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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders met in the Ethiopian capital Sunday for talks dominated by the conflict in Mali as well as lingering territorial issues between the two Sudans.
The African Union says it will deploy a force in Mali, where French troops are helping the Malian army to push back Islamist extremists whose rebellion threatens to divide the West African nation.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is attending the two-day summit in Addis Ababa, where Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn took over from President Yayi Boni of Benin as chairperson of the African Union.
"We are determined to do what we can to help the people of Mali in their time of need," Ban said. "Humanitarian agencies are helping suffering civilians. The United Nations has also sent specialists on the military and political tracks. This is a moral imperative for all in the international community. I have presented to the Security Council my recommendation on the logistics support package for (the Mali force)."
With Mali at the top of the agenda, African leaders hope they can make quick progress in deploying a substantial number of African troops there. As the African leaders met, French special forces fighting alongside Malian troops were pushing farther north into the Malian desert in an offensive against al Qaida-linked Islamists who took control of northern Mali more than nine months ago.
Africa's economic boom is threatened by violent conflicts across the continent, African Union officials said at the summit.
"While we are proud of the progress made in expanding and consolidating peace and security on the continent, we also acknowledge that much still needs to be done to resolve ongoing, renewed and new conflict situations in a number of countries," said African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Dlamini-Zuma said the Peace and Security Council of the African Union will report to the summit on efforts to resolve conflicts in countries ranging from Mali to Madagascar.
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union said in a statement Saturday that it wanted "the early operationalization of the African Standby Force" in Mali. The council also said it fully supports Mali President Dioncounda Traore but urged him to put in place a roadmap to free and fair elections. It also said the African Union is committed to preserving the unity of Mali and would "spare no efforts" to safeguard the country's territorial integrity.
A number of African countries have pledged to send troops to Mali, and on Tuesday the African Union will hold a conference of donors with hopes that money will be raised for the Mali force. The Peace and Security Council of the African Union urged member states to "seize the opportunity of the donors' conference ... to meaningfully contribute toward the mobilization of the necessary resources." Continued...
The council also urged the international community to contribute generously to the Mali force.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan met at the summit in Addis Ababa, although African Union officials said they did not expect them to make much headway. South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Sudan President Omar al-Bashir earlier this month agreed to "the unconditional and speedy" implementation of deals they had reached back in September. But a subsequent meeting of the two countries' negotiating teams that should have outlined timetable for the deal's implementation ended in disagreement.
Ban urged the two Sudans to resume direct talks and spoke of the "dangerous humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states."
"In Sudan and South Sudan the parties have taken positive steps to resolve outstanding issues," Ban said. "But they should make more progress in meeting their agreements."
Mediators led by former South African leader Thabo Mbeki have until July to push the two sides to agree on the status of the disputed Abyei region as well as other contested border areas.
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President Xi Jinping promised citizens his government will pursue the "Chinese dream," in a keynote speech as the National People's Congress came to a close on Sunday.
"We must make persistent efforts, press ahead with indomitable will, continue to push forward the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive to achieve the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," Xi said, according to state news agency Xinhua.
XI spoke in crisp, clear Mandarin, in relatively plain language, in keeping with his desire to drop the jargon traditionally sprinkled through official speeches and text.
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Xi's speech was followed by the first news conference by Premier Li Keqiang who, like Xi, was confirmed as one of the nation's new leaders during the meeting. They are replacing Hu and Wen Jiabao, who led the country for 10 years.
During the question and answer session broadcast to millions nationwide, Li addressed China's relationship with the United States and recent friction over allegations that Chinese hackers had targeted U.S. networks.
Common interests between the U.S and China far outweigh the differences, he said, and stressed the need to maintain friendly ties.
On the issue of hacking, Li took exception to a reporter's question, saying it presumed guilt.
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Silicon Valley Nation: Baseball, steroids and technology morality
Brian Fuller
This exercise has been controversial since nominees (who have to be retired for five years) are now coming up for review from the so-called Steroid Era in baseball. There are two schools of thought about nominees who are either suspected or admitted users of performance-enhancing drugs…
- They should never be elected to the Hall of Fame because they cheated.
- Vote them in because not only were they great players but the context of their statistics will forever be associated with the "Steroid Era," in which perhaps 75 percent of all players juiced.
I'm in camp No. 2 (for many reasons not the least of which is that the folks who vote are the same hypocritical sportswriters who, while shunning tainted ballplayers now, turned a blind eye to steroid abuse for two decades).
But this kindles a larger question: Why is our consideration of the moral/cultural consequences of all technology so haphazard?
Technology--electronic of chemical--is an unquenchable wildfire of ideas, nurtured by nimble minds, feeding on itself the way oxygen fuels flames.
Like the climber who responds "because it's there" to the question "why do you climb the mountain?" engineers and chemists and other scientists explore the mysteries of the human mind and natural world because it's there. Innovate first; consequences later. Consumers of the technology generally behave the same way. Consume first; figure out the consequences later.
It seems to me that athletes should be able to use technology (even what we consider edgy/scary technology) to their advantage; it will always advance; it's out of the box and will never be stuffed back in, and the chance too see a human being performs feats never before achieved is alluring.
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The response will be: "Hey, jackass, health and safety issues abound. You're putting a lot of people at risk."
Perhaps. But adult (key filter here) athletes would do so willingly, understanding and accepting the risks. How is it any different than generations of football players staggering through retirement because of field injuries and head trauma? Ask anyone of them, and he'll tell you he'd do it all over again. If you're worried about it, alter the health-care system so you sign a waiver that says no health care for you if you use such-and-such chemical/biological technologies.
Next: The electronics problem
If Bonds doesn't make the HoF, then nobody even remotely suspected of steroid use (everyone who played) ought to.
That said, I don't agree that we should just allow professional athletes to do steroids or other performance enhancing drugs, even though they are adults and are free to balance the risk rewards for themselves. The reason is the millions of children (including my own) who look up to professional athletes and want to emulate them (ask Dean Kamen about that). We can't allow our kids to believe that PEDs are table stakes to any chance of becoming a professional athlete.
Besides, Brian, we Giants fans no longer need Bonds' exploits to make our franchise special. We've got two championships in three years. Giants are legit now, without Bonds and (mostly) without Melky.
I thought that Susan Slusser's article makes some good points about the conflicting opinions that will cloud the decisions. I also don't give the HoF that much credibility or weight in my judgment of whether a player was the best among his peers during his time in MLB.
I'm also a Giants fan who is glad that the 2010 and 2012 teams won the World Series, demonstrating that it takes a whole team effort and not just one player.
The focus of this column also makes me wonder what technologies current and future ballplayers will use to try to keep an edge as their bodies wear down.
I'm reading former major leaguer Doug Glanville's book, "The Game From Where I Stand" and it's a fascinating look at MLB from about 1997-2004. It also turns out that he studied engineering in college!
Steroids first hit in the 60s (Cortizone was used as a pain-killer/recovery agent for one year at De Matha circa 1964 until Coach Wooten realized it had allowed a player with a simple fracture to go back into a game because he felt no pain.)
Within a few years, I noticed football players at big-time high schools were getting huge. It rapidly got to where normal kids could not make those teams and players from the opponents could easily get trashed.
So, the motivation for the pre-professionals in the high schools who wanted big college scholarships and then became real professionals in the colleges taking payments and free uses of Mercedes and BMWs (backs) and Cadillacs (Linemen).
And, we all remember the East German Women(?) swimmers that destroyed a good set of American women swimmers. PBS has a good program about the health problems of the EG Swimmers.
I recall the slime ball reporters calling our swimmers crybabies when they complained that there was something wrong. So, really the sports reporters have been mostly ignoring this for 40 years. Somebody interviewed Mark Spitz at the 2008 Olympics and he detailed how athletes were using PEDs that were either not detectable or not yet banned. NBC did not run the interview. Obviously, would have hurt ratings and risked their Billion dollar event.
Assuming that many pitchers in the MLB were not doping, do you think they like having their life-time statistics were trashed by the juicers hitting about twice as many home-runs as they would have if they were honorable?
At some point, we will be able to build a mechanical arm with built in optical sensors that will be able to hit a homerun almost every time. Should we allow an MLB player who loses his arm to Cancer to get such an arm and then play? Also, it could be calibrated to throw from deep in the corner to one foot above the plate at about twice as fast as Roberto Clemente or Willie Mays. If so, do we allow someone who mysteriously got Flesh Eating bacteria in their arm to cut it off and replace it with such a cool little machine? Such arms might let average tennis players serve at 180 or 300 MPH.
Too bad, if the opponent or a ball boy or someone in the stands, is occasionally killed.
Might actually make tennis interesting to NASCAR fans.
My dad told me a story about a deaf linebacker that could read lips. He would get down on all fours and scamper back and forth while the other team was in the huddle so he could see the quarterback's lips. He was amazingly effective at 'guessing' where interior runs were going.
Now, let us modify our linebackers' helmet with a microphone and earplugs so they can listen in on the offense's huddle.
Clearly, you are on a slippery slope and you are gunning your engine going down hill.
I don't actually mean this to generate flames and angry responses, but to remind you that people with money can by expertise, medical, engineering and otherwise, that can change a sport into something entirely other.
I note that there are people smarter than me that can think up more clever things than I winged above.
WRT MLB: I would go back and cancel out every run scored and every RBI due to a a hit from known juicers and reset all pitchers' lifetime win-loss and ERA statistics. Certainly wipe the juicer's stats and certainly ban them from the HoF. Same as Cycling did with Lance Armstrong.
It is called Honor.


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Quibblo Writing Contest #19
For this contest, we're looking for good old-fashioned creative writing:
A popular video game company has just released its latest and greatest creation. But its 3-D virtual effects seem a little too real… and some actually are!
Give it an interesting title (don't include "Quibblo's Contest," "QC," or similar), and remember to:
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Please allow enough time to complete your writing. On May 28, we'll select three winners to showcase on the Quibblo home page. Ready? Go!
Deadline: 11:59 pm (EST), Sunday, May 26, 2013.
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It's All Uphill From Here
by Alastair Currie
Price: $2.99 USD. 77690 words.
Language: English. Published on May 2, 2013. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Bicycling.
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Start cycling again after a twenty-year break, lose weight, get fit. Then ride a thousand miles in nine days. Two middle-aged men, two bikes, one Bob. And an improbable number of cakes. What could possibly go wrong?


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Two British hospitals said they're cooperating with a police investigation into claims that a popular children's television host molested teenage girls on their premises.
The investigation into Jimmy Savile, who died last year, has dominated Britain's headlines since claims of sexual abuse were made by five women in a documentary aired by UK broadcaster ITV last week.
Those interviewed for the ITV film, titled "Exposed -- the Other Side of Jimmy Savile," gave detailed accounts of alleged sexual assaults by the TV host when they were as young as 14 or 15. One said she was raped by him at age 16.
Many more allegations have surfaced since the show aired, with London's Metropolitan Police now pursuing hundreds of separate lines of inquiry.
Two claims involve Leeds General Infirmary, a hospital in northern England where Savile spent time as a volunteer and charity supporter, a spokesman for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said in a statement. The host was famed for his charity fund-raising.
The trust said it was shocked by the claims and has no record of complaints about Savile's behavior.
"As a result of the TV documentary and subsequent media publicity we have, however, been contacted by two individuals, one of whom wishes to remain anonymous, about incidents said to have occurred in the 1970s," the statement said.
"Clearly this whole matter needs to be looked into fully and we will give every cooperation to the police, who are best placed to do so."
A second hospital, Stoke Mandeville, also said it was shocked by the serious allegations against Savile.
"We have been contacted by the police this week and are supporting them fully with their inquiries. If their findings suggest that we do need to take further action then we will do so," a statement said.


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- Mouth Watering (34)
- Balanced Sweetness (31)
- Good Texture (31)
- Natural Flavor (27)
- Fun (19)
- Diabetic's Salvation (1)
- Fantabulous (1)
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- Good Taste (1)
- More selection suger free (1)
- No suger (1)
- Pleasing (1)
- Sour (1)
- Sugar-free Is Best (1)
- Sweet Tasting (1)
- Yummy (1)
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- None (2)
- Too Sweet (2)
- Unnatural Flavor (2)
- Cause too much gas (1)
- Cures constipation (1)
- Messy (1)
- More flavor choices (1)
- None of the above (1)
- Not Sour At All (1)
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- Not enough (1)
- Not enough sf flavors (1)
- Not sour enough for me (1)
- Nothing To Complain About (1)
- Poor Texture (1)
- Red is bitter (1)
- To pricy (1)
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- Wish it was indv wrapped (1)
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Reviews of Sugar-Free Jelly Belly Sours 2.3 lb case
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Comments: I wish that there were more flavors. The initial taste is tangy then it backs off. I wish that it was tangier. Overall, I don't think that I'd order them again. The standard sugar-free Jelly Belly tastes better. |
Comments: I have been looking for something that was not chocolate..... More stores should carry Sugar Free Jelly Belly candies.. |
Comments: Sometimes I like to have a light snack after a meal. I have to avoid simple sugars because of my health. This gives me enough of that 'cheating' feeling without compromising my health. |
Comments: These are the best of the SUGARFREE candies |
Comments: Purchased the regular SF as well as the SF sours and am enjoying both. They're difficult to find in local stores, so buying the case was logical. It would be nice to be able to purchase individual flavors, too. I'd LOVE black licorice! |
Comments: I am always in search of good low carb food that isn't only Sugar-free limited to Sour but regular flavors as well. What a boon for diabetics. That would make life a little bit better [especially if they were sweetened with Truvia] with no aspertame. |
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Comments: I'm on a low carb diet and sugar free Jelly Belly candies are a nice treat. The sours are my favorite because I love sour things in general. My two "complaints" are that the carb count still seems rather high and that the variety of sour flavors is so minimal. I would love to see more variety in the sugar free line - ideally, all flavors would come in sugar free! |
Comments: I just wish there were a larger assortment of sugar-free sour flavors. |
Comments: When I'm looking for something that will wake me up, Sour Jelly Belly's do it. I was surprised how much flavor they had. Less than a handful and I'm satisfied. Great product!! |


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Due to cultural and blood ties, we usually look to the English-speaking world for political and social models for consideration and possible adoption. But the World Health Organization today rates the British 13th and the Canadians 30th in quality of health care, while the French system is ranked number one. Overall life expectancy is higher in France, and the life expectancy of French women is the second highest in the world, just behind Japan. Although it more closely approximates our own health care system than any other, probably because of cultural bias and linguistic barriers, we have largely ignored the French system for study and consideration.
French health care has some important features that are absent in the British and Canadian models, such as office-based medical practice, fee-for-service billing, freedom of choice in selecting health care providers regardless of the individual's personal income level, a public, private and not-for-profit hospital mix, private health insurance companies and patient copayments. The not-for-profit hospitals were formerly denominational institutions and make up 14 percent of all French hospitals. Performance indicators as well as public opinion surveys that measure patient satisfaction rate French health quality care higher than ours, substantially higher in some areas.
The major differences in the two systems mostly favor the French. In France, national health care covers practically everyone (more than 99 percent), while we still leave 50 million Americans without coverage. The prices for most elements of health care are lower in France — office visits, diagnostic and surgical procedures, hospital stays, prescription medicines, etc. But the volume of office visits, the number and length of hospital stays, procedures performed and medications dispensed per patient is higher over there. While France's health care costs are the fourth highest in the world, they are substantially lower (26 percent) than ours, although the French population is on average older.
An important feature of French health care is the sharing of patient records among providers, public and private. This dramatically reduces the mountains of paperwork and costs involved each time a patient sees a new provider or is referred to a specialist. The reported long waiting times for services in other countries with national health care systems — and not exactly uncommon, I might mention, in the U.S. — are reportedly rare in France.
The private sector of French health care is particularly active in surgery, performing 50 percent of all procedures, and in treating 60 percent of all cancer cases. France is definitely not the exclusive domain of "socialized medicine."
The French system has been in place and evolving for more than a century now and is funded by taxes on incomes of various kinds and levies on tobacco and alcohol.
Does all of this sound too good to be true? It might well be, but isn't it worth at least investigating? It is high time we ignore the protestations of the American Medical Association, GOP and American health insurance companies, cast aside our Gallic phobias, prejudices and cultural biases and evaluate the French national health care system with a dispassionate, objective eye.
What have we to lose?
George B. Reed, Jr. is retired from AT&T and a former history teacher in the Hamilton County school system. He lives in Fort Oglethorpe and can be reached at email@example.com or 706-858-3501.