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Legal Immigration Is A Path To Citizenship; Illegal Immigration Jumped 9% Last Year; What Has Hillary Really Accomplished?

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• I happen to be an immigrant. It's why I have a great deal of empathy for those immigrants who want to become citizens legally. It's also why I have a great deal of concern for the plans currently being considered in dealing with what is commonly called a "pathway to citizenship." There is no doubt that we need a comprehensive plan to deal with the over 11 million illegal immigrants in the country today (the number is probably higher). But do we do that at the expense of undermining the rule of law? As even USA Today pointed out: "For liberals, the Senate group's path to citizenship is too long and onerous. Well, too bad. There should be some cost to breaking the law." Speeding up the pathway to citizenship for those who have entered the country illegally would certainly be an affront to those immigrants who follow our laws on their journey to citizenship. And does anyone believe that lawmakers would be speeding up the pathway to citizenship of a majority of illegal immigrants were from ?countries outside of ?Mexico and other Latin American countries?
• And don't believe a word about the law requiring enforcing border security before any comprehensive plan is passed. Because once the law if passed, border enforcement will be placed on the back burner as it has always been.
• Having said this, I do support some form of the Dream Act. I don't like the fact that children brought here by the parents illegally should shoulder the consequences of the sins of their parents. For those illegal immigrants, I would support special considerations, e.g. if they serve in the military, they should be fast tracked to citizenship.
• Again, as USA Today's editorial correctly points out regarding speeding up citizenship for illegal immigrants: "That would be a huge slap in the face to those who played by the rules." In other words, we already have laws enabling immigrants to become citizens. It's called legal immigration.
• To those Hispanics who keep criticizing Republicans for not wanting to do anything with illegal immigration, Pres. George W. Bush, along with Sen. McCain, presented a plan in 2007 that had bi-partisan support but failed to get any traction.
• By the way, ICE is reporting that illegal immigration jumped 9% last year. Also, apprehensions have decreased by 50% since 2008.

• I continue to find the adoration for Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State perplexing and disturbing. What has she really accomplished in her four years in that position? The truthful answer is very little. As John Podhoretz wrote recently, "She {Hillary} does not have a single significant diplomatic achievement in her name." In fact, as he also makes clear, most of the praise for Hillary is specific to celebrating her relentless traveling schedule." The fact is her legacy is empty. But you will never hear or read that by most of the presstitutes in the media.
• And if you need proof about her tenure, as well as Pres. Obama's strategy of "leading from behind," all you need to do is look at what is happening today in Syria, Libya (Benghazi), Egypt, North Africa (where al-Qaeda has established itself firmly), ?Russia, Iran and N. Korea.
• But someone knows how to lead from behind. New York magazine on Mayor Bloomberg, ignoring a comment on gun control and instead focusing on a woman in a tight-fitting dress: "Look at that ass."

Source: http://thepoliticalwarzone.blogspot.com/2013/01/legal-immigration-is-path-to.html

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A Special Tribute to the Unsung Athletics Directors of College Sports ...

by Diverse Staff

Kevin Anderson, Sean Frazier, Peter Roby, Gene Smith, Warde Manuel and McKinley Boston have left indelible marks on college athletics.

In the second installment of a four-part series, the Diverse editors sought to recognize those current and former athletics directors across the country who have blazed the trails and opened doors for minorities in sports.

Often, these behind-the-scenes icons are not seeking applause and accolades. Any who stand witness to the positive changes, including unprecedented new opportunities on the diversity front, sincerely appreciate their invaluable contributions to collegiate athletics. Their stellar examples serve as inspiration for the tenacity and fortitude that will be needed in the battles that lie ahead.

We appreciate their advocacy and leadership in the collegiate sports community. Join us as we salute these impactful sports figures who have advocated for and led the charge toward diversity and who have left positive and indelible marks on the world of college sports.

Kevin Anderson

Director of Athletics

University of Maryland, College Park

Nationally recognized as a leader in intercollegiate athletics, Kevin Anderson has more than two decades of leadership experience. During his first year, he achieved a school record with a 17th place finish in the Learfield Sports Directors? Cup standings.

Each of his first two seasons was highlighted by NCAA national championships in field hockey and national runner-up finishes in men?s and women?s lacrosse. The Terps followed with a strong campaign in 2011-12, when they finished 27th in the standings.

Anderson has instituted an inclusive management style that combines a passion for providing a quality experience for Maryland student-athletes with a thoughtful business acumen that has him managing the Terrapins? $59 million budget and more than 180 employees.

He was elected president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics in 2012.

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Dr. McKinley Boston

Director of Athletics

New Mexico State University

Dr. McKinley Boston is the man behind New Mexico State University athletic department?s ?Journey to Excellence??a five-year strategic plan that serves as the administration?s road map to becoming one of the best mid-major athletic programs in the country.

Boston was named director of athletics in 2004 and serves on the NCAA Management Council Leadership cabinet?the highest level of oversight addressing the legislative process of the NCAA. He is also a member of the NCAA Certification Committee and served for five years as a member of the Division I Men?s Basketball Committee.

A former professional football player with the New York Giants, Boston was a special teams captain and played with the Vancouver British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League.

He attended the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate and competed in football and was a first All-Big Ten Football player and Academic All-Big Ten.

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Sean T. Frazier

Deputy Athletic Director

University of Wisconsin

Promoted to deputy athletic director in 2011, Sean T. Frazier also served as senior associate athletic director for operations at the University of Wisconsin. Frazier came to Wisconsin in 2007 after serving as director of athletics at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.

He is the department?s chief of staff for day-to-day operations with oversight of football and men?s and women?s hockey, athletic development, ticket office, badger sports properties, strategic planning, diversity plan coordination; as well as liaison for boosters, the Big Ten Conference and WCHA, the chancellor?s office and the dean?s leadership council.

In addition to Wisconsin, he has worked as director of athletics at Clarkson University with oversight of 20 NCAA sports. Before Clarkson, he was the athletic director at Manhattanville College, where he was instrumental in increasing overall team win percentage and team GPA.

A former student-athlete himself, Frazier played football for Alabama from 1987-91 and was part of a Southeastern Conference Championship team in 1989.

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Warde J. Manuel

Director of Athletics

University of Connecticut

With a distinguished career in intercollegiate athletics, Warde J. Manuel was named director of athletics at the University of Connecticut in 2012. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he played football and competed in track and field.

Manuel previously led a 20-sport program at the University of Buffalo. When he arrived at UB, there were four programs?football, men?s basketball, wrestling, and baseball?that fell far below the NCAA Academic Progress Rate cut score of 925. With a focused academic plan, all four teams posted a four-year APR rate above the cut score, and, at the end of 2009-10, 10 of UB?s 20 sports had scores of 975 or above.

Buffalo enjoyed great on-field success during Manuel?s time, as the football team participated in the 2009 International Bowl and the men?s basketball team made postseason appearances in three of the past seven years. Olympic sports also thrived with three-straight Dad Vail Regatta titles by the rowing team, six wrestlers earning spots at the 2011 NCCA Championship and the women?s tennis team making an appearance in the 2008 NCAA tournament.

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Gene Smith

Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics

Ohio State University

Named ?one of the most powerful people in collegiate sport,? Gene Smith serves as associate vice president and director of athletics at Ohio State University.

He is the first African-American and eight overall Buckeyes athletic director. Smith previously served as director of athletics at Arizona State, Iowa State and Eastern Michigan universities.

At Ohio State, Smith oversees the nation?s most comprehensive and one of its most successful collegiate athletic programs. The department sponsors 36 fully funded varsity sports with more than 1,000 student-athletes regularly competing for Big Ten Conference and NCAA Championships.

The athletics department is completely self-supporting, and in fiscal year 2010-11, it transferred nearly $30 million in assessments to the university, including more than $15 million in grant-in-aid reimbursement.

A former college athlete and coach, Smith is passionate about developing the total student-athlete?academically, athletically and socially.

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Peter Roby

Athletic Director

Northeastern University

A former men?s basketball head coach at Harvard University, marketing vice president at Reebok and director of Northeastern?s Center for Sport in Society, Peter Roby was named Northeastern?s ninth athletic director in 2007.

Roby oversees Northeastern?s 18-sport, NCAA Division I athletic department, which competes in the highly-competitive Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Hockey East Association and Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC). In addition, Roby oversees Northeastern Campus Recreation, which offers more than 40 club and 30 intramural sports teams, as well as a wealth of physical education opportunities for Northeastern students.

In September 2012, Roby was appointed to the NCAA Division I Men?s Basketball Committee. The 10-member committee is responsible for selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament field every year.

Roby has been referenced extensively in the media, and his opinion pieces have been published on the editorial pages of many well-known publications. He has previously been named one of the ?100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America? by the Institute of International Sport.

Roby served six seasons as men?s basketball head coach at Harvard University and three years as an assistant coach. Before joining Harvard, Roby was the assistant coach at Stanford University, Dartmouth College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Roby is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was co-captain of the basketball team.

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Teen accused of school-bus shooting restricted to school, church

The 15-year-old South Miami-Dade student charged with a girl?s fatal shooting aboard a school bus can leave his house only for classes, church and to meet with lawyers, a judge said Wednesday.

Jordyn Howe, now charged as an adult with manslaughter with a deadly weapon, made his first appearance in circuit court.

?There will be no hanging out at the mall, no hanging out the friends? houses,? Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer told the slender teen with a baby face.

Jordyn, who is out on bond, also was ordered to attend mental-health counseling.

Miami-Dade police say Jordyn was showing off his stepfather?s pistol to classmates about a school bus in Homestead just before Thanksgiving. The weapon accidentally discharged, fatally striking Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus in the neck as her 7-year-old sister looked on.

Lourdes, 13, attended Palm Glades Preparatory Academy. Jordyn has since returned to school, although not at Somerset Academy Silver Palms.

Wednesday?s court hearing also marked the first time that Lourdes? mother, Ady Guzman-DeJesus, saw the shooting suspect and his family in person. Visibly shaken, she began to bawl as the judge instructed Jordyn.

Adding to the pain: Lourdes? father committed suicide after his daughter death.

?This family has been torn apart,? her lawyer, Ron Book, told reporters after Wednesday?s court hearing.

The lawyer said that DeJesus recognized the boys? stepfather as a man who had once employed her at a restaurant.

Book also said that the family is dismayed that Jordyn is allowed to go to classes at the same school that Lourdes? little sister attends. He also questioned why the boy?s stepfather had not been charged for not properly securing the weapon, which Jordyn had taken to school ?not once, not twice but on multiple occasions.?

Jordyn had been in juvenile custody, but prosecutors charged him as an adult last week. He is also charged with possession of a firearm by a minor and carrying a concealed weapon.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/30/3208120/teen-accused-of-school-bus-shooting.html

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Office 2013 Is Available Now As a Boxed Copy or Yearly Subscription

Windows: Microsoft has released the newest version of its popular Office software. On top of the different retail offerings, Microsoft now offers a new subscription model for the suite, as well as a version designed specifically for Windows RT devices.

The retail offerings are similar to years past, with student, home, and professional versions ranging in price from $139.99 up to to $399.99. New this year is the Office 365 subscription service that allows you to download Office 2013 as a yearly subscription. Office 2013 has a long list of new features, including integrated SkyDrive support, Windows 8 support, and new versions of all its software. Hit the link below to check out trial versions of the software and see all the various versions of Office available.

Office 2013 | Microsoft

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NYC apartment for $95M, with $60K in monthly fees

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Robert Frank , CNBC

As apartments go, it's a palace, with 15 rooms, five of which have 18th-floor views of Central Park. At $95 million, you'd think it would come with a doorman too. But at high-end buildings in New York, basics like a doorman and a super come extra -- as much as $60,000 extra.

The high cost of Manhattan real-estate is usually measured by the sales price. But for many buyers, it's the maintenance fees that break the bank.

Monthly maintenance fees in Manhattan have soared to an average of $1.70 per square foot, meaning that a 1,200 square foot condo will cost you $2,000 a month in maintenance fees, on top of your mortgage, utilities and (usually) property taxes.

Maintenance fees have continued to climb throughout the recession even as prices dipped. Average maintenance fees have risen 30 percent since 2008, according to Jonathan Miller at Miller Samuel, the New York appraisal firm. That's more than twice the rate of overall inflation.

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The increase has been driven mostly by higher costs of building insurance, underlying mortgages, fuel and building staff, like doormen and supers.

But Miller said high maintenance fees can derail a deal or cause even wealthy buyers to sell if the fees get too high.

He said that some of the newer developments that came with high prices and high maintenance fees were forced to reduce their prices when buyers balked at the high monthly payments.

"There was an assumption during the boom that the wealthy didn't care about maintenance and you could saddle an apartment with high fees and not have an impact," he said. "That turned out not to be true. There is an inverse relationship between carrying costs and market value."

Still, some rare apartments have both sky-high prices tags and high maintenance fees. The 18th floor of the Sherry-Netherland, currently on the market for $95 million, has monthly maintenance fees of $60,000.?

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The apartment is part of the hotel, so the fees include twice-daily maid service, spa services and other ultra-plush amenities.?

But the apartment is proof that some of New York's wealthy are still willing to pay more in monthly maintenance fees than some Americans pay for their house. We'll see, of course, whether the apartment sells at its price.

Watch CNBC's exclusive access to the "Secret Lives of the Super Rich: Mega-Homes." Premieres Jan. 28th, 9ET

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Pandemic controversies: The global response to pandemic influenza must change

Public release date: 28-Jan-2013
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New research sets out alternative approach to preparing for pandemics

'Evil' scientists, deadly viruses and terrorist plots are usually the preserve of Hollywood blockbusters. But when it comes to pandemic influenza, it is the stuff of real life. As controversy about research into the H5N1 bird flu virus continues, a new paper argues for a complete overhaul of current approaches to pandemic preparedness.

To Pandemic or Not? Reconfiguring Global Responses to Influenza, by Dr Paul Forster, of the ESRC STEPS Centre, investigates the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 and sets out some vital lessons if we are to prepare for pandemic influenza effectively, while avoiding confusing and costly mistakes.

When the H1N1 outbreak in 2009-10 was milder than the World Health Organization had predicted, WHO was accused of colluding with the pharmaceutical industry and national governments of squandering billions. The Council of Europe said US$18 billion was wasted, and branded WHO's actions "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century". The event revealed weaknesses in the world's current configuration of planning for and responding to pandemic influenza, according to Dr Forster.

Science, public health policy makers and the worldwide public were confounded by the uncertainty, complexity and politics of pandemic influenza and the high emotions it inspires. Amid this confusion, the global and national institutions responsible for protecting public health were shown to be over-reliant on a reductive, science-led approach that prioritised a one-size-fits-all response, and failed to address the needs and priorities of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. Dr Forster suggests new ways to construct plural responses more suited to tackling the globalised mix of politics, people and pathogens that pandemics produce.

"Preparing for an influenza pandemic means preparing for surprises and being ready to respond rapidly and flexibly under conditions of uncertainty. If people across the globe are to be ready, plural and diverse response pathways are required," said Dr Forster, an independent development consultant and STEPS Centre researcher. "The world would be better protected by a re-ordering of pandemic preparedness and response efforts around the needs of the world's poorest, most vulnerable, and most exposed people," he added.

A re-ordered response would allow the undue pre-eminence of pharmaceuticals to be examined, and bring focus on the pressing need for disease surveillance in animals, scrutiny of contemporary agricultural practices and a broadening of research efforts. It might also refresh the World Health Organization's approach, which Dr Forster believes supports an inflexible and narrow set of interests by default, rather than conspiracy.

With most flu experts agreeing that it is not so much a question of if, but rather when, a new pandemic will arrive, the sooner the lessons of outbreaks such as that in 2009-10 can be learned, the better.

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Notes to editors:

1. Paper To Pandemic or Not? Reconfiguring Global Responses to Influenza, by Paul Forster: http://steps-centre.org/publication/pandemics-wp/

2. Briefing Swine Flu: What went Wrong? A short briefing based on the Working Paper by Paul Forster: http://steps-centre.org/publication/swine-flu-what-went-wrong/?referralDomain=briefing

3. For further information: Julia Day

4. The STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre uniting development studies with science and technology studies. We are developing a new approach to understanding and action on sustainability and development and are funded by the ESRC. www.steps-centre.org

5. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. It supports independent high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector. The ESRC's total budget for 2012/13 is 205 million. At any one time the ESRC supports over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes.

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Public release date: 28-Jan-2013
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Contact: Julia Day
j.day@ids.ac.uk
44-012-739-15671
Institute of Development Studies

New research sets out alternative approach to preparing for pandemics

'Evil' scientists, deadly viruses and terrorist plots are usually the preserve of Hollywood blockbusters. But when it comes to pandemic influenza, it is the stuff of real life. As controversy about research into the H5N1 bird flu virus continues, a new paper argues for a complete overhaul of current approaches to pandemic preparedness.

To Pandemic or Not? Reconfiguring Global Responses to Influenza, by Dr Paul Forster, of the ESRC STEPS Centre, investigates the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 and sets out some vital lessons if we are to prepare for pandemic influenza effectively, while avoiding confusing and costly mistakes.

When the H1N1 outbreak in 2009-10 was milder than the World Health Organization had predicted, WHO was accused of colluding with the pharmaceutical industry and national governments of squandering billions. The Council of Europe said US$18 billion was wasted, and branded WHO's actions "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century". The event revealed weaknesses in the world's current configuration of planning for and responding to pandemic influenza, according to Dr Forster.

Science, public health policy makers and the worldwide public were confounded by the uncertainty, complexity and politics of pandemic influenza and the high emotions it inspires. Amid this confusion, the global and national institutions responsible for protecting public health were shown to be over-reliant on a reductive, science-led approach that prioritised a one-size-fits-all response, and failed to address the needs and priorities of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. Dr Forster suggests new ways to construct plural responses more suited to tackling the globalised mix of politics, people and pathogens that pandemics produce.

"Preparing for an influenza pandemic means preparing for surprises and being ready to respond rapidly and flexibly under conditions of uncertainty. If people across the globe are to be ready, plural and diverse response pathways are required," said Dr Forster, an independent development consultant and STEPS Centre researcher. "The world would be better protected by a re-ordering of pandemic preparedness and response efforts around the needs of the world's poorest, most vulnerable, and most exposed people," he added.

A re-ordered response would allow the undue pre-eminence of pharmaceuticals to be examined, and bring focus on the pressing need for disease surveillance in animals, scrutiny of contemporary agricultural practices and a broadening of research efforts. It might also refresh the World Health Organization's approach, which Dr Forster believes supports an inflexible and narrow set of interests by default, rather than conspiracy.

With most flu experts agreeing that it is not so much a question of if, but rather when, a new pandemic will arrive, the sooner the lessons of outbreaks such as that in 2009-10 can be learned, the better.

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Notes to editors:

1. Paper To Pandemic or Not? Reconfiguring Global Responses to Influenza, by Paul Forster: http://steps-centre.org/publication/pandemics-wp/

2. Briefing Swine Flu: What went Wrong? A short briefing based on the Working Paper by Paul Forster: http://steps-centre.org/publication/swine-flu-what-went-wrong/?referralDomain=briefing

3. For further information: Julia Day

4. The STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre uniting development studies with science and technology studies. We are developing a new approach to understanding and action on sustainability and development and are funded by the ESRC. www.steps-centre.org

5. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. It supports independent high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector. The ESRC's total budget for 2012/13 is 205 million. At any one time the ESRC supports over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes.

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Desktop Alert Announces Department of Navy/Marines Mass Notification System Type Accreditation Initiative

The U.S. Department of Navy/Marines formally requests Desktop Alert to participate in Mass Notification Study and Certification Process. Desktop Alert forwards patent pending ?one minute or less notification? mass notification platform technology for review.

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) January 28, 2013

Desktop Alert Inc., the nation?s leading and de-facto provider of ?less than one minute? IP-Based mass notification systems to Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Northern Command, NORAD, the U.S. Army worldwide, the U.S. National Guard and U.S. Air National Guard today announced the U.S. Department of Navy/Marines has formally invited the company to participate in furthering U.S. Navy and Marine enterprise-level mass notification initiatives and capabilities.

Additionally, the company is now competing for the upcoming 2013 U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force enterprise-level (worldwide) mass notification award initiatives. Desktop Alert is the de-facto mass notification system selected by the United States Military Academy at West Point, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, U.S. Air Force Space Command, Air Force Global Strike Command Base Malmstrom, U.S. Air Force Academy, Maxwell Air Force Base, Buckley Air Force Base, the National Guard (Air and Army) nationwide and many more key Department of Defense locations. The privately owned company is perched for substantial growth within the Department of Defense in 2013.

?We are very excited by the Navy invitation to participate in government assistance programs designed to enhance crucial existing mass notification systems and initiatives. The Navy has made it abundantly clear it wishes to ?reduce costs? and more so, eliminate stovepipe information sharing between DoD agencies often externally imposed by proprietary vendor systems with that of newly adopted platforms such as the common alerting protocol (CAP). Ultimately, we believe Desktop Alert will provide the government with significantly reduced cost propositions while simultaneously expanding system capability across existing computational infrastructures using less hardware, less bandwidth and much more alerting horsepower. Get more, pay less. It is a win-win proposition for the warfighter, the government and the taxpayer,? said Howard Ryan, Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

During an emergency, events change rapidly. Situational awareness is crucial to help mitigate and diffuse an unfolding crisis. An alert that is received after several minutes (and possibly without knowledge of an updated communication) could become dangerous. A key factor for recent technological advancements in the alerting industry has been the participation through interoperability across IP-Based computer networks. Desktop Alert is a sponsor-level member at OASIS.

OASIS (Advancing Open Standards For The Information Society) has recently been adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense as well as numerous Government agencies worldwide as a mandatory interoperability standard. In order for industry vendors to be considered for mass notification contracts to Government, they must now provide information sharing via the ratified OASIS protocol: Common Alerting Protocol.

?Historically, it is this lack of interoperability between agencies and vendors that has prevented critical messages from being delivered and consumed in a timely manner during emergencies. Communicating to key stakeholders in critical situations, whether they are corporate threats or life threatening crises, requires speed and proper execution. Make sure you have evaluated the newest technological developments in the alert industry to guarantee that your emergency communications get out to the intended audience in a timely manner and, believe it, the latest standard is in a minute or less. To that end, the Navy and Marines have taken a very keen interest in bolstering their emergency response capabilities,? added Ryan.

About Desktop Alert: http://www.desktopalert.net

Worldwide U.S. Military organizations such as U.S. Northern Command, The United States National Guard, The United States Air Force Academy, The United States Military Academy at West Point, Multi-National Forces in IRAQ and Afghanistan, The U.S. Air Force, The U.S. Army now utilize the Desktop Alert mass notification platform daily for their organizations emergency communication requirements. Desktop Alert can contact thousands of users with desktop alerts and require receipt confirmation of the message. Those not verified can then be listed on a report and/or sent as a "Target Package" to be automatically contacted by other means such as email, SMS, phone calls and other devices.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/desktop-alert-announces-department-navy-marines-mass-notification-082029925.html

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Iran launches monkey into space, showing missile progress

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it had launched a live monkey into space, seeking to show off missile systems that have alarmed the West because the technology could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead.

The Defense Ministry announced the launch as world powers sought to agree a date and venue with Iran for resuming talks to resolve a standoff with the West over Tehran's contested nuclear program before it degenerates into a new Middle East war.

Efforts to nail down a new meeting have failed repeatedly and the powers fear Iran is exploiting the diplomatic vacuum to hone the means to produce nuclear weapons.

The Islamic Republic denies seeking weapons capability and says it seeks only electricity from its uranium enrichment so it can export more of its considerable oil wealth.

The powers have proposed new talks in February, a spokesman for the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Monday, hours after Russia urged all concerned to "stop behaving like children" and commit to a meeting.

Iran earlier in the day denied media reports of a major explosion at one of its most sensitive, underground enrichment plants, describing them as Western propaganda designed to influence the nuclear talks.

The Defense Ministry said the space launch of the monkey coincided "with the days of" the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, which was last week, but gave no date, according to a statement carried by the official news agency IRNA.

The launch was "another giant step" in space technology and biological research "which is the monopoly of a few countries", the statement said.

The small grey monkey was pictured strapped into a padded seat and being loaded into the Kavoshgar rocket dubbed "Pishgam" (Pioneer) which state media said reached a height of more than 120 km (75 miles).

"This shipment returned safely to Earth with the anticipated speed along with the live organism," Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the semi-official Fars news agency. "The launch of Kavoshgar and its retrieval is the first step towards sending humans into space in the next phase."

There was no independent confirmation of the launch.

SIGNIFICANT FEAT

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters she could not confirm whether Iran had successfully sent a monkey into space or conducted any launch at all, saying that if it had done so "it's a serious concern."

Nuland said such a launch would violate U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, whose text bars Iran from "any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology."

The West worries that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to use dispatching nuclear warheads to a target.

Bruno Gruselle of France's Foundation for Strategic Research said that if the monkey launch report were true it would suggest a "quite significant" engineering feat by Iran.

"If you can show that you are able to protect a vehicle of this sort from re-entry, then you can probably protect a military warhead and make it survive the high temperatures and high pressures of re-entering," Gruselle said.

The monkey launch would be similar to sending up a satellite weighing some 2,000 kg (4,400 pounds), he said. Success would suggest a capacity to deploy a surface-to-surface missile with a range of a few thousand kilometers (miles).

Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank, said Iran had demonstrated "no new military or strategic capability" with the launch.

"Nonetheless, Iran has an ambitious space exploration program that includes the goal of placing a human in space in the next five or so years and a human-inhabited orbital capsule by the end of the decade," Elleman said. "Today's achievement is one step toward the goal, albeit a small one."

The Islamic Republic announced plans in 2011 to send a monkey into space, but that attempt was reported to have failed.

Nuclear-weapons capability requires three components - enough fissile material such as highly enriched uranium, a reliable weapons device miniaturized to fit into a missile cone, and an effective delivery system, such as a ballistic missile that can grow out of a space launch program.

Iran's efforts to develop and test ballistic missiles and build a space launch capability have contributed to Israeli calls for pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and billions of dollars of U.S. ballistic missile defense spending.

MANOEUVRING OVER NEXT TALKS

A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the powers had offered a February meeting to Iran, after a proposal to meet at the end of January was refused.

"Iran did not accept our offer to go to Istanbul on January 28 and 29 and so we have offered new dates in February. We have continued to offer dates since December. We are disappointed the Iranians have not yet agreed," Michael Mann reporters.

He said Iranian negotiators had imposed new conditions for resuming talks and that EU powers were concerned this might be a stalling tactic. The last in a sporadic series of fruitless talks was held last June.

Iranian officials deny blame for the delays and say Western countries squandered opportunities for meetings by waiting until after the U.S. presidential election in November.

"We have always said that we are ready to negotiate until a result is reached and we have never broken off discussions," IRNA quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying.

Salehi has suggested holding the next round in Cairo but said the powers wanted another venue. He also said that Sweden, Kazakhstan and Switzerland had offered to host the talks.

In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference: "We are ready to meet at any location as soon as possible. We believe the essence of our talks is far more important (than the site), and we hope that common sense will prevail and we will stop behaving like little children."

Ashton is overseeing diplomatic contacts on behalf of the powers hoping to persuade Tehran to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment and accept stricter U.N. inspections in return for civilian nuclear cooperation and relief from U.N. sanctions.

IRAN DENIES FORDOW BLAST

Reuters has been unable to verify reports since Friday of an explosion early last week at the underground Fordow bunker that some Israeli and Western media said wrought heavy damage.

"The false news of an explosion at Fordow is Western propaganda ahead of nuclear negotiations to influence their process and outcome," IRNA quoted deputy Iranian nuclear energy agency chief Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi as saying.

In late 2011 the plant at Fordow began producing uranium enriched to 20 percent fissile purity, well above the 3.5 percent level normally needed for nuclear power stations.

While such higher-grade enrichment remains nominally far below the 90 percent level required for an atomic bomb, nuclear proliferation experts say the 20 percent threshold represents the bulk of the time and effort involved in yielding weapons-grade material - if that were Iran's goal.

Tehran says its enhanced enrichment is to make fuel for a research reactor that produces isotopes for medical care.

Diplomats in Vienna, where the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is based, said on Monday they had no knowledge of any incident at Fordow but were looking into the reports.

"I have heard and seen various reports but am unable to authenticate them," a senior diplomat in Vienna told Reuters.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which regularly inspects declared Iranian nuclear sites including Fordow, had no immediate comment on the issue.

Iran has accused Israel and the United States of trying to sabotage its nuclear program with cyber attacks and assassinations of its nuclear scientists. Washington has denied any role in the killings while Israel has declined to comment.

(Additional reporting by William Maclean and Marcus George in Dubai, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Robin Pomeroy, Jon Hemming and Cynthia Osterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/six-world-powers-hope-meet-iran-atom-talks-120752016.html

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Fix It And Forget It With This Home Improvement Advice | OK Heyday ...

TIP! Have your list ready before you go shopping for home improvement items. Having this list of items will allow you to visit the store just one time and will help you be organized.

Too many people are afraid of tackling home improvements. It may take a lot of time, money, and it may create a large mess. By understanding what you are getting yourself into, you will have less to worry about. A few good tips can make any difficult home improvement job look easy. Following are a few tips to help you along your way.

TIP! It is important to make a plan before beginning any renovation project. This helps you stay on budget and within the time frame you set for yourself.

It is possible to add a great deal of value to your home if you add a second bathroom. In practical terms, having another bathroom is very useful, especially if it is on a different floor than an existing bathroom. It is very likely that multiple household members will need access to the bathroom simultaneously.

TIP! Clean carpets will help your home look brighter and fresher. Deep clean the carpets frequently, especially where they get dirty quickly.

Stucco happens to be a good alternative when replacing the siding on the outside of your home. Stucco is simple to install, but you may need the guidance of a professional in order to do so correctly. Stucco also has incredible staying power.

TIP! Consider arranging your tools, not by the type of tool, but by what type of project you will need them for. For example, you may dedicate an entire toolbox to tools that are used mostly for plumbing projects: pipe wrenches, caulking, or pipe fittings.

Re-caulking the windows in your home will hep you save on utility bills. This prevents moisture from seeping in and causing mold growth, and it keeps drafts out, which can lower your heating bills. If you caulking is cracked you can remove it by taking a chisel to it and replacing it.

TIP! Always focus on having the best lighting. A bright room normally is very inviting towards anyone who enters the home.

Get new appliances and save on your utility bills. Replacing aging appliances with energy-efficient upgrades will reduce your utility bills and improve the value of your home. That makes them a great home improvement investment. Installing a new appliance is quick and easy, offering a home improvement with almost instant gratification.

TIP! If you are working on several projects within the same room, carefully plan the order in which you complete them. For instance, if you?re replacing your floor and cabinets, it would probably be best to start with cabinets.

If you take the time to get thoroughly organized, you will be successful with your project. Solid tips will help you keep your project schedule, help you stay under budget and eliminate the hassle that comes with this kind of work. A little knowledge on the subject is what you need to get your through any home improvement that you care to make.

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Holocaust archive reunites relatives after decades

Nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, a Holocaust archive in Germany is helping victims and survivors of Nazi atrocities to find clues about the past -- and is still reuniting families. NBC News' Andy Eckardt reports from Bad Arolsen, Germany.

By Andy Eckardt, Producer, NBC News

BAD AROLSEN, Germany -- Wilhelm Thiem may be 72 but he celebrated his first real birthday in November.

Abducted in Poland by Nazi troops at age two, Thiem has spent most of his life on a painful journey, seeking to discover his true name and identity.?

Until just a few months ago, the retired entrepreneur had not known his birth date, where he was born, what had happened to his mother or whether he had any other family members.

"I hardly knew anything about my personal history," Thiem said.?"I always felt like an outsider, it was a feeling of not belonging in this world."

Thiem was raised by a foster parent in northern Germany who was appointed by the Nazis to take care of the young child. Thiem called her "Mrs. Huebner" but was later officially adopted and given her maiden name.

At age 12, Thiem learned that Mrs. Huebner was not his real mother. He started asking her about his past, wanting to learn more about his family, but his questions remained unanswered. For decades, his personal history remained a mystery.

Early last year, Thiem came across a newspaper article about the International Tracing Service?(ITS), an organization that maintains a vast archive of files related to more than 17.5 million victims of the Holocaust and Nazi oppression.

"At first the ITS researchers told me that they could not find any documents with my name on them," Thiem recalled. "But then they contacted the Red Cross in Poland and in the end, there were some leads."

'Very emotional moment'
After several months of research, Thiem was informed that he had been born in Lodz, Poland, and that his birth name was Zbigniew Wilhelm Katmierczak.

For the first time in his life, Thiem held a birth certificate in his hands that gave him an identity.

"It was a very emotional moment," Thiem recalled. "Both my wife and I could not hold back tears."

Researchers revealed that his mother was also sent to Germany as a forced laborer but later returned to Poland. She eventually married a Frenchman and relocated to France.

Thiem was also told of a surviving aunt, who still lives in his Polish hometown.

He is now anxiously making plans for a trip to Lodz with his wife for a very special family reunion.

"I am hoping to learn more facts, maybe find other family members," Thiem said. "Maybe I can find traces of my mother and father.?All of this is of huge interest to me, it means so much."

Established by Allies in the final days of the Second World War and originally run by the Red Cross, the ITS helps to uncover the fates of Holocaust victims and others who suffered under the Nazi regime.

The archive in Bad Arolsen is said to be the largest storage facility of documents related to the Holocaust. It includes 30 million documents in 16 miles of shelves housing information about Holocaust survivors, displaced persons, slave laborers and political refugees from former Eastern Bloc countries.

Over the past 50 years, the ITS has answered more than 10 million requests. About 1,000 search requests continue to trickle in to the archive monthly.

"Many people still do not know what has become of their loved ones,"?said Dr. Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel from Germany's federal commission of culture. "Even decades after the end of the Holocaust and the war, there is this persisting uncertainty, which results from the fact that part of one's own history remains untold."?

Visitors to the archive come into direct contact with the bureaucracy of mass murder.

Its meticulous records include concentration camp files, "deportation cards," patient records and a post-war index of non-German citizens. Its researchers plow through the stacks of yellowing paper, registering and scanning as many of the historic documents as possible. More than 95 percent have now been digitized.

But due to concerns about the victims' privacy, the ITS and the German government kept the files closed to the public for half a century. While search requests have been accepted since the end of the war, the archive was initially not "open source."

Following public pressure from survivor groups, historians and researchers, who called for public access to the archives, the ITS Commission -- consisting of 11 member states -- declared itself in favor of opening up Bad Arolsen in 1998.

Yet, scholars and researchers were only given access to the documents beginning in 2007.

"I think it was criminal that the documents were not opened up earlier," said Holocaust survivor and U.S. judge Thomas Buergenthal. He was able to find?records of his father's ordeal in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald at Bad Arolsen.

"This archive is my father's only memorial, we have no other," Buergenthal added.

But although time has claimed many eyewitnesses, the archive is still helping to reunite survivors of Nazi terror -- such as Thiem and his long lost aunt. She remembers her nephew -- who is now an elderly man -- as a "little child."

"I spent a lifetime wondering who I really am, now I know," Thiem said.

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New music review: Elephant Stone (Hidden Pony) | Montreal Gazette

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With its self-titled sophomore release, Montreal?s Elephant Stone neatly sidestep the ?difficult second album? syndrome and deliver instead what is more like a mission statement.

Not that the group?s debut, The Seven Seas, released in 2009, was tentative. Stylistically varied, smartly arranged and melodically arresting, it grabbed enough acclaim to become a Polaris Prize nominee.

By comparison, the new disc is darker and denser, inviting attentive listens at serious volume to crack the surface. and once you really hear the harsh beauty at this album?s heart, it becomes clear that this is a stone-cold psychedelic marvel.

As usual, the group?s leader and songwriter, Rishi Dhir, walks the parallel paths of jangly pop and lava-lamp anarchy ? aided, in no small way, by guitarist Gabriel Lambert, who sometimes goes all Jorma Kaukonen with howling solos and peals of sonic texture, notably on the assertive opener Setting Sun, which could fit on a neo-psych Nuggets anthology.

Lambert?s greatest moment, and the album?s, comes on the almost nine-minute explosion The Sea of Your Mind, which tosses in everything but the kitchen sink: phased vocals, a sitar break by Dhir, a no-nonsense riff and swelling walls of roaring guitar. In your imagination, you can see the liquid lightshow projections behind the band asthey keep it going live past the half-hour mark.

A Silent Moment is the disc?s other standout track, with the vocals of classical singer Pandit Vinay Bhide sharing space with Dhir?s bass line time-traveling from somewhere around Revolver.

When psychedelic music first became part of the rock landscape, artists generally tempered their experimental ambitions with a nod to the Top 40 charts, and this album follows that time-worn pattern. The Be My Baby backbeat in Hold Onto Your Soul and the chiming catchiness of Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin are as representative of this strobe-light voyage as the backwards guitar that creates Heavy Moon?s hypnotic drone.

The spirit of `67 lives on in these tracks. But then, it never really went away, did it?

Rating: **** and 1/2

Podworthy: The Sea of Your Mind

Elephant Stone will be available Feb. 5. Elephant Stone performs Feb. 15 at 9:30 p.m. at Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent Blvd. Tickets cost $10, plus a $2 charge if purchased in advance. Go to http://indiemontreal.ca/elephant-stone-w-guests.

Here?s the video for Heavy Moon:

For something on the poppier side of the band?s repertoire, this is Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin:

Click here to check out the band?s Web site.

Elephant Stone performs Feb. 15 at 9:30 p.m. at Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent Blvd. Tickets cost $10, plus a $2 charge if purchased in advance. Go to http://indiemontreal.ca/elephant-stone-w-guests.

And last, but far from least, watch for our feature interview with Rishi Dhir on Jan. 29 in the Gazette?s print edition and at montrealgazette.com.

Bernard Perusse

Twitter: @bernieperusse

Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/01/26/new-music-review-elephant-stone-hidden-pony/

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Ending the stopgap budget - The Daily Collegian

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The United States government has been at a relative standstill since the beginning of President Barack Obama?s first term, with Republicans filibustering almost every bill in the Senate and, since 2011, the majority-Republican House passing severely conservative alternatives to mainstream ideas.

The 112th Congress, in particular, was a travesty and has been incompetent in solving major issues that face the nation. From deficit reduction to simply passing a budget, Congress hasn?t compromised, and the first step towards sanity is achieving bipartisan agreement on an annual budget for the U.S. government.

Although both the 111th and 112th Congress passed significant bills regarding health care, education, taxation and deficit reduction, the Senate has not passed a comprehensive budget since April 2009. The ongoing debate over the spending priorities of the U.S. government has not been resolved, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been unwilling and unable to bring a budget to the floor for debate.

Now, to the public it seems that all Congress has been doing is debating the budget, but the parliamentary realities of the two chambers are quite different. Instead of passing comprehensive, annual budgets, the federal government has been funded by stopgap compromises and continuing resolutions such as the Budget Control Act, which resolved the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act (H.R.8), which averted the fiscal cliff.

The stopgap measures of H.R.8 are apparent. The law provides a one-year ?doc fix? for Medicare that extends current physician payment rates until Dec. 31, 2013, to prevent a 27 percent reduction in said payment rates. It will cost $25.17 billion over 10 years. This cost control method, which has been extended annually since 1997, protects doctors from pay cuts automatically required by Medicare law. The American Medical Association (AMA) and over 100 other medical groups propose a permanent solution to the ?doc fix,? but repealing it would cost $245 billion over 10 years. President Obama proposed repealing the ?doc fix? and covering the cost with $400 billion in health care savings, but that option never came to fruition.

Instead of dealing with the ?doc fix? for good, Congress surrendered to its modus operandi, a temporary fix. In order to cover the $25 billion cost of the one-year fix, hospitals will face a $10.5 billion recoupment of Medicare overpayments and a $4.2 billion reduction in payments to hospitals that care for large numbers of Medicare patients, according to Kaiser Health News.

Hospital groups are unhappy with the fiscal cliff deal. Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, president of the AMA, said in a press release that the ?last-minute action? is ?a clear example of how the Medicare program is increasingly unreliable for physicians and patients. Congress? work is not complete. ? Over the next months, it must act to eliminate this ongoing problem once and for all.?

The stopgap funding will influence federal spending on colleges and universities. The fiscal cliff deal did not address the spending cuts known as sequestration, which were pushed two months into 2013. According to The Huffington Post, the fiscal cliff deal spared the American Opportunity Tax Credit, but delayed sequestration could cause an 8.2 percent cut in all discretionary spending and a 7.6 percent cut in mandatory spending, which would cut funding for scholarships and research to universities. The deal also capped charitable tax deductions, which Inside Higher Ed noted are major source of funding for universities through alumni donations. Education still faces cuts in federal research money and eligibility for federal financial aid programs in 2013.

Obama warned, in reference to higher education, ?We can?t keep cutting things like basic research and new technology and still expect to succeed in a 21st century economy,? The Huffington Post reported.

These potential cuts and temporary patches are representative of the inability of opposing politicians to compromise and the intransigence of tea party Republicans about federal spending. When polled, strong majorities of Americans oppose severe cuts to federal spending.

Serious people, including the Simpson-Bowles commission, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have proposed comprehensive budgets that reform taxes, earned benefits such as Social Security and Medicare, and discretionary spending that keep much of the federal government intact, while reducing the deficit and the debt. Both Democrats and Republicans must come together on comprehensive budget reform. The U.S. economy is the largest in the world and has the ability to adapt to changing conditions in both the public and private sectors.

Massive debt is the only condition in which the U.S. economy can fail, and we are not there yet. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal debt held by the public reached 73 percent of GDP at the end of 2012. This is still far below the danger-levels over 100 percent, and the deficit reduction undertaken by the president and Congress since 2011 has ensured that the debt will not go over 90 percent until at least 2022.

Reforming the federal budget as soon as possible is key to ensuring continued economic recovery and the fiscal stability of the U.S. government. Most of the key players in Washington agree on a path that decreases the national debt, and a few radical members on either end of the political spectrum must not derail progress. The American people face massive uncertainty as to the budget of the federal government and even whether the government will pay its debts. The only way to ease uncertainty and improve confidence is to have a solid budgetary plan for the future.

Detrimental stopgap measures will continue to breed uncertainty, and the only solution is for Congress and the president to do their job and pass a real budget.

Zac Bears is a Collegian columnist. He can be reached at ibears@student.umass.edu.

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Source: http://dailycollegian.com/2013/01/25/ending-the-stopgap-budget/

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Riots over Egyptian death sentences kill at least 32

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 32 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said, where gunshots rang out and protesters burned tires in anger that people from their city had been blamed for the deaths of 74 people at a match last year.

The rioting in Port Said, one of the most deadly spasms of violence since Hosni Mubarak's ouster two years ago, followed a day of anti-Mursi demonstrations on Friday, when nine people were killed. The toll over the past two days stands at 41.

The flare-ups make it even tougher for Mursi, who drew fire last year for expanding his powers and pushing through an Islamist-tinged constitution, to fix the creaking economy and cool tempers enough to ensure a smooth parliamentary election.

That vote is expected in the next few months and is meant to cement a democratic transition that has been blighted from the outset by political rows and street clashes.

The National Defense Council, which is led by Mursi and includes the defense minister who commands the army, called for "a broad national dialogue that would be attended by independent national characters" to discuss political differences and ensure a "fair and transparent" parliamentary poll.

The National Salvation Front of liberal-minded groups and other Mursi opponents cautiously welcomed the call.

THREATS OF VIOLENCE

Clashes in Port Said erupted after a judge sentenced 21 men to die for involvement in the deaths at the soccer match on February 1, 2012. Many were fans of the visiting team, Cairo's Al Ahly.

Al Ahly fans had threatened violence if the court had not meted out the death penalty. They cheered outside their Cairo club when the verdict was announced. But in Port Said, residents were furious that people from their city were held responsible.

Protesters ran wildly through the streets of the Mediterranean port, lighting tires in the street and storming two police stations, witnesses said. Gunshots were reported near the prison where most of the defendants were being held.

A security source in Port Said said 32 people were killed there, many dying from gunshot wounds. He said 312 were wounded and the ministry of defense had allocated a military plane to transfer the injured to military hospitals.

Inside the court in Cairo, families of victims danced, applauded and some broke down in tears of joy when they heard Judge Sobhy Abdel Maguid declare that the 21 men would be "referred to the Mufti", a phrase used to denote execution, as all death sentences must be reviewed by Egypt's top religious authority.

There were 73 defendants on trial. Those not sentenced on Saturday would face a verdict on March 9, the judge said.

At the Port Said soccer stadium a year ago, many spectators were crushed and witnesses saw some thrown off balconies after the match between Al Ahly and local team al-Masri. Al Ahly fans accused the police of being complicit in the deaths.

Among those killed on Saturday were a former player for al-Masri and a soccer player in another Port Said team, the website of the state broadcaster reported.

TEARGAS FIRED

On Friday, protesters angry at Mursi's rule had taken to the streets for the second anniversary of the uprising that erupted on January 25, 2011 and brought Mubarak down 18 days later.

Police fired teargas and protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs. Nine people were killed, mainly in the port city of Suez, and hundreds more were injured across the nation.

Reflecting international concern at the two days of clashes, British Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt said: "This cannot help the process of dialogue which we encourage as vital for Egypt today, and we must condemn the violence in the strongest terms."

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged the Egyptian authorities to restore calm and order and called on all sides to show restraint, her spokesperson said.

On Saturday, some protesters again clashed and scuffled with police in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities. In the capital, youths pelted police lines with rocks near Tahrir Square.

In Suez, police fired teargas when protesters angry at Friday's deaths hurled petrol bombs and stormed a police post and other governmental buildings including the agriculture and social solidarity units.

Around 18 prisoners in Suez police stations managed to escape during the violence, a security source there said, and some 30 police weapons were stolen.

"We want to change the president and the government. We are tired of this regime. Nothing has changed," said Mahmoud Suleiman, 22, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the cauldron of the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolt.

Mursi's opponents say he has failed to deliver on economic pledges or to be a president representing the full political and communal diversity of Egyptians, as he promised.

"Egypt will not regain its balance except by a political solution that is transparent and credible, by a government of national salvation to restore order and heal the economy and with a constitution for all Egyptians," prominent opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on Twitter.

The opposition National Salvation Front, responding to the Defense Council's call for dialogue, said there must be a clear agenda and guarantees that any deal would be implemented, spokesman Khaled Dawoud told Reuters.

The Front earlier on Saturday threatened an election boycott and to call for more protests on Friday if demands were not met. Its demands included picking a national unity government to restore order and holding an early presidential poll.

Mursi's supporters say the opposition does not respect the democracy that has given Egypt its first freely elected leader.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled Mursi to office, said in a statement that "corrupt people" and media who were biased against the president had stirred up fury on the streets.

The frequent violence and political schism between Islamists and secular Egyptians have hurt Mursi's efforts to revive an economy in crisis as investors and tourists have stayed away, taking a heavy toll on Egypt's currency.

(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy, Peter Griffiths in London and Claire Davenport in Brussels; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/seven-die-egypt-violence-anniversary-uprising-003521804.html

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Realtime Polling Startup GoPollGo Begins To Show Real Business Potential With ?Promoted Polls?

Back in early 2011, Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner launched GoPollGo to address a perceived deficiency in analytics, geographical info and social integrations from the Web's go-to polling platforms. Six-months later, with a round of seed funding in tow, the startup decided to re-focus on Twitter -- on providing everyday users with the ability to more easily poll their users and drill down into realtime analytics, not unlike WayIn.

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Duval & Stachenfeld's Stephen B. Land Appointed as Secretary of ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duval & Stachenfeld LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen B. Land, chair of the Firm's Tax Practice Group, has been appointed as Secretary of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA).

This appointment means that in 2016, Mr. Land will become the Chair of this Section. This is one of the most prestigious appointments a tax lawyer can achieve anywhere. The current Chair is from Sullivan & Cromwell, and prior chairs have been from Cleary Gottlieb, Wachtell Lipton, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Rarely before has a tax lawyer from a small firm been elected to this illustrious post.

"I am delighted about my appointment to the leadership of the Tax Section. The Section has a long tradition of insightful commentary on new tax legislation and regulations, and I'm proud to be part of that tradition," said Mr. Land.?

Mr. Land's tax practice focuses on regularly advising clients on tax aspects of U.S. domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance matters; in particular, financial instruments and derivatives, corporate restructurings, structured financing arrangements, real estate, joint ventures, and executive compensation.

Prior to joining Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, Mr. Land served as the head of the US Tax Practice at UK law firm Linklaters LLP, where he practiced for 15 years in their New York office.

In addition to the NYSBA appointment, Stephen Land has been recognized as a leader in the tax field and he speaks regularly on tax topics at conferences in the U.S. and elsewhere. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Tax section, of the New York State Bar Association, and has been published in The Tax Lawyer and Tax Law Review, among others. Mr. Land has been recognized by Chambers and Legal 500 as one of the top international tax lawyers in the United States.?

Background on Duval & Stachenfeld LLP

Duval & Stachenfeld LLP is a 15-year old law firm based in Manhattan with approximately 65 attorneys that focuses on complex real estate transactions, litigation and arbitration, tax, corporate and M&A, bankruptcy, structured finance strategies, environmental, and tax exempt organizations. With close to 50 real estate attorneys, the Duval & Stachenfeld Real Estate Group has one of the largest real estate legal teams in New York City.? For more information, visit www.dsllp.com.

Caitlin Velez, Director of Marketing and Client Relations Duval & Stachenfeld LLP Ph: (212) 672-3747

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