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Obamacare: 3-Years-Old and Still Growing ... - Yahoo! Finance

Just like a typical three-year-old, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) is undergoing a period of rapid growth and development. For those who still cling to the nostalgic notion that once legislation is passed and signed the lawmaking stops, think again. The single largest piece of regulation ever passed has grown 10-fold in its short life, to more than 20,000 pages standing seven feet tall,? since the President signed it into law on March 23, 2010.

Some of the mandates, such as covering preexisting conditions in kids under 19 years old, took effect immediately, while many others continue to be phased in, with the most pronounced changes set to come at the start of 2014. As that day fast approaches, the flow of anecdotes and concerns seems to be mounting.

Just today, the Wall Street journal is reporting that insurers are forecasting premium increases of up to 50% for some families, while Investor's Business Daily compiled a list of 10 Disturbing Facts About Obamacare, most of which have to do with unforeseen costs, while all of them point to the simple fact that this monstrous law is still one great big pile of unknowns.

"We're nowhere near the implementation of the Affordable Care Act," says Paul Keckley, Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, in the attached video. Putting aside price and the many other practical questions that surround the law for a moment, Keckley says the creation of State-run insurance exchanges and the expansion of medicaid are the two major logistical obstacles that still need to be cleared. "States have to make a calculated bet as to whether, in the long-term, expansion of medicaid is a good thing or a bad thing."

As for the mass market impacts and the impact Obamacare will have on businesses large and small, Keckley says "there's a suspicion on the part of employers that the law doesn't really bend the cost curve and it doesn't really fundamentally restructure the system."

With just nine months until full implementation, a lot is still unknown. Even nationally renowned experts such as Keckley concede there's a high degree of mystery that shrouds this ever-growing body of law. For example, he says the jury is still out over whether paying doctors for outcomes (results) instead of volume (procedures), reduces costs.

"We consider the law to be a work in progress," Keckley says. "We know that it will increase access (by 29-32 million people), but we don't know if it will reduce costs simultaneously. That's the big bet."

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Government Should Not Be Involved in the Marriage Business

By Steve Keating ORLANDO, Florida, March 20 (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy's decision to skip the Arnold Palmer Invitational surprised the tournament host, who expressed his disappointment on Wednesday that the world number one was not at Bay Hill this week. The 83-year-old Palmer said he had jokingly suggested he might break McIlroy's arm if he did not show up but did not try to force the young Northern Irishman into making an appearance. "Frankly, I thought he was going to play, and I was as surprised as a lot of people when he decided he was not going to play," said Palmer. ...

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Guantanamo hunger strike is growing, military says

By Jane Sutton

MIAMI (Reuters) - More prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have joined a growing hunger strike that their lawyers say reflects hopelessness about their prospects of ever being freed from the detention center in Cuba.

Twenty-four captives were on a hunger strike as of Tuesday evening and eight of those had lost enough weight that doctors were force-feeding them liquid nutrients thorough tubes inserted into their noses and down into their stomachs, said Navy Captain Robert Durand, a spokesman for the detention operation.

The detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in eastern Cuba holds 166 men captured in counterterrorism operations. Nearly all have been held for 11 years without charge.

The number of hunger strikers has grown from 14 on Friday, Durand said. The military counts prisoners as hunger strikers if they have skipped at least nine consecutive meals.

Two hunger strikers were hospitalized with dehydration, he said.

The Obama administration has cleared more than half the Guantanamo prisoners for release or transfer, but Congress has blocked efforts to close the detention camp and made it increasingly difficult to resettle Guantanamo prisoners.

Many are Yemenis whom the United States will not repatriate at this time because of instability in that country.

Periodic hunger strikes have occurred since shortly after the prison opened in January 2002.

More than 50 lawyers representing Guantanamo prisoners sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last week urging him to help end the current hunger strike. They said the participants' health had deteriorated alarmingly, and that some had lost more than 20 or 30 pounds (9 to 14 kilograms).

The lawyers said hopes were dwindling that the Obama administration would keep its promise to close the camp. They said more than 100 detainees began a widescale hunger strike early last month to protest the confiscation of letters, photographs and legal mail, and the rough handling of Korans during searches of their cells.

Durand called the allegations "outright falsehoods and gross exaggerations."

"The claims of a mass hunger strike and an incident in which the Koran was mishandled are simply untrue," he said. "We take extraordinary care to respect the Koran and categorically deny any claims of abuse, desecration or mishandling."

(The eight paragraph of the story has been corrected to show the prison opened in 2002)

(Reporting by Jane Sutton; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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Food & Drink in Montana | Seattle's Travels

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The thing about food and drink in Montana is that it is pretty much unexpected. Sure, you might imagine a nice steak when you think about it, but the Montana culinary scene has so much more to offer.

From back-country cooking to modern microbreweries, here are a few of my favourite Montana culinary experiences:

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My first dining experience in Montana took place in a small cafe in Missoula, called Catalyst. We sat by the window, ordered our food and chatted as Led Zeppelin quietly played in the background. Given that I was wearing a Zeppelin shirt at the time, I was smitten before the food even arrived.

I only ordered a (giant) Caesar salad, but was really impressed by the other dishes that appeared on the table, like the?Tomato Lime Tortilla Soup, topped with tortilla chips, jack cheese & cilantro. And, bread. So much bread.

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After lunch in Missoula, we continued on to the Swan Mountains where we would be spending the night with Yurtski. I was fully expecting a basic camping meal like grilled hot dogs or baked beans, but I was totally unprepared for the four course meal that graced our?taste buds.

Here we were in a yurt in the middle of nowhere in the back-country mountains; no running water, no electricity?but we were presented with a full dinner that put most restaurants to shame, all whipped up on a simple camping stove.

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We started with fried pork and?peanuts?topped with cilantro in a red cabbage wrap, which blew me away. I thought that alone was the entire meal and was fully satisfied.

When our guide casually said that the Pad Thai was on its way, I honestly thought he was making a joke that he had ordered Thai delivery.

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It wasn?t until I turned around to see him?boiling?noodles ten minutes later that I realized he was serious. Have I ever mentioned that Pad Thai is my favourite?

We continued to eat little pork fried appetizers between the dishes, so by the time dessert came I could hardly even look at the steaming berries that topped the richest chocolate cake I have ever tasted.

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Whitefish brought on a whole new set of starters and appetizers, with a table full of choices at Tupelo Grille.

There was Candied bacon wrapped shrimp toasted coconut, kaffir lime coconut cream, sweet bourbon street chili sauce served on crisp bibb lettuce.

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There were?Fried green tomatoes dredged in buttermilk and cornmeal flour topped with sweet roasted red pepper cream and goat cheese.

And, there was?Shrimp & crawfish cakes laced with roasted red pepper cream and garnished with a spicy Thai cucumber salad.

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A quick breakfast at Base Camp Cafe (not even listed online anywhere) ?in Columbia Falls proved to be the best morning meal of the entire trip.

I ordered a large tea and an enormous plate of?Belgian?style waffles covered in mixed?wild berries?and cream. DE. LISH.

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I am a beer girl and I make a point of tasting different flavours from all over the world. I was fairly excited to taste some beer before I even arrived in Montana, knowing that there were so many local microbreweries to choose from.

I had the chance to order a number of pints from different restaurants, but really enjoyed our visit to Desert Mountain Brewing, which had literally just opened its doors a week earlier.

We sampled a stout, IPA and Amber. My favourite was the Amber.

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Dinner at the Double Arrow Resort offered a selection of classic meals with their own spin on the arrangement.

I ordered a Tuscan Chicken, which was a breast of chicen with a roasted yellow tomato sauce, artichoke hearts, Kalamata Olives, served with white bean Cassoulet.

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Don?t tell anyone, but we also spoiled ourselves with an entire dessert platter split between three people. Shhh.

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To end this off, I present you with my new favourite dessert; the bread pudding in a hot butter rum sauce.

We decided to share this cake among the table, but I went into some sort of strange dessert shock after my first bite. I wanted the entire thing to myself and declared it better than steak. I will go back to Whitefish, even if just for that cake alone!

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Adults worldwide eat almost double daily recommended amount of sodium

Mar. 21, 2013 ? Seventy-five percent of the world's population consumes nearly twice the daily recommended amount of sodium (salt), according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 2013 Scientific Sessions.

Global sodium intake from commercially prepared food, table salt, salt and soy sauce added during cooking averaged nearly 4,000 mg a day in 2010.

The World Health Organization recommends limiting sodium to less than 2,000 mg a day and the American Heart Association recommends limiting sodium to less than 1,500 mg a day.

"This study is the first time that information about sodium intake by country, age and gender is available," said Saman Fahimi, M.D., M.Phil., lead author and a visiting scientist in the Harvard School of Public Health's epidemiology department in Boston, Mass. "We hope our findings will influence national governments to develop public health interventions to lower sodium."

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the world; excess sodium intake raises blood pressure. High blood pressure is one of the major contributors to the development of cardiovascular disease.

Among women and men, average sodium intake exceeded healthy levels in almost all countries, researchers said. Kazakhstan had the highest average intake at 6,000 mg per day, followed by Mauritius and Uzbekistan at just less than 6,000 mg per day.

Kenya and Malawi had the lowest average intake at about 2,000 mg per day. In the US, the average intake was about 3,600 mg a day.

One hundred eighty-one of 187 countries, representing 99 percent of the world's population, exceeded the World Health Organization's recommended sodium intake of less than 2,000 mg a day; and 119 countries, representing 88 percent of the world's population, exceeded this recommended intake by more than 1,000 mg a day. All countries except Kenya exceeded the American Heart Association recommended sodium intake of less than 1,500 mg a day.

The researchers analyzed 247 surveys of adult sodium intake to estimate sodium intake, stratified by age, gender, region and nation between 1990 and 2010 as part of the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases Study, which is an international collaborative study by 488 scientists from 303 institutions in 50 countries around the world. .

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Pentagon ponders Gitmo overhaul amid growing prisoner unrest

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A U.S. Army guard stands ready in a "pod" inside the Camp 6 detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station Oct. 2, 2007 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Modeled on maximum security prisons in the United States, Camp 5 and Camp 6 allow easier observation of detainees with fewer guards.

By Michael Isikoff, NBC News

The Pentagon is considering plans for a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards -- as part of an ambitious project recommended by the top general in charge of its operations, officials tell NBC News. ???

The proposed spending spree comes amid mounting signs of unrest among Guantanamo detainees that lawyers say is threatening their? lives. U.S. military officials confirmed Wednesday that the number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo has more than tripled in the last two weeks -- from 7 to 25 -- and that eight of them are being force fed through tubes. Defense lawyers said in a letter to Congress this week they have gotten reports that ?over two dozen men have lost consciousness.?

U.S. military officials denied any lives were in danger but acknowledged that resistance and frustration among the detainees is growing, a development that a senior general said is because they are ?devastated? that President Barack Obama?s pledge to shut down the facility has not been fulfilled.

?They had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed,? said Gen. John Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, when asked about the hunger strikes during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. ?They were devastated, apparently? when the president backed off -- at least their perception -- of closing the facility.


?He said nothing about it in his inauguration speech,? Kelly continued, referring to President Obama. ?He said nothing about it in his State of the Union speech. He has said nothing about it. He's not -- he's not restaffing the office that? looks at closing the facility.?

White House officials say they remain committed to closing Guantanamo but have been blocked from doing so by Congress, leading officials to close the small State Department office charged with finding new homes for the detainees. At the same time, Kelly ?- who took over as Southcom commander last year -- began laying the groundwork for a substantial overhaul of Guantanamo, testifying that many of the buildings there are ?falling apart.?

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A Guantanamo detainee, center, is escorted by U.S. military personnel on the grounds of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, in this May 15, 2007, file photo reviewed by U.S. Department of Defense Official.

?Gitmo seems to be the one place they don?t care about spending money,? said David Remes, a defense lawyer who represents detainees, noting that the plans for the overhaul are moving forward even as the sequester is forcing costs and layoffs throughout the government.

?They will spare no expense to keep these men there rather than bring them to the United States.?

Guantanamo is already considered the country?s most expensive prison per capita by far, with an operating budget this year of nearly $177 million, which means that taxpayers are paying more than $1 million for the care and maintenance of the 166 detainees.

But Lt. Cmdr. Ron Flanders, a spokesman for the Southern Command, told NBC News that Kelly has recommended substantial new spending that includes nearly $100 million slotted to build new barracks for the 848 guards stationed at the facility. The current guard barracks are plagued by mold, he said.

In addition, Flanders said, Kelly has signed off on construction projects that include:

- a new $12 million dining hall for the troops;

- a new $11.2 million hospital and medical units for the detainees;

- a $9.9 million ?legal meeting complex? where lawyers can meet their detainee clients;

- a $10.8 million ?communications network facility? to store data, including computer records and tapes of interrogations, which has been required by a federal court order.

All these projects have been signed off by Kelly in the last few months and been forwarded to the Pentagon, where they are being reviewed by budget officials in Secretary Chuck Hagel?s office, Flanders said.

At the same time, Flanders said, the operations budget for Guantanamo has already increased substantially this year with the construction of a $40 million fiber optic cable being built from south Florida to the facility in Cuba. The cable is needed to improve Internet access, thereby allowing officials to have improved live video feeds of the military commission proceedings of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

In his testimony, Kelly emphasized that the costs of running Guantanamo are substantially higher because of its remote location at a U.S. military base on the eastern tip of Cuba.

?Everything that?s built down there is at least twice as expensive,? said Kelly. ?So a ten-penny nail costs 20 cents. So, everything is more expensive. So we have to take care of the barracks. We have to replace the dining hall?It?s literally falling apart.

?And there?s other projects?none of them have to do with creature comforts for the detainees. They?re already living humanely and comfortably, acknowledging the fact they?re in jail.?

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Chicken lays giant egg with another egg inside it

Chicken lays giant egg: A hen in a village in China's?Guizhou Province has reportedly lain a nearly half-pound egg that had another egg inside it. How often does this happen?

By Eoin O'Carroll,?Staff / March 19, 2013

There are fairy tales of hens laying golden eggs. But few if any about a hen laying three eggs. Three eggs in one that is.

A hen in a small village in China's Guizhou Province has apparently lain a remarkable egg.

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According to New Tang Dynasty Television, the egg weighed almost half a pound. Inside were two yolks, plus another fully formed egg, making for a three-yolker.

?I?m more than 80 now, but I?ve never seen eggs like this before,? Ms. Yang, the hen's owner, told NTD.

This is not the first time this particular hen has reportedly lain a giant egg. Yang says she's dropped?five oversized ova in the past three weeks, and she speculated that the eggs have something to do with the hen's diet of rice, which the hen prefers to corn. ?

Is this the biggest egg ever measured? Oddly enough, the Guinness Book of World Records created their?Worlds Largest Chicken Egg category only recently, in 2011. That was in response to a hen in Yell County, Ark., laying an egg that, according to CNN,?weighed 5.4 ounces and measured 3 1/2 inches long.?

This record was reportedly topped a year later by?Franciscana, a hen in Colombia who reportedly laid an egg weighing 8.6 ounces, which would have made it even bigger than the Chinese hen's egg.?

For what it's worth, the record for the smallest egg ever laid goes to a hen in West Virginia?in 2011. Her egg weighed just over a tenth of an ounce, and was about the size of a penny.?

But what about the egg inside the egg? How rare is that?

Like almost everything on the Internet, this video might, of course, be a hoax. But eggs-within-eggs are not unheard of in nature.?This 2008 video from the New Scientist magazine explains how Matryoshka eggs are formed.?Basically, abnormal contractions in the oviduct push the egg back up the hen's oviduct and into the ovary, where it becomes surrounded by another egg.

An egg curator at the British Natural History Museum?describes this?as "a relatively rare occurrence." But if you do ever see an egg inside another egg, at least you now know which came first.

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Spacecraft spots graves of twin moon probes

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LROC NAC stereo-derived topographic map of the GRAIL Impact area -- the map is 8,400 meters wide, north is up. The image was released on Tuesday.

By Mike Wall
Space.com

An eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft has spotted the tiny craters two moon probes created when they crashed intentionally into the lunar surface last year.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a series of photographs of the two 16.5-foot-wide (5 meters) craters, which mark where the space agency's?twin Grail probes?ended their gravity-mapping mission, and their operational lives, on Dec. 17.

"It was really fun to find the craters," Mark Robinson of Arizona State University, principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter?Camera (LROC), said Tuesday?during a press conference at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

It's a bit of a surprise that the LROC team was able to find the craters at all, Robinson added. LRO orbits the moon at an altitude of about 100 miles (160 kilometers), and the craters are small, nondescript features on a body riddled with impact scars. [Grail Probes' Final Moments (Video)]

The two Grail spacecraft ? known as Ebb and Flow ? slammed into a mountain near the lunar north pole at 3,771 mph (6,070 km/h), striking the surface about 20 seconds apart. They were running out of fuel and were bound to crash at some point, so the Grail team brought them down in a controlled fashion away from areas of historical importance such as the Apollo landing sites.

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The twin GRAIL spacecraft impacted the moon on Dec. 17, 2012. LROC imaged the impact craters this Feb. 28, showing them both to be about 5 meters in diameter. Upper panels show the area before the impact; lower panels after impact. Arrows point to crater locations.

The Grail craters first showed up in LROC photos from January, but images taken on Feb. 28 show them in much greater detail. Robinson and his team used these later photos to produce a topographic map of the impact zone, which was named after the late NASA astronaut Sally Ride,?who had led Grail's educational MoonKAM project before her death last July.

This map revealed that the two craters are separated by about 7,250 feet (2,210 m) in straight-line distance and 985 feet (300 m) in altitude, researchers said. Surprisingly, the crashes ejected material that appears darker than the surrounding lunar dirt.

"Fresh impact craters on the moon?are typically bright, but these may be dark due to spacecraft material being mixed with the ejecta," Robinson said in a statement. This material may be residual fuel left in the probes' lines, or bits of their carbon-fiber bodies, he added.

LRO also managed to observe the immediate aftermath of the Dec. 17 Grail impacts after performing some precision maneuvering, team members announced today.

LRO didn't get any images of the actual crashes, which occurred in the dark. But its ultraviolet imaging spectrograph did see emissions from mercury and atomic hydrogen in the ejected plumes when they rose high enough to reach sunlight.

"This gives insight into how volatile material is transported around the moon," LRO chief scientist John Keller, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a statement. "It gives us a data point that helps constrain models of volatile transport, especially for models that describe how volatile material can get transported from warm to cold areas on the moon."

The analysis of the Grail impact plumes is ongoing, researchers added.

The $496 million?Grail mission?? short for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory ? launched in September 2011. Ebb and Flow arrived at the moon about three months later, then raced around Earth's satellite in tandem, mapping out its gravity field in unprecedented detail.

The probes' measurements have allowed scientists to create the best-ever gravity map of any celestial body, Grail scientists say. And that map is getting better all the time, as researchers continue to analyze the data Ebb and Flow gathered in their last weeks and months.

The twin probes, which were each about the size of a washing machine, zipped around the moon at an average altitude of just 7 miles (11 km) in their final days.

"They dedicated their existence to science," Grail principal investigator Maria Zuber of MIT said during Tuesday's news conference, which also revealed an updated lunar gravity map. "Their demise allowed us to map the moon at a very low altitude that enabled the high-resolution maps that you see today."

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Editorial: Tech is a flock of starlings

DNP Editorial Tech is a flock of starlings

You've seen the videos -- thousands of starlings flocking in the sky to swirl and surge across wide, cloudless backdrops. The beauty of their coordinated motion is stunning. The phenomenon is expressively called murmuration.

There might be purpose to starling choreographies, but if so, it is movement without destination. The flock shapes and re-shapes itself continuously. Doing so makes preying on the flock difficult, but beyond that, the motivation of these group flights is ineffable. If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity. The science behind murmuration extends the analogy even further.

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Jelly Bean update coming soon to a Droid 4 near you

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Those of you rocking a Droid 4 might want to gather round at this point. Seems Verizon has approved a pretty special software update for the QWERTY slider that will bump it up to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and all the goodness that comes with it. 

The rollout hasn't actually got underway yet, nor do we know exactly when it will. But, support documentation over on the Verizon website confirms the bump to Jelly Bean so Droid 4 owners will soon be able to experience that buttery smoothness of Project Butter and of course, Google Now. 

Aside from bumping up to Android 4.1, the update package will also include some device specific improvements. These include improved voice and data connectivity, improvements to mobile hotspot connectivity, and the removal of the pre-loaded MOG and Sling applications. 

Droid 4 owners will naturally be excited by this, so be sure to head on down to the Droid 4 forums to share it with us all. 

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State must prove 'MC' Hameed's dismissal was lawful - Minivan News

State must prove ?MC? Hameed?s dismissal was lawful: Civil Court thumbnail

The Civil Court has ruled that it is the state?s?responsibility?to prove that former head of police intelligence Chief Superintendent ?MC? Hameed?s dismissal was lawful and in accordance with the constitution.

The Police Disciplinary Board dismissed Hameed from his position over allegations he provided confidential information to an opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) report written by the former government?s Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam, and National Security Advisor Ameen Faisal.

Local media claimed the decision was made by the Disciplinary Board on allegations that the three officers had ?worked for the political benefit of a certain party? using their police roles.

Hameed filed a lawsuit in the Civil Court against the Maldives Police Service (MPS) on August 25, claiming that his dismissal from the institution was unlawful.

?The [judge?s] ruling is in reference to the state?s attorney ?holding onto witnesses? who would provide testimony regarding my dismissal in which I was sacked unlawfully. This is not the final verdict,? Hameed told Minivan News today.

?The MPS believe they have the privilege of not falling under general employment regulations because they are a separate entity,? he added.

Speaking previously to Minivan News Hameed stated, ?I have noted that the dismissal was against the constitution and the Police Act. We have noted many articles that were violated in the dismissal.?

Judge Mariyam Nihayath, presiding over the Civil Court hearing, ruled in favor of Hameed?s lawyer?s argument that it is indeed the responsibility of the state to prove Hameed?s dismissal was legal.

Nihayath explained that all citizens are guaranteed the fundamental right to employment and if that right was withheld, it must be in accordance with Article 16 of the constitution, according to local media.

Article 16 guarantees the ?rights and freedoms? enumerated in the constitution for all citizens ? including employment ? are ?subject only to such reasonable limits [as] prescribed by a law? and these limits must be ?demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society?.

When asked about today?s Civil Court ruling, Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Hassan Haneef instead referred to the Criminal Court case being brought against Hameed by the police.

?The case is being investigated and has been sent to the Prosecutor General?s office. You?ll have to ask them if they have enough supporting evidence,? Haneef told Minivan News.

Prosecutor General?s (PG) Office Media Official?Hussain Nashid confirmed to Minivan News that the PG had received the case against Hameed ?last November or December? but was ?not sure? if the civil court ruling would have any bearing on the state?s criminal court case.

Hameed also confirmed that the MPS previously filed the criminal case against him with the PG?s office, but did not know of any further developments in this regard.

?I have not yet received a summons [to appear in court], so I guess the case is still pending,? stated Hameed.

The Police Disciplinary Board also relieved Superintendent Ibrahim Adhnan of duty and announced it was demoting Superintendent ?Lady? Ibrahim Manik to Chief Inspector of Police, removing the disciplinary badge on his uniform, in June 2012.

Hameed, Adhnan and Manik were among only a few police senior officers who did not join the events of February 7, which saw mutinying police hand out riot gear to opposition demonstrators and launch an all-out assault on the main military headquarters.

Hameed?s arrest and detention

In June 2012, Police arrested Hameed over allegations he had contributed to the MDP?s report into the controversial transfer of power on February 7, the publication of which was derided by the government as an ?act of terrorism?.

Following reports that police who cooperated with the Ameen-Aslam report were being rounded up and detained, police initially denied allegations of a ?witch hunt? and issued a statement accusing the media of ?circulating baseless and false reports?. However court warrants for the arrest of Hameed and Staff Sergeant Ahmed Naseer were subsequently leaked.

The Criminal Court arrest warrant stated that Hameed was accused of ?misusing? or leaking information acquired through his position for ?the political gain of a particular group?, and participating in the compilation of the ?misleading? Ameen-Aslam [MDP] report, which undermines ?the public?s respect for the security services.?

It justified his detention on the grounds that Hameed might influence witnesses and attempt to get rid of evidence as ?others are suspected of involvement in the case.?

Police issued a statement that day confirming that Hameed had been arrested on charges of leaking ?important information collected by the Maldives Police Services intelligence related to national security? as well as providing ?untrue and false information? intended to benefit a specific [political] party, which could pose a threat to national security and create ?divisions between the police and the public.?

Hameed?s actions were in violation of the Police Act, the statement insisted.

Hameed was held for five days following his arrest. The Criminal Court?s decision to detain Hameed was appealed by his family in the High Court, which ruled that there was no grounds to rule an extension of his detention was unlawful at the time.

The Criminal Court extended his detention period to five days before releasing him on the grounds that it did ?not believe the detention should be extended any further,? just a few hours after the High Court upheld its decision to keep him detained.

Hameed?s lawyer Ismail Visham argued during the High Court hearing that his client had been subjected to discrimination.

Visham told the court that there were police officers accused of more serious crimes who had not been detained, alleging that in one instance, a senior colleague presently stood accused of attempting to rape a woman.

He further contended that the Criminal Court judge had extended Hameed?s detention period not based on police evidence, but on the judge?s own view. Visham contended that Hameed had therefore lost the right to respond to the accusations against him.

In response, the state attorney said that Hameed was accused not of a disciplinary matter but a criminal offence, and argued that the Criminal Court judge had declared Hameed a threat to society because police told the judge he might seek to ?intimidate witnesses? and ?destroy evidence?.

Following his detention, the family of Chief Superintendent Hameed expressed concern over his detention and noted that he was widely respected in the force as ?a man of principle?. He has been in the service for over 17 years and has a masters in policing, intelligence and counter-terrorism.

Following the raid and extrajudicial dismantling of the MDP?s protest site at Usfasgandu on May 29, Hameed tweeted: ? Called a ?baaghee? [traitor] on the road twice today. Rightly so when our own actions are unjustifiable and thuggery like!?

After his dismissal, Hameed tweeted: ?Ayan: Daddy, why were you fired from your job? My response: Because I did not join the bad guys.


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94% Barbara

All Critics (63) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (4)

The movie examines the possibility of maintaining one's humanity in a truly oppressive society.

Hoss, wearing her blond hair pulled back tight, and wearing an expression of inscrutable melancholy, gives a performance that doesn't feel like a performance at all.

The occasional ravings of the patients, ringing off the walls in Petzold's measured quiet, provide an appropriate backdrop to the heroine's need for freedom, yet the movie's politics never trump its humanity.

This is well-trod ground for Petzold, but never has it been so fully realized, so palpable, as in "Barbara."

Hoss is fantastic. Barbara is ice cold at the start, understandably so. Yet Hoss makes her sympathetic.

[Leaves] you drained and horrified.

That sense of nervous dislocation that the viewer feels in the first few scenes - Where am I? Who is this person? Is she friend or foe? - efficently evokes the muted terror that its characters feel.

Petzold renders Communist oppression in a provocatively muted manner.

Stories of characters like Barbara continue to have meaning, even in a "free" society.

Engrossing Cold War thriller and love story set in East Germany in 1980.

In short, the failures in storytelling detract from the film, despite its sensitivities, its subtleties and its final payoff of personal sacrifice.

A meticulously crafted drama in which the depiction of character, place and circumstance evolves slowly and with intrigue, Barbara is gripping cinema

This well acted political melodrama, set during the Cold War, is Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Hoss' outstanding performance is a deep well of subtle yet unmistakable motives and reactions.

A crafty filmmaker, Petzold gives us information in increments. During the first half of his movie, which he co-wrote, we are all but left to our own devices; yet it is fascinating, and appropriate.

Worth seeing ... both for Petzold's singular aesthetic and for Hoss, who as usual is a riveting presence.

A well-observed, compelling, and evocative character piece, haunted by the ghosts of Germany's recent past.

Feels like total immersion into the sights, stresses, and the subtle solidarity among middle-class professionals living in the workers' paradise that Petzold's parents fled.

[R]esides somewhere in an unsatisfying borderland between drama and thriller, never quite catching fire as either...

A superbly crafted low-boil drama that gets its hooks into you the old-fashioned way, through character, and highlights the difficulties and cost of living by principles.

Subtly intriguing and ambiguous, it's filled with suspicion and subterfuge.

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Zimbabweans cast votes on new constitution

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai cast his vote in a one-day referendum Saturday on a new constitution that all main political parties have backed, urging supporters to accept the draft document that will curb presidential powers.

Tsvangirai, thronged by supporters at a junior high school south of Harare, said a 'Yes' vote marked a new turning point and "and one of the most important historical steps" for the southern African nation. He said it paved the way for a new chapter of the rule of law.

His supporters who have been killed in political violence over the past decade "will rest in peace because this is the most important stage we have been fighting for," Tsvangirai said. "I hope everyone will exercise their vote as a preliminary step to free and fair elections."

Full scale presidential and parliamentary elections are slated for around July to end a shaky coalition government formed by regional leaders after the last violent and disputed national polls in 2008.

Officials said polling was busy in populous districts after voting stations opened at 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) across the country. Small knots of voters turned out early in remote areas and less populated or wealthier suburbs.

The proposed constitution reduces the entrenched powers of Zimbabwe's president and includes a range of democratic reforms demanded by regional mediators in Zimbabwe's decade-long political and economic crisis.

The voting day was announced exactly a month ago, and critics say voters were not given enough time to study the constitutional proposals in detail. About 9,400 voting stations have been set up and 12 million ballot papers have been printed. Results are expected within five days.

But Abigail Punungwe, a young mother with a baby on her back in a line at one voting station in Harare, said she hadn't read the 170-page draft constitution "but everyone is saying we must vote for it."

Elections monitors say printed copies were woefully inadequate in the two main local languages. Many rural Zimbabweans don't speak or read English. Monitors also pointed to only 200 braille copies being produced for the country's 40,000 blind people.

But cash shortages and administrative setbacks aside, voters in lines over 200 meters (300 yards) long in Harare waited quietly to cast their ballots. Cumbersome voters' lists were not used. The nation has 6.6 million registered voters, but on Saturday all Zimbabweans over the age of 18 carrying a valid citizens' identification document can vote during more than 12 hours of polling. Polling stations using indelible finger ink on the hands of those who have already voted will stay open later into the evening if voters are still in line at the closing time.

Munganyi Nyarai, a polling officer in the western Harare township of Mbare, said more young people voted early at her post than in usual elections. Voting was running quickly and smoothly but some people in the line were turned away because they had not regularized their citizenship status and were still classified as "alien" Zimbabwe residents. Voters were made to turn off mobile phones as a security precaution to stop them from taking photographs inside polling booths.

Since Tsvangirai, 61, the former opposition leader, founded his Movement for Democratic Change party four previous elections have been marred by violence and alleged vote-rigging blamed mostly on the ZANU-PF party of longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe, 89.

The draft constitution reduces presidential powers to pass authoritarian decrees and paves the way for a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission on past violence and human rights violations.

It also strengthens the bill of rights to protect all Zimbabweans from "torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment" that would be enforced by a new Constitutional Court with powers above the main existing highest court of appeal, the Supreme Court.

In urging supporters to vote 'Yes,' Mugabe's party says the draft recognizes as irreversible the seizure of thousands of white-owned commercial farms which have since 2000 been handed over to blacks. Black empowerment programs and the taking of control of foreign-owned mines and businesses by locals would also be irreversible.

Mugabe's party says the draft honors black guerrilla fighters who ended colonial rule after a seven-year bush war with white-led troops of the former colony of Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was known before independence in 1980.

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The home was chosen by ?Rocky? producers because they liked the look of the building. The homeowners who worked with the film production company recently passed away, real estate agent Joe Bianco told the Associated Press.

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New microscope measures nanomagnet property vital to 'spintronics'

Mar. 15, 2013 ? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive property of the nanoscale magnets used in an advanced, experimental form of digital memory. The new instrument already has demonstrated its utility with initial results that suggest how to limit power consumption in future computer memories.

NIST's heterodyne magneto-optic microwave microscope, or H-MOMM, can measure collective dynamics of the electrons' spins -- the basic phenomenon behind magnetism -- in individual magnets as small as 100 nanometers in diameter. Nanomagnets are central components of low-power, high-speed "spintronic" computer memory, which might soon replace conventional random-access memory. Spintronics relies on electrons behaving like bar magnets, pointing in different directions to manipulate and store data, whereas conventional electronics rely on charge.

"The measurement technique is entirely novel, the capability that it has enabled is unprecedented, and the scientific results are groundbreaking," project leader Tom Silva says.

As described in a new paper, NIST researchers used the H-MOMM to quantify, for the first time, the spin relaxation process -- or damping -- in individual nanomagnets. Spin relaxation is related to how much energy is required to switch a unit of spintronic memory between a 0 and a 1 (the bits used to represent data).

The nanomagnets used in experimental spintronic systems are too big to yield their secrets to conventional atomic physics tools yet too small for techniques used with bulk materials. Until now, researchers have been forced to measure the average damping from groups of nanomagnets. The new microscope enabled NIST researchers to study, in detail, the ups and downs of spin excitation in individual magnets made of a layer of a nickel-iron alloy on a sapphire base.

The H-MOMM combines optical and microwave techniques. Two green laser beams are merged to generate microwaves, which excite "spin waves" -- magnetic oscillations that vary with position across an individual nanomagnet, like waves in a bathtub. Polarized light from one laser is used to analyze the excitation pattern. By measuring excitation as a function of magnetic field and microwave frequency, researchers can deduce the damping of various spin waves in each nanomagnet.

Measurement and control of magnetic damping is crucial for spintronics, because the smaller the damping, the less energy is required to store a bit of data, and the less power a device requires to operate. The NIST study suggests that designing spintronic devices to have uniform spin waves could dramatically reduce the energy required to write a bit.

The new microscope is one outcome of an ongoing NIST effort to develop methods for measuring defects in magnetic nanostructures. At extremely small scales, defects dominate and can disrupt magnetic device behavior, resulting in errors in reading and writing information.

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  1. Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Carl T. Boone, T. J. Silva. Mode- and Size-Dependent Landau-Lifshitz Damping in Magnetic Nanostructures: Evidence for Nonlocal Damping. Physical Review Letters, 2013; 110 (11) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.117201

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SAC affiliate pays $600M to settle trading charges

Two affiliates of SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund run by billionaire Steven Cohen, will pay more than $614 million in what federal regulators are calling the largest insider trading settlement ever.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged CR Intrinsic Investors with insider trading in 2012, alleging that portfolio manager Mathew Martoma illegally obtained confidential details about an Alzheimer's drug trial from a doctor before the final results went public and traded on that information. The SEC said Friday that the fund agreed to pay more than $600 million to settle the charges. The parties neither admit nor deny the charges.

The SEC's complaint alleged that Sidney Gillman, a doctor who moonlighted as a medical consultant, tipped drug safety data and negative drug trial results to Martoma two weeks before developers Elan Corp. and Wyeth made those results public in 2008. Martoma and CR Intrinsic then caused several hedge funds to sell more than $960 million in Elan and Wyeth securities in a little more than a week.

Regulators added SAC Capital Advisors and four hedge funds managed by CR Intrinsic and SAC Capital as defendants, saying they each received ill-gotten gains from the scheme.

"The historic monetary sanctions against CR Intrinsic and its affiliates are a sharp warning that the SEC will hold hedge fund advisory firms and their funds accountable when employees break the law to benefit the firm," George S. Canellos, acting director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement.

The settlement is subject to the approval of a U.S. District Court judge. It does not settle charges against Martoma, whose case is still in litigation.

Also Friday, the SEC settled charges against Sigma Capital Management for $14 million. Sigma allegedly profited illegally from early information about the earnings of two technology companies.

The cases stem from a long-running probe of insider trading by hedge funds, many of which are affiliated with SAC Capital. The government has targeted multiple employees of the Stamford, Conn.-based hedge fund, though no charges have been brought against Cohen.

SAC said in a statement Friday that it is happy to put these matters with the SEC behind it.

"This settlement is a substantial step toward resolving all outstanding regulatory matters and allows the firm to move forward with confidence," the company said. "We are committed to continuing to maintain a first-rate compliance effort woven into the fabric of the firm."

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Daniel Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.

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Mexico's telecom reform clears first hurdle in Congress

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major reform bill to increase competition in Mexico's phone and television markets on Thursday cleared its first hurdle when it was approved by a committee in the lower house of Congress with no changes.

The reform, which aims to curb the dominance of Carlos Slim's America Movil and broadcaster Televisa, is expected to be presented to the floor of Mexico's lower house for a vote next week.

America Movil controls about 70 percent of Mexico's mobile phone market and about 80 percent of its fixed lines. Televisa has about 60 percent of the country's broadcasting market.

"We are on the verge of changing the history of telecoms in our country," said Julio Cesar Moreno, president of the committee of constitutional matters that approved the reform.

The constitutional reform, which was unveiled on Monday, will allow foreign companies greater participation in Mexico's phone and television markets and could force players with a market share of over 50 percent to sell assets.

(Reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez and Elinor Comlay; Editing by Stephen Coates)

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