Mexican parties don’t meet women candidate quotas

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Mar 26

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Two of Mexico’s three largest political parties have said they have not been able to comply with a legal requirement to reserve 40 percent of their congressional candidacies for women, electoral authorities said Saturday.

The position taken by the governing National Action Party, the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the smaller Green party were the latest chapter in a decade-long struggle to increase women’s participation in Mexican politics.

The announcement comes, ironically, as President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party is the country’s first major political party to nominate a female candidate for the presidency. Josefina Vazquez Mota is running No. 2 in opinion polls, but generally trails the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate by about 10 points.

Leonardo Valdes, the president of Mexico’s federal electoral institute, said the three parties had notified him Thursday and Friday that they couldn’t meet the requirement.

Valdes said the parties could face “various legal consequences that would affect their participation” in July 1 presidential, senatorial and congressional elections, but did not specify what those consequences might be.

Federal Electoral law says authorities can refuse to register slates of candidates that don’t include enough women.

However, the three parties argue that they filled some of their candidacies by primary votes and note that another legal provision exempts candidacies selected in that manner from the gender quota.

Mexico’s other large party, the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, appeared ready to comply with the quota.

Mexican parties have struggled to comply with at least the letter of the law since gender requirements were first enacted a decade ago.

Some have been know to run the wives or girlfriends of male politicians for Congress, with the husbands or boyfriends listed as “deputy” or “reserve” replacements should the candidate resign. Upon winning election, the women ? known popularly as “Juanitas” ? promptly resign or take a leave of absence and allow the men to take their seats.

Associated Press

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Vinny Guadagnino: Snooki Will Be a Great Mom

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Mar 26


Plenty of people are seriously freaked out at the notion that Jersey Shore star Snooki will be raising a child soon, but Vinny Guadagnino is not one of them.

In fact, he’s ready to baby proof the Jersey Shore house.

Vin said he’ll do whatever he can to help his friend: “We’re all family. Whatever she needs. We’ll turn the smush room into a nursery and there we go.”

In all seriousness, he says Snooks “will be a great mom. She’s already drastically changed her life. I think this is a good wakeup call. I think she’ll be great.”

Getting. It. In.

Now that Snooki’s engaged to Jionni LaValle and all, that probably puts a damper on her occasional smush room sessions with Vinny. Probably for the best.

Guadagnino was less in the loop when it came The Situation, who announced last week that he’s seeking treatment for his prescription drug problem.

“I don’t speak to Mike in general,” he admitted. “So I haven’t spoken to him. I don’t have a sense of how he’s doing now. But I wish him all the best.”

Guadagnino shot down chatter that both Snooki and The Situation will be phased out of the show given both of their life-changing circumstances.

“I don’t know if they will be there or not,” he said. “But I have a great feeling that they’re both going to be back there and nothing will change.”

Would you watch Jersey Shore sans Snooks and Mike?

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/vinny-guadagnino-snooki-will-be-a-great-mom/

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Don’t Forget to Eat Your Fruits, Veggies … and Popcorn?

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?MythBusters? Co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Will …

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1890 Myth Header11 MythBusters Co hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Will Play Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at 3 and 7 p.m. on March 25th

Adam Savage (left) and Jamie Hyneman co-host “MythBusters” on the Discover Channel

Broadway Series South will present two live performances of the MythBusters: Behind the Myths Tour, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, at 3 and 7 p.m. on March 25th in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, NC. Savage and Hyneman are the co-hosts of the Emmy? Award-nominated Discovery Channel series ?MythBusters? (2003-present).

According to Broadway Series South:

?[The MythBusters: Behind the Myths Tour] promises to be a fantastical evening of onstage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. For the first time ever, fans will join Jamie and Adam on stage and assist in their mind-blowing and mind-twisting approach to science.

?MythBusters: Behind the Myths brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience.

?The show is on a 31-city national tour that [began] in Modesto, CA on Jan. 6, 2012.

?One of the Discovery Channel?s most highly regarded and watched series, ?MythBusters? is now in its ninth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, ?MythBusters? mixes scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style of explosive experimentation ? and the supporting or de-bunking of urban myths that we live with day to day.

?Adam and Jamie have become spokespersons at large for applying science to real life ? most recently as hosts of the Discovery Channel special ?iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World,? and have appeared on numerous shows including ?Late Show with David Letterman,? ?Good Morning America,? ?The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,? ?The Colbert Report,? NPR?s ?All Things Considered? and ?Morning Edition,? ?Countdown with Keith Olberman,? and many more. They were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?s ?Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity,? and have received the Young Artist Award for inspiring young people in the interest of science. ?MythBusters? has been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where their appearances have sold-out four years running.

?Adam and Jamie serve as guest editors for Popular Mechanics and were featured on the cover of the September 2009 issue. That same year, they were inducted as honorary members into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. They are Honorary Lifetime Members of the California Science Teachers Association, and were named Honorary Engineers and Honorary Members of the Francis Crowe Society at the University of Maine.

?Adam and Jamie produced and starred in an H1N1 Public Service Announcement for the White House, and were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend, using 500 schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.

?They appeared as themselves in the movie The Darwin Awards [2006] and have made several cameos on other TV shows, including ?CSI.? And in 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.

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Jamie Hyneman (left) and Adam Savage will conduct onstage experiments and encourage audience participation during their “MythBusters” tour

?About Jamie Hyneman:

?Jamie Hyneman is the owner of M5 Industries, an effects company specializing in problematic custom builds. Besides serving as headquarters of ?MythBusters,? M5 continues to work on various research & development projects for private clients.

?After trying his hand at careers as various as librarian at the United Nations in Geneva to running a diving and sailing charter business in the Caribbean, Hyneman began his career in show business as special effects shop assistant in New York and later in San Francisco as a crew member on films including Robocop [1987], Arachnophobia [1990], and Naked Lunch [1991].

?While managing Colossal Pictures? model shop in San Francisco, Hyneman was given the opportunity to take over ? and M5 Industries was born.

?Hyneman graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Russian. He has received an honorary engineering degree from the University of Maine as well as an honorary doctorate of engineering from Villanova University, with whom he has an ongoing collaborative relationship to help develop new safety concepts for the military. He is the holder of several patents and the winner of numerous industry awards.

?Hyneman currently resides the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.

?About Adam Savage:

?Adam Savage joined M5 in 2002 after receiving a call from former boss Jamie Hyneman to participate in a TV pilot, which turned into the wildly popular Discovery Channel series ?MythBusters.?

?Savage immersed himself in the NYC arts scene before moving to San Francisco in 1990 to parlay his skills into the thriving theater scene. There he worked for dozens of companies as set designer, prop master, art director and producer before falling into the machine art community where he learned welding, pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, and robot-building.

?After exhibiting his work in over 50 art shows nationwide, Savage caught the eye of the special effects industry and began working as a prop builder and art director for major commercials for Sega, Coca-Cola, Nike, Burger King, and Chevrolet. His work on a Coca-Cola commercial earned him a Clio Award nomination.

?After a 18-month stint as head of research & development for startup toy company ZOOB, Savage joined George Lucas? Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on Star Wars: Episodes 1 and 2 [1999 and 2002, respectively], Galaxy Quest [1999], Space Cowboys [2000], A.I. [2001], Terminator 3 [2003], The Mummy [1999], and dozens of commercials. During this time he also worked as model-shop supervisor for the two Matrix sequels [both 2003], as well as taught at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.

?Savage continues to dabble in his multiple hobbies, including passionately restoring his vintage four-wheel drive vehicle and accruing new pieces for his movie prop collection. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, twin boys and two dogs.?

Broadway Series South presents the MYTHBUSTERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS TOUR, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, at 3 and 7 p.m. March 25 in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., Raleigh, North Carolina 27601.

TICKETS: $37.55-$163.85 (including fees).

BOX OFFICE:

Progress Energy Box Office: 919-996-8700 or info@progressenergycenter.com (information only).

Ticketmaster: 800-745-3000 or http://www.ticketmaster.com/venueartist/115203/1186209.

GROUP RATES (10+ tickets): 919-996-8707., group@raleighconvention.com, or http://www.progressenergycenter.com/broadway-series-south/group-sales.

SHOW: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/event/mythbusters-1890.

VIDEO PREVIEWS: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters/.

PRESENTER: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/broadway-series-south.

VENUE: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/venue/memorial-auditorium.

DIRECTIONS: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/directions.

PARKING: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/parking.

OTHER LINKS:

MythBusters: Behind the Myths Tour: http://www.mythbusterstour.com/ (official website) and http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/tour/ (Discovery Channel).

?MythBusters?: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/mythbusters/ (Discovery Channel) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters (Wikipedia).

Jamie Hyneman: http://www.m5industries.com/ (official website) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Hyneman (Wikipedia).

Adam Savage: http://adamsavage.com/ (official website) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Savage (Wikipedia).

EDITOR?S NOTE:

Robert W. McDowell is editor and publisher of Triangle Theater Review, a FREE weekly e-mail theatrical newsletter that provides more comprehensive, in-depth coverage of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill theater than all of the other news media combined. This preview is reprinted with permission from Triangle Theater Review.

To start your FREE subscription to this newsletter, e-mail RobertM748@aol.com and type SUBSCRIBE TTR in the Subject: line.

To read all of Robert W. McDowell?s Triangle Theater Review previews and reviews online at Triangle Arts & Entertainment, click http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/author/robert-w-mcdowell/.

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Sununu: Santo “Completely Lost It” (TIME)

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Family of American slain in Yemen return home

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Mar 25

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? The father of slain American Joel Shrum says Shrum’s wife and children have returned home safely to the U.S. from Yemen.

Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch claimed responsibility for Shrum’s death last Sunday, saying he was trying to spread Christianity in the mainly Muslim Arab nation.

The 29-year-old Shrum, of Mount Joy, Pa., was gunned down in Taiz, where he had been living with his wife and two sons. He was studying Arabic and teaching English at a language institute. Shrum’s parents, of Harrisburg, Pa., said he went to Yemen to learn Arabic, not to proselytize.

Shrum’s father, James Shrum, said Saturday in an email that he does not know yet when his son’s body will arrive home. He said a PNC Bank fund has been set up for his son’s family.

Associated Press

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Police: Islamic gunman dead after French standoff

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Mar 24

TOULOUSE, France (AP) ? An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died Thursday after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shootout with police, a French minister said.

Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the suspect, who claimed links to al-Qaida, jumped out after police entered the apartment Thursday and found him holed up in the bathroom.

The death of Mohamed Merah, 23, ended a more than 32-hour standoff with an elite police squad trying to capture him alive. Merah was wanted in the deaths of seven people, three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi, all killed over 10 days. Another student and another paratrooper were wounded in his attacks.

Police said, during hours of negotiations Wednesday when the standoff first began, Merah admitted to being proud of the seven slayings he carried out in three motorcycle shooting attacks around the southwestern city of Toulouse. They are believed to be the first killings inspired by Islamic radical motives in France in more than a decade.

Authorities said Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent, espoused a radical form of Islam and had been to Afghanistan and the Pakistani militant stronghold of Waziristan, where he claimed to have received training from al-Qaida.

Elite police squads set off sporadic blasts throughout the night and into the morning ? some blew off the apartment’s shutters ? in what officials described as a tactic aimed to pressure Merah to give up. A new set of detonations, known as flash bangs, resounded at 10:30 a.m. (0930 GMT), portending the end to the standoff.

“The killer came out of the bathroom, firing with extreme violence,” Gueant said, adding that the RAID squad had “never seen an assault like it.”

The volley of gunfire resounded throughout the neighborhood Thursday morning, and two police officers were wounded in the firefight.

Gueant said police “went in by the door, taking off the door first. They also came in by the windows.”

He said police used special video equipment to search the second-floor apartment but found him nowhere, until the special instruments surveyed the bathroom.

“The killer came out” firing “with extreme violence,” Gueant told reporters. Police “tried to protect themselves and fired back.”

“Mohamed Merah jumped out the window, gun in hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground,” Gueant said.

Gueant said the suspect had told the police Wednesday night that he would not surrender and that he would kill police if they try to arrest him.

That was the turning point in the decision to move in, the minister said.

Holed up alone in an otherwise evacuated apartment building, Merah clung to his few remaining assets, like a small arsenal and authorities’ hopes of taking him alive. On Wednesday, he appeared to toy with police negotiators ? first saying he would surrender in the afternoon, then saying he would surrender under the cover of darkness, then reneging on those pledges altogether.

Police said Merah told negotiators he killed a rabbi and three young children at a Jewish school on Monday and three French paratroopers before that to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and to protest the French army’s involvement in Afghanistan, as well as a government ban last year on face-covering Islamic veils.

French authorities ? like others across Europe ? have long been concerned about “lone-wolf” attacks by young, Internet-savvy militants who find radical beliefs online, since they are harder to find and track.

“Lone wolves are formidable adversaries,” Gueant said.

He defended France’s efforts to fight terrorism over the past decade, saying 700 people have been detained and about 60 “Islamists with terrorist tendencies” are currently in French prisons.

Even before Merah’s death, the lawyer who had defended him for years on a series of criminal charges predicted a dramatic and somber end to the standoff.

“He wants to show he is exceptional, omnipotent, and this approach can only end up as something tragic,” Christian Etelin said on news channel i-Tele on Thursday.

He said Merah had tried to join the military but was rejected. He said Merah was also disillusioned after a string of convictions for petty crimes and after efforts to reduce his sentences through work programs failed.

“He felt rejected by the periods of detention he was handed out, and for his wish to defend France in the army. Now, he is in a process of hate,” Etelin said.

Police said they had to capture Merah to prevent more deaths.

“He has no regrets, except not having more time to kill more people, and he boasts that he has brought France to its knees,” prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference Wednesday.

Molins said Merah had plans to kill another soldier, which prompted the first police raid at around 3 a.m. Wednesday. After that erupted into a firefight, wounding two police, the standoff dragged on, with on-and-off negotiations with the suspect that lasted through the night.

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Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-islamic-gunman-dead-french-standoff-113237385.html

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Santorum’s Last Stand or Romney’s Time to Seal the Deal?

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Mar 23

CHICAGO – Basking in the glow of his commanding win in Illinois on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney delivered his victory speech in Schaumburg, Ill., but it may be another? state 40 miles north? that?once and for all seals the deal for the GOP front-runner: Wisconsin.

While Romney focused his?victory speech on a general election showdown with President Obama and his top strategist Eric Fehrnstrom called on other candidates to “step aside,” the Republican primary seems destined to continue at least through April 3, when Wisconsin, along with Maryland and the District of Columbia, heads to the polls. It is there that Romney will have a real chance to end what has been a long, drawn-out primary.

With a 300 delegate lead over his closest rival, Rick Santorum – 563 to 263 – Romney, as evidenced by his speech in Schaumburg, is eager to focus his attacks on Obama rather than his fellow Republican hopefuls. Romney’s resounding triumph in Illinois – he took 47 percent of the vote compared?with 35 percent for Santorum, a difference of more than 100,000 votes – gives the former Massachusetts governor a compelling argument for Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul to exit the race. But not one of the three has shown any inclination to do so. Gingrich and Paul, at this point, have become irrelevant in the primary, but Santorum still holds out faint hope of making a comeback.?If he is to pull that off,? he has to score an unexpected victory in the very near future.

?Santorum, it seems, will likely win in Louisiana on Saturday, but that will do little to change the momentum of the race. Come April 3, the former Pennsylvania senator will be hard-pressed to find a lot of support in Maryland and is not even on the ballot in D.C. After that, the next round of primaries does not take place until April 24, when New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania all vote. Only Pennsylvania is? remotely friendly territory for Santorum, but even?there the voters ?kicked him out of the Senate after?one term. It’s not exactly a great home-field advantage.

That all makes April 3 in Wisconsin the last best chance for Santorum to get back into the race. Win the Badger State and Santorum will be back in the conversation, at least until April 24. Lose, and he will merely be an afterthought going forward, a dead man walking. Santorum will waste little time in making his case to Wisconsin voters. He heads there Saturday to address a conference in Milwaukee. Romney is also expected to visit the state later this month, while his wife, Ann, will campaign in Madison and Milwaukee on Thursday.

If past is prologue, Santorum will know that the road ahead is an uphill climb. In the past three Midwestern states to vote – Illinois, Ohio and Michigan – Santorum has suffered crucial defeats. In each state, Romney had better organization and far more money, a lethal combination for his rivals. In Illinois, for instance, Santorum failed to qualify for the ballot in four of the state’s 18 congressional districts and was outspent by an eight to?one ?margin statewide and a 21 to one margin in the Chicago area. Making matters worse, Santorum did himself no favors by declaring that he did not care about the unemployment rate – this in a state where the jobless rate is a full point higher than the national average. What had once appeared to be a close race in Illinois ended up being anything but.

?Romney and his allies have already started to flex their financial muscle in Wisconsin. His super PAC – Restore Our Future – has bought around $1.3 million worth of airtime in the state, with ads on the air dating back to March 15. The Santorum campaign, by contrast, has? shelled out only $54,000 in Wisconsin to date, and his super PAC – the Red, White and Blue Fund – has yet to spend a dime there.

That does not bode well for Santorum’s chances in a state that has 42 delegates on offer and the potential to snuff out any hope he has of pulling off a shocking upset. Another factor working against him is that Romney is viewed as the favorite in Waukesha County, a wealthy, educated area just to the west of Milwaukee. Romney so far has used his strength in the most urban areas of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio to catapult him to statewide victories. In Illinois, it was the Chicago area. In Michigan, around Detroit. And in Ohio, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. In Wisconsin next month, Romney will hope to replicate that magic in Milwaukee and Madison.

Do not be surprised if he succeeds. And if Romney does take the Badger State – as well as D.C. and Maryland that same day – then it will be fair to declare the GOP race over once and for all, even if Santorum, Gingrich ?and Paul continue to argue otherwise.

Matthew Jaffe is covering the 2012 campaign for ABC News and Univision.

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Restaurant Franchising Opportunities- A Great Investment
Author: Jones. Martha.
If you are planning to start a new business that helps you to open new gateways of profit, food industry is quite a tempting sector that you will surely love to invest in. But before investing, it is necessary to have good knowledge about the food industry and other relevant issues. It is very important to decide well about what type of business is suitable for you. Restaurant franchising opportunities is the best option if you are newbie in the food industry, as it will allow you to explore and enjoy the readymade business.
There are many brand food organizations that offer a wide variety of restaurant franchising opportunities such as fast food centre, health food centre, take away centre and many more. To make things easier and successful for you, this franchisee provides you proper marketing strategy and training help. You will come across many franchising opportunities who hand over different strategies for your business. So before becoming an authorized franchise dealer of any brand, make sure you select the one which you are more interested.
There are basic things which you should consider if you are opting into the business of food industry. It is very important to know before buying any franchisee, the kind of skills you posses to run the business. Restaurant business is the one which you need to work for hours and ensure that all your customers are satisfied. All these skills are essential in order to have both financial and management keeping skills. Another main thing one should do before investing into venture is to do deep research. Ensure that the facilities offered by the franchise offer quick serve restaurants facilities. All this crucial information will help you in leading your business in the market successfully.
The food industry is a big one with various segments and sectors to explore. Hence it is important that you know your choice of restaurant franchising opportunities before taking your step forward in this industry. From fast food, healthy food to multi cuisine restaurants, there are ample of restaurant franchise opportunities waiting for you to explore and invent. It is always suggested that you research and survey about the changing eating habits and trends of people well before deciding on your choice of business in order to enjoy profitable gain.
Another major thing to consider before opting for your choice of restaurant franchising opportunities is that you should know about the budget or fund that you can afford. Different companies require for different values as fee in accordance to the market reputation and recognition.
One major factor that is of utmost importance while running a restaurant for sale is that of consistency. People come back to the same place if they receive same quality of service, if not better, and this consistency of providing quality food and service forms a loyal customer base. If you think that the restaurant business is ideal for you, and then you just need to search in online directories where you will find thousands of restaurant franchising opportunities awaiting you.

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