Thursday, October 17, 2013

Cory Booker Wins New Jersey Senate Race


Cory Booker, Hollywood's political darling this election season, won his senate race Wednesday in New Jersey.



According to the Associate Press, the Newark Democratic mayor beat Republican Steve Lonegan, a tea party conservative and former mayor of Bogota.


The AP called the race with Booker leading Lonegan 55 percent to 44 percent with 41 percent of precincts reporting. Booker beat Lonegan after a four-month race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg in June.


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Booker, who received strong support in Hollywood, will serve out the last 15 months of Lautenberg’s term. He is expected to run again next year to serve a six year term.


The mayor became an early favorite in the entertainment industry, with many of the A-listers lining up to back his senate campaign. Last month Matt Damon and Ron Burkle hosted Booker at Burkle's Green Acres estate, with tickets ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, according to an invite obtained by THR. Co-hosts included Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Jerry Weintraub, J.J. Abrams and wife, Katie McGrath, Troy Carter, WME co-CEO Patrick Whitesell, talent agency head Bob Gersh, Disney exec Sean Bailey, Netflix's Ted Sarandos and former U.S. Ambassador Nicole Avant.


In April, Weintraub hosted a similar fundraiser for Booker at his Beverly Hills home. The list of co-hosts for the gathering took up much of that invite. They included Bob Iger, Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn, Sony CEO Michael Lynton and wife Jamie, Barry Meyer, Kevin Tsujihara, Bruce Rosenblum, Michael Lombardo and partner Sony Ward, Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw; Rob Reiner and wife Michelle, Troy Garity, Bruce Willis, Terry Semel, Kevin Huvane, Bryan Lourd, James Lassiter and wife Mai, Steve Bing and Chris Albrecht.


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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Obama Thanks Senate For Passing Debt Deal


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is thanking Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate for passing a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default.


Obama says if and when the House approves the bill, he'll sign it immediately. He says the U.S. will start reopening the government right away.


Obama says now it's time to win back the trust of Americans that's been lost during the crisis.


Obama spoke at the White House minutes after the Senate passed the measure. The bill calls for opening the government through Jan. 15 and extending the nation's borrowing authority through Feb. 7.


Obama says once these issues are resolved, he wants to move forward this year on immigration, farm legislation and a larger budget deal.


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6 ways social media can boost your business



October 16, 2013







If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.


Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.


"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."


The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.



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Obama may be able to sign deal later on Wednesday: aides


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives and Democratic-led Senate are expected to approve on Wednesday a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit and end federal shutdown, clearing the way for President Obama to sign it into law, congressional aides said.


The aides said the president is expected to get the measure hours before the United States hits its borrowing authority on Thursday.


(Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Bill Trott)



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Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks

The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Oct. 7, to Sunday, Oct. 13, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.


UNITED STATES


1. Pitbull, "Timber" (RCA)


2. Sia, "Elastic Heart — From "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Soundtrack" (RCA)


3. Ylvis, "The Fox" (Parlophone Music Norway)


4. Danny Brown, "25 Bucks (feat. Purity Ring)" (Fool's Gold)


5. Enrique Iglesias, "Heart Attack" (Republic)


6. Eminem, "Survival" (Aftermath Records)


7. Phantogram, "Black Out Days" (Republic)


8. YG, "My Nigga" (Def Jam Recordings)


9. The Chain Gang of 1974, "Sleepwalking" (Rockstar Games)


10. Miley Cyrus, "Adore You" (RCA)


UNITED KINGDOM


1. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, "Repent Replenish Repeat" (Sunday Best)


2. David Bowie, "Sound and Vision — 2013" (Parlophone UK)


3. Daughter, "Smoke" (4AD)


4. Ylvis, "The Fox" (Parlophone Music Norway)


5. Darkside, "Paper Trails" (Matador)


6. YG, "My Nigga" (Def Jam Recordings)


7. Barenaked Ladies, "Odds Are" (Raisin' Records)


8. Sia, "Elastic Heart — From "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Soundtrack" (RCA)


9. James Blunt, "Bonfire Heart" (Warner Music UK)


10. Darkside, "Golden Arrow" (Matador)


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Reality Check with Lea Black


Hello everyone, can you believe it’s already the middle of October? Where does the time go? I love the fall season and I thought I would share some of my favorite things this week. I am so lucky to have some of my friend’s suggestions.


Courtesy of Lea Black

Courtesy of Lea Black



October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Sarah Rayer, my social media pro, shared with me this great blog, Ms. Mishigas, about living, loving and surviving cancer. I love the logo; the best part is it is a temporary tattoo! What a great symbol. Log on to get yours here.


Courtesy of Lea Black

Courtesy of Lea Black



My spiritual bible Do You QuantumThink? by Dianne Collins is my go to daily source for inspiration and motivation. I have been using this book as a “guide to” for my everyday life and career for many years. One of my favorite affirmations from the book is “What enhances life force? Purity, clarity, focus and awareness.” Available through order here.


Courtesy of Lea Black

Courtesy of Lea Black



I love this look, the color and style of this trench coat over the classic black and white is a perfect ensemble for a work day and night transition! This is something I would try interpret to fit my shape and form of my body. All that is missing in the model’s hand is my black Starstruck clutch, a perfect accessory for after five, night out on the town.


Courtesy of Lea Black

Courtesy of Lea Black



And of course beauty! You know how much I protect my skin from the sun, but that doesn’t mean, I don’t like a nice little glow, my friend Edward Cruz, (makeup artist to clients like Anna Wintour) swears by SONIA KASHUK Undetectable Creme Bronzer. It gives your skin a second chance, when it comes to looking 10 years younger!!! How fun is that!


What’s your favorite beauty product these days? Are you all caught up on Real Housewives of Miami? Tell us in the comments below or tweet us @OKMagazine.



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Natalie Portman Shows Skin in Marie Claire, Says She "Freaked" Over Moving to Paris


Natalie Portman is living the dream. Gracing the pages of Marie Claire's November issue in a cleavage-baring embellished frock, the Black Swan Oscar winner can't help gushing a little over where she's at in her life, personally, professionally, and even geographically.


Being in L.A., she tells the magazine, is an experience unlike any other. "I just really really love it here. It's one of the most exciting places to be in the world right now," she says. "It's really central in terms of the arts. It feels like things are happening in L.A., you know? New York is more where art is bought than where art is made..."


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Portman won't be living in L.A. for much longer, though. She and her family -- husband Benjamin Millipied and son Aleph, 2 -- are currently preparing for an overseas move to Paris, France, where Millipied will take over as the new director of the Paris Opera Ballet in September 2014. The move took Marie Claire's cover girl by surprise at first, but she feels "lucky" to have such exciting opportunities. 


"When Ben asked me if I wanted to go to Paris, I freaked," she confesses. "Everyone dreams of living in Paris."


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The Israeli-born star also opens up to the mag about her parents, Shelley and Avner Hershlag. "They made me feel that they would drop anything at any time to help me," she says. "I never felt like there was anything more important than me. Which I know can probably create an a--hole, too. It gives you a deep sense of security and safety to feel that your parents will love you no matter what."


Natalie Portman on Marie Claire Cover

Natalie Portman on Marie Claire Cover
Credit: Tesh/Marie Claire



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One not-so-great thing about her childhood? "I grew up around a lot of snobbism about what was important and what was serious, and I really reject that," she says. That explains her varied resume, which includes roles in artsy films like The Darjeeling Limited, as well as blockbusters like Thor: The Dark World.


The latter, a sequel to 2011's Thor, is set to be released later this year -- and Portman can't say enough good things about its star, Chris Hemsworth. "Chris is, like, one of the greatest people in Hollywood," she gushes of her costar, Liam Hemsworth's older brother. "He's the kind of actor who's so charismatic, he must be tired when he goes home."


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She has her own admirers, too, of course. And for the most part, "people are really cool," she tells Marie Claire. The one exception? "I try and stay away from drunk people -- that's when they start getting rude and aggressive, like, 'Why did you suck in that movie?'"


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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

NY factory activity grows more slowly in October

WASHINGTON (AP) — Factory activity in the New York region expanded more slowly in October, a sign that the partial government shutdown may be weighing on the economy.


The Empire State manufacturing index fell to 1.5 in October from 6.3 in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday. Any reading above zero indicates expansion. Despite the decline, manufacturing in the region has grown for five straight months.


A measure of new orders rose, pointing to healthier future growth. And factories continued to add jobs, albeit at a slower pace.


The New York Fed's regional manufacturing report will receive more attention than usual this month because it's one of the few available measures of the economy during the shutdown, which is now in its third week. Government data, including the monthly employment report and retail sales figures, have been delayed.


The decline suggests that the budget showdown in Washington has hit manufacturers' confidence. The New York Fed surveys about 100 manufacturing firms in the state in the first two weeks of the month to compile its index.


The report "shows some clear strains from the fiscal debacle," said Bricklin Dwyer, an economist at BNP Paribas, in a note to clients.


But economists also pointed out that the drop could have been worse. Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said the index fell into negative territory during two previous budget battles in 2011 and 2012.


"We don't expect to see a severe slowdown in output growth as manufacturers are benefiting from the turnaround in overseas demand," Dales said.


Lawmakers were busy Tuesday trying to find a way to end the shutdown. They are also facing a Thursday deadline to raise the nation's $16.7 trillion borrowing limit. Without an increase, the U.S. government is at great risk of defaulting on its debt.


Senate leaders were said to be near a deal that would reopen the government through Jan. 15 and permit the Treasury to borrow normally until early to mid-February. House GOP leaders have yet to embrace the Senate plan and instead floated a counter proposal to their rank and file. But that was met with mixed reviews, leaving any resolution in flux.


The budget impasse has held back an economy that is already struggling to accelerate, according to the limited data that have been released. The shutdown has furloughed about 350,000 federal workers since Oct. 1 and closed down numerous agencies, including the Labor Department and NASA.


Consumer confidence has fallen sharply this month, according to some measures. Weekly unemployment applications jumped last week, in part because about 15,000 non-federal workers said they were laid off due to the shutdown.


Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have cut their forecast for growth in the October-December quarter to an annual rate of 2 percent, down from 2.5 percent, because of the partial shutdown.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ny-factory-activity-grows-more-slowly-october-125229274--finance.html
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Honeywell's Wi-Fi Thermostats Tell You When to Turn It Down and Save

Honeywell's Wi-Fi Thermostats Tell You When to Turn It Down and Save

With people plugging more and more devices into the power grid, public utilities across the country are finding it increasingly difficult to effectively manage during peak demand. Honeywell's line of Wi-Fi-connected smart thermostats are now doing their part to help.

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Rufus Norris to Lead U.K.'s National Theater


LONDON – Actor turned theater director Rufus Norris has been appointed director of the National Theater, taking over from Nicholas Hytner when he steps down in March 2015.



The role is widely regarded as the biggest job in British theater, and Norris called it "a great honor."


"I am thrilled at the challenge of leading this exceptional organization, where it has been a privilege to work under the inspirational leadership of Nick Hytner," he said.


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Hytner announced in April 2012 that he he would step down in 2015.


Norris first attracted attention in 2001 with his production of Afore Night Come at the Young Vic, for which he won the Evening Standard award for most promising newcomer.


Having initially trained at Rada as an actor, the 48-year-old has since directed theater in London's West End and on Broadway. He also has experience with opera and film.


In 2012, his debut film Broken unspooled during the Cannes Film Festival and later that year scooped up best film at the British Independent Film Awards.


His recent resume boasts directing The Amen Corner at the National, and he also created Dr Dee: An English Opera with Blur frontman Damon Albarn for the Manchester International Festival in 2011.


"The National is an extraordinary place full of extraordinary people, and I look forward with relish to the task ahead," Norris told the BBC news website. "That being to fill our theaters with the most exciting, accessible and groundbreaking work our unique and broad community of artists has to offer."


Hytner will have spent 12 years as the National Theater's director when he hands the reins to Norris in 2015.


He has overseen worldwide hits such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as NT Live, which screens theatre productions in cinemas.


He said his successor would be "welcomed with great excitement both within the National and in the theater at large."


He added: "His [Norris'] work as a director is always searching, deeply considered and adventurous, and I have no doubt he will bring these qualities to the running of the National."


Hytner said Norris received a standing ovation from the National Theater company when he introduced him as his successor, accompanied by a huge roar.


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15 Horror Movies That Offered the Most Bang for the Buck




This story first appeared in the Oct. 18 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.


Nearly everything about horror movies is less expensive than typical Hollywood releases: production costs, development and star salaries. (Example: Insidious: Chapter 2 cost $5 million and is nearing $90 million at the worldwide box office.) Marketing horror also is cheaper and far more reliant on digital media than traditional TV and print ad buys, allowing the cost of a typical release to drop to the $25 million to $40 million range. 


With younger audiences, traditional research tools can't always predict how a horror movie will do. "As a result, people seem massively surprised when these films have huge opening weekends," says Universal marketing president Josh Goldstine. "But there are other indicators out in the marketplace, whether by social listening or by just talking to people who like horror movies. You can tell from them the heat coming off a film."


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Monday, October 14, 2013

APNewsBreak: Son of slain Sikh to challenge Ryan

In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Oct. 16 to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Oct. 16 to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Oct. 16 to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka speaks in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Oct. 16 to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka poses for a photo at Neverending Light, his Emmy Award winning film and television production company in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Wednesday to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, film director and producer Amardeep Kaleka poses for with a photo of his family in Los Angeles. Kaleka, whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka, the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, was slain at the Oak Creek temple shooting in Milwaukee suburb in 2012, plans to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election. Kaleka says he'll file paperwork Oct. 16 to form an exploratory congressional committee. The 35-year-old Democrat plans to announce his candidacy formally next month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)







MILWAUKEE (AP) — The son of a slain Sikh temple president plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election, in a Wisconsin district where support for the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee has been strong but slipping.

Amar Kaleka, 35, told The Associated Press he'll file paperwork Wednesday to form an exploratory congressional committee. He plans to formally announce his candidacy as a Democrat next month.

Kaleka said he wants to bring accountability and transparency back to Washington. He blamed the government shutdown on Ryan, who's the House Budget Committee chairman, and his GOP colleagues. He said citizens are tired of career politicians who care more about staying in power than serving the people.

"There's a fever in the nation, and specifically in this district, for our leaders to stop playing politics and do their jobs," Kaleka said. "All I want to do is bring democracy — a government of, for and by the people — back to America."

Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was a small-business owner who founded the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee. On Aug. 5, 2012, a white supremacist walked into the temple and opened fire, killing Kaleka and five others before taking his own life. The FBI was unable to determine a motive.

That was a turning point for Amar Kaleka, who grew up in Milwaukee and has been making documentaries in southern California for the past four years. He won an Emmy for his 2010 direction of Jacob's Turn, about a 4-year-old boy with Down syndrome who joins his first T-ball team.

He said he used to dream of running for public office when he was in his 50s or 60s but decided to seek office sooner following his father's homicide.

Sympathy and cash donations poured in from around the globe following the Sikh temple shootings, and several federal officials expressed their condolences. First lady Michelle Obama visited the temple to comfort the families and Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the funeral.

But President Barack Obama, who has visited sites of other mass shootings, never came. His absence bothered Kaleka, an Obama supporter who hoped the president's presence would help advance the cause of stronger gun regulation.

Kaleka suspected that Obama stayed away to sidestep a controversial issue during an election year. To Kaleka, that meant the president was putting politics before people — a trend he saw repeated by other lawmakers every time he visited Washington, D.C.

He cites polls showing that 90 percent of Americans favored stronger background checks for gun buyers, yet even then Congress failed to act. That disgusted him.

"They're more concerned with the groups, the corporations that are giving them money than with what the people want," he said.

Kaleka knows he'd be taking on a formidable candidate. Ryan has so much political clout that he raised $1.7 million in the first six months of the year, nearly three times more than any other member of Wisconsin's congressional delegation.

Kaleka hopes to counter in part by tapping into the wealthy Indian and Arabic communities that he said encouraged him to run in the first place. If he can demonstrate his fundraising chops he expects the national Democratic Party, which he said supports his candidacy, to step in with another $1 million to $2 million.

Ryan, an eight-term congressman, has been popular in his district that covers the southeastern corner of the state. But his support declined last year.

He won every congressional race since 2000 with at least 63 percent of the vote, including 68 percent in 2010. But last year, after he gained prominence for drawing up an austere budget blueprint that would reshape Medicare, his support dropped to a career-low 55 percent. However, that year he had to balance his congressional campaign with his vice presidential run.

A message left with Ryan's congressional office Monday was not immediately returned.

Ryan's opponent last year was Rob Zerban, a former Kenosha Board supervisor. Zerban has formed another exploratory committee this year but hasn't said whether he'll take another run at Ryan.

The death of Kaleka's father — and the way he died — continue to weigh on Kaleka. He said he's running in his father's memory, but he wants people to vote for him not out of sympathy but because of his position on the issues.

"I'll agree my father's death has put me in a position where people listen to me more. But it's not that I'm taking advantage of that situation," he said. "I'm trying to further his dream of building the community and leading in a way that's very democratic. That's what drives me."

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Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde@ap.org.

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Legendary Homebrew Computer Club reuniting for one night only

Despite its humble name, the Homebrew Computer Club holds a special place in computing history. Started in 1975, the club was a place where hackers and hobbyists could get together, and it attracted some of the brightest minds in the industry, from Steve Wozniak to Ted Nelson. It's the place where Wozniak and Steve Jobs showed off the prototype for the Apple-1 for the very first time. Now, the old gang is getting back together, with a little help from Kickstarter. The group has successfully funded a reunion — raising more than $16,000 through the crowdfunding service — that will take place on November 11th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.



"We should open it up to the public."


There will be at least 25 of the original members in attendance at the reunion, including Wozniak, Nelson, club co-founder Gordon French, and Lee Felsenstein, designer of the world's first mass-produced portable computer. The quartet will be speaking at the event in a talk dubbed "a homebrew retrospective." If the Kickstarter manages to raise $30,000 a professional photographer will be hired to take Creative Commons licensed photos, while the $40,000 mark will allow the group to film a short documentary that will be made available on the Internet Archive. The November 11th event will be the first meeting of the club since 1986, and it was inspired in large part by the increased attention that came with the passing of Jobs.


"I thought it was time to have another one, with the increase in publicity," says Hilda Sendyk, one of the original club members. "And also we should open it up to the public, to let people know what it was really like, and to meet some of the people who are still around, who made the industry what it is today."





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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Canada's Munro, 'master of the short story,' wins Nobel literature prize


By Sven Nordenstam and Cameron French


STOCKHOLM/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the "master of the contemporary short story."


"Some critics consider her a Canadian Chekhov," the Swedish Academy said, comparing her to the 19th-century Russian short story writer in a statement on its website.


Munro, reached by CBC Television in Victoria, British Columbia, said she hoped the award "would make people see the short story as an important art; not just something you played around with until you get a novel written."


The 82-year-old, who revealed in 2009 that she had undergone coronary bypass surgery and been treated for cancer, said however that she did not think winning the prize would change her decision announced early this year to stop writing.


"You know, I was always thrilled at whatever came along - like if I got published, I was thrilled. I still am, in a way," she told the CBC in a phone interview.


Munro, who was awarded the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million by the committee, said her daughter woke her up to give her the news.


"It just seems impossible. It seems so splendid a thing to happen, I can't describe it. It's more than I can say."


The short story, a style more popular in the 19th and early 20th century, has long taken a back seat to the novel in popular tastes. Short stories tend to be set in a more concentrated time frame with a more limited number of characters.


Munro's merit, in the eyes of her admirers, was to introduce into her stories a richness of plot and depth of detail usually more characteristic of novels.


The characters in her stories are often girls and women with seemingly unexceptional lives, who struggle with tribulations ranging from sexual abuse and stifling marriages to repressed love and the ravages of aging.


"This is someone who's not setting her stories in a dramatic place, a dramatic landscape," her longtime editor and publisher Douglas Gibson said in a CBC interview.


"Suddenly you find yourself being fascinated by the life of this chambermaid, or this bean farmer, or this Vancouver housewife. Again, these are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic."


Given that Munro has long been suggested as a candidate for the award, Gibson said he got up early and dressed just in case.


"It was a little bit like Christmas Eve. I was a kid, I couldn't sleep, because - would Santa come? And Santa came," he said.


The award triggered an outpouring of pride in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeting his congratulations.


EPIPHANIES


Munro started writing stories in her teens and has published more than a dozen short story collections over the years. Her works include "The View from Castle Rock" in 2006 and "Too Much Happiness" three years later.


She becomes the second Canadian-born writer to win the prize, although she is the first winner to be thought of as distinctly Canadian. Saul Bellow, who won the award in 1976, was born in Quebec but raised in Chicago and is widely considered an American writer.


"Her texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential questions appear in a flash of lightning," the Nobel Academy said in appraising Munro.


That sentiment was echoed by fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, who described Munro in a 2008 tribute as being among the major writers of fiction in our time.


"Munro has been among those writers subject to periodic rediscovery, at least outside Canada. It's as if she jumps out of a cake - Surprise! - and then has to jump out of it again, and then again," Atwood wrote.


"Readers don't see her name in lights on every billboard. They come across her as if by accident or fate, and are drawn in, and then there is an outbreak of wonder and excitement, and incredulity - Where did Alice Munro come from? Why didn't anybody tell me? How can such excellence have sprung from nowhere?"


SHORT STORY VERSUS NOVEL


American author Joyce Carol Oates, writing in 2009 in the New York Review of Books, said of Munro:


"Of writers who have made the short story their metier, and whose accumulated work constitutes entire fictional worlds... Alice Munro is the most consistent in style, manner, content, vision.


"Munro has...concentrated upon provincial, even back country lives, in tales of domestic tragicomedy that seemed to open up, as if by magic, into wider, deeper, vaster dimensions."


Munro herself spoke of the phenomenon of the short story and its place in the shadows of the novel in an interview with the New York Times in July. Her short stories, because of their richness, have often been called "novels in miniature," a notion she rejects.


"While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel," she said.


"I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were."


The literature prize is the fourth of this year's crop of Nobel prizes, which were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and awarded for the first time in 1901.


(This story was refiled to drop extraneous word in 9th paragraph)


(With additional reporting by Niklas Pollard in Stockholm and Euan Rocha and Allison Martell in Toronto; Editing by Alistair Scrutton, Ralph Boulton and Michael Roddy, Jeffrey Hodgson and Vicki Allen)




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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Evolution on the inside track: How viruses in gut bacteria change over time

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The digestive tract is home to a vast colony of bacteria, as well as the myriad viruses that prey upon them. Because the bacteria species vary from person to person, so does this viral population, the virome. By closely analyzing the virome of one individual over two-and-a-half years, researchers have uncovered new insights on the virome can change and evolve ? and why the virome of one person can vary so greatly from that of another.

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Vodafone launches internet packs starting at Rs 44 to boost 3G ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So, there is still a large number of users, who have smartphones but have not moved to 3G,? Vodafone India Business Head (Mumbai) Arvind Vohra told reporters here. The focus of 'Be Smart' mobile ... Under Vodafone's 'Be Smart' mobile internet initiative, the operator will reach out to customers talking about popular mobile applications like videos and music, navigation, social networking, online gaming and live stock market updates. ?The idea is to engage with the ...

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Lucero, Tim Kasher, J. Robbins, Modern Baseball and More Added to Fest 12

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Fest 12 has added more bands including Lucero, J. Robbins, Tim Kasher, Cross My Heart, Drag The River, Modern Baseball, The Moms, Half Hearted Hero and more. The full update is below and the rest of the bands (now over 350) that are playing can be seen in the replies. Fest tickets are here.
UpdateLucero (has not played FEST since FEST 3!!!), J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Government Issue, Office of Future Plans) will be playing an intimate best of his career backed by drums and a cello!, Tim Kasher (Cursive/ Good Life), Cross My Heart (Reunion), Drag the River, Deep Sleep, Weatherbox, White Wives, Modern Baseball, Pile, Whiskey & Co., Flashlights, Listener, Pale Angles, LVL UP, AC Deathstrike, Courtesy Drop, Bad Magic, Julie Karr, The Moms, and Half Hearted Hero.
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12:49 PM on 07/26/13

I already live with too many Goats

Basically reduced to drool and slobber over the linup at this point

now we just need to wait for the schedule to break out hearts =)

01:53 PM on 07/26/13

Staff Vote Coverup Conspiracy

Can't wait for this. Lucero getting added basically seals the deal for me. Hope to meets some of you weirdos.

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Mysterious giant magnet attracts rock-star status

A worker walks underneath the electromagnet as it moves down Butterfield Road in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2013 enroute to its new home outside Chicago on Friday. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

A worker walks underneath the electromagnet as it moves down Butterfield Road in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2013 enroute to its new home outside Chicago on Friday. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

In this undated photo provided by Brookhaven National Laboratory, a bird?s-eye view of the Muon g-2 ring, 50-foot electromagnet, is ready to be transported across the Brookhaven National Laboratory site on New York's Long Island. The gigantic electromagnet ended its tedious journey early Friday, July 26, 2013, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, near Chicago, where it will be used to study blazing-fast particles. (AP Photo/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Onlookers watch and take photos as the electromagnet passes by on Butterfield Road in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2013 enroute to its new home outside Chicago on Friday. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

The electromagnet moves down Interstate 88 in Naperville, Ill., Friday, July 26, 2013 on its way to Batavia?s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will use the gadget to study blazing-fast particles. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

The electromagnet moves down Interstate 88 in Naperville, Ill., Friday, July 26, 2013 on its way to Fermilab. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) ? It skipped tolls. It had a Twitter hashtag and a GPS tracker. It even posed for photos with groupies.

The 50-foot-wide, 15-ton electromagnet attracted a sensation wherever it went during its slow, delicate 3,200-mile journey from New York to suburban Chicago. The land-and-sea trip culminated when scientists threw a rock star's welcome for the mysterious, shrink-wrapped cargo on Friday as arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to help study blazing-fast particles.

"'Oh look, they found a flying saucer!'" retired software developer Chris Otis recalled thinking when he saw the massive, disc-shaped device when it made a pit-stop in a Costco parking lot.

Otis used his cellphone to take photos as he and others marveling the contraption wondered what would happen if it suddenly went live.

"I figure somebody at Fermilab is going to plug the damn thing in, turn it on and my watch is going to stop running, everybody's hearing aides are going to sail across the room," Otis said with a laugh. "I have no idea. Turn it on and the Martians will hone in on it."

Fermilab officials, however, plan to use the magnet in a physics experiment called Muon g-2 that will study subatomic particles at their lab in Batavia, outside Chicago. The experiment will study the properties of muons, subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second.

The results of the experiment could create new discoveries in the realm of particle physics, said Chris Polly, manager of the Muon g-2 project at Fermilab.

The hulking magnet is a hand-me-down from New York, where it was built in the 1990s with aluminum and steel by scientists at the Brookhaven National Lab on eastern Long Island. It has superconducting coils inside and, at the time it was built, was the largest electromagnet in the world.

Brookhaven scientists no longer had a need for the electromagnet, and shipping it out to the Midwest for about $3 million was cheaper than the alternative. Constructing an entirely new electromagnet could have cost as much as $30 million, Polly estimated.

In any case, at least they didn't have to pay tolls on the parts of the journey that took it over land.

"We've been assured that we don't have to pay tolls, but we're waiting to see if we get the violation notice in the mail. It'd be pretty hard to dispute," said Fermilab spokesman Andre Salles, who was among the magnet's traveling companions for about 10 days of the trip.

Moving the thing, however, was in some ways as complicated and as delicate a maneuver as building it. It could not be taken apart or twisted more than about an eighth of an inch without irreparably damaging the coils, Polly said.

It started its trip in late June, floating by barge down the East Coast into the Gulf of Mexico ? where it outran a tropical depression ? then up the Mississippi River, where it was photographed drifting past St. Louis' arch on its way into Illinois.

"We had to hurry up and get going through the Gulf of Mexico and really have the tugboat pour it on," Terry Emmert Jr., vice president of Emmert International, said while recalling the race to avoid the storm. His company moved the magnet across the country.

Earlier in the journey, it spent almost a week docked in Norfolk, Va., because of bad weather, but the team traveling with it found a welcome diversion.

"The port happened to be across the street from a minor league baseball stadium so the barge crew spent the whole week there," Salles said.

Just south of Chicago, it was hauled out of the water and strapped onto a specially made 16-axel flatbed truck for its final leg. It traveled at a mere 5 to 15 mph, with a behemoth bumper sticker informing puzzled onlookers that it was "Driving discovery in particle physics."

It was a night owl that traveled after dark when roads weren't as crowded, staging during the day at a Costco parking lot in suburban Bolingbrook and at a forest preserve.

Thankfully, no damage was done along the way.

"The whole thing went as smoothly as we could have wanted it too," Salles said.

The magnet had its own Twitter hashtag (#bigmove) so fans could keep up. And a specially built website with GPS to track the magnet became Fermilab's most popular page.

As word spread, thousands of people came out to watch it inch along. Some of them sat in lawn chairs. Others came to chat with the scientists. Television news helicopters swirled overhead.

With a police escort, it finally rolled into the suburban Chicago lab shortly after 4 a.m. Friday with an "oversize load" sign and a waving American flag.

During Friday evening's celebration, Fermilab planned a community open house and magnetic experiments and lessons for children.

The building where the magnet will ultimately be used is still under construction, so the magnet should be operational sometime in 2014.

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Keyser reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporter Ashley Heher contributed to this report from Chicago.

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Friday, July 26, 2013

The Outcasters; Third generation

Hey, so, I looked at other's characters and I looked through The Outcasters; Second Generation, and I'm wondering if I may join despite the fact that I wasn't around back then to be part of it. Pretty please with ten billion cherries on top? This looks brilliant

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

What College Students Should Know About Retirement

College students and recent graduates face particular challenges in saving and planning for retirement. Daunting student loans, a still-uncertain job market and competition for jobs among fellow graduates may all seem far more pressing than a retirement decades down the line, but that doesn't mean post-career planning should be put to the wayside. Here's what college students should know about retirement:

Start saving young. Saving early and capitalizing on years of compounding interest is key to retiring comfortably. "[The] most important thing to remember is that [students] will, in fact, retire someday," says Mark Helm, a certified financial planner in Falls Church, Va. "They can either get one of the great forces of nature ? compound interest ? to work for them, or they can get started late and fight that beast for 30 years."

One of the initial steps toward a successful retirement is one many students feel they've had enough of: education. Most students haven't learned to deal with their finances properly, according to Robert Fragasso, CEO of Fragasso Financial Advisors in Pittsburgh, and that's the first hurdle to a healthy retirement.

Students looking to fill the gaps in their financial education may want to ask trusted family and friends or consider heading back to the classroom. "I would look for adult financial education courses at the college level," Fragasso says. "View those courses with an open mind to become a sponge, but also with a good filter to understand what's truly academic and sound, and what is somebody's bias."

[See: 10 Industries With the Best Retirement Benefits.]

Make a plan to pay down debt. Student loans are likely a part of recent or future grads' finances and factor strongly into their retirement planning. Grads will likely have to pay off that debt bit by bit. Trying to pay down loans as fast as possible may work in some cases, but this can tighten an already small budget, Helm says. "[Students] have to have some money that's not in a retirement account, or at least that's flexible that they can get at."

Recent grads should factor the cost of their loans into their calculations, and pay off the highest-interest debts, such as credit card debt, first. Borrowers can pay down loans with the lowest interest rates more slowly, Fragasso says.

An emergency fund is essential. Students and recent grads should have an emergency fund that can be used for incidental expenses or as a savings account for an eventual down payment on a home. Younger students should be more focused on building up a cash reserve than putting money in a retirement account, Fragasso says.

Factor in Social Security. Social Security is yet another component of retirement that students should get familiar with early on. "Social Security is more than a retirement program," says Kia Anderson, a Social Security Administration spokeswoman. "It is important for young people to know that Social Security is here for them right now in the form of disability and survivors insurance."

Social Security payments are based on the average of the 35 years when you have the most reported earnings. Zeros are averaged in if you don't work for 35 years. Current students can expect to claim full Social Security benefits at age 67, although partial benefits become available at age 62. Keeping track of your income over time will help ensure full benefits will be available upon retirement, Anderson adds.

However, Social Security isn't the only source of retirement income students should plan to rely on. "A person will need other savings, investments, pensions or retirement accounts to make sure they have enough money to live comfortably when they retire," Anderson says.

[Read: 10 Financial Tips for College Grads.]

Get a retirement account. College graduates presented with the option of retirement benefits through their first employer should look for a variety of investment choices, low fees on the investments provided and retirement education opportunities, Fragasso says. "There should be at least an annual education class ... [or] availability of 401(k) representatives to help council the individual employees on their choices."

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Buffer Adds Custom Social Media Scheduling, Claims 850,000 Users, $1.5M Annual Revenue

Screen-Shot-2013-07-22-at-12.35.04-PMDespite plenty of demand from users since it launched 2.5 years ago, one feature social media scheduling service Buffer has resisted adding is custom scheduling; the ability to manually program when those buffered social media updates -- Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin -- will go live. Until today that is.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Bullock makes Comic-Con debut with 'Gravity'

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Sandra Bullock has landed at Comic-Con.

The actress came to the pop-culture convention for the first time Saturday to discuss the new film "Gravity," in which she and George Clooney play astronauts floating through space.

Director Alfonso Cuaron said the two Oscar winners comprise the entire cast.

Bullock spent more than six months physically preparing for the role, which required her to spend dozens of hours in a 9-by-9 foot cube that simulated zero gravity. Other shots required her to be "strung up from 12 wires 18 hours a day."

Cuaron said, "It was a very intense experience for Sandra."

After promoting the film, Bullock said she planned to stroll the Comic-Con convention floor trying to "get free stuff."

"Gravity" opens in October.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Social Analytics Startup Awe.sm Rolls Out A Dashboard Just For Marketers

awesm-logo-orange-white-backgroundSocial media analytics startup Awe.sm is getting serious about making its product available to different types of clients. The company, which provides a platform for measuring the effectiveness of their social media campaigns, has refined its technology to create a new product that is aimed at brands and marketers.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Bombs in Iraqi Shi'ite provinces kill 24

By Aref Mohammed

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A string of bomb blasts in predominantly Shi'ite Muslim provinces of Iraq killed at least 24 people on Sunday, police and medics said.

The violence is part of a sustained campaign of militant attacks this year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise.

A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Mussayab, and in Kut city, a car bomb went off in a busy market, killing five, police and medics said.

Three bombs exploded in quick succession near the headquarters of a Shi'ite political party in the southern oil hub of Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killing at least eight people, police said.

"When the first explosion happened, I ran to evacuate the victims. I saw two or three burned bodies before police asked me to step back," said a man who gave his name only as Alaa. "When police forced me to move away, the second explosion happened."

Two car bombs went off in a market in Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killing two people. Another car bomb killed four at a busy market in the Shi'ite shrine city of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.

It was not clear who was behind Sunday's explosions, but Sunni Islamist insurgents, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been regaining strength in recent months, security sources say.

Sectarian tensions have been inflamed by the civil war in neighboring Syria, which is fast becoming a region-wide proxy war, drawing in Shi'ite and Sunni fighters from Iraq and beyond to fight on opposite sides of the conflict.

On Saturday, two bombings near Sunni mosques in Baghdad killed at least 23 people who had come to pray after breaking their daily fast for the holy month of Ramadan.

More than 300 people have been killed so far in July, according to the violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.

The bloodshed has stoked fears that Iraq is sliding back into all-out conflict, though it has yet to match the sectarian carnage of 2006-07 when monthly death tolls sometimes topped 3,000.

(Additional reporting by Ali al-Rubaie in Hilla; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Washington?s push against Egyptian, Israeli go-it-alone military steps. US marines deployed off Suez, Sinai

Washington?s push against Egyptian, Israeli go-it-alone military steps. US marines deployed off Suez, Sinai

The Obama administration is signifying its strong disapproval of Israel and Egypt taking matters in their own hands in the last two weeks, debkafile?s military and Washington sources report: Israel was accused of independent military action against Syria, and the Egyptian army of persecuting the?Muslim Brotherhood after deposing President Mohamed Morsi.??

Washington is also highly displeased with the campaign the Egyptian army launched after the coup, with Israel?s active support, to root out the Islamist terror blighting the Sinai Peninsula. US warships and marines are now parked off Egypt?s Red sea coast as a deterrent to the generals in Cairo.

For whipping Israeli into line, the administration used another method, i.e., Pentagon leaks naming Israeli air strikes as responsible for the explosions at the Syrian weapons depot outside the port town of Latakia on July 5, which demolished a fresh stock of Russian Yakhont (NATO codenamed SS-N-26) shore-to-ship missiles along with their advanced radar.
Although CNN ran this leak Friday, July 7, sourcing it to three separate unnamed US officials, the New York Times repeated the story Saturday and it was picked up by more US media for the third day running on Sunday.

Israel declined to comment on the report.
This over-exposure of alleged Israeli culpability certainly risked prodding Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Syrian ruler Bashar Assad into retaliating for the Latakia bombardment.
Our sources find a second US motive behind this tactic ?- this one relating to the standoff between Washington and Moscow over Edward Snowden, who has been holed up for three weeks in a hotel in the transit area of Moscow international airport tin defiance of US demands for his extradition to face trial for espionae.

Putin has steadily refused to hand him over?to America.

The idea in Washington was to put the Russian president?s credibility on the line and embarrass?him by showing Moscow as having "lost"?a large consignment of Russian missiles for Syria.
When Putin appeared inclined to?offer?the young American political asylum, Washington seems?have decided to use the Latakia incident to apply the screws and, at the same time, teach him a lesson: If the Russians want Washington to keep the Israeli military on a leash, they must stop disregarding US views on the Syrian question and start playing ball with Obama.

For teaching the Egyptian generals a lesson, the administration resorted to tangible military steps: two amphibious assault ships carrying 2,600 Marines were moved to the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast.
Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, reported Thursday that the huge USS Kearsarge (1,800 Marines) and the USS San Antonio (with 800 Marines) had ?moved up into the Red Sea and parked off Egypt,? a couple of nights ago, ?because we don?t know what?s going to happen.?
debkafile?s military sources report that the two vessels also carry a fleet of helicopters for ferrying the Marines to distant ground arenas.
The US has placed additional Marine units at Signonella base in southern Italy and Moron in Spain on the alert with orders to be ready to move at 60 minutes? notice.

To calm the tension, the US Embassy in Egypt said on its website Saturday: "We deny false claims in the Egyptian press that US naval ships are in the vicinity of the Arabian Peninsula and the Suez Canal to militarily invade Egypt."

According to our sources, the US flotilla was brought in to warn Egyptian strongman Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his generals that if they took their persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood too far, American Marines stood ready to step in.
They are also on hand for two additional contingencies:

1. ?Should shipping through one of the world?s major world arteries, the Suez Canal, be imperiled ?? as in case of sabotage by the Muslim Brotherhood or the armed Salafists of Sinai, a menace raised repeatedly by debkafile - the US military would be there to take charge of securing international shipping in the waterway.
2. The US maintains 1,000 army personnel in Sinai, most members of the 1st Cavalry Division, as part of the multinational force which monitors the 1979 Egyptian-Israel peace treaty provisions. The Obama administration is keeping a close eye on the mounting Islamist violence in the peninsula and the Egyptian military campaign which was mounted,?in close intelligence cooperation with Israel and the IDF, against two terrorist elements ?the armed Salafist Bedouin associated with al Qaeda and the Palestinian Hamas of Gaza, whose operations have spilled out into Sinai.

US strategists see the fighting in Sinai escalating and spreading and allow that?American military intervention may be called for ? especially if US MFO service personnel are in harm?s way.

Source: http://www.debka.com/article/23118/

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