Bottle Jack: Pry and pry again: We wedged in a 4-ton bottle jack and pumped away.
Angle Grinder: Say hello to our little friend: a cordless angle grinder armed with a 1/8-inch cutoff wheel.
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Whether or not you agree that Samsung (005930) is the ?shameless? copycat?Apple (AAPL) has repeatedly accused it of being, there is no denying that the South Korean technology giant has borrowed a few pages from Apple?s playbook. If the design elements in its devices and the launch of features like S Voice and Blocking Mode rolling out on Samsung phones immediately following Siri and Do Not Disturb aren?t telling enough, this 132-page internal Samsung document is pretty damning.?Of course, Apple is hardly innocent in all this and has borrowed from plenty of companies?in the past as well. The latest chapter in this tiring tale came Tuesday as Samsung unveiled its new Wallet app for Android.
[More from BGR: Why every rival tech company should be scared to death of Samsung]
Unveiled during a developer event at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain, Wallet is just like Apple?s Passbook app for iOS. It allows users to store tickets, membership cards, boarding passes and coupons in one easy to access location. And as seen in the picture below, it also looks a lot like Passbook as well.
[More from BGR: Samsung is just trolling us now, and it?s not alone]
Samsung certainly isn?t backing down following its billion-dollar loss last year and whether or not Wallet leads to new lawsuits, it will be a welcome addition for Samsung smartphone owners looking for a sleek eWallet app on their devices.
This article was originally published on BGR.comSource: http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-picks-apple-pocket-ends-wallet-video-140053978.html
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Massmart, the South African unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc reported a 21 percent drop in first-half profit, hit by costs related to its deal with the world's biggest retailer.
Massmart, the high volume, low margin retailer that sells everything from televisions to groceries, said diluted headline earnings per share totalled 321.7 cents in the six months to end-December compared with 407.3 cents a year earlier.
Headline EPS, the primary measure of profit in South African, exclude certain one-off items.
A South African court last year ordered Massmart to double a planned fund to develop local suppliers to 240 million rand to win regulatory approval for Wal-Mart's acquisition.
Wal-Mart paid $2.4 billion for 51 percent of Massmart.
Excluding that cost, the company said headline EPS would have shown single-digit growth, reflecting tight margins from an aggressive cut-price strategy to double market share in food sales.
"As consumer expenditure slowed, we saw increased discounting amongst most retailers and the inevitable fight to hold or gain market share," the company said.
Massmart said last week that first-half earnings would likely drop by as much as 25 percent.
Massmart, South Africa's third-largest retailer by value, is expanding into food retailing, pitting it against dominant grocers such as Shoprite and Pick n Pay.
The Johannesburg-based company aims to take its grocery market share to as much as 20 percent in the next few years from 10 percent now.
Massmart said sales increased 14.7 percent to 36.1 billion rand. It said sales for eight weeks to February 17, increased 11 percent.
"We are concerned that sales growth may be under some pressure for the remainder of the financial year," the company said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/africas-massmart-profit-down-spending-slows-062246479--finance.html
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PARIS (AP) ? France's Cannes Film Festival says it has finally snagged Steven Spielberg to serve as president of the award jury.
Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, recounted how he had been trying to get the award-winning director to head the jury for years ? but the American was always working. Finally, this year, Spielberg got in touch.
"When this year I was told 'E.T., phone home,' I understood and immediately replied: 'At last!'" Jacob said in a statement posted on the festival's website Thursday.
Spielberg, who was nominated but didn't win the directing Oscar for his biopic "Lincoln" this week, takes the reins from Italian Nanni Moretti. The 66th Cannes festival takes place in the glamorous French Mediterranean resort from May 15 to 26.
Spielberg's presence will likely give more of an American flavor this year to the Cannes festival, a m?lange of intellectual international cinema and Hollywood glamour. Jury presidents in the festival's seven-decade history have included such figures as Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Roman Polanski and Francis Ford Coppola.
Spielberg has had several films show at Cannes, and "E.T." had its world premiere there in 1982. His first film, "Sugarland Express," won best screenplay at Cannes in 1974.
"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world," Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers. "The most prestigious of its kind, the festival has always established the motion picture as a cross cultural and generational medium."
At last year's Cannes festival, Michael Haneke won the top prize with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/steven-spielberg-head-cannes-jury-073243970.html
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Billionaire Dennis Tito announced plans Wednesday for a two-person private mission to Mars, in 2018. The project seeks a married couple with technical backgrounds and a healthy dose of courage.?
A drawing provided by the Inspiration Mars Foundation shows an artist?s conception of a spacecraft envisioned by the private group, which wants to send a married couple on a mission to fly by the red planet and zip back home, beginning in 2018.
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Space tourist?Dennis Tito?announced the plans Wednesday (Feb. 27) during a press conference in Washington, D.C., at which he described a new nonprofit organization he founded, the Inspiration Mars Foundation, to plan the mission.
Tito envisions sending two crewmembers on a roughly 500-day trip to Mars and back. To combat the isolation and loneliness that could set in, the Inspiration Mars team hopes to recruit a married male-female couple to make the?private Mars mission in 2018?together.
"It's important that this is a man and a woman because they represent humanity," said Jane Poynter, president and chairwoman of Paragon Space Development Corporation, and a member of the Inspiration Mars team. "After all, we are more or less 50 percent men and 50 percent women [on Earth]. It represents our children ? whether they are a girl or a boy, they see themselves reflected in that crew." [Dennis Tito's 2018 Human Mars Flyby Mission Explained (Infographic)]
Poynter and her husband, Taber MacCallum, who is chief technology officer for Inspiration Mars, spent two years living inside the Biosphere 2 experiment, and learned the benefits of having a close companion to lean on.
"It was extremely helpful to have somebody that I could problem solve with," Poynter said. "It was also fantastic to have the opportunity to be there and share the experience when we had those wondrous moments."
Inspiration Mars plans to recruit highly qualified crewmembers with the technical background necessary to serve as space mechanics on all aspects of their vehicle, should it need repairs.
For their part, Poynter and MacCallum aren't just mission planners ? they also plan to throw their hats in the ring as crew applicants.
The trip, which would capitalize on a rare planetary alignment that allows for a boomerang mission around the Red Planet much more quickly than normal trajectories, would largely use existing hardware, spacecraft and rockets, but with some modifications to support a crew for such an extended period.
Thus, whoever signs up for the trip will be in for some Spartan conditions.
"This going to be a very austere mission," MacCallum said, comparing the?Mars?voyagers to Lewis and Clark, blazing a trail through the unknown.
"It scares me a little bit," Poynter told SPACE.com. "I'd be lying if I said it didn't. But the opportunity to look back at the Earth from Mars ? that's an experience not to miss."
Whoever undertakes the mission will need "the right stuff times 50," Tito said.
The successful applicants must be resilient, even-keel, and able to maintain a happy attitude in the face of adversity, Poynter said.
Despite the challenges, though,?Inspiration Mars?is expecting a flood of applications from people eager for the chance to make history by traveling farther into space than ever before.
The team's medical expert, Jonathan Clark of the Center for Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, said the crewmembers must also be prepared to face some health challenges. In addition to the havoc that a year and a half of microgravity will wreak on the human body, the Mars travelers will face a strong dose of radiation, which could elevate their risk for cancer by about three percent.
"The crew would know about it, they would have to decide, 'I realize that I'm going to have an excess cancer risk," Clark said. "Ultimately it's going to have to be those personal decisions."
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Casetek, Riteng's parent company, says that the discharge was the result of workers cleaning the factory during the lunar new year holiday. The workers, Casetek claims, improperly disposed of the water they had used.
"It's just Chinese new year annual cleaning," a Casetek representative told The Financial Times. "We will cooperate with the government, and the pollution is nothing to do with the production line of our factory."
Environmental regulators, though, say the pollutants in the milky river came from water used in the plant's cutting and polishing process, not from cleaning the factory. Reportedly, regulators have discovered other violations at the factory.
Apple, according to Casetek, is the main buyer of products produced by the factory, which also supplies Hewlett-Packard and Asus. Apple has confirmed that Riteng produces iPad back panels.
The "milky river" incident typifies the complexities inherent in managing a global supply chain as large as Apple's. The California-based company relies on low-cost labor and suppliers based largely in southeast Asia, many times in countries with different environmental standards from Apple's own.
Apple has opened up to allow third-party environmental audits of not only itself but also its supply chain. It is unclear, though, whether Riteng or Casetek have been audited.
"Significant threats to the environment" counts as one of Apple's "core violations," the most serious breaches of the company's supplier agreements. According to Apple's Supplier Responsibility 2012 Progress Report, core violations "must be remedied immediately, sometimes with the help of expert consultants." The company says that suppliers that have had core violations are reaudited every year.
The Cupertino company has, according to some accounts, considerably improved its environmental accountability. Under CEO Tim Cook, the company is said to have been more open to working with environmental groups in order to address pollution concerns, as well as to sanction suppliers who are skirting environmental regulations.
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PARIS (Reuters) - EU regulators hope to resolve a two-year investigation into U.S. internet company Google in the latter half of the year, the EU's antitrust chief said on Friday, although a rival expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of any solution.
The European Commission - the EU's executive arm - has been examining proposals put forward by Google to resolve complaints from more than a dozen companies, including Microsoft, that Google was using its market dominance to block competitors.
"We can reach an agreement after the summer break. We can envisage this as a possible deadline," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told a Concurrences Journal conference.
The Commission is closed for its summer break for most of August.
Almunia said there would only be a decision "if everything was okay." Neither Google nor the EU antitrust authority have detailed what concessions the U.S. group has offered. If the EU authority accepts the offer, it would mean no fine for Google.
People familiar with the matter have previously told Reuters that Google offered to label its own services in search results to differentiate them from rival services, and also to impose fewer restrictions on advertisers.
The Commission is expected to seek feedback from Google rivals and other third parties once it completes its examination of the concessions.
However, British price comparison site and Google complainant Foundem had doubts about the efficacy of any proposals from the U.S. company.
"We will withhold judgment on Google's proposals until we have seen them, but everything we have learned about Google makes us sceptical that it would volunteer truly effective remedies until it has been formally charged with infringement," said Foundem Chief Executive Shivaun Raff.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission last month ended its own investigation without any significant action, handing Google a major victory.
EU regulators have said Google may have favored its own search services over those of rivals, copied travel and restaurant reviews from competing sites without permission, and placed restrictions on advertisers and advertising.
(Editing by Dan Lalor and Mark Potter)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-sees-google-solution-summer-almunia-111716946--sector.html
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Concordia University
This press release is available in French.
Montreal, February 21, 2013 Nobody can foresee disaster, but changing climate conditions are prompting smart communities increasingly to prepare for them with solid emergency response plans and protocols. Images as recent as those from the 2011 wildfire in Slave Lake, Alberta or as distant as those from the 1998 ice storm in Eastern Ontario and Quebec are distressing reminders that no area is immune from devastation, and reinforce the need to be prepared.
Yet while emergency responses may originate through official channels, new research from Concordia University shows that those plans are most effective when they incorporate input and leadership from informal networks such as volunteer groups and even families alongside the usual formal sources like provincial and local governments. "By integrating local knowledge, a community that includes a wide variety of leaders, representing a range of experiences, competencies and assets, deals most effectively with crisis," says Bill Reimer, professor emeritus in Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology and lead author on the study published in Disasters Journal.
The research focused on the Lost Creek Fire in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwest Alberta in 2003 as a case study, collecting insights from 30 community leaders on the ways in which they modified and adjusted their existing response plan in the face of an actual extended emergency. As disasters go, the Lost Creek Fire was a relative success although the wildfire burned 21,000 hectares of land and 2,000 residents had to be evacuated during the 31-day state of emergency, there was no loss of life and injuries were limited to a few firefighters.
Although emergency responders started out by following preset protocols, it is the ways in which the plan changed over the course of rapidly changing circumstances that proved most instructive. At a high level, the initial hierarchical model was quickly flattened to be more inclusive, bringing representatives of groups at all levels from law enforcement to the women's auxiliary together for daily meetings. Those representatives in turn conveyed news to their established networks, which would often include people on the fringes who might not otherwise have received important information. Multiple channels of communication including radio, newspapers and word of mouth, were enlisted to help spread the word about the wildfire's progress.
Recognizing that informal groups operate and communicate differently from the bureaucratic style of the more formal networks can help officials in a disaster situation to incorporate their insights. Overlooking these differences and embracing their contributions allow officials to see major benefits. For instance, some of the most valuable assets in dealing with the Lost Creek fire included local knowledge of regional geography and landmarks, and the volunteer firefighters' familiarity with local conditions. Communication and transparency are also important factors in overcoming tensions between the different operating styles and enabling diverse groups to work together towards their common goal.
Reimer says the lessons of Lost Creek emphasize the need to recognize and get buy-in from existing leaders both formal and informal even as early as advance disaster planning, but especially through the response and recuperation. "Under disaster conditions, time is of the essence so it makes sense to turn to established leadership rather than attempt to build it from scratch. This can be anticipated in a disaster plan that identifies ongoing leadership needs, social networks and groups most likely to foster leadership."
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Related links:
Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology http://socianth.concordia.ca/
Bill Reimer's Research @ Concordia profile http://www.concordia.ca/explore/#!/profile/88/
Bill Reimer's Web Workshop http://billreimer.net/workshop/
Implications for Disaster Management and Mitigation http://www.ruralwildfire.ca/
Media contact:
Cla Desjardins
Senior Advisor, External Communications
Concordia University
Tel: 514-848-2424, ext. 5068
Cell: 514-909-2999
e-mail: clea.desjardins@concordia.ca
Web: concordia.ca/media-relations
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Public release date: 21-Feb-2013 Share ] Contact: Clea Desjardins
clea.desjardins@concordia.ca
514-848-2424
Concordia University
This press release is available in French.
Montreal, February 21, 2013 Nobody can foresee disaster, but changing climate conditions are prompting smart communities increasingly to prepare for them with solid emergency response plans and protocols. Images as recent as those from the 2011 wildfire in Slave Lake, Alberta or as distant as those from the 1998 ice storm in Eastern Ontario and Quebec are distressing reminders that no area is immune from devastation, and reinforce the need to be prepared.
Yet while emergency responses may originate through official channels, new research from Concordia University shows that those plans are most effective when they incorporate input and leadership from informal networks such as volunteer groups and even families alongside the usual formal sources like provincial and local governments. "By integrating local knowledge, a community that includes a wide variety of leaders, representing a range of experiences, competencies and assets, deals most effectively with crisis," says Bill Reimer, professor emeritus in Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology and lead author on the study published in Disasters Journal.
The research focused on the Lost Creek Fire in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwest Alberta in 2003 as a case study, collecting insights from 30 community leaders on the ways in which they modified and adjusted their existing response plan in the face of an actual extended emergency. As disasters go, the Lost Creek Fire was a relative success although the wildfire burned 21,000 hectares of land and 2,000 residents had to be evacuated during the 31-day state of emergency, there was no loss of life and injuries were limited to a few firefighters.
Although emergency responders started out by following preset protocols, it is the ways in which the plan changed over the course of rapidly changing circumstances that proved most instructive. At a high level, the initial hierarchical model was quickly flattened to be more inclusive, bringing representatives of groups at all levels from law enforcement to the women's auxiliary together for daily meetings. Those representatives in turn conveyed news to their established networks, which would often include people on the fringes who might not otherwise have received important information. Multiple channels of communication including radio, newspapers and word of mouth, were enlisted to help spread the word about the wildfire's progress.
Recognizing that informal groups operate and communicate differently from the bureaucratic style of the more formal networks can help officials in a disaster situation to incorporate their insights. Overlooking these differences and embracing their contributions allow officials to see major benefits. For instance, some of the most valuable assets in dealing with the Lost Creek fire included local knowledge of regional geography and landmarks, and the volunteer firefighters' familiarity with local conditions. Communication and transparency are also important factors in overcoming tensions between the different operating styles and enabling diverse groups to work together towards their common goal.
Reimer says the lessons of Lost Creek emphasize the need to recognize and get buy-in from existing leaders both formal and informal even as early as advance disaster planning, but especially through the response and recuperation. "Under disaster conditions, time is of the essence so it makes sense to turn to established leadership rather than attempt to build it from scratch. This can be anticipated in a disaster plan that identifies ongoing leadership needs, social networks and groups most likely to foster leadership."
###
Related links:
Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology http://socianth.concordia.ca/
Bill Reimer's Research @ Concordia profile http://www.concordia.ca/explore/#!/profile/88/
Bill Reimer's Web Workshop http://billreimer.net/workshop/
Implications for Disaster Management and Mitigation http://www.ruralwildfire.ca/
Media contact:
Cla Desjardins
Senior Advisor, External Communications
Concordia University
Tel: 514-848-2424, ext. 5068
Cell: 514-909-2999
e-mail: clea.desjardins@concordia.ca
Web: concordia.ca/media-relations
Twitter: twitter.com/CleaDesjardins
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PHOENIX (AP) ? A woman charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her Arizona lover traded barbs with a prosecutor under a withering cross-examination as she struggled to explain why she can recall precise details of her life from years earlier, yet can't remember crucial aspects of the murder case against her.
Jodi Arias, 32, faces a potential death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. She was testifying for a ninth day Thursday as the prosecution began its cross-examination, hammering her with questions about her apparent selective memory.
Questioning grew so heated Thursday that the judge admonished Arias and prosecutor Juan Martinez to stop talking over each other. Arias smirked at times while Martinez stammered in frustration.
Trial is set to resume Monday.
Alternating between tears and poise, Arias has testified in painstaking detail about the events that led her to kill Alexander, she says in self-defense.
Yet when asked for details from the day of the killing, she didn't recall much.
"Do you have memory problems, ma'am?" Martinez asked.
"Sometimes," Arias replied.
Martinez hammered back, noting it's puzzling that she can't remember such crucial details to the case, yet "can tell us what kind of coffee you bought at Starbucks sometime back in 2008."
"When do you have memory problems? Martinez asked, raising his voice.
"Usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me or someone like Travis," Arias replied calmly.
Martinez also questioned her contention that she was monogamous throughout her relationship with the victim while referring to Arias' previous testimony that the day she killed him, she went to visit a man in Utah and slept in his bed, kissing and cuddling.
She said she didn't know Alexander was dead when she left his home, noting her memory from that day has "huge gaps."
"At that point you didn't know, according to your own story, that Mr. Alexander was dead, right?" Martinez snapped.
"I guess I knew. I just wasn't expecting it," Arias said softly. "I wasn't really in my own mind."
"Make up your mind, please," Martinez responded sharply.
Arias testified on Wednesday she recalled little about the day of the killing. She remembers Alexander in a rage, body slamming her and chasing her around his home.
She said she grabbed a gun from his closet, and it went off, but she wasn't sure if she shot him. She had no explanation for his 27 stab wounds and slit throat. He had been shot in the forehead.
Arias also attempted to explain away her repeated lies. She first told authorities she knew nothing about Alexander's death, then later blamed it on masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defense.
She said she was scared of being arrested, had been contemplating suicide and didn't want to sully Alexander's name with accounts of his violent behavior and lurid details of their sexual relationship, given his public persona as a devout Mormon who was saving himself for marriage.
Martinez also hammered her Thursday on other changing stories. Arias claims she injured her right finger when Alexander beat her months before the killing, even once holding up her crooked digit in a dramatic display for jurors in previous testimony.
However, Martinez noted Arias told a detective after her arrest that she injured her finger on the day of Alexander's death when one of the intruders attacked her.
"You gave him a different story," Martinez said pointedly.
"Yes," Arias replied.
"Then you testified about it in this court and you gave us another story of how this happened, right?" Martinez asked.
"No," Arias said defiantly.
Martinez noted that Arias made no mention of injuring her finger in a fight with Alexander in her journal where she kept pages of intimate details from her life.
"And no one knew about this supposed or claimed injury to your finger until after you killed Alexander, right?" he said.
"That's right," Arias replied.
Prosecutors say Arias planned the killing in a jealous rage, savagely attacking Alexander in his home.
Alexander's friends say Arias is lying about her contention that he had sexual desires for young boys, and that he was physically abusive, and no witnesses have testified of any previous violent behavior or his interest in children. Authorities also have said they did not believe Alexander owned a gun, and there has been no testimony to back up Arias' story that he kept one in his closet.
Arias' grandparents reported a .25 caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California house about a week before the killing ? the same caliber used to shoot Alexander ? but Arias claims to know nothing about the robbery. She says she brought no weapons to Alexander's home on the day she killed him.
Prosecutors must prove she planned the attack in advance to secure a first-degree murder conviction and a chance for a death sentence.
Of the day she killed Alexander, Arias said she only remembers shooting at him, putting a knife in the dishwasher and disposing of the gun in the desert as she drove from Arizona on her way to Utah. And she immediately began planning an alibi "to "throw the scent off for a little while."
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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. Enjoy!
THURSDAY
Craft Crawl // (Various local craft shops) // (See each store?s hours)
Iowa City?s Home Ec. Workshop is putting on its fourth annual Craft Crawl this weekend. Attendees have four days (Thursday ? Sunday) to purchase discounted items from 6 different local businesses, and participate in activities they have arranged. The more people in your group, the bigger the discount at each store. Only after you ?Craft Crawl Card? has all six stamps can you enter it into a drawing for this year?s grand prize ? a $25 gift card for each store. Here is the event list for the weekend:
Beadology Iowa:?Bracelet making with a professional finish.? Bracelets will be made from Czech pressed glass with a sterling silver clasp. Group discounts: $21 if by yourself, $18/person with a group of up to 3, and $15/person for groups over 3.
Ben Franklin Crafts:?Free Make a Magnet project and a store wide sliding discount on regularly priced merchandise:?10% (up to 2 people), 20% (3 people), 30% (over 4 people).
Common Threads Quilt Shoppe:?Tomato Pin Cushions to be made at the store or at home. The larger the group, the larger the discount. Kits are $3.00 each for the first 4 people. Anyone after that is free.
Fired Up Iowa City, Inc.:?The larger the group, the larger the discount!
Home Ec. Workshop:?Screen printing Craft Crawl 2013 T-shirts.??Bring your own blank T-shirt and screen print our image designed by local artist Greta Songe. No printing experience necessary. Cost is $10 to just print a shirt. ?Print for only $8 with the purchase of craft supplies, which are 10% off if you do a screen print!
The Knitting Shoppe:?Double woven stitch class and a dishcloth on the Sunday of the crawl.? 10% discount with a craft crawl ticket.
Mavis Staples w. Lake Street Dive // Englert // 8:00 PM // $35-55
Mavis Staples is one of the world?s most accomplished and respected soul/gospel singers. ?Staples began singing in the early 1950s for her family band, The Staple Singers. Led by her father, ?Pops,? the band hit the road and gained considerable notoriety. It wasn?t until the late 1960s that Mavis began putting out solo records under her own name. Since then she has released 12 studio albums which have been produced by the likes of Prince, Ry Cooder and Jeff Tweedy. Her latest album, You Are Not Alone (produced by Tweedy) was released in 2011 and won a Grammy for Best Americana Album. Somewhat surprisingly, this was Staples? first Grammy Award. VH1 has her listed in their list of 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Staples has also earned her spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Supporting Staples will be Lake Street Dive, of which bass player Bridget Kearney has Iowa ties.
The Savage Hacks w. All Dogs Invited, The Men From?BEYOND!, Techno-Lincoln and the Techno Color Union // Pizza of Dubuque // 9:00 PM // Free
Rock show at Pizza on Dubuque! Four local bands will take the stage upstairs at the pizza place. The show will cost nothing. B.y.o.b., eat some ?za, rock out ?n stuff. Here?s the lineup:
The Savage Hacks
All Dogs Invited
The Men From?Beyond!
Techno-Lincoln and the Techno Color Union
FRIDAY
Mutts // Java House // 2:00 PM // Free
Chicago?s Mutts are pretty wild. I know this because I just saw them play at The Mill on Tuesday with Brooklyn band, Country Mice. It was about 4 degrees outside and the show was disgustingly under-attended. The three piece rockers that make up Mutts could have cared less. Lead singer, Mike Maimone belted out each song as if there were 500 screaming fans in the club. Once he stood up on his stool and played his keyboard with his shoe. Maimone and bass player, Bob Buckstaff started the band in 2009, but have been playing together in various projects since the early 2000s. For a free show in a coffee shop, this one should be interesting.
This show is part of Iowa Public Radio?s Java Blend series. Java Blend is a free and open to the public, and takes place in the back of the Java House. Each performance is recorded and broadcast on Iowa Public Radio.
Punk Farm II // Gabe?s // 6:00 PM // $5
The second annual Punk Farm event will once again be taking place at Gabe?s this year. The lineup includes some of Iowa City?s premier punk acts. On the bill this year is:
Lipstick Homicide
Direct Hit
Nerv
The Ills
Muddy Rails
The Men From?Beyond!
Statistix
Conetrauma
Other Band
Well Aren?t We Precious.
To accommodate such a lengthy list of bands, the music will begin early and power through into the wee hours of the morning.
SATURDAY
The Magistrate // Englert // 7:00 PM // $18 Adult, $15 Senior/Student
From the Englert:
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE?performances are filmed live at the National Theatre in London in high definition and will be re-broadcast at The Englert Theatre. The Englert will broadcast every play/performance from the National Theatre?s 2013 season. Presented by?M.C. Ginsberg.
The Magistrate
Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winner John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,?Shrek,?3rd Rock from the Sun) takes the title role in Arthur Wing Pinero?s uproarious Victorian farce, directed by Olivier Award-winner Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You and Into the Woods, Regent?s Park Open Air Theatre, London).
by Arthur Wing PineroIn a similar vein to the National Theatre?s smash-hit classic comedies,?She Stoops to Conquer?and?London Assurance,?The Magistrate?is sure to have audiences doubled up with laughter. When amiable magistrate Posket (John Lithgow) marries Agatha (Olivier Award-winner Nancy Carroll,?After the Dance), little does he realize she?s dropped five years from her age ? and her son?s. When her deception looks set to be revealed, it sparks a series of hilarious indignities and outrageous mishaps.
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SANTA FE, N.M. - Former New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici said on Wednesday he fathered a child out of wedlock more than 30 years ago with the daughter of one of his former colleagues in the senate.
Domenici acknowledged the extramarital affair in a statement published in New Mexico?s Albuquerque Journal, saying he worried the information was about to be made public by someone else.
?These circumstances now compel me to reveal this situation,? Domenici said.
The 80-year-old Republican and former Senate Budget Committee chairman told the Journal he had an affair with Washington lobbyist Michelle Laxalt, the daughter of Paul Laxalt, a former U.S. senator and Nevada governor.
?I deeply regret this and am very sorry for my behaviour. I hope New Mexicans will view that my accomplishments for my beloved state outweigh my personal transgression,? Domenici said.
Domenici served in the senate for six consecutive terms from 1973 to 2009 and was the longest serving senator from New Mexico. He retired because of a degenerative brain disease.
He currently is a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C.
Domenici and his wife Nancy have eight children.
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/20/ex-new-mexico-senator-domenici-says-he-had-son-out-of-wedlock
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NASA released an amazing video of an enormous solar flare erupting on the sun in July 2012
A close-up of a spectacular loop of solar plasma 'rain' on the sun as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft in July 2012.
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On July 19, 2012, a moderately powerful solar flare exploded on the sun's lower right hand limb, sending out light and radiation. Next came a CME, which shot off to the right out into space. And then, the sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays -- a phenomenon known as coronal rain.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as a medium-strength flare erupted from?the sun?on July 19, 2012. The blast also generated the enormous, shimmering plasma loops, which are an example of a phenomenon known as "coronal rain," agency officials said.
"Hot plasma in the corona [the sun's outer atmosphere] cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region," NASA officials wrote in a description of the four-minute?video of solar plasma "rain", which NASA released Wednesday (Feb. 20).
"Magnetic fields are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface," they added.
The $850 million SDO spacecraft recently marked three years in space. It launched on Feb. 11, 2010, kicking off a five-year prime mission to provide incredibly detailed views of the sun, solar flares and other space weather events.
SDO has delivered thus far, capturing more than 100 million images of our star as of late last year. Some of the spacecraft's most memorable shots over the last year are?highlighted in another video, which NASA released last week to celebrate the mission's birthday.
But SDO has done more than just shine a light on the sun. The spacecraft has also helped scientists better understand comets, especially "sungrazers" like Comet Lovejoy, which survived a death dive through the sun's corona in December 2011.
And scientists used SDO to learn more about Venus' atmosphere during the planet's "transit" across the sun's face, from Earth's perspective, in June of last year. The Venus transit transfixed skywatchers and researchers around the world, as the next one won't come until 2117.
SDO isn't the only spacecraft keeping tabs on the sun, which is currently in an active phase of its 11-year activity cycle, with a peak expected later this year. NASA's twin Stereo probes also provide daily views of our star, as does the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency.
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Eleanor Almeda placed sixth on the uneven bars and qualified for the all-around at the Mass. Gymnastic Coaches Individual Competition last weekend. Michelle Jaquint placed ninth on the uneven bars.? Chelmsford is seeded fourth for the North Team Sectionals that will be held on Saturday at Hudson High School.
Boys basketball
Chelmsford needed a victory at Billerica last Friday night and it looked like they would get it throughout the first half.? But, Billerica came back in the second half to win 69-59.
The Lions led 24-14 at the end of the first period.? Russell Olive had four 3-pointers including three in a row.?? Brad Hausler and Matt Kuda were rebounding well and Chelmsford's pressing defense was bothering the Indians.? The Lions built their lead to 41-27 at the half with several players contributing to the offense.
In the third period, Billerica went on a 13-point run and then tied the game 48-48 with 1:22 left in the period.? It remained tied at 50-50 when the period ended.? Billerica outscored Chelmsford, 18-9, in the fourth period to get the victory and end the Lions' tournament hopes.? Anthony Silva finished with 13 points including three 3-pointers.? Russell Olive finished with 14 points and Jackson Gamer added with eight points.
Haverhill 62, Chelmsford 58
Haverhill visited Conrad Gym last Tuesday night as the Lions celebrated Senior Night.? In a hard-fought game that saw the Lions get within three points with five seconds to go, Haverhill won 62-58.
Chelmsford trailed 19-14 at the end of the first period.? They were plagued by turnovers.? Eric VanGelder hit two 3-pointers in a row at the start of the second period to close the gap but Haverhill's freshman Saul Phiri scored 11 of Haverhill's 14 points in the period and they took a 33-25 lead at the half.
Haverhill built their lead to 50-37 at the end of the third quarter.
Chelmsford rallied in the fourth quarter on the strength of the play of VanGelder and Jack Campsmith.? But, the Lions could not catch the Hillies as Phiri? hit two foul shots at the end to cinch the win. He finished with 28 points and 16 rebounds.
Eric VanGelder led the scoring for Chelmsford with 16 points.? Voshon Holmes had 14 points and Jack Campsmith added 10 points for Chelmsford.?
Boys hockey
It was Senior Night at The Chelmsford Forum last Saturday night and the Lions responding by outscoring Billerica, 8-3.?
Billerica scored in the first nine seconds of the first period, but that was the last time they would lead.? Danny Ferri made it 1-1 at 2:09 of the period with Drew Dawson assisting.? Derek Adamson put the Lions ahead 2-1 at 3:42 and Jack Olson got the assist.? Danny Ferri scored at 10:54 on an assist from Tommy Bishop to make it 3-1.? Patrick Couillard upped the score to 4-1 at 13:51 with Bishop assisting and the period ended that way.
Brad Albers replaced Derek Noble in the net for the second and third periods.? After Billerica made it 4-2, Jonathan Fairbanks scored to make it 5-2.? Then, with just seconds left in the second period, Michael DeDonato scored to make it 6-2 and Drew Dawson assisted.
In the third period, C.J. Emmons made it 7-2 with Andrew Knightly getting an assist and Mike DeDonato upped the score to 8-2 with assists going to Matt Calnan and Jesse Lye.? Late in the period, Billerica closed the scoring at 8-3.
?We were able to play everyone,? said Chelmsford High head coach Mike McGrath. ?I was particularly pleased to have Brad Albers see action in goal.? It was a great way to celebrate Senior Night.???
Girls basketball
The CHS girls varsity basketball team defeated Lawrence, 47-33, last Friday night to improve to 8-10 for the season and 6-1 in Division II of the MVC, good for a share of the Division II title.
Annie Donahue, who missed part of the season with an injury, continues to play a key role for Kevin Branco's squad.? She scored seven points and pulled down nine rebounds.? Amanda L'Hussier had a good night as she snagged eight rebounds and made two steals.
Chelmsford 37, Haverhill 21
Chelmsford traveled to Haverhill last Tuesday and picked up a 37-21 win and qualified for post-season tournament play.
The Lions took over in the first half as they out-scored the Hillies, 20-3.? The scoring was spread out with Trish Blumeris getting 8 points, Amanda Marsh 7 points and both Annie Donahue and Claire Markey getting six points.
Girls hockey
Chelmsford traveled to South Boston to face Boston Latin and came home with a 6-0 victory.? The win put the Lions at 7-9-2 for the season.? Julianne Sheehan led the Chelmsford scoring with three goals and an assist.? Rachel Bossi added two goals and an assist while Devon Livingston had a goal and two assists.? Siana Rosado was in goal and made 21 saves while picking up the shutout.
Boys track
Chelmsford athletes performed well at the Division I State Championship Meet at the Reggie Lewis Center last weekend.
Dan Nolan turned in a personal best time of 4:33.52 in the mile while Quinn Cooney placed fifth in 4:2713.? The 4 X 200 relay of Zach Lattimore, Joe Maniscalco, Greg Johnson and Connor Brown took seventh in 1:34.22, their best time of the season.? The 4 X 800 relay team of Dan Nolan, Kevin Murphy, Max Higson and Quinn Cooney place eighth in 8:17.37.
Girls track
Alli Wood lowered her own school record for the 600 to 1:38.11 and placed fourth at the Division I State Championship Meet at the Reggie Lewis Center last weekend.? Meg Duffy turned in a personal best in the mile with a time of 5:34.? Jennie Pisarik ran a personal best for the indoor season of 5:21.53.
Wrestling
Chelmsford took third place at the Division I North Sectional Championship held at Chelmsford High School last Saturday.? St. John's Prep was first with 249.5 points, Lawrence was second with 186.5 and the Lions were third with 175.5.?
Scott McQuade and James Clasen who won titles at 145 and 152 led the Lions.? Ben Melisi was second at 170 and Sean Sarault was second at 185.? Tyler Carmolli (113) and Jake Ahern (138) both placed third.? Finishing fourth were Griffin Murray (106) and Adam Civinskas.? Kyle McQuade (160) took fifth and Jimmy Barry was sixth.
Boys swimming
Chelmsford placed 10th with 101 points at the Division I State Championship Meet at Harvard on Sunday.?
Sophomore Andrew Majeski was the Lions' top performer.? He took second in the 500 freestyle in 4:44.95, the fifth fastest time in school history.? He was fifth in the 200 freestyle in 1:45.97, also the fifth fastest time in school history.? Senior Dan Pires was second in 1-meter diving with 526.20 points, the second highest total in school history.? Junior Chris Danielli placed in two individual events.? He was 10th in the 50 freestyle in 22.52, ninth fastest in school history and 15th in the 100 freestyle in 50.26.? Senior Ethan Eckhoff placed fifth in the 1-meter diving with 400.55 points, currently the eighth highest total in school history.? The 200 freestyle relay team of John Phinney, Andy Sheu, Daniellli and Majeski placed eighth in 1:32.71.? Sean Regan, Ben Sperry, Danielli and Majeski were 13th in the 400frestyle relay in 3:26.06.
?We had a great year,? said Chelmsford High first-year coach Craig Vitale. ?Every swimmer and diver on the team performed beyond their expectations.? Our divers were a strong point and did consistently well all year.? Sophomore Andrew Majeski lost only two individual races during the dual meets, took second in both individual events at the MVC's. and then cracked the top five times in CHS history with monster swims in the 200 and 500 freestyle at the state meet.? Junior Chris Danielli had two personal bests in the 50 and 100 freestyle and matched that with two big relay swims.? Senior Sean Regan swam a personal best in the 100 backstroke and leading off the 400 freestyle relay.? He did so while still wearing a cast from a broken hand.? We look forward to building upon this season?s success in coming years.?
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FILE - This Dec. 7, 2012 file photo shows Axl Rose, lead vocalist of Guns N' Roses performing during their concert in Bangalore, India. A judge on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013 dismissed Rose's lawsuit against Activision Blizzard Inc. The Guns N' Roses rocker had claimed the gaming giant violated an agreement not to feature guitarist Slash in a "Guitar Hero" video game. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, file)
FILE - This Dec. 7, 2012 file photo shows Axl Rose, lead vocalist of Guns N' Roses performing during their concert in Bangalore, India. A judge on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013 dismissed Rose's lawsuit against Activision Blizzard Inc. The Guns N' Roses rocker had claimed the gaming giant violated an agreement not to feature guitarist Slash in a "Guitar Hero" video game. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, file)
FILE - This Dec. 7, 2012 file photo shows Axl Rose, lead vocalist of Guns N' Roses performing during their concert in Bangalore, India. A judge on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013 dismissed Rose's lawsuit against Activision Blizzard Inc. The Guns N' Roses rocker had claimed the gaming giant violated an agreement not to feature guitarist Slash in a "Guitar Hero" video game. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A judge has ruled that Activision Blizzard Inc. did not violate an agreement with Axl Rose to prevent the inclusion of guitarist Slash in a "Guitar Hero" video game and has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Guns N' Roses frontman.
Superior Court Judge Charles Palmer dismissed the case on Wednesday, court records show. He agreed with attorneys for Activision that the gaming company never agreed to keep Slash's likeness out of the game in exchange for the rights to use the Guns N' Roses hit "Welcome to the Jungle."
Rose sued Activision in November 2010 seeking $20 million in damages from the company. He claimed he allowed Activision to use "Welcome to the Jungle" in the game on the condition that Slash and his band, Velvet Revolver, not appear in the game.
Rose has been trying to distance Guns N' Roses from Slash since he left the band in 1996, his lawsuit stated.
"Guitar Hero III" featured a digital version of Slash, complete with distinctive top hat, dark glasses and curly black locks.
Email messages sent to lawyers for Rose and Activision were not immediately returned.
In October, Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision settled a lawsuit filed by the band No Doubt claiming their digital likenesses were misused in a similar game, "Band Hero."
In both cases, Activision denied wrongdoing.
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?When winter wraps the landscape in white, and the temperature tempts you to spend every day inside in front of the fireplace, I need comfort food?
I need pasta!
This dish is perfectly tasty, fun and quick to make.
I usually buy fresh pasta as I feel that adds more flavor, but there is no harm in using the other kind as well.
(hi, but if your up for it you can always make your own pasta with or without egg, go here for my recipe.)
If you?re in the mood for comfort food for one, for two or for a whole party, this dish is your friend.
I love the dash of color, fun and texture the quail eggs add to this dish.
Many people peel the eggs, but I eat them with their shell on.
Not only is it good for you, it also adds a bit of crunch, and let?s face it, peeling a quail egg is messy tedious business.
If you have a genius way of peeling them quick do let me know, but until that way is discovered, I simply eat them as is after a minute or two of boiling.
Oh, and whatever you do, do not hold back on the parmesan, freshly grated, not to be confused with Grana Padano
Pair this dish with a Pinot Grigio white wine, or a nice and fresh Elder flower on the rocks drink.
This will add a bit of sun on the coldest and grayest of winter days for sure!
Creamy garlic pasta with quail eggs
(serves 4)
Adapted from Donnay Hay
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Ingredients
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1 garlic (the entire thing)
8 quail eggs
250g Pasta, (I used spaghetti)
1/2?cup (125ml) whipping cream, or single cream
1/2 cup (50g) finely grated parmesan
Ocean salt and cracked black pepper
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Directions
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Turn on the oven and preheat to 180?C (355?F).
Wrap the garlic in aluminium foil and roast for 30 minutes or until soft and tender. Squeeze garlic from skins and mash with a fork.
?Cook the quail eggs in a small pot of boiling water for 1 minute. Drain and set aside to cool slightly.
You can peel them at this point or leave them in their shells and simply cut in half right before serving, but make sure you keep them warm.
??Cook the pasta in a pot of boiling water with a pinch of salt for 3?4 minutes or until al dente.
Drain well and return to the pot where you add?the cream, parmesan (hold a little for serving), roasted garlic, salt and pepper, toss to coat the pasta in the delicious sauce.
Divide the pasta between serving plates, sprinkle some freshly grated parmesan and a pinch of salt, then halve the quail eggs and place on top to serve.
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Bon Appetit!
Source: http://www.mmforsberg.com/blog/2013/02/20/recipe-creamy-garlic-spaghettini-with-quail-egg/
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LinkedIn Jobs Gets A Search Boost
LinkedIn's makeover continues, but is the platform moving in the right direction?
LinkedIn is continuing its ongoing makeover with an improved LinkedIn Jobs feature. There's a new look and feel to LinkedIn Jobs, but the biggest change is under the covers: search.
The new LinkedIn Jobs functionality , which will be rolled out to LinkedIn users in the next few weeks, boasts an advanced search function that lets users more effectively target opportunities. For example, they can search by country, zip code, industry and function. The new LinkedIn Jobs also lets users quickly identify new results from saved searches.
The page itself is set up to put everything in closer reach for users. For example, the Jobs You Might Be Interested In feature, which is based on your experience and resume, is more prominent on the page, and the Save Job feature lets users keep track of interesting opportunities.
[ Have you been giving endorsements on LinkedIn? Don't bother. Here's why: Why Soliciting LinkedIn Endorsements Is A Bad Idea. ]
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(click image for larger view and for slideshow)The most promising opportunities are the ones where you have an "in," and LinkedIn makes it easier for you to see this now by highlighting your connections at different companies.
Subscribers to LinkedIn's Premium edition also get a feature that enables them to search for jobs that meet certain salary requirements; there are also embedded tips that help users throughout the job search process.
The new LinkedIn Jobs feature is just one of a raft of changes LinkedIn has recently made to its platform. Many of the changes have made LinkedIn feel more like Facebook and Twitter. Updated LinkedIn Profiles, for example, integrate elements reminiscent of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Most of LinkedIn's new features have been met with mixed reaction, but none more so than Endorsements. LinkedIn Endorsements, announced in September, let LinkedIn users recognize colleagues for specific skills with just a click. The endorsements pile up (or maybe a better term is "tile up") on your profile page, and the idea is that prospective employers or others looking at your profile can see at a glance what you are most skilled at, based on the recommendations of people who should know because they have worked with you and experienced these skills first-hand.
But that's not what's happening, say critics of the feature. The "just a click" part is what has many people looking askance at the Endorsements feature, as they feel it encourages meaningless recommendations and even a tit-for-tat environment: "I'll endorse you if you'll endorse me." To see just how provocative Endorsements have become, check out the dozens of comments on this article by my colleague David Nour.
How do you think LinkedIn is shaping up? Are the changes improving the site, or is it trying to be too much like Facebook and Twitter? Please let us know in the comments section below.Follow Deb Donston-Miller on Twitter at @debdonston.
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PARIS (AP) -- It?s crunch time in Mali for the French military.
Radical Islamist fighters spent weeks on the run from Malian cities under a French ground and air assault -- but they?re brazenly fighting back this week at French troops. The French, meanwhile, are tightening a dragnet against the al-Qaida-linked militants in one of their last remaining redoubts, mountain sanctuaries near Algeria?s border.
France?s government said Wednesday it?s still hoping to pull out of its thorny Mali operation in the coming weeks. Defense analysts say that if France wants to make that work, and avoid getting bogged down in a protracted, Afghan-style occupation, now?s the time to hit hard -- dismantling the hideouts and killing all the insurgents they can -- to crush what it fears is a growing terrorist threat that could spread to Mali?s African neighbors and even as far as Europe.
Six-hour gunfight
French and Malian authorities on Wednesday sifted over the fallout from a nearly six-hour gunfight Tuesday, when about 30 jihadist fighters surprised a 50-troop French reconnaissance patrol about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the town of Tessalit in the Adrar des Ifoughas region, and opened fire with machine guns.
The far-more-muscular French called in support from Mirage fighter jets, helicopter gunships, and armored vehicles firing 105-mm cannons. By the end, more than 20 insurgents and one French legionnaire were killed, French officials said.
The French operation in the area, code-named "Panthere," or panther, is continuing for a third day Wednesday.
President Francois Hollande insists that France -- eager for African forces to help stabilize the impoverished West African country and its wobbly central government -- is entering the final phase of its operation. But he says France will "go all the way -- that?s to say, arresting the last terrorist chiefs in northern Mali."
Defense analysts are blunter.
The extremists "have their backs against the wall," said Francois Heisbourg, president of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, and adviser to France?s Foundation for Strategic Research. "They have been clobbered. And the best time to hit a guy is when he?s on the ground on his back."
Heisbourg estimated there are about 1,200 to 2,000 radical Islamic fighters in three extremist movements in northern Mali: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies; the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO; and Ansar Dine.
The groups controlled northern Mali for 10 months until the French incursion began Jan. 11. Heisbourg cautioned that if rebel fighters headed south to Niger, home to higher mountains than the Ifoghas, it could present longer-term problems for counterterrorism forces. The French have backing from Malian soldier, as well as forces from nearby Chad who are seen as battle-hardened and used to operating in harsh desert terrain and working with local Tuareg tribes.
French authorities are not yet clear if the zone between Gao, northern Mali?s largest city, and the Niger border has been fully scrubbed of the insurgent threat, officials say.
Officials in France are aware of the perils of trying to predict a quick end to counterterrorism operations, which can foment suicide bombings and other guerrilla tactics that defy resolution through military force.
One comparable example is the eastern African country of Somalia, where it took a U.N.-backed force of African troops -- backed by U.S. drone and aircraft strikes on targeted militant leaders -- many years to degrade al-Shabab insurgents enough to allow the formation of a functional transitional government.
Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France-2 Television on Wednesday that France hopes to start moving out its 4,000 troops in Mali within weeks but, at the same time, he acknowledged that the counterterrorism operation in the Ifoghas range will continue "for a while."
Even as France talks about an eventual handover to Malian and other African forces, French troops are greeted warmly in Malian cities by waves from women selling their vegetables in piles on the street, and children who cheerfully shout "Mali! Mali!" as the soldiers pass.
Gao Mayor Sadou Diallo said about 1,000 French troops are in the Gao region, along with about 3,000 Malian and African soldiers. He said he hoped the French won?t leave the job half-done.
"I am optimistic that they won?t leave without finishing their work," he says. "We don?t want them to stay for years. We hope that MUJAO is wiped out, that elections can be held and that development can begin."
At the Nour mosque in Gao, Imam Alassane Maiga puts the French intervention in the plainest of terms: "If they had waited until September, we would have been dead" -- referring to the initial timetable planned for international troops to start fighting alongside Malian forces.
U.N. discussions about an African force for Mali have been under way for months, alongside efforts for a European Union training mission to help the Malian military. But while the world was waiting for those to come together, the extremists who had been imposing strict Islamic law on northern Mali started moving toward the capital in January. So France struck back, sending troops into help Malian forces push the radical fighters back.
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Krista Larson contributed from Gao, Mali.
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It wasn't clear if Bungie's 10-year project was headed to a next-gen console, but now the developer has made it official: Destiny is headed to the PlayStation 4. Gamers hoping to pick up the PS4 version of the title aren't in store for an extra-long wait either, as it'll be available at the same time the PlayStation 3 flavor launches. In order to sweeten the pot for fans of Sony's gaming console, Bungie's also promising "exclusive playable content just for the PlayStation community."
Check out our liveblog of Sony's event to get the latest news as it happens!
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