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Friday, February 22, 2013
Theater Review: ?Isaac?s Eye? at Ensemble Studio Theater
[unable to retrieve full-text content]?Isaac?s Eye,? by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Root Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 on UBCMA4 Android 4.1.2 Official Firmware
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UBCMA4 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware for Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 was released just a while ago and now you can also root UBCMA4 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean software update. Installing a new firmware update removes root access and you have to perform the root process again to run apps that ask root permission. The root method works for Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 on UBCMA4 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean updated from Samsung KIES or manually using our firmware installation tutorial. You can now easily root UBCMA4 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 with the root package given in this tutorial. The old root package came with ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery but the new root package no longer comes with CWM recovery but only offer you a successful rooting. You may be interested to read ? Benefits of Rooting Android devices.
In this article we will help you to root Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 running N8000UBCMA4 firmware. For this we will flash a small .tar file using ODIN. However, in this process you may lose your personal data and settings. You should follow this guide carefully to properly backup your data that you can restore later.
Rooting Information: Once your device is rooted, warranty will get void; However, you can reclaim the warranty by applying official firmware update.
To check if you successfully rooted your device or not install an app called ?Root Checker? that available for download from Google PLAY store for free.
Warning!
This tutorial is only for Galaxy Note 10.1, model number N8000. Don?t try this guide in any other Android device. Check your device?s model number in: Settings ? About tablet. Also, we are not responsible for any damage caused due to the instruction given in this page. Try this at your own risk. Although, it is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions as it is which are mentioned in procedure.
Pre Requisites:
Backup your data first using below mentioned instructions, so that if you lost any data you can recover it easily.
SMS & Call Log ? Use SMS, MMS & Call Log Entries Backup & Restore App
Contacts & Settings ? Use Android default backup options.
Images, Songs, Videos, Files ? Copy to Internal/External SD card.
APN and MMS Settings ? Note down from the path ?Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names?
WhatsApp Messenger ? Manually Backup WhatsApp Messenger Data.
Important!
- Make sure your device have at least 80% battery power, otherwise your device may see a hard brick if device turn off during installation. [How to Check Battery Percentage in Android Device]
- Backup your EFS Folder to save IMEI number and other important data. [Guide]
- You already have USB Driver Installed for Galaxy Note 10.1 in your PC. [Download USB Drivers]
- Make sure USB Debugging is enabled otherwise you won?t able to transfer file between PC and mobile. [Guide]
- This installation guide use ODIN utility which work only in Windows OS. If you use Linux OS (such as Ubuntu) or Mac OS then use CrossOver Utility to run ODIN in your OS.
If you follow everything that we mentioned above, you are ready to move into next page of this guide where we summed up detail instruction on how to root Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 running N8000UBCMA4 firmware.
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Source: http://androidjinn.com/root-galaxy-note-10-1-n8000-on-ubcma4-android-4-1-2-official-firmware.html
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
myIDkey biometric password flash drive hits Kickstarter
Is it possible to remember all of one's passwords without the aid of a biometric Bluetooth flash drive? Possible, sure, but it's certainly getting harder and harder as the number of services we depend on continues to increase exponentially. Arkami has been floating its solution around for a bit, showing off its progress at CES and the like, and now the company is ready to get the public involved (or, the public's money, rather) by way of a newly opened Kickstarter campaign for myIDkey. The thumb drive stores passwords across various services, letting you take 'em on the run. There's a fingerprint scanner on-board, which unlocks the device, and a microphone, which lets you search for specific ones by voice. Plug the drive into your PC and it will autofill your passwords as needed, and if you're unlucky enough to lose it, you can instantly deactivate its contents.
Peep the source link below to check out -- and, perhaps, support -- the company's $150,000 campaign.
Filed under: Peripherals, Internet
Source: Kickstarter
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/myidkey-kickstarter/
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Jurassic records warn of risk to marine life from global warming
Feb. 19, 2013 ? The risk posed by global warming and rising ocean temperatures to the future health of the world's marine ecosystem has been highlighted by scientists studying fossil records.
Researchers at Plymouth University believe that findings from fieldwork along the North Yorkshire coast reveal strong parallels between the Early Jurassic era of 180 million years ago and current climate predictions over the next century.
Through geology and palaeontology, they've shown how higher temperatures and lower oxygen levels caused drastic changes to marine communities, and that while the Jurassic seas eventually recovered from the effects of global warming, the marine ecosystems that returned were noticeably different from before.
The results of the Natural Environment Research Council-funded project are revealed for the first time in this month's PLOS ONE scientific journal.
Professor Richard Twitchett, from the University's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and a member of its Marine Institute, said: "Our study of fossil marine ecosystems shows that if global warming is severe enough and lasts long enough it may cause the extinction of marine life, which irreversibly changes the composition of marine ecosystems."
Professor Twitchett, with Plymouth colleagues Dr Silvia Danise and Dr Marie-Emilie Clemence, undertook fieldwork between Whitby and Staithes, studying the different sedimentary rocks and the marine fossils they contained. This provided information about the environmental conditions on the sea floor at the time the rocks were laid down.
The researchers, working with Dr Crispin Little from the University of Leeds, were then able to correlate the ecological data with published data on changes in temperature, sea level and oxygen concentrations.
Dr Danise said: "Back in the laboratory, we broke down the samples and identified all of the fossils, recording their relative abundance much like a marine biologist would do when sampling a modern environment. Then we ran the ecological analyses to determine how the marine seafloor community changed through time."
The team found a 'dead zone' recorded in the rock, which showed virtually no signs of life and contained no fossils. This was followed by evidence of a return to life, but with new species recorded.
Professor Twitchett added: "The results show in unprecedented detail how the fossil Jurassic communities changed dramatically in response to a rise in sea level and temperature and a decline in oxygen levels.
"Patterns of change suffered by these Jurassic ecosystems closely mirror the changes that happen when modern marine communities are exposed to declining levels of oxygen. Similar ecological stages can be recognised in the fossil and modern communities despite differences in the species present and the scale of the studies."
The NERC project - 'The evolution of modern marine ecosystems: environmental controls on their structure and function' - runs until March 2015, and is one of four funded under their Coevolution of Life and the Planet research programme.
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- Silvia Danise, Richard J. Twitchett, Crispin T. S. Little, Marie-Emilie Cl?mence. The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: an Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic). PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (2): e56255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056255
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EU regulators unsatisfied with Google's response to privacy policy concerns
European Union regulators weren't exactly content with Google after it rolled up most of its privacy policies into a monolithic document early last year, and it doesn't seem like that's about to change. After giving Page and Co. four months to respond to 12 recommendations regarding its new policy, French regulator CNIL has come to the conclusion that "Google did not provide any precise and effective answers." Though EU officials aren't happy with Mountain View's responses, Google says its policies respect European law and that it replied with steps to address the concerns by the January 8th deadline. Still, data protection regulators are committed to their investigation and are aiming to form a group before the summertime that would respond to the search titan.
Source: Reuters
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/19/eu-regulators-google-privacy-policy-investigation-continues/
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Salisbury News: Gun Owner Home Inspection Proposed!
Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort
One of the major gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill?s backers say that was a mistake.
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn?t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.
That it?s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward somecommon-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far.
?They always say, we?ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.?
That?s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737to my attention. It?s the long-awaited assault-weapons ban, introduced last week by three Seattle Democrats.
Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be illegal.
But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this:
?In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.?
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
International space station plays host to innovative infectious disease research
Feb. 18, 2013 ? Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is located hundreds of miles above Earth, traveling at some 17,000 miles per hour.
Nickerson, a microbiologist at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, is using the ISS platform to pursue new research into the effects of microgravity on disease-causing organisms.
Nickerson presented her research findings and charted the course for future investigations aboard the ISS on February 18 at the 2013 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Boston, Mass. Her talk, entitled "Microgravity: A Novel Tool for Advances in Biomedical Research," is part of a special session devoted to ISS science.
"One important focus of my research is to use the microgravity environment of spaceflight as an innovative biomedical research platform. We seek to unveil novel cellular and molecular mechanisms related to infectious disease progression that cannot be observed here on Earth, and to translate our findings to novel strategies for treatment and prevention."
During an earlier series of NASA space shuttle and ground-based experiments, Nickerson and her team made a startling discovery. Spaceflight culture increased the disease-causing potential (virulence) of the foodborne pathogen Salmonella, yet many of the genes known to be important for its virulence were not turned on and off as expected when this organism is grown on Earth. Understanding how this switching is regulated may be useful for designing targeted strategies to prevent infection.
For NASA, Nickerson's findings were revelatory, given their implications for the health of astronauts on extended spaceflight missions. Already faced with the potential for compromised immunity induced by the rigors of space travel, astronauts may have to further contend with the threat of disease-causing microbes with amped-up infectious abilities. A more thorough understanding of infectious processes and host responses under these conditions is therefore vital for the design of therapeutics and other methods of limiting vulnerability for those on space missions.
The story however, doesn't end there. Further research by Nickerson's team pointed to important implications for the understanding of health and disease on Earth. Her team, including NASA scientists, showed that one of the central factors affecting the behavior of pathogenic cells is the physical force produced by the movement of fluid over a bacterial cell's sensitive surface. This property, known as fluid shear, helps modulate a broad range of cell behaviors, provoking changes in cell morphology, virulence, and global alterations in gene expression, in pathogens like Salmonella.
"There are conditions that are encountered by pathogens during the infection process in the human body that are relevant to conditions that these same organisms experience when cultured in spaceflight. By studying the effect of spaceflight on the disease-causing potential of major pathogens like Salmonella, we may be able to provide insight into infectious disease mechanisms that cannot be attained using traditional experimental approaches on Earth, where gravity can mask key cellular responses," says Nickerson
Nickerson's spaceflight studies also pinpointed an evolutionarily conserved protein -- called Hfq -- which appears to act as a global regulator of gene responses to spaceflight conditions. Further research by her team established that Hfq is a central mediator in the spaceflight-induced responses of other bacterial pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, thus representing the first spaceflight-induced regulator acting across bacterial species.
Nickerson's examination of the post-spaceflight alterations in bacterial behavior made use of microarray technology, which allows analysis of gene expression for the entire 4.8 million base pairs found in Salmonella's circular chromosome. Data revealed that 167 distinct genes and 73 proteins had been altered during growth under microgravity conditions, including (but not limited to) virulence-associated genes. Of the 167 genes undergoing up- or down-regulation in response to spaceflight, one third were under the control of the Hfq master regulator protein.
These microgravity studies open a new window into the infectious disease mechanisms of Salmonella, an aggressive pathogen responsible for infecting an estimated 94 million people globally and causing 155,000 deaths annually. In the U.S. alone, more than 40,000 cases of Salmonellosis are reported annually, resulting in at least 500 deaths, and health care costs in excess of $50 million. However, only a small percentage of infections with Salmonella are reported, and the estimated two to four million cases of Salmonella-induced gastroenteritis which occur in the United States each year constitute a significant economic loss of productive work time, reported to exceed $2 billion annually.
While Salmonella has been a pathogen of choice for a broad range of spaceflight investigations, Nickerson stresses that her findings have spaceflight and Earth-based implications. Her confidence is based on her team's work showing that microgravity culture also uniquely alters gene expression and pathogenesis-related responses in other microorganisms.
Nickerson emphasizes that the ISS provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the infection process under microgravity conditions, enabling advances in our understanding of microbial gene expression and accompanying host responses during infection in fine-grained detail. This novel approach holds the potential to identify new classes of genes and proteins associated with infection and disease not possible using traditional experimental conditions on Earth, where the force of gravity can mask certain cellular responses. Further, experiments aboard the ISS will permit the study of microbial transitions and cellular responses to infection over a prolonged time frame -- an important advance not available during shuttle-based experiments.
Microgravity research may provide an opportunity to identify novel targets for vaccine development and the Nickerson team, in collaboration with Roy Curtiss, director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology has been working toward this goal. Based on previous findings, the scientists hypothesized that results from microgravity experiments might be used to facilitate vaccine development on Earth.
In a recent spaceflight experiment aboard space shuttle mission STS-135, the team flew a genetically modified Salmonella-based anti-pneumoccal vaccine that was developed in the Curtiss lab. By understanding the effect of microgravity culture on the gene expression and immunogenicity of the vaccine strain, their goal is to genetically modify the strain back on Earth to enhance its ability to confer a protective immune response against pneumococcal pneumonia.
"Recognizing that the spaceflight environment imparts a unique signal capable of modifying Salmonella virulence, we will use this same principle in an effort to enhance the protective immune response of the recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccine strain," Nickerson says.
Nickerson's space-based microgravity experiments are carried out in conjunction with simultaneous Earth-based controls housed in the same hardware as those in orbit, to compare the behavior of bacterial cells under normal Earth gravity. Additional information is also provided using Earth-based cell cultures which are subjected to a kind of simulated microgravity, produced by culturing cells in a rotating wall vessel bioreactor (RWV), a device designed by NASA engineers to replicate aspects of cell culture in the spaceflight environment.
Back at ASU, RWV reactor experiments were conducted by Nickerson and her team to help confirm that Hfq plays a central regulatory role in the Salmonella response to spaceflight conditions. Nickerson has also used this RWV technology to grow three dimensional (3-D) cell culture models that mimic key aspects of the structure and function of tissues in the body. These 3-D models are being used in the Nickerson lab as human surrogates to provide novel insight into the infectious disease process not obtainable by conventional approaches and for drug/therapeutic testing and development for treatment and prevention.
Nickerson also focuses research efforts on determining the entire repertoire of environmental factors that may influence bacterial response to spaceflight culture. For example, she found that the ion concentration in the cell culture media played a key role in the resulting effect of spaceflight on Salmonella virulence. Using the RWV, she was able to identify specific salts that may be responsible for this effect.
Nickerson's long list of firsts (first study to examine the effect of spaceflight on the virulence of a pathogen, first to obtain the entire gene expression response of a bacterium to spaceflight, first to profile the infection process in human cells in spaceflight, first identification of a spaceflight-responsive global gene regulator acting across bacterial species), will soon be augmented with a new experiment, that will be flown on SpaceX Dragon slated for the ISS later this year. Nicknamed PHOENIX, the project will mark the first time a whole, living organism -- in this case a nematode -- will be infected with a pathogen and simultaneously monitored in real time during the infection process under microgravity conditions.
This and future studies aboard ISS will almost certainly deepen science's understanding of the molecular and cellular cues underlying pathogenic virulence and open a new chapter in the understanding of health and disease to benefit the general public.
"It is exciting to me that our work to discover how to keep astronauts healthy during spaceflight may translate into novel ways to prevent infectious diseases here on Earth," Nickerson says.
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West Liberty University professor scrutinized for barring Fox News as source
Feb. 15, 2013
Dive Summary:
- West Liberty University instructor Stephanie Wolfe assigned students to keep a "politics journal," recording their reactions to various articles from news sources such as The Economist, BBC, CNN and The Huffington Post.
- She specified, however, that the only two sources that students could not use were The Onion and Fox News, the latter of which earned her scrutiny after students shared the assignment with parents, who in turn called the university and local reporters.
- In an interview Thursday, President Robin Capehart said that Wolfe's ban on Fox News was inappropriate, that he would have felt the same way about telling students not to use MSNBC and that Wolfe had since realized her mistake and allowed students to quote from that source.
From the article:
Students in a political science class at West Liberty University were given an assignment recently to keep a "politics journal" in which they would record their reactions to various articles they had selected. The instructor at the West Virginia public institution included some possible news sources, such as The Economist, BBC, CNN and The Huffington Post. But the instructor also specified that two sources could not be used. ...
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Shiites lash out after Pakistan bombing kills 81
Pakistani relatives of Saturday's bombing victims mourn next to their bodies in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani relatives of Saturday's bombing victims mourn next to their bodies in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani Shiite Muslim women chant slogans during a protest to condemn Saturday's bombing, in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani Shiite Muslim women attend a protest to condemn Saturday's bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani men prepare the graves of Saturday's bombing victims in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistanis gather by the lifeless bodies of Saturday's bombing victims, in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Angry residents on Sunday demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims, a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? Angry Pakistani Shiites considered launching a new round of protests against the government in a southwestern city on Sunday, a day after a bombing killed at least 81 people, mostly from their sect, in the second such attack in as many months.
Saturday's blast at a produce market in Quetta underlined the precarious situation for Shiites living in a majority Sunni country where many extremist groups don't consider them real Muslims. Some 160 people were also wounded in the blast.
Friends and relatives of the dead gathered in the hundreds around Shiite mosques, where some 60 victims were laid out in coffins as religious leaders debated whether to protest the bombing by refusing to bury the dead as they did after January's attack.
After 86 people died in that bombing, which hit a billiards hall, Shiites camped for four days in the street alongside the coffins of their loved ones. Eventually the country's prime minister ordered a shake-up in the regional administration, putting the local governor in charge of the whole province.
"So far, we are not going home. We are not burying the dead," said Dawood Agha, a Shiite leader in Quetta.
Most of the dead and wounded were Hazaras, an ethnic group that migrated from Afghanistan over a century ago. Shiite Muslims, including Hazaras, have often been targeted by Sunni extremists in Baluchistan province, where Quetta is the capital, as well as in the southern city of Karachi and northwestern Pakistan.
The violence touched a chord among Pakistanis elsewhere in the country, with small-scale protests being held in Islamabad, Karachi and at least 12 other cities.
At the Islamabad rally, hundreds of Shiites and various civil rights groups demanded the government crackdown on the al-Qaida-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"We all know it is LeJ," said Hasan Raza, a Shiite activist. "We want the government to act now and take action against the terrorist group."
The large-scale attack comes as the government, headed by the Pakistan People's Party, is preparing for elections this spring, and it adds to the widespread perception that the government has done little to improve security or the economy during its five-year tenure.
Whether that anger will translate into widespread opposition to the PPP come election time remains to be seen. Baluchistan, the largest but most sparsely populated province, is a long way from places like Punjab and Sindh provinces where most of voters live. The protests calling for government action have generally been small scale so far and limited to mostly liberal activists.
At the blast site, members of the Hazara community helped authorities dig through rubble to find the dead or survivors. Most of their efforts were focused on a two-story building that was completely destroyed. More than 20 shops nearby were also demolished.
Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.
One of those helping, 40-year-old Qurban Ali, was instructing young people to be patient and careful while removing the rubble, lest they hurt themselves or survivors still buried in the debris. His cousin Abbas was still missing after the blast.
"Not one month or week passes here without the killing of a member of the Hazara community," he said. "Why is the government ? both central and provincial ? so lethargic in protecting Shiites?"
Near the rubble, a group of more than 50 women were wailing and beating their heads in mourning.
On a nearby road Hazara youth burned tires and chanted for the arrests of the killers. A number of Shiite groups also staged a sit-in and were demanding the immediate removal of the chief secretary of Baluchistan and the top police official, said Rahim Jaffery, who heads a Shiite organization called the Council for the Protection of Mourning.
"We are demanding the city (protection) be handed over to the army so that the killing of Hazara Shiites can be stopped," he said.
After the attack in January, the prime minister put Governor Zulfiqar Magsi directly in charge of the region ? a move that many Shiites thought would help protect their community. But he has made comments that reveal frustration at the job, saying the blast was the result of a failure of the provincial security and intelligence agencies.
"Officials and personnel of these institutions are scared (of the terrorists). Therefore they don't take action against them," he said in comments that were broadcast on local television.
Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite. Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 2001, but the group continues to operate fairly freely in their war against Shiites.
According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 Shiites were killed in 2012 in targeted attacks across the country, the worse year on record for anti-Shiite violence. The human rights group said more than 125 were killed in Baluchistan province. Most of them belonged to the Hazara community. With two attacks in two months in Baluchistan, that number has already been eclipsed.
Human rights groups have accused the government of not doing enough to protect Shiites.
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Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Meteors Blazing Across Cuba, San Francisco, Japan, What?s Happening?
Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Australia, Cuba, South Africa, Morocco, Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, all report fireballs blazing across the sky low in the atmosphere, in the last two days. Can this be a coincidence with the passage of large Asteroid DA14, which apparently passed by Earth safely in the same time period? The coincidence seems just too extraordinary! What if all these cosmic events which impacted or almost impacted Earth, were connected and therefore no coincidence, despite what the "experts" say?
First, a few facts: In Cuba, a scenario similar to that in Russia?s Ural region apparently unfolded. ?On the same day, February 15, 2013, as Asteroid DA14 passed by Earth safely,? residents in the central region of Cuba reported that an object had fallen from the sky. It exploded with a great noise, which shook houses and broke windows. This was learned from witnesses on local television. The town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that grew to a large size comparable to that of a bus, before exploding low in the sky.
Oddly, mainstream media has reported on other fireball-meteors around the world but tends not to mention Cuba?s experience, which was second only to the disaster in the Urals of Russia.
A huge fireball was reported by a number of witnesses over Belgium, Netherlands and Germany on February 13, 2013. The sight usually is said to have lasted from 10 to 20 seconds. There were two separate parts to the fireball, witnesses said. Apparently this one was part of Soyuz rocket, but what a coincidence that it happened on the day when all the other fireballs crossed the skies! A Soyuz rocket was launched but on February 11th. Scientists and authorities are still trying to unravel this one.
An exploding fireball was also reported over the sky of Japan on February 14, 2013, and was captured on video. A fireball is also on video over San Francisco on February 15 and was covered by CBS news.
Regarding the Russian meteorite hit, I reported that it was ten tons, which was what officials said; now some reports think this object weighed fifty tons. A relatively small hole in circumference in a frozen Ural lake is said to be the meteorite?s last resting place. Some people feel the hole is so small, it might indicate a missile rather than the huge meteorite created it. However, the meteor is said to have split into nine fragments as it streaked for impact over Earth.
The Russian meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. Yesterday?s meteor entered the atmosphere at 40,000 mph. Energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons. The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of Asteroid ?DA14, which apparently passed by Earth safely, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing, shallow impact.
So, now let?s look at the possibility that all these cosmic events which impacted or almost impacted Earth, were connected and therefore, they are not coincidences, despite what the "experts" say:
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Question One: ?Did UFO occupants blow up DA14 to protect Earth, and what is falling to Earth are its fragments? If so, why didn?t they divert it earlier so as no fragments would hit Earth, either?
Question Two: ?Did the human ?breakaway civilization? or its military wing Solar Warden (as reported by computer hacker Gary McKinnon), blow up DA14? Why didn?t they do something earlier?
Question Three:? If you think Questions One and Two are far-fetched, what if NASA blew up DA14 or part of it, in order to divert it? Yes, they say they have it spotted now heading away from Earth, but NASA has lied before.
?There was an ?expert? on CBS News who seemed to try to put us into a Valium-like state of complacency who said, ?This happens all the time.?
?No, it does NOT.
He also stated that asteroids and meteors are no problem anyway because, "NASA would just land on them and place a small charge which would divert their trajectory away from Earth.?
My recent article with information from NASA itself, illustrates the folly of this ?expert?s? statement. http://www.ufodigest.com/article/killer-asteroids-what-us-worry
http://www.ufodigest.com/article/comets-2013-2013-be-what-2012-was-not
The U.S. has landed a probe on an asteroid but we have not ?landed on asteroids? every day and not with a manned craft, at least, according to NASA. To set off a ?small charge? and change a trajectory is, in my opinion, not very realistic. As usual, the attempt has been made to lull the ?common people? into a state of a nearly comatose lack of awareness.
Question Four: Is it merely that Earth is passing through an extra heavy debris field? If so, why don?t they simply let us know via mass media? DA14, the big asteroid, would be traveling, therefore, with a whole swarm of smaller meteors (also considered mini-asteroids).
Does NASA know that we are passing through a particularly thick debris field or can they only see DA14 because the smaller fragments are too small to be viewed?
One more strangeness: The area around Chelyabinsk, Russia, as well as Chelyabinsk itself, was once off limits to foreigners and the world?s media because it was Russia?s nuclear center. Chelyabinsk was where top secret nuclear research took place, from the 1940s onward. A serious nuclear catastrophe happened in 1957 at the fuel reprocessing plant near the city which caused deaths. The entire province was verboten to all foreigners until 1992. A British medical team did gain entrance following a two-train rail explosion in the mid-1980s.
Out of all this confusion, I do believe one thing is clear: The multitude of fireballs blazing across Earth skies on February 14th and 15th, are NOT unconnected from Asteroid DA14, which came so close to Earth on February 15, if it still exists. Maybe we can figure this out when DA14 is said to be returning in 2110!
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The looming threat in the destruction of Planet Earth has seriously led to organizations considering of methods to educate men and women on getting setting friendly. A lot of emphasis has become positioned on conserving power consumption and applying environmental friendly solutions in daily daily life. One facet that has been missed and it is now a significant concern is the accumulation of electronic waste. Managing the manufacturing and protected disposal of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of e sigara?like mobile phones, computers, tablets, and iPhones is now the need to have in the hour. There are now quite a few internet websites throughout the world that motivate you to promote your old mobile phones together with other electronic devices, so that they are often reused or recycled.
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It is now attainable to sell your mobiles for income, so in essence you?re making revenue from junk. You will discover websites, which are willing to get any outdated electronic gadgets for funds. Digital cameras, printers, video game consoles, printers which might be lying in your home unused can now be exchanged for cash. A harmless and valuable method of removing electronics could be the very first step in direction of reducing the amount of electronic waste from the planet.
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The use of electronics is now a means of existence. It can be not possible for most individuals to go through life without the usage of a time conserving gadget some time or even the other. Electronics would be the medium by which we talk with people today, share experiences and info. All enjoyment gadgets are electronic equipments. As per a survey, an normal Western home owns about 24 electronic things. When you could recycle your devices by giving it away at no cost, you may also make some dollars by offering your previous mobile phones to providers who promote utilised items. People are looking for methods previous devices could be reused by people today who are not able to get new ones.
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Persons have now realized that there?s a tremendous marketplace for used electronic devices and this can be a technique to minimize electronic waste. Internet websites assist you to appraise your old gadgets and will both make it easier to to sell them at a reasonably fantastic selling price or else they?re going to acquire it from you. An organization termed Rethink Initiative helps people today to promote used electronic goods, recycle them, or donate them. Technologies is continually updating itself and it isn?t possible for many individuals to maintain up with it. Individuals that do handle to, ought to sell their mobiles along with other old products rather of letting it collect dust, to ensure somebody somewhere who can?t invest in a fresh model can make use of the outdated model of one?s Smartphones, iPods, PSP?s to entertain and inform themselves.
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Pruden: State of the Union speech: The president?s annual letter to Santa
Once upon a time, a State of the Union speech occasionally produced something?memorable. James Monroe, in his seventh try, came up with the Monroe Doctrine in?1823, which would be the cornerstone of American foreign policy for decades.
Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Four Freedoms in 1941, arguing that people??everywhere in the world? ought to enjoy freedom of worship, freedom of speech,?freedom from want and freedom from fear. Four years later, he proposed a second bill?of rights, arguing that the first attempt neglected a government guarantee of equality in??the pursuit of happiness.?
Sometimes the ?something memorable? was something everybody later would like to?forget, such as Lyndon B. Johnson?s ?War on Poverty,? which he introduced in 1964.?That war was subsequently lost, but we?ve been paying for it since.
George W. Bush used his State of the Union speech in 2002 to identify three authentic?enemies of the U.S. at that time, North Korea, Iran and Iraq ? ?states like these and?their terrorist allies constitute an ?axis of evil,? arming to threaten the peace of the world.??He took considerable flak from the frightened nursemaids and nervous Nellies for?saying it, though recent history has since treated his formulation with a certain?sympathy, if not kindness.
Since then, State of the Union orations have devolved into mere laundry lists and?presidential letters to Santa, bearing little relevance to anything likely to happen.?FDR should have proclaimed a fifth freedom, the freedom from another State of the?Union speech. It would have been an empty promise, but making expensive and?expansive promises is what most presidents do.
Nobody expands his promises with expensive abandon quite like Barack Obama. His?State of the Union this week was a classic of its kind, delivering nothing of substance,?something of value only to the pundits who recycle nothing with greater skill than even?the politicians they celebrate. One of them, Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, took?note of the coincidence that Mr. Obama?s speech fell on the last night of Mardi Gras.
The noisy spendthrift carnival in Washington, unlike the harmless if not always innocent?street festival in New Orleans, ?is a display of wretched excess,? he wrote, ?when giddy?and rowdy participants give in to reckless and irresponsible behavior. The standoff gives?new meaning to Fat Tuesday. The nation?s finances are a mess, but let?s have another?round.?
Mr. Obama?s letter to Santa Claus is even greedier than usual. He wants a $9-an-hour?minimum wage as a stimulus to the sagging economy, though if a $9 minimum will?produce prosperity, why not make it $20? (That may be for next year.) He proposes?stricter gun control, universal kindergarten for 4-year-olds and a swift rewrite of U.S.?immigration law. He promises to cool the globe, or warm the globe, depending on what?the White House climatologists are calling changes in the weather this week.
The Obama solution will cost the usual billions, though Congress could accomplish just?as much as he could by merely adopting a resolution instructing the weather to behave,?and it wouldn?t cost anything.
?Minimum wage won?t pass the House,? Sen. John Thune of South Dakota said on the?morning after the president?s exercise in Daniel Webster oratory. ?Climate-change won?t?pass the House. Those are things he could probably have a hard time getting a lot of?Democrats to vote for.? He notes that six of his Democratic colleagues are up for reelection?next year in states that Mitt Romney carried, ?and they?re going to be hard-pressed?to vote for? tax increases.
The Constitution requires the president to make a report to Congress, but it doesn?t?require the empty bombast that accompanies the modern State of the Union. With the?precise and economic language of the era, the Constitution says of the president only?that ?He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union?and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and?expedient.?
The rest comes from mere ?tradition.? This stuff is catching, too. Now across the land?there are speeches about the State of the State, the State of the City and even the?State of the County. This week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York applies his?golden oratory to a demand that Gotham abolish Styrofoam coffee cups. Next year it?could be something actually useful, such as a requirement that everybody wash his?socks and change his underwear once a week.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Hanford tank leaks upward of 300 gallons a year of radioactive liquids, energy department says
SEATTLE-A single-shell tank at Hanford is leaking up to 300 gallons a year of radioactive liquids, a disclosure that raises broader questions about the integrity of more than 140 other tanks that hold tens of millions of gallons of waste left over from decades of processing nuclear materials at the federal site in southeast Washington.
"We were told this problem was dealt with years ago, and was under control," said Gov. Jay Inslee, who met with reporters Friday afternoon.
The leak disclosed Friday by the Energy Department is the latest setback in a long-troubled effort to clean up a federal site that ranks as one of the most contaminated places on Earth, according to a 2008 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
The tank under scrutiny was assumed to be leaking in past decades, so in 1995 pumpable liquids were removed in what was termed an "interim stabilization," according to the Energy Department.
The tank currently holds about 447,000 gallons of sludge.
Inslee said that federal government needs to come up with funding to deal with the leaking tank, check the conditions of other tanks and build more interim storage with double-shelled tanks.
Long term, a $12 billion effort is under way to build a plant to treat high-level waste. The plant is designed to turn radioactive waste into glass logs through a vitrification process, but that effort has been beset by big technical challenges and repeated delays.
Inslee says the new leak lends added urgency to the cleanup at a time when budget cutting in Congress could make funding much harder to obtain.
"We will not tolerate any leaks of this material to the environment," Inslee said. In past decades, Hanford was a virtual dumping ground for wastes from the nuclear-processing effort.The new leak is minuscule compared to the site's history.
The 2008 GAO report noted that the federal managers of the Hanford site intentionally discharged 121 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste directly into the ground between 1946 and 1966.
The storage tanks have leaked about 1 million gallons of waste into the ground over the years, according to the GAO report.
But a major stabilization effort completed in 2005 was supposed to curb the leaks by pumping out liquids and leaving behind thicker sludge.
Inslee said this is the first confirmed leak of a single-shelled tank since that stabilization effort was completed.Inslee acknowledged there is no immediate threat from the leak, since it would likely take years to reach the groundwater.
Because of past pollution, there already are large radioactive plumes making their way through the soil and groundwater.
There is an extensive effort to monitor the plumes and a groundwater-treatment system also is in place, according to the Department of Ecology.
Overall, about 10 percent of the 586-square-mile site has radioactive or chemical contamination.
Some materials from Hanford-including tritium, chromium, nitrate and strontium-90 - have entered the river, according to the state Department of Ecology.
But no unsafe levels of radionuclides have been found in farm crops in the region and there are no advisories against swimming or eating salmon, steelhead or other popular fish species from the Columbia River, according to the Ecology Department.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/16/3237656/hanford-tank-leaks-upward-of-300.html
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Re-enactors tell story of Florida's lost tribe ? the Calusa
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The Tampa Tribune
Published: February 16, 2013
Updated: February 16, 2013 - 2:40 PM
After Ponce de Leon landed near St. Augustine 500 years ago, then sailed beneath "La Florida" and north up the Gulf Coast, he found the land of flowers was populated and defended by a tribe of Native Americans whose name, translated into English, was "Fierce People."
Members of that thriving Calusa civilization fished, hunted, traded and even had a natural remedy to keep mosquitoes from biting. They ran an empire stretching to the East Coast and south into the Keys. Charlotte Harbor was their Rome.
Today in Port Charlotte, history came to life with more than a dozen Calusa-crazy volunteers intent on showing how the lost tribe of Florida lived before Europeans consigned the indigenous people to the dust of history.
Braving a chilly breeze off Charlotte Harbor, the re-enactors hunted for fish with spears, cooked fake seafood and snakes on an open pit with imaginary fire, and even greeted emissaries from neighboring tribes in a living, interactive exhibit.
"This is as authentic as possible, of Florida's pre-history," said April Watson, an archaeological doctoral student at Florida Atlantic University. She is consulting on the exhibit, which is one of more than 100 such events planned throughout the state to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Florida's recorded history.
People in Tampa interested in catching a glimpse of this history are out of luck, even though the Tampa Bay area played a significant role in the discovery of La Florida.
None of the 130 commemorative events, collectively known as Florida 500, takes place in Tampa. Other than the Florida State Fair, which this year has adopted a Spanish conquistador theme, and an exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center, the region has been bypassed by organizers of the events.
Still, there is Fort De Soto State Park and DeSoto County; there is the Hernando De Soto Trial that marks the Spanish conquistador's overland trek from Manatee County north to the Mississippi River; there is Hernando County, the city of Hernando and various schools named in honor of the explorers.
But no local historical group has organized an event marking the 500th anniversary.
"It's pretty shocking," said J. Michael Francis, Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, whose field of study focuses on the last days of the indigenous people and the beginning of the Spanish influx in Florida.
"I wish I knew why," he said. "It's difficult to comment on because I've only been here a short time, but it's surprising there is not something going on here because this was probably the landing spot of two of the most important expeditions of the 16th Century."
Dozens of events are scheduled to the south, though, and with good reason.
The Calusa numbered in the thousands, covering Central and South Florida from coast to coast with their influence.
Calusa meant "Fierce People," Watson said, and they were among the first to survive, and thrive, through efforts other than tilling the soil. They hunted and fished, and subsisted on and traded what they caught with others, she said. They developed a political and commercial structure, she said, well before the Spanish arrived.
"They were the only tribe the Spanish were not able to conquer," she said. "And it was a Calusa arrow that killed de Leon.
"They were one of the most powerful groups in Florida," she said. "Most people don't know how tough these people were."
A paper published by Darcie MacMahon, director of exhibits; and William Marquardt, curator of archaeology, both at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, states: "The Calusa were a fascinating but little-known Native American people who controlled the entire southern half of Florida when Europeans first arrived in the early 1500s."
Their domain included more than 50 villages.
"They were headquartered in the Charlotte Harbor area," said MacMahon in an interview, "but their political influence and dominance spread from south of Tampa Bay on the West Coast to Cape Canaveral on the East Coast through the Florida Keys."
They literally held an empire, she said, and collected tribute from all the indigenous tribes in that area.
"It was not exactly like trade," MacMahon said, "It was almost like taxation. The Calusa commanded tribute from all over South Florida."
Their civilization was doomed when the lumbering Spanish ships arrived, she said. Within 200 years, the Calusa were gone, victims of European diseases, slavery and being driven from their homeland.
"The Calusa were not happy about Europeans coming into their domain and they must have learned about the Spanish presence in the Americas because when the Spanish first arrived, they were ready for them," MacMahon said.
"Unlike native people in North Florida, they managed to remain fairly aloof from the Spaniards," she said. "The population decimation and cultural decimation that happened earlier in European contact, really took a couple hundred years to profoundly affect the Calusa."
Much of what is known of the tribe's culture comes through writings of European explorers. The rest is derived from what archaeologists have dug up in burial mounds or in excavations of village sites, some of which are submerged in shallow tidal basins along the coast of Southwest Florida.
The Calusa left no written record, and their history is spoken best through the artifacts they left behind. Those artifacts indicate the culture began more than 1,500 years ago; they were "an inventive, artistic and spiritual people who prospered from the immense bounty of their coastal world," said the paper written by MacMahon and Marquardt. "They harvested more than 50 fish species and more than 20 kinds of mollusks and crustaceans. They ate shellfish, crabs, land and aquatic turtles, ducks, deer, rodents, and other animals; but fish were the main staple food."
Their influence did not reach Tampa Bay, MacMahon said.
"The Tocobaga people lived in the Tampa Bay area," she said, "and they were competitive with the Calusa."
Both cultures were forced to deal with Spanish invaders half a millennium ago.
The Spanish explorers and subsequent waves of European missionaries had differing interactions with the indigenous cultures -- sometimes peaceful; sometimes not.
De Leon probably was the first to make contact with the Calusa. Historians say he likely came ashore near Charlotte Harbor and then farther north, probably on Anna Maria Island near Bradenton.
The welcome was not cordial. Calusa warriors attached his landing party, and drove the Spanish from the region.
In 1521, de Leon returned to Florida with a charter to establish a colony, landing near Sanibel Island on the Southwest Florida coast. Again he was driven off by the Calusa. In the battle he received a leg wound that became infected and killed him.
A few years later, P?nfilo de Narv?ez led the first known exploration of Tampa Bay.
Launching his expedition from Cuba in 1528, de Narv?ez landed on the Pinellas peninsula and marched overland to Tampa Bay, where he met and irked the Tocobaga. The locals told Narv?ez that gold could be found farther north, in the land of Apalachee, and that's what it took to be rid of the Spanish conquistadors, at least for the time being.
Part of the living history exhibit in Port Charlotte today was a visit from a Tocobaga warrior to the Calusa village. The Tocobaga had materials to make arrowheads, and the Calusa didn't, so the two tribes traded what they had.
Monty Watson played the part of the Tocobaga warrior, greeting the Calusa chief and his wife beneath swaying palms on the shore of Charlotte Harbor. The chief and his wife were portrayed by Scot and Jill Shively of Punta Gorda, both docents at a local museum. They had 21st century clothes under grass skirts and shirts.
"We have to be more modest that the Calusa probably were," Scot Shively said.
Watson explained what was happening to the modern onlookers, later adding:
"Contact with the Spanish was a life-changing event for the Calusa. That was the beginning of the end for them."
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Debt level still ?healthy?, says Mahathir
The former premier says foreign investments are now coming from the East and Malaysia's trade with these countries are increasing.
PUTRAJAYA: The ratio of debt to gross domestic product (GDP), which stands at 53 per cent currntly, is still considered ?healthy? for the country as trading and revenue continue to rise, says former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
?We can still pay our debts. We still can pay as we see investments yielding high profit. During my administration, a RM300 million profit made by Maybank is already considered as large.
?Now, Maybank has gained RM6 billion,? he told Bernama in an interview.
Mahathir said Malaysians should remember that one of the European countries, Greece, could not pay its debts as the ratio had exceeded 100 percent.
?Greece may not be able to pay,? he said.
Mahathir said Bank Negara Malaysia?s current savings was about US$140 billion as compared to only about US$30 billion at the time of his administration. (US$1=RM3.08).
As at Jan 31, 2013, Bank Negara?s international reserves totalled US$140.2 billion.
He said the reserves position was sufficient to finance 9.5 months of retained imports and was 4.2 times the short-term external debt.
The central bank?s total assets, including international reserves, stood at US$158 billion.
Malaysia also has large deposits in institutions such as the Tabung Haji, Permodalan Nasional Bhd and Felda Scheme, he said.
?We?ve adequate savings, high enough,? said Mahathir, who was also Malaysia?s former finance minister.
Asked whether Malaysia?s trade was still dependent on western countries despite their sluggish economy, he said: ?We?re no longer dependent on the West.
?Our exports to the West have not increased and the West also cannot afford to invest now.?
He said foreign investments are now coming from the East and Malaysia?s trade with these countries are increasing.
?Our trade with China, for example, is good and it?s very high. Our trade with Asean member countries has also increased. So, we don?t have to assess our economic progress based on our trade with the West,? he said.
Instead, the assessment should take into account the economic progress Malaysia made around the world, he said.
?Our exports to throughout the world are still on the uptrend, our surplus is still growing,? he said.
Malaysia?s total trade posted a three percent growth last year despite global economic and financial turmoil and tepid demand.
?Eventhough growth was below expected projection, Malaysia registered its highest total trade of RM1.31 trillion last year vis-a-vis RM1.27 trillion in in 2011.
In 2012, exports grew by 0.6 percent to RM702.19 billion, while imports expanded by 5.9 percent to RM607.36 billion.
The trade surplus in 2012 was RM94.82 billion, the 15th consecutive year of trade surplus for Malaysia.
Among the top five trading partners, trade expansion was recorded with Asean (+8.2 percent) and China (+8.0 percent), while trade with the United States dwindled by 2.8 percent.
Bernama
Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/02/15/debt-level-still-healthy-says-mahathir/
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President Barack Obama returns to South Florida
President Barack Obama visited South Florida on Friday for a vacation weekend.
Air Force One landed in West Palm Beach around 8:30 p.m. Afterward, the president headed to the Floridian, a community in Palm City, where he is expected to spend the weekend relaxing and golfing.
Residents in the area hope part of his relaxation includes making some stops around town. Francesco Iangegnoli, owner of the Ristorante Clarette, said they are saving him a table.
?I hope it?s going to be a dream come true for us,? Iangegnoli said. ?It?s going to be nice. For Italian people like us to have a president here is going to be amazing.?
Iangegnoli?s customers are just as excited at the prospect of seeing Obama.
?I think it?s fantastic. I voted for him,? said Lynn Myers of Port St. Lucie. ?I think he?s working as hard as he can for the country, and if he wants to come here for vacation, I think that?s terrific.?
Roberta London, a Palm City resident, said he hopes the president will come back.
?This is a wonderful place to visit and I think he?s going to love it here,? London said.
The president is scheduled to stay in Palm City until Monday.
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