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• Patients Honor Dr. James Pollock for Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award
• Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin Totally Predicted the Ukraine Situation
• ISIL jihadists retreat in north Syria after ultimatum
• Gender-Based Violence Brings Together Congresswoman, NGOs and Women Against Honor Violence
• Total looking at building big petrochemical unit in Iraq
• Factbox: Memorable Oscar night high points and faux pas
• Jihadi fighters withdraw from parts of north Syria
• Islamist militants slice off alleged thief's hand in Syria
• Mt. Gox bitcoin debacle: huge heist or sloppy glitch?
• Netroots Hunt Democrats
• China names Alain Perrin new national coach
• Al Qaeda splinter group withdraws from Syrian town near Turkey
• Iraq: Suicide bomber kills prominent tribal sheik
• Amputee Soldiers Rally and Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro
• Intervene? Or End Syrian War?
• Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkish homeland
• Baghdad motorbike blast, other attacks kill 52 in Iraq
• Lesbian love, president's lover at French Oscars

Patients Honor Dr. James Pollock for Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST STUART, Fla., Feb. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vitals is pleased to announce that Dr. James Pollock has been honored with the prestigious 2013 Compassionate Doctor Award. Of the nation's 870,000 active physicians, only 3 percent were accorded the Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award in 2013. Each year, nearly 150 million patients across the U.S. access Vitals and UCompareHealthCare to provide feedback about their experiences with their physicians. The Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award is bestowed on doctors who have an average rating of at least a 3.5 out of 4.0 in the category of bedside manner.

Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin Totally Predicted the Ukraine Situation Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:06 PM PST Sarah Palin, who is "usually not one to Told-Ya-So," is on social media this afternoon to remind the world that she predicted that Obama would let Russia invade the Ukraine. At Facebook, Palin makes her case. I'm usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as "an extremely far-fetched scenario" by the "high-brow" Foreign Policy magazine. Here's what this "stupid" "insipid woman" predicted back in 2008: "After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next."

ISIL jihadists retreat in north Syria after ultimatum Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:28 PM PST Radical jihadists begin withdrawing from parts of northern Syria Friday after a threat from rivals, in a bid to protect their stronghold in the east of the war-ravaged country. The main bloc in Syria's opposition in exile, meanwhile, announced it would rejoin the umbrella coalition it split from in a bid to close ranks against the regime. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front has threatened the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant with all-out war if it does not submit by Saturday to mediation by an Islamic court over allegations ISIL assassinated an Islamist commander close to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. The prospect of the powerful Al-Nusra joining with ISIL's opponents appears to have prompted the group to withdraw to its stronghold in the eastern city of Raqa, the only provincial capital lost by the regime in the three-year civil war.

Gender-Based Violence Brings Together Congresswoman, NGOs and Women Against Honor Violence Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:26 PM PST WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an effort to draw attention to the prevalence of honor violence – including forced marriage, disfigurement and female genital mutilation – in advance of International Women's Day, and to promote passage of the International Violence Against Women Act now pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, two Muslim women and human rights activists will address the issue at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Monday, March 3. They will be joined by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), sponsor of the bipartisan International Violence Against Women Act, (IVAWA), and Celia Richa of Futures Without Violence. Speaking will be author Raheel Raza, president of the Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow and founder of Canada's Forum 4 Learning, and Manda Zand Ervin, an Iranian political refugee who is dedicated to publicizing the plight of Iranian women under the Islamic Sharia laws.

Total looking at building big petrochemical unit in Iraq Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:54 AM PST French oil giant Total told AFP Friday that it was looking at building a "world-scale" petrochemical complex in Iraq as part of its strategy to develop its activities in the Middle East's growth markets. The head of Total's refining and chemicals division, Patrick Pouyanne, said he signed a preliminary accord with Iraq's industry ministry in November 2013 to examine the feasibility of the complex in the southern Iraqi port of Basra. "Given its past and present in Iraq, the group is naturally interested in adding value to the gas resources in this country."

Factbox: Memorable Oscar night high points and faux pas Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:48 AM PST By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The job of hosting the Academy Awards telecast, one of the most prestigious and demanding assignments in Hollywood, falls for a second time on Sunday to comedian and talk-show star Ellen DeGeneres, who made her debut as Oscar emcee in 2007. DeGeneres, only the second woman to fly solo as Oscar host - Whoopi Goldberg was the first - will be judged against a wide range of previous performances, including her first, when she drew mixed reviews for a low-key, breezy, daytime-TV style. Despite DeGeneres's flair for putting those around her at ease, some critics complained that her playfulness, including several routines in which she ventured into the audience to clown with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, was an unsuitable fit for the Oscars. The following are some notable high points and faux pas from years past: Bob Hope, who hosted or co-hosted the Oscars a record 18 times between 1940 and 1978 but never took home a statuette for any of his film roles, opened the 1968 show by saying, "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as they're known at my house, Passover." Jerry Lewis, a co-host in 1959, did his manic best to keep the proceedings going when the show ran 20 minutes short.

Jihadi fighters withdraw from parts of north Syria Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:19 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Members of an al-Qaida-breakaway group withdrew Friday from parts of the northern province of Aleppo, ahead of a Saturday deadline issued by another rebel group that could spark more infighting, opposition activists said.

Islamist militants slice off alleged thief's hand in Syria Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:35 AM PST Islamist militants trying to enforce their religious strict code in rebel-held areas of Syria have cut off the hand of an alleged thief in Aleppo province, jihadi social media said on Friday. In the city of Raqqa, it has demanded that Christians pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection.

Mt. Gox bitcoin debacle: huge heist or sloppy glitch? Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:10 AM PST Mark Karpeles, the 28-year-old French CEO of Mt. Gox, which once handled around 80 percent of the world's bitcoin trades, filed for bankruptcy at a Tokyo District Court late on Friday. "If the theft is true," said Campbell Harvey, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, "it's the biggest bank heist in history," aside from when Saddam Hussein ordered his son to withdraw $1 billion from Iraq's central bank in 2003. But most observers say Mt. Gox's laxness played a key role in the debacle. But things got better, he said: "It has been a process of learn-by-doing that they have discovered all sorts of things they should be doing, but were not." No official explanation has been forthcoming beyond blaming hackers and weaknesses in Mt. Gox's system.

Netroots Hunt Democrats Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:45 AM PST In a handful of races, progressives are challenging the D.C. establishment to try to steer the Democratic Party in a new direction.

China names Alain Perrin new national coach Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:41 AM PST BEIJING (AP) — Former Lyon boss Alain Perrin is China's new coach.

Al Qaeda splinter group withdraws from Syrian town near Turkey Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:19 AM PST Fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), withdrew from a rebel-held Syrian town near the border with Turkey on Friday, a monitoring group said. Months of rebel infighting in and around Azaz, 5 km (3 miles) from the Turkish border, has hampered efforts to get humanitarian aid into Syria and help tens of thousands of refugees who fled there to escape bombardment by government forces in Aleppo province. ISIL, which took Azaz five months ago from rival opposition fighters, has fought other rebels who control the border post with Turkey. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reported the withdrawal, says 3,300 people have been killed since the start of the year in fighting between rebel factions trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Iraq: Suicide bomber kills prominent tribal sheik Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:56 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police say a suicide bomber in western Iraq has killed a prominent pro-government tribal sheik as well as six of his militiamen.

Amputee Soldiers Rally and Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:23 AM PST A Group Calling Itself the 'Kilimanjaro Warriors' Climbed Africa's Tallest Mountain

Intervene? Or End Syrian War? Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:00 AM PST Whether saber rattling or not, word is out that the White House is "rethinking its options" on intervening in the Syrian war. The collapse of John Kerry's Geneva 2 talks between the rebels and regime, the lengthening casualty lists from barrel-bomb attacks, and a death toll approaching 150,000, are apparently causing second thoughts. All the usual suspects are prodding Obama to plunge in, if not with troops, at least with a no-fly zone to prevent Bashar Assad from using his air power. As Obama said, it is "somebody else's civil war."

Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkish homeland Posted: 27 Feb 2014 11:56 PM PST By Ayla Jean Yackley MIDYAT, Turkey (Reuters) - When Louis Bandak fled the violence in Syria, he sought refuge in the country his grandfather was forced to abandon exactly 90 years ago this week. Bandak, his wife and two daughters are part of a small but growing trickle of Christians arriving in Turkey after three years of civil war in Syria killed more than 140,000 people. This too is my homeland," says Bandak, sitting in warm winter sun outside the 5th Century Mor Abrohom Monastery in Midyat, 30 miles north of the border. While most Christian refugees are in Lebanon or Jordan, countries with which they share linguistic or cultural ties, several thousand have come to Turkey.

Baghdad motorbike blast, other attacks kill 52 in Iraq Posted: 27 Feb 2014 10:56 PM PST By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 52 people were killed Thursday as a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City and militants targeted mostly Shi'ite neighborhoods around the country. Blood covered the ground, storefront windows were shattered and shoes and motorcycle parts were strewn around the market, according to a Reuters correspondent at the scene. "I was hit in my face and my hands and when I got up, everyone was screaming and running towards me away from the blast." It was not clear who was behind the bombing but violence against Shi'ites is often blamed on the Sunni Muslim Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda-linked group. Baghdad has been hit by wave after wave of bombings since April as the precarious peace enjoyed since the end of Iraq's sectarian war in 2008 has unraveled.

Lesbian love, president's lover at French Oscars Posted: 27 Feb 2014 10:19 PM PST A lesbian love movie that dazzled Cannes leads the race ahead of the French Oscars on Friday, where Julie Gayet, the actress outed as the president's lover, is running for an award for a role as a vamp. Quentin Tarantino and Scarlett Johansson will be attending the Cesars ceremony in Paris, held two days before the US Oscars, with the "Django Unchained" director set to hand Johansson an honorary award. But both will be sharing the celebrity spotlight with 41-year-old Gayet, star of the soap opera that gripped France for weeks after President Francois Hollande was snapped arriving for trysts with her at a Paris address. Leading the pack of Cesars nominations, the Palme d'Or winner "Blue is the Warmest Colour" is up for eight awards including Best Picture and Best Director for the French-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche.

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