Saturday, October 12, 2013

Charlie Hunnam Drops Out Of Fifty Shades Of Grey Movie! Find Out Deets HERE!!!





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Holy whips and chains!


It seems like only yesterday that the casting news spilled as Fifty Shades of Grey announced it had its super scandalicious leads. But now it looks like the big search is back on for one of the deliciously naughty stars who will be ready to dive head first into the world of S&M.


It was announced today that Charlie Hunnam has chickened out bailed due to other obligations as Universal Pictures commented:




"The filmmakers of Fifty Shades of Grey and Charlie Hunnam have agreed to find another male lead given Hunnam’s immersive TV schedule which is not allowing him time to adequately prepare for the role of Christian Grey."



Not our Christian Grey! We - and likely Dakota Johnson - were totes excited for all his shirtless seksiness about to take over the big screen!


But with Sons of Anarchy being a huge hit and all, we can totes understand his schedule conflict.



We just hope Ian Somerhalder is free to fill those billionaire sexaholic shoes. Maybe??


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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Kinder Morgan to spend $74M on new Eagle Ford pipeline project











Kinder Morgan will invest $74 million to extend pipeline capacity in the Eagle Ford Shale.



























Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) will spend $74 million to extend a crude and condensate pipeline deeper into the Eagle Ford Shale.


KMP will build an 18-mile, 24-inch diameter lateral pipeline from its DeWitt Station to Gonzales County, company officials say. It also will develop a new Gonzales County station with 300,000 barrels of storage capacity, a pump and truck offloading facilities.


The extension will allow Houston-based KMP to move Eagle Ford crude and condensate from the new facility to the Houston Ship Channel and Phillips 66’s refinery in Brazoria County, officials also say.


Including previously announced joint ventures and projects, KMP’s planned Eagle Ford Shale investments total $900 million.


Earlier this week, KMP said phase one of the 185-acre Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Company LLC project on the Houston Ship Channel began service. Phase two of the BOSTCO project is underway and expected to begin service in the fourth quarter of next year.


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Thursday, August 1, 2013

In raging Middle East, Israel wins time with Palestinian peace talks

By Maayan Lubell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressured by Washington, worried about its international standing and perturbed by Middle East turmoil, Israel had many reasons to return to peace talks with the Palestinians this week after a three year hiatus.

On the surface, Israelis saw little reason to jump back into negotiations. The status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories was holding and the question of the so-called peace process had largely fallen off the domestic political agenda.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have realized he could not take the rap for cold shouldering U.S. efforts to revive the talks, and recognized that turbulent regional dynamics made it worthwhile to engage with the Palestinians once more.

"Resuming the diplomatic process at this time is important for the state of Israel both in order to try to end the conflict and given the complex reality in our region, especially the security challenges from Syria and Iran," Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday before it sanctioned the resumption of talks.

The last round of U.S.-brokered negotiations collapsed barely after they began in 2010 in a row over continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on land the Palestinians want for their future state.

Although Netanyahu continues to reject Palestinian demands that he halt the construction, he has agreed to release 104 Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture, drawing heavy criticism from rightist allies who say it will encourage terrorism.

The fact he made such a politically sensitive concession suggests he was put under enormous pressure by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited the region six times in just five months to try to revive the long-moribund peace process.

"No one wanted to lose the blame game, so that's why we went to Washington," said Amos Yadlin, a former Israeli military intelligence chief who now heads the Institute for National Security Studies.

The same is true for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and that pressure could also produce progress: "Whoever botches the Americans' plans will have a price to pay," one Israeli official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

CHAOS

However, U.S. arm-twisting alone does not fully explain Netanyahu's decision to head back to the negotiating table. Turmoil in the region also played an important role.

In the three years since the last failed effort, the Arab world has been turned upside down by uprisings that have transformed the Middle East.

With the outcome of the rebellion still unclear, notably in neighboring Syria and Egypt, many Israeli politicians have urged Netanyahu to do nothing and wait for the storm to pass, which appeared to be his preferred strategy until now.

But Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington, said the prime minister could not pretend that Israel was not a part of the Middle East and had to try to bring some calm and order to the chaos.

"Middle East instability has a complex, contradictory role. It is more difficult to make territorial concessions, but on the other hand, in a region that is undergoing such significant changes, Israel wants to be a player," he said.

"To do that it has to negotiate with the Palestinians."

Since the onset of the Arab world's popular revolts in late 2010, uncertainty has become almost the only thing Israel can rely on, bringing it short-term gains and long-term concerns.

Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt three decades ago and had maintained a stable cold war with Syria for even longer, but the turmoil has hit both those big Arab nations hard.

Although Israeli officials have kept quiet about the latest upheavals in Egypt, there is no doubt they are relieved to see the return to prominence of the army in Cairo and the downfall of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi - which in turn undermines Israel's enemy Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza.

Likewise the civil war in Syria means Israel has been able to sit back and watch the erosion of a once powerful foe.

However, the chaos has also allowed jihadi gunmen to build a presence along two previously dormant fronts and has sowed seeds of potential trouble in Jordan, the only Arab state to have signed a peace accord with Israel besides Egypt.

Against this backdrop, Yossi Beilin, an Israeli architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, said the time was right to try to end the decades-old Palestinian conflict.

"When around us you see all these crises, we might create with the Palestinians and the Jordanians and hopefully in the future with the Egyptians a group of peaceful countries which understand the importance of peace and cooperation and have an impact on the whole region," Beilin said.

IRAN

European Union diplomats have echoed this sentiment, and the 28-nation-bloc added to the pressure on Netanyahu to return to talks by announcing this month that it would bar financial aid to Israeli groups operating in the occupied territories - putting Israel on guard that its patience was running out.

"In the past few months the price of continuing the status quo has become much clearer to Netanyahu and in his third term he may be thinking of his legacy," said the former ambassador and peace negotiator Rabinovich.

When it comes to establishing a legacy, Netanyahu's allies say his primary focus has always been tackling Iran's atomic program. As he himself told his cabinet on Sunday, worries over Iran played directly into his Palestinian decision-making.

The Israeli leader has said for years that Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb and warned that this represents an existential threat to the Jewish state.

Despite Tehran's denials, Netanyahu believes time is running out to deal with the issue. Israeli leaders have repeatedly said Washington must take the lead in halting Iran - either through military means, economic sanctions or diplomacy.

In this context, analysts said Israel could not risk rousing Washington's ire by spurning Kerry's extraordinary efforts.

"Netanyahu has Iran on his horizon and has made a very calculated move in order to guarantee some American support on more concrete, assertive steps in the Iranian matter," said Uzi Rabi, head of the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East Studies.

(Additional reporting by Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Peter Graff)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/raging-middle-east-israel-wins-time-palestinian-peace-190336554.html

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Fly study finds two new drivers of RNA editing

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study finds that RNA editing is not only regulated by sequences and structures near the editing sites but also by ones found much farther away. One newly discovered structure gives an editing enzyme an alternate docking site. The other appears to throttle competing splicing activity.

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Start-up news channel hopes to counter anti-Israel bias in the media

TEL AVIV, Israel -?State-of-the-art TV studios above an ancient Mideast port signal Israel?s arrival in a modern media landscape in which countries increasingly seek to broadcast their own perspective to the world.

Israel advocates have long alleged that their country is portrayed in an unfair and one-dimensional way by the international media, largely as an occupier of the Palestinians.

Now the answer has arrived in the form of i24news ? the first international channel dedicated to reporting the news from an Israeli point of view. Its goal is to tell the rest of the Israel story in English, Arabic and French.

The new station?s founders insist they aren?t an Israeli version of the Qatar-funded Al-Jazeera pan-Arab channel. They receive no government funding, hold no political affiliation and pledge to cover the news dispassionately and objectively.?

The initiative, which follows dozens of other attempts to tell Israel?s side of the story, highlights a deep-seated sense that Israel is losing the battle over international public opinion and that its voice has been missing from a smorgasbord of news outlets.

?When you are talking about Israel in the international media today, it is only through the perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We have to show that there are a lot of things about Israel that people don?t know about,? said Frank Melloul, the channel?s chief executive. ?What I want to do with this channel is to connect Israel to the world and connect the world to the Israeli reality.?

To do so, i24news broadcasts around the clock, devoting 30 percent of its content to local coverage, including culture, technology and sports.?

Its spacious studios in Jaffa, an ancient port city merged with Tel Aviv, include three glass-encased sets for simultaneous broadcasts in three languages, along with an integrated news desk for its 150 journalists.?

The station went on the air less than two weeks ago, and most of the office space is still under construction. Though it is not yet clear how many people are watching, i24news says it can potentially reach 350 million households via cable and satellite operators in Europe, Asia and Africa. An expansion to the North American market is expected in early 2014.

Mr. Melloul, a former French diplomat, helped launch France24, a satellite channel aimed at improving France?s international image. Other governments have engaged in similar outreach efforts, resulting in Russia Today, China?s CCTV and Qatar?s Al-Jazeera.

The Israeli effort is funded by private money. Much of it comes from Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli telecom tycoon who owns HOT, an Israeli cable network of TV channels and telephone service providers.

Calling i24news a ?startup channel,? Mr. Melloul said its private ownership frees the station from government intervention.

?We are not talking about propaganda,? he said, ?[But] it is time to listen to another voice from the Middle East besides Al-Jazeera.?

Walid Omary, Middle East bureau chief of the pace-setting and influential Al-Jazeera, said he was not familiar with the new station, but he welcomed the competition and considered it a compliment that others were trying to emulate his network.

?Apparently Al-Jazeera has a quality that everyone wants to challenge,? he said. ?Even those who criticize us recognize we have an impact.?

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/31/start-news-channel-hopes-counter-anti-israel-bias-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

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Bill would help troops better manage pre-service student loans

Two Illinois lawmakers want to amend financial protection law governing student loan repayments to eliminate what they say is a policy that discourages service members from consolidating or refinancing pre-service loans.

Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate assistant majority leader, and Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a disabled Iraq War veteran who still serves in the Illinois National Guard, introduced legislation Tuesday to change the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act to give service members financial alternatives denied under current law.

SEE ALSO: Senate approves bill on student loan rates

The Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act, S 1399 in the Senate and HR 2859 in the House, would allow troops to consolidate or refinance pre-service student loans without having to give up the 6 percent interest rate cap imposed under federal law for debts incurred before entering the military. Under current law, the 6 percent rate cap no longer applies after these actions are taken because the original loan is repaid.

Loan consolidation is a requirement to participate in a federal loan forgiveness program that rewards people who have made regular payments for at least 10 years, the two lawmakers said. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program could help service members with Perkins or Federal Family Education loans.

The average student loan debt for service members is $25,000, the lawmakers said.

Durbin said service members are missing out on the opportunity of "historically low interest rates" that could "save borrowers thousands of dollars over the life of the loan." He called the bill a "common sense" fix.

The services have student loan repayment bonus programs that can provide up to $65,000 as a recruiting incentive. These are discretionary bonuses, and payments generally are limited to $1,500 for each year of service.

Rick Maze, Military Times

Source: http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=327875

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