Irish Anti-Choicers Furious That Women May Live | The Raw Story

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Friday, June 14, 2013 9:31 EDT

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Savita Halpannavar was sacrificed to Catholic religious fanaticism.

Anti-choicers in Ireland are giving the prime minister hell?because he?s supportive of liberalizing their incredibly harsh abortion ban. Enda Kenny reports, ?I?m getting medals, scapulars, plastic fetuses, letters written in blood, telephone calls all over the system, and it?s not confined to me.? Man, Catholicism does weird shit to people?s brains. It?s funny that they call themselves ?pro-life?, when their tactics?obsessing over blood, fetishizing surgical pictures, sending scalpels in the mail?seems much, much closer to the habits of a serial killer.

Which, actually, under the circumstances is totally appropriate, because this deluge of mail has?nothing?to do with ?life??fetal or otherwise?but is straightforward advocacy of murdering pregnant women through medical neglect.

Spurred by the?international outrage?surrounding the death of Savita Halpannavar ? an Indian woman who died?after being denied an emergency abortion in an Irish Catholic hospital ? Kenny approved legislation in April that would allow women to access abortion services if their life is in danger. On Wednesday, Ireland?s ministers signed off on a completed form of the legislation, and the parliament hopes to?enact it?before adjourning in July.

But, even though Ireland?s amended abortion law is still incredibly harsh ? it doesn?t include any exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal defects, and women?s health advocates caution that it?s only an?incredibly small step?toward greater reproductive rights ? the deeply conservative nation has erupted into controversy.

Because letting women live is controversial. If the vessel cannot bring forth the child, the vessel?who has no value outside of being a baby machine?needs to be tossed onto the trash. That said vessel is a human being with feelings, thoughts, and people who love her is no matter, apparently. I bet even veternarians in Ireland are allowed to abort a pet?s pregnancy if it?s a danger to the animal. That?s where women rank in the minds of anti-abortion fanatics.

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Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/14/irish-anti-choicers-furious-that-women-may-live/

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Review: Man of Steel - Montreal Gazette

Man of Steel

Rating: 3 stars

Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon

Directed by: Zack Snyder

Running time: 143 minutes

Parental guidance: Violence, coarse language

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Once upon a time, Superman was the cheeriest of superheroes, a clean-cut do-gooder with a clean-cut conscience. That was back when you could believe truth, justice and the American way were not only possible, they were synonymous.

Now there's a new Superman for a new world: darker, anguished, beset by the responsibilities of his great powers. In Man of Steel, the reboot of the Superman franchise, he's not exactly a bulletproof Batman, but he's torn between loyalties to his native planet and the strange Earthlings who torment him here.

It starts on the planet Krypton, a dark place of spaceships and flying monsters that is about to be destroyed because it has greedily mined the energy in its own core, a sort of intergalactic anti-fracking message. Top scientist Jor-El (Russell Crowe) puts his newborn baby Kal-El in a rocket ship and sends him to safety on Earth, a step ahead of the evil General Zod (Michael Shannon), who is against babies or something.

Then Jor-El is killed and Zod is banished from the planet. However, both will return later in the movie - and at these prices, they'd better.

We next see the boy - now called Clark Kent - as a bearded seaman who must rescue workers on an exploding ocean oil rig. He has grown up to be Henry Cavill, an absurdly bemuscled British actor who moreover has the most bankable dimple since Kirk Douglas. Clark is moving from town to town, or rather from disaster to disaster, disappearing after his heroic feats to remain anonymous. This isn't easy because, in moments of high stress, laser beams come out of his eyes.

Nevertheless, as we learn in one of several flashbacks, his adoptive Earth father, Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner), has told him he must keep his superpowers a secret. "When the world finds out what you can do, it's going to change everything," he says.

It's an intriguing notion, developed by director Zack Snyder, a veteran of this kind of 3D abs-over-matter legend-making (300, Watchmen) in the picture's more grounded first half.

The Superman story has always served as a sort of Christian parable, the tale of an only son sent to the world to save mankind, and Man of Steel underlines the notion: "They'll kill him," his mother says as they prepare the infant to go to Earth. "He'll be a god to them," his father says.

Jonathan's concern adds a note of ontological interest, creating a more realistic approach: Learning there's a flying alien in our midst could alter our understanding of the universe. However, in the end, when the world does learn of the man of steel, it doesn't seem to make much difference. Everyone just accepts him as a saviour in a red cape. As often happens in big-budget Hollywood films, the philosophical danger turns out to have been exaggerated.

Of course, by then everyone has been battered senseless by the never-ending final hour of Man of Steel, a battle on land, sea and air among flying creatures, U.S. Air Force bombers, long metallic tentacles that come from a spaceship that looks like a flying clam, and the sadly inevitable trope of airplanes flying into buildings, sending glass and concrete tumbling.

Snyder seems more interested in the spectacle of the thing. It lacks any sense of tragedy that you might expect from such a conflicted hero in a post-9/11 world.

Man of Steel is a huge production, and the money is splashed across the screen in endless special effects and lots of action. What are missing are the moments of surprise and humour: the joys of seeing the superhero making everyday magic. Cavill is an appealing hunk, but there's no joy in his feats. Anyone can throw spaceships around. Superman needs to come down to earth and cheer up a bit.

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Review+Steel/8523705/story.html

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Toby Keith plans concert for tornado relief

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Award-winning country music star Toby Keith is planning a benefit concert to help victims of the deadly tornadoes that hit Oklahoma in May.

"I grew up in Moore, I live in Norman and I've got lots of family and friends who were directly affected," Keith said. Moore, Okla. was the city hardest hit by the storm, and nearby Norman is where the concert will be held. "I know these folks, and they're resilient, but we're going to keep helping them any way we can. I'm proud to get together with some others from around here who are just as committed as I am to supporting these communities."

Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and Willie Nelson will also perform.

"I told Toby we were at his service for whatever he chose to do," Brooks said. "It is an honor to get to be a part of this healing process."

Keith's concert, dubbed the "Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert," will be held July 6 at the University of Oklahoma. Tickets will go on sale June 21 and will cost $25.

Singer Blake Shelton raised more than $6 million for those affected by the storms with his "Healing in the Heartland" concert held on May 29.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/country-stars-plan-concert-oklahoma-tornado-relief-6C10318690

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Kate Upton was spotted having a romantic dinner with professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy! The curvy 21-year-old model recently started dating the “Dancing With The Stars” professional. What a great looking couple! Kate Upton celebrated her birthday on Monday with a romantic dinner date in New York City. A source said of Kate and Maksim’s relationship, ...

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Court ruling may open up breast cancer gene tests

A ruling by the Supreme Court that human genes can't be patented is expected to increase access and drop the cost for tests for gene mutations that greatly raise the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

In a bit of a mixed message, the court unanimously decided that certain types of gene tests may still be protected by patents, yet it struck down patents that a company has long held for BRCA genes. The company makes the only test for two of those breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

"It appears that it will allow the market to open up so that other laboratories can offer the test," said Rebecca Nagy, a genetics counselor at Ohio State University and president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. And that should make the tests cheaper and available to more women, she said.

Hours after the ruling, one company ? DNATraits, part of Houston-based Gene By Gene, Ltd. ? said it would offer BRCA gene testing in the United States for $995 ? less than a third of the current price.

A primer on the case:

Q: What did the court say?

A: Patents held by Myriad Genetics Inc. on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are not valid, because isolating a naturally occurring segment of DNA cannot be patented. We all have two copies of these genes; mutations in one of them can give a woman up to an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer and up to a 54 percent risk for ovarian cancer.

Q: How many people have them?

A: In the U.S., about 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are thought to be due to bad BRCA genes. Among breast cancer patients, BRCA mutations are carried by 5 percent of whites and 12 percent of Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jews. Rates in other groups aren't as well known, but a recent study suggests they are more common than has been believed in blacks.

Q: How expensive are the Myriad tests?

A: They cost $3,000 to $4,000 and insurers only cover them for women thought to be at high risk because of family history of breast or ovarian cancer or other risk factors. The tests are not recommended for women at average risk.

Q: What about other tests for breast cancer genes?

A: Some other tests look for mutations in 16 other genes less commonly involved in breast cancer but those have not been able to include BRCA1 and BRCA2 because of Myriad's patents. Those other tests cost around $2,600. The court's ruling means these tests likely will be able to include BRCA1 and BRCA2 for no or little additional cost in the future, giving a more complete picture of a woman's risk, Nagy said.

Q: What about other gene tests that can still be patented?

A: The court said tests that involve making?cDNA, or complementary DNA, can still be patented. They take an extra step to isolate only the "working parts" or coding regions of a gene.

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Online:

Court decision: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-ruling-may-open-breast-cancer-gene-tests-180022078.html

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Why Google never needs to make a dime from Android device sales

Google Mobile Advertising Revenue Analysis

Much as he dismissed the significance of the iPhone when it first released, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also dismissed Google?s free-to-use Android?platform when it launched because Google wasn?t charging any money for OEMs to use it. In the five years since launching Android, however, it?s clear that making money from the direct sales of Android devices was never part of Google?s plan. To understand why this is, take a look at?eMarketer?s new report on mobile advertising showing that Google took home $4.61 billion in mobile advertising revenues in 2012, or more than half of all mobile advertising revenues in the world.

[More from BGR: Design expert on iOS 7: The critics just don?t get it]

To get a sense of how dominating this is, consider that no other company made even $1 billion in mobile advertising revenues in 2012 ? Facebook and its $470 million came the closest. And in 2013, eMarketer projects that Google will take home $8.85 billion in mobile advertising revenues, which will account for around 56% of all global advertising revenues in the world, while Facebook is again expected to trail behind in second place by generating a total of $2.04 billion. When you consider that mobile advertising revenues doubled between 2011 and 2012 and are projected to do the same this year, then it seems that Google has put itself in a dominant position in a rapidly growing market.

[More from BGR: Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: Still way too early to declare a winner]

How was Google able to do this, you ask? A big reason is clearly Android ? Google was able to spread its revenue-generating mobile services across the globe because its own mobile operating system features them prominently on its default home screen. And sure, Google has also benefitted from its services? continued popularity on iOS-based devices but there?s simply no way Google could have cornered the market on mobile advertising the way it has without also having the most widely used mobile operating system in the world.

All of which is a long way of saying that Google?s decision to not charge licensing fees for Android wasn?t a mistake ? it was all part of the plan.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/why-google-never-needs-dime-android-device-sales-190059076.html

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U.N. rights forum condemns Hezbollah role in Syria

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned the use of all foreign fighters in Syria's civil war, including Lebanese Hezbollah militants backing the government, but stopped short of calling for a halt to the flow of arms.

The Geneva forum adopted a resolution brought by Arab and Western powers, urging all parties to refrain from contributing to a further escalation of a conflict in which at least 93,000 people had been killed by the end of April.

Only Venezuela voted against the text, presented by Qatar on behalf of Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States - which all back rebel forces. Thirty-seven states backed the motion. Nine abstained.

"Ecuador calls the Council's attention to that fact that the main proponents of this draft resolution are the ones contributing to continuation of violence by providing arms to opposition groups, thus contributing to the escalation of violence," Ecuador's Ambassador Luis Gallego Chiriboga said.

Other Latin American and Asian countries, including Brazil and Pakistan, voiced concerns that the Council had failed to use stronger language to denounce the weapons pouring into Syria.

"If we fail to condemn the transfer of arms in the resolution it is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire," Costa Rica's deputy ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernandez said.

The heated debate was held a day after the United States said it would now arm rebels, having obtained what it said was proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons against fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Venezuela's representative, Felix Pena Ramos, referring to the U.S. accusation on the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, said: "I am sure these are same people who confirmed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Syria and its ally Russia rejected the text as unbalanced and counterproductive as efforts were being made to convene an international peace conference.

"It turns a blind eye to the presence of jihadists that come from more than 40 countries," Syrian Ambassador Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui said. "Certain countries that sponsored the resolution have financed, trained and supported them."

Russia, whose delegation has observer status and cannot vote, regretted that the United States was one of the initiators of the text despite their joint efforts to convene peace talks.

"The latest one-sided resolution on Syria talks about Hezbollah, but they don't seem to be worried about 1,000 highly-paid and heavily armed rebel groups," said Russian second secretary Roman Kashaev.

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-rights-forum-condemns-hezbollah-role-syria-191320765.html

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