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Thursday, January 24, 2013

White House: Allen's NATO nomination to go ahead

FILE - This May 23, 2012 file photo shows Marine Gen. John R. Allen speaking at the Pentagon. The White House says it will go ahead with Allen's nomination to become NATO commander. The nomination had been put on hold while the Pentagon investigated Allen's email exchanges with a Florida woman linked to a sex scandal that led David Petraeus to resign as CIA director. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

FILE -- In an April 28, 2011, file photo then-Lt. Gen. John Allen, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. U.S. defense officials say Gen. Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has been cleared of allegations of sending potentially inappropriate emails to a civilian woman linked to the sex scandal that ousted David Petraeus as CIA director. The officials said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2012, the Defense Department's inspector general found the concerns about the Allen emails to be "unsubstantiated." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/file)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House said Wednesday it will go ahead with Gen. John Allen's nomination to become commander of NATO forces in Europe, following his exoneration in a Pentagon investigation of questionable email exchanges with a Florida woman linked to the sex scandal that led David Petraeus to resign as CIA director.

If confirmed by the Senate, Allen would succeed Navy Adm. James Stavridis in the NATO post. Allen is due to leave his position as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan on Feb. 10.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had put Allen's nomination on hold last November when he directed the Pentagon's inspector general to determine whether Allen's email exchanges with Jill Kelley of Tampa, Fla., amounted to wrongdoing. The emails have not been made public but were said to include flirtatious exchanges that could be judged to be inappropriate.

Allen, in a brief statement through his spokesman, said he was pleased to have been cleared.

Allen said he was glad the Pentagon investigation concluded that "the allegations against him were unsubstantiated" and that he "did not violate the requirement of exemplary conduct or the prohibition against conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman."

The FBI had referred the emails to the Pentagon in the course of its investigation of the Petraeus matter, which included email exchanges between Kelley and Paula Broadwell, who was Petraeus' biographer and later his lover. Allen had maintained from the start of the investigation that he was innocent of any misconduct.

On Tuesday the Pentagon announced that the inspector general had exonerated Allen.

White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that he hopes the Senate will consider Allen's nomination "in a timely manner."

Asked about the Pentagon investigation, Carney said, "That matter is now complete and we welcome its finding."

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Associated Press writers Jim Kuhnhenn and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

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Hasidic therapist gets 103 years in prison for sex abuse

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing a young female patient over three years in the insular Brooklyn community where they lived.

Nechemya Weberman, who was convicted last month of sexual conduct against a child, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, faced up to 117 years behind bars at his sentencing.

Now 18 years old and married, the victim was 12 years old when her parents sent her to Weberman, an unlicensed therapist, for religious counseling. From 2007 to 2010, Weberman sexually abused the girl multiple times, mostly in his office, prosecutors said.

"I would cry until my tears ran dry," said the victim, her voice shaking with emotion as she read a statement at the sentencing in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn.

"I saw a girl who had no reason to live ... a girl who wanted to live a normal life but instead was being victimized by a 50-year-old man who forced her to perform sickening acts again and again," she said.

The judge, Justice John Ingram, sentenced Weberman, 54, to 103 years in prison.

After the sentencing, the victim's husband fought back tears as he spoke to reporters.

"My wife is relieved that the children in our community will be safe," the husband said, his lower lip trembling as he struggled to maintain his composure. "We hope this sends a message of support to other victims of abusers that their voices will be heard."

He said his wife's decision to come forward was a difficult one and that they were still receiving threats from members of their community.

"The abuse of a child cannot be swept under the rug or dealt with by insular groups believing only they know what is best for their community," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.

"In this case it took the courage of a young woman to drive home the point that justice can only be achieved through the involvement of civil authorities charged with protecting all the people," Hynes said.

Kevin O'Donnell, a prosecutor in Hynes' office, said he and colleagues had learned of about 10 women who claimed they were sexually abused by Weberman, either as children or as adults. The allegations were too old under the statute of limitations to be prosecuted, except in one case in which the woman was still undecided whether she wished to proceed with her complaint.

The Hasidic community has a longtime practice of addressing sex abuse accusations internally, critics say sometimes by ignoring them or intimidating victims into silence.

In 2009, Hynes created a program called Kol Tzedek - Hebrew for Voice of Justice - to help victims of sexual abuse in Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities to come forward, including a dedicated confidential hotline. There have been 112 arrests and there are about 50 cases pending as a result of the program, according to Hynes' office.

Weberman's trial was marred by accusations of witness intimidation. At one point, four men were arrested on charges of photographing the victim in court, then posting her image on Twitter. Their cases are pending. The identity of victims in sex abuse cases is typically protected.

Outside the courtroom, Weberman's attorney, George Farkas, said his client was innocent and they would continue to appeal.

"We look forward to the man being exonerated," Farkas said. "We honestly and truly and fully believe this was a set-up."

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer and Dan Grebler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/orthodox-jewish-therapist-gets-103-years-prison-sex-193950476.html

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Mozilla devs working on Firefox for OUYA

Sure the OUYA may have captured the imagination of indie game developers everywhere, but open-source fans will be glad to know it's sparked the interest of Mozilla's Firefox team as well. According to an OUYAForum post by administrator Ed Krassenstein, a Mozilla developer had sent him a note detailing the process of bringing the popular browser to the Kickstarter-funded gaming console. The team apparently managed to get it running after some preliminary patches, but it still has a ways to go -- WebGL, Canvas and relevant API support are still lacking. The dev in question has since been identified as mobile platform engineer Chris Lord, who tweeted the revealing picture above along with the note that it's "kinda unusable" for now. Still, they do have around three months before the console ships, which could be enough for them to perfect an OUYA version of the foxy browser just in time for launch day.

[Image credit: Chris Lord, Twitter]

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White House unveils National Day of Civic Hacking to solve problems with open data

Sure, the freshly announced National Day of Civic Hacking may sound like it'll occupy a single square on your calendar, but the White House wants folks to get together on June 1st and 2nd to solve problems with a bit of coding and info from Uncle Sam. Government agencies including the Census Bureau, NASA and the Department of Labor are set to serve up publicly available data for developers and entrepreneurs to concoct solutions for problems affecting cities, states and the country. In addition to government support, the effort is being organized by outfits including Code for America, Random Hacks of Kindness and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Currently, 27 cities have events scheduled during the weekend in question, but the initiative's coordinators are looking to spawn even more powwows throughout the US. If you'd like to pitch in or submit ideas for challenges participants should tackle, hit the source links below.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

17 Dead, Dozens injured by Sequence of Car Bombs In Baghdad

A series of three car bombs situated around the city of Baghdad exploded one right after another on Tuesday?right on the heels of a string of suicide attacks that claimed 30 lives last week. The current death toll from the most recent attack is 17, with more than 50 others wounded. And this isn't going to make people feel better either: al-Qaeda may be involved. "Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, blame is likely to fall on Sunni insurgents such as al-Qaida's local franchise," according to?the Associated Press.

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Tuesday's bombs hit in the town of Mahmoudiya, the Baghdad suburb of Taji, and one more hit the Shia district in North Baghdad, reports the BBC. There's a switch that goes off in our brains anytime bombs and al-Qaeda are involved?just 11 days ago Presidents Obama and Karzai met and stressed that the big reason the withdrawal of troops in 2014 is happening is because al-Qaeda's grip on the region has weakened. A local al-Qaida affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, has taken responsibility for several recent attacks, including the assassination of a Sunni lawmaker who spoke out against them,?reports the AP.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/17-dead-dozens-injured-sequence-car-bombs-baghdad-122714595.html

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'The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie' Author Ayana Mathis: 'We Do Hunger More For Suffering Characters'

In the newest Oprah's Book Club pick, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, author Ayana Mathis traces one family's difficult journey through the turbulent decades following the Great Migration. In this video clip, Oprah asks Mathis if she thinks readers long for suffering characters more than joyful ones.

"I think readers are more accustomed to suffering characters than they are to joyful ones," Mathis says. "And I do think that in a certain way we do hunger more for suffering characters simply because people, I find, often are hesitant to discuss, air or seek support for the deepest and most painful things in their lives. And so in literature we can find companions and mirrors of [our own suffering]."

Learn how you can participate in Oprah's Book Club 2.0! Then tune in to OWN on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 11 a.m. ET for Oprah's television interview with author Ayana Mathis on "Super Soul Sunday."

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