Mexican drug kingpin's daughter not talking to U.S. officials

(Reuters) - The daughter of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin was being held in the United States after her arrest at the border last week, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, while the woman's lawyer declined to confirm her parentage and said she was not cooperating with authorities.

Court documents showed that Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman-Salazar was detained on Friday after authorities said she attempted to cross from Tijuana, Mexico, into California on foot using a counterfeit visa and a false name.

A federal official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on the record, confirmed that Guzman-Salazar is the daughter of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.

Immigration officials often use their discretion in deciding whether to detain and charge those attempting to cross the border using a false name or counterfeit papers. Sometimes offenders are simply refused entry and released into Mexico.

"A false passport alone - she would have just been deported," the federal official said of Guzman-Salazar. "Because ... she is related to drug traffickers, that's why she's going to court."

Guzman-Salazar is being held pending a detention hearing scheduled for October 25.

An attorney for Guzman-Salazar, who does not face drug trafficking charges in either the United States or Mexico, also said the decision to keep her in custody was likely because authorities believe her to be the drug kingpin's daughter.

"What the government thought about her lineage was probably a motivating factor in their decision to hold her," attorney Jan Ronis of San Diego told Reuters, although he would neither confirm nor deny that his client was related to the notorious drug kingpin.

U.S. authorities hoping to get information from Guzman-Salazar about her father may be frustrated.

"Once you retain counsel you are not under any obligation to speak with U.S. officials, and she has not. Any suggestion that she is cooperating is untrue," said Ronis, who has represented major drug cartel figures, including Benjamin Arellano-Felix, former leader of the Tijuana cartel.

BILLION-DOLLAR MAN

El Chapo, whose nickname means "Shorty" in English, escaped a Mexican prison in 2001 to become the country's highest-profile trafficker. Authorities say he commands groups of assassins ranging from the U.S. border into Central America.

Included on Forbes list of billionaires, Guzman has been indicted in the United States on dozens of charges of racketeering and conspiracy to import narcotics.

Washington has a $5 million reward for the capture of El Chapo, who was born in Mexico's rugged western Sinaloa state where he started out under Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who pioneered cocaine smuggling routes into the United States.

In recent months, U.S. and Mexican agents have been closing in on Guzman, and have arrested traffickers close to him and seized his assets on both sides of the border. Those associates include close family members, among them Guzman-Salazar's mother, Maria Alejandrina Hernandez Salazar.

Guzman's fourth wife, Emma Coronel, made headlines last year when she traveled to Los Angeles to give birth to twins.

Journalist Malcolm Beith, author of a book about Guzman, "The Last Narco," said the two incidents could suggest a certain desperation on the drug lord's part.

"I think Chapo's days are probably numbered and he knows it and is seeking a fresh start for his kin," Beith told Reuters in an interview.

Analysts say Guzman-Salazar holds out the tantalizing possibility of fresh leads in the hunt for El Chapo.

"If she has a cell phone number, if she any kind of recent interaction with her alleged father, that could be a very important clue to law enforcement as to his whereabouts, his methods of operation, and eventually his capture," said David Shirk, the director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego.

However, the circumstances of Guzman-Salazar's arrest - trying to slip into California unaided on a fake visa - suggest that she may not have such close ties to her father, who is thought to control trafficking through Tijuana.

"The Sinaloa organization has lots of means of getting people and goods into the country," Shirk said. "The fact that someone who would be very important to Chapo would come in this very pedestrian manner suggests ... that it was something that Chapo may not have known about."

(Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-drug-kingpins-daughter-not-talking-u-officials-035128999.html

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Google expands trial for including Gmail results in search box, now includes Google Drive as well

Google has expanded its trial that includes results from your Gmail inbox to more users today, as well as your Google Drive account. You can sign up now to have results from your inbox appear as you search while signed in.

Google says people have been liking it so far:

We?ve gotten very positive feedback from those of you testing it out ? such as this note: ?The Gmail results feature is awesome! The fact that it?s all integrated into one screen is huge.? Many testers have requested being able to find Drive files as well ? as one of you put it, ?It would be awesome if I could search my google drive from google search as well :)?.

If you?re unfamiliar with how this affected your Google search results as a Gmail user, this is what seeing contacts and emails looks like in the interface:

The expanded trial will take on many of the same features as the initial one, offering up results in the Google search box that present email messages, relevant information and, brand new to this trial, results from your Google Drive:

You can try out the new results options in the?field?trial now, as long as you speak english and have a Gmail.com address. The trial was instituted back in August, when Google?Director of Product Management, Universal Search Sagar Kamdar called it part of Google?s ?Universal Search?, saying that ?Gmail is almost larger than our web corpus and it continues to grow.?

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South Africa's review board OKs Zuma painting

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's Film and Publication Board Wednesday declassified a painting showing the genitals of President Jacob Zuma.

The board's spokesman, Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase, said that artist Brett Murray's "The Spear" ? which outraged supporters of President Zuma when it was displayed early this year at Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery ? is no longer deemed offensive to public taste.

The review board "has set aside the classification decision" after meeting about two weeks ago to review the painting, which was first displayed in May, said Ndamase.

The painting was condemned by the ruling ANC and Zuma himself said in court documents that the artwork undermined his constitutional right to dignity. But the gallery and the artist countered that freedom of expression was at stake, too.

The painting was later taken down after two men defaced it with paint, claiming they were acting independently of each other in defense of Zuma. It was not immediately possible to get a comment from the Goodman Gallery or Murray after the declassification decision.

The painting was widely seen by supporters of Zuma as a racist attack on his polygamous ways. But Murray, responding to a High Court case brought by Zuma, who sought to censor the artwork, said in an affidavit that it was part of a show criticizing the ANC for alleged greed and corruption. He also said that details of Zuma's sex life had become part of the public debate in South Africa.

"I am not a racist," Murray said in an affidavit. "I do not produce art with an intention to hurt, humiliate or insult."

Zuma, who is 70, has been married six times and currently has four wives, a practice that his Zulu culture allows. He has 21 children, and acknowledged in 2010 that he fathered a child that year with a woman who is not his wife.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africas-review-board-oks-zuma-painting-162753212.html

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NTT DoCoMo unveils winter lineup, pushes big displays, LTE, quad-cores and NFC payments

Just as the air begins to chill, NTT DoCoMo has announced its forthcoming lineup for release in November and December, including nine smartphones, four feature phones and a tablet. As the Japanese populace would no doubt demand, all of the bigger smartphones -- from the 4.7-inch Arrows V F-04E through to the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II -- come with 1,280 x 720 displays, a healthy degree of water- and dust-proofing, plus decent quad-core credentials. The new Aquos Phone Zeta SH-02E stands out for its low-power 4.9-inch IGZO panel and 16-megapixel camera, while the Arrows Tab F-05E 10-inch tablet packs a 1,980 x 1,200 display and what sounds like the latest 1.7GHz iteration of Tegra 3 (as seen in the HTC One X+). It's also interesting to a see a Korean-style variant of the Galaxy S III (the Alpha SC-03E) packing a souped-up 1.6GHz Exynos chip and 2GB RAM. In related news, NTT has also announced that it's partnering with Mastercard PayPass and will offer the contactless payment system for Japanese customers travelling abroad by fall next year -- and indeed all the new smartphones are NFC-equipped. Click the first source link below for the full run-down.

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Warning over engineering shortage

30 September 2012 Last updated at 19:28 ET By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter

The UK needs to increase by as much as 50% the number of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) graduates it is creating, a report says.

The study, by the Royal Academy of Engineering, says 100,000 Stem graduates are needed a year just to maintain the status quo.

It argues the UK is already slipping down the international innovation league tables.

The UK has dropped to eighth globally in the number of US patents registered.

The report estimates 830,000 graduate-level Stem experts and 450,000 technicians will be needed by 2020.

In the UK some 23,000 engineers are graduating every year. But India is producing eight times as many, and China 20 times as many.

The report warns overall that the current pool of science, technology and engineering experts are already "stretched thin" and ageing rapidly. The median age of chartered engineers rises by 10 years for every 14 that pass.

UK firms are already having to recruit experts from abroad.

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The report adds that the requirement for 100,000 Stem graduates per year between 2012 and 2020 will not be met by newly graduating students alone, and calls for Stem experts to be trained through other routes.

"With only circa 90,000 Stem graduates each year (including international students who presently cannot obtain visas to work in the UK after graduation) and knowing from earlier analysis of Hesa [Higher Education Statistics Agency] data that a proportion of Stem graduates choose non science occupations (26% of engineering graduates for example) there are clearly too few UK Stem graduates to meet the need," it says.

Prof Matthew Harrison, director of engineering and education at the Royal Academy of Engineering, said the shortage of Stem graduates was getting worse.

"In the last 10 years the general wage premium for graduates has been dropping, but over the same period the graduate premium for engineering has been going up.

"Engineering firms are crying out for engineers. They can't get the people they need. Although they have been very very vocal about the subject it has not translated into public policy yet."

A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesman said it was working closely with industry and continue to look at various ways to support engineering at all levels, including engagement in schools, apprenticeships and postgraduate training.

"We have recently committed ?3m to create up to 500 additional aeronautical engineers at masters level over the next three years, co-funded with industry," he said.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19760351#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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With charts and charm, Paul Ryan aims to steady a shaken ticket

VANDALIA, Ohio (Reuters) - Trailing in the must-win state of Ohio, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asked his running mate Paul Ryan to meet him here this week.

After 24 days apart, Romney and Ryan reunited on an airport tarmac on Tuesday amid grumbling from some Republicans that the campaign has grown complacent, leaving Ryan, its strongest advocate, off the national stage.

"Wow, that's quite a guy, Paul Ryan," Romney shouted to the crowd. "Isn't that something?"

Romney's many conservative critics share that assessment.

Weeks ahead of the November 6 general election, Romney is trying to lash his fortunes to the energetic congressman, admired by Republicans for his financial mastery and straight talk.

Those efforts could prove too little, too late. On the trail, Ryan has become an enthusiastic champion for Romney, deploying charts and populist charm. But the man at the bottom of the ticket is not lifting the one at the top.

POWERPOINT CANDIDATE

With early voting underway in 30 states, Romney is struggling with dropping polls, the release of a secretly recorded video in which he condemned nearly half of Americans as dependents on government who view themselves as victims, and a shifting foreign policy landscape that does not play to his strengths as an economic Mr. Fix-It.

Against those odds, Ryan is traveling through Ohio and other politically divided "swing" states that will largely decide the election, lauding Romney's credentials and mocking his opponent, Democratic President Barack Obama.

During the past week, Ryan's argument has taken a new shape, as the campaign has used the U.S. House Budget Committee chairman to rebut the widely held notion - even among Republicans - that Romney has run a vague campaign, unburdened by details.

Last Saturday Ryan delivered a PowerPoint presentation on rising government deficits and U.S. debt obligations, the focus of his stump speech.

During his classroom-style lectures, Ryan returns to the same pose, placing his left hand on his hip, raising his prominent brow, and biting his lower lip, as if to say of Obama's handling of the economy, "Can you believe this guy?"

Ryan's description of budget horrors and debt nightmares is intended to leave crowds believing that he is a teller of hard truths, a break from Romney's reputation as a waffler.

"It's not what you want to hear. It's the truth," said Ken Warner, 50, a software engineer from South Dayton, Ohio, after hearing Ryan speak on Tuesday.

FIGHTING THE DWEEB FACTOR

Ryan, 42, is seen as a natural campaigner and savvy populist, with an average-guy demeanor that Romney has never worn well.

During the Republican primary campaign, Romney memorably serenaded a crowd at a retirement community with a rendition of "America the Beautiful," which later became the soundtrack of a derisive ad by the Obama campaign.

In Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Wednesday, Ryan appeared after country crooner Lee Greenwood sang to the crowd.

"You know, I thought I wouldn't give a speech. I'm just going to sing. You OK with that? Just kidding. I would lose every vote here if I tried that," he said.

Ryan is quick on his feet. Romney often is not.

As a woman recovered from a fainting spell at a rally in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Wednesday, Ryan seized the moment to attack Obama's healthcare policies.

"Good thing she has a good healthcare system to go to, if she needs it today," he said.

The campaign is eager to play up Ryan's hunting background, fighting off any whiff that a man so enthusiastic about PowerPoint slides is a dweeb.

On Tuesday Ryan made an arranged visit to a Bass Pro Shop in a suburb of Cincinnati, purchasing hunting gear for his 10-year-old daughter.

As Ryan walked past camouflage jackets and toward a display of crossbows, Ryan asked reporters, "Is this your first time in archery, guys?"

?ONE CAMPAIGN'

There is little that Ryan's team can do to correct Romney's performance on the campaign trail.

Vice presidential nominees have little impact on the decisions made at headquarters, said Republican strategist Dave Carney, who traveled in 1996 with Jack Kemp, the last Republican vice presidential candidate to run against a Democratic incumbent.

"You're really not there," Carney said. "You don't have a chance to participate that much."

A Ryan campaign aide disputed that characterization, saying, "There's constant communication between the folks on Paul Ryan's plane, the folks on the governor's plane, and the folks in Boston," where the Romney campaign is based.

"Paul Ryan talks to the governor most every day, senior campaign officials every day. It is one campaign."

As to whether there's frustration in the Ryan camp about the state of the Romney campaign, the aide said, "The name on the top of the ticket is Governor Romney. That's just the way it is."

'RUB OFF ON MITT'

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week, Ryan appears to have had little influence on the presidential race.

Among political independents, the sliver of voters who could sway the election, 18 percent felt more favorable toward the Republican ticket and 13 percent felt less so.

These numbers provide ammunition for Republicans who think Romney isn't using Ryan well.

Speaking to a radio host last week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said, "They not only need to use him out on the trail more effectively. They need to have more of him to rub off on Mitt."

The campaign's turn to foreign policy hasn't benefited Ryan either. He jokes at nearly each stop that because he lives in Wisconsin, which borders Lake Superior, Canada is what comes to mind when he thinks "overseas."

Aides say Ryan is having an impact. They point to splashy headlines like the one that ran this week in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, as evidence that he is generating positive coverage where he campaigns.

But Ryan's soft polling numbers undermine the claim that he was such a bold pick from the start, the kind that would alter the course of the election.

Despite Ryan's prominence in Washington, where he has spent the last two decades, there are plenty of places where he is not a household name.

"I had never heard of him before," said Kay Mahaffey, a retired nurse, at Ryan's recent stop in Lima, Ohio.

Regardless of the outcome on Election Day, the campaign ensures that Ryan will no longer go quite so unrecognized outside of Washington.

"He'll be one of the new big leaders in the party," said Scott Pucket, 42, a Colorado State Patrol trooper, who heard Ryan speak in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Wednesday. "Whatever happens."

(Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Fred Barbash and Xavier Briand)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/charts-charm-paul-ryan-aims-steady-shaken-ticket-132615744.html

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Carys Bray: A little bit of Autobiography ~ Motherhood

I think my recent autobiographical musings (here?and?here) have been laying the foundations for this post. To recap, in a recent?interview?Zoe Lambert said:

Of course, the relation of the self to writing is more complex than the insertion of autobiographical experiences or facts or the creation of characters of the same age and gender as the author.

I've been thinking about Zoe's comment, particularly with reference to the forthcoming publication of my first short story collection. It's not really up to me to say what my book is 'about' - I won't ever be able to view it as a reader - but as I reflect on the stories, I notice frequent instances of parental ambivalence and perhaps, on an autobiographical level at least, some of that ambivalence can be contextualized by an understanding of a woman's place in the Mormon community.

I grew up feeling that my life was building towards the ultimate fulfillment of motherhood. I always pictured myself with a big family. Maybe statements like the one below played a part in my imaginings:

Woman and the Priesthood, Rodney Turner, p.222.?

My own family life probably played a part, too. I'm one of five children. Some people hate growing up in a big family, but I loved it. I loved my siblings, we had tremendous fun - when we were small we were like the five musketeers:?one for all and all for one.

Mormon girls are taught that bearing children is their primary purpose in life. A 2010 statement reads: 'Teach your daughters to find joy in nurturing children. This is where their love and talents can have the greatest eternal significance' (see full text?here).

The song below, 'I Want to be a Mother', is featured on a CD for Mormon children that is still on sale (it contrasts beautifully with the get-up-and-go, disco-influenced 'My Big Brother's Going on a Mission').

What if a woman doesn't want to be a mother? It seems that she is intrinsically bad: 'Faithful daughters of God desire children' (see full text?here).

What if a woman wants to be a mother AND something else? Tough luck: 'It was never intended by the Lord that married women should compete with men in employment. They have a far greater and more important service to render... Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother - cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one?s precious husband and children' (see full text?here).

I wanted to do motherhood the 'right' way, the way I'd been taught: milk and cookies and yellow balloons, the whole joyous, fulfilling experience. I spent several years in a slightly bewildered and occasionally desperate fug, wondering what I on earth I was doing wrong. Things were difficult financially because we had followed the advice of numerous Mormon prophets: 'Do not curtail the number of children for personal or selfish reasons. Material possessions, social convenience, and so-called professional advantages are nothing compared to a righteous posterity' (see full text?here). Consequently, I needed to get a job. I decided to work nights so I wouldn't be away from my children during the day. I felt guilty about working and I was so exhausted that I was frequently physically sick. My doctor gave me some medication to counter the sickness. I didn't tell him that on the nights when I wasn't working, I often lay awake, struggling to breathe past my bounding heart as I worried about things like eternal polygamy and how to quell the desire to snatch back some of my life from sticky, grasping fingers.

There were times when I attempted to give voice to my feelings, but other mothers were incredibly skilled at squelching ambivalence. I couldn't find anyone who was prepared to concede that parenthood was bloody awful at times, so I began to assume that there must be something fundamentally wrong with me. A thick, cotton-wool silence surrounded topics like postnatal depression and sleep deprivation. When I got a prescription for anti-depressants, I didn't tell my husband - I couldn't find the words, they weren't in the script of joyous, eternal motherhood.

Things got better.?When I finally started writing again (I stopped when I was 19, after I got engaged) I wrote about all the things I couldn't discuss.?(I talk about this in a?Threshold's?article on short story writer Helen Simpson,?here).?I wrote about harried, sleep-deprived parents; about shattered expectations and beastly children; about absent miracles and anxiety. After so many years of trying to carve myself into a complaint, and obedient woman, writing about the dark side of family life was a transgressive and extremely enjoyable enterprise.

My collection isn't autobiographical; I'm not divorced, I didn't buy my children at the supermarket and I don't live in a gingerbread house. But, as Zoe says, the relationship of the self to writing is complex and I wonder whether, among the drowning dolls and twilight supermarkets, the fictional parenting books and decapitated snowmen, there are tiny refractions of past anxieties - the place of women, polygamy, motherhood. I expect it's all there, somewhere.

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Source: http://postnatalconfession.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-little-bit-of-autobiography-motherhood_29.html

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