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Sunday, November 27, 2011
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Friday, November 25, 2011
theGrio: African-Americans free to give thanks, even during slavery
You'll be hard pressed to find the face of an African-American in any artistic depiction of that all-too familiar feast of 1621, like the one where a group of Plymouth colonists share an autumn harvest meal with some Wampanoag Indians.
That was just about the time when the earliest ships of Africans arrived as itemized cargo in America.
Nonetheless, African-Americans have long embraced the honored tradition of Thanksgiving, even during slavery.
When the Continental Congress delivered a 1777 decree for the 13 colonies to give thanks for a victory over the British at Saratoga, African-Americans took part in the regional celebrations, continuing in what had become a familiar custom of rejoicing for bountiful harvests and drought-breaking rains.
Field slaves caught wild game often accompanied by a serving of cornmeal while house slaves dined on leftovers from the "big house" after the slave-owners family finished their own feasts.
Similar to the Puritan practice of setting aside times for fasting and giving thanks, for many African-Americans, any notion of Thanksgiving existed alongside the Christian faith.
"In the context of the African-American community, Thanksgiving was certainly a church oriented celebration," African-American studies professor Dr. Crenshaw Dailey told theGrio.
"And one that had a kind of communal impulse in the sense of people gathering with the church as the epicenter."
As some would say, Thanksgiving was about church.
Thanksgiving Day sermons could be heard throughout black churches in Antebellum America as pastors gave voice to the fears, struggles, hopes and triumphs of a people who were still a commodity in an increasingly powerful nation. Many of these sermons openly mourned the institution of slavery, the suffering of the black people and pleaded for the collective awakening of a slave-free consciousness in America.
Hosea Easton's 1828 Thanksgiving Day Address to blacks in Rhode Island was nothing short of a dynamic diatribe against slavery and racism. In the speech, the multi-ethnic prominent abolitionist called for a "racial uplift" of the black race in America.
African Methodist Episcopalian cleric, Reverend Benjamin Arnett stirred a predominantly black congregation on November 30, 1876 with Biblically inspired words:
"...we call on all American citizens to love their country, and look not on the sins of the past, but arming ourselves for the conflict of the future, girding ourselves in the habiliments of Righteousness, march forth with the courage of a Numidian lion and with the confidence of a Roman Gladiator, and meet the demands of the age, and satisfy the duties of the hour..."
"Then let the grand Centennial Thanksgiving song be heard and sung in every house of God; and in every home may thanksgiving sounds be heard, for our race has been emancipated, enfranchised and are now educating, and have the gospel preached to them."
The often-perceived conundrum of black slaves in colonial America giving thanks has baffled many, but perhaps justification and just maybe validation became more tangible after the U.S. Congress outlawed the importation of slaves into the U.S. and its territories on January 1, 1808.
Absalom Jones, one of the first African-American ordained ministers, delivered these words to commemorate the New Year of 1808:
"Yes, my brethren, the nations from which most of us have descended, and the country in which some of us were born, have been visited by the tender mercy of the Common Father of the human race. He has seen the affliction of our countrymen, with an eye of pity. He has seen the wicked arts, by which wars have been fomented among the different tribes of the Africans, in order to procure captives, for the purpose of selling them for slaves."
"He has seen ships fitted out from different ports in Europe and America, and freighted with trinkets to be exchanged for the bodies and souls of men. He has seen the anguish which has taken place, when parents have been torn from their children, and children from their parents, and conveyed, with their hands and feet bound in fetters, on board of ships prepared to receive them. He has seen them thrust in crowds into the holds of those ships, where many of them have perished from the want of air. He has seen such of them as have escaped from that noxious place of confinement, leap into the ocean; with a faint hope of swimming back to their native shore, or a determination to seek early retreat from their impending misery, in a watery grave. He has seen them exposed for sale, like horses and cattle, upon the wharves; or, like bales of goods, in warehouses of West India and American sea ports...."
"The ears of Jehovah have been constantly open to them: He has heard the prayers that have ascended from the hearts of his people; and he has, as in the case of his ancient and chosen people the Jews, come down to deliver our suffering country-men from the hands of their oppressors. He came down into the United States, when they declared, in the constitution which they framed in 1788, that the trade in our African fellow-men, should cease in the year 1808."
But the ceasing of the buying of imported African slaves in America did not end what is sometimes referred to as America's original sin, the institution of slavery.
It continued for more than half a century later.
That's why many freed black slaves immigrated to Africa, to the newly founded colony of Liberia. African-Americans took the tradition of Thanksgiving there, thanking God for their freedom and for the establishment of Liberia.
It's not difficult to conjure a delightfully sublime mental picture, one of African-Americans freed from slavery and colonial plantation life, celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the equatorial heat of Liberia.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Scienceblogging: Scitable - a Q&A with Khalil Cassimally
Hi, thank you for taking your time for answering a few questions about the past, present and future developments of the science blogging ecosystem. Let me begin with you ? can you tell our readers, please, who you are, where you come from and how you got into science blogging?
Hi all, I just completed a research year in the fields of developmental biology and neuroscience in Australia which concludes my undergraduate study. Prior to coming to Australia, I spent three years studying in Malaysia. I?m not from Australia or Malaysia though; I?m from Mauritius, a small tropical island in the Indian Ocean. It?s the kind of place most people hope to go to for a great vacation spent at the beach, under the sun. And that?s my home, ha!
I started writing about science when I was 16. I enjoyed writing and science in general so it felt natural to start writing about science. I was never much of a geek back then to be honest but as I started writing more about science, I gradually (and proudly) transformed into one. But my major foray into science blogging happened some three years ago when I got in touch with Scitable?s senior scientific editor. Back then Scitable only had a handful of blogs, including Student Voices, a group blog for students by students. I started contributing sporadically to Student Voices and then went on to manage the blog. Now, I manage Scitable?s network of 16 blogs and 3 forums.
Everyone seems to agree that the summer of 2010 saw some big and important changes in the science blogging ecosystem. What are your own thoughts on this? Where do you think it will go next, over the next couple of years?
Although I was part of the science blogosphere back then, I was still relatively unaware of the happenings. So, although I was surprised by the mass exodus from Scienceblogs.com, I did not know what to make of it. Now that I know more about the science blogosphere, I can see how the exodus actually helped me (and I suppose a number of other newcomers to science blogging) to identify myself as a science blogger.
Back then Scienceblogs.com was a hub for many of the renown science bloggers of the time. It looked like an impenetrable community of top-notch science bloggers. As a young science blogger, I could only aspire to such quality of science writing but could not identify myself with those bloggers. Yes, they were science bloggers just like I was but they were blogging on Scienceblogs.com! They were unreal, untouchable? I did not feel part of the same community even though I too was a science blogger.
When Scienceblogs.com broke apart, those great bloggers started blogging elsewhere on networks that included lesser-known science bloggers and that was when it hit me. Even though there is a gulf in quality between those renown bloggers and myself, we are all doing the same thing here, we are in the same boat: we all want to spread our love for science. So no matter how young or inexperienced I might be, the thing that mattered the most was my enthusiasm for communicating science. This was when I started to take my blogging a little more seriously.
How do you personally read science blogs? Do you use feeds, or social networks, or some other ways of keeping track of the science blogging world? How do you find new blogs?
I use RSS feeds for a small number of blogs. But mostly, I don?t read blogs, I read blog posts. I end up at many interesting blog posts every day through Twitter. Which is great because I?m always reading from new people all the time so I get exposed to many different views and interests.
Tell us a little bit more about Scitable?s science blogging network. What is it about? How did it come about? By what process do you add bloggers to the network ? do they apply, do you invite them, or some other way?
Scitable is an endeavour of Nature Education, the educational division of Nature Publishing Group. Scitable offers a great number of high-quality articles, easily accessible for undergraduates especially. In addition, Scitable also hosts a network of science blogs. The network is a place for students, budding researchers, scientists and anybody with an interest in science to come together and share their views about anything science.
Scitable bloggers are students (from high school level to postgrad level), post-grads, lecturers and scientists, each with a different passion and interest. This diversity ensures that different members of the science community are represented on the network.
We love student science bloggers and we want to help in promoting these young voices. Student Voices is always accepting new bloggers, plus it publishes a number of guest posts. It?s as easy as emailing us if you want to do some science blogging on Scitable.
Where do you see Scitable?s science blogging network within the global science blogging ecosystem ? what is its position, how does it differ from others, what is the target audience, what unique service does it provide?
The focus of the Scitable network is very much, but not restricted to, students. We want to push the voices of students to the foreground and we want to engage and motivate our student readers and hopefully get them as excited about science as we all are here.
Our bloggers can blog about anything science they like or are interested in. There is only one rule and that?s to have fun. If you have fun when you?re doing something, the end-product is nearly always great.
What is next for Scitable?s science blogging network (as far as you are free to reveal)?
We are working on giving the network much more exposure on the Scitable website to make sure that bloggers reach as many people as they can with their blog posts. We?re also working on some new stuff which will be great for both our bloggers and readers. Can?t say much more at this point though!
Thank you so much for this interview.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Medtronic posts higher quarterly earnings (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Medical device maker Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) reported higher quarterly earnings on Tuesday as sales in most of its businesses improved.
Earnings were $871 million, or 82 cents per share, in the second quarter ended October 28, compared with $566 million, or 52 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, earnings were 84 cents a share, 2 cents above the analysts' average estimate, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose to $4.13 billion from $3.90 billion a year ago, even as sales of implantable heart defibrillators and spine biologics remained weak, as expected.
For the second half, the company maintained its revenue forecast calling for growth from continuing operations of 1 percent to 3 percent.
For the full fiscal year, it reiterated its previous growth forecast of earnings per share growth, excluding items, to be between 6 percent and 9 percent.
Its shares were up 1.4 percent at $33.75 in thin premarket trading.
(Reporting by Debra Sherman; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Derek Caney)
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Tiny flame shines light on supernovae explosions
ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2011) ? Starting from the behavior of small flames in the laboratory, a team of researchers has gained new insights into the titanic forces that drive Type Ia supernova explosions. These stellar explosions are important tools for studying the evolution of the universe, so a better understanding of how they behave would help answer some of the fundamental questions in astronomy.
Type Ia supernovae form when a white dwarf star -- the left-over cinder of a star like our Sun -- accumulates so much mass from a companion star that it reignites its collapsed stellar furnace and detonates, briefly outshining all other stars in its host galaxy. Because these stellar explosions have a characteristic brightness, astronomers use them to calculate cosmic distances. (It was by studying Type Ia supernovae that two independent research teams determined that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating, earning them the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics).
To better understand the complex conditions driving this type of supernova, the researchers performed new 3-D calculations of the turbulence that is thought to push a slow-burning flame past its limits, causing a rapid detonation -- the so-called deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). How this transition might occur is hotly debated, and these calculations provide insights into what is happening at the moment when the white dwarf star makes this spectacular transition to supernova. "Turbulence properties inferred from these simulations provides insight into the DDT process, if it occurs," said Aaron Jackson, currently an NRC Research Associate working in the Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. At the time of this research, Jackson was a graduate student at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York.
Jackson and his colleagues Dean Townsley from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and Alan Calder also of Stony Brook, presented their data at the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 20-22, 2011.
While the deflagration-detonation transition mechanism is still not well understood, a prevailing hypothesis in the astrophysics community is that if turbulence is intense enough, DDT will occur. Extreme turbulent intensities inferred in the white dwarf from the researchers' simulations suggest DDT is likely, but the lack of knowledge about the process allows a large range of
outcomes from the explosion. Matching simulations to observed supernovae can identify likely conditions for DDT.
"There are a few options for how to simulate how they [supernovae] might work, each of which has different advantages and disadvantages," said Townsley. "Our goal is to provide a more realistic simulation of how a given supernova scenario will perform, but that is a long-term goal and involves many different improvements that are still in progress."
The researchers speculate that this better understanding of the physical underpinnings of the explosion mechanism will give us more confidence in using Type Ia supernovae as standard candles, and may yield more precise distance estimates.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Despite Unproven Market, Facebook To Launch Custom Android OS Phone With HTC
Over the past few years, Facebook has partnered with a variety of handset makers to release smartphones and feature phones that deeply integrate the social network into software and hardware. These phones have sold poorly, though. Meanwhile iOS and Android are claiming more and more of the market such that they endanger Facebook's future, cramping its mobile platform and relegating it to just being an app.?Last year we wrote that Facebook was likely building a custom-version of Android, and now AllThingsD says Facebook is, and it that it will run on an HTC-made Facebook phone. A custom operating system could attract users with even deeper software integrations, and let Facebook monetize in-app payments. The company hopes that despite a lack of proof that users want such a thing, its phone will?sell well, and allow it more determination over the future of its mobile apps and platform.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/NYtD9xjS5UQ/
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Haitian president: Plan for new army needs study (AP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? Haiti's president said Friday that his government is putting off a controversial plan to restore the country's disbanded military until a commission can be formed to study if this is the best alternative to the current U.N. peacekeeping force.
President Michel Martelly said he was appointing a civilian commission that over the course of 40 days will identify the goals of a new military force.
The restoration of the military was one of Martelly's campaign promises but drew immediate opposition from foreign diplomats and other critics, who said the country would be better off strengthening its underfunded and undermanned national police force, a point the president addressed in his speech.
"We will work to modernize the police but we need the army to protect the whole nation," Martelly said during a speech in the capital's central plaza to mark a battle that led to independence from France in 1804.
Martelly had said the new military force would patrol the border with the Dominican Republic, protect the country's dwindling forest and keep order during times of national crisis.
A government official had said earlier that Martelly would use the national speech to issue a decree creating the new military. Besides the issue of cost, some critics have expressed alarm at restoring a military that had been notorious for abuses before it was disbanded in 1995 under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
But many in Haiti welcome the military's restoration as a source of potential jobs amid deep poverty ? and as a point of national pride. The idea resonates in a country where Martelly and other politicians have denounced the U.N. peacekeeping force that has helped keep order since Aristide's ouster in 2004.
"You can't talk about the withdrawal (of the U.N. force) if you don't have a plan for your own army," Martelly told the crowd.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
iBuyPower Chimera 4 Gaming PC Announced | Geeky Gadgets
iBuyPower has added another high end gaming PC to their range with the launch of the Chimera 4, which comes with a choice of Intel Core i4, i7 and AMD FX-4100 processors.
Other specifications include up to 64GB of DDR 3 RAM, a choice of multiple AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards and enough room for 8 internal hard drives, with up to 24TB of storage.
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Lea Michele: "I Can Eat Some Bitches Under the Table!"
Lea Michele may have given up meat and dairy, but she hasn't given up food! The Glee star, 25, became noticeably thinner last summer, prompting the inevitable eating-disorder rumors. But in the new issue of Allure magazine, Michele reveals that the weight loss was a side effect of jaw surgery -- not starvation.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Dead friend barhopping suspect pleads not guilty (AP)
DENVER ? A man accused of driving around Denver with a dead friend, running up a bar tab and withdrawing money from the friend's credit card at a strip club ATM has pleaded not guilty.
KCNC-TV reports ( http://cbsloc.al/unEUAP) 43-year-old Robert Young pleaded not guilty to identity theft and abuse of a corpse in court Thursday in a case that's bears some similarity to the movie "Weekend at Bernie's."
Young previously told reporters he thought 43-year-old Jeffrey Jarrett was passed out drunk when they found him Aug. 27, not dead. The Denver medical examiner's office ruled that Jarrett died of alcohol, cocaine and prescription drug intoxication.
Co-defendant 25-year-old Mark Rubinson is due in court Friday.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Up to 3 million Afghans face hunger as winter looms
NEW DELHI, India?? Up to three million people in Afghanistan are facing hunger, malnutrition and disease after a severe drought wiped out their crops and extreme winter weather risks cutting off their access to vital food aid, a group of aid agencies warned Friday.
Poor rains earlier this year destroyed 80 percent of wheat crops in the country's north, northeast and west, leaving impoverished farming communities with little food to eat, said the nine charities which included Oxfam and Save the Children.
With food prices almost doubling since last year, families are being forced to skip meals, borrow money or migrate.
Access to life-saving aid is now in jeopardy as heavy snowfall will, within weeks, block roads and risk avalanches.
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"Villagers are telling us that this year the drought has destroyed everything. Their food stocks are already low, and they are worried about how they will get through the coming months," Oxfam's country director Manohar Shenoy said in a statement.
Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads (on this page)"Time is running out to be able to provide communities with the help they most desperately need before a harsh winter makes many areas inaccessible," he added. "Snow is already falling and many mountainous areas are likely to be cut off within weeks."
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Afghanistan's harsh winter, which lasts from November to March, often results in heavy snowfall of up to 13 feet deep, blocking remote mountain passes and leaving hundreds of thousands of villagers isolated for months.
As winter sets in, people are feeling the effects of the drought by cutting down on m
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Chu: Solyndra loan subject to rigorous scrutiny (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a half-billion dollar loan to failed solar panel maker Solyndra was subject to "rigorous scrutiny and healthy debate" before it was approved in 2009.
The Energy Department released excerpts of prepared testimony Chu will give to a House committee on Thursday.
Chu said he was disappointed at Solyndra's bankruptcy, but believes the U.S. must continue to offer financial support to develop innovative technologies in clean energy.
Chu is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating a $528 million federal loan received by Solyndra. The California company closed its doors on Aug. 31 and laid off its 1,100 workers.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The Obama administration wanted the failing solar energy company Solyndra to delay announcing an early round of employee layoffs until after the 2010 midterm elections, according to newly released emails.
An October 2010 email from a Solyndra investment adviser to a colleague said Energy Department officials were pushing "very hard" to delay making the layoffs ? an early sign of the company's financial woes ? public until Nov. 3, 2010 ? the day after the midterm elections.
"Oddly they didn't give a reason for that date," the email states. The email was released Wednesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with dozens of other emails related to the Solyndra investigation.
Last week, the White House said congressional Republicans were using the Solyndra investigation as a partisan "political football." Spokesman Jay Carney said at the time that GOP lawmakers have "cherry-picked" certain documents trying to create controversy over a decision-making process that the White House insists involved no political influence.
Solyndra announced dozens of layoffs on Nov. 3, 2010, after the election, but continued to receive federal assistance. The company, which received a $528 million federal loan in 2009, closed its doors on Aug. 31, 2011 and laid off its 1,100 workers.
The Oct. 30, 2010, email was from Steve Mitchell, managing director of Argonaut Private Equity, a major Solyndra investor, to George Kaiser, an Oklahoma billionaire who founded Argonaut and other firms. Kaiser was a "bundler" for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and a frequent White House visitor in 2009 and 2010. Argonaut invested $400 million in the solar company. Mitchell also served on Solyndra's board of directors.
Ken Levit, executive director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, also received the email.
Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera on Tuesday declined to confirm events described in the emails or to identify who at the Energy department may have urged the delay in the layoff announcement. He said "decisions about this loan were made on the merits."
Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to testify before the House energy panel on Thursday.
Solyndra's implosion and revelations that administration officials rushed to complete the loan in time for a September 2009 groundbreaking have become an embarrassment for Obama and a rallying cry for GOP critics of his green energy program.
The Republican-controlled energy panel has subpoenaed White House communications on Solyndra and has released thousands of pages of emails related to the company.
The emails released Wednesday show that then-Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010 that he intended to announce layoffs in three days. He wrote that reporters were asking about rumored layoffs and the possible closure of one of its two factories.
Five days later, Mitchell wrote his email to Kaiser and Levit, the Kaiser foundation executive.
Kaiser has said he played no part in helping Solyndra win the 2009 loan, but emails released last week show that he discussed Solyndra with the White House on at least one occasion. Kaiser also directed Mitchell and others how to approach the White House and Energy Department to help Solyndra deal with its financial problems.
In the fall of 2010, Solyndra executives and investors warned the Energy Department that they needed emergency financing to keep the company operating past December.
In the Oct. 25 email, Harrison said news of the company's financial problems "is starting to leak outside Solyndra."
Harrison's email was forwarded to Jonathan Silver, then-director of the Energy Department's loan program. The email was then forwarded to Chu's chief of staff, Rod O'Connor, and then to White House energy adviser Carol Browner and Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden.
Emails released last week show that top officials at the White House circulated a plan calling for Chu's ouster as the administration braced for a political storm brewing over Solyndra.
An email from a clean-energy activist and former official in Obama's 2008 campaign said that Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was a brilliant man but "not perfect" for other critical DOE missions, including creating jobs.
A White House spokesman said the plan to oust Chu was not taken very seriously.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Video: Hunting for Value
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Sharon Stone announces 2 new roles (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? Sharon Stone is taking on two very different roles: One in a Linda Lovelace biopic, and another online to welcome returning troops.
The 53-year-old actress says she will play Lovelace's mother in "Lovelace." But before filming starts, the "Basic Instinct" star has another mission: She's taking her first steps into the world of social media with a Facebook page that welcomes returning military personnel home from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Stone says her page will serve as a community bulletin board where people can not only thank the troops for their service, but offer them jobs, discounts, a helping hand and a warm welcome.
"It's very important that people know that their country is behind them," Stone said in an interview. "With all of this negative chatter in the governmental races, we need to have our actual country say what they feel in loving, really vocal terms."
Stone said that with 38,000 military personnel heading home in the coming weeks, she hopes her We Welcome Home Our Troops page will be a positive place where troops can find support.
"I'd like to see like big stores like K-Mart and Target offer 30 percent off for veterans," she said. She hopes businesses seeking workers might also post on the page, along with "lots of thoughtful, understanding messages" from everyday citizens.
Stone said she is planning to hold contests for veterans to attend movie premieres and other Hollywood events, "and I'm hoping that other celebrities will do the same."
Up next for the actress? She will be filming "The Mule," a thriller set on the U.S.-Mexico border, before taking on the Lovelace story.
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Hendricks: 'Mad Men' wait 'will be worth it'
Fan have been clamoring to take a trip back to 1960?s New York and wander the halls of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce on AMC?s ?Mad Men,? but their wait will continue until March 2012, something star Christina Hendricks says will pay off in big ways.
?I know it?s been a little bit of a wait, but it will be worth it,? the actress, who plays office bombshell Joan Holloway on the series, told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Tuesday?s Access Hollywood Live. ?We?re already shooting our tenth episode.?
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Bombshell Beauty Christina Hendricks
Viewers last saw Joan in the middle of a pregnancy pickle, not knowing if the father of her baby was husband Greg Harris (played by Sam Page) or the child of her boss and former flame, Roger Sterling (John Slattery). But Hendricks stayed tightlipped on who her character?s baby daddy might be.
?It wouldn?t be fun if I told you, you gotta wait!? she said with a smile. ?There?s some really great storytelling. You?ll have to wait and see.?
VIEW THE PHOTOS: It?s Hamm-er Time! Hot Shots Of ?Mad Men? Star Jon Hamm
Some of the stories in the upcoming Season 5 will be directed by co-star Jon Hamm.
?He?s natural,? she said of Jon?s skills behind the camera as a director. ?John Slattery has also directed a couple episodes. They know the story so well and they know us so well and their notes are fun. It?s very, very easy to work with them. They?re really great at it.?
In addition to currently filming her Emmy-winning series, Hendricks is also busy promoting another new venture ? into the world of video games!
Story: 'Mad Men' creator wants modern ending for showThe star is featured in ?Need For Speed: The Run,? where she plays a character (featuring her voice and likeness) in the midst of a race across the country from San Francisco to New York City.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
EU ministers postpone decision on further Iran sanctions (Reuters)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) ? European Union foreign ministers spoke out in favor of tougher sanctions against Iran on Monday, but decided to wait till their next meeting on Dec 1., before taking further action.
The ministers, meeting in Brussels, also ruled out any military action for now, despite last week's conclusion by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Tehran had worked on designing a nuclear bomb.
"The Council will continue to examine possible new and reinforced measures and revert to this issue at its next meeting, taking into account Iran's action," it said in a statement.
The United States and Israel have refused to rule out any option to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear arsenal. But the EU foreign ministers restricted themselves in the statement to a condemnation of Iran's expanding uranium enrichment program and expressions of concern over the IAEA's findings that Iran was developing military nuclear technology.
Arriving for the meeting, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Britain was not yet considering military action.
"We are not calling for, or advocating, military action," he said. "At the same time, we are saying that all options are on the table." He called for "peaceful, legitimate pressure" to be stepped up on Iran.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said: "sanctions are unavoidable and harsh sanctions are unavoidable too if Iran continues refusing to work with the IAEA..."
"Iran has the right to use civil nuclear power but also has the duty to refuse all means of nuclear weaponry and to make this clear before the international community," he said.
However, he said Germany would not consider military intervention. "We won't be part of a discussion about a military intervention ... such a discussion is counter-productive."
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, asked about possible military intervention: "I don't exclude anything, now is not the moment to say anything else."
Diplomats in Brussels say EU foreign ministers may be ready to approve new sanctions on December 1.
Iran already faces a wide range of U.N. sanctions, as well as some imposed unilaterally by the United States and the EU.
New EU sanctions would be a significant part of Western efforts to ratchet up pressure on Tehran after the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, produced intelligence suggesting that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
Western governments would prefer further U.N. Security Council measures against Tehran. But Russia and China, both permanent Security Council members with veto power, are opposed and on Thursday said new sanctions would not work.
Tehran, which says its nuclear program is for producing electricity and other peaceful purposes, said last week it remains ready for negotiations with world powers on the issue.
(Reporting By Sebastian Moffett, Justyna Pawlak and Robert-Jan Bartunek. Writing By Sebastian Moffett; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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GOP Debate Showcases Ignorance and Spin (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | The GOP debate of Saturday brought all the top contenders together to discuss the issues that mean the most to the right-wing voting public. The big topics of the night were international policy and war. The debate let the candidates really show off their ignorance and let the network display its well-developed junk-o-meter.
Recently, Newt Gingrich described President Barack Obama as "not knowing which country" he's in charge of. Perhaps Newt's ire should have been reserved for Michele Bachmann. Bachmann is a bit confused about what a communist country is as demonstrated by her statement that the U.S. is more communist than China. Her reasoning is based on China not having a food stamp program. Living in a democratic nation for her entire life appears not to have registered on her regarding the nature of her home country.
Rick Perry said he would reduce all foreign aid to zero and make each nation present a case regarding why they should receive aid. Perhaps Perry envisions a stay in the White House where he would sit on a throne and judge a line of ambassadors begging "please, Sir, may I have some more?" like Oliver Twist. At first he included Israel in this, only to reverse himself later. Waffling like that deserves a side of bacon.
Herman Cain, author of the lower-class-crushing 9-9-9 plan and alleged serial sexual harasser, now adds torture to the list of subjects he probably shouldn't have spoken about. When asked about waterboarding he said he'd support it. In a move that could be filed under "maybe people will forget it's torture if we call it something else" he called it an "enhanced interrogation technique". Enhancing interrogation with waterboarding is like enhancing dental surgery by skipping the novocaine -- it's torture.
Bachmann chimed in with a charmingly ignorant-sounding comment that a CIA, under Obama's influence, was run by the ACLU. Maybe Cain, Bachmann, and the other hopefuls who favor torture should talk to John McCain, an American veteran who was subjected to it, and ask how ethical he thinks it is.
CBS, debate co-sponsor, let affiliate stations decide whether to broadcast the last half hour of the show. The New York affiliate decided to return to NCIS rather than force another thirty minutes of political tripe on the viewers. The real surprise is that they didn't bail on the debate sooner.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Action call on radioactive finds
12 November 2011
Last updated at 08:40 ET
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for urgent action to tackle radioactive contamination on a Fife beach.
The MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is seeking a meeting with Defence Secretary Philip Hammond over the discovery of more than 200 particles at Dalgety Bay in the past few months.
The radioactivity is thought to come from dials of World War II aircraft.
Dalgety Bay hosted a wartime airfield, where many aircraft were dismantled.
The dials in the planes were coated with radioactive radium so they could be read at night.
Mr Brown's call followed the discovery this week of another "significant radioactive" source buried at depth at the beach.
Environment agency Sepa said if exposed through erosion the material would pose a risk to the community.
Mr Brown said the issue was the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence.
'Local fears'He commented: "It was material from the armed forces that was deposited here and it is important that the fears of local residents be allayed, because they want to know that this area is safe for their children, safe for the boating and sailing that goes on here and also that the property values in this area are upheld."
In October, a particle 10 times more radioactive than any other was found.
A specialist team and equipment will now be needed to remove the latest find.
Sepa has advised the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the find and has asked the MoD to support the agency in recovering the source or sources in order to remove "the significant hazard".
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15706800
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Search finds more bodies in quake-hit Turkish city (Reuters)
VAN, Turkey (Reuters) ? Rescuers found ten bodies, including a child's, on Friday as they dug through rubble after the latest earthquake to hit Van, a city in eastern Turkey already suffering from an earlier quake and simmering anger over the authorities' emergency response.
The toll from Wednesday's 5.7 magnitude tremor rose to 22, with search and rescue operations continuing at the two city center hotels that were the only occupied buildings to come down. Most people had abandoned their homes in the predominantly Kurdish city after the earlier quake nearly three weeks ago.
Though the loss of life is nowhere near the scale of the October 23 quake that killed more than 600, the latest calamity highlighted discontent over a relief operation that has left many families pleading for tents, despite the government's insistence that enough have been provided.
People's desperation has become more acute with the approach of winter, and on Friday snow began falling in the city of one million, with surrounding mountain tops already capped in white.
A day earlier, police fired tear gas to disperse some 200 protesters who had chanted for the removal of the state governor, saying there were not enough tents for people too afraid to return to their damaged homes.
The state's Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said 44 aircraft had flown to the region with relief aid. Among the equipment brought in was some 6,500 tents and almost 50,000 blankets.
Some 300 quake victims have been sent to Istanbul and Ankara in western Turkey.
Aftershocks have jolted the area with frightening regularity since last month's 7.2 magnitude quake, though experts say Wednesday's tremor represented a new seismic event rather than an aftershock according to Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay, who is overseeing the relief effort.
FADING HOPES
A 5.7 magnitude tremor would not normally inflict much damage, but buildings in the city were weakened by the earlier quake, and some 22 collapsed.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said an investigation would be launched into how the hotels which collapsed had been ruled safe before the latest quake.
"Of course we will start a legal process here. Whoever gave the (report) that they were habitable, whether from the university community, whether from AFAD, we will start a legal process regarding them," he said in a speech.
"My son is in there," one middle-aged man wrapped in a blanket said as he was led away, distraught that his 19-year-old boy was missing below the heap of broken concrete that was once the Hotel Bayram.
Other men and women sat on a mattress in the road, crying in despair, as rescue teams worked painstakingly to clear debris in hope of finding more survivors, having already pulled 28 from the ruins.
The teams worked to clear the rubble using cutting equipment, pick axes and heavy lifting equipment, occasionally stopping to use sensitive listening equipment in a bid to hear any sound of life beneath the rubble.
"We will keep searching until all the rubble has been removed," said a rescue worker from the paramilitary gendarmerie, as he sipped a cup of tea as a colleague took his place shifting the debris.
The quake cut power in the city, but the rescue work continued through the night under floodlights powered by mobile generators. The center of a city appeared like a ghost town with all the buildings abandoned.
As morning broke some men huddled in one-storey tea houses or kebab shops, the very few places that have reopened.
One or two groups of men lit fires on the street, burning rubbish to keep warm.
Tent cities have been set up on the outskirts of town, but many families have pitched tents close to their homes, though the authorities want to bring them into the organized camps, where aid and sanitation is better regulated.
(Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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