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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Facebook updates iOS app with features from standalone Messenger and Camera apps
It's not folding all of its apps back into one, but Facebook has now rolled out an updated version of its main iOS app that incorporates some features first seen in its standalone apps. That includes the ability to swipe left anywhere in the app to see who's available to send a message to, as well as the ability to add the friends you message the most to the top of your favorites -- both features drawn from Messenger. You'll also get the new "upload flow" from Facebook's Camera app that promises to let you share multiple photos faster, and the ability to send Facebook Gifts directly from the app (although that remains a US-only feature).
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I'm Back.
Hello all.
I've actually been back for about a week now but I figured I'd make it official.
Several weeks ago I was diagnosed with an intestinal disorder, for which became quite painful. Medicine was used at first but it proved none effective. Long story short surgery had to be preformed. Suffice to say it went well, luckily there was no complications and I'm feeling much better now.
I really don't know why I'm telling you all this, I haven't been here long enough for any of you to know me personally and I doubt many care. -shrugs-
Guess I figured I'd at least tell you all I'm alright.
So....
Cheers!
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Apple Paid Only 2 Pct Income Tax On Earnings Outside U.S.
CUPERTINO (CBS/AP) ? Apple Inc. paid an income tax rate of only 1.9 percent on its earnings outside the U.S. in its latest fiscal year, a regulatory filing by the company shows.
The world?s most valuable company paid $713 million in tax on foreign earnings of $36.8 billion in the fiscal year en ...
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Hearing begins for suspect in Afghanistan massacre
SEATTLE (AP) ? The U.S. soldier accused of carrying out one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is due to appear in a military courtroom Monday, where prosecutors will for the first time lay out their case that he slaughtered 16 people, including children, during a predawn raid on two villages in the Taliban's heartland.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a married father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., is accused of slipping away from a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan early on March 11 with an M-4 rifle outfitted with a grenade launcher to attack the villages of Balandi and Alkozai, in the dangerous Panjwai district of Kandahar Province.
The massacre left 16 dead ? nine of them children, and 11 of them members of the same family. Six others were wounded, and some of the bodies set afire.
Monday marks the start of a preliminary hearing, called an Article 32 hearing, before an investigative officer charged with recommending whether Bales' case should proceed to a court-martial. The hearing is scheduled to run as long as two weeks, and part of it will be held overnight to allow video testimony from witnesses in Afghanistan.
"This hearing is important for all of us in terms of learning what the government can actually prove," said Bales' attorney, John Henry Browne. "The defense's job is to get as much information as possible. That's what our goal is, in preparation for what is certainly going to be a court martial."
Bales, 39, is an Ohio native who joined the Army in late 2001 ? after the 9/11 attacks ? as his career as a stockbroker imploded. An arbitrator entered a $1.5 million fraud judgment against him and his former company that went unpaid, and his attempt to start an investment firm in Florida also failed.
He was serving his fourth combat tour after three stints in Iraq, and his arrest prompted a national discussion about the stresses posed by multiple deployments. Another of his civilian attorneys, Emma Scanlan, spent the past week at Joint Base Lewis-McChord to prepare for the hearing. She declined to say to what extent the lawyers hope to elicit testimony that could be used to support a mental-health defense.
Bales faces 16 counts of premeditated murder, plus other charges of attempted murder, assault and using steroids. Prosecutors have kept mum about the evidence they plan to present.
Scanlan said she expects them "to try to narrow the issues to the events of 10 March and 11 March," but added, "We believe it's much broader than that."
One thing is clear: Bales himself will not make any statements, his lawyers said, because they don't think he would have anything to gain by it. During Article 32 hearings, defendants have the right to make sworn or unsworn statements. Making a sworn statement opens the defendant to cross-examination by the prosecutors.
No motive has emerged. Bales' wife, Karilyn, who plans to attend the hearing, had complained about financial difficulties on her blog in the year before the killings, and she had noted that Bales was disappointed at being passed over for a promotion.
Browne described those stresses as garden-variety ? nothing that would prompt such a massacre ? and has also said, without elaborating, that Bales suffered a traumatic incident during his second Iraq tour that triggered "tremendous depression." Bales remembers little or nothing from the time of the attacks, his lawyers have said.
The hearing will also feature the airing, for the first time publicly, of a surveillance blimp video that depicts Bales returning to Camp Belambay and surrendering.
Testimony from witnesses, including an estimated 10 to 15 Afghans, could also help fill in many of the details about how prosecutors believe Bales carried out the attack. American officials have said they believe Bales broke the slaughter into two episodes ? walking first to one village, returning to the base and slipping away again to carry out the second attack.
Members of the Afghan delegation that investigated the killings said one Afghan guard saw a U.S. soldier return to the base around 1:30 a.m. Another Afghan soldier who replaced the first guard said he saw a U.S. soldier leave the base at 2:30 a.m.
Some witnesses suggested that there might have been more than one killer. Browne said he was aware of those statements, but noted that such a scenario would not help his client avoid culpability.
Browne is traveling to Afghanistan to question the witnesses in person as their testimony from a small base near Kandahar city is beamed back to Lewis-McChord.
Scanlan said the Army had only recently turned over a preliminary DNA trace evidence report from the crime scenes, but defense experts have not had time to review it.
Bales, who spent months in confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., before being transferred to Lewis-McChord last month, is doing well, Scanlan said.
"He's getting prepared," she said, "but it's nerve-wracking for anybody."
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Monday, November 5, 2012
France will stand against instability in Lebanon
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, second left, and French President Francois Hollande, second right, review honor guards, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Hollande said France will stand against instability in Lebanon. Hollande?s comments during a short visit to Beirut come as many in Lebanon fear that Syria's civil war could spill over. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman, Hollande said that amid Syria?s civil war, ?we are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and the unity of Lebanon.? A top anti-Syrian intelligence chief was killed in a car bomb in Beirut last month. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting. (AP Photo/Dalati Nohra)
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, second left, and French President Francois Hollande, second right, review honor guards, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Hollande said France will stand against instability in Lebanon. Hollande?s comments during a short visit to Beirut come as many in Lebanon fear that Syria's civil war could spill over. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman, Hollande said that amid Syria?s civil war, ?we are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and the unity of Lebanon.? A top anti-Syrian intelligence chief was killed in a car bomb in Beirut last month. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting. (AP Photo/Dalati Nohra)
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, right, shakes hands for photographers with French President Francois Hollande, left, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Hollande said France will stand against instability in Lebanon. Hollande?s comments during a short visit to Beirut come as many in Lebanon fear that Syria's civil war could spill over. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman, Hollande said that amid Syria?s civil war, ?we are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and the unity of Lebanon.? A top anti-Syrian intelligence chief was killed in a car bomb in Beirut last month. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, right, poses for photographers with French President Francois Hollande, left, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Hollande said France will stand against instability in Lebanon. Hollande?s comments during a short visit to Beirut come as many in Lebanon fear that Syria's civil war could spill over. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman, Hollande said that amid Syria?s civil war, ?we are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and the unity of Lebanon.? A top anti-Syrian intelligence chief was killed in a car bomb in Beirut last month. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
French President Francois Hollande attends a press a conference with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, unseen, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Hollande said France will stand against instability in Lebanon. Hollande?s comments during a short visit to Beirut come as many in Lebanon fear that Syria's civil war could spill over. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman, Hollande said that amid Syria?s civil war, ?we are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and the unity of Lebanon.? A top anti-Syrian intelligence chief was killed in a car bomb in Beirut last month. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
BEIRUT (AP) ? France's president pledged Sunday that his country will stand against instability in Lebanon, two weeks after the assassination of a senior Lebanese intelligence official sparked clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian groups.
Later in Saudi Arabia, Francois Hollande held further talks on Syria with King Abdullah, whose country has been a leading supporter of the forces trying to overthrow Syria's President Bashar Assad.
In Beirut, Hollande promised that Paris and the European Union will help Lebanon deal with an influx of more than 100,000 refugees who have fled the civil war in neighboring Syria.
"We are committed to give you guarantees regarding security, stability and unity of Lebanon," Hollande told reporters after meeting President Michel Suleiman.
The Oct. 19 car bomb that killed Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, a powerful anti-Syrian intelligence official, stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the civil war in Syria, which has killed at least 36,000 people since it began in March 2011.
Lebanon's two largest political coalitions have lined up on opposite sides of the conflict. The powerful Shiite group Hezbollah and its partners who dominate the Lebanese government have stood by Assad, while Lebanon's Sunni-led opposition backs the rebels seeking to topple the Damascus regime.
Assad and many in his inner circle are Alawites ? an offshoot of Shiite Islam and a minority in Syria ? while the rebels come mostly from the country's Sunni majority.
Syria dominated Lebanon for 29 years after it first sent troops into its smaller neighbor in 1976, during Lebanon's 15-year civil war.
Damascus' three-decade hold on Lebanon began to slip in 2005, after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Still, for years after Syrian troops pulled out, there were frequent assassinations of anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon, and the perpetrators have yet to be tracked down.
Despite the Syrian military's withdrawal from Lebanon, Assad has managed to maintain his influence in the country through allies, such as Hezbollah.
Hollande made a three-hour stop in Beirut en route to Saudi Arabia for talks that focused on the Syria conflict and Iran's disputed nuclear program. Saudi officials said Hollande arrived in the Red Sea port of Jiddah, accompanied by a high-level delegation that included French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and a senior trade official.
France's ambassador to Saudi Arabia said in comments published in the Al-Riyadh newspaper Sunday that Paris and Riyadh share views on both issues. The newspaper quoted Bertrand Besancenot as saying France backs tighter sanctions on Iran and calls on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down.
Saudi Arabia is Iran's main regional rival and is a key backer of Syria's rebels.
While in Beirut, Hollande said France will give "full assistance" in the investigation of al-Hassan's assassination, saying "the Lebanese and the world want this. There will be no escape from justice."
Al-Hassan was killed a day after he returned home from Paris, where his family has been living for years.
"Even though Lebanon is very close, it should not be the victim of this crisis," Hollande said referring to Syria's civil war. "We renew France's full support to the stability, unity, independence and safety of the territory of Lebanon."
France, the onetime colonial ruler of both Syria and Lebanon, has been one of the most outspoken Western critics of the Assad regime. France announced in September that it had begun sending direct aid and money to five rebel-held Syrian cities as part of its intensified efforts to weaken Assad. It was the first such move by a Western power amid mounting calls for the international community to do more to prevent bloodshed.
French officials have acknowledged providing communications and other non-lethal equipment to Syrian rebel forces, but say they won't provide weapons without international agreement. Paris played a leading role in the international campaign against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi last year.
France still wields wide influence in Lebanon and has about 900 peacekeepers deployed near the border with Israel.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Obama to resume campaigning on Thursday
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday with stops in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado, in his first campaign events since before a massive storm throttled the East Coast.
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said Wednesday the president intends to resume campaigning on Thursday. Campaign officials say the president will make stops in Green Bay, Wis., Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo.
The president's last campaign event was last Saturday in New Hampshire. He flew to Orlando on Sunday to attend a campaign rally on Monday with former President Bill Clinton but scrapped his campaign plans to return to Washington to monitor preparations for superstorm Sandy.
Axelrod was interviewed Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
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