Three Chadian soldiers killed by Mali suicide bomb

By Cheick Diouara

GAO, Mali (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three Chadian soldiers at a market in the northern Malian town of Kidal on Friday, a Chadian military official and three witnesses said.

Chadian and French soldiers have been stationed in the desert town since late January to fight Islamist rebels hiding in the region's mountainous borderlands.

"He blew himself up next to a group of Chadian soldiers. Three were killed in the blast and several others were wounded," resident Ag Waerzagane Assikadaye told Reuters by telephone.

The Chadian military official confirmed the death toll and added that four other soldiers were hurt.

Considered some of the best trained troops in desert warfare and stationed in some of the most dangerous areas, the Chadian army has suffered the heaviest casualties of any of Mali's foreign allies and lost some 30 soldiers in fighting there.

Separately, a senior Malian military official said on Friday a Malian army transport plane crashed near the central town of Diabaly, killing all four people on board. The reason for the crash was not immediately clear.

A wave of deadly bombings and raids by al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters has raised fears that Bamako is failing to reassert its control in northern Mali's towns, after French forces drove the militants into desert and mountain hideouts.

Tuareg separatists, who claim to be helping fight the Islamist insurgents, remain in power in Kidal, near the border with Algeria, complicating plans to reunite the West African country after last year's coup and northern revolt.

Mali's prime minister promised on Thursday that elections to replace the caretaker government would go ahead in July. But analysts fear preparations will not be completed in time and warn a botched poll could sow the seeds for further unrest.

Some 4,000 French troops are fighting alongside Mali's army and a regional African force, though Paris is aiming to cut its military presence to 1,000 soldiers by year-end.

(Reporting by Cheick Diouara, Adama Diarra, Tiemoko Diallo, and Madjiasra Nako; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/three-chadian-soldiers-killed-mali-suicide-bomb-184808687.html

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Take a closer look at Saturday?s ?The Ultimate Fighter? bouts

Now that we know Uriah Hall and Kelvin Gastellum are fighting in the final of "The Ultimate Fighter" on Saturday, it's time to look at the other TUF match-ups. As is the tradition, castmembers from the show will face off at the finale, though most of their bouts are on the preliminary card airing on Fuel. Whether you didn't watch the show or just forgot how it all went down, here's how each fighter did on the show.

Robert "Bubba" McDaniel vs. Gilbert Smith: This is the one bout that made the main card, and I'm not sure why. Smith was knocked out in his first round fight. McDaniel was choked out by by one finalist and knocked out by another. His one win came when Kevin Casey quit on the chair before the third round.

Kevin Casey vs. Josh Samman: Coming into the show, Casey was best known for filming a rap video with reality TV has-been Spencer Pratt. Now, he's known as the guy who lost to Collin Hart and then couldn't continue for a third round against McDaniel. He's taking on Samman, the semifinalist who was shocked by Gastellum.

Luke Barnatt vs. Collin Hart: Barnatt was on both ends of memorable knockouts. He took out Smith in the first round, but then was stopped by Dylan Andrews in the quarterfinals. Hart won in the first round with a decision over Casey, but was knocked out by Gastellum in the quarters.

Dylan Andrews vs. Jimmy Quinlan: It will be fun to watch Andrews fight again. As the last fighter picked, he was the surprise of the tournament with a first round decision win over Zak Cummings and a memorable third-round knockout of Luke Barnatt. He was finally stopped by the Hall buzzsaw, but will get another chance to show off his skills against Quinlan, who won his first round with a knockout of Tor Troeng, but was stopped by Samman in the quarterfinals.

Clint Hester vs. Bristol Marunde: Hester was Jon Jones' first pick, but lost in an upset when he was submitted by Quinlan in the first round. He's getting another chance to prove his potential in a bout with Marunde, a Strikeforce fighter who lost to Ronaldo Souza in his last bout.

Who will emerge as a winner on Saturday? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/closer-look-saturday-ultimate-fighter-bouts-154727898--mma.html

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Victims of Madoff fraud can't sue SEC: appeals court

By Nate Raymond

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Victims of Bernard Madoff's investment fraud have lost their bid to sue the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence in failing to uncover the swindler's Ponzi scheme.

On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in New York upheld the dismissal of lawsuits against the securities regulator brought by Madoff investors. The court said the SEC's actions and "regrettable inaction" were protected by a law that shields federal agencies from liability.

The Madoff case embarrassed the SEC, which had investigated the now-imprisoned money manager but failed to detect his fraud.

The investor lawsuits relied heavily on a 2009 report by the SEC Inspector General's office, which outlined how the agency missed red flags and failed to follow up properly on leads that he was running a massive scam at his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

Howard Kleinhendler, a lawyer for eight plaintiffs who lost $50 million in Madoff's scheme, said he could not envision a better example of a case in which the SEC should be held liable for failing to prevent a fraud.

"It just shows that we spend a lot of money on this agency, and when they screw up, they're not accountable," he said, adding he would seek a Supreme Court review of the case.

An SEC spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In an unsigned opinion, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed "sympathy for Plaintiffs' predicament (and our antipathy for the SEC's conduct)," but said Congress' intent was to protect regulators' discretionary use of their investigatory powers.

The ruling upholds an April 2011 decision by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan, which tossed a lawsuit brought by Madoff investors Phyllis Molchatsky and Steven Schneider.

Several similar cases by other investors that were also dismissed were consolidated for the appeal.

Howard Elisofon, a lawyer for Molchatsky and Schneider at the law firm Herrick Feinstein, said in a statement he "recognized that challenging the SEC would be difficult, but this was a case that needed to be fought."

Separately, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year rejected claims against the SEC by other former Madoff clients.

Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running what prosecutors said was a $65-billion Ponzi scheme. He was sentenced to a 150-year prison sentence in June 2009.

Irving Picard, a court-appointed trustee, has said he has recovered or reached settlements for $9.32 billion for former Madoff customers.

The case is Molchatsky v. United States, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 11-2510.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Martha Graybow, Alden Bentley and Bernadette Baum)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/madoff-investors-cant-sue-sec-appeals-court-173818369--sector.html

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Evan Rachel Wood, Bryce Dallas-Howard and Whoopi Goldberg get jury dury at Tribeca

By Steve Pond

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bryce Dallas-Howard, Paul Haggis, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Longoria and Whoopi Goldberg are among the jurors announced on Wednesday by the Tribeca Film Festival, which will present $180,000 in cash and prizes in a number of different categories.

Other jurors will include actresses Blythe Danner, Mira Sorvino, Taraji P. Henson, Abigail Breslin and Christine Baranski, filmmakers Joe Berlinger, Tony Gilroy, Josh Radnor and Naomi Foner, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan, HBO Documentary chief Sheila Nevins, chef Bobby Flay and "Saturday Night Live" cast member Rachel Dratch.

Films chosen by the jurors will be announced at the TFF awards ceremony on April 25. The ceremony will take place at TK and will be streamed live at TribecaFilm.com.

Tribeca also announced juries for the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards, as well as several sponsored awards, including the Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia and the Heineken Voices Award for Latin American film.

In addition to the $180,000 in prizes offered in the seven main categories, Tribeca All Access will give another $20,000 in its two categories, while the Tribeca Film Institute will award $130,000 to Latin American film and video artists.

The full list of jurors:

World Narrative Competition:

Kenny Lonergan, playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter

Bryce Dallas-Howard, actress, director, writer and producer

Paul Haggis, writer-director

Blythe Danner, actress

Jessica Winter, Time magazine editor

World Documentary Competition:

Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedian and director

Sandi Dubowski, director and producer

Joe Berlinger, director and producer

Evan Rachel Wood, actress

Mira Sorvino, actress

Best New Narrative Director:

Stu Zicherman, screenwriter, producer and director

Ari Graynor, actress and producer

Naomi Foner, screenwriter, producer and director.

Radha Mitchell, actress

Tony Gilroy, screenwriter and director

Best New Documentary Director:

Taraji P. Henson, actress

Josh Radnor, actor, writer and director

Jared Cohen, author, founder and director of Google Ideas

Riley Keough, actress

Narrative Short Film Competition:

Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films

Kassem Garaibeh, actor, comedian, and co-founding talent of Maker Studios

Jessica Hecht, actress

Chris Milk, artist, music video director and photographer

Christine Baranski, actress

Documentary and Student Short Film Competitions:

John Skipper, president of ESPN Inc., co-chairman of Disney Media Networks

Eva Longoria, actress

Bobby Flay, chef and author

Jason Silva, media artist, and filmmaker

Danny Strong, screenwriter

Abigail Breslin, actress

Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia:

Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment

Frank Rose, author, speaker and digital anthropologist

Thomas Allen Harris, filmmaker

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award - Narrative:

Rub?n Blades, musician and actor

John Forte, recording artist, composer, music producer and educator

Tea Leoni, actress

TAA Creative Promise Award - Documentary:

Shola Lynch, director, producer and writer

Sol Guy, social entrepreneur and television host

Rachel Dratch, comedian and actress

TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund (including the Heineken VOCES awards):

Julia Bacha: filmmaker and media strategist

Carlos Gutierrez: co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical

Leonardo Zimbron, producer

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/evan-rachel-wood-bryce-dallas-howard-whoopi-goldberg-221454585.html

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Cinemagram expands its horizons to Android, lets you create animated GIFs on the fly

The iOS legion has been able to play around with Cinemagram since February of last year, but now it's finally time for Android users to also experience what the app's all about. And while there are certainly other animated applications on the platform that are somewhat similar, Cinemagram stands out from the majority due to its built-in social features -- think of it as an Instagram of sorts, where other users can easily comment on and keep up with your recent four-second creations. What's more, the app allows other tidbits like special effects to be added to videos, while the ability to share these "GIFs on steroids" to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are also options within Cinemagram. It's even already had one update, adding the ability to delete creations within the app. Hey, perhaps this could be the solution to all your Vine-induced sorrows.

Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile

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Via: The Verge

Source: Google Play

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/11/cinemagram-for-android/

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Pottery reveals Ice Age hunter-gatherers' taste for fish

Public release date: 10-Apr-2013
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Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by the University of York which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic vessels.

Scientists from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan carried out chemical analysis of food residues in pottery up to 15,000 years old from the late glacial period, the oldest pottery so far investigated. It is the first study to directly address the often posed question "why humans made pots?" The research is published in Nature.

The research team was able to determine the use of a range of hunter-gatherer "J?mon" ceramic vessels through chemical analysis of organic compounds extracted from charred surface deposits. The samples analysed are some of the earliest found in Japan, a country recognised to be one of the first centres for ceramic innovation, and date to the end of the Late Pleistocene - a time when humans were adjusting to changing climates and new environments.

Until quite recently ceramic container technologies have been associated with the arrival of farming, but we now know they were a much earlier hunter-gatherer adaptation, though the reasons for their emergence and subsequent widespread uptake are poorly understood. The first ceramic containers must have provided prehistoric hunter-gatherers with attractive new ways for processing and consuming foods but until now virtually nothing was known of how or for what early pots were used.

The researchers recovered diagnostic lipids from the charred surface deposits of the pottery with most of the compounds deriving from the processing of freshwater or marine organisms. Stable isotope data support the lipid evidence, and suggest that the majority of the 101 charred deposits, analysed from across Japan, were derived from high trophic level aquatic foods.

Dr Oliver Craig, of the Department of Archaeology and Director of the BioArCh research centre at York, led the research. He said: "Foragers first used pottery as a revolutionary new strategy for the processing of marine and freshwater fish but perhaps most interesting is that this fundamental adaptation emerged over a period of severe climate change.

"The reliability and high abundance of food along shorelines and river-banks may well have provided the initial impetus for an investment in producing ceramic containers, perhaps to make the most of seasonal gluts or as part of elaborate celebratory feasts and could be linked to a reduction in mobility.

This initial phase of ceramic production probably paved the way for further intensification in the warmer climate of the Holocene when we see much more pottery on Japanese sites.

"This study demonstrates that it is possible to analyse organic residues from some of the world's earliest ceramic vessels. It opens the way for further study of hunter-gatherer pottery from later periods to clarify the development of what was a revolutionary technology."

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The study also involved researchers from Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford; Division of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen; Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University; The Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University and Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Netherlands; and Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Niigata; Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto and Wakasa History and Folklore Museum, Fukui, in Japan.

The research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Public release date: 10-Apr-2013
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Contact: David Garner
david.garner@york.ac.uk
44-019-043-22153
University of York

Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by the University of York which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic vessels.

Scientists from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan carried out chemical analysis of food residues in pottery up to 15,000 years old from the late glacial period, the oldest pottery so far investigated. It is the first study to directly address the often posed question "why humans made pots?" The research is published in Nature.

The research team was able to determine the use of a range of hunter-gatherer "J?mon" ceramic vessels through chemical analysis of organic compounds extracted from charred surface deposits. The samples analysed are some of the earliest found in Japan, a country recognised to be one of the first centres for ceramic innovation, and date to the end of the Late Pleistocene - a time when humans were adjusting to changing climates and new environments.

Until quite recently ceramic container technologies have been associated with the arrival of farming, but we now know they were a much earlier hunter-gatherer adaptation, though the reasons for their emergence and subsequent widespread uptake are poorly understood. The first ceramic containers must have provided prehistoric hunter-gatherers with attractive new ways for processing and consuming foods but until now virtually nothing was known of how or for what early pots were used.

The researchers recovered diagnostic lipids from the charred surface deposits of the pottery with most of the compounds deriving from the processing of freshwater or marine organisms. Stable isotope data support the lipid evidence, and suggest that the majority of the 101 charred deposits, analysed from across Japan, were derived from high trophic level aquatic foods.

Dr Oliver Craig, of the Department of Archaeology and Director of the BioArCh research centre at York, led the research. He said: "Foragers first used pottery as a revolutionary new strategy for the processing of marine and freshwater fish but perhaps most interesting is that this fundamental adaptation emerged over a period of severe climate change.

"The reliability and high abundance of food along shorelines and river-banks may well have provided the initial impetus for an investment in producing ceramic containers, perhaps to make the most of seasonal gluts or as part of elaborate celebratory feasts and could be linked to a reduction in mobility.

This initial phase of ceramic production probably paved the way for further intensification in the warmer climate of the Holocene when we see much more pottery on Japanese sites.

"This study demonstrates that it is possible to analyse organic residues from some of the world's earliest ceramic vessels. It opens the way for further study of hunter-gatherer pottery from later periods to clarify the development of what was a revolutionary technology."

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The study also involved researchers from Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford; Division of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen; Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University; The Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University and Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Netherlands; and Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Niigata; Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto and Wakasa History and Folklore Museum, Fukui, in Japan.

The research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoy-pri040913.php

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HBT: Rangers' Harrison to DL with back injury

Texas placed Matt Harrison on the disabled list after the left-hander gave up 11 runs his first two starts while pitching through lower back soreness.

To replace Harrison on the roster and in the rotation the Rangers called up Triple-A right-hander Justin Grimm, who?ll start tomorrow night against the Mariners. Grimm got knocked around in his 14-inning debut last season and also struggled some at Triple-A, but throws in the mid-90s and has a solid overall track record in the minors.

After back-to-back seasons with 30-plus starts and an ERA under 3.50 Harrison inked a five-year, $55 million extension in January and got the Opening Day assignment for the Rangers.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/10/rangers-place-matt-harrison-on-dl-with-back-injury/related/

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