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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Cory Booker Jokes Mayor Job Drove Him to Drink - Coffee That Is

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker answered viewer questions from Facebook and Twitter for an ABC News' web exclusive before joining the This Week roundtable on Sunday. After Booker discussed his future Senate plans, his time as Newark mayor, and his Twitter routine, he admitted to a few other personal habits. He's a self-proclaimed 'Trekkie,' loves Ben & Jerry's ice cream, late night television, and believes that his job "drove him to drink" - but coffee is the vice in question.

"I did not drink coffee before this job. I always say this job drove me to drink," Booker joked.

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How many hours a day do you spend on Twitter?

"I guess it's so seamless that I don't really think about it that way. So it's like going from meeting to meeting, or waiting for people to come into the office. A lot of it happens in the early morning when I wake up or late at night, which gives a lot of my followers this idea that I don't sleep. But if I wake up? like this morning around four o'clock, I'll start checking my Twitter and responding to people."

Do you feel you can take a day off from tweeting?

"You know, it's so integrated. It's like saying 'do I want to take a day off from talking or do I want to take a day off from connecting to people.' And I've looked at the averages, maybe sometimes 15, 20 tweets a day. Sometimes it goes down, sometimes it goes up depending on what's going on. But? this is the democratization of our democracy in a weird way. Because so many forces are pulling people away, leaders away from the people, special interest groups, money in politics, creating more of an elite environment. But I think that social media has a chance to pull people back and have politicians far more accessible, far more transparent, far more connected, and ultimately move from a hierarchical society to a level playing field."

What are your thoughts on 'Clinton/Booker 2016'?

"Unless Clinton/Booker 2016 is some kind of new rock band that might be coming out? look, at the end of the day in life, purpose is far more important than position. And so many of us lose sight of where we are by looking at where we're going to go. So right now I'm mayor of the city of Newark and I love what I'm doing. In many ways, this is my highest aspiration in terms of having a job where I can really help people. The next thing I'm thinking about doing next year is possibly running for the United States Senate. But I think when you start going further? from that, it starts to get a little absurd."

What do you believe is your best policy achievement as mayor?

"I think the best thing you can say, and it's less policy and more spirit, is that we've taken a city that used to be disregarded, disrespected, and just plain dissed, that was losing population, losing tax base, losing business, and now we've reversed those trends. Now people really have a lot of respect for Newark. First time in 60 years our population is growing. Our tax base is growing. The first new hotels in our downtown in 40 years. First new office towers in decades. So creating jobs at a pretty dramatic clip for our residents."

Lightning Round:

Favorite TV show?

"Wow. Star Trek, unequivocally so. I'm a Trekkie. So of all the Star Trek universe, I would say 'The Next Generation' was my favorite."

Favorite character?

"Jean-Luc Picard, of course. He's got the greatest haircut."

First concert?

"I went to a Lionel Richie concert, was my first concert. Thank you very much, I like Lionel Richie."

Pet peeve?

"I have lots of pet peeves. But I think the biggest one I have is just meanness. Rudeness. For me, it's like the deal breaker. I'm on a date, and the person is like rude to the waiter, to the bus boy, something like that, to me, I think it's just?you know, life's too short, every moment we have a chance to show kindness, and that to me is the thing I like the most about a human. When people don't even think that you're being watched, and then you see somebody bend over and pick up some trash, or help somebody, that to me lifts me the most to witness that. And the opposite of that is what makes me frustrated the most."

Guilty pleasure?

"So many. Look, I think that two things I indulge in the most? one is food, so I have an illicit relationship with two guys named Ben and Jerry. That is enjoyable. And then you know it's just bad TV. So late, late at night if I come home particularly discouraged from the day, I can see myself sitting with ice cream and watching something on TV - John Stewart, Stephen Colbert - hoping that they'll make me laugh at the end of the day before I hit the sack."

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In Nelson, Ga., you now have to own a gun

NELSON, Ga. (AP) ? Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights.

The ordinance in the city of Nelson ? population 1,300 ? was approved Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, it contains no penalties and exempts anyone who objects, convicted felons and those with certain mental and physical disabilities.

City Councilman Duane Cronic, who sponsored the measure, said he knows the ordinance won't be enforced but he still believes it will make the town safer.

"I likened it to a security sign that people put up in their front yards. Some people have security systems, some people don't, but they put those signs up," he said. "I really felt like this ordinance was a security sign for our city."

Another purpose, according to the city council's agenda, is "opposition of any future attempt by the federal government to confiscate personal firearms."

Council members in Nelson, a small city located 50 miles north of Atlanta, voted unanimously to approve the Family Protection Ordinance. The measure requires every head of household to own a gun and ammunition to "provide for the emergency management of the city" and to "provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants."

Nelson resident Lamar Kellett was one of five people who spoke during a public comment period Monday night and one of two who opposed the ordinance. Among his many objections, he said it dilutes the city's laws to pass measures that aren't intended to be enforced.

"Does this mean now 55 miles an hour speed limit means 65, 80, whatever you choose? There's not a whole lot of difference. A law's a law," he said.

Kellett also said the ordinance will have no effect, that it won't encourage people like him who don't want a gun to go out and buy one.

The proposal illustrates how the response to the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., varies widely in different parts of the country.

While lawmakers in generally more liberal states with large urban centers like New York and California have moved to tighten gun control laws, more conservative, rural areas in the American heartland have been going in the opposite direction.

Among the other efforts to broaden gun rights that have surfaced since the Newtown killings:

? Earlier Monday, lawmakers in Oklahoma scuttled a bill that would have allowed public school districts to decide whether to let teachers be armed.

? Spring City, Utah, passed an ordinance this year recommending that residents keep firearms, softening an initial proposal that aimed to require it.

? Residents of tiny Byron, Maine, rejected a proposal last month that would have required a gun in every home. Even some who initially supported the measure said it should have recommended gun ownership instead of requiring it, and worried that the proposal had made the community a laughingstock. Selectmen of another Maine town, Sabbatus, threw out a similar measure. The state's attorney general said state law prevents municipalities from passing their own firearms laws anyway.

? Lawmakers in about two dozen states have considered making it easier for school employees or volunteers to carry guns on campus. South Dakota passed such a measure last month. Individual communities from New Jersey to Colorado have voted to allow administrators or teachers to carry guns in school.

Located in the Appalachian foothills, Nelson is a tiny, hilly town with narrow, twisting roads. It's a place where most people know one another and leave their doors unlocked.

It used to be a major source of marble, with the local marble company employing many in town. But that industry is mostly gone now, Mayor Mike Haviland said. There are no retail stores in town anymore, and just about everyone leaves town for work now, making it a bedroom community for Atlanta, he said.

The mayor said he never dreamed his small city would be the focus of national and international media attention, but he understands it.

"It bumps up against the national issues on guns," he said.

Police Chief Heath Mitchell noted that the city doesn't have police officers who work 24 hours a day and is far from the two sheriff's offices that might send deputies in case of trouble, so response times to emergency calls can be long. Having a gun would help residents take their protection into their own hands, he said.

But the chief ? the town's sole police officer ? acknowledged the crime rate is very low. He mostly sees minor property thefts and a burglary every few months. The most recent homicide was more than five years ago, he said.

The ordinance is modeled after a similar one adopted in 1982 by Kennesaw, an Atlanta suburb. City officials there worried at the time that growth in Atlanta might bring crime to the community, which now has about 30,000 residents. Kennesaw police have acknowledged that their ordinance is difficult to enforce, and they haven't made any attempt to do so.

Leroy Blackwell, 82, has lived in Nelson for about 50 years and owns a hunting rifle he keeps in a closet. He said before the council's decision that he would support the ordinance even if it didn't have exemptions, but he would have preferred it to be voluntary.

"Really, I think it would be more fair to put it to a vote" so everybody could have a say, he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ga-city-council-votes-require-gun-ownership-003042709.html

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Mashaal re-elected as Hamas leader

CAIRO (AP) ? The Islamic militant group Hamas on Monday re-elected longtime leader Khaled Mashaal, officials said, choosing a relative pragmatist who has sparred with movement hardliners in the past over his attempt to reconcile with Western-backed Palestinian rivals.

The secretive Hamas did not issue an announcement, but Mashaal's re-election was confirmed by two Hamas officials. The vote late Monday capped a year of internal elections spread over several countries and shrouded in mystery.

The Qatar-based Mashaal, 56, has led Hamas since 1996 and won another four-year term. He ran unopposed and won the support of a majority in Hamas' Shura Council which has about 60 members, said the two Hamas officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to discuss the secret election with reporters.

Mashaal enjoys the backing of regional powers Turkey, Egypt and Qatar, countries where Hamas' parent movement, the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood, is influential.

It's not clear if his re-election will give him enough clout to pursue reconciliation or if hardliners, particularly those based in the Gaza Strip, will be able to veto a deal.

Hamas wrested Gaza from Mahmoud Abbas, the internationally backed Palestinian president, in 2007, leaving him with only parts of the West Bank. Since then, the rivals have established separate governments that have become increasingly entrenched in their respective territories.

Last year, Mashaal and Abbas, who have cordial relations, reached a deal whereby Abbas would head an interim government of technocrats in the West Bank and Gaza. This government would have paved the way for general elections.

However, the deal never got off the ground because of opposition from Hamas leaders in Gaza and senior figures in Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas leaders in Gaza were particularly vehement in their objections, apparently fearing that a unity deal would give Abbas a new foothold in Gaza and weaken Hamas' grip on the territory.

Last week, the emir of Qatar proposed holding a reconciliation conference in Egypt in coming weeks to set up a timetable for forming the interim government and holding elections.

Mashaal's re-election could further distance Hamas from long-time patron Iran, which has supplied cash and weapons to the Hamas government in Gaza. Hamas broke with another long-time ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad, more than a year ago, over Assad's brutal crackdown on a popular revolt that turned into an armed insurgency.

Mashaal's relations with Iran cooled after he refused to back Assad, an Iranian ally, and Mashaal last visited Tehran in November 2011.

Other senior Hamas figures continue to visit Tehran and ties have not broken off, but Mashaal has found a new home in Qatar, one of Iran's regional rivals.

Hamas was founded in Gaza in 1987, as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. It has four components ? activists in Gaza, in the West Bank, in exile and those imprisoned by Israel. In the internal elections, each of the four groups chose local leaders as well as delegates to the Shura Council.

This council selects a decision-making political bureau and the head of that body ? the stage that was wrapped up in Cairo on Monday. Details about the composition of the political bureau were not available Monday.

Mashaal is seen as a member of the more pragmatic wing of Hamas, in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He and others in Hamas insist the movement will not recognize Israel and renounce violence ? Western conditions for dealing with Hamas.

Mashaal has suggested he could accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel, though he has not said if such a state would end the conflict, or be an interim step to an Islamic state in all of historic Palestine, including what is now Israel.

Mashaal has also come out in support of so-called popular resistance against Israeli occupation, a term Palestinians use for marches and stone-throwing protests. In previous rounds of conflict, Hamas gunmen and suicide bombers have killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks.

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Laub reported from Ramallah, West Bank.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-elects-mashaal-leader-193105438.html

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Novartis India will continue to file for patents: executive

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Novartis India Ltd, a unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, will continue to file for patents in India, its vice chairman said on Monday, after the country's top court rejected its plea for patent protection of its drug Glivec.

Novartis India will also continue to invest there, but with caution, Ranjit Shahani, who is also the managing director of the company, told reporters after the Supreme Court judgment.

Earlier on Monday, the court dismissed Novartis' petition seeking patent protection for cancer drug Glivec, a serious blow to Western pharmaceutical firms who are increasingly focusing on India to drive sales.

(Reporting by Kaustubh Kulkarni; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/novartis-india-continue-file-patents-executive-093050990--finance.html

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New Card Game 'Legend of the Cipher' Teaches Players How To ...

(AllHipHop News)?Today (March 30th) is ?International Tabletop Day.? A?day, promoted by popular YouTube channel?Geek & Sundry,?that is dedicated to building bonds with friends and family by playing card and board games at home and at local events across the globe.

So how can Hip-Hop help celebrate having fun on ?Tabletop Day??

One self-financed start-up company based in Boston, Massachusetts has filled in the rap void in the tabletop world by combining freestyling and gaming in the new?Legend of the Cipher.

Noticing the lack of strategy card games involving Hip-Hop, co-founders Ben Sanchez and Todd Anderson created Legend of the Cipher?as a combination of Hip-Hop karaoke and Magic: The Gathering.

Anderson and Sanchez were later joined by rapper Seth Brown and graphic designer Zeen Rachidi as the four Hip-Hop heads continuously strived to answer the question: How can we take Hip-Hop and convert it to the tabletop medium?

After three years of development and two failed versions, the team finally hit the right note with the rendition displayed at this year?s PAX East gaming showcase in Boston. Now Legend of the Cipher is available for the general public to purchase and play, and not just by people who are already invested in Hip-Hop or gaming.

?We have video [from Pax East]?of people who have never rapped in their lives, have no interest in Hip-Hop, don?t listen to it, come sit down play our game and are rapping inside of forty-five minutes,? says Rachidi.

The way the game works is that each person plays as an emcee trying to become the ?legend of the cipher? by successfully achieving 5 different levels -?local, nice, boss, icon, and then legend. Players level up by accumulating currency in the form of ?hype? which is collected as your career grows throughout the game.

In order to earn more ?hype? and get to perform at larger venues, players have to?buy more opportunities by?rapping a certain number of bars based on the cards in their hand.

The game can be played ?raps on? or ?raps off.? ?In the ?raps on? format the player has to actually rap out loud in order to receive a reward. Players have a choice to read printed lyrics on the selected card, freestyle their own lyrics, recite bars from their favorite rapper, or perform a rap cover of other songs.

Beyond the fun of pretending to be an aspiring emcee looking for fame and fortune, Legend of the Cipher also ties in the business aspect of the rap industry which allows participants to get a better understanding of the non-musical parts of what it takes to be a rap star.

?This is a real life skill that you are learning that you can transpose into the real world,? adds Rachidi. ?Not a lot of games offer that.?

There are particular cards called ?Moves? (wild cards that affect the game like the ?flip the script? card which gives you an edge when you challenge another rapper who is at a higher level), ?Crew? (employees like promoters, producers, and lawyers that are paid to assist you), ?Ventures? (businesses that can be purchased like independent record labels that can earn you more currency), ?Shine? (items you can buy like chains, vehicles, and clothes that can earn you more hype), and ?Allies? (real underground artists like Wax, EOM, Alyssa Marie, and Prince Ea?that you can collaborate with.)

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The ?Allies? stable will continue to expand as more and more independent artists with growing fanbases are added to cards available to buy online. Each artist will also have a profile on the LOC?website with links to each rapper?s various social media sites.

This allows players of the game to continue to discover new rising rappers, and for those rappers to expand their reach to a growing audience.

New ?Moves? and ?Crew? cards will also be added, and?eventually the creators of?LOC?want to incorporate real life?executives, managers, promoters, famous venues, and other authentic rap related people and places into the game.

The?team is already talking about producing All-Female, Dirty South, East Coast, West Coast, and overseas expansions as well.

Legend of the Cipher?is a game that salutes and promotes Hip-Hop culture by providing a virtual blueprint on how to make it in the rap music industry, but it?can also be an effective classroom tool.

?We had a teacher from Brooklyn say that she could write a lesson plan around our game,? says Rachidi. ?She could incorporate it into her program because it teaches kids skills like creative writing and public speaking. It also teaches basic business skills.?

Initially, Rachidi, Anderson, Sanchez, and Brown thought Legend of the Cipher?s?target audience would be a niche market of Hip-Hop fans who were also tabletop gamers, but they soon discovered that the interest group for their product was much larger than expected.

Hip-Hop has become so extensive that people of different races, ages, and interests can all find some part of the culture that they can latch on to. Gaming is just the latest realm impacted by one of the most influential cultural creations in human history.

?Hip-Hop is such a vast and diverse ecosystem that there is something for everybody,? Rachidi gladly acknowledges. ?I don?t care how weird you are there is someone just as weird as you out there rapping about what you love.?

With Legend of the Cipher,?now anyone can learn to rap about that thing they love too- no matter how weird.

For more information about Legend of the Cipher visit?www.legendofthecipher.com/.

To connect with LOC follow them @Cipher_Legend.

Watch video of Legend of the Cipher?highlights at Pax East 2013 below.

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Best bets: 'Mad Men' swings back onto the air

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

Be they demons, advertising executives, or dinosaurs -- or all of the above -- a batch of familiar faces are back again this week. Here's our pick for the three best entertainment offerings of the week ahead.

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"Mad Men" returns for its second-to-last season.

FRIDAY: 'Evil Dead'
The original "Evil Dead" film series has some of the scariest scenes in horror-film history. Yes, you always knew there was a reason to avoid creepy cellars in isolated cabins -- but maybe you never knew how scary tree branches could be. Original director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell served as producers, and Oscar-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody reportedly helped tweak the script. Variety calls the result, "The rare remake that likely will be enjoyed most by diehard fans of its predecessor." (Opens April 5.)

FRIDAY: 'Jurassic Park 3-D'
"Jurassic Park" is a great movie by itself, but we have high hopes for the 3-D version, which hits theaters this week to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary. Sure, going back to an already filmed movie and adding the extra dimension doesn't always work out, but we can't think of a film we'd more like to see it tried upon than this one. The raptors, the T-rex, the chilling hide-and-seek in the theme park's kitchen! Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. (Opens April 5.)

SUNDAY: 'Mad Men'
It's about time season six of "Mad Men" rolled around. It's 1967 -- or it was when we left off -- a tumultous time in the nation, and surely for our characters as well. The cast must continue to deal with the fallour from Lane's suicide, and Don and Megan grapple with issues in their own marriage as her career begins to rise. ?Showrunner Matthew Weiner isn't revealing much about what's coming, but he did promise the new season will bring "a lot of insight into Don, a new dynamic, and people striving to grow up. (Premieres April 7, 9 p.m., AMC.)

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