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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Karima Rhanem nominated New Leader of Tomorrow by Crans ...

Morocco Word News

New York, March 12, 2013

Moroccan journalist and researcher on youth and civil society policies Karima Rhanem has been nominated, among several young leaders from different parts of the world, Crans Montana Forum ?New Leader of Tomorrow.?

The official nomination was held in Brussels on the occasion of the Crans Montana Forum on Africa and International Women?s Day.

The Crans Montana Forum of New Leaders of Tomorrow is a unique community of young leaders from Africa, the Arab World, Far Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South-America, and Far East, selected thanks to their exceptional professional achievement and leadership experience in Businesses and Governments.

Ms. Rhanem has also been recently awarded a certificate of appreciation from the International Association for Public policy and the Administration for her professionalism and contribution to the causes of peace and sound governance in the Middle East. She has also been nominated Morocco World News good will Ambassador for the year 2012.

Ms. Rhanem, who has recently been commended by her university professors for her dedication to knowledge and scientific research, has presented a 250-page research in Arabic on youth policies in the light of the Arab spring at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. The research was regarded as a value added to the university?s library and was highly recommended for translation into foreign languages and publication in world scientific journals.

Karima Rhanem has been a good will Ambassador par excellence for the past three years. She took part in a number of international and cultural diplomacy events as a guest speaker on Morocco?s reforms, youth policies & women?s rights in Morocco post Arab spring.

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/03/82008/karima-rhanem-nominated-new-leader-of-tomorrow-by-crans-montana-foundation/

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Elizabeth Petrakis, Millionaire's Wife, Gets Prenup Thrown Out

In a rare move, a Brooklyn appellate court has decided that a prenuptial agreement between a Long Island woman and her millionaire husband will be thrown out, the New York Post first reported.

"It's virtually unheard of," Dennis D'Antonio, the attorney for Elizabeth Petrakis, told The Huffington Post. "To a large degree, this has upset the heretofore common thinking that prenups were not subject to challenge. ... Now there's precendent for vacating a prenup. It's a big deal."

According to D'Antonio, three months before the couple's 1998 wedding, Peter Petrakis presented his bride with a prenup stipulating that all assets acquired during their marriage would remain his in the event of the divorce.

Elizabeth Petrakis was guaranteed $25,000 for every year the couple was married. When she refused to sign the prenup -- and still hadn't done so four days before the wedding -- Peter Petrakis is said to have promised that he would tear up the agreement after the two had children.

D'Antonio explained to HuffPost that his client's husband is currently worth between $20 and $30 million. Peter Petrakis never made good on his promise about the prenup, and his failure to do so was enough to convince the courts that fraud had occurred, said D'Antonio.

"It's fraud where someone lies to you, or tricks you into doing something on the basis of a lie, that you wouldn't have otherwise done," D'Antonio said of the Petrakis prenup. "That was the grounds for challenging it."

D'Antonio said he's gotten dozens of calls from people inquiring about their prenups in the hours since the New York Post's story was published.

Stephen Gassman, a lawyer for Peter Petrakis, was not immediately available for comment.

Though they're often dubbed unromantic, prenuptial agreements have grown increasingly common in recent years: A 2011 survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that prenups had increased 73 percent over a five-year period.

A 2010 Harris Interactive poll of over 2,000 adult singles found that almost a third would ask for a prenup before walking down the aisle.

The overturning of these agreements tends to be a rare occurrence but, as Reuters previously reported, there are circumstances under which prenups get overturned.

Paul Talbert, a New York attorney, told the news outlet that one of the more common reasons a prenup ends up failing is because of simple errors in paperwork. Though the laws vary by state, prenuptial agreements can also get thrown out if one person was hiding assets or if coercion was involved.

As ABC News has noted, divorce lawyers looking to get their clients out of a prenup will often focus on the timing of the agreement. If the prenup is presented relatively soon before the wedding, then the lawyers can potentially argue that there wasn't enough time for their client to vet the agreement's stipulations.

The ABC further pointed to one of the most famous prenups, involving Steven Spielberg and his ex-wife Amy Irving. The $100 million agreement, which was reportedly signed on a bar napkin, was thrown out.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/elizabeth-petrakis-prenup_n_2853146.html

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Monday, March 11, 2013

How to Stock Your Disaster Pantry

When disaster strikes and your family, friends, and neighborhood need your help, the last place you want to be is stuck in a food line. A backup food supply that's easy to manage and won't break the bank is a cornerstone of disaster prep. The biggest question: How much food is enough?

FEMA and the Red Cross suggest a two-week supply. On its website, the Mormon Church advises a more world-weary approach, advising its flock to keep a three-month supply of food "that is part of your normal daily diet" on hand. It's not a bad goal, but the commercial food grid is usually up and running in much less time, so we suggest starting with a month's backup. How much is that?

"We need to debunk the one-size-fits-all solution to how much food you need," says survival instructor Cody Lundin, author of the excellent disaster-survival manual When All Hell Breaks Loose and pony-tailed star of Dual Survival. "Age, sex, weight, height all factor in. Just ask any mom with three teenage boys who play football if they will eat the same amount of food as her neighbors with younger kids."

The first step is to figure out the basal metabolic rate?the amount of energy a body uses at rest?for each member of your family. Keep in mind that in a disaster situation, people aren't usually at rest, so add more food to compensate. Visit a site like this one to calculate your family's BMR. Our sample family has a husband and wife in their 40s (4400 calories per day), and a son and daughter between 9 and 13 (2400 calories per day). We then added 1000 calories as a cushion, putting our requirements at 7800 calories per day and 234,000 per month.

Remember, you don't have to buy it all at once. Each week, add a few extra items to the shopping list until you've filled up your basement shelves to your satisfaction. We built up a sample store of goods for this photo as a guide to the sorts of foods that store well and could keep a family of four well-fed and sane through the aftermath.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/survival/tips/how-to-stock-your-disaster-pantry?src=rss

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People love zombies when society is unhappy, a researcher says

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Zombies seem to be everywhere these days.

In the popular TV series "The Walking Dead," humans struggle to escape from a pack of zombies hungry for flesh. Prank alerts have warned of a zombie apocalypse on radio stations in a handful of states. And across the country, zombie wannabes in tattered clothes occasionally fill local parks, gurgling moans of the undead.

Are these just unhealthy obsessions with death and decay? To Clemson University professor Sarah Lauro, the phenomenon isn't harmful or a random fad, but part of a historical trend that mirrors a level of cultural dissatisfaction and economic upheaval.

Lauro, who teaches English at Clemson, studied zombies while working on her doctoral degree at the University of California at Davis. Lauro said she keeps track of zombie movies, TV shows and video games, but her research focuses primarily on the concept of the "zombie walk," a mass gathering of people who, dressed in the clothes and makeup of the undead, stagger about and dance.

It's a fascination that, for Lauro, a self-described "chicken," seems unnatural. Disinterested in violent movies or games, Lauro said she finds herself now taking part in both in an attempt to further understand what makes zombie-lovers tick.

"I hate violence," she said. "I can't stand gore. So it's a labor, but I do it."

The zombie mob originated in 2003 in Toronto, Lauro said, and popularity escalated dramatically in the United States in 2005, alongside a rise in dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq.

"It was a way that the population was getting to exercise the fact that they felt like they hadn't been listened to by the Bush administration," Lauro said. "Nobody really wanted that war, and yet we were going to war anyway."

The mid- to late 2000s also saw an uptick in overall zombie popularity, perhaps prompted in part by the release of post-apocalyptic movies including "Dawn of the Dead" and "28 Days Later."

As of last year, Lauro said, zombie walks had been documented in 20 countries. The largest gathering drew more than 4,000 participants at the New Jersey Zombie Walk in Asbury Park, N.J., in October 2010, according to the Guinness World Records.

"We are more interested in the zombie at times when as a culture we feel disempowered," Lauro said. "And the facts are there that, when we are experiencing economic crises, the vast population is feeling disempowered. ... Either playing dead themselves ... or watching a show like 'Walking Dead' provides a great variety of outlets for people."

But, Lauro pointed out, the display of dissatisfaction isn't always a conscious expression of that feeling of frustration.

"If you were to ask the participants, I don't think that all of them are very cognizant of what they're saying when they put on the zombie makeup and participate," she said. "To me, it's such an obvious allegory. We feel like, in one way, we're dead."

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Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP .

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/researcher-zombie-fads-peak-society-unhappy-092912860.html

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Syria rebels free 21 UN peacekeepers

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels on Saturday freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers after holding them hostage for four days, ending a sudden entanglement with the world body that earned those trying to oust President Bashar Assad a flood of negative publicity.

The episode is bound to prompt new questions about U.N. operations in war-torn Syria. The peacekeepers were part of a force that has spent four decades monitoring an Israeli-Syrian cease-fire without incident.

The Filipino peacekeepers crossed from Syria to safety in Jordan on Saturday afternoon, said Mokhtar Lamani, the Damascus representative of the U.N.-Arab League peace envoy to Syria.

The peacekeepers were seized Wednesday and were held in the village of Jamlah in southwestern Syria, near Jordan and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

Their captors from the Martyrs of the Yarmouk Brigades initially said they would only release the hostages once Syrian troops withdrew from the area. In the days leading up to the abduction, rebels had overrun several regime checkpoints and apparently feared reprisals.

However, as the abduction made headlines, the rebels eventually dropped their demand and began negotiating a safe passage for the peacekeepers with U.N. officials. On Friday, a U.N. team tried to retrieve the hostages, but aborted the plan because of heavy regime shelling of the area.

On Saturday, another U.N. team headed toward Jamlah to try again, said a rebel spokesman, who spoke via Skype, insisting on anonymity for fear of reprisals.

He said the U.N. team aborted the mission because of fighting in the area, and that the rebels instead escorted the hostages to the Syrian-Jordanian border.

Lamani said the U.N. team was near Jamlah and was waiting for the rebels to hand over the hostages when the rebels changed their minds and instead drove the peacekeepers to the Jordanian border.

"We don't know why (the rebels changed the plan), and there were lots of talks on this issue," he said. "We were surprised when we got the news through a TV station that they had reached Jordan."

Many rebel groups operate independently, despite efforts by the Syrian opposition to unify the fighters under one command. The abduction appeared to have been such a local initiative, and leaders of the political opposition repeatedly urged the Jamlah rebels to free the hostages.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland warned the rebels that holding the peacekeepers "is not good for them, it's not good for their reputation."

The peacekeepers are part of a U.N. monitoring mission known as UNDOF. It was set up in 1974, seven years after Israel captured the plateau and a year after it managed to push back Syrian troops trying to recapture the territory in another regional war.

The U.N. monitors have helped enforce a stable truce between Israel and Syria.

But in recent months, Syrian mortar shells overshooting their target have repeatedly hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. In Israel's most direct involvement so far, Israeli warplanes struck inside Syria in January, according to U.S. officials who said the target was a convoy carrying anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia allied with Assad and Iran.

Israeli officials have expressed concern that the violence might prompt UNDOF to end its mission.

On Friday, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said "the mission in the Golan needs to review its security arrangements and it has been doing that."

He said the mission has been looking at different scenarios and arrangements on how to operate "in these new rather difficult and challenging circumstances."

The Syria conflict began two years ago, starting with largely peaceful protests against Assad. A harsh regime crackdown triggered an armed insurgency that has turned into a full-scale civil war.

The U.N. estimates that the conflict has claimed more than 70,000 lives and forced nearly 4 million people from their homes. The fighting has devastated large areas of the country.

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Associated Press writer Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-rebels-free-21-un-peacekeepers-144408066.html

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