Yemen: 62 troops to be tried over ministry attack

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? Sixty-two officers and soldiers loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh's son were charged with resisting authorities and mutiny after trying to storm the Ministry of Defense, a senior Yemeni security official said Thursday.

High Security Committee spokesman Gen. Ali al-Ubaidi said that the 62 will be referred to a military tribunal for joining a force of 200 in the sudden attack on the Ministry two days earlier, where they fired automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at Ministry guards. The ensuing firefight left one attacker, two ministry guards and two civilians dead.

The committee, headed by Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was founded as part of a power transfer deal after last year's popular uprising that ended the longtime authoritarian rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The committee is in charge of the country's top security and military issues.

The soldiers charged belong to the elite Republican Guard units led by Ahmed Saleh, the former president's son, who were protesting a presidential decree that put some of the force's units under presidential oversight. The decree was part of Hadi's moves to restructure the army and purge it of former regime loyalists. He was also trying to create his own force to help in law enforcement and implement moves to remove former regime members.

Since he stepped down in February and handed power to Hadi, Saleh has been accused of meddling in the country's affairs and retaining power behind the scene by moving his loyalists around to disrupt life in Yemen.

It was the second time the ministry has come under threat in a week and the second attack on state institutions in one month. Earlier, policemen in uniform, also loyalists to Saleh, stormed the Interior Ministry, looting its offices and setting off clashes that left 15 dead. A number of policemen were arrested and are also facing trial, according to al-Ubaidi. The policemen belong to the Central Security Forces, of which Saleh's nephew, Yahia Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, is the second in command.

The Republican Guard command center issued a statement denying responsibility for the attack and said that the mutiny was carried out by forces that no longer fall under their command.

The attack on the Defense Ministry left Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on a state of security alert.

Officials who spoke to the Associated Press voiced fears of possible attacks on state institutions during the four-day Eid al-Fitr holiday starting Friday, which comes at the end of Muslims' holy month of Ramadan.

They said that authorities have beefed up security around the Presidential palace, the Foreign Ministry and several other state institutions. Meanwhile, part of Sanaa's al-Zubair main street, where the Defense Ministry is located, has been blocked off to traffic while tanks and armored vehicles are stationed nearby.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of they are not allowed to speak to the press, accused Saleh and his family of trying to "humiliate" the new regime in Yemen by showing that the new president is unable to protect it.

Several other incidents of what officials describe as "defiance to the central government" can be easily spotted around the capital.

The Defense Ministry, for example, said in a statement Thursday that armed men looted four trucks carrying food supplies to its forces. Officials suspect that Saleh's men paid them to attack the trucks on their way to the capital. Meanwhile, security authorities complained in another statement that armed men blocked a highway in the early hours of Thursday to create a traffic jam.

Hadi, who is now attending an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia, has won the support of the United States and western allies along with neighboring Gulf countries. Since taking office, he has launched drastic shake-ups to unify the military while leading offensives in the south against al-Qaida militants which took control of several cities, towns and large swaths of lands during last year's uprising and accompanying security vacuum there.

In June, with U.S. help, the Yemeni military managed to drive al-Qaida militants from many of their strongholds, especially the main cities and towns. However, there is fear they may make a comeback given a persistent absence of state control in these areas.

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The writing process: ideas ? Allaboutwriting

- Jo-Anne Richards

Looking back, I see that I?ve been writing fairly general posts about my book process so far. I suppose I was feeling my way ? I did tell you I find this incredibly hard. But I?ve finally reached the point of realising that I can?t go on circling the specifics forever.

Let?s go back to the beginning then and I?ll try my best. Where did the idea come from? How did it start?

Each of my books has started from a different place: for example, the first began from a setting and a fragment of story, my fourth from a character who intrigued me. ?The Imagined Child began from several ideas at once: a story fragment, a setting and a complex set of emotions that I wished to convey.

Let me first just warn any of you starting to write: a story fragment tends to sound incredibly stupid if you speak it aloud. Don?t judge it too harshly. It can grow into something halfway decent if you work on it enough. It?s a lot harder to execute a (possibly grandiose) plan for conveying a complex idea.

You are always working within your imperfect abilities and you?ll probably never be satisfied. In the end, I suppose it doesn?t really matter. That?s all anyone can do ? just go on trying to bring it closer to the ideal you carry in your head.

It?s not easy to give you the specifics without revealing too much. I?m sure I?ll reveal more about the book as these posts progress, but at this stage, I?m determined not to give too much away.

The story fragment involved two deaths ? both very different. I wanted to play with our preconceived notions around certain kinds of deaths, and who bears responsibility for them. In other words, I hoped readers would take the characters? preconceived notions for granted, but then I hoped to surprise them.

The setting was a small town in the Free State. I had been spending the odd weekend in a village just like the one I?ve tried to recreate, and had become fascinated by the microcosm it presented of a changing society. Perhaps it isn?t that change happens faster there, but just that the lines are clearer and the changes more obvious.

Now for the grandiose idea ? and I feel quite self-conscious trying to set it out.

I have a friend who is a clinical psychologist (and who helped me research this book). She says it?s natural for parents to want to kill their off-spring upon occasion. She gives talks on the subject, entitled: Why some animals eat their young.

Yet, among the general run of parents milling at any school gate, will you ever find one who will admit to such ambivalence? You?ll be lucky. ?Then I read a book (which I shan?t name, for fear of being thought even more grandiose than my idea), in which a mother/child relationship was expressed in a way that suggested the mother felt utterly detached from her problematic child. She was unable to bond with him until the end of the book, when she finally learnt to love him despite his terrible imperfections.

It was a compelling book, very well executed, but that also never quite rang true for me. In my experience, no matter how monstrous the offspring, there?s always that ambivalence. Sure, you may want to kill him, but let anyone else try and you?ll rip their eyes out.

Our relationships ? both as parents and as children ? are an ambivalent mix of blame, guilt, responsibility, protectiveness, love, dislike and sometimes even hate. And these are even more extreme when children (or parents) have problems. Then it struck me that we often have a similar intensity of feeling around a birth country.

So there you have it. I wanted to see whether I could actually express that kind of complexity ? on different levels. Of course, I?m still not quite satisfied. And I?m still writing and rewriting in an attempt to explore the kind of feelings we are capable of.

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Accolades for the week of August 13 - NOW - Concordia University

A compilation of achievements by Concordians

Gary Johns, from the Department of Management at the John Molson School of Business, received the award for Distinguished Contributions to Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Canada from the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Johns was presented with the award, which is given every three to five years, at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in Halifax on June 15.


A delegation of 53 military officials from the Netherlands military academy recently visited Concordia's Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights' Studies (MIGS). The officials are travelling to several cities in North America, including Montreal, to learn about the Will to Intervene project and about international security, foreign defense and development, and government and policy, from both a European and North American perspective.


John Oh, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was featured as the author of the week on RSC Publishing?s Polymer Chemistry Blog in early June. Oh?s current research focuses on ?enabling the design and processing of macromolecular nanoscale materials for biological and biomedical applications.?


Fran?ois-Marc Gagnon, founding director and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, has won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize from the Historical Society of Canada for his book The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis, published in the 18th century, and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675.

The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is awarded to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.


Office Technology Analyst in Enrolment Services Susan Durkee was recently appointed president of the North American Association of Commencement Officers. The association unites commencement and convocation officers across North America to share ideas, traditions and explore new opportunities in planning graduation ceremonies.

?I am so honoured to serve this organization as president,? said Durkee. ?I look forward to working with my fellow board members to take this organization to the next level and continue our mission of being the main source of information for commencement and convocation officers.?

In February 2011, Concordia hosted the association?s conference in Montreal.


Archivist Emerita Nancy Marrelli may have retired from the university, but now she's the newest Fellow of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). What follows is an excerpt from the nomination: "Nancy developed an exemplary archival program by introducing a comprehensive preservation management program, initiated numerous outreach projects that attracted the attention and enlisted the support of university administrators, implemented a fully functioning records management program, and acquired extensive and important private archives documenting the Montreal jazz and visual arts communities.

"Nancy may be best known to the Canadian archival community for her work in copyright, disaster recovery and planning, preservation management and the preservation of audio-visual records ... For her exceptional career of dedicated service, extensive professional experience, past and continuing contributions and leadership, the ACA is pleased to welcome Nancy as its latest fellow."


Recent graduate Marvin Coleby was honoured with the Paul Frappier Youth Leadership Award, part of the Montreal Community Cares Awards handed out last June. He was chosen for having founded Concordia's first ever Cultural Diversity Week and devotes his time to assisting foreign students who come to school in Montreal. But that's not all. The holder of newly minted Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honours) and minor in Philosophy was also honoured with the Best Club Executive Award as president of the Concordia Caribbean Student Union and with the Outstanding Student Award by Advancement and Alumni Relations.


Congratulations to Kerry Tannahill, a student in the Master in Public Policy and Public Administration program and prospective incoming PhD student, who won the Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award for best poster presentation, at the European Consortium for Political Research Summer School in Methods and Techniques. All participants of the summer school are invited to present a poster explaining their "work in progress." The award is given for the best participant poster.
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Cisco still pessimistic on Europe, raises dividend

(Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc offered little hope that dire economic conditions in Europe would come to an end any time soon but pleased investors with a 75 percent dividend hike as the company posted quarterly results that beat estimates.

The world's largest network equipment maker had spooked investors three months ago, when Chief Executive John Chambers cautioned that macroeconomic conditions in Europe could hurt technology spending but now analysts expect Chambers to remain cautious.

Chambers said on a call with analysts that Europe would stay challenging over the next several quarters.

"That's probably going to get tougher before it gets better and that might last for a good little while," Chambers said, adding that public spending in the United States and Europe would remain weak.

As a result, Chambers said, "many of our customers continue to anticipate a challenging next 12 months on a global basis and therefore these CEOs will remain conservative both in their IT expenditures but also in their hiring."

Factoring that in, Cisco expects revenue growth, excluding items and its acquisition of TV software developer NDS, to range from 2 to 4 percent while earnings per share are seen up 5 to 0 percent at 45 to 47 cents, in line with analysts' expectations.

The San Jose, California-based company also said its dividend will rise to 14 cents per share in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 and that it plans to return a minimum of 50 percent of free cash flow annually through dividends and share repurchases.

Analysts welcomed the dividend hike but some wondered how revenue growth could be improved.

"It's a significant increase and now they've got a real yield," BGC analyst Colin Gillis said about the dividend, adding that he estimated the yield was at 3.2 percent versus 1.8 percent previously.

JMP Securities analyst Erik Suppiger said that while investors are happy that the spending cuts are boosting Cisco's profits, revenue growth is essential to the networking giant's long-term success.

"Ultimately the company needs to generate some acceleration in revenue growth," Suppiger said.

He added that it remains to be seen whether Chambers can get revenue growing again if he continues to cut spending, particularly sales and marketing.

Cisco kicked of a major restructuring program last year that included plans to slash about 15 percent of its work force and cut expenses by about $1 billion.

Last month it announced it would cut another 1,300 jobs across the company.

Cisco's fourth-quarter results beat estimates, thanks to cost savings and a continuing restructuring program.

Quarterly net income, excluding items, was $2.5 billion or 47 cents per share, compared with analysts' average estimate of 45 cents a share as compiled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue rose 4 percent from the year-ago quarter to $11.7 billion, compared with a Street view of $11.61 billion.

Cisco shares rose 5 percent to $18.23 after closing up 1 percent at $17.35 on Nasdaq.

(Reporting By Nicola Leske; Additional reporting by Jim Finkle; Editing by Richard Chang)

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Q&A with Molecube - developing apps with YouTube superstars

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Not long ago we checked out the Epic Meal Time game, but we wanted to get to know the guys behind it, and particularly how they managed to wrangle a deal with a huge, established YouTube brand. Molecube has been making game for a little while, but mostly for iOS. We get some of their impressions on that transition, as well as plans for the future. 

Hi Pierre, thanks for your time! I'm a big fan of the game. Care to give us a bit of background on Molecube?

Hey Simon, thank you for having me! Molecube is an indie mobile game development studio based in Quebec, Canada. We are a small group of six individuals trying to do what we love for a living since two years. We’ve developed five games in our lifetime: Binja, Monstruction, Monsieur Monsieur, Justin Mac Fart and our latest release, Epic Meal Time!

Similar to every indie studio, in the last few years we’ve tried to be noticed in this crazy market. We’ve tried numerous strategies at different levels, we have even tried to market our marketing failures and successes in something called the “Experiment” for Justin Mac Fart but even that wasn’t enough to get us noticed. I think we’ve finally got this done with Epic Meal Time. We are very thrilled about that.

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Philadelphia Archdiocese selling top properties to cut deficit

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The financially strapped Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia said on Monday it will proceed with plans to sell major facilities in an effort to close a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

The sale includes the archbishop's residence in Philadelphia, a rural Pennsylvania retreat center and a 19-room beachfront mansion in Ventnor, New Jersey, used by vacationing elderly priests, the Church said.

The archdiocese faces a budget gap estimated at $6 million, a spokeswoman said. It also faces legal costs stemming from a pedophilia scandal estimated at more than $11 million.

"To address the cash flow challenges caused by the deficits, the church is faced with hard decisions," said Archbishop Charles Chaput in a statement. "It's similar to what families have to do when their expenses are greater than income."

Chaput said the archdiocese has been running a deficit for years.

The archdiocese was involved in the high-profile trial of Monsignor William Lynn, who was found guilty in June of covering up child sex abuse, and it faces the possibility of dozens of civil suits in the priest pedophilia scandal.

The spokeswoman for the archdiocese said the legal costs are separate from the budget deficit.

The proposed sales of the archbishop's residence and the New Jersey shore villa had been announced earlier but were confirmed on Monday.

The villa, assessed at more than $6 million and located near Atlantic City, will be sold at auction on September 15, according to auction house Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Co.

The archdiocese has owned the 11-bedroom mansion, with 175 feet of beachfront, since 1963 when it was sold to the Church by a family for $1,000.

Along with the archbishop's residence in Philadelphia and the 452-acre (182-hectare) Mary Immaculate Retreat Center in Northampton, north of Philadelphia, the Church said it also will be selling the Holy Family Center, a Philadelphia facility used by charities and social service agencies.

The real estate sales come after 40 staff members at the archdiocese were let go in June.

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Xavier Briand)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/philadelphia-archdiocese-selling-top-properties-cut-deficit-234158611.html

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8 Questions Writers Must Ask When Developing Audience Profiles ...

What do you mean by ?developing an audience profile? One way to look at screenwriting (and filmmaking) is that you are developing a product just like any other manufacturer, and getting audience research right is a basic first step.

Knowing who your audience actually are is one of the basic tenants of marketing. so too with storytellers.

Researching your audience may leave you peering into the void of writer?s block. don?t be fooled: writer?s block is a symptom of fear. Let me give you some ideas of how to safely get out of the abyss and learn how to find your audience.

1. What are your reader demographics

In widest terms, to whom would you like your story to appeal to? David Heyman returned from a producer on the Warner Bros lot with the ambition to make children?s movies. Painstaking research yielded JK Rowling and Harry Potter. Lloyd Kaufman graduated from Yale and wanted to produce movies that appealed to the frat house culture. Thus sprang Surf Nazis Must Die, Tromeo and Juliet and Poutrygeist.

Ask these questions:

Sex? Male Female

Age: Child Teen 20?s 30?s 40?s 50?s 60?s

Status? Single Married Divorced

Education: High school College Graduate

Income: Low Average High

Ask even more questions, like where they live, do they rent or own their own homes, how far do they commute to work or school and so forth.

Empire Magazine has built their entire success around creating an audience profile avatar named Eric: a 20 something Essex boy. Whenever they have a story idea they ask themselves if Eric would like it.

finding out who your audience is could actually help you writing your story too!

2. What?s your audience?s power level

Let?s dig a little deeper. What type of person are you aiming at, what kind of influence do they have?

For example- if your story is aimed at high schoolers, what kind of student are you aimed at: the leaders or the followers? The geeks or the sociable? Could your story be opened out at all by being more inclusive of broader groups? or would you simply dilute the story?

These probing questions require a lot of reflection and may not become immediately obvious. consider this one seriously and the answer will pop into your head one day when you least expect it.

3. Give me a day in the life of?

Here?s a fun exercise. Grab a sheet of paper and do a diary of a typical day.

When do they usually get up? Do they leap out of bed or hit the snooze button?

What do they wear? Is it the first thing at the top of the drawer or the last in a series of laboured fashion choices?

How do they get to work? Where do they lunch and do they have any bad personal habits?

Who would they rather spend time with?

The more of these kinds of questions you can answer the easier it will be for you to build up a profile of your intended audience. You might even want to browse through some image banks to see if you can find an image or two that remind you of who your audience is.

4. Owchers and wowchers

No one in the world has a 100% perfect life. Far from, in fact. What are the things that really turn your audience off. It could be physical (the pain of working out), socialogical (fear of losing one?s job) or psychological (the stress associated with an impactful life decision like divorce or marriage).

So too are the Wow moments in someones life.

There are hundreds of variables at this stage in your research. Don?t be shy. Spend some time and think creatively. The results will really pay off.

5. How do they vote?

I don?t mean how they vote politically, although this is usually a good shorthand question to get to the core of the audience you are pursuing. I really mean to ask what are the core moral values of the audience you are pursuing. for example, are they tolerant of different cultures, or not.

I find it somewhat amusing that Facebook has a special question where you can choose your views on life from conservative to liberal. I can?t imagine any woman ticking ?liberal? too easily, while us guys hate to think of ourselves as ?conservative?. Still, Facebook ask this very question of each of its half billion users and get away with it. Why shouldn?t you?

6. How do they thrill?

Now that you are getting pretty close to your audience, ask yourself what they are looking for on a great night out.The answers might surprise you. Ask yourself what they expect from entertainment in general (ie: music, literature, art, theatre, dance).

Lastly,and here is the biggie: can you identify what kind of emotional experience they are looking for?

7. Let?s be negative

I am hoping that you know what type of story you are going to tell by using the ulimate tool of genre. You will be thinking of writing an action-adventure, or comedy-horror or romantic-comedy, for example.

Ask yourself what your audience likes and dislikes about the type of screenplay you are writing. Do this right, and you might even figure out how to overcome their objections. Sometimes you might want to educate them about the type (genre) of story you are writing and how your horror story, for example, isn?t just another bog standard horror story, but has brand new never-been-seen before elements that should but your script on the top of everyone?s must see list.

8. Identifying your audience

You have gone a long way to seeing what makes your audience tick. This knowledge will empower you to speak directly to them. You know what age they are, where they live, what their role is, what their moral values are, what turns them on and what turns them off.

Going through this process will enable you to really get to know who your audience is and allow you to tell you story with a consistent voice.

Have you researched who you audience is yet?

Fade Out

Deciding and researching your audience is your job as a storyteller. Bringing your story to the audience is the job of the filmmaker. Don?t try to tell them who your screenplay is about: it should be obvious to any reader what audience your story will appeal to and give a clear strong idea of what story you are telling.

Now get writing!

Elliot Grove founded Raindance Film Festival in 1993, the British Independent Film Awards in 1998, and Raindance.TV in 2007.

He has produced over 150 short films, and 5 feature films. He has written eight scripts, one of which is currently in pre-production. His first feature film, TABLE 5 was shot on 35mm and completed for a total of $ 278.38. He teaches writers and producers in the UK, Europe. Japan and America.

He has written three books which have become industry standards: RAINDANCE WRITERS LAB 2nd Edition (Focal Press 2008), RAINDANCE PRODUCERS LAB (Focal Press 2004) and 130 PROJECTS TO GET YOU INTO FILMMAKING (Barrons 2009). His first novel THE BANDIT QUEEN is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Open University awarded Elliot and Honourary Doctorate for services to film education in 2009.

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Adelle?s worst fears are realised when, days into a trip aimed at reuniting her daughter Sarah, with her estranged father, she is swept out to sea and drowned. Haunted by visions of Sarah, Adelle learns of a local legend ? a place called The Dark ? a land of the dead that is a distorted mirror image of the real world. The legend dictates that the dead can be returned from The Dark if the ultimate sacrifice is made ? one of the living for one of the dead. ? 2005 Impact Pictures LLc. All Rights Reserved.
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Real Estate Marketing Website Now Redesigned and Packed Full of ...

Real Estate Marketing Website Now Redesigned and Packed Full of Real Estate ?
Virtual-Strategy Magazine


Real estate marketing website, http://www.howtomarkethouses.com, has been redesigned and is now packed full of real estate tips. Real estate agents, investors and brokers can now access the informative information to learn how to market houses for sale ?

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A Northern Virginia Market Report May Not Be The Value Of Your ...

A Marketing Report is NOT The Value of Your HomeDid you just read a marketing report about your neighborhood in Northern Virgina and think YEA the value of my home is UP UP UP?? I don't want to put a damper on your enthusiasm but before you decide to list your home for the great price you see in the lastest neighborhood market report let's talk.

A market report may be about your neighborhood but it isn't about your home.? Most market reports are "average" numbers gathered from the local multiple listing service.? In some cases the report doesn't contain information on all of the sales in the neighborhood.? It doesn't contain information on the number of homes that were listed and then expired or were withdrawn.? If your neighborhood has a wide variety of home styles or was built over period of year there could be a huge span of prices.? And finally it doesn't know the condition of your home as compared to those in the report.

This is why before you decide to list your home for sale you need an agent to do a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) to determine if you are are above, below or right on "average" in your neighborhood.? A CMA is going to drill down to the details about your home.? Updated your kitchen?? Great you may have just gone above the average price.? Have red shag carpet?? Opps you home just dropped a bit below average.? Putting together a thorough CMA takes time and it also means an agent needs to come to your home.? Adding the pluses and minuses can only happen when we see your home not through what the tax record might say.

Next time you read a local marketing report (remember all real estate is local) don't forget it isn't the value of your home.? It's the AVERAGE value of homes that have sold from the MLS.? If you are thinking about selling your home in Northern Virginia give Cindy Jones and CJ Realty Group a call at 703-346-2213.? I'll be glad to help you sort through the market reports and hone in on the value of your home.? No hassle, no pressure just straight talk about the Northern Virginia housing market.

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