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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says despite tensions between the U.S. and Myanmar, President Thein Sein (tayn sayn) of Myanmar has shown leadership to move his country toward political and economic reforms.
Obama spoke as he sat in the Oval Office with the Asian nation's president at his side. It was the first time a Myanmar leader has visited the White House in 47 years.
Activists object to the invitation because of concerns over human rights in the country. But it marks a turnaround in international acceptance for Myanmar after decades of isolation and direct military rule.
Obama cited Myanmar's release of political prisoners, credible elections, more inclusivity and efforts to resolve ethnic conflicts.
He says both leaders discussed release of more prisoners and institutionalizing reforms.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation.
But activists are angry about President Barack Obama hosting Thein Sein, and lawmakers are wary. The Myanmar leader has led the shift from decades of direct military rule, but has stalled on some reform commitments and failed to stop bloody outbursts of ethnic violence.
Thein Sein previously served in a repressive junta, and his meetings at the White House and Congress would have been all-but-impossible before he took the helm of a nominally civilian government in 2011. His name was only deleted from a blacklist barring travel to the U.S. last September.
He arrived in Washington Saturday, six months after Obama made history with an unprecedented U.S. presidential visit to the country also known as Burma. The administration's outreach to Myanmar's generals has provided an important incentive for the military to loosen controls on citizens and reduce dependence on China.
Myanmar has been rewarded by relaxation of tough economic sanctions, and Thein Sein will be addressing American businessmen keen to capitalize on the opening of one of Asia's few untapped markets.
"President Thein Sein's visit underscores President Obama's commitment to supporting and assisting those governments that make the important decision to embrace reform," the White House said in its announcement of Monday's visit.
It will be the first by a Myanmar leader since a September 1966 visit by Ne Win, an independence hero-turned dictator, who began the nation's descent from regional rice bowl to economic basket case. Thein Sein visited New York last September for the U.N. General Assembly but didn't come to Washington.
The U.S. last month announced it is considering duty-free access for Myanmar to U.S. markets, and there could be progress Monday toward a bilateral trade and investment framework agreement.
The most significant outcome of Thein Sein's trip could be a symbolic one. Obama is expected to use "Myanmar" ? the country name adopted by the junta in 1989 ? when he meets Thein Sein. However, the U.S. will keep using "Burma" in official documents.
Thein Sein will be accorded the protocol due to a foreign president, yet his Washington welcome will pale next to that granted last September to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who met Obama and was presented by Congress with the highest civilian award it can bestow.
Human rights activists and Myanmar campaigners have sharply criticized the administration for inviting Thein Sein, arguing it sends the wrong message and wastes leverage to press for further democratic change. The administration says it is important to signal U.S. support for his reform agenda, likely still opposed by military hardliners.
Thein Sein told the Washington Post in an interview Sunday that the military "will always have a special place" in government.
The military governed Myanmar for five decades and retains a quarter of parliamentary seats, giving it an effective veto over constitutional amendments ? including changes that would be required to allow Suu Kyi to run for the presidency in crucial 2015 elections.
Outside the White House on Monday, about 30 activists opposing Thein Sein's visit protested corruption in the government and treatment of ethnic Kachins in a northern region blighted by fighting between army and rebel forces. "We need real changes in Burma to stop the violations," said an organizer of the rally, Ye Htut of the International Foundation for Burma National Congress.
Ahead of Thein Sein's trip, Myanmar released at least 19 political prisoners in what has become a pattern for amnesties that coincide with high-profile international meetings as a way of highlighting the government's benevolent policies. Right groups say at least 160 political detainees are still held.
The government has permitted the International Committee of the Red Cross access to its notorious prisons for the first time in seven years. But hasn't allowed adequate humanitarian access to conflict zones where tens of thousands have been displaced. Authorities have failed to stop, and may have abetted in some cases, an explosion in communal violence that has killed hundreds and led to segregation of Muslim communities.
The U.S. State Department on Monday again designated Myanmar as a country of special concern for its severe violations of religious freedom, as it has since 1999 in an annual global assessment. It said the government promoted Buddhism, practiced by the majority, over minority faiths that include Islam.
The department said there were credible allegations of the involvement of local border security authorities in the burning of villages during the communal violence in western Rakhine State, and of Muslims being arbitrarily detained since June, and reportedly denied food, water, and sleep. Some deaths in custody were reported, the department said.
The U.S. Campaign for Burma said Thein Sein's trip follows a troubling downward trend in Myanmar, and that "instead of honoring an abusive leader" the U.S. should tie its concessions to conditions.
Thein Sein told the Post that allegations the Myanmar army condones or even participates in ethnic pogroms against the nation's Muslim minority were a "pure fabrication."
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Associated Press writers Josh Lederman in Washington and Aye Aye Win in Yangon, Myanmar, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-cites-myanmar-reforms-during-leaders-visit-195121255.html
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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the "Bloomberg Leadership Summit" seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the "Bloomberg Leadership Summit" seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp speak during a news conference Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Yahoo edged up 31 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $26.83 after the Internet company said it was buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
NEW YORK (AP) ? It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
Which raises the question: When is it OK for a wunderkind to drop out of school?
Some folks in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say a conventional education can't possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need. Others, like Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who teaches and advises startup companies, say dropping out to pursue a dream is like "buying a lottery ticket ? that's how good your odds are here. More likely than not, you will become unemployed. For every success, there are 100,000 failures."
But what about kids who are so good at computer programming that schools can't teach them what they need to know? "That's what internships are for; that's what extracurricular activities are for," says Wadhwa, who has founded two companies.
Karp, in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, said he hopes teenagers don't look at his success as an excuse for leaving school. "That is not a path that I would haphazardly recommend to kids out there," he said. "I was in a very unique position of knowing exactly what I wanted to do at a time when computer science education certainly wasn't that good in high school in New York City."
Karp's mother gave him the option of home-schooling when he was 14, after he completed his freshman year at the Bronx High School of Science, an elite New York City public school that only admits students who score well on a difficult entrance exam. Karp took Japanese classes and had a math tutor while continuing with an internship at an animation production company, but by age 16, he was working for a website and was on his way to become a tech entrepreneur. He never did get his diploma. Karp's mother told the AP that she let him leave school because she realized "he needed the time in the day in order to create."
That resonates with Penny Mills of Hudson, Mass., who let her son Thomas Sohmers, 17, drop out of 11th grade this year. "I could see how much of the work he was doing at school wasn't relevant to what he wanted to learn," she said. "He always wanted to learn more than what the schools wanted to teach him. At times it was very frustrating. I was fortunate to find people that were able to teach him more, but he has gone beyond what high school could ever give him."
Thomas has been working at a research lab at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. He just won a Thiel Fellowship, which gives $100,000 to 20 people under the age of 20 each year so they can skip college to focus on research or a dream, whether it's a high-tech project, a business or a nonprofit. But his mom says she would have let him drop out even if he hadn't won the award.
"The part that really bothers me is that there are a lot of Thomases out there and their needs are not being met," said Mills.
Thomas says he's sad to be leaving his teenage friends behind, but he's excited about the future. And he has mixed feelings about his years in school. "I've had some amazing, great teachers that really have the passion to teach, but most of what is in school now is teaching to a test," he said. "It's really sad. You're not learning the skills for how to solve the problem ? you are just learning the answer to this question that is going to be on the test."
Susan Bartell, a psychologist based in Port Washington, New York who works with adolescents and their families, says she frequently encounters parents who are convinced that their kids are extraordinarily gifted. But she cautions that it's "the very rare exception when this decision (to drop out) makes sense." In the case of Karp, she said, "it worked out, but almost always it doesn't ? even if a kid is extremely gifted. School is about much more than just academics and in most cases, even the most gifted kids need the socializing."
And not all young moguls take Karp's route. Earlier this year, a 17-year-old from London, Nick D'Aloisio, sold an app he created to Yahoo for $30 million ? but he decided to stay in school.
On the other hand, there are examples of successful individuals in many fields who lack a high school diploma, from top performers such as Jay-Z to billionaire businessmen such as Richard Branson.
The tech community may be different from other industries. Degrees are not necessarily seen as a hallmark of achievement and programmers are judged on their ability to type lines of code. You are what you create.
What also sets the field apart is that computer programming is not taught at every high school, and even when it is, the most talented students often either "surpass the curriculum or feel it's not relevant to them," said Danielle Strachman, program director for the Thiel Fellowship. "They want to move at their own pace."
Strachman also emphasized that just because someone has left school, doesn't mean they've stopped learning. The Thiel program provides not just funding, but a community of peers and mentors to help recipients reach their goals. And they can always go back to pursue a degree when the fellowship is over.
It's a goal that even Karp has his eye on? despite his newfound wealth. "I hope I have an opportunity to go to school at some point," he said, "and study something completely different."
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Associated Press writers Meghan Barr in New York and Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this story.
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>>> a look at online classified , they can be convenient but they can be shady and shocking. "dateline"'s chris hansen has more of his hidden camera look at the wild, wild web.
>> unbelievable from hitmen to sweetheart swindles to people selling bad drugs online we found it all. take a look. we're back in the online classifies, and this time you won't believe what we found. are you a vampire?
>> yes, i am a vampire.
>> this man posted seeking human blood so he could drink it. when was the first time you consumed human blood ? here's an ad from someone calling himself the problem eliminator.
>> i'm all set. we're ready to go.
>> promising he'll take care of a nasty co-worker to are a fee. are you a hitman? then there was jessica , who posted this listing on craigslist saying she's looking for love. she'd be a great catch for any young man, except she says she doesn't want a young man. she wants an old man.
>> i'm a 35-year-old woman looking for love from an older man at least in his 70s.
>> is she for real? a "dateline" senior producer pretends to be a 76-year-old named sam .
>> i want to enjoy life a little.
>> reporter: she tells sam her name is jessica travers and she says she wants to start a new life with him if he wires $7,500.
>> i got some savings.
>> sam says his nephew is delivering the money and that is a "dateline" producer and i comment along as his friend and here comes jessica now.
>> how are you?
>> nice to meet you. i'm jessica .
>> jessica , really? she says sam has already charmed her, even though she has never even seen a photo of him.
>> he makes me laugh, i haven't smiled since god knows what.
>> i ask her why she looks nothing like the photo she posted. that's not really you, is it?
>> no, that was me when i was in high school .
>> in high school ?
>> yes.
>> it's time for me to tell jessica who i am. jessica , there's something i need to tell you and that is i'm chris hansen with "dateline" nbc. everybody changes over the years, i'm not being disrespectful but i don't think that's you.
>> that was me in high school .
>> what year did you graduate from high school ?
>> i stood back a couple of years, so i don't remember the exact date.
>> you don't remember the year you graduated from high school ?
>> no.
>> jessica .
>> i don't remember the exact year.
>> how could you not? everybody knows the year they graduate from high school . jessica has not stayed to finish her lunch, so who was that woman in the photo jessica posted?
>> it's embarrassing.
>> her name is kara mckinnett a college freshman we tracked down in maine.
>> i feel absolutely violated. it's my own personal identity and i feel like that's been taken from me.
>> as it turns out, jessica stole kara's photo from her facebook page. they were friends in high school , the class of 2012 . and that's just the tip of the iceberg . tonight at 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central you'll see all kinds of things that will blow your mind .
>> thank you, chris, we appreciate that, look forward to it and as chris mentioned see his report on dateline 8:00, 7:00 central on nbc.
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May 19, 2013 ? Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst report their findings at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
"This represents the first result of current production solely on hydrogen," says Amit Kumar, a researcher on the study who, along with his co-authors are part of the Lovley Lab Group at the university.
Under the leadership of Derek Lovley the lab group has been studying Geobacter bacteria since Lovley first isolated Geobacter metallireducens in sand sediment from the Potomac River in 1987. Geobacter species are of interest because of their bioremediation, bioenergy potential, novel electron transfer capabilities, the ability to transfer electrons outside the cell and transport these electrons over long distances via conductive filaments known as microbial nanowires.
Kumar and his colleagues studied a relative of G. metallireducens called Geobacter sulfurreducens, which has the ability to produce electricity by reducing organic carbon compounds with a graphite electrode like iron oxide or gold to serve as the sole electron acceptor. They genetically engineered a strain of the bacteria that did not need organic carbon to grow in a microbial fuel cell.
"The adapted strain readily produced electrical current in microbial fuel cells with hydrogen gas as the sole electron donor and no organic carbon source," says Kumar, who notes that when the hydrogen supply to the microbial fuel cell was intermittently stopped electrical current dropped significantly and cells attached to the electrodes did not generate any significant current.
This research was supported by funding by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research.
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IRVING, Texas (AP) ? Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left.
The bogeys on the closing hole at TPC Four Seasons haven't cost him the lead yet.
Bradley overcame consecutive bogeys early and bogeyed No. 18 for the third round in a row Saturday to finish with a 2-under 68 that kept him in the lead.
"(Sunday) is the day. Right down the middle," Bradley said about that last hole. "I'm due!"
Bradley's 13-under 197 total gave him a one-stroke lead over Sang-Moon Bae, who had his third consecutive 66. Tom Gillis was two strokes back after a 67.
After going way right off the tee at No. 18 the first two rounds, Bradley smashed his drive Saturday down the left side toward the water. The ball stayed dry, but settled behind a large rock and forced him to punch back into the fairway. His approach settled on the front edge of the green and he almost saved par ? the ball rolled just over the lip of the cup.
"I thought I made the putt, which would have been exciting," he said. "But 5 on that hole from where I hit it off the tee is a pretty good score."
On Sunday, Bradley will be trying to win at TPC Four Seasons for the second time in three years. He could also become the Nelson's first wire-to-wire winner since Tom Watson led alone at the end of all four rounds in 1980.
"Should be easier than having to come from behind," he said. "I have felt comfortable out there, haven't felt nervous. I feel like I put the time in, I feel like this is where I should be when I play well is near the lead or in the lead."
Bradley got his first PGA Tour victory as a rookie at the Nelson two years ago. He followed that by winning the PGA Championship later that season and the World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational in 2012. The nephew of LPGA great Pat Bradley came from behind on the final day for all of those wins.
After following his opening course-record 60 with a 69 on Friday, Bradley started the third round with a three-stroke lead. He stayed alone at top of the leaderboard throughout.
Scott Piercy's 66 matched Bae and three others for the best round on a breezy Texas day. Piercy was fourth at 10 under, two strokes ahead of Gary Woodland (68), Harris English (68), John Huh (69) and 2011 Masters champ Charl Schwartzel (69).
When 83 players made the cut of even par, there were threesomes instead of traditional twosomes for the third round. That put Bradley in the same group with Bae and Gillis, who started the round tied for second place.
A secondary cut trimmed the field to 72 players for the final round, when Bradley plays with Bae in the final group. Gillis is paired with Piercy.
"Keegan is playing pretty good, but you got to play 'em all, see how it shakes out," said Gillis, who missed the cuts in his previous five tournaments.
Gillis was the last player in the field with a bogey Saturday, when he three-putted from 20 feet at the 203-yard 17th. He got that stroke right back when he blasted out of a greenside bunker for an unexpected birdie at No. 18.
"Makes dinner taste better, that's for sure," Gillis said.
Bradley first got to 12 under with a 13-foot birdie at the 505-yard third hole and saved par at the next hole after driving into a fairway bunker.
His consecutive bogeys came when he two-putted for bogey after missing the green at the par-3 fifth and then drove into the rough at No. 6. But after a long wait to tee off at the 542-yard seventh hole, Bradley got to the green in two and two-putted from 14 feet for a birdie.
When Bradley's drive at No. 11 settled just a few inches above the top edge of a bunker, it looked like he might have some trouble. But he hit his approach shot onto the green, 34 feet from the cup, and sank the birdie putt to get to 13 under. He blasted within 12 feet from a greenside bunker at the par-5 16th hole for birdie.
Bae, the 26-year-old South Korean who has 11 international victories but none on the PGA Tour, was quickly within a stroke of the lead after birdies on the first two holes. He made a 9-footer on the first and curled in a 32-foot birdie putt at the 223-yard second hole.
A 12-footer for birdie at the eighth hole got Bae to 10 under, again only a stroke back. But Bradley made a 14-foot birdie putt to close out the front nine and made the turn with a two-stroke lead over Bae and Gillis, who also made a birdie from 14 feet at the ninth hole to get to 10 under.
"Only play just my game," Bae said when asked how difficult it will be trying to overtake Bradley. "Nobody knows."
Notes: English twice had three birdies in a row, including approaches of 5-6 feet on holes 11-13 to get to 10 under right after missing a 3-foot par putt at No. 10. ... Huh, the 2012 PGA Tour rookie of the year, had an eagle 2 at the 14th hole when he holed a shot from 162 yards. ... Two-time major champion Angel Cabrera missed the green at the par-3 fifth hole, but chipped in from 27 feet for his second consecutive birdie to make up for the double-bogey 6 at No. 3. He finished with 11 consecutive pars in a 70 that left him seven strokes off the lead.
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This week?s pet post comes from one of my favorite bloggers, Trisha with momdot.com. ?Be sure to check out her cool and very popular blog. ?When I asked her permission to use this funny picture from her website, she wrote me right back and told me that her family has six rescue pets! ?Kudos to them for their kindness and ability to give six lucky animals a loving home. ?Here are several of the pets and when I saw her dog using a cat tree, I just had to make that this week?s pet pic?.
Non only is Trish?s dog is a good friend to her cats, but he is also a good watchdog with his bionic ears.
I just love this funny picture! ?You can see more of Trisha?s pet articles, parenting articles, recipes, giveaways and more at her momdot.com blog ?Thanks for sharing Trish!
This picture reminds us to find some quality play time with our pets this weekend because it is good for them and for us humans. ?Send us your pet pics. ?We love to post them and we have received some great ones so far. ? Click under the Pet Pic section to see the gallery. ?Email you pet pics to [email?protected] and have a great weekend.
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Nintendo seems to have a knack for repeat performances. Nintendo DS? Quickly supplanted by the DS Lite -- and the DSi didn't last too long either before it was succeeded by the DSi XL. Even the 3DS saw a revision, when it was supersized last summer. These redesigns typically don't change more than the device's size, but when the 3DS XL was announced, some gamers were left wanting. Didn't the original 3DS get an accessory specifically to address the lack of a second analog pad? Why didn't Nintendo take the opportunity to add dual-analog controls? Well, if that happened, Nintendo couldn't release an encore Circle Pad Pro accessory, could it? Let's take a look at the 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro and see what's changed.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels.
A standoff over how to restore Malian government authority to Kidal, the last town in the desert north yet to be brought under central control, is sowing resentment with Paris and could delay planned elections to restore democracy after a coup.
Mali's army has moved troops towards Kidal, a stronghold of the MNLA Tuareg separatists, but missed a self-imposed deadline this week to retake the Saharan town. France, which has its own forces camped outside, does not want Malian troops to march on the town, fearing ethnic bloodshed if it is taken by force.
"Paris blocks army at the gates of Kidal," read a headline in Le Matin, a weekly in Mali's capital Bamako.
Elections are planned for July in Mali to finally restore normalcy after a chaotic 18 months that saw Tuaregs launch a revolt, the military carry out a coup, al Qaeda-linked Islamists seize the north and 4,000 French troops arrive to dislodge them.
Many in government and on the streets of Bamako blame the January 2012 uprising by the Tuareg MNLA for unleashing the other calamities that nearly dissolved the country. Nationalists now want the army to march into Kidal to disarm the rebels.
France is instead backing secretive talks being held in neighbouring Burkina Faso, designed to allow the July elections to take place, while urging Bamako to address Tuaregs' long-standing demands for autonomy for their desert homeland.
Clashes between Arabs and Tuaregs have shown that ethnic tension remains high.
GOODWILL FRAYING
The former colonial power, France won enthusiastic public support across Mali for its decision to send troops in January to crush the al Qaeda-linked fighters. French flags still flutter in parts of the dusty riverside capital, and President Francois Hollande was cheered as a liberator by huge crowds when he visited in February.
But goodwill is giving way to frustrations over Kidal, with many Malians questioning why France would not boldly confront the MNLA as it had done the coalition of al Qaeda-linked rebels.
Within the army, whose morale evaporated in a string of defeats last year, anger simmers over foreign interference.
"Our men are ready but we have not received the orders to enter the town. It is a political decision," said a senior Malian officer, who asked not to be named.
Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore, whom Paris has defended from military pressure, voiced support for dialogue with the MNLA on Friday in Paris ahead of a meeting with Hollande. He said plans for decentralisation should satisfy the MNLA's demands.
But many in Mali, particularly those close to the army, are hostile towards dialogue. The official Twitter feed for Mali's presidency refers to the MNLA as terrorists.
Hollande rejects that label, saying the MNLA fought alongside French and African forces against the Islamists, providing intelligence on Islamists' positions.
"We have said we will are willing to aid the return of Malian civilian administration to Kidal to organise elections," Hollande said this week, appearing to rule out a military alternative. "We want a political dialogue, and I think that will happen."
"KIDAL WILL VOTE"
The MNLA stole back into Kidal after France's air and ground assault scattered the Islamists. The town has since been under awkward joint occupation by the MNLA with French troops and, for a time, their Chadian allies.
Defence Minister Yamoussa Camara promised parliament this month that Mali's forces would be in the town by May 15. Residents in northern Mali have reported movement towards Kidal for weeks, but the force has yet to arrive.
The Kidal region is home to just 0.5 percent of Mali's population - by far its least populated area - but the authorities say the national vote cannot take place without it.
"Kidal will vote like the rest of the country ... That's what Malians want," said Gamer Dicko, spokesman for the territorial administration ministry, tasked with organising elections. "Not holding an election there would be a de facto split of the country."
Diplomats say talks are quietly underway in Burkina Faso to find a way of allowing the elections to proceed in Kidal, as a stepping stone to political talks with the MNLA and other armed groups once a permanent, elected government is in place.
"It is about finding a gentleman's agreement so the elections can take place in Kidal," a West African diplomat said, asking not to be named. "The transitional government will not find a definitive solution to the problem."
President Traore has named a former minister, Tiebile Drame, as special envoy to coordinate talks with northern groups.
Traore wrote in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Drame had been named so that "Mali can keep control of the process", an apparent sign of frustration with the role played by a panoply of U.N. and African mediators.
Another diplomat said recent discussions in Bamako had revealed divisions between the Western position that more regional autonomy was needed to resolve the conflict and African nations' support for a tougher line on the rebels.
"African nations didn't criticise France directly but they were very critical of the MNLA," said the source.
Part of the difficulty of talks with the Tuaregs, diplomats say, is the divisions within their armed groups. The MNLA alone has 21 representatives on its negotiating commission.
A spokesman for the MNLA in Paris confirmed that contacts had been made with the Malian government through Burkina Faso mediators, but he said they were not official talks. He would not comment on the conditions needed for elections to go ahead.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crushing-mali-islamists-france-pushes-deal-tuaregs-130548152.html
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The drug rehabs in Alaska are gaining immense support on the local government. This initiative has been recognized and appreciated from the people of Alaska likewise. They?re being funded because of the government so as to result in civil peace and work at the welfare with the citizens.
Drug use in Alaska: Alaska is the drug place to go for many mafia gangs namely the Mexican plus the Dominican. Alaska like a state includes a very non convenient location when compared to the other states of america. This makes it an extremely convenient location for drug smuggling etc. It?s of the latest, topped the list if being a huge consumer from the illicit drugs. One of the most prevalent drugs using the rounds in Alaska are crack cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycontin and heroine. Marijuana along with other club drugs too are extremely widespread in Alaska.
Safety measures concerning rehabs: So that you can bring this situation in order, there were several DEA enforcement teams who have come into force in Alaska. This cooperative effort together with the local law as well as state encouraging the Alaska drug rehabs is usually a resultant outcome to your problems for this drug related crimes that were going for a toll within the state. Although the problem of the drug racket isn?t going to appear to cease, this initiative has certainly produce many criminals behind the bars.
Progress of the Alaska drug rehabs: The Alaska alcohol rehabs see many patients who are looking for assistance. Many youth proactively join these rehabs to obtain back on track within their lives. There are numerous drug and alcohol rehabs in Alaska that happen to be being funded because of the government. The cash is raised not through the other source but from your caught drug rackets itself.
In order to provide assist with the drug addiction victims the us government of Alaska is taking a funds that are gathered from the drug traffickers and making sure that they can be put in the righ way in the drug treatment programs and also the substance rehabs with the state. You will find programs such as the outpatient and inpatient programs.
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A lot of people today fear buying real estate purchase can be intimidating for so many reasons. From legal complications, to the current real estate climate, there are a lot of new concerns that come up when considering a purchase. Becoming better educated can help, and these tips below can help you develop a basis.
A smart real estate agent will keep good contact with clients long after the sale, sending holiday cards and noting the anniversary of the home?s sale. They will remember how you helped them with their home buying experience. When you are concluding your greeting, remind them you would love to be referred to friends or family, because referrals are how you earn your living.
Be moderate in your approach when considering a purchase of real estate negotiations.Many times people are too aggressive because they are trying to get the best price, most times this approach will not get you the property that you want. Be clear about what you want, but let your lawyer and real estate agent negotiate, let your Realtor and lawyer go at the negotiations since they are used to fighting those battles.
Exercise flexibility when making decisions. You might not have the financial resources to buy your dream house in your dream neighborhood, but you might have enough to choose one of the two. If you can?t find a home in the area you want, shop for one in a similar area.
TIP! When you are buying a property, have some extra money so that you can pay for costs that you did not expect. You can get a good idea of the closing costs if you add the down payment, taxes and what the bank charges.
Real estate agents should keep in contact with former clients over the holidays and on the anniversaries of a purchase date. They will be reminded of how you helped them with their home buying experience. At the end of your message, let them know that you function by means of referrals and you would really appreciate it if they recommended you to their other friends.
If you want to move, you may want to research the neighborhoods of properties you are interested in online. You can discover a great deal of information about even the smallest town. Consider the population, population and unemployment rate of your desired location before purchasing a house there so you ensure that you will love where you live.
If you want to make a terrific real estate investment, give serious thought to remodeling and repair work. The good thing is that you will get a good profit from your investment when you repair a fixer. The value of the home should increase more than the investment.
TIP! Now is the time to invest in real estate. Property values have sunk to an all-time low after the recent housing market crash.
Buyers typically figure out their closing costs by totaling the down payment, real estate taxes, and the real estate taxes that are pro-related. In many cases, the closing cost will include extra items like improvement bonds, school taxes, improvement bonds and other items specific to the area.
You should invest in the real estate market at this time. Property values and interest rates are now at a low in light of the market has crashed. The market will go up again, and you will see profits from your investment.
Before you purchase a home, have an inspector come take a look. A home inspector will look over every part of the property to ensure that you are not buying a house with serious issues that are unseen. Some problems may be so severe that you won?t be able to live in the house until they are repaired.
TIP! If you don?t live a cold climate, avoid buying a house with a fireplace. It is difficult to clean more than one fireplace, and most people do not use them as often as they think they will.
You need to know what resources and information is available, and what the actual buying process entails, so use these tips when you plan on buying. Once you understand the ins and outs of real estate investing, you will be able to make more confident and promising choices.
Source: http://www.holldon.com/buying-real-estate-does-not-have-to-be-scary/
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Now that Google Glass and Oculus Rift have entered the zeitgeist, might we start to see VR and AR products popping up on every street corner? Perhaps, but Meta has just launched an interesting take on the concept by marrying see-through, stereoscopic, display glasses with a Kinect-style depth sensor. That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall. To make it work, you connect a Windows PC to the device, which consists of a pair of 960 x 540 Epson displays embedded in the transparent glasses (with a detachable shade, as shown in the prototype above), and a depth sensor attached to the top. That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
Apps can be created via Unity3D and an included SDK on Windows computers (other platforms will arrive later, according to the team), with developers able to publish their apps on the upcoming Meta Store. The group has launched the project on Kickstarter with the goal of raising $100,000 to get developer kits into the hands of app coders, and though it's no Google, Meta is a Y Combinator startup and has several high-profile researchers on the team. As such, it's asking for exactly half of Glass' Explorer Edition price as a minimum pledge to get in on the ground floor: $750. Once developers have had their turn, the company will turn its attention toward consumers and more sophisticated designs -- so if you like the ideas peddled in the video, hit the source to give them your money.
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Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new strategy to revive the company, and Google launched its same-day delivery service. See what else made our top headlines:
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Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt| The New York Times
On Thursday, American Express confirmed that its website was hacked. The attack was the latest in a series of assaults on American financial institutions that began last September.
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"The culprits of these attacks, officials and experts say, appear intent on disabling financial transactions and operations. Corporate leaders have long feared online attacks aimed at financial fraud or economic espionage, but now a new threat has taken hold: attackers, possibly with state backing, who seem bent on destruction."
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RIM Unwraps Risky Phone Plan| The Wall Street Journal
Research In Motion reported decent sales for its new flagship phone and a new strategy to revive the company.
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"With only a month of sales from a limited number of markets, it is still far from clear that launch is a success. But Mr. Heins said he is already turning his attention to a series of new, as-yet-unseen products due out later in RIM's fiscal year?signaling he is eager to go after several different markets with low- and midprice versions of the new phones."
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It's Twilight for Small In-House Data Centers| InfoWorld?
Virtualization, cloud services, and software-as-a-service are making it easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers.
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"This trend is being felt the most at in-house data centers in small- to mid-size companies. These firms may be trying to shut down their data centers, or shift a major portion of their workloads to external providers."
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Forrester Research Calls Mobile-Device Management 'Heavy-Handed Approach'| NetworkWorld
With the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops, Forrester Research predicts the approach to managing these devices is in for big changes.
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"In its 2013 'Mobile?Security?Predictions' report, Forrester says that 'on-demand mobile virtualization?will overtake mobile-device management' as a core technology that IT professionals will turn to as a way 'to segregate business content and data from the personal environment' in mobile devices."
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Google's Same-Day-Delivery Service Goes Live in San Francisco| FastCompany
Google finally launched its delivery service which promises same-day delivery for products bought at some of its online e-commerce partner stores.
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"Google has been testing the Shopping Express system with employees for a while. The service is aimed at?competing?with Amazon's Prime delivery option--and Google has also been experimenting with a rival to Amazon's locker delivery service with its?purchase?of Canadian firm Bufferbox."
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By Maggie Fick
CAIRO, May 17 (Reuters) - Egyptian construction and
fertiliser group OCI said its core earnings were flat
in the first quarter, citing lower construction margins and
reduced output at its Egyptian plants due to interruptions in
supplies of natural gas.
The Dutch-listed parent of Orascom Construction Industries
(OCI) said output from its Egyptian plants was reduced
by the gas supply reductions, which it linked to a tax dispute
between its subsidiary OCI and the Egyptian authorities.
It gave no figure for core profit or EBITDA (earnings before
interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation).
The group, one of Egypt's biggest companies, also said on
Friday it estimated first-quarter consolidated earnings had
increased by between 10 and 20 percent from last year, but again
gave no figures.
It said its Egyptian plants "faced natural gas supply
curtailments" during the first quarter, but that since a
settlement agreement on April 30, gas utilisation rates had
increased.
OCI, run by one of Egypt's most prominent Christian
families, the Sawiris, said last month the Egyptian tax
authority had exonerated it of wrongdoing after it agreed to pay
7.1 billion Egyptian pounds ($1 billion) to resolve a tax
dispute.
The dispute stemmed from the company's plan to delist from
the Egyptian bourse, a move which was resisted by the country's
Islamist-led government.
OCI NV, which already owns about 70 percent of the
Egypt-listed shares, had on Tuesday cut the price of its tender
offer for the delisting without giving a reason for the
reduction, though analysts said it was not a surprise after a
fall in the price of the Cairo-listed stock.
($1 = 6.9760 Egyptian pounds)
(Editing by David Holmes)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oci-nv-says-earnings-hit-gas-supply-constraints-090924818.html
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(updates with quotes, details, adds byline) * Chest infection worsens, forcing Wiggins to withdraw * Defending champion Hesjedal also out * Italy's Nibali leads as Uran takes over as Team Sky leader By Alasdair Fotheringham BUSSETO, Italy, May 17 (Reuters) - This year's Giro d'Italia claimed two major victims when pre-race favourite Bradley Wiggins and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal withdrew prior to Friday's 13th stage, the pair citing illness as the reason for abandoning the tour. ...
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Getty ImagesSoccer fans in America often have a chip on their shoulder about football.? And for good reason.? Football is the dominant sport in the country, soccer isn?t.
Then again, soccer is boring.? Football isn?t.
It creates potential friction where an NFL team also owns a professional soccer team.? In New England, the Krafts are getting the brunt of some of that friction via fans of the soccer team the Krafts own.
Julian Cardillo of the Boston Globe (via SportsBusiness Daily) writes that ?[i]t appears to many that the Revolution are the Kraft family?s second priority, rather than an equal investment, to the New England Patriots.?
If it appears that way, that appearance would be accurate.? The Patriots have become one of the elite franchises in the NFL, the premier professional sports league in the United States.? The Revolution are an also-ran, at best, in a league that is an also-ran, at best.
Revolution Brian Bilello seems to think that the griping comes from soccer?s anti-football bias.
?I think both the Kraft family and the Hunt family, because they have NFL sides as well, I think there?s a weird perception,? Bilello told Cardillo.? ?Both families have been involved with the sport since the very beginning.? The fact that they?re involved in the NFL, that hurts them.?
Still, a Sports Illustrated poll of anonymous players pegged the Krafts as the worst owners in the MLS, and players like Thierry Henry and David Beckham have balked at playing on the FieldTurf at Gillette Stadium.
?There?s a lot of great things about having the Krafts as owners,? Bilello said.? ?They?ve supported this league.? They do things behind the scenes not just for the Revolution, but for the sport of soccer in this country.?
None of that matters to the average soccer fan, who can?t understand why Americans haven?t embraced the sport the way the rest of the world has.
Meanwhile, we can?t understand why the rest of the world hasn?t embraced football the way Americans have.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/16/arrest-warrant-issued-for-chad-johnson/related/
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 13 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The blasts at the two Sunni Muslim mosques also wounded 45 people, said tribal police officer Badshah Rehman. Both of the mosques were badly damaged, and the roof of one of them collapsed. The mosques were located in Baz Darrah village in the Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Rehman said.
Shahid Ali, who was in the first mosque that was attacked, said the explosion came just as worshippers were starting Friday prayers.
"I rushed out with others and saw several people bleeding and crying," Ali told The Associated Press by telephone. "There was dust and smoke around."
Ali rushed to the second mosque after it was attacked and saw that its roof had caved in and it was on fire.
"Many people are buried under the rubble," he said.
Rescue workers were trying to retrieve the dead and wounded from the debris, Rehman said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but suspicion will likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban.
The Sunni militant group has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of civilians and security personnel. The militants have attacked Sunni mosques in the past, perhaps because the worshippers did not follow their extremist brand of Islam.
The Pakistani army has mounted multiple operations against the militants in the northwest, but they have proven resilient and continue to carry out near-daily attacks.
The Taliban recently launched a series of attacks in the run-up to national elections on May 11 in an attempt to derail the vote. Pakistanis defied the militant group by coming out in large numbers to cast their ballots.
Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N Party was the big winner in the election and appears set to form the next government. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party, led by former cricket star Imran Khan, is expected to form the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Both politicians have called for negotiations with the Taliban, and Khan has even said that Pakistani troops should stop battling the militants and pull out of areas of the northwest. Now he will face the challenge of applying his election platform to the challenges of governing one of Pakistan's most violent areas.
Sharif's government will also face the challenge of turning around Pakistan's economy, which is hampered by power outages that last up to 18 hours a day in some parts of the country.
Pakistan has turned to neighboring Iran to help deal with the crisis. Iran provides electricity to several towns and villages in southwest Baluchistan province at cost of around $3 million a month, said Mohammad Ashraf, a spokesman for Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce.
Paying for the electricity is complicated by U.S. sanctions preventing financial transactions with many Iranian banks because of the country's suspect nuclear program. Therefore, Pakistan plans to pay for the electricity by exporting wheat to Iran.
"This food supply doesn't come under international sanctions Iran is facing," Ashraf said.
Iran sent Pakistan a bill for $53 million for electricity supplied up to mid-February, said Ashraf. Pakistan plans to pay by sending Iran 1 million tons of wheat. The Pakistani government on Thursday approved sending 100,000 tons of wheat as the first installment. The first ship carrying about 30,000 tons is expected to sail to Iran sometime next week, Ashraf said.
Pakistan also has plans to build a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran, despite the threat of U.S. sanctions.
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Associated Press writers Zarar Khan and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Sherin Zada in Mingora, Pakistan contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bombs-mosques-northwest-pakistan-kill-13-104130070.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Oil followed a familiar pattern Thursday, moving higher despite some less-than-stellar economic reports.
Benchmark oil for June delivery rose 86 cents to close at $95.16per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after falling as low as $93.23. Trading Wednesday was similar, when oil finished with a gain of 9 cents.
Applications for U.S. unemployment aid rose last week by 32,000 to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the highest in 6 weeks, the Labor Department said. A report on housing was neutral, with housing starts dropping, but permits rising.
Both oil and stock traders have lately shrugged off signs of sluggish economic growth, because the data suggest that the Federal Reserve will keep pumping money into financial markets.
"Much of the institutional oil trading community continues to associate strong equities with continued loose monetary policies that should, in turn, be supporting asset classes such as oil," said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates, in a note to clients.
At the pump, the average price for a gallon of gasoline reached $3.60 for the first time in more than a month. Gas has risen 9 cents so far in May as Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer driving season, approaches.
Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, rose 28 cents to finish at $103.78 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
? Wholesale gasoline gained 2 cents to end at $2.88 a gallon.
? Heating oil added 3 cents to finish at $2.91 a gallon.
? Natural gas lost 14 cents to end at $3.93 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Pablo Gorondi in Budapest and Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-reverses-early-losses-tops-95-barrel-194835232.html
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One year ago, a team of researchers traveled deep into the Honduran rainforest in search of Ciudad Blanca, the legendary lost city of treasures. Yesterday, they revealed images?uncovered by lasers?of structures that they believe to be the White City itself.
The legend of the White City has captured explorers' imaginations for centuries; Hern?n Cort?s detailed his interest in the purportedly gold-laden metropolis as far back as 1526. But the Mosquitia region where it was rumored to exist is densely packed with rainforest, and the conquistadors never penetrated deep enough to claim their prize.
Modern archaeologists have been just as stymied. Mosquitia has been the focus of a half dozen intensive explorations in the last century alone, some of which have yielded signs of some ruins and mounds. No one, though, despite their best efforts, had found anything close to a full city structure.
The team of researchers from the University of Houston, though, had something none of those expeditions did. They had lasers.
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping does just what you would think; uses highly advanced lasers to see things the human eye can't. Specifically, in this case, the team?led by a Los Angeles-based filmmaker?used a Lidar system to penetrate the thick foliage of Mosquitia and discover the treasures that lay beneath.
Lidar itself isn't particularly new. Developed in the 1960s, it was originally used to measure cloud densities, but comes in handy today for everything from mapping the Amazon rainforest
By stripping away layers of reflections the researchers were able to remove detail from the canopy and reveal the ground beneath, shown on the right in the image above. Yesterday, the researchers revealed these images for the first time, at the American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas in Cancun.
After others had spent centuries trying to unearth a single city of gold, the NCALM exploration made a surprising find: not one city, but two.
It might hard for the untrained eye to see, but the Lidar images revealed regularly spaced mounds?and a few other linear features?that possibly make up two distinct city centers. Either of which could very well be the legendary Ciudad Blanca.
We should know soon enough. The team is now closely studying the data to work out which sections contain the most promising features. Once they have, they'll deploy archaeologists to investigate the site further.
What will they find? Maybe rubble. Maybe gold. Maybe thousands of inexplicable golden orbs
Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-lasers-may-have-revealed-a-legendary-lost-city-of-g-507460219
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