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Obama signals won't rush to act against Syria over chemical arms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cautioned against a rush to judgment on whether Syria used chemical weapons against its own people on Tuesday in a sign he is going to take a deliberate approach to a problem that could lead to U.S. military action. At a White House news conference, Obama said there is evidence chemical weapons were used inside Syria but "we don't know how they were used, when they were used, who used them" and "we don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened."

Exclusive: Sources say senior Iranian diplomat detained in March

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists was detained in Tehran in March, possibly as part of a crackdown on dissidents ahead of the June presidential election, sources familiar with the case told Reuters on Tuesday. Bagher Asadi, who has previously been a senior diplomat at Iran's U.N. mission in New York and was most recently a director at the secretariat of the so-called D8 group of developing nations in Istanbul, was arrested in mid-March in the Iranian capital according to the sources, who requested anonymity.

Italy's Letta tells Merkel Europe needs more growth

ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, fresh from winning a confidence vote in parliament, told Germany on Tuesday his government would meet its budget commitments but expected Europe to drop its austerity mantra and do more to lift growth. Speaking in Berlin on his first foreign visit since taking office on Sunday, Letta warned that Italy's February election, which saw a surge of support for parties attacking the European Union, showed that a change of course was needed.

Israel welcomes apparent Arab League softening of peace plan

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel responded favorably on Tuesday to an apparent softening by Arab states of their 2002 peace plan after a top Qatari official raised the possibility of land swaps in setting borders between the Jewish state and an independent Palestine. The original Arab League proposal offered full recognition of Israel but only if it gave up all land seized in the 1967 Middle East war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. Israel, which has long said it would never return to narrow pre-1967 war borders, rejected the plan at the time.

South African army deaths from Central African Republic rise to 14

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One of 27 South African soldiers injured in March in fighting against rebels in Central African Republic has died, bringing to 14 the total killed in the clashes, a defense force spokesman said on Tuesday. The soldier, who was not identified, had been released from hospital on April 19 following an improvement in his condition.

Bomb blast kills 13 in center of Syrian capital

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb blast in the government-held center of Damascus killed 13 people on Tuesday, state television said, while rebels and loyalists to President Bashar al-Assad traded accusations over what they said was a chemical weapons attack the day before. Residents described scenes of carnage in Marjeh Square, in a the commercial district in the heart of the capital, with dozens of cars and buildings damaged by the bomb which went off in front of the former Interior Ministry building.

China dissident's brother says home attacked nightly with dead poultry, bottles

BEIJING (Reuters) - Security personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the two said on Tuesday, throwing rocks, bottles and dead poultry at his house for 12 nights in a row. The attacks on the village home of Chen Guangfu continued early on Tuesday, he said. Two cars parked outside his house in Shandong province, shining their headlights through the windows and again security personnel threw rocks and beer bottles at the house and into the yard, he said.

France troops capture suspected French jihadist in Mali

PARIS (Reuters) - A suspected French jihadist has been captured by French forces in Mali, the defense ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, one of a handful of French nationals in the Sahel suspected of fighting against their own country. French authorities had been searching for Gilles Le Guen since October, when he published a YouTube video in which he warned France, the United States and the United Nations not to interfere in Mali.

Military push not sole way to end Congo conflict: U.N. envoy

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - A military solution is not the only way to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo, the newly appointed United Nations special envoy to the region said on Tuesday as the world body prepared to bolster its peacekeeping mission there. Former Irish president Mary Robinson was visiting the region for the first time since being appointed U.N. special envoy charged with helping bring an end to the violence, which has left millions dead and the mineral-rich nation in ruins.

Pope accepts invite to Israel, urges peace talks

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume talks and make "courageous decisions" to bring peace after his first meeting with Israel's President Shimon Peres on Tuesday and accepted an invitation to visit the Holy Land. The two discussed the civil war in Syria, tensions in Iran and the scourge of anti-Semitism during half an hour of private talks in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace.

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Tango Card Raises Another $4.1M As Gift Cards Get More Enterprising

Tango Card, the Seattle-based startup that aggregates digital gift card services from dozens of companies like Amazon, Nike, Target, iTunes, charities and more, has raised $4.125 million in a Series B round of financing led by Allegro Venture Partners. Floodgate, Swan and Legend Ventures, and existing investors Western Technology Investments and Innovation Endeavors, the early-stage fund co-founded by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, as well as a strategic investor that Tango Card cannot disclose, also participated in the round. A Form D from Tango Card filed with the SEC for $5.452 million includes both this round along with some of the money raised in Tango Card's previous venture round. To date, Tango Card has raised $6.925 million.

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Honibe Uses Honey as an All Natural Alternative | Health and ...

Lindsay Mulligan, Marketing Manager for Honibe, (http://www.honibe.com), explains:

Honey is natural, it is healthy for you, honey is anti-bacterial & anti-microbial and contains anti-oxidants. Honey is a great alternative for Diabetes and people on low carb diets. Honey is also lower glycemic index than sucrose and is a better tasting alternative to sugar.

A world?s first innovation, straight from the source. Our Honey Lozenges are a safe and natural healthy alternative to what is currently available on the market (i.e. refined sugar).

If you are sick, this is the only product on the market that is made of pure dried honey. Honey is an accelerator in healing and is beneficial for the body. Honey is also a great alternative to refined sugar in all areas of your lifestyle (i.e. sweeteners, cooking, baking, confectionery, etc) for which we have developed product lines for.

We are very proud to have all of our products made and produced in Canada. We produce the highest quality standard of products and are happy to say we have made world?s first innovations in all categories to provide consumers with healthy alternatives that they are demanding.

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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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Multi-modal Messaging Will Dominate Mobile Communications

As wired telephony becomes subsumed by IP-based, mobile unified communications (UC), we are seeing a big increase in messaging communications. That includes person-to-person contacts, automated notifications from business applications, and community-based posting of ?social messaging.? What is most important, however, is that all modes of messaging contact are becoming ?unified? and must support both sender and recipient functional needs.

This change will be particularly welcomed in business communications, where the limitations of PSTN telephony and voicemail did not allow end users the functional capabilities they needed. In particular, external users were required to place a phone call just to leave a voice message in an organization?s employee voice mailbox. As a way of consolidating message management for recipients, ?unified messaging? (UM) provided shared message storage, notifications, and conversion of voice messages-to-text options for message retrieval. UM capabilities were therefore always considered a major communication application component of UC.

Mobility is a big driver for multi-modal messaging

Now that consumers are quickly adopting multi-modal mobile smartphones and tablets and can handle other forms of messaging (email, SMS, social posts), it?s time for voicemail to join the ?Mobile UC? club. However, we shouldn?t still call that move by its old name, ?unified messaging? (UM), which only provided limited benefits to message recipients and nothing for message senders.

The old UM has always been focused on simply making it easier for a message recipient to be notified about and easily retrieve all types of business messages, including email and voicemail, in the recipient?s choice of media. With rapid consumer adoption of mobile, multi-modal smartphones and tablets, along with video messaging and new forms of social networking, it really is time to expand the functional role of UM in the context of such flexibility to support a message originator?s options as well. (I blogged about this over five years ago!)

This will not only benefit end users who want to communicate more flexibly with different media, but will also have a strong impact on automated business applications for initiating notification contacts with individual end users and customers. Although the industry has been moving quickly in developing the different pieces of UC, the market is still confused because we are still using old terminology. This is particularly evident as organizations try to migrate from legacy technologies to the future of cloud-based, UC-enabled business communications and think of UM as being just about email and voice mail consolidation for storage and retrieval.

Since telephony and associated voice messaging technologies are changing, both from an infrastructure perspective (IP connectivity, ?cloud? applications), as well as user functionally and UI flexibility, the old perception of UM must change as well. That would mean being able to send messages in any mode desired by the sender, as well as retrieval and response in any mode by the recipients. Because mobility implies constraints on which medium of messaging functionality can be used, UM must provide dynamic flexibility for both the sender and recipient interfaces, including the mode of ?message waiting? notifications (MWI).

So, What Do We Have To Change?

First of all, separate the needs of a contact initiator from that of the contact recipient/response. With UC flexibility, asynchronous messaging modes can be done independently in text, voice or video for input or output.
Second, include messaging contacts from automated business process applications, not just from people. That has been going on for years primarily with email, and has quickly moved into social networking. Authorized access management and screening will be required as email and social posts are displacing snail mail and TV for advertising.
Third, allow individual recipients to easily control all forms of call and message notification (MWI), so that their multi-modal smartphones or tablets won?t overload them unnecessarily when they are busy. That would require both call/message-screening options, based on various factors, including caller/sender ID, subject of contact, urgency indicator, etc. (I call that ?Unified Notification Management,? which is a recipient function.)
Fourth, enable direct message creation media options, including voice and video. We don?t have to have a real-time connection to initiate and send a voice or video message. This has already started to happen, but just needs to be consolidated under the ?UM? umbrella. It is not necessary to involve ?presence? management for sending asynchronous messages.
Fifth, (maybe this should be first?), provide for ?universal addressing? for all modes of messaging, so that the sender simply has to identify the individual recipient, not any particular mailbox or phone number for each medium. To separate personal from business messages, there will obviously also have to be a ?dual persona? identification and authentication requirement for addressing.
Finally, all forms of messaging must be ?UC-enabled? in order to dynamically escalate from an asynchronous message to a real-time connection that will, indeed, be based upon presence status and availability information. However, unlike legacy telephone answering voice messaging that started with a failed call attempt, I see multi-modal messaging and chat becoming increasingly more common, easy starting points for contacting people, with the option to escalate easily and efficiently to real-time voice and video conferencing connections.
There are quite a few important interoperability and integration details that will need attention in order to support the basic capabilities I describe. One of the implications of bridging the gap between a message sender and recipient, is that messages may be needed to be screened and converted from one form to another (including languages?) before they are delivered/retrieved by a recipient. For inbound customer contact interactions, message screening will also include routing to appropriate agents or experts; for outbound notification messages to mobile users, the ?Unified Notification Management? facility should be available from the recipient?s service provider.
Where and how that can all best be implemented in the new world of mobility and cloud services, will be an evolving challenge. VARs, SIs, and Consultants will play a key role in helping organizations transition to integrated Multi-modal Messaging as part of the BYOD revolution.

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The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Legal Murder?

The infamous Kermit Gosnell trial has revealed for those who didn?t know, or who had been living in denial, the gruesome atrocities that take place inside abortion clinics. The Daily Mail?reports that Chinese immigrant?Bei Bei Shuai is being charged with murder and feticide after ingesting rat poison which killed her eight-month-old unborn child.?

Why is Shuai?s termination of the growing, living being inside her considered murder, and abortion is not? Pro-aborts no longer seem to argue the reality that the unborn fetus, formerly known as a ?blob of tissue,? is indeed a baby. If it were simply that, why have laws governing the removal of it? Why aren?t there harsh debates about allowing people to have tumors and moles removed too? Why do pregnant women weep and become haunted with remorse and intense depression when they undergo the ?routine procedure?? The truth is, it?s no longer an issue of whether the unborn is a life, and I don?t think it ever really was.?

So what have we come to? Is it finally time to admit that the United States has legal murders?

Source: http://spectator.org/blog/2013/04/27/legal-murder

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Michael Jordan Weds Yvette Prieto In Lavish Wedding (Photos)

Michael Jordan Weds Yvette Prieto In Lavish Wedding (Photos)

Michael Jordan married his girlfriend of five years, model Yvette Prieto, in a lavish ceremony with over 500 guests in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday. The reception was held in a massive tent at the Bears Club in Jupiter, Florida with over 1,500 people in attendance! Michael, 50, and Yvette, 35, exchanged their vows at ...

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Alleged 9/11 airplane part to be examined

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Switzerland shuts the door on EU migrants: A new 'us vs. them' in Europe?

News that Switzerland is capping residence permits for Western Europeans reached the Monitor's Europe bureau chief as she was having her own intolerable immigration experience.

By Sara Miller Llana,?Staff writer / April 25, 2013

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The anti-immigration class across Europe has found many new adherents as of late, especially in the most economically devastated countries, like Greece and Italy. But now these Europeans might themselves become the unwelcome migrants, at least in Switzerland.

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Sara Miller Llana?moved to Paris in April 2013 to become the Monitor's Europe Bureau?Chief. Previously she was the?paper's?Latin America Bureau Chief, based in Mexico City, from 2006 to 2013.

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As I happened to be standing in the most intolerable immigration line that I've ever faced ? more on that later ? I read on my Twitter account that the Swiss government on Wednesday announced a new policy to cap residence permits for all of Western Europe. Switzerland, which is not part of the EU but joined the Schengen bloc that allows freedom of movement of people across European borders, says that it is being overwhelmed by arrivals from across the continent, to the tune of 80,000 people each year.

So it is invoking a ?safeguard clause? it negotiated during the 1999 Schengen treaty talk, which it already implemented for eight Central and Eastern European states. Now, as of May 1, residence permits for the citizens of 17 older EU states, from Germany to Spain, will be capped at 53,700 for a year.

According to the EU Observer, the Swiss said that the million-plus EU residents who live in the country have "had a positive impact ? in particular in terms of consumer spending and on the construction industry," but that restrictions are ?needed to make immigration more acceptable to society.?

The move drew immediate criticism from Brussels. ''The measures disregard the great benefits that the free movement of persons brings to the citizens of both Switzerland and the EU,? Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, said in a statement.

Is this a new manifestation of intolerance in Europe? The levels of resentment continent-wide against the migrants from Africa and the Middle East are already clearly documented, but in the midst of crisis, is Europe even excluding Europe? And what does that mean for identity and equality moving forward?

The possibility of a new, intra-European divide struck a chord for me, as I experienced my own "us vs. them" moment in France today.

Well, more than a moment. Eight hours, in fact.

That's how long I waited in a Paris prefecture along with Moroccans, Romanians, Malians, Senegalese, Tunisians, and Peruvians ? most of us, like me, there only to get information about what we needed to have with us, only to return and stand in line again.

I got to know my fellow immigrants well as we stood outside. Some around me had been in this line before, but were told they were missing a translation, a photocopy, or any of myriad document requirements that are not posted in their totality anywhere on the Internet ? or even on the wall of the prefecture where we line up ? but rather seem to be, at least from my informal surveys today, requested at the whim of whichever officer is behind the desk. One woman was told to bring back her CV.

Some of my linemates felt the French immigration officials were being deliberately obstructionist.

?They don?t want us to get the carte de sejour,? said the Malian, referring to the permission that allows foreigners to reside in France (and, with it, the right to tap into the country?s amazing social security system).

?They do everything they can to hold us back,? said the Romanian, who was on her third trip here ? and the third day lost on her job as a cleaning woman. Today, she was told that the pay stub she brought didn?t have the minimum number of hours on it, so she needed to bring in another stub. Another lost day of productivity for this poor woman.

Regardless of the motivations, one can see the "us vs. them" motif very clearly at the prefecture. On the one side, masses desperate to get in, and feeling unwelcome all the while. And on the other side of the glass wall, a society wanting to protect a social system that is replicated in few other places in the world.

By the end of the day in the unforgiving sun, some people were clearly losing their cool, me among them. (I, an American, was more indignant about the inefficiency than most, which makes me wonder if that?s a nationality trait, but that's a subject for another time.)

?But this can?t be!? I kept saying. ?How can people waste an entire day in a line ? and for nothing! Just to come back and stand in the line again??

?Welcome to France,? said the Malian, smiling.

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Waters off Northeast US coast unusually warm, says NOAA

Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast US Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the?National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

By Eoin O'Carroll,?Staff / April 26, 2013

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From North Carolina to Maine, the waters have been unusually warm lately.?

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This is according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's?Northeast Fisheries Science Center, which issued an advisory today noting that sea surface temperatures in the?Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during the second half of 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years.

According to the advisory, sea surface temperatures in this region, which extends from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf of Maine and outward to the boundary of the continental shelf, increased dramatically to reach a record 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit, beating a previous record high in 1951. The average temperature over the past three decades has been typically lower than 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperatures were recorded via satellite and ship-board measurements. Historical measurements, based on ship-board thermometers, date back to 1854. According to NOAA, the warming was the greatest increase on record, and one of only five?instances?when the temperature has changed by more than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. These drastic changes have not been noted elsewhere in the ocean basin, although in recent years global sea surface temperatures have been the highest on record.

The warmer ocean temperatures might be good news for beachgoers in the Northeast, but they could also disrupt ecosystems, along with the livelihoods that depend on them. The report notes that?black sea bass, summer flounder, longfin squid, and butterfish have been migrating northeastward. Lobsters are migrating too, but at a slower rate.

The report quotes Michael Fogarty, who heads NOAA's the Ecosystem Assessment Program:

?What these latest findings mean for the Northeast Shelf ecosystem and its marine life is unknown,? Fogarty said. ?What is known is that the ecosystem is changing, and we need to continue monitoring and adapting to these changes.?

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Country singer George Jones dead at 81

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at age 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Window Up Above," died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville.

Mamma Mia! Bookie offers odds on ABBA reunion

LONDON (Reuters) - A British bookmaker is taking bets on an ABBA comeback after singer Agnetha Faltskog hinted at a possible reunion for Sweden's most successful band. Faltskog, who has come out of retirement to release a solo album called "A", was asked by German's Die Zeit Magazine if she would be open to an ABBA reunion and she responded positively.

African diva Angelique Kidjo wins Songlines Best Artist award

LONDON (Reuters) - African diva Angelique Kidjo was named Best Artist in Songlines magazine's annual world music awards on Friday, lauded for her high-energy shows and her championing of social causes. French veterans Lo'jo, who mix French folk with African and Arabic sounds, picked up the Best Group award and the young Zimbabwean band Mokoomba was chosen as top Newcomer.

Psy knocked from top of Korean charts by 63-year-old singer

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy, whose latest video "Gentleman" tracked global megahit "Gangnam Style" by going viral on the Internet, has been knocked from the top of the music charts in his native country by a 63-year-old easy listening pop singer. "Gangnam Style", which holds the YouTube record for most views with more than 1.5 billion, catapulted the sunglassed Korean with the garish jackets to world stardom and made him one of the best-known faces to grace the growing K-pop music scene.

Documentary about deceased British singer Amy Winehouse in the works

(Reuters) - A documentary is in the works about the late British soul singer Amy Winehouse and it features previously unseen material, the film's distributor said on Wednesday. The film, which will include archival footage never seen by the public, will be directed by Briton Asif Kapadia, whose 2010 film "Senna," about Brazilian auto racer Ayrton Senna, won a BAFTA for best documentary.

Kurdish singer sparks identity debate on Arab talent show

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - A singer from Iraq's Kurdistan region has made it through to the semi-final of an Arab talent contest, igniting heated debates over Iraqi identity and politicizing the popular TV show. A panel of judges praised 24-year-old Parwaz Hussein and she was voted through to the next round of "Arab Idol", in which aspiring popstars from Morocco to Bahrain compete for a recording contract.

Justin Bieber shrugs off "rumors" after Swedish drug find

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Teen idol Justin Bieber on Thursday seemed to shrug off the latest controversy surrounding his European tour after Swedish police said they had found drugs on his tour bus but could not link them to any single person. Bieber, 19, has made headlines in the past two months for showing up late for his own London concert, walking shirtless through airport security in Poland, posting a cartoon of himself in bed with a young woman, and expressing the hope that Holocaust victim Anne Frank would have been a "belieber" like his millions of fans.

Michael Jackson wrongful death trial set to get underway Monday

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The civil trial over the death of Michael Jackson is set to get formally underway next week after jury selection was completed on Tuesday in the $40 billion case that pits the pop star's mother against concert promoters AEG Live. Six alternate jurors were chosen on Tuesday following the selection a day earlier of a jury of six men and six women for what is expected to be an emotional three-month trial.

Fall Out Boy outsells Kid Cudi for top spot on Billboard chart

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rock band Fall Out Boy topped the Billboard 200 weekly best-selling album chart for the second time in their five-album career, besting rapper Kid Cudi. "Save Rock and Roll" sold 154,000 copies in its debut week, according figures on Wednesday from Nielsen SoundScan, outpacing Kid Cudi's "Indicud," which sold 136,000 copies in its first week.

Singer Lauryn Hill gets reprieve on tax evasion sentencing

NEWARK (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning singer Lauryn Hill was given a two-week reprieve on her sentencing for federal tax evasion on Monday as a federal judge admonished her defense counsel for failing to come up with most of the tax money promised prior to her scheduled hearing. Hill, a solo artist and a member of the Fugees rap trio, pleaded guilty in June 2012 to failure to file federal tax returns from 2005-2007, when she earned $1.8 million. She faces up to a year in prison for each charge.

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NASCAR defends penalties against Matt Kenseth

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? NASCAR is defending the severity of the penalties levied against Joe Gibbs Racing for an illegal part in Matt Kenseth's engine.

NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton says series officials aren't charged with determining intent or if the infraction provided an advantage.

Joe Gibbs Racing was stripped of everything except the trophy from Kenseth's victory Sunday at Kansas because one connecting rod in his engine did not meet the minimum weight requirement. Kenseth was docked 50 points, including the bonus points for the win.

Crew chief Jason Ratcliff was fined $200,000, and Ratcliff and car owner Joe Gibbs were suspended six races.

The engine came from Toyota Racing Development, which took responsibility for the mistake. Pemberton says NASCAR won't punish outside vendors because teams are responsible for their cars.

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The Right Way to Care for Your Pocket Knife

You may know how to care for a kitchen knife, but when's the last time you paid your simple pocket knife the attention it deserves? Instructables user kennethisme has a great tutorial on how to care for your average folding pocket knife, from cleaning the blade to lubricating the body.

It's something that a lot of people overlook, especially if your primary use for a pocket knife is opening packages, mail, and occasionally cutting zip ties and other tough plastic bits. Just like a kitchen knife, the dirtier it gets the more dangerous it is, so keeping it in good condition is important. Kennethisme scrubs the blade down with warm, soapy water and an old toothbrush, and then moves on to picking the right lubricant to keep the hinge, lock, and other moving parts well oiled. He suggests a petroleum-based wet lubricant, as opposed to a spray-on dry lubricant that will attract lint or dust. Similarly, he points out that you should use a food-grade lubricant if you plan to use your pocket knife in any food preparation.

Hit the link below for the whole guide and a few more tips, including specific lubricant suggestions. He doesn't get into keeping a pocket knife sharp, but the principles there are similar to other, previously mentioned kitchen skills. Unfortunately taking proper care of a pocket knife is something many of us often forget, and the guide makes it easy.

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Blog: Bold as Love Review by Craig Dalley, Texas Instruments ...

Bold as Love by Bob Roberts Jr.

If you have any neighbors or co-workers who do not share your faith, I recently read a book that I?d recommend you put on your must-read list. Bob Roberts? new book, Bold as Love, talks about the author?s experiences in reaching out and building relationships with others who do not share his faith. He talks about the risks involved in such efforts, but he also challenges Christians to see such outreach as a necessary part of living the Christian faith.

One example of risk that Roberts highlights was that some members left the church he pastors when he started efforts to build relationships with Muslims. The paradox of that risk is that Roberts was leading his church into conversation without in any way compromising on principles of faith. In fact, his experiences show that such relationship-building leads to meaningful and candid opportunities to discuss faith that would be completely impossible if we view people of other faiths as enemies.

One of the great insights in his book is that when Jesus called his followers to love their enemies, he was actually asking them to do something more radical than what is suggested by a surface reading of that passage. ?Jesus was brilliant when he said this, because it is impossible to love someone and still be his or her enemy. In other words, as Christians we have no enemies.? (p. 48)

Roberts provides excellent reasons for developing relationships with those who don?t share our faith and also provides suggestions, based on his experience, to help make such relationship-building a rich and positive experience. Some of the reasons he mentions for building friendships with those who don?t share our faith include the following:

• God is ?calling all of us to love. We all get to be missionaries of love on our streets and in our neighborhoods.? (p. 17)
• ?Our faith wasn?t made to live in a vacuum or in isolation. It?s something we do face-to-face, heart-to-heart, hand-to-hand.? (p. 27)
• ?When we love boldly, God?s presence is bold upon us?. I honestly feel God?s presence at these times, stronger than nearly any other time in my life. Sometimes people in the West wonder why we see so few miracles, why we see God do so little, but it?s because our faith and love is shy and unengaging?our culture doesn?t demand radical love and obedience and yet that?s the only thing that God works in response to.? (p. 32)

Roberts lays down an excellent challenge in his book for living our Christian faith with love. Naturally, I didn?t agree with everything in Roberts? book, but I enthusiastically give his book five stars on a five-star scale and recommend his book to you if you have friends or neighbors who don?t share your faith.

Bold as Love is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Unpakt Compares Moving Companies to Help You Find the Best One

If you've moved before, you've experienced the difficulty of finding a good and reputable moving company that offers a decent price. Unpakt can alleviate your frustration by comparing various companies and pricing out their services specifically for your move.

Unpakt requires quite a bit of information to get you exact pricing for various services, but after going through the process myself (which didn't take more than 15 minutes) it provided some very useful and accurate information. I gave it a move I'd made before to see if the price quotes provided and the ratings of the companies were actually accurate and they were (from what I can tell from my own experiences).

To use Unpakt, you start by telling it where you're moving from and to. Afterwards, you'll need to provide a fairly detailed account of what you're moving. This might be tough because you're (hopefully) scheduling a move quite a bit sooner than the actual move and you might not know how the exact contents of your home fit into boxes. Nevertheless, you can come pretty close and get some good options. Unpakt even lets you add additional services like professional packing. If you're moving to a new home and want to take the hassle out of finding the best service to help you out, Unpakt will provide you with your best options in minimal time.

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