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Israeli army kills seven Palestinians in under 24 hours
Both medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that five resistance fighters members of the Al-Qassam Brigades have been killed, with three others wounded in two Israeli air strikes early Wednesday morning.
Medics have confirmed that four of those killed were from the Jabalia refugee camp north of the Gaza Strip, while the fifth came from the southern city of Khan Younis. Three others were also wounded in the missile attack.
Eyewitnesses saw, a civilian car driving along Mawasi agricultural road in Khan Younis city. Two missiles were shot from an Israeli Apache helicopter directly at the vehicle. It is believed that those inside the car were killed instantly.
The Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza identified the victims as their own , and stated that the attack was a Israeli targeted assassination.The brigades said those killed were "field members" of the group.
A few minutes after the Mawasi attack, a second car was targeted while driving along the Khan Younis coastal road, witnesses confirmed.
Late on Tuesday night, an Islamic Jihad fighter was reportedly killed in Israeli fire near the Gaza-Israel border in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Medics identified the deceased as Zaki Abu Zaid, and said that another man was also injured in the attack. The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, confirmed that Abu Zaid was their member.
The Israeli army said that it had detected and killed Palestinian militants, who were allegedly attempting to plant explosive devices along the border.
These attacks follow on from yesterday's shooting of Palestinian farmer, Hasan Abu Sabt from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip who was killed by Israeli fire. Palestinians have farmland and homes adjacent to the border.
The Israeli army has been increasingly targeting Palestinian resistance groups since Hamas took control of Gaza in June 2007.
According to Palestinian sources, in the past three months , at least 200 Palestinians, including civilians, have been killed by the Israeli army.
Israel says its actions on Gaza are aimed at stopping the launching of Palestinian homemade shells onto nearby Israeli towns, which claimed the lives of two Israelis in 2007.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Lawmakers await feds' move to repair payday lending flaws
by Ted Carter
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The chairs of Mississippi's legislative committees with jurisdiction over payday loans concede the state's 2012 Check Cashing Act may need some repairs. But with the federal government set to take control of payday lending rules, doing the fixes now could be a waste of time, they say.
"I'm waiting to see what they do," said House Finance Committee Chairman Henry Zuber III, referring to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a three-year-old watchdog agency created by the Dodd Frank Wall Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Sen. Gary Jackson, chairman of the Senate Business and Financial Institutions Committee, said he expects the federal bureau "will take a fairly strong stance in the near future," perhaps as early as November.
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Of particular concern to consumer advocacy groups is a provision in Mississippi's 2012 Checking Cashing Act that established two tiers of loans, the first tier applying to loans of $250 or below and the other to loans that when combined with fees do not exceed $500. The lower tier allows a 14-day repayment period and the second a 30-day one.
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Joseph Ratzinger became Pope in 2005, following Jean-Paul II, after one of the Vatican's briefest decision-making conclaves in history – about 24 hours. Ratzinger had been John-Paul's right-hand man.
The German cardinal, reputedly austere, now took on the mantle of promoting the Catholic faith throughout the world at age 78. His detractors nicknamed him the Panzer, likening him to a Second World War tank.
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After a slow start, the Bulldogs have reeled off three consecutive wins and topped Thornton in dominating fashion 35-6 Oct. 17.
AURORA -- Eagle Ridge has to travel for its class 3A regional volleyball tournament.
The Warriors drew the 14th seed in the field and face 11th-seeded Coal Ridge and 26th-seeded St. Mary's Saturday. The team that wins two matches advances to the state 3A tournament in Denver next week.
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, will discuss how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money! Speaker Bio: Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, has spent 16 years as a marketing, product management, and busin...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Gridstore™, the leader in software-defined storage (SDS) purpose-built for Windows Servers and Hyper-V, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Gridstore™ is the leader in software-defined storage purpose built for virtualization that is designed to accelerate applications in virtualized environments. Using its patented Server-Side Virtual Controller™ Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender effect and accelerate applications Gridsto...
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As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, will discuss how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, senso...
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From Fiona Apple to Florence Welch, the indie music genre has always produced strong female role models with killer voices and knacks for songwriting. A particular female artist who has left an unmistakable mark on the indie music scene is Thao Nguyen of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.
Following a year-long hiatus, Thao hit the studio to write and record
We The Common
, her third full-length with the accompaniment of The Get Down Stay Down. Her most recent endeavor, however, was an early 2011 collaboration project with fellow female indie songstress Mirah (
Thao & Mirah
Looking at the timeline, the follow-up to the group's sophomore LP,
Know Better Learn Faster
, is well overdue. And after a quick glance at their latest production, the value of Thao's supplemental incarnation with Mirah is certainly established as it has led to fresh sonic experimentation on her latest, making the past three years well worth the wait.
Early last month, we were given a chance to speak with Thao who provided some insight on her year outside the studio, how she's settled into her authority as a musician, and how a longtime love 90s hip-hop and old time country music influenced her latest album.
So, you were off for a year, pretty much, right?
Yeah, I was essentially off. I had these radio live shows about once a month, but I was definitely not touring extensively.
How was that?
It was amazing. It was really nice to be a person.
Where did you spend the year?
I spent it in San Francisco. Which is great because I moved here years ago but I've been on tour for most of it so it's nice to become part of the city I live in.
After recording the collaboration with Mirah, how did it feel to be back in the studio with your band?
It felt great. It was a different experience. Recording a record with Mirah, we had a great time - it was sort of a shotgun wedding style. You know, we're in for a few days and we're out and the idea, from the inception, was for it to be very casual and loose. Not to say I'm...well, I hope I'm never that uptight. Doing something - more of my slow work - definitely requires more dedication. It's a different endeavor entirely because there's more resting on it. The record with Mirah, they were half her songs and half mine, and there was a different vibe to it - more freewheeling. It was a fun project, and we wanted that. This is more representative of myself and where I hope my career goes. It means more in a way because it's wrapped up in the trajectory of my music career.
As a seasoned artist, at what point after your short hiatus were you inspired to get back in the studio?
I think it was that I felt that I had something else to write about - that I felt compelled to try again, and I could have a journey to put myself out there. After a while, you forget how parts of it are quite uncomfortable- being vulnerable- and making something that you care a lot about and sort of just pushing it into the world and hoping people don't say mean things about it. It's challenging, but I was also really excited to get back to touring; to be better - to be a better musician, a more welcomed player and performer. Those are challenges and exhilirations that you can't get anywhere else. And I missed being in front of people. And I also thought I could do it a better way than I have. I had something to prove to myself. Which you know, still remains to be seen.
Looking at the album without it being released, how do you feel about it?
It's funny to say, because I haven't said it before, but I feel proud of it. I think that the part of the motivation and excitement of getting back in the studio and beginning the entire process again - I have the benefit of a few years of doing it now, and I have a level of gifts and concentration that I hadn't found before. I had the luxury of time to write. This time, to the best of my recollection, I was there the whole time and I can say that I tried as best I could.
How did the environment of San Francisco impact the sound of the album, or just the album altogether?
Mirah and I recorded in San Francisco, but this was the first full-length solo effort that I recorded in there - the players involved are friends of mine, friends that I've worked with, or they've guested on other recordings or live shows, so there's a heightened level of familiarity. The atmosphere was very relaxed and casual. Friends passed through; it was fun.
How does the mood compares to
Know Better Learn Faster
- it definitely seems a lot more settled and relaxed. How would you compare it?
I think that there were a few almost contradictory elements going into it, but it is more relaxed in a way that I think I've settled more into my authority, but there's a frenzy about it, and there's a sort of a rock quality that we definitely wanted to capture because I think that's what strengthens the live show that we've been trying to capture, and this is the most successful attempt thus far. There's a friskiness to it, and a restlessness, and an energy - a liveliness and optimism that feels different.
Did you pick up anything new from the collaboration with Mirah that may have carried over into this new album? In the song "City," it seems to have some of the Merrill Garbus tribal percussion - I noticed a few similarities like this throughout the record. Was this intentional?
No, not intentional. I think making that record definitely did influence me as far as the percussion, not just textually, but a tone in that song that was definitely influenced. Mirah sings on the record and I think she's an amazing songwriter. I know that both Merrill and Mirah have been big influences.
And the big duet on the album is "Kindness Be Conceived," which is pretty outstanding, is there a background story to that?
For the writing or the pairing?
Well I'm a huge old country fan and I wanted a song that borrowed elements of that and paid tribute and acknowledged the influence. And so I wanted a song with Appalachian harmonies and very bare bones old country-western kind of thing. My favorite line in that song is, "Kindness be conceived in the California light," and it's actually about a one night stand. It's how to be kind to one another when you're both - clearly people don't mean to hurt each other, but it doesn't mean that they won't. I think that that line came to me almost as a prayer. Just for people to take care of each other in one way or another. That's probably one of the more meaningful songs to me. They all mean something, of course, but that one hold a special spot for me. And then, Johanna [Newsom] sounds amazing on it. We met at a songwriting retreat for women songwriters called Fish Hook and I was juggling the song, I asked her, I had this pipedream that I wanted her to sing harmony on it. And so one night we just worked on it and then she agreed to record for it, which was very kind of her.
And you mention the old country vibe that goes on...it seems like that sort of rustic vibe carries out throughout a few songs.
Yeah, definitely. I've always been a fan and I've tried in my way to honor that. I've always loved banjo, mandolin, and bluegrass instruments. I don't necessarily play them in the traditional sense, but I wanted their sounds on the record. It's funny, there's definitely like an old country western vibe but then John Congleton and I, in the meetings before we started the record, we kind of bonded over our love of 90s hip hop. And I told him I wanted those beats, that kind of vibe, which I kept in mind while I was writing. I knew that these would all be, essentially, folk and country songs, sort of laid on top of hip-hop beats in a sense.
Any 90s hip hop in particular that you're a huge fan of?
Yeah. A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and I was listening to some early Outkast and some early Jay Z, and Black Sheep.
And did John [Congleton] have any other impact? How was it working with him?
Yeah, oh he's amazing. His ear, the sounds that he can get in the amount of time that you can refill your water bottle is incredible. And especially the sounds he gets from the drums and bass are truly awesome. Actually, anything. I just trust him completely. I trusted him completely to understand what we were going for and to be able apply that sonically and very justly as well. I think he has a great sense of song and he understands the structure of things. I know if he didn't think something was necessary he would be certain to tell me. He makes a lot of dirty jokes. But we made it through, so...
Just one final question we've been asking a lot of the artists we've talked to - what are some of your favorite albums that came out in 2012?
This year...well...I'm really embarrassed to tell you if I have heard things that have come out this year, but I'm trying to think is that lame? Yeah, there's some that are fresher than most. I don't know if I've heard anything that's come out this year. Only because I don't really know how to use the internet. I'm sorry man. I might have to get a subscription or something.
A subscription to internet?
Yes, do you know where I could get one?
There's guys that come through neighborhoods and knock on doors for that.
Listen, I bought a vacuum cleaner the other day, I don't know why they didn't offer me a two for one deal.
We The Common
is due out February 5th. You can pre-order it
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"Holy Roller"
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This past weekend, I was the hit of Ned's birthday party (naturally) by showing off my wicked sick Judo moves. I took a "junk Judo" self-defense class in college (taught by an ROTC sergeant who also happily showed me how to "decapitate Charlie with a shovel if you're ever caught in the jungle"), and surprisingly, I retained almost everything I was taught. Here are demonstrations of my most awesome Judo moves that I will happily pull on your ass, should you ever decide to cross me.
5. "Sacrifice Throw"
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Three more wicked sick moves after the jump! HAAAAAI-YAH!!
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BLOSSMAN IN HOT WATER OVER PITCH FOR ACADIAN SALESMAN Public Service Commissioner Jay Blossman can now officially be counted in the politicians-without-a-clue category. Blossman thinks it's perfectly OK for him to use a PSC-generated list of more than 200 transportation companies — businesses he's responsible for regulating — and then write a letter on agency stationery to those companies asking them to accept a sales meeting with his friend who sells a mobile technology product. Some of the companies were not too happy about Blossman's bone-headed and heavy-handed move, and promptly alerted Baton Rouge's Metropolitan Crime Commission. Now it's up to the state inspector general to determine whether Blossman's correspondence qualifies as an abuse of public office.
The friend that Blossman was pitching for is Nicholas Larussa, a new sales employee of Acadian Ambulance's Acadian Monitoring Services division. Larussa's sister apparently babysits Blossman's children. The Times-Picayune wrote, "Blossman said he was impressed with the technology when Larussa showed it to him and offered to write a letter to let people know about the product. ... He thought his letter did not encourage the motor carriers to do business with Louisiana, but only encouraged them to accept an appointment if Larussa called. He said that if the law prohibits that type of letter, 'the law needs to be changed.'"
In regards to Larussa, Acadian Ambulance Vice President Tyron Picard told the Picayune: "In retrospect, the fact that we had a junior salesperson who was probably not very experienced, coupled with the fact with not having a complete understanding of dealing with the governmental arena, I'm willing to chalk that up to youthful inexperience and aggressiveness on his part that he has probably learned a good lesson on."
PINAC NOT RUNNING AGAINST BOUSTANY Local Democratic Party officials had been looking to former state Rep. Gil Pinac as their go-to candidate in challenging incumbent Republican Congressman Charles Boustany this fall. Pinac, who lost a bid last year for state Senate, is a Crowley Democrat in the mold of former 7th District Congressmen Chris John and John Breaux. However, at a caucus meeting last Saturday of party officials from across the 7th District, Pinac broke the news that he would not be entering the race. "He told us he made a decision that this wasn't the right time for him to run," says John Bernhardt, chairman of the Lafayette Parish Democratic Party Executive Committee. Bernhardt is still holding out hope that a Democrat will emerge to run against Boustany, but says "as of this moment there's no candidate." Pinac could not be reached for comment.
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"First and foremost, in these kinds of issues, it's the state and the relationship you have with your state that really determines where you ought to go," Craig told the D.C.-based publication. "That was certainly my case. The Senate itself wasn't going to judge me. I would allow the citizens of my state to do so. And there is still strong support there."
Craig was arrested last year and pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from an undercover male officer in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. He then tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea, blaming his "wide stance." After initially saying he would resign, Craig decided to stay in office, citing support from Idahoans. Last month he announced that he would not seek re-election and claims that decision was made before his "playing footsies" controversy.
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"We were looking for a big location so that we could showcase our large furniture assortment," said Allison Boer, district manager of the company. "We'll have consumable goods for the customers here in Bakersfield,"
Representatives from the company held their ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning, and even brought a special gift for the community.
Boer also presented a $1,500 check to Sandrini Elementary School, and said the new store will bring a large selection of products to a new community.
The new store is located in White Crossing Lane at 4751 White Lane, replacing the one located at 3580 Wilson Road.
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