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Futures rise ahead of consumer spending report
NEW YORK (AP) ? Stock futures are rebounding after last week's lackluster economic growth numbers sent investors scrambling for the door.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 41 points to 14,690. The broader S&P futures have added 4.5 points to 1,581. Nasdaq futures are up 10 points to 2,840.50.
The earnings season continues, though Monday is light on reports, with Chrysler posting before the stock market opens and Express Scripts reporting after the closing bell.
Markets are awaiting the personal income and spending report, which is due from the Commerce Department at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
Economists surveyed by FactSet expect that spending was unchanged in March from February, after rising 0.7 percent in February. Incomes are expected to have increased 0.4 percent.
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The Smell Of Coders In The Morning, Or, 10:30AM At The Disrupt NYC Hackathon [TCTV]
The Disrupt NYC 2013 Hackathon winners were just announced (congratulations, Rambler!) But amidst all the celebration, it's important to remember that it's been a very long and largely sleepless 30-hour road to victory for the 164 teams that presented onstage today.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3h2xGEnkcqo/
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NYC Angels Grab Market Share
Looking forward to this week’s Disrupt NY 2013, we used the CrunchBase dataset to surface regional trends in U.S. angel funding. Not surprisingly, we found?relatively few metros with a substantial number of angel funded?companies and?the San Francisco Bay Area continues to be a formidable presence. But take a look at NYC (in red) – they’ve gone from 12 percent of the angel deals in 2008 to 20 percent in 2013. In fact, NYC appears to the only region with growing market share. What’s more surprising about NYC’s angel activity is that it is not reflected in its general share of venture rounds. When we looked at non-angel investments we found NYC’s share of activity to be relatively flat since 2008. It’s not clear to us what’s driving this, but we suspect others will have some good theories and that brings us to the data behind the graphs. To avoid our own?Reinhart and Rogoff debacle, we’re publishing all of the data behind these charts. In fact, we’re publishing a significant portion of the CrunchBase dataset in Excel for everyone to slice and dice. You can?download the file from the CrunchBase blog where you will also find some instructions and caveats. By publishing this data, we hope to continue a trend we started with our?Mining of the Series A Crunch.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0tjlSmpws1Q/
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Michael McCaul: Boston Bombings Device 'Leads Me To Believe' There Was A Trainer Involved
In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) MANDATORY CREDIT
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon on Monday, killing at least two people, injuring at least 22 others and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Boston police clear an area following an explosion near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Medical personnel work outside the medical tent in the aftermath of two blasts which exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
An unidentified Boston Marathon runner, center, is reunited with loved ones near Copley Square following an explosion in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Medical workers aid an injured woman at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following two explosions there, Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two bombs exploded near the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people, injuring at least 23 others and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Stuart Cahill) MANDATORY CREDIT
In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) MANDATORY CREDIT
In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) MANDATORY CREDIT
In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people assist an injured after an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) MANDATORY CREDIT
Medical workers aid an injured woman at the scene of a bomb blast near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring at scores of others (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Runners who were diverted from the race course walk on the Commonwealth Mall two blocks from the site of an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 23 others. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Una mujer llora afectada por una explosi?n mientras caminan cerca de la l?nea de meta de la Marat?n de Boston el lunes 15 de abril de 2013. Dos bombas estallaron el lunes causando la muerte de dos personas y heridas a otras 50, inform? la Polic?a de Boston. (AP Foto/Josh Reynolds)
An armed FBI agent passes a Boston police officer following an explosion at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
A firefighter tends to an injured man following an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is investigated by a person in a protective suit in the wake of two blasts in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Firefighters tend to a man following an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday killing at least two people injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) MANDATORY CREDIT
Two people walk down the sidewalk as Boston police clear the area in Copley Square in the aftermath of two blasts which exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. The explosions Monday killed at least two people and injured dozens. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
This photo provided by Bruce Mendelsohn shows the scene after two explosions occurred during the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/ Bruce Mendelsohn) MANDATORY CREDIT
Medical workers respond following an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan) MANDATORY CREDIT
Boston police direct runners who were diverted from the race course following an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan) MANDATORY CREDIT
Medical workers aid injured people at the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan) MANDATORY CREDIT
Blood from victims covers the sidewalk on Boylston Street, at the site of an explosion during the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. At the right foreground is a folding chair with the design of an American flag on the cover. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Chris Darmody, right, holds his wife Sue in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Chris says he was waiting for Sue when an explosion detonated near his location at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The couple were later reunited after all runners were diverted from the course. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Emergency responders comfort a woman on a stretcher who was injured in a bomb blast near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeremy Pavia)
Emergency responders aid a woman on a stretcher who was injured in a bomb blast near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeremy Pavia)
Emergency responders comfort a woman on a stretcher who was injured in a bomb blast near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeremy Pavia)
Rescue personnel aid injured people near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following explosions in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Stuart Cahill)
Rescue personnel aid injured people near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following explosions in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Stuart Cahill)
Injured people and debris lie on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT
As Boston Marathon runners walk by, SWAT team members stand guard near the finish line in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. ( (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
People react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Stuart Cahill) BOSTON GLOBE OUT; METRO BOSTON OUT; MAGS OUT;
Investigators shine flashlights at one of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in the wake of two blasts in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
In this image from video provided by Ryan Hoyme, the second explosion can be seen in the distance as smoke from the first explosion surrounds spectators exiting the stands during the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ryan Hoyme)
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Bill Iffrig, 78, lies on the ground as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Iffrig, of Lake Stevens, Wash., was running his third Boston Marathon and near the finish line when he was knocked down by one of two bomb blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, John Tlumacki)
A Boston Marathon runner leaves the course crying near Copley Square following an explosion at the finish line in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
People react as an explosion goes off near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions went off at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan) MANDATORY CREDIT
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A runner embraces another woman on the marathon route near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A runner reacts near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A runner embraces another woman near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A woman is loaded into an ambulance after he was injured by one of two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon near Copley Square on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A woman is loaded into an ambulance after he was injured by one of two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon near Copley Square on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A woman, with blood on fingers, is loaded into an ambulance after being injured after two bombs exploded on the marathon route on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: A woman looks at the blood on her hands as she is loaded into an ambulance after being injured after two bombs exploded on the marathon route on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Multiple People Injured After Explosions Near Finish Line at Boston Marathon
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: Two blood stained feet of a man hang outside an ambulance outside a medical tent located near the finish of the 117th Boston Marathon after two bombs exploded on the marathon route on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston police ask people to leave the area in Copley Plaza in the aftermath of two blasts which exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Param?dicos asisten a un hombre herido despu?s de una explosi?n en Boston el Lunes 15 de Abril de 2013. Dos bombas estallaron cerca de la l?nea de meta del marat?n de Boston, causaron dos muertos y 22 heridos, dijeron la polic?a y los organizadores de la competici?n. (AP Foto/The Boston Globe, David L. Ryan)
Uniformed Division Secret Service officers stand watch on the sidewalk in front of the White House looking north from Pennsylvania Avenue during heightened security following the explosions in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/michael-mccaul-boston-bombings_n_3174728.html
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Homeland security chairman: FBI checking training angle in bombing
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, who's now dead, in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs. The bombs were triggered by a remote detonator of the kind used in remote-control toys, U.S. officials have said.
U.S. officials investigating the bombings have told The Associated Press that so far there is no evidence to date of a wider plot, including training, direction or funding for the attacks.
A criminal complaint outlining federal charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described him as holding a cellphone in his hand minutes before the first explosion.
The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents.
"I think given the level of sophistication of this device, the fact that the pressure cooker is a signature device that goes back to Pakistan, Afghanistan, leads me to believe ? and the way they handled these devices and the tradecraft ? ... that there was a trainer and the question is where is that trainer or trainers," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, on "Fox News Sunday."
"Are they overseas in the Chechen region or are they in the United States?" McCaul said. "In my conversations with the FBI, that's the big question. They've casted a wide net both overseas and in the United States to find out where this person is. But I think the experts all agree that there is someone who did train these two individuals."
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he thought it's "probably true" that the attack was not linked to a major group. But, he told CNN's "State of the Union," that there "may have been radicalizing influences" in the U.S. or abroad. "It does look like a lot of radicalization was self-radicalization online, but we don't know the full answers yet."
On ABC's "This Week," moderator George Stephanopoulos raised the question to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee about FBI suspicions that the brothers had help in getting the bombs together.
"Absolutely, and not only that, but in the self-radicalization process, you still need outside affirmation," responded Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
"We still have persons of interest that we're working to find and identify and have conversations with," he added.
At this point in the investigation, however, Sen. Claire McCaskill said there was no evidence that the brothers "were part of a larger organization, that they were, in fact, part of some kind of terror cell or any kind of direction."
The Missouri Democrat, who's on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that "it appears, at this point, based on the evidence, that it's the two of them."
Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, officials have said. He frequently looked at extremist sites, including Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate.
In recent years, two would-be U.S. attackers reported receiving bomb-making training from foreign groups but failed to set off the explosives.
A Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight landed.
The device didn't work as planned, but it still produced smoke, flame and panic. He told authorities that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures.
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed al-Awlaki in 2011.
In 2010, a Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square also received a life sentence. Faisal Shazad said the Pakistan Taliban provided him with more than $15,000 and five days of explosives training.
The bomb was made of fireworks fertilizer, propane tanks and gasoline canisters. Explosives experts said the fertilizer wasn't the right grade and the fireworks weren't powerful enough to set off the intended chain reaction.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawmaker-fbi-checking-training-angle-bombing-154952300.html
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Kentucky woman ordained as priest by dissident Roman Catholics
John Sommers / Reuters
Ordaining Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan (C) presents Rosemarie Smead (R), a 70-year-old Kentucky woman, to the audience after she was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest during a Celebration of Ordination at St. Andrew's United Church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky April 27, 2013.
By Sofia Perpetua, NBC News
A dissident Roman Catholic group ordained a 70-year-old woman a priest in Louisville, Kentucky, during a ceremony attended by hundreds on Saturday.
About 150 women from all over the world have been ordained in defiance of the Roman Catholic Church that bans them from becoming priests.
Rosemarie Smead will be starting her own congregation and she told Reuters she is not worried about being excommunicated.
"It is a medieval bullying stick the bishops used to keep control over people and to keep the voices of women silent,? she said. ?I am way beyond letting octogenarian men tell us how to live our lives."
Smead, a former Carmelite nun with a bachelor's in theology and a doctorate in counseling psychology, wept throughout the ceremony.
According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, seventy percent of U.S. Catholics believe women should be allowed to be priests.
In a statement last week, Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz called the planned ceremony by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests a "simulated ordination" in opposition to Catholic teaching.
"The simulation of a sacrament carries very serious penal sanctions in Church law, and Catholics should not support or participate in Saturday's event," Kurtz said.
Reuters contributed to this story
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Bulgaria's center right on track for election win: poll
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's center-right GERB party is on course for election victory on May 12 despite resigning from the government after mass protests against low living standards in February, a poll showed on Sunday.
The state-funded NPOC survey put ex-premier Boiko Borisov's GERB at 23.6 percent and the Socialists at 17.7 percent. On this basis, however, a hung parliament looked likely since a party needs over 43 percent of votes for a majority.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the European Union's poorest country in anger over corruption, rising unemployment and high utility bills, prompting the resignation of Borisov's government.
Analysts say the unrest galvanized GERB supporters while protesters failed to form a single political group to challenge its position. The Socialists have failed to gain from the discontent since may protesters were unhappy with the whole political class, not just GERB.
Support for GERB was also largely unaffected by charges against four senior interior ministry officials for mishandling wiretapping equipment and data, which prosecutors said could have resulted in illegal surveillance of politicians and businessmen.
The nationwide survey, conducted between April 19 and 25, showed backing for the ethnic Turkish MRF party fell slightly to 6.0 percent in April from 6.5 percent a month earlier.
The biggest beneficiary from the nationwide protests in February was the far-right Attack party, whose support was 4.9 percent in April, up from 1.2 percent two months ago.
Attack's pledges of nationalizations, higher taxes for the rich and to revoke foreign concessions for gold and water have alarmed some investors.
(NPOC is state-owned, Gallup is an independent polling agency)
(Reporting by Angel Krasimirov; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bulgarias-center-track-election-win-poll-133942976.html
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Sony Xperia SP on sale now in the UK at T-Mobile, Orange and EE
Sony's mash-up Xperia, the SP, is taking its transparent element light show to the UK today, giving budget-minded Brits one stylish and feature-packed mobile alternative. The 4.6-inch 720p handset, which is basically a Best of... edition of the Xperia S and P with an aluminum unibody, is shipping now at T-Mobile UK for £250 outright (about $387 USD), whereas Orange and EE are offering up the device for free with qualifying plans. If you want LTE, however, you only have one carrier option and that's EE -- a choice that'll have you shackled for a two-year period. As for O2 and Three, those carriers still have the SP listed as "coming soon," but it's safe to say you won't find a better bargain than *free.
*Nothing in life is free.
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Via: Xperia Blog
Source: T-Mobile Uk, Orange, EE
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Police investigate baby found on Oahu beach
HONOLULU (AP) ? Authorities are investigating why a baby girl was found abandoned on a Hawaii beach hours after birth.
State Department of Human Services Director Patricia McManaman says the newborn was abandoned immediately after birth.
Police say a woman parked at Sandy Beach in east Honolulu sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday and midnight heard several people screaming. A few minutes later the screaming stopped and the woman heard a baby crying.
She walked toward the ocean and saw an infant on the sand. The woman took the baby to a hospital. Police are investigating the case as endangering the welfare of a minor and child abandonment.
McManaman says the baby was born full term and was found naked. She says the 8-pound newborn is doing well and drinking formula at a hospital.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-investigate-baby-found-oahu-beach-195012317.html
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Summit Wrestling, Inc. Holds Fundraiser to Benefit Team - Summit ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Summit wrestling is strong and getting stronger. That was the theme of the fundraiser held Saturday by Summit Wrestling, Inc., a 501(c) 3 organization that provides funding for the Summit High School wrestling team. Summit wrestling, as described in the program for the evening, is ?where we build men with your help.?
The high school team this year included A.J. Iarrusi, who placed sixth in the state, wrestling in the 220-pound weight class and Nick Abbott, wrestling in the 132-pound weight class, who was county champion this year and district champion in his sophomore and senior years. Iarussi is bound for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania where he was recruited to play football, and Abbott is heading to Bucknell to continue
wrestling.
After the 1994 season, funding for the Summit High School wrestling program was eliminated due to budget constraints. Into the void stepped Summit Wrestling, Inc., an organization operated fully by parents of high school and up-and-coming wrestlers. As a result, there is a strong wrestling program in Summit from the recreational level, through the middle school (which is partially funded by the board of education), to the high school. The Board of Education does provide funding for the high school wrestling coach but all ancillary costs fall under the umbrella of Summit Wrestling Team, Inc., including such costs as transportation to and fees associated with tournaments, as well as paying referees in the competitions. The organization also pays the salary of the middle school wrestling coach.
Anthony Ferrante, the head coach of the Summit High School wrestling team is proud that individuals on the team this year fared well, naming Iarussi and Abbott as standouts. He noted that the fact that wrestling is not supported by the school system negatively impacts the program. However, he feels that wrestling in Summit ?has strong roots in the community and will continue to come back strong.?
According to Jim Abbott, the treasurer of Summit Wrestling, Inc., the organization raises approximately $20,000 annually. It accomplishes this through this yearly fundraiser, through cheesecake sales, and by charging admission to wrestling matches. A goal this year is to raise $8,000 to pay for the rental of a bus to transport the team to competitions. Until then, parents will continue to carpool the wrestlers.
Trish Cassin and Beth Gramigna, co-presidents of the Summit Boosters Club, presented Summit Wrestling, Inc. with a check in the amount of $2,000. They both have children in the high school who participate in a ?myriad of sports.? The Summit Boosters Club funds several sports teams through grants. The club raises money partly through selling Summit Spirit Wear at the Hilltop Shop in downtown Summit.
Entertainment for the evening was provided by Summit Sounds. A buffet dinner was provided by La Pastaria Restaurant and its owners Lynn and Philip Angelo, whose son Philip is an 8th grade wrestler in the middle school. Philip Angelo Senior is on the board of Summit Wrestling Inc. and emceed the fundraiser.
Paul Dineen, a recreation coach in Summit, addressed the crowd and stated that ?everything positive in his life came from wrestling.? He promoted wrestling as a teaching tool that builds great kids who go on to be successful in college and beyond. According to Dineen, ?no athlete works harder than a wrestler. It is an amazing achievement to complete a wrestling season.?
The final speaker was Summit resident Clinton Matter, who was a high school All-American wrestler. This year, he mentored the high school wrestling team. Matter explained that ?wrestling is a means to an end. It alters the trajectory kids, teaching young men to be passionate about something constructively and consistently. This passion can be replicated in all areas of life.
Corporate sponsors of the event were La Pastaria Restaurant, Hilltop Burgers & Fries, Dr. Philip Delli Santi, The Grand Summit Hotel/The Hat Tavern, DeBary Inn, and the Broadway Diner. Among the raffle prizes were Yankee tickets, tailgate provisions for 25, and wrestling lessons from Iarussi and Abbott.
Source: http://thealternativepress.com/articles/summit-wrestling-inc-holds-fundraiser-to-benefi
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Moviora Plays Ten Questions To Help You Pick A Flick
Whenever my friends and I get together for a movie party, the toughest part of the evening is collectively deciding what to watch. There?s always one person that shoots a good suggestion down with a curt, ?I?m not in the mood for that?. Moviora is an app that aims to make that process a little easier. It?s a strange thing. Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video certainly provide a plethora of video content for our viewing pleasure, but oftentimes the biggest challenge is narrowing down all of those options to just one title. Netflix offers a list of recommendations by sifting through our viewing history, but it?s far from perfect. I?ve watched a lot of stupid crap, and so have all of my other friends I share my Netflix account with. More often than not, my searching on Netflix will end up in mired in a list of obscure, low-budget B-movie titles that I have no intention of ever watching. Moviora is an app that attempts to discern what we?re in the mood for watching by essentially playing a game of ten questions. For example, it asks if you?re in the mood for a ?drama?, and you narrow the choices down by answering yes or no. Once you?re cycled through these prompts five to six times, you?re provided with a movie recommendation, along with a trailer, some reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, and links to the film on Netflix and iTunes. When I answered ?yes? to drama, ?no? to comedy, ?yes? to romance, ?yes? to action, and ?yes? to adventure, it provided me with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which is actually a movie I haven?t watched yet and wouldn?t mind seeing at all. It doesn?t always provide you with the perfect choice, but there?s an addictive quality to the ten questions aspect and it?s certainly a lot better than aimlessly meandering through Netflix?s movie titles. You can try out Moviora for yourself at their website here. The app is currently a free download in the iOS App Store.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/KxR0QutVWt4/
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Quick Strategies Of Crock Pot Recipes Considered | Health Talk
Correspondent Melba L. A. Rowland-Benavides ? Are you searching for several quick tips on which related to Crock Pot Recipes and also pork tenderloins? Have you got queries about the sort of cooking methods that work for pork chops as well as pork tenderloins?
Cooking food pig can be a very challenging point. Undercooking it?s really a significant hazard to health and over cooking will leave the actual beef dried out and with simply no flavor. No one wants to eat possibly of those so it?s extremely important that you focus on cooking occasions as well as select the most practical method for your cut regarding meats you have. Chicken ought to always be cooked to an inside heat associated with 160 degrees. pork chop recipes is a little more difficult to tell doneness since it is currently white. Along with ground beef, you are able to tell it?s completed when it is will no longer pink within, nevertheless its not the same along with pork. This is why it is always good to use a thermometer.
1 primary suggestion that will assist with the meats not really becoming dry is one thing known as sleeping. If you are accustomed to cooking food huge cuts associated with meat, you are probably knowledgeable about this phrase. This is where a person allow the meats sit down and also sleep to get a little but after you prepare it. Maybe you have cut into a bit of meats as well as the juices emerged used up in your plate? This is because if the beef will be food preparation, the fruit drinks are warm and are working all over in the beef. When you get forced out, all the fruit juices redistribute and also reconcile down again. This can really help with the tenderness as the juices will stay within. This is a good idea to cover the particular beef using a little bit of aluminum foil or perhaps a lit up therefore it isn?t getting cool though it may be relaxing.
There are many sorts ways to prepare Dinner Recipes. For the more compact slashes associated with meat, saut?ing could be the approach to take. This is where you add tiny items in a pot and also move all of them about quickly as they cook on the high heat. Cooking is one of the best methods and is useful for smaller sized reductions such as the grinds, but tend to also be used for larger cuts like the loin toast. How you can carry out the loin roasts is via what is called indirect barbecuing. This is very much like what are the results within an stove. You?ll hold the meats on the one hand from the grill as well as the hearth on the other half. As opposed to conventional cooking, the meats isn?t straight over the flare.
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Shape-shifting mobile devices
Apr. 28, 2013 ? Prototype mobile devices that can change shape on-demand will be unveiled today [Monday 29 April] and could lay down the foundation for creating high shape resolution devices of the future.
The research paper, to be presented at one of the world's most important conferences on human-computer interfaces, will introduce the term 'shape resolution' and its ten features, to describe the resolution of an interactive device: in addition to display and touch resolution.
The research, led by Dr Anne Roudaut and Professor Sriram Subramanian, from the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science, have used 'shape resolution' to compare the resolution of six prototypes the team have built using the latest technologies in shape changing material, such as shape memory alloy and electro active polymer.
One example of a device is the team's concept of Morphees, self-actuated flexible mobile devices that can change shape on-demand to better fit the many services they are likely to support.
The team believe Morphees will be the next generation of mobile devices, where users can download applications that embed a dedicated form factor, for instance the "stress ball app" that collapses the device in on itself or the "game app" that makes it adopt a console-like shape.
Dr Anne Roudaut, Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science's Bristol Interaction and Graphics group, said: "The interesting thing about our work is that we are a step towards enabling our mobile devices to change shape on-demand. Imagine downloading a game application on the app-store and that the mobile phone would shape-shift into a console-like shape in order to help the device to be grasped properly. The device could also transform into a sphere to serve as a stress ball, or bend itself to hide the screen when a password is being typed so passers-by can't see private information."
By comparing the shape resolution of their prototypes, the researchers have created insights to help designers towards creating high shape resolution Morphees.
In the future the team hope to build higher shape resolution Morphees by investigating the flexibility of materials. They are also interested in exploring other kinds of deformations that the prototypes did not explore, such as porosity and stretchability.
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Qatar: Nude statues returned to Greece
Qatar: Nude statues lent by Greece, didn't go on display as part of a history of the Olympics. Greece took the male nude statues back.
Greece has pulled two ancient statues of nude males from an Olympic exhibition in Doha after Qatari authorities insisted on veiling them.
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A Culture Ministry official says exhibition organizers wanted to avoid scandalizing female visitors.
Greek Deputy Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras, who visited the Muslim country last month for the exhibition opening, objected, saying the works should be displayed as they were or shipped home.
So the statues were returned to Athens last week, the official said on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak on the record.
Qatari officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday night.
The statues date to the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. They were among nearly 600 antiquities brought from Greece for the "Olympics - Past and Present" exhibition.
?For the first time, an exhibition showcases the cultural history of the ancient and modern Olympics on such a scale, not to mention a special section on Qatar?s participation in the world-class event,? said Dr. Christian Wacker, Director of the Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum. ?ExxonMobil has shown its dedication to sports in Qatar in various local events and we welcome the opportunity to cooperate with such a committed partner.?
Of course, the Qatar isn't the only place where nude statues are objectionable. According to The Daily Mail, a 40-foot statue of Vivienne Westwood was banned from a "Punk: Chaos to Couture" exhibit scheduled to open May 6 at London't Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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Investors Raid IRAs, 401(k)s ? Raising Broker & Adviser Risk ...
[ by Melanie Gretchen and Howard Haykin ]
Anyone looking to check the pulse of the American economy might want to check out the status of retirement accounts.? What might be a little known secret might have some serious impacts on the welfare of customers and clients of broker-dealers and investment advisers.? And when their welfare, and well-being is at risk, multiple risks arise for Wall Street firms.? Of course, there's no reason any financial services firms must sit around and wait to see how it all turns out.? There are plenty of PRO-ACTIVE steps that can be taken.
So where are we getting the idea that many Americans are not waiting for retirement before they hit their savings?? Well, that would be Wall Street Cheatsheet, which points out that:? Amid stagnant wages and rising expenses, more Americans are raiding their retirement accounts.
And with all the billions in liquidity that the Federal Reserve appears to be pumping into the financial system ? at record levels, no less ? no much of that liquidity is reaching its intended target.? As Americans are getting "tapped out," they are resorting to tapping their retirement accounts ? before their retirement.? Wells Fargo confirms this phenomenon:? a bank survey found that 1 in 5 workers are using their 401k plans for loans.? To date, the average new loan balance jumped 7% from $6,662 to $7,126 in the same period.
"While the increase in loan activity is concerning, we know that loans are not the biggest driver of leakage from retirement savings.? In fact, employees cashing out their 401k's when they leave an employer are a greater concern. Those dollars are often spent whereas with loans the funds are often repaid and stay in the retirement nest egg." ? Laurie Nordquist, director of Wells Fargo Retirement, in a press release.
Wall St. Cheatsheet scratched the surface when it said, "it is generally considered a bad idea to take a loan out from your 401k plan."? Aside from diminished long-term gains or the very real threat of being laid off (at which point entire loan typically becomes due within a few months), what we're looking at is an entire population of sitting ducks.
Ramifications On The Financial Services Industry.? We'll let you in on a little secret ? but you'll have to promise to follow our logic.? If you agree with us so far ? i.e., agree with Wall Street Cheatsheet ? then many customers and clients of broker-dealers and investment advisers are hurting.? If the investor keeps his or her retirement account with your firm, perhaps you've already noticed a significant decline in balances.? But it wouldn't be so apparent if the account or accounts were held, say, at a custodian chosen by the employer.
Anyway, it would be prudent to take the worst case scenario and presume anticipate your customers or clients are having difficulty.? When people are experiencing net outflows, they sorely feel in need of a quick fix.? That need can be filled by investing an individual's remaining funds in speculative securities ? e.g., penny stocks, out-of-the-money options, junk bonds.? If the stars are aligned, any of those can result in a meaningful return.? Of course, it's not uncommon for such securities to become worthless or fall to a fraction of their former value.?
How does that impact those in financial services??
- Suitability, suitability, suitability!
- Investors may try and win it all back all at once.? But should firms let their customers and clients follow their own leads?? It's probably akin to a bartender who serves a last drink to someone who's already reached his or her limit.? If anything happens to that person, the bartender can be held responsible.
- What about the investments that you and your firm have been soliciting.? In your opinion, they were suitable for your customers a couple of months ago ? so why not now?? Well, if they're down on their luck, they no longer have the risk tolerance or investment objective that they had a short while ago.? If you push those securities on customers and they lose, regulators can come after you.?
- And because regulators also are aware that investors are raiding their retirement accounts, they're likely to revise the scope of their examinations, and see if firms like yours have changed the way they do business/
Proactive Strategy. ? First things first, it's essential to learn how your customers and clients are doing.? Every broker and adviser needs to ascertain what changes have occurred in the lives of their customers and clients, and whether the firm's profiles need to be revised.? Managers and supervisors should work closely with their charges and review all findings.?
It probably would be best to design a standard template for all personnel to fill out.? This will ensure consistency of information and facilitate reviews.?
Supervisors should meet or speak with selected customers or clients ? along with the broker or adviser, or separately.? The key is to know whether the brokers and advisers are asking the right questions and clarifying answers where follow-ups are needed.
Benefits of Elevating Customer/Client Contacts.?? Several benefits come to mind.
- Customers and clients will likely appreciate the additional attention and concern.? This not only can strengthen working relationships but it might also provide troubled investors with an ally ? or someone they can turn to for guidance.?
- Regulators will appreciate the care and concern that the firm exhibits for its customers and clients.? And, by retaining copies of the interviews and updates to customer records, as necessary, it's likely that regulators will reduce the scope of testing because they're satisfied that the firm has gone the extra yard to "do the right thing."
- Finally, the risk of suitability arbitrations and lawsuits are significantly reduced because the reviews are documented and presumably subsequent investment decisions are in line with the new findings.
Seriously ? it really is simply prudent/prescient/just good business to be on the crisis-averse side.
For further details, go to [Wall St. Cheatsheet, 4/18/13].
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DNA at 60: Still Much to Learn
On the diamond jubilee of the double helix, we should admit that we don't fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level, suggests Philip Ball
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This week's diamond jubilee of the discovery of DNA's molecular structure rightly celebrates how Francis Crick, James Watson and their collaborators launched the 'genomic age' by revealing how hereditary information is encoded in the double helix. Yet the conventional narrative ? in which their 1953 Nature paper led inexorably to the Human Genome Project and the dawn of personalized medicine ? is as misleading as the popular narrative of gene function itself, in which the DNA sequence is translated into proteins and ultimately into an organism's observable characteristics, or phenotype.
Sixty years on, the very definition of 'gene' is hotly debated. We do not know what most of our DNA does, nor how, or to what extent it governs traits. In other words, we do not fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level.
That sounds to me like an extraordinarily exciting state of affairs, comparable perhaps to the disruptive discovery in cosmology in 1998 that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating rather than decelerating, as astronomers had believed since the late 1920s. Yet, while specialists debate what the latest findings mean, the rhetoric of popular discussions of DNA, genomics and evolution remains largely unchanged, and the public continues to be fed assurances that DNA is as solipsistic a blueprint as ever.
The more complex picture now emerging raises difficult questions that this outsider knows he can barely discern. But I can tell that the usual tidy tale of how 'DNA makes RNA makes protein' is sanitized to the point of distortion. Instead of occasional, muted confessions from genomics boosters and popularizers of evolution that the story has turned out to be a little more complex, there should be a bolder admission ? indeed a celebration ? of the known unknowns.
DNA dispute
A student referring to textbook discussions of genetics and evolution could be forgiven for thinking that the 'central dogma' devised by Crick and others in the 1960s ? in which information flows in a linear, traceable fashion from DNA sequence to messenger RNA to protein, to manifest finally as phenotype ? remains the solid foundation of the genomic revolution. In fact, it is beginning to look more like a casualty of it.
Although it remains beyond serious doubt that Darwinian natural selection drives much, perhaps most, evolutionary change, it is often unclear at which phenotypic level selection operates, and particularly how it plays out at the molecular level.
Take the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, a public research consortium launched by the US National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Starting in 2003, ENCODE researchers set out to map which parts of human chromosomes are transcribed, how transcription is regulated and how the process is affected by the way the DNA is packaged in the cell nucleus. Last year, the group revealed that there is much more to genome function than is encompassed in the roughly 1% of our DNA that contains some 20,000 protein-coding genes ? challenging the old idea that much of the genome is junk. At least 80% of the genome is transcribed into RNA.
Some geneticists and evolutionary biologists say that all this extra transcription may simply be noise, irrelevant to function and evolution. But, drawing on the fact that regulatory roles have been pinned to some of the non-coding RNA transcripts discovered in pilot projects, the ENCODE team argues that at least some of this transcription could provide a reservoir of molecules with regulatory functions ? in other words, a pool of potentially 'useful' variation. ENCODE researchers even propose, to the consternation of some, that the transcript should be considered the basic unit of inheritance, with 'gene' denoting not a piece of DNA but a higher-order concept pertaining to all the transcripts that contribute to a given phenotypic trait.
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Court orders detention of Bosnia federation head in graft probe
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court on Sunday ordered that the president of the country's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and four other officials be detained for a month after prosecutors said they took bribes to arrange pardons for convicts.
Federation President Zivko Budimir was arrested on Friday along with 19 others in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago.
In handing out the month-long detentions, the court said it believed that both Budimir and his co-accused aide Petar Barisic might try to flee the country because they held Croatian passports, a court spokeswoman said.
She added that the three other officials were being held because the court was concerned they could obstruct the investigation and influence accomplices and witnesses.
Lawyers for the accused said they would appeal against Sunday's ruling.
Budimir's Party of Justice and Trust condemned what it called "meddling in politics by the state prosecution" and described his arrest as a "a show of strength put on for the sake of the public."
The arrest of Budimir, who holds top executive powers, looks likely to exacerbate a political crisis that blew up last year when he refused to approve a government reshuffle and the appointment of judges to the constitutional court.
The police said 10 government officials were among the 20 people arrested on Friday. Several of the others were suspected drug traffickers with alleged links to officials.
Under a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the 1992-95 war, Bosnia was split into two autonomous regions joined by a relatively weak central government - the federation and the Serb Republic - each of which enjoys a high degree of autonomy.
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; editing by Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-orders-detention-bosnia-federation-head-graft-probe-143443284.html
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SmackDown Results: The Undertaker returned to SmackDown, only to suffer the strategic wrath of The Shield
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Lawmakers: Syria chemical weapons could menace US
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power and could end up targeting Americans at home, lawmakers warned Sunday as they considered a U.S. response that stops short of sending military forces there.
U.S. officials last week declared that the Syrian government probably had used chemical weapons twice in March, newly provocative acts in the 2-year civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The U.S. assessment followed similar conclusions from Britain, France, Israel and Qatar ? key allies eager for a more aggressive response to the Syrian conflict.
President Barack Obama has said Syria's likely action ? or the transfer of President Bashar Assad's stockpiles to terrorists ? would cross a "red line" that would compel the United States to act.
Lawmakers sought to remind viewers on Sunday news programs of Obama's declaration while discouraging a U.S. foothold on the ground there.
"The president has laid down the line, and it can't be a dotted line. It can't be anything other than a red line," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. "And more than just Syria, Iran is paying attention to this. North Korea is paying attention to this."
Added Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.: "For America to sit on the sidelines and do nothing is a huge mistake."
Obama has insisted that any use of chemical weapons would change his thinking about the United States' role in Syria but said he didn't have enough information to order aggressive action.
"For the Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues," Obama said Friday.
But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, said Sunday the United States needs to consider those weapons. She said that when Assad leaves power, his opponents could have access to those weapons or they could fall into the hands of U.S. enemies.
"The day after Assad is the day that these chemical weapons could be at risk ... (and) we could be in bigger, even bigger trouble," she said.
Both sides of the civil war already accuse each other of using the chemical weapons.
The deadliest such alleged attack was in the Khan al-Assal village in the Aleppo province in March. The Syrian government called for the United Nations to investigate alleged chemical weapons use by rebels in the attack that killed 31 people.
Syria, however, has not allowed a team of experts into the country because it wants the investigation limited to the single Khan al-Assal incident, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged "immediate and unfettered access" for an expanded investigation.
One of Obama's chief antagonists on Syria, Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., said the United States should go to Syria as part of an international force to safeguard the chemical weapons. But McCain added that he is not advocating sending ground troops to the nation.
"The worst thing the United States could do right now is put boots on the ground on Syria. That would turn the people against us," McCain said.
His friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also said the United States could safeguard the weapons without a ground force. But he cautioned the weapons must be protected for fear that Americans could be targeted. Raising the specter of the lethal bomb at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Graham said the next attack on U.S. soil could employ weapons that were once part of Assad's arsenal.
"Chemical weapons ? enough to kill millions of people ? are going to be compromised and fall into the wrong hands, and the next bomb that goes off in America may not have nails and glass in it," he said.
Rogers and Schakowsky spoke to ABC's "This Week." Chambliss and Graham were interviewed on CBS's "Face the Nation." McCain appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-syria-chemical-weapons-could-menace-us-154735931.html
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