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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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US withdrawal from Europe-based missile shield will impact Israel's defense
DEBKAfile Special Report - Feb 11, 2013
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday, Feb. 10 echoed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini?s ?rejection of direct talks with the US four days ago which he said were on the grounds that they ?would solve nothing? because, "You are holding a gun against Iran.?
Ahmadinejad added its own rider to this dismissal: ?God willing, soon Iran?s satellite will be located in orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, next to others from four or five advanced powers and it will relay a message of peace and fidelity to the world,? he said.
The boast that Iran would soon be the world?s sixth space power came two weeks after Tehran claimed to have put a monkey in orbit around earth, although it did not report bringing back to earth either the space capsule or the monkey.
Indeed, US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, pouring a healthy dose of skepticism on the very existence of the project, commented: ?The Iranians said they sent a monkey, but the monkey they showed later seemed to have different facial features.?
Tehran is again caught wandering at ease through its favorite terrain between fact, hyperbole and fiction about its achievements, whether in space or its nuclear program.
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In recent weeks, reelected Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed he wants a broad government coalition for the critical objective of preventing Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.
The question is how does he propose to achieve this when tough US and European sanctions have not just failed to stop Iran in its tracks but accelerated its nuclear progress. Iran is now estimated to be within four months of a nuclear bomb capacity from the moment a decision is taken to build one.
Those months are critical: On February 25 the five UN Security Council?s permanent members plus Germany sit down with Iran in Kazakhstan for a fresh round of negotiations. Former rounds in this format led nowhere and no breakthrough is expected this time either beyond, at best, a date for a continuation.
On March 20, President Barack Obama arrives in Israel for the first foreign trip of his second term. The purpose of his visit is plain, except to Netanyahu?s domestic rivals: Facing a 50 percent cutback in military spending, the Obama administration cannot credibly threaten to go to war against a recalcitrant Iran. But the US president may still wave the Israeli military option in Tehran?s face.
Not that the ayatollahs are likely to be impressed. Khomeini and Ahmadinejad have both dismissed talks with Washington "with a gun" at their head, meaning that they are not scared of the Israeli gun the Americans are putting to their heads.
In fact, the Islamic rulers of Tehran are reported by DEBKAfile?s intelligence and Iranian sources to be fully confident that they are home and dry as a nuclear power after a secret US Pentagon research study was leaked that ?casts doubt on whether the multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe? (originally by the Bush administration) ?can ever protect the US from Iranian missiles as intended.?
Clearly the missile shield against Iran, which aroused ire in Moscow, will likely fall under the U.S. defense budget axe.
The missile shield in Europe was also designed to defend Israel and Turkey against Iranian ballistic missile attack. Leaving it unfinished because of ?flaws? exposes both those countries to such attack.
President Obama will no doubt tell Netanyahu that the system for intercepting medium-range Iranian missiles is to be scrapped. However, he will have to take into account that if the Iranians do finally manage to put a capsule in orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, they will be able to fire a ballistic missile at any point on earth as well, including the United States. Even if they did fail to put a primate in space, they will keep on trying and advancing until they get there.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
'Being Mandela:' Granddaughters dish on show
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, Swati Dlamini, left, and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, granddaughters of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, speak during an interview in New York. The sisters are stars of the new reality show "Being Mandela," produced by COZI TV for NBC. The 30-minute weekly show premieres on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 9 PM ET and will follow the next generation of Mandela family through the experiences of sisters Zaziwe and Swati and their families. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, Swati Dlamini, left, and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, granddaughters of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, speak during an interview in New York. The sisters are stars of the new reality show "Being Mandela," produced by COZI TV for NBC. The 30-minute weekly show premieres on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 9 PM ET and will follow the next generation of Mandela family through the experiences of sisters Zaziwe and Swati and their families. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, Swati Dlamini, left, and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, granddaughters of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, pose during an interview in New York. The sisters are stars of the new reality show "Being Mandela," produced by COZI TV for NBC. The 30-minute weekly show premieres on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 9 PM ET and will follow the next generation of Mandela family through the experiences of sisters Zaziwe and Swati and their families. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, Swati Dlamini, left, and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, granddaughters of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, pose during an interview in New York. The sisters are stars of the new reality show "Being Mandela," produced by COZI TV for NBC. The 30-minute weekly show premieres on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 9 PM ET and will follow the next generation of Mandela family through the experiences of sisters Zaziwe and Swati and their families. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The newest reality television show is in some ways like any other: mother and daughters, sibling rivalry, family gossip and talk of Big Grandpa, who is very strict but loves it when his great-grandchildren are around making a racket. But that's where the twist comes in: Big Grandpa is Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid legend.
"Being Mandela," a new series premiering Sunday on COZI TV, invites U.S. audiences into the lives of Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Swati Dlamini, the fashionable, 30-something granddaughters of Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The 94-year-old former South African president, who recently was treated for a lung infection and had surgery to remove gallstones, does not appear in the series but his controversial ex-wife ? "Big Mommy" to her grandchildren ? does and seems to relish it.
If the Mandela clan seems like an odd subject for a reality show, the granddaughters make no apologies.
"We get asked this question a lot. Is this not going to tarnish the name and is this not going to be bad for the name?" Swati Dlamini said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York, where she and her sister were promoting the show. "But our grandparents have always said to us, this is our name too, and we can do what we think is best fitting with the name, as long as we treat it with respect and integrity."
The 13-episode first season follows the two women as they try to carry on the family legacy while juggling motherhood in Johannesburg.
The sisters, who spent most of their childhood in exile in the United States, make an emotional visit to the prison on Robben Island where their grandfather spent 18 of the 27 years he was imprisoned by South Africa's white-ruled government. Swati works on publishing the prison diaries that her grandmother wrote but now cannot bear to read.
Swati, whose full name is Zamaswazi, was smuggled onto Robben Island in 1980, when she would have been less than a year old, wrapped in blankets that grandmother Winnie Madikizela-Mandela pretended she needed as protection against the cold.
Let in on the secret, prison guard Christo Brand recalls initially refusing to allow Mandela to see his grandchild, according to his memoir at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
Then, Brand says, he gave in, though he feared he might lose his job. "I gave him the baby, he had tears in his eyes while he held her ..." he says. "Mandela never told anyone about this. When we walked back to the prison section, he told me how important the moment was, to touch something small."
The sisters, along with two brothers, also become the latest famous names to launch a fashion line, called "Long Walk to Freedom" in honor of their grandfather's autobiography. Their lives are special and glamorous and they know it. They hope that U.S. audiences ? COZI TV is a new network launched by NBC Owned Television Stations ? will see a vibrant and modern side of South Africa through their eyes.
They also bicker. The family, especially Madikizela-Mandela, loves to gossip about when Swati, the single mother of a 4-year-old daughter, is going to get married. Swati is furious when Zaziwe, despite being sworn to secrecy, blurts to their grandmother that her sister is dating someone. Zaziwe, 35, is married to an American businessman and has three children.
The sisters are the daughters of Zenani Mandela and Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini of Swaziland. But parents everywhere will delight in seeing that being royal doesn't help them face toddler tantrums or get older children out of bed and into school uniforms.
Big Grandpa and Big Mommy are into the show, the sisters insisted.
Mandela will definitely watch it, they said. The Nobel Peace Prize winner apparently sort of likes reality TV.
"You'll be interested to know that he loves Toddlers and Tiarras," said Swati, laughing in reference to the TLC series about child beauty pageants.
"Because of the kids! He just loves children," Zaziwe added quickly.
The sisters said their grandfather is "happy and healthy."
Zaziwe showed a Feb. 2 photograph of Mandela at home, flashing his familiar smile, with his youngest great-grandchild on his lap ? Zaziwe's one-year-old son. The picture is a rare public image of Mandela, whose last appearance on a major stage was during the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa.
Mandela, who always lamented his long separation from his family during his imprisonment, is happiest these days when his offspring are running around being loud, his granddaughters said.
"We're in and out of the house. We're loud and he loves the noise," Zaziwe said.
The granddaughters say their grandfather ? to the world, a symbol of integrity and magnanimity ? holds the family to high standards and sets rules for when the children should be home and when dinner should start.
"He's a very strict person. Most people wouldn't think that but he really, really is," Zaziwe said.
The sisters are closer to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who divorced Mandela in 1997. Their adoring description of their grandmother as the doting matriarch stands in contrast with her checkered public image. Beloved by many poor urban blacks, Madikizela-Mandela also faces accusations that she and her bodyguard unit committed 18 killings in the 1980s. She denies it.
"She's fun. She never says no to us. I don't think I've ever heard my grandmother say no to us," Zaziwe said.
Still, the series shows Big Mommy clearly taking charge of the family. She marches into the hospital room where Zaziwe gave birth to Zen with a list of possible names for the baby boy.
The sisters say it was only after Mandela retired from public life that they started to get to know their grandfather.
"Our grandfather always told us that he belongs to the country and he's of service to the country and he doesn't belong to us as a family. And that's the sacrifice he's made for the country and that what he's told us as far as I can remember," Swati said.
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AP Entertainment Writer Lauri Neff contributed to this story.
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Associated PressUK 'phone-sat' ready for orbit
7 February 2013
Last updated at 05:02 ET
Artist's rendition of the satellite in orbit and how the phone is fitted inside
The world's first "smartphone-sat" is ready for launch.
Known as Strand-1, the British-built spacecraft will be fully controlled by a Google Nexus device during part of its six-month mission in orbit.
The project has been led from the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), both in Guildford.
Strand-1 was packed off to India this week for a rocket launch that is likely to occur at the end of the month.
The Nexus One has not been physically modified in anyway and will be an interesting test of everyday consumer electronics, says Dr Chris Bridges, SSC's lead engineer on the venture.
"We haven't gutted the Nexus. We've done lots and lots of tests on it; we've put our own software on it. But we've essentially got a regular phone, connected up the USB to it and put it in the satellite," he told BBC News.
"This is about looking at the latest technologies that are out there and seeing whether they are up to the harsh challenge of space."
Thrusting approachThe smartphone will fly pressed up against a side panel of the 30cm-long, 4.3kg "cubesat".
This will allow its 5-megapixel camera to look out through a hole and take pictures of the Earth and the Moon.
Strand is an acronym that stands for Surrey Training Research and Nanosatellite Demonstration. It is part of a quest to find new thinking and new technologies.
SSTL, which is a world leader in the production of small commercial spacecraft, hopes some of the Strand lessons can filter through to its more traditional products.
For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
An important goal during these early weeks will be to test two innovative propulsion systems.
One uses the ejection of a water-alcohol mixture to provide thrust. The system is tiny but has a grand name - Warp Drive (Water Alcohol Resisto-jet Propulsion De-orbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment).
The second propulsion technology on Strand is its pulsed plasma thrusters. These use an electric current to heat and ablate a material, producing a charged gas that can then be accelerated in one direction in a magnetic field to push the cubesat in the other direction.
Both propulsion systems produce only small amounts of thrust but are very efficient in terms of how much "propellant" they consume.
Scream AppAssuming the mission goes well, the team wants eventually, gradually to turn the operation of Strand-1 over to the Nexus.
Although phones, or parts of phones, have been sent into space before, running an entire satellite through such a device has not been tried previously.
The Strand Nexus also carries a number of "apps" for science and outreach.
One of them has garnered quite a bit of publicity already. This is the "Scream in Space" app suggested by Cambridge University students.
It will see the Nexus phone play videos of people screaming to test the famous Alien movie poster statement that "In space, no-one can hear you scream". A camera looking at the phone's own display will record the likely silent screaming faces in the videos.
This alternate camera will also show the satellite's telemetry rolling across the screen for another App, and there is a simple experiment also to sense the magnetic environment in space using the Nexus' own onboard magnetometer.
"It's not likely that we are going to pick up a smartphone, as is, and put it at the core of our $30m satellites," said SSTL's head of science, Doug Liddle.
"But what is likely is that we'll pick up the approach we've used. This could be some of the phone's components, such as its wi-fi chip or Arm processor; we might be able to re-use those.
"Consider also the Android Apps (open-source) approach to developing software - that might be something that could be transplanted into our way of doing things in the future.
"It would mean that instead of having a small, niche group of spacecraft flight-software developers, you could suddenly call on a global community of app developers to help you design control or telemetry-handling systems for spacecraft."
Kinect dockingStrand-1 is booked to fly on the Indian space agency's (Isro) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on 25 February.
It is a piggyback passenger on the rocket. The main payload is a prestige Franco-Indian altimetry mission, Saral, which will measure sea-surface height. SSTL also has one of its larger platforms aboard called Sapphire, which will do space surveillance for the Canadians.
The Strand-1 cubesat will be pinged out from a spring-loaded pod mechanism at an altitude of 785km once the rocket's main business has been completed.
The terms of its UK Space Agency licence mean Strand must be brought out of the sky at the end of its mission in a timely fashion to avoid adding to the junk in orbit.
A Strand-2 is already in development. This will see two cubesats use the motion-sensing technology in Microsoft's XBox Kinect devices to locate each other in space and dock together.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
US service firms grew more slowly in January
In this Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, photo, a waitress brings a cart of dim sum to a table of customers at Chatham Square Restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York. Growth at U.S. service companies slowed slightly in January behind weaker new orders and business activity. But hiring improved, a bright sign for the economy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, photo, a waitress brings a cart of dim sum to a table of customers at Chatham Square Restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York. Growth at U.S. service companies slowed slightly in January behind weaker new orders and business activity. But hiring improved, a bright sign for the economy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Growth at U.S. service companies slowed slightly in January behind weaker new orders and business activity. But hiring improved, a bright sign for the economy.
The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its index of non-manufacturing activity dipped to 55.2 in January. That's down from 55.7 in December, which was the highest level in nearly a year. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The modest decline from December's strong reading suggests the industry was not greatly hampered by an increase in Social Security taxes that reduced take-home pay for most Americans.
Companies didn't single out the rise in payroll taxes in the survey, Anthony Nieves, chair of the ISM's survey committee, said during a conference call with reporters.
The report measures growth in industries that cover 90 percent of the work force, including retail, construction, health care and financial services.
Overall, economists were encouraged by the steady reading in the services index, as well as a sharp jump in the Institute's January manufacturing index released last week. The reports suggest economic growth is rebounding the January-March quarter after shrinking in the October-December quarter.
A gauge of hiring in the services report rose to its highest level in nearly seven years. That's consistent with the solid job gains reported by retailers, construction companies and other service firms in the government's January employment report, released last week.
Service firms and construction companies have added an average of nearly 195,000 jobs per month in the past three months. The increase in the employment gauge suggests the solid hiring will continue.
Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, blamed the dip in the overall index on the Social Security tax increase.
"But this blow has been small and cushioned by stronger demand in other sectors, namely construction," he said.
Last month Congress and the White House reached a deal to prevent income taxes from rising on most Americans.
The agreement did not extend a temporary cut in Social Security taxes, which expired on Jan. 1. The two percentage point increase means a person earning $50,000 a year will have about $1,000 less to spend in 2013. A household with two high-paid workers will have up to $4,500 less.
Most economists expect the tax increase could trim the economy's growth by about one-half a percentage point this year.
Consumers spent more in December, according to a government report last week, though the increase was slower than in November. Consumer spending drives about 70 percent of the economy.
There have been other signs that Americans have been willing to open their wallets. Consumer spending rose 2.2 percent in the October-December quarter, up from 1.6 percent in the previous quarter.
That wasn't enough to bolster the economy, which contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time in 3 ? years. But the weakness resulted from one-time factors, such as a sharp drop in company stockpiles and a steep fall in defense spending.
The ISM reported last week that its separate index for manufacturing surged on faster growth in new orders and hiring. The index rose to its highest level since April.
Service companies have been a key source of job growth this year. They have created about 90 percent of the net jobs added since January. Still, many of the new service jobs have been low-paying retail and restaurant positions.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Voodoo priestess: Curse didn't cause Superdome blackout
The Super Bowl was delayed in the 3rd quarter for more than 30 minutes due to a power outage at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. MSNBC's Milissa Rehberger reports.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
The powers-that-be are blaming an "abnormality" for the half-hour blackout that delayed the Super Bowl. But on Twitter, at least, they have another term for it: The Curse.
Legend has it that New Orleans' Superdome is vexed by the angry spirits of the poor souls once buried beneath the stadium, their remains uprooted by backhoes during construction in the early 1970s.
The Superdome became, of course, the site of many losses for the New Orleans Saints and later the misery of thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees who sheltered there.
Perhaps it's only natural -- well, supernatural, anyway -- to suggest that the alleged curse was working again Sunday night in a city that loves its superstitions as much as its football.
Voodoo priestess Miriam Chamani was once enlisted by a radio station to bless the Superdome, using a live python and a pumpkin, before the Saints faced off against the Cleveland Browns in 1999.
So what does she think zapped the juice in the third quarter as the Baltimore Raves sacked the San Francisco 49ers' quarterback?Colin Kaepernick?
"I think any time you put that much tension on the circuits in a short time, something is bound to happen," Chamani said Monday.
Mystical tension? Beyond-the-grave type tension?
"No, just a lot of people using power," she said.
But Superdome officials said the stadium was actually using less electricity than it does during a typical Saints game. None of its equipment, all upgraded since Katrina in 2005, failed.
And you can forget the Curse of Beyonce because her half-time show used its own generators.
The investigation is ongoing. For now, all officials will say is an "abnormality" at the point where power company Entergy's feed intersects with the arena's equipment prompted a circuit breaker to make the Superdome go dark.
Courtesy Miriam Chamani
Miriam Chamani, a voodoo priestess, doesn't think the Superdome is cursed -- more than any other place in New Orleans.
Bob Remy, the statistician for the Saints, who was at the game, agrees the outage was "strange."
"But it's hard to believe it's a curse," he said, pointing to the Saints' 2009 Super Bowl championships and some winning seasons by the New Orleans Hornets, who play in an arena adjacent to the Superdome.
The stadium is built over the old Girod Cemetery, where 30,000 people, including many victims of cholera and yellow fever epidemics, were buried.
The dilapidated graveyard was deconsecrated in 1957 and many of the remains relocated. But when Superdome construction began, many more were dug up, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The Saints opened their first season there with a 2-12 record and did not have a winning season until 1987 -- and the idea of a curse was born.
"I guess if you're a true believer in voodoo you might might take it seriously," said Tulane University professor Lawrence Powell, a local historian. "Most people talk about it tongue-in-cheek. At least in the circles I move in."
But the Saints themselves bought into the curse enough to hire a voodoo priestess, Ava Kay Jones, to perform rituals before two games in 2000 and 2001. Her record: 1-1.
Chamani's own ritual resulted in a Browns victory, she said, casting further doubt on the idea of a curse.
Maybe she isn't the best expert to consult, though. After all, she admits that when the lights went out Sunday, her own lights were already out.
"I went into a snooze," she said.
"I guess sometimes life is a curse itself."
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This ad for Bud Light, featuring Stevie Wonder and his hit song "Superstition," aired during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVII.
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