-ice-hotel-509706472
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Chris Kreider proudly wore the Broadway Hat in the victorious New York Rangers dressing room as he tried to describe the feeling of saving his team's season.
Kreider deftly steered in a pass from Rick Nash 7:03 into overtime, and the Rangers stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.
"It is so surreal," the 22-year-old Kreider said. "It's not something that can really be explained. It is something that just has to be felt, but it was awesome. I'm just excited to give these guys an opportunity to play another game.
"There is no quit in this room."
New York, which erased 2-0 and 3-2 deficits, still trails the Eastern Conference semifinal series 3-1.
The Rangers will need to win again on Saturday in Boston to force a Game 6 back in Madison Square Garden.
The Rangers, who were outshot 40-32, won a faceoff deep in their zone, and Nash rushed the puck up ice. He stopped above the right circle and fed a hard pass in front that Kreider skated into and tipped past goalie Tuukka Rask for his first of the playoffs.
New York, 0-3 in overtime in these playoffs, was eliminated from the conference finals last year by New Jersey in extra time in Game 6.
"It is time for us to win an overtime game," Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist said. "This was a big one. It was such a great feeling to see that puck go in."
Kreider, who made his NHL debut in last year's playoffs, has six career postseason goals in just 25 games.
"I was lucky enough to play with Rick," Kreider said. "Just trying to go hard to the net. He's such a talented player. He was able to find my tape, and I tried to put it on net."
Derek Stepan and Brian Boyle scored tying goals in the third period for the Rangers, who even found success on the power play. Carl Hagelin netted New York's first goal of the game in the second period.
Lundqvist made 37 saves for New York, which managed only five goals total in the first three games against Boston.
Boston got second-period goals from Nathan Horton and rising star Torey Krug to build an early lead. Tyler Seguin's first of the playoffs put the Bruins back on top 3-2 in the third.
Only three teams have lost a series after leading 3-0, but the Bruins are the most recent to do it in 2010 against Philadelphia.
"It's a resilient group," Kreider said. "The tone of the dressing room was the same as positive and upbeat. We're excited to play more hockey."
One more win will put Boston back into the conference finals for the second time in three years. The Bruins gave up a 3-1 lead to Toronto in the first round before rallying in Game 7 to advance.
"There is no panic here," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "We have to go back home and play a better game."
Stepan got New York even at 2 just 1:15 into the third after a dump-in. Rask went behind the net to slow the puck down for defenseman Zdeno Chara, but Stepan forced a turnover when he surprised Chara from behind.
Stepan gathered the puck, came around in front and tucked the puck inside the left post for his team-leading fourth of the playoffs.
"We made some mistakes tonight, mistakes we haven't been making, mistakes you can't have, and they capitalized on them," Chara said. "They made us pay.
"These nights are going to happen. They played to win, and we didn't match their intensity at times."
The Bruins made the most of another power play and took a 3-2 lead just 2 seconds after a goalie interference penalty against Ryan McDonagh expired. Seguin got to his own rebound in close and shoved a shot past Lundqvist at 8:06.
However, the Rangers still wouldn't go away and they finally connected on the power play for the first time in the series and the third time in 41 man-advantages this postseason.
Boyle took a pass from Stepan in the slot and snapped a drive that nestled into the middle of the net at 10:00 after the Bruins were caught with too many men on the ice.
New York coach John Tortorella made desperate moves with his lineup, hoping to find some chemistry to spark his club. Tortorella benched star center Brad Richards, who had just one goal in the playoffs, and rugged forward Arron Asham in favor of seldom-used Kris Newbury and Micheal Haley.
"By no means is this a situation where I take him out and I'm blaming him," Tortorella said of Richards. "I need to make decisions about what I feel is right for our team to win tonight's game, and that's why I made that decision."
Veteran Roman Hamrlik also played for the first time in these playoffs in place of injured defenseman Anton Stralman, who left Game 3 in the second period.
The Bruins used their power play to grab control in the second period, connecting twice in a span of 3:02 to take a 2-0 lead.
After Newbury was sent off for goalie interference, when he knocked down Rask, Horton got the scoring going. He tried to feed a pass from the bottom of the left circle into the slot, but the puck hit Rangers defenseman Michael Del Zotto and bounced back to Horton.
This time, Horton let a shot go that struck the inside of Lundqvist's left leg and caromed in at 4:39.
Lundqvist blocked a hard shot by Chara, who rattled a drive off of the goalie's mask. At the next stoppage, there was a brief delay as Lundqvist had repairs made.
Del Zotto took an interference penalty 1:25 after Boston took the lead, and Krug made the Rangers pay again. Krug, a rookie defenseman who made his NHL postseason debut in the series opener, fired a slap shot from the Stanley Cup logo in the Rangers' zone that sailed past Lundqvist and into the top right corner at 7:41.
Krug has scored in three of the four games he has played in this series, and his goal gave Boston as many power-play tallies at Madison Square Garden in this playoff year as the host Rangers had mustered to that point.
However, New York got a big break just 54 seconds later to cut the deficit in half.
As the Rangers were moving the puck up ice, Rask stumbled in the crease and fell at around the same time that Hagelin was backhanding a shot on net. Sliding as slowly as possible, the puck eluded Rask as he tried to recover in time to stop it.
"We need to be more focused, I need to be more focused," Rask said. "I just took a step to the side in what I think probably was a skate mark or something. I lost my balance and the rest is history.
"We gave them a couple of gifts and it cost us the game."
It took nearly seven minutes before New York recorded its first shot on Rask ? a drive by defenseman John Moore ? and Boston controlled the period with a 12-4 edge in shots.
NOTES: The Rangers are 5-6 in Game 4 when trailing 3-0. ... Before Game 1, the Rangers and Bruins hadn't gone to overtime against each other in the playoffs since March 27, 1958. ... Kreider, who made his regular-season debut against Boston on Jan. 19, had two goals in 23 games this season.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kreider-keeps-rangers-alive-ot-goal-020431798.html
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By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said.
Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival.
Britain is on high alert after a soldier was hacked to death on a London street on Wednesday in what the government are treating as a terrorist incident.
A security source said early indications were that the plane was not the target of a terrorist attack.
A passenger who had just got off the plane told the BBC the pilot had informed passengers after landing that he had diverted to Stansted because of threats. The passenger, named by the BBC as Mr Munsif, said two men had been handcuffed on board and removed.
"We landed safely and then he announced that they had some kind of threat from someone and that's why he landed the plane," the passenger said, speaking by telephone.
"Essex Police have boarded a passenger plane diverted to Stansted Airport and two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft. They have been removed from the plane," the police said in a statement. The force is responsible for the area where Stansted is located.
"The two men arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft are aged 30 and 41. They are being taken to a police station for interview by detectives," the police added.
Stansted is one of London's less busy airports, preferred as a location for handling airplane security incidents. A spokesman for the airport said the plane was being held in an isolated area and that the rest of the airport was operating as normal.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said 10 fire engines had been sent to the airport.
The Pakistani plane was a Boeing 777, according to the flight tracking website www.flightradar.com.
According to two tracking websites, the aircraft broke off from its descent about 60 miles east of Manchester.
It turned and followed a wide arc over northeast England and out to the North Sea before heading towards London.
Britain launches military planes to intercept unidentified aircraft when they cannot be identified by other means, for example when the aircraft is not talking to air traffic controllers.
(Additional reporting by Brenda Goh, Kate Holton, Tim Hepher; writing by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-scrambles-fighter-jets-escort-pakistani-passenger-plane-132044211.html
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Kevin Iole: Cain Velasquez TKO3 Big Foot Silva -- I believe Silva will be more competitive and won't make the mistake he made last time. But as the fight goes on, it swings even more in Velasquez's favor, given his vastly superior cardio. I expect him to slowly wear Silva down and stop him around the fight's midpoint.
Maggie Hendricks: Cain Velasquez W5 Antonio Silva --Velasquez has better wrestling and better cardio than Silva, and it will pay off as he defends his belt.
Cagereader: 92 percent of Cagereaders said Cain Velasquez will win.
Cain has to much heart unless you knock him out he's not going! And Big Foot doesn't deserve another shot yet anyway!! -- Michael Gabbard
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Kevin Iole: Junior dos Santos Sub1 Mark Hunt -- Junior would be a fool to stand and trade with Hunt. I think he'll look to get it to the ground and finish it there.
Maggie Hendricks: Junior dos Santos W3 Mark Hunt -- JDS has the footwork to exhaust Hunt and wear him down.
Cagereader: 68 percent of Cagereaders said Junior dos Santos will win.
Dos Santos will use superior speed and footwork to outclass Hunt. Too much credibility is given to Hunts striking because of the mythological "K1 Striker" label. Truth be told, he won that title with technically sound striking with a lot of power, not exceptionally good striking. Most of his wins in MMA have had nothing to do with his savvy striking but his chin and insane power. Honestly thought those who don't think Dos Santos is on another level with his speed and footwork are lying to themselves aside from Cain who has touched him? I know this logic isn't very sound but it took Hunt a while to put away Struve, and JDS took less than a minute and the logic truly is his speed, timing, and explosive nature outweigh the punchers chance Hunt brings to the table. It will be a pick apart clinic Hunt swinging at air getting battered by a fighter who will dart in and out like a heavyweight Machida. -- John Hensley
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Maggie Hendricks: Gray Maynard W3 T.J. Grant -- Maynard is very good at neutralizing his opponents' skill.
Cagereaders: 83 percent of Cagereaders think Maynard will win.
Maynard is going to use lay and pray to get his title shot. I see a boring fight ahead. Maynard via decision. -- Christopher Walder
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Kevin Iole: Glover Teixeira TKO3 James Te Huna -- It will be tougher than expecrted, but Teixeira's varied game will win out in the end.
Maggie Hendricks: Glover Teixeira TKO2 James Te Huna -- It's been an impressive start in the UFC for Teixeira, and that won't stop on Saturday. His power will be on display.
Cagereaders: 76 percent of Cagereaders think Teixeira will take it.
The well-rounded skill set and chin will allow him to weather the storm, get Te Huna to the ground and grind him out. -- John Hensley
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Kevin Iole: Donald Cerrone W3 K.J. Noons -- It should be an explosive fight, but if Cerrone remains under control, he'll handle Noons.
Maggie Hendricks: Donald Cerrone W3 KJ Noons -- Cerrone will be looking to come back after his loss to Anthony Pettis.
Cagereaders: 87 percent of Cagereaders say Donald Cerrone will win.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday.
The source said that it was unlikely that the Federal Trade Commission had sent out civil investigative demands in relation to the probe, which would be the sign of a formal and more serious investigation.
The new line of inquiry focuses on tools acquired when Google bought display ad company DoubleClick in 2007; other firms which specialize in helping Web publishers sell ads to put on their websites are complaining to the FTC, the source said.
The firms have accused Google of leveraging some of its most popular DoubleClick products, such as the ad managing system which has an estimated 80 percent of the market, to push websites to use other products, including Ad Exchange where websites swap ads, the source said.
According to a second source familiar with the situation, Google has not been notified of any antitrust investigation so far. Google and the Federal Trade Commission declined comment on the matter.
The sources did not want to be named in order to protect their business relationships.
The FTC wrapped up an earlier investigation into Google just four months ago, concluding that the search giant had not manipulated its Web search results to hurt rivals.
Google was the number one player in the $15 billion U.S. display ad market in 2012, with a 15.1 percent market share, compared with Facebook Inc's 14.6 percent share, according to industry research firm eMarketer. Google is expected to widen its lead to 20.7 percent of the market in 2014.
Google is currently trying to convince European antitrust investigators to wrap up a separate antitrust probe, and has offered to change some search pages to give more space to rivals in order to satisfy their concerns.
In that case, Google is accused of hiding links to rival shopping, travel and other websites to protect its ad revenues. On April 11, it said it would offer consumers links to three rival sites in some searches and would label its products.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz in Washington; Additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Ros Krasny and Phil Berlowitz)
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/ZHrG4u5FALY/story01.htm
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By Linda Sieg and Ruairidh Villar SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) - When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of Western imperialism. Seven decades later, the 91-year-old retired Christian pastor says it's his mission to speak out about the injustice of the war and the sufferings of women, mostly Asian and many Korean, forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels. "I feel like a war criminal. ...
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JERUSALEM (AP) ? The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
As they met in Jerusalem, Kerry praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "seriousness" with which he is looking at ways to revitalize peace hopes. Kerry expressed optimism without outlining any concrete strategy for ending a stalemate between the two sides that has seen them hardly negotiate one-on-one at all over the last 4? years.
"I know this region well enough to know there is skepticism, in some quarters there is cynicism and there are reasons for it," Kerry told reporters. "There have been bitter years of disappointment. It is our hope that by being methodical, careful, patient ? but detailed and tenacious ? that we can lay on a path ahead that can conceivably surprise people and certainly exhaust the possibilities of peace."
"That's what we're working towards," said Kerry, who met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later Thursday in Ramallah.
Netanyahu said his conversation with the top American diplomat would touch on mutual concerns about Iran and Syria. "But above all," he said, "what we want to do is restart the peace talks with the Palestinians."
"It's something I want, it's something you want," Netanyahu told Kerry. "It's something I hope the Palestinians want as well and we ought to be successful for a simple reason: When there's a will, we'll find a way."
The visit, Kerry's fourth trip to the Jewish state since taking office as secretary of state in February, coincides with deepening pessimism from Palestinian officials about the new peace push. They are planning to resume their campaign of seeking membership in key international organizations as early as next month in a bid to put pressure on Israel into offering some concessions.
Without major U.S. pressure on Israel, the outlook seems bleak. The most immediate divide concerns the issue of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem ? lands that Israel conquered in the 1967 Mideast war and which the Palestinians hope to include in their state.
While Palestinians praised Kerry's efforts, they said there has been little progress ahead of what they believe to be a June 7 deadline for action. They are already beginning work on a "day-after" strategy.
"We don't have unrealistic expectations. We know the immensity of obstacles," said Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestinian official. "If it doesn't work, of course we have our own plans."
The Palestinians say there is no point in negotiating while Israel continues to build Jewish settlements. More than 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, making it increasingly difficult to partition the land between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel also captured the Gaza Strip in 1967, though it withdrew from the territory in 2005.
The Palestinians have demanded that Israel freeze settlement construction and accept the pre-1967 frontiers as the baselines of a future border. While previous Israeli leaders have used the 1967 lines as a starting point for talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin says negotiations should begin without any preconditions.
When President Barack Obama took office in 2009, he took a tough line against the settlements and prodded Israel into a partial construction freeze. But Israel refused to extend the freeze, and a short-lived round of negotiations in 2010 quickly collapsed. Obama similarly tried unsuccessfully to press Israel into accepting the 1967 lines as a baseline for talks.
Fed up with the impasse and disillusioned with Obama, the Palestinians last fall won recognition from the U.N. General Assembly as a nonmember state, an upgraded diplomatic status that gives them access to key U.N. bodies. The U.S. was one of just eight countries that sided with Israel in opposing the bid.
Israel fears the Palestinians will now seek membership in international agencies to promote an anti-Israel agenda. Its biggest concern is that the Palestinians will try to join the International Criminal Court and try to press war crimes charges against Israel.
Israel's chief peace negotiator, Tzipi Livni, said Thursday that Israel must push forward with peace efforts, in a message directed mainly to hardliners in her own country.
"The Palestinian issue isn't something that will disappear and it is not an issue where someone can say, 'There are more worrying things, so let's not deal with it,'" she told Israel Radio.
"I still think that the freeze of the past four years is bad," she said, speaking in Hebrew. "As time elapses, the ability to ignite the negotiations gets more problematic. The price that Israel pays both in the short and long-term are higher. And therefore the freeze does not serve those that want to reach an agreement."
Livni said the Israeli-Palestinian standoff only serves those who believe in mantras like "here we are holding on to the land, here we built another house, here we prevented an agreement."
"This isn't me and I don't believe it represents the mainstream or the basic position of the Israeli public," she said. "And I believe I represent the Israeli national and security interests in the long-term."
Kerry's plan remains opaque, even to officials in the Obama administration.
One element will clearly focus on improving the Palestinian economy by spurring private investment. He also recently persuaded the 22-member Arab League to renew a decade-old peace offer to Israel, with new incentives aimed at making it more attractive to Israel.
But he has yet to wrest any clear overture from the Israelis.
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Associated Press writer Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-israel-raise-hopes-mideast-peace-restart-080041533.html
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CANNES, France (AP) ? James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf ? and a very respectable one, at that.
The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" (having first flirted with doing McCarthy's novel "Blood Meridian"), as well as a biopic of the late poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.
But this week at the Cannes Film Festival, he premiered his version of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," a novel of fractured perspectives and enormous cinematic challenges. Having earlier screened at Cannes a short film he made as a student at New York University ("The Clerk's Tale"), coming to the festival in the Un Certain Regard section ? for innovating or daring works by young talent ? is something of a graduation for Franco.
"I'm accepted here as a director," he said in an interview on a dock in Cannes' harbor on the Mediterranean Sea. "Of course it's validating, but it's more than that. I've been trying to define it for myself. The validation is coming from the outside, but it's doing something to me on the inside."
Franco's "As I Lay Dying" is a respectable attempt to tackle a difficult American novel, famed for its stream of consciousness and multiple, shifting narrators. It captures Franco ? who also stars in the film as the troubled character Darl Bundren ? as a maturing filmmaker revealing perhaps his most personal work.
"If somebody asked you if you could do any project, it would actually be this one," he says ? high praise from someone who's routinely balancing a dozen or more projects.
Much is made of Franco's industriousness ? his juggling of roles including budding filmmaker, comic actor (seen in the upcoming "This Is the End"), lethargic Oscar host, performance artist and eternal student. But it's becoming increasingly clear how central literary adaptations are to him.
"As an artist, you look for what is your unique position? What is your unique voice?" says Franco. "I have these two worlds now. I was a literature major. I'm working on my doctorate in literature. . So I have these two worlds that I feel I can bring together."
The subject of his planned dissertation at Yale? Fittingly, it's on the relationship between film and literature.
"When I do bring them together, it excites me," he says. "I feel great energy is created and work that I don't see has existed in quite this way before results. To me, it says: This is what you should be doing."
Cannes opened this year with another adaptation of a revered early 20th-century novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." While Franco's grittier, more low-budget "As I Lay Dying" differs greatly from Baz Luhrmann's 3-D spectacular, Franco says they share a desire to recapture the vibrancy each book had before they were canonized and made into regular U.S. school reading.
Whereas Luhrmann used hip-hop and contemporary music to substitute for the Jazz Age, Franco's film sought to make the novel's then-groundbreaking narration again feel innovative. Much of the film is done in split-screen format, showing the Bundren family members as they travel to bury their deceased matriarch. Co-stars include Tim Blake Nelson, Logan Marshall-Green and Ahna O'Reilly.
"The way that we shot it, the cameras we used, the way that we edited it, the way that we structured the film, the split screen ? all those things are very contemporary," he says. "So now you have this period piece that's framed by contemporary techniques that hopefully ? and I think it does ? gives it a fresh kind of life."
Faulkner's writing is famously dense, and many a reader has struggled to make it through his novels. But Franco, led to Faulkner as a teenager by his father, responded immediately.
"I always felt there's some light coming through," he said of Faulkner's works.
Naturally, another adaptation is up next for Franco. He'll soon begin production on his next directing effort, "The Garden of Last Days," based on the novel by Andre Dubus III.
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Trader John Panin, second left, adjusts his glasses as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Trader John Panin, second left, adjusts his glasses as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Trader Randy Biller, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Trader Gregory Rowe works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Trader John Song works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower.
U.S. markets plummeted immediately after the opening bell Thursday following a global slump prompted partly by an unexpected slowdown in Chinese manufacturing. Concern that the Federal Reserve might ease back on its economic stimulus program sooner than expected had also riled investors.
The dip gave investors who missed this year's stock market surge an opportunity to get into the market, and by midday the market had recouped most of its early loss. Stocks even climbed into positive territory by midday, then ended the day marginally lower.
"Most institutions, most hedge funds and most individuals have watched the market go up without them, so the dips are being bought," said Jim Russell, regional investment director at U.S. Bank. "There's a very strong case for U.S. stocks."
For the most part, the U.S. stock market has been going up steadily since the beginning of the year, with only infrequent declines. Investors' optimism has been stoked by a pickup in hiring at U.S. employers, a recovery in the housing market and record profits at U.S. corporations.
All that has helped push the Dow up 16.7 percent this year. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is 15.7 percent than at the start of 2013.
On Thursday, however, trading was volatile.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day just 12.67 points lower, or 0.1 percent, at 15,294.50. It fell as much as 127 points during the first hour of trading.
A sell-off in global markets came after minutes from the latest Fed meeting, released Wednesday afternoon, indicated that several policymakers were leaning toward slowing the central bank's bond-buying program as early as June if the economy continues to recover.
The central bank is spending $85 billion a month buying bonds. That program has been keeping interest rates low in an effort to encourage borrowing, spending and investing. It's also meant to encourage investors to buy risky assets like stocks.
Investors were also unsettled by the report that showed manufacturing in China, the world's No. 2 economy, unexpectedly shrank this month. HSBC Corp. said the preliminary version of its monthly purchasing managers index had dropped to a seven-month low. China's booming economy has been a major driver of global growth in recent years and investors worry when they see signs that it's slowing down.
Stocks fell sharply in Asia Thursday. Japan's Nikkei index dropped 7.3 percent after news was released about the slowdown in Chinese manufacturing. The declines extended to Europe, where Germany's DAX index, which has been at a record high, slid 2.1 percent.
The sell-off looked set to continue when trading opened in New York, but the market quickly hit bottom and reversed course.
Some investors also reevaluated the concern about the Fed easing, or tapering, its economic stimulus program.
Any pullback of the Fed's stimulus should be seen as a positive signal because it would mean that the U.S. economy is getting stronger, said Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist at U.S. Trust.
"When the Fed starts to taper, the fundamentals of the U.S. economy have improved even further than we have already seen," said Quinlan. "The Fed tapering is actually a good story for U.S. equities and the economy."
Encouraging news about the U.S. economy also helped the case for stock market bulls Thursday.
Sales of new homes rose in April to the second-highest level since the summer of 2008, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Also, the median price for a new home hit a record high, another sign that housing is recovering.
There was good news on the labor market, too.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth, the Labor Department said. That suggests employers are laying off fewer workers. The decline in claims has coincided with steady job growth over the past six months.
In other U.S. stock trading, the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed down 4.84 points to 1,650.51, or 0.3 percent. The Nasdaq composite fell 3.88 points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,459.42.
In commodities trading, the price of crude oil fell 3 cents to $94.25 a barrel. Gold rose $24.40, or 1.8 percent, to $1,391.80 an ounce. The dollar fell against the euro and the yen.
In U.S. government bond trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged down to 2.02 percent from 2.04 percent. The yield on the note falls when the bond's price rises.
Among stocks making big moves, Ralph Lauren fell $4.37, or 2.3 percent, to $183.69. The apparel seller reported revenue that fell short of what financial analysts were expecting. Sluggish economic conditions and the decision to cut certain businesses reduced sales.
PC maker Hewlett-Packard surged $3.63, or 17.1 percent, to $24.86 after the company delivered second-quarter earnings that topped the estimates of both its own management and financial analysts.
Dollar Tree rose $1.82, or 3.8 percent, to $50.19 after the discount store chain said its earnings climbed 15 percent as customers spent more. The earnings beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts who follow the company.
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May 22, 2013 ? While folk wisdom has its place, the "folks" may not be so wise when it comes to shopping for airline tickets, say researchers at Texas A&M University.
"There's been this industry folk wisdom that says Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the best days to purchase airline tickets," says Steven Puller, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M who specializes in industrial organization. "But we couldn't find any systematic analysis to back that up."
Rather, he says, the weekend is the best time to book airline tickets because airlines are more likely to discount fares on Saturday and Sunday.
In the study "Price Discrimination By Day-Of-Week Of Purchase: Evidence From The U.S. Airline Industry," published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Puller and co-author Lisa Taylor, a former Texas A&M graduate student, found that tickets purchased on the weekend were, on average, 5 percent cheaper than similar tickets purchased on weekdays.
"We find that when you control for a large set of factors -- the day-of-week of travel, whether the ticket was refundable, the number of days in advance that the ticket was purchased, how full the flights were, and other factors -- that tickets purchased on the weekends were sold, on average, for a 5 percent discount," Puller explains.
The study further finds this weekend purchase discount is greatest on routes with a mix of both business and leisure customers. There is not much of this type of discount for leisure destinations such as Orlando or Las Vegas, Puller notes.
The researchers suggest, although do not definitively conclude, that this weekend purchase effect reflects a common practice known as "price discrimination."
This happens when the same service is sold at different prices to different buyers, in this case, based on the day of the week that an airline ticket is purchased.
Puller says the airlines try to play the odds when deciding how to price flights.
"Take a route that serves both business and leisure travelers," he explains. "If the business travelers primarily purchase tickets on weekdays, then the typical traveler buying on the weekend is more likely to be a price-sensitive leisure traveler than a business traveler. There is an incentive for the airlines to lower fares on the weekends to try to entice the price-sensitive leisure traveler to buy a ticket."
But how do the airlines know if a particular buyer is travelling for leisure or business? "They don't," Puller contends. "They're playing the odds."
The researchers conducted the study by looking at a historical archive of actual tickets purchased on all major airlines. Puller says the study compared tickets with similar characteristics rather than simply looking at the cheapest fare available.
"If you're a traveler who just wants to get from point A to point B for the cheapest price possible, then these findings may not apply to you," he notes. "But many people do care about these factors."
The researchers only studied round-trip flights with nonstop service. The study did not examine first-class airfare or the holiday travel periods around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.
Puller says these results could have implications for other industries that have the ability to change prices daily based on the types of customers who purchase on a specific day. "The software systems that are used in airline pricing are used in other industries such as cruises, hotels, car rentals," he explains. "We've only analyzed airline pricing, but I wouldn't be surprised if similar pricing practices are used in these other industries as well."
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Writer Claire Messud recently decried an interviewer's question about her character's likability.Courtesy of Lisa Cohen
Quick: What?s the most unforgivable sin a writer can commit in fiction? A writerly crime so awful that major, award-winning novelists are condemning it on the pages of Publishers Weekly and inveighing against it in The New Yorker? If you said lazy plotting, dull language, or cardboard-thin characters, well, shame on you. Currently, the most gauche thing a modern-day writer can do is write protagonist who is?oh, the horror?likable.
Why is likable worse than, say, boring, or predictable, or hackneyed or obscure? When did beloved become a bad thing? And, now that likable has become the latest code employed by literary authors to tell their best-selling brethren that their work sucks, is there any hope for the few, the shamed, the creators and consumers of likable female protagonists?
Step back in time with me a few weeks. In a Publishers Weekly Q-and-A about her novel, The Woman Upstairs, literary novelist Claire Messud went all Jersey Housewife on interviewer Annasue McCleave Wilson. Messud?s protagonist Nora Eldridge is an angry woman, a character Messud says fills a void: ?Because if it?s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it?s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. I wanted to write a voice that, for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus.? When Wilson asked, ?I wouldn?t want to be friends with Nora, would you? Her outlook is almost unbearably grim,? Messud did everything but flip the table as she answered:
?For heaven?s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you?re reading to find friends, you?re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn?t ?Is this a potential friend for me?? but ?Is this character alive?? ?
Cries of ?Preach!? and ?This? filled social media. Messud emerged as the bad-ass heroine of every writer who?d ever been asked a dumb, sexist question. ?Dopy,? ?condescending,? ?reductive,? ?silly? said the journalists. Not just silly, but sexist, said Messud. In an interview with the New York Times Book Review?s podcast, Messud said, ?I couldn?t help but feel that it was a gendered question. I don?t think we as readers expect to identify with or admire male protagonists, and I suddenly had a feeling that there was this expectation of a woman protagonist by a woman reader.?
Page-Turner, the books blog at The New Yorker (where Messud?s husband, James Wood, is the literary critic), quickly assembled a panel of prestigious novelists to discuss?and, ultimately, condemn?the notion of likability. While there was talk about the rules of creating a fictitious universe, and how what we find compelling on the page we might not want in, say, a roommate, the verdict was pretty unanimous: Likable equals bad. ?I have no problem with liking a character. But if that?s the reason I?m reading, I?ll put the book down,? sniffed Donald Antrim. ?Intelligent readers do not confuse the quality of a book with the moral rectitude of the characters,? said Margaret Atwood.
Meanwhile, Meg Wolitzer, whose novel The Interestings is getting the kind of big-book attention that all literary writers crave but very few writers, and even fewer women, ever receive, recently told Salon, ?One thing I?ve noticed that?s a kind of disturbing trend is fiction about and by women who the reader is meant to feel ?comfortable? around?what I call slumber party fiction?as though the characters are stand-ins for your best friends.?
Messud and Wolitzer and The New Yorker?s panel imagine a dichotomous world?black or white, commercial or quality, literary or lovable. But it isn?t always that simple. For one thing, the furious, vengeful, ranting lady isn?t quite ?the invisible woman? Messud imagines?not even in the realm of best-selling literary novels. Think of Ruth, the titular character of Fay Weldon?s Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, or Eva Khatchadourian, the conflicted mother of the born-bad (or was he?) son in Lionel Shriver?s We Need to Talk About Kevin, or the loyal-to-a-fault best friend Barbara in Zoe Heller?s What Was She Thinking? Messud?s Nora doesn?t quite fit in with that sisterhood. Instead of asserting her rage and then showing readers its consequences through an action-packed, shock-filled plot, or gradually revealing herself as something other than what she seems, Nora tells us she?s angry. Then she shows us why she?s angry, building up to her best friend?s betrayal. Then she spends another few chapters telling us, again, how very angry she is, and promising, finally, to do something about it. ?There?s no telling what I might do,? Nora warns, in the book?s penultimate pages. ?My anger is prodigious. My anger is a colossus. I?m angry enough, at last, to stop being afraid of life, and angry enough ? before I die to fucking well live. Just watch me.? Which, of course, is what we?ve been doing for the length of the novel. There?s no payoff?just a 300-page immersion in the acid bath of Nora?s misery, her jealousy, her lack of compassion, her towering sense of entitlement.
It?s no wonder that Messud feels the need to assert, again and again, that she is about serious business, that The Woman Upstairs is literary?the kind of book that aims to be a Great Novel. ?Don?t go around asking the question, ?Is this character likable?? and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavors,? she warned, in an interview with Canada?s National Post. ?That?s not what it?s about. If you want self-help that?s going to make you feel good, or you want the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, fantastic, that?s a great thing to read, I have no complaints about that. But it?s not compatible with serious endeavor.? Absent her assertions, absent her reputation and previous reviews, the reader would be forgiven in wondering about the literary merits of a character who comes off like a curdled Bridget Jones, a singleton past her sell-by date who is angry at her Smug Married friends for the sin of being more talented and successful than she is.
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The twister that struck Moore, Okla., was the deadliest U.S. tornado since one killed 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, two years ago
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Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.
The 2-mile (3-kilometer) wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.
Reporters were cleared back from Plaza Towers Elementary School, which sustained a direct hit Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb told CNN. But television pictures showed firefighters from more than a dozen fire departments working under bright spotlights to find survivors.
President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Moore after the deadliest U.S. tornado since one killed 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, two years ago.
The White House said Obama would make a statement on the Oklahoma tornado at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). It said the president was brieved overnight on the tornado tragedy.
There was an outpouring of grief on Plaza Towers' Facebook page, with messages from around the country including one pleading simply: "Please find those little children."
A separate Facebook page set up to reunite people in the area hit by a tornado on Sunday with their belongings and pets also showed entries for Moore residents overnight.
Another elementary school, homes and a hospital were among the buildings leveled in Moore, leaving residents of the town of about 50,000 people stunned at the devastation and loss of life. Many residents were left without power and water.
The Oklahoma medical examiner said 20 of the 91 expected to have been killed were children. The office had already confirmed 51 dead and had been told during the night by emergency services to expect 40 more bodies found in the debris, but had not yet received them.
At least 60 of the 240 people injured were children, area hospitals said.
The National Weather Service assigned the twister a preliminary ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning the second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 200 mph.
Witnesses said Monday's tornado appeared more fierce than the giant twister that was among the dozens that tore up the area on May 3, 1999, killing more than 40 people and destroying thousands of homes. That tornado ranked as an EF5, meaning it had winds over 200 mph.
The 1999 event in Oklahoma ranks as the third-costliest tornado in U.S. history, having caused more than $1 billion in damage at the time, or more than $1.3 billion in today's dollars. Only the devastating Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornadoes in 2011 were more costly.
"I am close to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado, especially those who lost young children. Join me in praying for them," Pope Francis said in a Twitter message.
Jeff Alger, 34, who works in the Kansas oil fields on a fracking crew, said his wife Sophia took their children out of school when she heard a tornado was coming and then fled Moore and watched it flatten the town from a few miles away.
"They didn't even have time to grab their shoes," said Alger, who has five children aged four to 11. The storm tore part of the roof off of his home. He was with his wife at Norman Regional Hospital to have glass and other debris removed from his wife's bare feet.
Moore was devastated with debris everywhere, street signs gone, lights out, houses destroyed and vehicles tossed about as if they were toys.
The dangerous storm system threatened several southern Plains states with more twisters. The area around Moore faces the risk of severe thunderstorms on Tuesday, which could hamper rescue efforts.
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The Dish Network mobile app just got a makeover, adding access to On Demand programming on Android and iOS, as well as Dish Anywhere integration with social networks.
iPad owners are no longer the only mobile users who can access the Dish On Demand library; those running Android 4.0 and higher or iOS 5.0-plus can view thousands of titles from a variety of networks watchable anywhere you can find an Internet connection.
Dish Anywhere launched in January, and has since transformed viewers' ability to watch live and recorded programming anytime and anywhere, the company said.
"The ability to watch TV anywhere is only as meaningful as the show you can view," Vivek Khemka, senior vice president of product at Dish, said in a statement. "By adding access to On Demand programming on iPhones and Android devices, only Dish gives customers the power to view all their shows, including live TV, DVR recordings and On Demand, at no extra cost."
Remote viewing of live TV and DVR recordings still requires a broadband-connected, Sling-enabled DVR.
The Dish Network enhancements also allow users to share their mobile viewing on social networks. Want your Facebook friends to know you've been catching up on Modern Family? Think your Twitter followers would be interested in your Game of Thrones viewing marathon? New social media options allow users to post what they're watching in real-time, with personalized comments and hashtags.
Additionally, a new "Audio Only" mode lets users listen to any live or pre-recorded show, while doing something else, like driving or using other apps on their device.
The Dish Anywhere app is currently available for free in the Apple iTunes Store and the Google Play store.
Dish could soon break out of the TV/DVR world to run a terrestrial wireless network. The company got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission in December to convert spectrum currently used for satellite service into a wireless service, which Dish has been eyeing for more than a year.
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By Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February.
Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout in the town of Nazran in Ingushetia, a spokesman for local investigators said.
Mutaliyev masterminded a bombing that killed 18 people at a market in the nearby city of Vladikavkaz in 2010 and was a close aide of Doku Umarov, leader of the outlawed Caucasus Emirate, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said.
"Doku Umarov's right-hand man was neutralized," Ingushetia's President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov told the state news agency RIA.
The Caucasus Emirate group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 37 people in January 2011 and twin bombings that killed 40 people in the Moscow metro in 2010.
Mutaliyev and the other man, named by officials as Alikhan Ozdoyev, were killed in a gunbattle after refusing to surrender during a night-time sweep in a suburb of Nazran, the spokesman for local investigators said.
The wife and child of one of them left the house before the firefight, he said. NAK said the men were armed with hand grenades and Kalashnikov assault rifles.
NAK had once before pronounced Mutaliyev dead, in January 2012, but later said it had misidentified the body of a man killed in a shootout with security forces.
Russia is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus and President Vladimir Putin has ordered authorities to ensure militants do not attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the nearby Black Sea resort of Sochi.
More than a decade after troops defeated a rebellion in Chechnya, insurgents stage frequent attacks in nearby regions.
In one of the bloodiest attacks this year, two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens on Monday in the capital of Dagestan, a province bordering Chechnya to the east.
A police officer was killed and a soldier was wounded in a shooting by suspected militants in Dagestan on Tuesday, police said.
The Kremlin is worried about the spread of violence outside the North Caucasus. In a suburb of Moscow on Monday, security forces killed two suspected militants alleged to have been plotting an attack in the capital.
(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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May 20, 2013 ? Parents who share a bed with their breastfed baby could face a fivefold increase in the risk of crib death, even if the parents do not smoke, according to a new study. The research was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and is published in BMJ Open.
Crib death -- also known as cot death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDs) -- remains a major cause of death among babies under 1 year of age in high income countries. There is already a general consensus that sleeping with a baby increases the risk of cot death if the parents smoke or if the mother has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs. However, there are conflicting opinions as to whether bed sharing in general represents a risk when these factors are not present.
Some countries, including the US and the Netherlands, advise all parents against sharing a bed with their baby for the first 3 months. The UK currently only advises certain groups, including parents who are smokers, not to bed share.
The new study is the largest ever analysis of its kind. Researchers examined the individual records of 1,472 cot death cases and 4,679 control cases across five major studies. They found that the risk of cot death among breastfed babies under 3 months increased with bed sharing, even when the parents did not smoke and the mother had not consumed alcohol or drugs. This fivefold increase was in comparison to room sharing, where a baby slept in a cot in the parents' room.
The researchers estimate that 81% of cot deaths among babies under 3 months with no other risk factors could be prevented if they did not sleep in the same bed as their parents. The study also showed that the risk associated with bed sharing decreases as a baby gets older, and that the peak period for instances of cot death was between 7 and 10 weeks.
Professor Bob Carpenter from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who was lead author on the study said: "Currently in the UK more than half of cot deaths occur while a baby is sleeping in the same bed as its parents. Although it is clear that smoking and drinking greatly increase the risk of cot death while bed sharing, our study shows that there is in fact an increased risk for all babies under 3 months who bed share, even if their parents do not smoke or drink.
"If parents were made aware of the risks of sleeping with their baby, and room sharing was instead promoted in the same way that the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was promoted 20 years ago to advise parents to place their newborn infants to sleep on their backs, we could achieve a substantial reduction in cot death rates in the UK. Annually there are around 300 cot death cases in babies under a year old in the UK, and this advice could save the lives of up to 40% of those. Health professionals need to make a definite stand against all bed sharing, especially for babies under 3 months."
The authors state that babies can still be brought into the parents' bed for comfort and feeding during the night, but that they should be placed in a cot next to the parents' bed to sleep.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/BGeS0NmmY6Q/130520185422.htm
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