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Monday, April 29, 2013
Site of assassination attempt on Syrian prime minister sends warning to regime
The Syrian prime minister escaped the bombing unharmed, but the attack ? in one of Damascus's wealthiest neighborhoods ? shows the safe zone for regime members is shrinking.?
This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian fire fighters extinguishing burning cars after a car bomb exploded in the capital's western neighborhood of Mazzeh, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April. 29, 2013.
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The Syrian prime minister survived a bomb attack on his convoy this morning in a wealthy neighborhood of Damascus, though his bodyguard was killed and several others were injured in the blast.
The attack in the "upscale" neighborhood highlights the increasing vulnerability of the Assad regime, as it is home to many government officials and several embassies ? including the Swiss embassy, located only 100 yards from the blast, according to the Associated Press.
According to Syrian state television, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi was unharmed in the blast, which occurred as he was traveling through the western Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh.? A Syrian official told AP that the explosion was caused by an IED planted beneath a parked car that detonated as Mr. Halqi's convoy passed.
The state-run Al-Ikhbariya station said al-Halqi went into a regular weekly meeting with an economic committee straight after the bombing and showed him sitting around a table in a room with several other officials.
The TV said it was showing the video as a proof that al-Halqi was not hurt. But the prime minister's comments after the meeting did not refer to Monday's blast and he was not asked about it by reporters, leaving doubts as to whether the footage was filmed before or after the bombing.
The state-aired footage showed heavily damaged cars and debris in the area of the blast as firefighters fought to extinguish a large blaze caused by the explosion.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, but BBC News notes that similar bombings have been linked to Jabhat al-Nusra, a jihadist rebel group affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Halqi, a Sunni, was appointed last August after his predecessor, Riyad Hijab, defected from the government after serving for only two months. Reuters noted that President Bashar al-Assad and his father, both of whom are Alawites, a minority Shiite-related sect, have consistently appointed members of Syria's majority Sunni community to the premiership, but the position is largely powerless. The presidency and most of Assad's security positions are held by Alawites.
Meanwhile, rebels continued an assault launched Sunday in northern Syria to seize three military airbases and choke off the Assad regime's air power. Lebanon's Daily Star writes that, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, rebels breached the Kweiras air base in Aleppo Province and the Abu Zuhour air base in Idlib Province on Saturday, and have been fighting government forces for control.
?The rebels have broken into the [Abu Zuhour] airport but they are still on the periphery and are engaged in violent clashes with soldiers,? Observatory director Rami Abdel-Rahman told AFP. ?It?s an important military airport because it?s still functional.?
The rebels also invaded a helicopter base near the Turkish border yesterday, the Daily Star adds. The Islamist al-Burraq Brigades said that several rebel factions are attacking the base to capture it.
Aerial bombardments by the Syrian Air Force have been responsible for some 45,000 fatalities during the Syrian civil war, the Monitor reported at the start of this year. Rebels consider the regime's air power its "main threat"?because they can do little to stop attacks by helicopters and jets, even in territory they hold on the ground.
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One hurt in self-inflicted shooting at Ohio high school
(Reuters) - One boy was injured in a self-inflicted shooting on Monday in a classroom at a high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been taken to a local hospital, police said.
Green Township Police Chief Bart West said the school was briefly put on lockdown after the student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom early Monday. The lockdown has since been lifted.
"All the other students in the building are OK," West said during a televised news conference.
He said the student who shot himself was being taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He did not know the wounded student's condition.
It initially appeared that a second person might have been involved in the shooting at La Salle, an all-boys private college-preparation school in Cincinnati.
La Salle High School Director of Community Development Greg Tankersley said the building was secured quickly after the lockdown. Counselors are at the school to meet with students.
"We just ask that you keep this young man and his family in your prayers today," he said.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Nick Zieminski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-hurt-another-apprehended-shooting-ohio-high-school-141125739.html
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Internet Marketing Tips And Advice For Businesses | Starting-Business
Internet Marketing Tips
Admittedly, most people use Internet marketing to make money. In addition to the freedom owning a business provides, you must be passionate and dedicated to effective internet marketing skills. Put some of these tips into action and watch it happen!
Use tech tools to find how well your internet marketing campaign is working for you. There are a number of web companies that supply trackers to gauge the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. They measure things like visitors to your site, repeat visitors and how these visits translate into actual sales.
Finding information on effective marketing strategies does not have to cost a fortune. Many free resources are readily available. You could also join online communities, read blogs, go to seminars, or read eBooks.
Internet marketing is not an endeavor that is formulaic; in fact, it can be said that it is equal parts art and science. True, you need to understand the technical aspects of marketing, but you also have to feel your way through the realistic side of things. Be analytical of relevant data while expressing your creative side through the aesthetics and theme of your site.
Your site may be marketed as some kind of social marketing or club instead of your business. This will keep customers coming back, rather than visiting once and leaving immediately. This will also keep people interested in your site. You can also get some free advertising out of it. Give out different graphics and badges that people can use to advertise your site.
Do you have a product that no one else offers? This can drive a great deal of traffic towards your site as people search for this unique niche. The users will then likely look at your other products, bringing legitimacy to your site and therefore improving your page rank.
Find other businesses that would be interested in your products, and offer them promotional discounts of product or service bundles. This strategy expands your market and benefits both you and your product partners. Online travel agencies frequently do this, offering packages that cover hotel reservations, plane tickets and car rentals in bundled packages. This type of bundled package is great for companies that have products that can easily be linked with other complementary items that enhance their main product line.
To have proper internet marketing, you will want to be listed in Google. You need to know what terms people are searching for on Google that relate to your business. Google has a wide range of directories and listing options. Use them to your advantage.
Do you want to market online? If you want to increase the opt-in list of your website, provide your visitors with an incentive to give you their email information. Try offering freebies or maybe having a contest that they need to use their e-mail to participate in. It is much easier to get people?s email addresses if you offer them a chance at a tempting prize.
The information provided here to you shows that Internet marketing can be a profitable tool when used correctly. You ensure that all your effort is worth it, and you also get to pursue your passion.
Source: http://www.starting-business-uk.com/internet-marketing-tips-and-advice-for-businesses/
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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?
Oil and gas drilling companies had pushed for the change, but there have been differing scientific estimates of the amount of methane that leaks from wells, pipelines and other facilities during production and delivery. Methane is the main component of natural gas.
The new EPA data is "kind of an earthquake" in the debate over drilling, said Michael Shellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental group based in Oakland, Calif. "This is great news for anybody concerned about the climate and strong proof that existing technologies can be deployed to reduce methane leaks."
The scope of the EPA's revision was vast. In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. That's about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates. The agency converts the methane emissions into their equivalent in carbon dioxide, following standard scientific practice.
The EPA revisions came even though natural gas production has grown by nearly 40 percent since 1990. The industry has boomed in recent years, thanks to a stunning expansion of drilling in previously untapped areas because of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects sand, water and chemicals to break apart rock and free the gas inside.
Experts on both sides of the debate say the leaks can be controlled by fixes such as better gaskets, maintenance and monitoring. Such fixes are also thought to be cost-effective, since the industry ends up with more product to sell.
"That is money going up into the air," said Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, adding he isn't surprised the EPA's new data show more widespread use of pollution control equipment. Pielke noted that the success of the pollution controls also means that the industry "probably can go further" in reducing leaks.
Representatives of the oil and gas industry said the EPA revisions show emissions from the fracking boom can be managed.
"The methane 'leak' claim just got a lot more difficult for opponents" of natural gas, noted Steve Everley, with Energy In Depth, an industry-funded group.
In a separate blog post, Everley predicted future reductions, too.
"As technologies continue to improve, it's hard to imagine those methane numbers going anywhere but down as we eagerly await the next installment of this EPA report," Everley wrote.
One leading environmentalist argued the EPA revisions don't change the bigger picture.
"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas," Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "Natural gas provides at best a kind of fad diet, where a dangerously overweight patient loses a few pounds and then their weight stabilizes; instead, we need at this point a crash diet, difficult to do" but needed to limit the damage from climate change.
The EPA said it made the changes based on expert reviews and new data from several sources, including a report funded by the oil and gas industry. But the estimates aren't based on independent field tests of actual emissions, and some scientists said that's a problem.
Robert Howarth, a Cornell University professor of ecology who led a 2011 methane leak study that is widely cited by critics of fracking, wrote in an email that "time will tell where the truth lies in all this, but I think EPA is wrong."
Howarth said other federal climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published recent studies documenting massive methane leaks from natural gas operations in Colorado and other Western states.
Howarth wrote that the EPA seems "to be ignoring the published NOAA data in their latest efforts, and the bias on industry only pushing estimates downward ? never up ? is quite real. EPA badly needs a counter-acting force, such as outside independent review of their process."
The issue of methane leaks has caused a major split between environmental groups.
Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions. But others believe the methane leaks negate any benefits over coal, since methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas.
The new EPA figures still show natural gas operations as the leading source of methane emissions in the U.S., at about 145 million metric tons in 2011. The next biggest source was enteric fermentation, scientific jargon for belches from cows and other animals, at 137 million metric tons. Landfills were the third-biggest source, at 103 million metric tons.
But the EPA estimates that all the sources of methane combined still account for only 9 percent of greenhouse gases, even taking into account methane's more potent heat-trapping.
The EPA said it is still seeking more data and feedback on the issue of methane leaks, so the report may change again in the future.
The EPA revisions have international implications, too. The agency says the new report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, was submitted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change by an April 15 deadline.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/epa-methane-report-further-divides-fracking-camps-195655348.html
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Clarifying the effect of stem cell therapy on cancer
Apr. 28, 2013 ? Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), isolated from bone marrow, caused changes in blood vessels supplying the tumor, and it is this modification of blood supply which seems to impact tumor growth.
The use of stem cells in treating cancer has been controversial, with some studies finding that stem cells force tumors to enter programmed cell death. However other studies find that stem cells actually promote tumor growth by inducing infiltration of new blood vessels. In attempting to sort out this puzzle researchers from INSERM groups at Universit? Joseph Fourier in collaboration with CHU de Grenoble investigated the impact of MSC on already established subcutaneous or lung metastasis in mice.
For both the subcutaneous and lung tumors, injection of MSC reduced cell division, consequently slowing the rate of tumor growth. Part of the mode of action of stem cells therefore appears to be due to with angiogenesis, but the mechanism behind this is still unclear.
Claire Rome who led this study explained, "We found that MSC altered vasculature inside the tumor -- although new blood vessels were generated, overall they were longer and fewer than in untreated tumors. This could be restricting the oxygen and nutrients to the tumor, limiting cell division." She continued, "Our study confirms others which propose that stem cells, in particular MSC, might be one way forwards in treating cancer."
Commenting on this study Celia Gomes, from the University of Coimbra, said, "One of the interesting questions this study raises is when MSC promote tumor growth and when they restrict it. The answer seems to be timing -- this study looks at already established tumors, while others, which find that MSC increase growth, tend to be investigating new tumors. This is a first step in the path to identifying exactly which patients might benefit from stem cell therapy and who will not."
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Court may limit use of race in college admission decisions
By Joan Biskupic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict universities' use of race in deciding who is awarded places.
The case before the justices was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white suburban Houston student who asserted she was wrongly rejected by the University of Texas at Austin while minority students with similar grades and test scores were admitted.
The ruling is the only one the court has yet to issue following oral arguments in cases heard in October and November, the opening months of the court's annual term which lasts until the early summer. A decision might come as early as Monday, before the start of a two-week recess.
As hard as it is to predict when a ruling will be announced, it is more difficult to say how it might change the law. Still, even a small move in the Texas case could mark the beginning of a new chapter limiting college administrators' discretion in using race in deciding on admissions.
For decades, dating back at least to the John F. Kennedy administration of the 1960s, leaders have struggled with what "affirmative action" should be taken to help blacks and other minorities. In the early years, it was seen as a way to remedy racial prejudice and discrimination; in the more modern era, as a way to bring diversity to campuses and workplaces.
Since 1978, the Supreme Court has been at the center of disputes over when universities may consider applicants' race. In that year's groundbreaking Bakke decision from a University of California medical school, the justices forbade quotas but said schools could weigh race with other factors.
In another seminal university case, the court in 2003 reaffirmed the use of race in admissions to create diversity in colleges. But with the current bench more conservative than the one in 2003, there is a strong chance a majority of the justices will undercut that decade-old ruling on a University of Michigan case.
Writing for the majority in that case, Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declared that "the path to leadership" should be "visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity." That meant public universities must be able to take special steps to enroll minorities, O'Connor wrote.
O'Connor retired in January 2006 and her successor as the regular swing vote on racial dilemmas has been Justice Anthony Kennedy, who dissented in the 2003 case and may well author the ruling to come in the latest case. The student in the case, Abigail Fisher, graduated from Louisiana State University last year.
"HURT," "INJURY"
Notably, during oral argument in the University of Texas case on October 10, Kennedy referred to the "hurt" and "injury" caused by screening applicants by race. However, Kennedy's comments during arguments suggested that he was not ready to vote to forbid all racial criteria in admissions.
In his dissenting opinion in the 2003 Michigan case, he wrote that the court has long accepted universities' stance that racial diversity enhances the educational experience for all students, while insisting such policies be narrowly drawn.
Kennedy's view of when exactly race can be considered and of the discretion of college administrators in the matter are likely to be crucial.
Marvin Krislov, now president of Oberlin College in Ohio and a past vice-president and general counsel of the University of Michigan, said on Friday that university administrators were concerned about how broadly it might sweep and whether it will ultimately reduce the number of minority students on campus.
"Colleges and universities care deeply about student body diversity," he said, adding of his colleagues in higher education: "We're all watching and waiting."
Once oral arguments are held, the court's deliberations on a case are shrouded in secrecy. The timing of a particular decision is not known in advance. And racial dilemmas have never been easy for the court, a point underscored by the current delay.
When the justices ruled in the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, they issued six separate opinions. None drew a majority. Four justices would have upheld a program that set aside a certain number of slots for minority applicants; four justices would have struck it down. Justice Lewis Powell provided the essential fifth vote, allowing universities to consider race and ethnic origin but forbidding quotas or a reserved number of places. Powell planted the seed of the diversity justification that blossomed in O'Connor's opinion in 2003.
The Michigan case divided the bench 5-4, with O'Connor joining with the more liberal members of the bench to allow race as a consideration in admissions. In a 2007 dispute testing the use of race in student placements to ensure diversity in school districts, the court tipped the opposite way. Conservatives, including O'Connor's successor Samuel Alito, curtailed such public school integration plans.
Only eight of the nine justices will be deciding the Texas case. Justice Elena Kagan, a former U.S. solicitor general, has taken herself out of the dispute because of her prior involvement in the case. The government is siding with the University of Texas.
The challenged program supplements a Texas state policy guaranteeing admission to the university for high school graduates scoring in the top 10 percent at their individual schools. University of Texas administrators argue that the "Top 10" program does not make the university sufficiently diverse.
The Texas approach, with the dual programs, is distinct. The larger issue is how a decision would affect other universities.
"The court seems to have been leaning away from allowing affirmative action for some time," said University of Virginia law professor John Jeffries, a former law clerk and biographer of Justice Lewis Powell. "If they close the door that, potentially, is a very big deal."
(Editing by Howard Goller, Martin Howell; desking by Christopher Wilson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-may-limit-race-college-admission-decisions-043032652.html
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Fire erupts at Israeli prison holding ex-president
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's prisons service says a fire has broken out at the facility where former President Moshe Katsav is serving time.
Spokesman Itsik Gorlov said the fire erupted at a factory at Maasiyahu prison in central Israel Sunday. He had no immediate details on its cause or whether there were any casualties. He said it had not spread to the wards where prisoners are held.
Katsav has been serving a seven-year sentence since 2011 after being convicted of rape and other charges. He has denied the accusations.
Israel on Sunday was battling a series of brushfires caused by the combination of hot, dry weather and the Lag Baomer holiday, in which revelers traditionally celebrate with bonfires.
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Scientists discover ridiculously small insect
With a length about 2.5 times the width of a human hair, Tinkerbella nana was spotted in a Costa Rican forest.
This microscope image shows a dried Tinkerbella nana, a species of fairyfly. The scale line is equal to 100 micrometers, the average width of a human hair.
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EnlargeA pair of scientists have discovered a new species of tiny insect, a miniscule wasp that lives in the forests of Costa Rica.
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Named?Tinkerbella nana, after the Peter Pan character, the species measures no more than 250 micrometers in length. By comparison, the average human hair is about 100 micrometers wide.?
According to a paper?published Thursday in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, the insects were collected by John S. Noyes, an entomologist at London's Natural History Museum, who swept a mesh net through vegetation at Costa Rica's La Selva Biological Station. Samples from the net were then examined under a microscope.?
The species is a fairyfly, a type of wasp found worldwide. Most fairyflies are parasites that lives on other insects' eggs, but the researchers know almost nothing about?Tinkerbella's?behavior.?
As small as Tinkerbella is, its not the smallest flying insect. That distinction goes to Kikiki huna, a fairlyfly native to the Hawaiian islands that measures just 150 micrometers. The Canadian Forestry Service's John T. Huber, the primary author on the Tinkerbella paper, was also the principal discoverer, in 2000, of Kikiki.
But even Kikiki is not the smallest insect. The males of a wingless, eyeless species of fairyfly called Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, have measured no more than 139 micrometers long.?
How small can a bug get? Huber and Noyes's paper examines the theoretical minimum for insect sizes. Smaller animals tend to have a higher strength-to-weight ratio than larger ones, but once you get below a certain size, the muscles in an appendage get so small that they cannot overcome the appendage's own inertia. The authors suggest that winged insects capable of flapping their wings cannot be less than 150 micrometers long. For flightless insects, the smallest you can get while still being able to lift your body off the ground is, they suggest, about 125 micrometers.
In their introduction Huber and Noyes' quote an unlikely source, Pliny the Elder's "Natural History":?
Almost 2000 years ago, Pliny the Elder (ca. 23?79 A.D.) stated ?Rerum natura nusquam magis quam in minimis tota est? loosely translated as ?nature is nowhere as great as in its smallest.? In the absence of any means of magnification he could not possibly have seen the intricate structure and beauty of fairyflies or other minute organisms. But his statement certainly holds true.
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Storms sweep across Texas and the South, dumping up to 7 inches of rain
NBC's Dylan Dreyer takes a look at a weather system bringing heavy rains to portions of the country as well as river flooding in the Midwest.
By Erin McClam and Daniel Arkin, NBC News
A day after heavy downpours flooded Texas and parts of the South ? dumping as much as 7 inches of rain in some areas ? waters were receding in Houston on Sunday morning, officials said.
?It?s a nice, beautiful and very green day today ? not a cloud in the sky,? said Houston Fire Department spokesman Sgt. Jay Evans.
There were no reports of death or injuries, according to Evans. He added that evacuation trucks arrayed in the southwest and southeast borders of the city were not used during the onslaught of rainwater Saturday.
On Saturday, Houston firefighters conducted at least 150 rescues of motorists who accidentally drove into high water and became trapped in their vehicles, Evans said.
In Tennessee, animals reportedly escaped from a shelter after it was slammed by severe weather.
An unknown number of animals were on the loose in Fayette County, Tenn., early Sunday, after Fayette County Animal Rescue was damaged in a tumultuous storm, NBC?s WMCTV.com reported.
The line of weekend storms stretched from the Texas-Mexico border through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. The rough weather was caused by the collision of a cold front and warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Cars are stranded in southwest Houston, which was flooded after an afternoon downpour Saturday.
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kikay trekkie: PRODUCT REVIEW: THE FACE SHOP - NATURAL ...
PRODUCT REVIEW: THE FACE SHOP - NATURAL SUN SMART CUSHION SPF 50 PA+++
DISCLAIMER: This product was sent to me by The Face Shop Philippines?as a gift. ?This is now available in?The Face Shop Philippines?branches in major malls all over metro manila and retails for PhP1195. (you can question me on this as far as i can recall this product is NOT MORE THAN php1300, so di sya mamahal sa 1300 pero lampas ng 1100, better yet, tanong nyo mismo sa the face shop ^_^ )The product description is below:
A liquid type of sunscreen that enables easy application with a cushion sponge.
Just like my beloved, this, too, comes in a compact type of container
has a mirror and a rubber sponge applicator
the mirror is covered with a plastic sheet
and these things, i love the application of these rubber sponges.
there is no grain so application is smooth and without streaks
the product has a lid and below it a safety seal
as shown here below once i've peeled off the seal
this is a little less sticky than my beloved. ?this has more of a foundation feel
but it blends out well and gives my skin a nice healthy looking sheen
the directions are below.
and below are the ingredients
product description from the box
a picture of me with no flash used. ?the smart bb on the right side of my face while no product on the left side of my face.
with the flash on, the smart bb on the right side of my face while no product on the left side of my face.
and with the powder to set and some blush. ?the thing i like about most bb products is that they really make me look healthy. ?they brighten up my skin yet unlike full on foundations, you can still see my skin underneath. ?so most bb creams are like tinted veils. ?
LIKES:
DISLIKES:
- none that i can think off except maybe the price, my my beloved costs php1950 for the compact and a refill while this is php1195 without refill.?
RECOMMENDATIONS: Apart from samples, which you know from my beloved, that it is possible for Korea to release samples for these, in the tiny little tubs and cute little 1 inch diameter sponges with 4 grams of product, this product from the face shop is a good investment for you to try if you think that shelling out 2k on my beloved is too high and for two that you may end up not liking. ?[MEANING - kahit wala pang ni-rerelease na samples ang face shop korea / ph for this smart cushion, kahit alam nating posibleng magka samples ng mga ganintong item, I RECOMMEND for you gals to try this anyway isa lang naman di gaya ng kabila 2 agad eh baka naman di nyo magustuhan, at least itong sa the face shop isa lang.]
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Donovan agrees with Klinsmann
One thing Landon Donovan has always been is humble.
The U.S. winger proved that again on Thursday when he agreed with comments made by?Jurgen Klinsmann concerning the player?s need to prove himself over an extended period of time before reclaiming his spot on the national team roster.
?I agree with him,? Donovan said following training with the Galaxy. ?Just because you score a goal and have a good game doesn?t mean you?re a national team player. And I?ve said from the beginning that I have to earn my way back, and playing one good game doesn?t earn your way back. I still have a long way to go.?
Donovan?s potential recall to the national side has been a hot topic of conversation since returning from his sabbatical to Cambodia. Players, coaches and fans alike wonder whether the 31 year old would be able to contribute to his nation?s push for a World Cup Qualifying spot, and if so, how long it might take for that contribution to come to fruition.
MORE: Landon Donovan goal, assist lead LA Galaxy past Sporting KC
In his fifth appearance since returning from a nearly four-month leave,?Donovan provided a masterful performance in last weekend?s victory over Sporting Kansas City. His speed, ability to hold up play, and mesmerizing ball cuts resulted in a brilliant assist while his ability to anticipate and execute earned him a goal.?Klinsmann was on hand to witness the genius but later explained how the feat was not nearly enough to earn the player a call up.
The coach told media Wednesday that certain players have moved ahead of Donovan in the selection line for June?s World Cup qualifiers and that his coaching staff plans to ?observe him like we will observe all the other players over the stretch of a period of time? before naming him to the roster.
Fortunately, Donovan is under no delusions of?grandeur.??I have to continue to build on what I did last weekend, and then at that point there?s still no guarantee, either,? said the winger. ?Like Jurgen said, I?m well behind the group in a lot of ways, and I?m aware of that. All I want is a chance to prove that I belong, and I?m going to have to work hard to get that chance.?
MORE: Let?s not read too much into Jurgen Klinsmann?s comments on Landon Donovan
Between now and the June 7th World Cup qualifier against Jamaica, Donovan will have nine more opportunities to prove himself to Klinsmann and the US coaching staff ? seven matches with the Galaxy and, assuming he is selected, two exhibitions for the US (against?Belgium on May 29 and Germany on June 2).?It?s a stretch of matches that provides more than enough time for Donovan to leave his mark and for Klinsmann to get over his feeling of?betrayal.
And get over it he will.
Not only is Donovan of the right mindset heading into the next six weeks but at least part of Klinsmann?s comments should be chalked as posturing. Don?t get me wrong, I believe Klinsmann when he says that Landon will be observed like any other player. Yet I also believe that as a head coach who endlessly strives for the respect of his players and the US Soccer community at large, Klinsmann has to make?these statements.
But come June, Landon Donovan will be on that World Cup Qualifying roster.
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Handmade leather cases from GettingWeddy
GettingWeddy is an Etsy shop that makes and sells handcrafted leather goods, jewelry, and other things. ?The above image (click it for a bigger view) shows their iPad sleeve on the left and the iPad mini sleeve on the right. ?They make the exteriors from oil-tanned or vegetable-tanned tooling leathers, and the interior is lined [...]
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Antony Jinman - The reason behind this next expedition? Why?
You may have seen the previous articles, video?s and images releasing information on my training and declaration of heading to Antarctica and the South Pole but what I haven?t yet explained is why? Yes I have to admit it is a personal challenge, it is something I would like to achieve but it is also much more then that. Being an expedition leader is my profession and something that I?d like to think I am good at. I take a lot of pride in the work that I do and realized that I am very fortunate to have developed a career in the polar regions. I want to use these skills and my work to be able to contribute something back into my community and to the world as a whole, I want to help make a difference, if that is only but just a small contribution.
The development of my non-profit Education Through Expeditions has enabled me to share my experiences with young people and help make classrooms and fun and enjoyable place to learn. I am delighted in the team that have helped me to grow and develop my work within education and I am looking forward to continuing on this work for many years to come.
Recently I learned of some shocking statistics through my local paper on obesity and health related issues with young people here in my home city of Plymouth. Plymouth is not alone with these issues and I started thinking about my own health and fitness and how I might prepare for a South Pole expedition. It was through this that I started developing the idea of tackling these social issues and bringing a new element of research and resources that can be used to enhance our community education and outreach work. Through this next project we aim to help educate young people here in Plymouth and indeed the rest of the world about nutrition and healthy lifestyles, helping not just ourselves but also our communities and the environment.
Laura Jack here at ETE has prepared a great article about some of the health issues facing Plymouth.
Please read the facts below about health issues in Plymouth to understand why the outreach work of Antony?s next expedition will focus on the importance of choosing to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Across Plymouth about 10,400 children live in poverty.
Life expectancy is lower than the National average for both men and women.
Life expectancy is 9.5 years lower for men and 4.0 years lower for women in the most deprived areas of Plymouth than the least deprived.
About 18.8% of Year 6 children in Plymouth are classified as obese.
Estimated levels of healthy eating and smoking in Plymouth are worse than the England average.
There are also a number of significant health inequalities that exist in Plymouth, for example:
39% of mums in Whitleigh smoke during pregnancy, the figure is 0% in Glenholt and Woodford.
More than half of Barne Barton children have experienced tooth decay, compared to none in Gleholt and Widewell.
1 in 4 children in Devonport are obese, but Glenholt the figure is 0%.
For the NHS in Plymouth, key priorities are identified as; improving health overall, reducing health inequalities and working with partners to make Plymouth a fairer place to live.
Antony Jinman aims to support these aims, helping to tackle obesity and the health problems associated with it by using his next expedition to the South Pole to educate the City?s young people about the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Antony?s trip to the South Pole is aiming to provide lesson resources to educate and inspire students about a healthy lifestyle, a nutritionally balanced diet and the importance of exercising. In addition to this there will also be a comparison of the nutritional value of the foods that Antony will be taking away on his expedition, compared to historical accounts of Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton and what they ate on their expedition.
But, firstly our young people need to understand what health is.
The World Health Organisation defines health as ?the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?. So, being healthy includes all things from socialising with friends, taking part in physical activity and also eating a nutritionally balanced diet.
Therefore, for Antony to achieve his goal of reaching the South Pole he will need to have a very high level of health, both physically and mentally. To achieve this, Antony will undertake a tough training programme and consume a specific diet. This is required so that after each intense work out his body will recover fully and repair any muscle damage and replenish his energy stores ready for the next training session.
The purpose of this South Pole expedition is to not only educate people on the importance of maintaining a balanced diet and taking part in physical activity, but to inspire people to make these lifestyle changes and choices.
A balanced and varied diet is vital to provide all of the nutritional requirements for our bodies to remain fit and healthy as all of the required nutrients are provided from each of the 5 different food groups. The other factor that needs to be taken into consideration when thinking about a balanced diet is the portion size of each food group, if you were to over indulge in one food group more so than the others then this can lead to health implications. For example, sugar, although perceived just as being ?bad? for you, it is actually the amount and how frequently it is consumed that matters. The other factor with sugar is that it is possibly the most irresistible food group. When we eat sugar it is broken down into glucose and fructose, then the fructose is converted to glucose in the liver, if there is more sugar consumed than burned through activity then the excess glucose is converted into fat.
ETE?s lesson plans and teaching resources linked to this expedition will provide students with a new approach to understanding of the importance of food and to not over or under consume as both can lead to health problems. Food, in the right balance, provides the body with all that it needs to allow it to grow, repair, heal, and to fight illnesses and disease. The classroom resources that ETE will produce to support this expedition aim to eliminate the immediate thought that healthy eating is eating only salads and will educate students on the varied foods and meals, portion size, the reasons for eating these foods and the importance of consuming fluids.
The students will also get a chance to look at processed foods and how they can appear to look healthy and are often chosen to eat due to their convenience. Most processed foods are high in salt and chemicals which are used to preserve the food and make them have a longer shelf life. There are links that show that eating too much processed meat may lead to a lower life expectancy.
The classroom resources will also educate children about the carbon foot print associated with getting foods from their origin to your cupboards, and will educate and encourage the students to eat fresh, local and seasonal produce, which will also help to encourage a varied diet. By eating fresh local produce will it not only benefit health, but it will also have a positive and sustainable impact on the economy by supporting local businesses and will also have a positive impact on the climate, through a smaller carbon foot print.
If you, your school, or community group would be interested in following Antony on his expedition and asking him a questions whilst he is away, using the lesson plans and resources, or even having Antony come to your school, then please get in contact with ETE on info@etehome.org to find out more information about Antony and his expedition to the South Pole.
Source: http://www.antonyjinman.com/the-reason-behind-this-next-expedition-why/
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Review: To the Wonder - Montreal Gazette
To the Wonder
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Running time: 113 minutes
Parental guidance: partial nudity, sexual situations
Opens Friday, April 26 at: Forum cinema
MONTREAL - Terrence Malick has never released two films so close together. A year after his brilliant yet divisive The Tree of Life (you either loved it or hated it ? this critic fell into the former camp), he returns with the similarly themed To the Wonder.
Your reaction to The Tree of Life will serve as a good barometer as to how you?ll react to his latest, which feels like a modern sequel of sorts. The Tree of Life starred Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain as a ?50s couple basking in marital bliss before falling into a swirl of arguments and existential drama. What made the film so fascinating was the reach of its imagination, which ranged from the origins of the universe to the oppressive anger of Pitt?s father figure, the anguish of Chastain?s flustered housewife, and the confusion and curiosity of their young sons.
To the Wonder also revolves around a troubled relationship, this time between Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko). Neil is a brooding American visiting Paris, while Marina is a French demoiselle fuelled on joie de vivre, living with her 10-year-old daughter.
Malick picks up where he left off, borrowing The Tree of Life?s impressionistic cinematography techniques and dream-sequence-style editing. Emmanuel Lubezki?s hand-held camera is always on the move, often low to the ground (catching trees and sunsets in the background), and it loves Kurylenko, chasing her through Paris streets, fields, beaches and backyards.
From the beginning, one senses problems: Neil barely speaks or smiles, while Marina is a romantic at heart. She asks him to marry her, in the film?s loose-knit voice-over, but he won?t bite. They move to the U.S., where Neil works at an unnamed job in the oil industry ? like much of this film, it?s not really clear.
Marina is unhappy in the U.S., as is her daughter, but they stick it out for a while. Insert shots of characters walking through their empty suburban home, denoting the emotional void between them. Rachel McAdams plays Neil?s old flame, and Javier Bardem is a priest who tends to the town?s less fortunate when not battling demons of his own. (Chastain and Rachel Weisz reportedly also shot scenes for the film, but were left on the cutting room floor.)
The message seems to be that love is a bitch, but something gets lost in the translation as pouts and long faces are interspersed with moments of forced passion. Malick is on cruise control. He plunges into the melodrama of relationships, but forgets to make us care.
Affleck?s character is too remote, and so becomes a clich? (yeah, yeah, distant man with the wandering eye), as does Kurylenko?s passionate pixie (so French!). We are left with a titillating style exercise that pales in comparison to the splendour and depth of Malick?s previous effort.
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Twitter: @tchadunlevy
Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Movie+review+Wonder/8293947/story.html
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Safe boating class offered in MadeiraOutdoors & Recreation ...
MADEIRA BEACH ? The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 11-3 plans monthly safe boating classes through the end of the year at its headquarters at 299 Boca Ciega Drive.
Classes meet the first Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $40 per person. The next class meets May 4.
Other classes will follow on June 8, July 6, Aug. 3 and Sept. 7.
The classes are open to the public and recommended for anyone who owns a boat, a personal watercraft, anyone interested in purchasing a boat or anyone who wants to learn safe boating practices.
Classes cover subjects such as navigating the waterways, operating a boat safely, legal regulations, what to do in an emergency, getting to know your boat and information you need to know before getting under way.
Anyone born after January 1989 must take a boating safety course and have a valid boating certificate and a photo ID while operating a vessel.
Experienced U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary instructors teach all classes.
For more information, call 391-5185.
Source: http://www.tbnweekly.com/editorial/outdoors/content_articles/042413_out-07.txt
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The Engadget Podcast is live at 3:30PM ET!
With Tim quite literally up in the air this week, Brian and Peter will be joined by Dana this time out to discuss all of the week's happenings. You can join along, too, after the break.
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At a glance, Bangladesh building collapse
Bangladeshi rescuers squeeze through a gap to help pull out survivors spotted in the debris of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh?s capital on Wednesday, killing dozens of people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete. Rescuers tried to cut through the debris with earthmovers, drilling machines and their bare hands. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)
Bangladeshi rescuers squeeze through a gap to help pull out survivors spotted in the debris of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh?s capital on Wednesday, killing dozens of people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete. Rescuers tried to cut through the debris with earthmovers, drilling machines and their bare hands. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)
An eight story building housing garment factories near the Bangladeshi capital collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 175 people. The disaster, just five months after a garment factory fire killed 112 people, has drawn renewed attention to the notoriously unsafe conditions in Bangladesh's $20 billion clothing industry that supplies retailers around the world. The disasters also highlight failings in the retail industry's system of factory audits that are meant to ensure unsafe factories are not used.
Here's a look at the factories in the building and the global retailers they say they were working for.
THE FACTORIES
? Ether Tex was located on the 5th floor of the Rana Plaza building that collapsed. Its website, which is now offline, says its 530 workers made up to 960,000 pieces of clothing a year. It claimed to have a passing grade for safety and other business standards from SOCAM, a group that audits garment factories on behalf of European fashion company C&A. The company said its customers included retail giant Wal-Mart.
? New Wave is a group of three companies that says it makes shirts, pants and other garments for U.S., Canadian and European retailers. Two of the companies in the group, New Wave Bottoms and New Wave Style were located, respectively, on the second and the 6th and 7th floors of the collapsed building. The New Wave website lists 27 retailers as its main customers. The list includes Spain's Mango, Dress Barn of the U.S., Canada's The Children's Place, and the Asian arm of Benetton based in Hong Kong.
? Phantom Apparels operated a garment factory called Phantom-TAC in conjunction with Spain's Textile Audit Company on the 4th floor of the collapsed building. The Phantom-TAC website says it is "committed to reaching a high standard of working conditions." It claimed to have a comprehensive auditing system that allowed it to "monitor and analyze daily the conditions in our factory." The 20,000 square foot factory could make up to 3 million garments a year. It does not list its customers.
? None of the factory owners have been contactable despite repeated attempts to reach them.
RETAILERS
? Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, says it is investigating whether any of the factories in the building were producing garments for it at the time of the collapse.
? Primark, a British retailer which has more than 250 stores across the U.K. and Europe, says it was being supplied by a garment producer on the building's second floor.
? The Children's Place used one of the garment factories in the building but said it wasn't being supplied by it at the time of the collapse.
? Dress Barn said it hadn't used garment factories at the building since 2010.
? Benetton said none of the factories were its suppliers.
? Mango said it hadn't bought clothing from Rana Plaza factories but said it had been in talks with one factory to produce a test batch of clothing.
AT THE DISASTER
? An Associated Press reporter found the following clothing brands in the rubble: Saddlebred, Easycare Oxford, Next, Tweeti.com, LcWaikiki.
LABOR GROUPS
? Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, which has an office in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, says his staff is investigating. "You can't trust many buildings in Bangladesh," Kernaghan said. "It's so corrupt that you can buy off anybody and there won't be any retribution."
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Authorities say bomb suspects planned NYC attack
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg hold a news conference, Thursday, April, 25, 2013 in New York. The two say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. They said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg hold a news conference, Thursday, April, 25, 2013 in New York. The two say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. They said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
This Friday, April 26, 2013 photo shows the entrance of the Devens Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Devens, Mass. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The FBI says the two brothers are the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, and are also responsible for killing an MIT police officer, critically injuring a transit officer in a firefight and throwing explosive devices at police during a getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar captured, late Friday, April 19, 2013. The ethnic Chechen brothers lived in Dagestan, which borders the Chechnya region in southern Russia. They lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, one of their uncles reported said. Since Monday, Boston has experienced five days of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intense manhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect and the capture of the other. (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young, File)
New York City Police officers patrol in New York's Times Square, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had planned to blow up their remaining explosives in New York's Times Square, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg hold a news conference, Thursday, April, 25, 2013 in New York. The two say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say.
The potentially deadly scheme fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas.
"We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. "We're just thankful that we didn't have to find out that answer."
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators at his hospital bed that he and his older brother spontaneously decided the night of April 18 to drive to New York and launch an attack.
But when the Tsarnaev brothers stopped at a gas station on the outskirts of Boston, the carjacking victim they were holding hostage escaped and called police, Kelly said. Later that night, police intercepted the brothers in a blazing gunbattle that left 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead. Dzhokhar, 19, was discovered hiding in a boat in a suburban back yard the next day. He was wounded.
It is questionable whether the Tsarnaevs could have successfully made the 200-mile trip to New York since they had become two of the most-wanted men in the world since the April 15 explosions that killed three people and injured more than 260. Their faces had been splashed all over the Internet and TV in surveillance-camera images released by the FBI. Yet the news that the city may have narrowly escaped another terrorist attack still made New Yorkers shudder.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing April 15 that killed three people and wounded more than 260. He has been moved from a Boston hospital to a federal medical center about 40 miles west of the city, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
Authorities say Tsarnaev could get the death penalty. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, would not comment on whether authorities plan to add charges based on the alleged plot to attack New York.
Meanwhile in Massachusetts, the Middlesex County district attorney's office said it is building a murder case against Tsarnaev for the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings.
As authorities began disclosing the suspects' plans and motives, the hospital-room questioning of Tsarnaev is generating concern about whether he should have been interrogated without first being told of his constitutional rights to stay silent and have a lawyer present ? and, conversely, whether federal agents actually should have had more time with him before he was read his rights.
Tsarnaev faced 16 hours of questioning before he was advised of his Miranda rights, and investigators say he told them of his role in the two bombings near the Boston Marathon finish line. He explained that he and his brother were angry about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the killing of Muslims there, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the case with reporters.
Tsarnaev also described their plan to drive to New York and set off the remaining explosives there.
In Boston, federal agents invoked an exception to the Miranda warnings that allows for questioning when public safety may be threatened. But they knew their time with Tsarnaev in the absence of a lawyer would be limited.
On Sunday, prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging Tsarnaev with a role in the bombings. That action led directly to an improvised court hearing in the hospital the following morning at which U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler told Tsarnaev he did not have to answer questions and could have a lawyer. He then stopped talking.
Civil liberties advocates have said a suspect should rarely be questioned without a lawyer and without being told he doesn't have to respond.
"Miranda rights are an incredibly important civil liberties safeguard," said Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The public safety exception must be read narrowly, as it has been by the courts."
But California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, said he has questions about how the court proceeding came about.
"I would have thought the public safety exception would have allowed more time for the questioning of the suspect prior to the arraignment and/or advising of rights," Schiff said.
Based on the younger man's interrogation and other evidence, authorities have said it appears so far that the brothers were radicalized via Islamic jihadi material on the Internet instead of any direct contact with terrorist organizations, but they warned it is still not certain.
The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents. The family was granted asylum.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that the way the U.S. grants asylum to immigrants may need to be addressed after the marathon bombings.
"People getting asylum because they are in the minority, but engaging in aggressive tactics in their home country that may cause them to be susceptible to doing the same thing elsewhere, that obviously ought to be a part of our consideration in granting political asylum to avoid situations like Boston," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who's working to develop a series of bills to fix problems with the country's immigration system.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the asylum process this week in an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying it involves multiple layers of vetting.
A comprehensive immigration bill introduced last week in the Senate also may undergo changes in response to Boston. One of its authors, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has suggested strengthening background checks done on certain immigrants considered higher-risk, such as refugees or asylum-seekers.
In New York, Kelly and Bloomberg said they were briefed on the New York plot on Wednesday night by the task force investigating the Boston bombing.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said in a CNN interview that the city should have been told earlier "so it could go into its defensive mode."
Kelly, citing the interrogations, said the Tsarnaev brothers "planned to travel to Manhattan to detonate their remaining explosives in Times Square" four days after the Boston bombing.
A day earlier, Kelly said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had talked about coming to New York "to party" after the attack and that there wasn't evidence of a plot against the city. But Kelly said a later interview with the suspect turned up the information.
Kelly said there was no evidence New York was still a target. But in a show of force, police cruisers with blinking red lights were lined up in the middle of Times Square on Thursday afternoon, and uniformed officers stood shoulder to shoulder.
Outside Penn Station, Wayne Harris, a schoolteacher from Queens, said: "We don't know when a terrorist attack will happen next in New York, but it will happen. It didn't happen this time, by the grace of God. God protected us this time."
In 2010, Times Square was targeted with a car bomb that never went off. Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad had planted a bomb in an SUV, but street vendors noticed smoke and it was disabled. Shahzad was arrested as he tried to leave the country and was sentenced to life in prison.
Meanwhile, the Tsarnaev brothers' father said he is leaving Russia for the U.S. in the next day or two, but their mother said she was still thinking it over.
Anzor Tsarnaev has expressed a desire to go to the U.S. to find out what happened with his sons, defend the hospitalized son and, if possible, bring the older son's body back to Russia for burial.
Their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, who was charged with shoplifting in the U.S. last summer, said she has been assured by lawyers that she would not be arrested, but was still deciding whether to make the trip.
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Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik and Tom Hays in New York and Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this story.
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