Former Mossad chief Halevy: Jewish extremists are more dangerous than Iran

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attributed to them of extremism in Israel, including Rabin's assassin (Reuters - Archive)
Head of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, Ephraim Halevy, former Friday that the threat to Israel's existence is the growing radicalization of the Haredim (ultra-religious any) and not the Iranian nuclear program.
Public Radio quoted Israeli Halevy said during a lecture at the School of Israeli military said that the real existential threat to Israel coming from the inside, and Jewish extremism and increase the proportion of Haredim.
Haridam and the word is the plural of the word Harida, which means in Hebrew "met", and this community, province and its followers adhere to traditional dress, and they know that they are represented by the ancient Jewish intellectual assets, as the purest.
Haredim and families are characterized by an increase in number they refuse birth control, which explains the increase in their numbers compared to laity in Israeli society.
The head of the Mossad, the former pointing out that this is the existential threat to Israel than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We should not talk about Iran on terms of religion and I do not think it is possible to eliminate Israel."
And on the statements of former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who described the Israeli attack possible on Iran as a stupid act, he said, Halevy said that from the end of its functions are not available in his hand image are short term and that it be careful, and can express their opinion, but finished his duties does not have data on military schemes.
The head of the Mossad, the former "must concern a nuclear Iran, but from here and even existential threat, the distance far away."
The majority of Haredi Jews do not serve in the Israeli army, and authorities agree on the exemption from military service, despite the controversy raised by the internal, the government established with the special battalion with religious to be a compromise where the regiment into account the requirements of religious people. Among the most famous member of this community to Yigal Amir, assassin of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.


 Source: UPI-Jazeera

Rice: Gaddafi, my passion was scary

The meeting between Gaddafi and Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli three years ago (Jazeera)



And described the former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, what she called a "fancy" Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of late that it was "strange and a bit scary."

Rice said in the latest by (do not honor the highest .. memories of my years in Washington)that Colonel late "eccentric", made ​​changes to the video images have to come out a record in tune with the rhythm of composer Libby, entitled "flower of an African in the White House."

But expressed - during her interview with CNN's U.S. news - at the same time satisfaction,as showing that the video was not trivial.

She described the photo album for them, he found the door of the rebels in Azizia to "extraordinary and very strange and frightening."

Rice - which was the first American woman of African descent to serve as U.S. Secretary of State - Gaddafi's fondness for the flag.

Rice took a bag of State from 2005 to 2009, and met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in lateSeptember / September 2008 in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
 

Source: German

Delayed "ambulance" threatened to blow up the building

Russian citizen threatened to blow up the building waiting for a baby who lives it, after adelayed ambulance access to transport his wife, who is about to give birth to the hospital.


The agency said the Russian Interfax news agency on Wednesday that the incident took place city of Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, after the man asked the ambulance to transport his wife, who suffers from the pain of childbirth to the hospital.


According to Life News Agency that the ambulance did not arrive immediately after thefirst contact, the man repeated the attempt, then informed the authorities that will blowfiftieth kg plastic explosives if the building did not come, "ambulance" on the spot.


Soon, the police responded with dogs trained and used to evacuate the building, but after the inspection did not find any explosives and arrested the man, while his wife was quotedambulance to a nearby hospital.
 

 
Source: DBA

Greenwich Mean Time may be of the past

Fiftieth meet scientists from different countries today and tomorrow in closed session in North West London Academy of Sciences under the auspices of the British "Royal Society", to discuss a new definition of timing, so that the GMT forgotten.

This raises the British press, According to The Sunday Times Britain will lose Greenwich Mean Time, which form "for more than 120 years a symbol of Britain's role in the reign of Queen Victoria as a great power."

The Greenwich Mean Time, which is named after a line length which passes city of Greenwich in London has been adopted global reference in a conference held in Washington in 1884.

Under the new definition of time to give up entirely on the timing, "Solar", which is based on the rotation of the Earth and measured by astronomers for more than 200 years based on the Greenwich line.

Has stopped the world for forty years since the adoption of Greenwich Mean Time, it remains with the Standard Time in Britain, and still is a reference in determining the time.

And adopted an international conference held in 1972, "Coordinated Universal Time," which is calculated for seventy laboratories in the world by 400 hours of "atomic" based on the resonant frequency of the cesium atom to set the time.

The timing is different atomic fractions of a second at the time specified by the earth's rotation, given that more accurate.

Thus, added, "one second" almost every year to maintain the relationship between time and the Earth's rotation. This is the second that scientists propose, delete, and thus totally abandon Greenwich Mean Time.

And this proposal is gaining importance due to the work of communication networks and navigation systems via satellite, such as a GPS U.S. "GPS" and a "GLONASS" and soon two Russian "Galileo" and European "Beidou" Chinese. Some of these devices over the second-in contrast to others, which poses a problem in determining the time.

In January, the proposal will be subject to abandonment of the second additional vote to the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva.

In the case of adoption of this proposal, will be gradually moving away from the atomic time solar time at minutes after a period ranging between 60 and 90 years and the average of one hour after 600 years.

Since this proposal raised objections from several bodies such as China, it was decided to "Royal Society" open the way for future amendments.

And thus may be assigned the task of the conference to think another way to determine the time, as the earth's rotation, ie, add one hour for example, after hundreds of years.

Source: French

Intelligence of the individual changes during adolescence

A recent scientific study showed that the IQ of the individual may change during adolescence, contrary to what he thought of the value of the fixed factors, which reflect the mental capacity of the individual.

Where the study carried out by a research team from the University of "London College" in Britain that IQ is not fixed factors, and that the average rate of change up to twenty points, within a period of not more than a few years.

As explained in the results of the study conducted on 33 teenagers, the British, that there are subtle changes in the rates of intelligence at this stage, as shown from the results of adolescents who underwent intelligence tests standard in 2004, then re-test after four years, to include the peak years of adolescence.

The findings revealed subtle changes in the composition of the brain using a technique functional magnetic resonance imaging, which indicated that IQ, which is used most often to predict the academic performance of the individual and employment opportunities available to him, he became more flexible than previously thought, and more affected by the effects, external, such as neglect.

In the same context, said Cathy Bryce, one of the leading researchers in the team from the Centre "and the Wellcome Trust" for Neuroimaging University, said that the rate of change estimated twenty points is a big difference, which allows for varying differences in intelligence in gifted and ordinary people, as well as the difference may be the individual to move from the category of normal intelligence to classify the people below average.

Also through Robert Blooming - Researcher in the field of genetics of intelligence from the University of Kings College London - expressed surprise at the results, describing it as an amazing and very stressing at the same time that in the event confirmed the validity of these results, it highlights the fact that environmental factors occur change in the brain and intelligence during the short period of time.

Source: The Jerusalem Press

Divorce through the Internet to facilitate the procedures

Now couples who can fail to start their marriages in divorce proceedings over the Internet according to a new system on the way to "do-it-yourself" has been proposed as part of the reorganization of family justice.
This new method called "Divorce Information Center" provides evidence of how the gradual dissolution of marriage, including the care and arrangements for the children. The idea is all about encouraging couples to behave themselves and the transfer of disputes over children and money out of the courts.
Under this method contained in the report of the British government, the courts should be used only as a last resort to settle disputes with encouraging divorcing couples to use mediation first and return to the center of the new information. And couples resort to the court only if agreement can be reached, that the judge has made necessary arrangements for children.
These plans are part of a comprehensive report on the Justice family which also includes proposals to reduce unfair delays in cases involving children, which now takes more than a year. There is a major proposal to be for a specified maximum for the delay is six months to shorten the long delays and unacceptable that take 61 weeks in the care issues considered by the courts.
If the cases exceeded the specified time the judges have to provide reasons for the judge and the district's main publicly announces. If this is achieved it - as he said one of officials - this will mean a significant reduction of the period of time that it takes care issues, and more people will look for solutions for themselves the results of the best for their children.
The government plans to walk in the time period of six months, and hopes to be completed many of the issues at a time faster than that. The report also endorsed the call for a strong focus on mediation as an alternative for couples separated by the Court.

Source: Times

Yahoo reveals new applications

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Yahoo has unveiled a range of new products to support their bids for mobile phones and social networks. And announced the new technologies to attract publishers and advertisers as a third party to serve the media in a new iPad from Apple production.

Presented on Wednesday the company - which fired the chief executive Carol Bartz in September / September last - multimedia applications for tablet personal computers and smart phones.

The official in charge of production at Yahoo! Blake Irving told reporters at the company in Sunnyvale, Calif. "The innovation in this area is happening in the mobile phone first, which is closest to the users and where the fastest growing markets."

Among the new products unveiled by Yahoo news service multimedia computer tablet called "Life Stand", and the application of related weather for mobile devices, "Android", and a new version of "Into Now", which is the application of social related television devices iPad.

Yahoo and endured for a long time been criticized for lack of a more comprehensive strategy for dealing with Internet users who are moving away from personal computers and spend more time with tablet PCs and smart phones.

The company is a strategic review of its activities since the dismissal of Bartz as contracted - and according to sources familiar with - with the investment bank, "Allen & Co." and listened to inquiries from a variety of private equity firms, including "Silver Lake Partners."

In response to a question about how to keep Yahoo's focus on developing new products with uncertainties related to the performance of the company during the next phase, said Irving, "The company's mission has not changed and that employees are still dedicated to the development of innovative products."
The official said production at the company, "I am personally more optimistic about Yahoo today than I was two weeks before or eight weeks or years," he said, "We have dreams of what could be, this company and this is what we build."

 Source: Reuters