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The Gilmore Girls follow-up movies are officially cleared for production after securing six cast members from the original series, led by stars Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham. After lengthy negotiations, Graham and Bledel have closed deals to reprise their roles as the mother-daughter duo of Lorelai and Rory. The Gilmore Girls lead quartet is returning intact, with Scott Patterson and Kelly Bishop signed to reprise their roles as Luke and Emily alongside Bledel and Graham. Also, returning are Gilmore Girls co-star Sean Gunn (Kirk) and Keiko Agena (Lane).

 The Gilmore Girls revival, whic h Netflix is treating as a farewell season of the cult show, consists of four 90-minute movies. The Gilmore Girls creator/exec producer Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino, a fellow Gilmore Girls executive producer, are writing and directing the four films, which are set in present day and unfold over a calendar year, each covering a different season. There had been a sense of missing closure among Gilmore Girls fans because Sherman-Palladino was not on board for its final season of the series and was not able to finish it the way she had originally planned.

 Netflix confirmed the movies were going ahead with a tweet featuring a famous line from the show and a “see you on the set” call-0ut to Sherman-Palladino, Graham and Bledel:

 The beloved series was a critical and commercial hit for the WB, being able to hold its own airing against then-biggest show on television, NBC’s Friends.

 The revival, whose exact title is still TBD, is produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

 Here is Graham’s tweet about the revival,which has just done a table read for the first film:

 I CAN NOW CONFIRM: it's time for me, and this jacket I stole in 2007, to return to work.@netflix #GilmoreGirls pic.twitter.com/tBb07J9oO1 — Lauren Graham (@thelaurengraham) January 29, 2016

 Graham followed Gilmore Girls with a starring role on another well received, long-running drama-comedy, Parenthood, while Bledel has done mostly features, including The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants franchise. Bledel is with CAA, Graham with ICM Partners, Patterson with Genesis Entertainment and Morris Yorn, Bishop with Abrams Artists Agency. ||||| Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images

 Start building up your caffeine tolerance and grab your best mug—after several months of (occasionally harrowing) rumors, Netflix confirmed Friday afternoon that a “final season” of Gilmore Girls will find a home on the streaming-and-chill platform.

 The original series, which aired for seven seasons from 2000-2007, followed Lorelai Gilmore, her daughter Rory, and the residents of Stars Hollow—the show’s fictional New England town. Now, nine years later, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is returning to the helm as executive producer, joined by her husband Daniel Palladino (also an EP). Together, they’ll write and direct all of the episodes in this final season.

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 Netflix confirmed that many of the original series’ core cast members are returning, including Lauren Graham (who played Lorelai Gilmore), Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore), Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore), Scott Patterson (Luke Danes), Sean Gunn (Kirk Gleason), and Keiko Agena (Lane Kim).

 Notable exclusions from the list, however, include Liza Weil (Paris Gellar), Yanic Truesdale (Michel Gerard), and Luke’s ever-present baseball cap. But the latter, at least, is a good bet. Less clear? Melissa McCarthy, once Lorelai's friend Sookie St. James, now a movie star.

 There’s no final word on the title or premiere date for the season, and Netflix hasn’t yet doled out confirmed details on number of episodes or where, exactly, this final season fits into the Gilmore Girlsiverse. Will Luke and Lorelei find their happy ending nearly a decade later? What becomes of Luke’s Diner? Is Lane touring the world and making some boy with long hair carry her drums?

 No matter the events of the final season, though, there’s one issue Sherman-Palladino must solve, and that’s the problem of Rory’s Exes. All intolerable in their own right (yes, even Jess), they displayed varying degrees of awfulness but shared a single common trait in that none of them deserved Rory. If the new season’s going to win hearts and make itself a worthy successor, Gilmore Girls must finally find Rory a worthy partner or—God forbid—no partner at all. |||||

– If you're out on the road, feeling lonely and so cold, all you have to do is…come inside and log onto Netflix, because the streaming service is bringing back Gilmore Girls. Slate reports the return of the popular show—which ran from 2000 to 2007—about a grumpy New England diner owner forced by fate to provide sweets to a fast-talking mother and daughter had been rumored for months before being officially confirmed by Netflix on Friday. With the confirmation comes the announcement that six of the series' main stars will be reprising their roles: Lauren Graham (Lorelai), Alexis Bledel (Rory), Scott Patterson (Luke), Kelly Bishop (Emily), Sean Gunn (Kirk), and Keiko Agena (Lane), according to Deadline. The revival, which is being called a "final season," will comprise four 90-minute movies taking place over the course of a single year, Deadline reports. After being absent for the final televised season, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino will be back to write and direct the movies, giving her a chance to end the series on her terms. According to Slate, those terms better include finding a "worthy partner" for Rory, as her boyfriends throughout the series were "all intolerable in their own right" and "displayed varying degrees of awfulness." No premiere date for the first Gilmore Girls movie has been announced.


Here is a news article: The truth is out there – the CIA is offering a peek into its ‘X-files,’ shining a spotlight on a series of once-classified UFO documents.

 “To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA UFO collection, we’ve decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting,” explained the agency, in a blog post.

 Related: Astronaut Scott Kelly's 'UFO' photo generates extraterrestrial buzz

 The UFO documents, which date primarily from the 1940s and 1950s, are among hundreds that the CIA declassified in 1978.

 Expand / Contract A UFO investigation in Socorro, N.M. (CIA)

 In a nod to Fox’s new “X-Files” series, the agency highlights “five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity.”

 Related: Strange 'ancient face' spotted on Mars rock

 “We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings,” it added.

 The “Mulder” documents include 1952 reports of flying saucers over the then-East Germany, Spain and North Africa, as well as a survey of UFO reports from the same year. The agency also posted a 1952 report of “two fiery disks” flying over a uranium mine in the then-Belgian Congo and the minutes of a CIA branch chief’s meeting discussing UFOs.

 Related: Time to clean up all that space junk, says NASA chief

 The report from East Germany details “an object ‘resembling a huge frying pan’ and having a diameter of about 15 meters [49 feet].” The object landed in a forest clearing in Germany’s Soviet Zone, according to the report.

 “A smoke-trailing object over Barcelona” and an unusual object “emitting a pale green light” over the Tunisian city of Sousse are described in the report from Spain and North Africa.

 Related: NASA's 'flying saucer' in pictures

 Photos posted on the CIA website include an unexplained sighting above Minneapolis in 1960 and another above Sheffield, U.K. two years later. It also posted an image of a UFO investigation in Socorro, N.M.

 The “Mulder” documents include an office memo from 1949, a 1952 memo to the Director of Central Intelligence and a ‘Memorandum for the Record on Flying Saucers,’ also from 1952. The agency also posted a 1953 document detailing the suggestions of a scientific advisory panel on UFOs and the minutes of an Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) UFO advisory group from the same year. ||||| The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s.

 To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA UFO collection, we’ve decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting. Below you will find five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity. We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings.

 The truth is out there; click on the links to find it.

 Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On:

 Top 5 CIA Documents Scully Would Love To Get Her Hands On:

 Do you want to believe? Then find out how to investigate a flying saucer. ||||| The real-life stories of UFOs would be enough for the fictional "X-Files" FBI agents Mulder and Scully to spend a lifetime investigating.

 With a nod to the new "X-Files" reboot (which airs on Fox on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET), the Central Intelligence Agency has released a trove of once classified documents on several real-life unidentified flying objects.

 Not surprisingly, many of these UFO sightings emerged in the early 1950s. The space race was on, the Cold War fears had reached a fever pitch, and science-fiction movies like "The Flying Saucer" (1950) catapulted schlocky depictions of aliens and their flying machines into the popular consciousness. In fact, by 1953, UFO mania had reached such heights that the CIA marshaled a team of scientific consultants to investigate all of the reports and review the "Unidentified Flying Object Problem," according to a 1953 memorandum by the agency.

 While most of these encounters were likely weird cloud formations, lightning or even missile tests rather than little green men, they still inspire countless conspiracy theories. From the flying frying pan of West Germany to the mysterious craft hovering over uranium mines in Africa, here are some of the CIA's most mysterious X-files. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]

 The flying pan of West Germany

 In 1952, Oscar Linke, the 48-year-old former mayor of Gleimershausen, Germany, and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriella were traveling home, when his tire blew out near the town of Hasselbach. His daughter noticed something in the distance, which he initially thought was a deer.

 When Linke got closer, however, he saw two men peering at what looked like a massive frying pan, between 42 and 49 feet (13 to 15 meters) in diameter, he reported. Around the rim were two rows of holes, each about 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter, and a large, conical tower, about 10 feet (3 m) high, loomed at the top of the object.

 When his daughter called back to him, she startled the two men, who immediately jumped inside the mysterious frying pan, according to the CIA report.

 One of the men, according to Linke, had a round protrusion on his chest that glowed green and then red. While he was watching, the conical structure fell down to the ground, the saucer began rising in the air and its rim was encircled with flames from below. Then, it turned horizontally and took off above the trees, disappearing into the distance.

 "I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved: When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been. I found a circular opening in the ground, and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug. It was exactly the same shape as the conical tower," Linke testified to a West German judge at the time.

 Linke, who had recently escaped from East Germany, claimed he had never heard of flying saucers when in the Soviet Zone. He was convinced that the flying machine was a Soviet military apparatus. Other people in the area reported seeing what looked like a comet at the time. [Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets]

 Uranium mine surveys?

 That same year, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), two fiery discs were spotted hovering over the uranium mines in the Elisabethville district, according to a news report from the local newspaper Die Presse.

 "The disks glided in elegant curves and changed their positions many times, so that from below, they sometimes appeared as plates, ovals and simply lines," the article said.

 According to the article, Cmdr. Pierre, who worked at the Elisabethville airfield, pursued the two flying discs in a fighter plane, but gave up after 15 minutes. He said he estimated the discs were flying at 932 mph (1,500 km/h). The saucer zoomed off, disappearing over Lake Tanganyika. [Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Planes]

 According to Pierre, the discs were aluminum-colored metal, between 39 and 49 feet (12 to 15 m) in diameter, and had a central knob that seemed to stay absolutely still as the outer disc rotated at tremendous speeds. The outer circumference was "veiled in fire," according to the report. Like the one in the previous report, this saucer seemed capable of flying both vertically and horizontally, and often "shot down" to within a few hundred feet of the treetops. The pilot thought it was unlikely that the mysterious machine was manned, as the disc's erratic motion and high heat would not allow someone to stay inside. (The dubious aerodynamics of such an object were not mentioned.)

 Though Pierre is noted as a reliable officer, no one else confirmed his sighting. Based on his report, however, the CIA produced a sketch of the purported saucer's dimensions and potential operating principles.

 Smoke trail over Barcelona

 It turned out that 1952 was a hot year for unidentified-object sightings.

 Several people reported seeing lightning-fast objects streaking through the sky over North Africa and Spain. For instance, newspaper reporter Valentín García noticed a smoke trail coming from a strange, rocketlike object flying near Barcelona. After he reported on the object, his office was flooded with calls about the enigmatic object, and one of his friends even captured a photo of the smoke trail, García reported.

 That same year, people in Sousse, Tunisia, reported seeing "a flying object traveling at dizzying speed from west to east emitting a pale green light."

 And in Morocco, witnesses reported a flying saucer shooting silently through the sky. In comparison, the flights of nearby T-33 fighter planes seemed slow. The object traced a parabola in the sky, paused, and then streaked off toward a town in the south.

 The CIA did not release documents to show exactly how all of those investigations were resolved, but other documents suggest that most seem to be hoaxes or misidentified objects.

 In a 1953 report by a scientific advisory panel to investigate UFOs, agency officials noted that "the Panel members were impressed by the lack of sound data in the great majority of case histories."

 For most of the cases, expert investigators uncovered reasonable explanations for the sightings, and for others, a process of induction suggested similar reports could be dismissed as well, the panel found.

 Follow Tia Ghose on Twitterand Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science. ||||| Sunday's X-Files premiere has gotten even bigger.

 The special, post-NFL outing of the event series is averaging 20.3 million viewers and a massive 7.8 rating among adults 18-49 now that initial live-plus-three day ratings are in. That makes it broadcast's second-biggest scripted episode of the season, shy of Empire's sophomore premiere, and the highest-rated post-NFL conference championship episode of a scripted series in more than a decade.

 Night-of viewership for the episode was incredibly strong. It netted a 6.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 16.2 million viewers. With the time-shifting now added, the kick-off of The X-Files' six-part return actually fared better than the 2002 series finale. (That pre-DVR-era episode averaged a 6.3 rating in the key demo.)

 The X-Files also added 1.1 million viewers on Hulu.

 There's still the wait-and-see of how the second episode will perform. On the night it aired, it averaged a strong 3.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 9.7 million viewers. Fox execs, however, are likely anticipating bigger boosts when those live-plus-three day stats come in.

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– With the revival of The X-Files already proving to be one of 2016's most popular shows, everyone's jumping on the bandwagon, including the CIA. Fox News reports the CIA recently drew attention to some of the documents related to UFOs it first declassified in 1978. A blog post by the CIA highlights "five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity" and "five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings." The "Mulder" documents include 1952 UFO sightings in East Germany—a father and daughter spotted a UFO in a field accompanied by two men in shiny suits (PDF here); Spain—a newspaper office was "flooded" with calls about a smoke-trailing UFO (PDF here); and the Belgian Congo—a fighter plane chased after two UFOs making inhumanly abrupt changes in course (PDF here). Most of the CIA's declassified UFO documents come from the 1940s and 1950s, and Live Science notes that this isn't a surprise as the imaginations of people at the time were running rampant with sci-fi movies, the space race, and the Cold War. In most of the reported cases, it adds, "expert investigators uncovered reasonable explanations for the sightings," such as missile tests or cloud formations. Scully would be proud. (Now about those weird space balls in Vietnam.)


– Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield is no stranger to controversy—you may recall his "don't say gay" bill, among other things—and now he's got a little bit more. On his blog, Campfield thought it would be a hoot to make a joke about the Boston bombers' weapon of choice, a pressure cooker. He posted a photo of "an assault pressure cooker" with the line, "Here comes Feinstein again," a reference to the senator's efforts on gun control. Asked about it by WVLT, Campfield said people need to "lighten up." “I say it’s insensitive that people go after guns and Second Amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting," he added. The state senator also made headlines earlier this month when he scrapped a measure to link welfare benefits to students' performance at school, notes Raw Story. He dropped the bill after being confronted in front of cameras by an 8-year-old girl, who he dismissed as a "prop". (The Tennessean had coverage on that.)

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) --- Senator Stacey Campfield has taken to his blog to post what he called a "joke" about pressure cookers being used as weapons one week after a pressure cooker was used to bomb the Boston Marathon.

 The blog post, titled "Here comes Feinstein again" shows a pressure cooker with different parts labeled as weapons.

 When asked if he thought the timing (one week after 3 people died in the Boston Marathon bombings) was insensitive Campfield responded by saying "People need to lighten up."

 He elaborated by saying "I say it's insensitive that people go after guns and second amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting."

 Click the link to read his blog. ||||| Tennessee lawmaker says ‘lighten up’ after posting pressure cooker bomb joke

 By David Edwards

 Tuesday, April 23, 2013 15:04 EDT

 A Tennessee lawmaker who posted a joke about the pressure cooker bombs used to murder three people last week in Boston now says that people need to “lighten up.”

 In a post to his personal blog on Monday, state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) displayed a photo of an “Assault Pressure Cooker” with the title “Here comes Feinstein again.”

 The photo described the pressure cooker as having a “folding stock,” being the “evil” color black and having a “large-capacity, can cook for hours without reloading.”

 The joke is a reference to Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA) effort to ban military-style assault weapons, which gun proponents argue uses cosmetic features to decide which rifles will be outlawed.

 WVLT asked Campfield if had been appropriate to joke about crock pot bombs less than a week after terrorists used the improvised explosive devices in Boston.

 “People need to lighten up,” Campfield told the station. “I say it’s insensitive that people go after guns and Second Amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting.”

 “I Just [sic] got a call from the media saying they had gotten a few calls (about a blog post I did) saying it was inappropriate after the Boston bombing,” the state senator wrote in a follow-up post. “If my post was inappropriate talking about ‘crock pot control’ then where is the outrage from the left when they push for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting? Im [sic] sorry if I exposed your double standard…. Well, not really.”

 On Tuesday, Campfield added, “How come no one ever says its liberals who are bitterly clinging to their gun control and secular humanism?”

 Earlier this month, the Tennessee lawmaker dropped a bill linking a student’s academic performance to their family’s welfare benefits after an 8-year-old girl shamed him by following him around the state Capitol. He also recently threatened to cut funds for the University of Tennessee after he learned that the school was conducting a “Sex Week” to promote sex educcation.

 In February, he told TMZ that he had proposed a law that prevented students from being taught about homosexuality because the “homosexual community gets AIDS at a 50 times higher rate than the heterosexual community.”

 When asked why students shouldn’t be taught how to protect themselves from HIV, Campfield compared homosexuality to “shooting heroin.”

 “We need to show them the best ways to shoot up. No, we don’t,” he said. “Why do we have to hypersexualize little children? Why can’t we just let little kids be little kids for a while?” ||||| I'm not one to be hyping much of Fox News, but this is simply too good to pass up. Love me some Jon Voight. Of course, Angela's the one who was hanging wit...

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– Writer Salman Rushdie was furious at "moronic" Facebook yesterday after the network took down his profile because operators thought it was fake. To start it up again, he was ordered to send in a copy of his passport—then told to use the name Ahmed because that's what appears on his passport. "They insist I call myself by the first name I have never used," he complained. "What a bunch of morons." Real first names are required by Facebook policy, even if you've used your middle name your entire life. “Dear #Facebook,” he tweeted, “forcing me to change my FB name from Salman to Ahmed Rushdie is like forcing J. Edgar to become John Hoover.” After much writerly moaning and groaning by the author of Satanic Verses, the profile page was reinstated with the name Salman Rushdie. Facebook said the takedown was all a misunderstanding and apologized. "Victory. Salman returns," crowed Ahmed.


– Matt Damon is being heaped with Internet love after a video from the weekend's Save Our Schools march went viral. Damon, interviewed by the libertarian Reason.tv, took issue with the reporter's view that "job insecurity" is what causes him to work hard as an actor—and that more job insecurity could motivate teachers to work hard, too. Watch his smackdown in the gallery, and make sure to stick around til the end for arguably the best line, which he hurls at the cameraman. (When you're done, click to watch fellow actor Mila Kunis engage in her own reporter smackdown—in Russian.)

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A reporter from libertarian rag Reason interviewed notorious Massachusetts liberal actor Matt Damon at this year's Save Our Schools March and she tried to throw some business at him about teacher tenure and Ayn Randy incentive stuff and he wasn't having it.

 Watch as Damon, a multi, multi millionaire, somehow comes across as in-touch with the needs of the working teacher. Observe with delight as not only is the reporter shamed, but so too is the cameraman! Behold Damon's glorious bald head and adorable mom! It's a fun video, is what I'm saying. [via Slog] ||||| While promoting "Friends With Benefits" in Moscow last week, Mila Kunis proved that she hasn't lost touch with her Eastern European roots, even though she left the Ukraine when she was seven-years-old. While at the Russian press junket, Kunis answered some of the questions in her native language--much to the dismay of her co-star Justin Timberlake.

 Poor Justin isn't getting the translation feed because of a delay, which leads to more than a few uncomfortable moments for the singer-turned-actor.

 Last week, the costars attended the Russian premiere of their "no-mantic comedy". Currently, the sexy duo are in London promoting the hit summer flick.

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 A new study has shown that there is a link between these people and low intelligence.

 It found that those who are receptive to pseudo-profound, intellectual-sounding 'bulls***' are less intelligent, less reflective, and more likely to be believe in conspiracy theories, the paranormal and alternative medicine.

 PhD candidate Gordon Pennycook and a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, published a study entitled 'On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bulls***'.

 It mentions the word 'bulls***' over 200 times.

 They tested hundreds of people to find the link between being impressed by 'bulls***' quotes and low intelligence.

 Examples of 'bulls***' were given, as it is a hard term to define.

 Essentially, it means grand-sounding statements which mean nothing - many people post such things on Instagram.

 An example was: "Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty."

 The paper says: "Although this statement may seem to convey some sort of potentially profound meaning, it is merely a collection of buzzwords put together randomly in a sentence that retains syntactic structure."

 "Bulls***, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies but does not contain adequate meaning or truth."

 Pennycook used a website that would randomly generate these pseudo-profound sentences from a string of words.

 This website is active, and serves up wise-sounding aphorisms like "This life is nothing short of an unveiling quantum leap of mythic rejuvenation" and "We are at a crossroads of transformation and desire" at the click of a button.

 Almost 300 test subjects were asked to rate the profundity of these sentences on a scale of one to five.

 They were asked to differentiate between philosophy quotes, "bulls***", and mundane sentences.

 Most recognised the mundane as mundane, but rated the made-up quotes on similar levels of profoundity to tweets posted by Deepak Chopra, a writer.

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 As well as this. he researchers looked into a number of other personality traits, examining how the participants think about themselves and the world around them.

 The paper said that those who were more receptive to the bulls*** statements and who tended to rate them higher were "less reflective, lower in cognitive ability(i.e verbal and fluid intelligence, numeracy,) and are more prone to ontological confusions and conspiratorial ideation."

 It also said they were more likely to "hold religious and paranormal beliefs, and are more likely to endorse complementary and alternative medicine."

 As they say, "our findings are consistent with the idea that the tendency to rate vague, meaningless statements as profound is a legitimate psychological phenomenon that is consistently related to at least some variables of theoretical interest." |||||
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– This has to rank among the best opening statements ever in a study abstract: "Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation." And so researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario set out to study "pseudo-profound bullshit," and who believes it. Reporting in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, the researchers asked subjects to rate quotes that are philosophical, mundane, or simply BS—the latter consisting, in their words, of "seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous"—on a profundity scale. The team also tested participants' cognitive and reasoning ability. The researchers found that those who are "more receptive" to BS have lower "verbal and fluid intelligence" and are more likely to believe in the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and alternative medicine. For actual examples of readily propagated BS, Forbes reports PhD candidate Gordon Pennycook and his team turned to the Twitter feed of Deepak Chopra, highlighting tweets such as "Attention and intention are the mechanics of manifestation." The Telegraph reports the researchers also used this website, which composes made-up pseudo-profound statements like this one: "Growth is the richness of life, and of us." The researchers found that participants assigned the website-generated BS and Chopra's tweets similar profoundness ratings. As for who was good at sniffing out BS, Forbes reports it was those who tend to "have an analytic cognitive style and be skeptical about paranormal phenomena." Chopra's response to it all? He tweeted, "I thank the authors for the study. Their # bullshit is getting me more speaking engagements & new book offers." (Read about another unusual study: Scientists have decided there are 4 kinds of drunks.)


– A viral video campaign may not have turned up a warlord accused of murder, rape, and kidnapping in central Africa, but the White House is hoping a ramped up effort by the United States will. The Washington Post reports that President Obama has ordered a strengthened US presence in Uganda—including at least four CV-22 Osprey aircraft, 150 Air Force Special Ops forces and other airmen—in an attempt to find Joseph Kony and deliver him to the International Criminal Court. That brings the total of US troops in the country to 300, outnumbering the estimated 250 fighters of Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, which has taken some major blows recently. The parameters for the new troops—which also include refueling planes, the BBC notes—will be much the same as when Obama sent 100 troops to hunt for Kony in 2011: Personnel may "provide information, advice, and assistance" to the African Union task force hunting Kony and the LRA across Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Congo, but they may not engage in combat unless in self-defense. The Ospreys in particular "will make a significant difference in the ability to respond to leads" about Kony's whereabouts, and can carry 24 troops each, a Defense Department official said.

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South Sudanese soldiers load bullets into their assault rifles before setting off for a raid on a Lord’s Resistance Army camp in the Congo at a camp in Nzara, South Sudan.

 Sept. 17, 2013 South Sudanese soldiers load bullets into their assault rifles before setting off for a raid on a Lord’s Resistance Army camp in the Congo at a camp in Nzara, South Sudan. Rajiv Chandrasekaran/The Washington Post

 Obama has ordered an increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda to find warlord Joseph Kony; here are photos from the hunt in September. Kony, whose forces have spent years attacking central African villages, mutilating civilians and stealing children, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

 Obama has ordered an increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda to find warlord Joseph Kony; here are photos from the hunt in September. Kony, whose forces have spent years attacking central African villages, mutilating civilians and stealing children, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

 Obama has ordered an increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda to find warlord Joseph Kony; here are photos from the hunt in September. Kony, whose forces have spent years attacking central African villages, mutilating civilians and stealing children, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

 President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.

 The CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive in Uganda by midweek, along with refueling aircraft and about 150 Air Force Special Operations forces and other airmen to fly and maintain the planes, according to Amanda Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs. At least four Ospreys will be deployed.

 The White House began to notify Congress, under the War Powers Act, of the new deployments as they began Sunday night. Dory and other officials emphasized that the Ospreys will be used for troop transport and that the rules of engagement for U.S. forces remain the same as for about 100 Special Operations troops that Obama first sent to help find Kony in October 2011.

 U.S. personnel are authorized to “provide information, advice and assistance” to an African Union military task force tracking Kony and his organization, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), across Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Congo. While combat-equipped, they are prohibited from engaging LRA forces unless in self-defense.

 The new War Powers Act notification sets the approximate total for all U.S. forces in Uganda at 300.

 View Graphic A map of the Lord's Resistance Army area of influence

 Kony, whose forces have spent years attacking central African villages, mutilating civilians and stealing children, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. His organization is thought to have been decimated in recent years through military action against it and defections.

 LRA attacks have decreased significantly and the number of people killed has dropped more than 75 percent since 2010, said Grant Harris, a special assistant to Obama and senior African affairs director for the National Security Council. Three of the organization’s five commanders have been “removed . . . from the battlefield” since May 2012, he said, including “credible reporting” that second-in-command Okot Odhiambo was killed late last year.

 Force shifts its location

 But Kony has not been definitively sighted for some time. His force is now thought to number no more than 250 fighters who shift position frequently within a wide area across the target countries. Most recently, he has been thought to be somewhere in the heavy jungle of the eastern Central African Republic, a country in the midst of political upheaval and virtually without a government.

 U.S. and A.U. forces pursuing Kony operate out of bases in Uganda. Administration officials who described the new deployments insisted they did not imply any weakening in the Obama administration’s criticism of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for signing a new law imposing harsh penalties for “homosexual offenses.”

 Obama warned that the law, passed last month by the Ugandan parliament, was a “step backward for all Ugandans,” and the administration said it would review bilateral relations, including $400 million in annual U.S. aid to Uganda.

 “Ensuring justice and accountability for human rights violators like the LRA and protecting” the rights of gay and transgendered persons “are not mutually exclusive,” Harris said.

 He said the administration has already moved to shift funding away from partners “whose actions don’t reflect” U.S. values, including $6.4 million that had been designated for the Interreligious Council of Uganda, which has supported the legislation.

 A planned survey of key populations at risk for HIV, to be jointly conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Uganda University, has also been suspended because “we think proceeding could cause danger to staff and respondents,” Harris said.

 He said that approximately $3 million in tourism and biodiversity promotion programs has been transferred from the Ugandan government to nongovernmental organizations. The Pentagon has also shifted regional military conferences that were to be held in Uganda to other locations.

 “We are continuing to look at additional steps we might take,” Harris said, and “continue to urge Uganda to repeal the law.”

 Quick transport of troops

 Dory, at the Pentagon, declined to specify the exact number of Ospreys that are being sent to Uganda or where they would be based inside the country.

 The Pentagon, the State Department and A.U. task force commanders requested the aircraft last year to better enable the quick transport of troops to areas where they have received intelligence about Kony.

 Ospreys are tilt-rotor aircraft capable of landing and lifting straight off the ground like helicopters, but they can also fly and land as fixed-wing planes. They are faster, and with their refueling capability, they can fly farther than the small, fixed-wing contract aircraft being used in the mission.

 Each can carry about 24 troops, and the aircraft are equipped with .50-caliber machine guns for self-defense. “They will make a significant difference in the ability to respond to leads” about Kony’s whereabouts, many of them generated through growing defections from Kony’s ranks, Dory said.

 The deployment is also “an excellent example of being able to share assets between different combatant commands,” she said. Normally based in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, under the U.S. Central Command — which oversees the Middle East — the Ospreys are temporarily being transferred to the Africa Command. The deployment is temporary, officials said, but they provided no estimate of how long they will remain in Uganda.

 The LRA poses no threat to the United States, but the administration sees assistance to the A.U. mission as a useful way to build military and political partnerships with African governments in a region where al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are rapidly expanding, as well as to demonstrate adherence to human rights principles.

 Although critics accuse Obama of “weakness” in Syria and the administration has been challenged by Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the Uganda action is a relatively inexpensive way to show resolve in a popular cause.

 LRA atrocities publicized on the Internet sparked interest among tens of thousands of young people in the United States, many of whom wrote their members of Congress. In 2009, Congress passed legislation expressing “support for increased, comprehensive U.S. efforts to help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability.” ||||| Image copyright AFP Image caption Joseph Kony is wanted on war crimes charges

 The US has announced it is sending military aircraft and more special forces to look for Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony.

 At least four CV-22 Ospreys and refuelling planes, as well as 150 Air Force special forces personnel will arrive in Uganda this week, they say.

 Mr Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges.

 The US first deployed some 100 special forces in 2011 to help thousands of African troops track him down.

 His Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels are notorious for abducting children and forcing the boys to become fighters and keeping the girls as sex slaves.

 Boys are forced to kill their own parents, so they think they cannot return home.

 The group first emerged in Uganda in the 1980s but its fighters now roam between Central African Republic, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said the lack of aircraft had been identified by the African countries leading the hunt for Mr Kony as one of their major obstacles to finding him and the other LRA leaders "across a wide swath of one of the world's poorest, least governed and most remote regions".

 The US forces would be based in Uganda but would be used in other countries where the LRA was present, she said.

 The African Union-led forces would remain in charge of the operation, with the US retaining an advisory role.

 CV-22 Ospreys can land and take off vertically like a helicopter but fly like a plane so they can travel further and faster than helicopters.

 The US has offered up to $5m (£3.3m) for leads resulting in his arrest. |||||


Fred Beckey, a fabled mountaineer and author who was the first to take hundreds of routes to the summits of North America’s tallest peaks in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Northwest in an audacious seven-decade climbing career, died on Monday in Seattle. He was 94.

 Megan Bond, a close friend of Mr. Beckey’s, wrote in a Facebook message that he died of congestive heart failure in her home. A longtime resident of Seattle, he had been in hospice care for four days, she said.

 Rawboned and tenacious, Mr. Beckey made as many as a thousand ascents that no one was known to have taken before. He wrote a dozen books on mountaineering, many of them considered definitive guides to the terrain of the continent’s best-known and least accessible peaks. ||||| FILE - In this July 26, 2016, file photo, Fred Beckey, the legendary mountain climber, visits with guests during a promotional event for "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey," an upcoming documentary feature... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this July 26, 2016, file photo, Fred Beckey, the legendary mountain climber, visits with guests during a promotional event for "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey," an upcoming documentary feature film about his life in Seattle. Beckey died on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, according to Megan Bond,... (Associated Press)

 SEATTLE (AP) — Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, who wrote dozens of books and is credited with notching more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, has died. He was 94.

 Megan Bond, a close friend who managed his affairs, told The Associated Press that Beckey died of natural causes in her Seattle home Monday.

 "He was an extraordinary mountaineer. He also had a personality and humor that almost dwarfed the mountains around him," Bond said. "He was a brilliant writer. He was a scholar. He lived based on what was important to him, and he was not going to sell out."

 Beckey was known as much for his eccentric personality as for his singular obsession with climbing.

 He was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a child. His family settled in Seattle, where he got his first taste of hiking and scrambling with the Boy Scouts and later The Mountaineers club.

 In 1942, he and his younger brother Helmut wowed the climbing community with an impressive second ascent of Mount Waddington in British Columbia.

 He went on to accomplish hundreds of first ascents on peaks throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Canada and Wyoming. In 1954, he established new routes on three of Alaska's mountains: McKinley, Deborah and Hunter. He also climbed in the Himalayas and China.

 "Fred got the golden age of climbing first ascents," Alex Bertulis, a former climbing partner told the AP last year. "That will be his legacy."

 He authored more than a dozen books, including the three-volume "Cascade Alpine Guide" that details hundreds of peaks in the North Cascades in Washington state.

 Beckey once wrote that climbing gave him a unique sense of control over his destiny. "The exaltation one can get in the presence of mountains can be a memorable lesson in humility and an aid to self-realization," he wrote.

 "Fred was a true American icon. His legacy is profound, and he has inspired countless people to explore this amazing planet," Dave O'Leske said in a statement. He directed the documentary feature film, "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey" and spent the past decade filming Beckey.

 Even in his 90s, Beckey was still plotting routes and climbing — though more slowly and with the help of a cadre of fiercely protective partners.

 Bond said they were planning a trip to the Himalayas next spring and she was working on arranging porters to carry him. In recent weeks, she and others took him climbing to Squamish, British Columbia. It was logistically complicated, she said, but he was able to get about half a pitch.

 With Beckey, she said, "there was always more to do."

 Beckey is survived by his younger brother Helmut. Beckey will be buried in private services this weekend, Bond said. A public memorial service will be scheduled in November.

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 An earlier version of this story mispelled Beckey in the short headline. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, who wrote dozens of books and is credited with notching more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, has died. He was 94. Megan Bond, a close friend who managed his affairs, told the AP that Beckey died of natural causes in her Seattle home Monday. She described him as a "brilliant writer" and "extraordinary mountaineer" with "a personality and humor that almost dwarfed the mountains around him." But though he "made as many as a thousand ascents that no one was known to have taken before," the German-born climber who immigrated to Seattle, Wash., as a child, avoided publicity and was "virtually unknown to the general public," reports the New York Times. Choosing mountains over people (he never married or had kids), Beckey often climbed 50 peaks in a single year. In 1942, he and his younger brother, Helmut, wowed the climbing community with an impressive second ascent of Mount Waddington in British Columbia. He went on to accomplish hundreds of first ascents on peaks throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Canada, and Wyoming. In 1954, he established new routes on three of Alaska's mountains: McKinley, Deborah, and Hunter. "Fred was a true American icon" and "inspired countless people to explore this amazing planet," says Dave O'Leske, who spent the past decade filming Beckey. Even in his 90s, Beckey was still plotting routes and climbing. Bond said they were planning a trip to the Himalayas next spring.


Pope Francis wrapped-up his big day in New York City by rocking the Garden.

 The leader of the Roman Catholic church took over the home of the New York Knicks, Liberty and Rangers on Friday and transformed the sports shrine into a holy hall.

 “God is living in our cities,” Francis said in Spanish.

 The 24,000 worshippers packing Madison Square Garden did something that’s not usually done at Masses — they burst into applause.

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 “In big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath the rapid pace of change, so many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no right to be there, no right to be part of the city," Francis continued. "They are the foreigners, their children who go without school, those deprived medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly.”

 Embrace them and “go out and show that God is in your midst,” Francis said.

 “Knowing that Jesus still walks our streets, that he is vitally a part of the lives of his people, that he is involved with us in a vast history of salvation, fills us with hope,” he said.

 And with those words, Francis hammered some of the same points he has been making ever since he began his pilgrimage to the U.S. on Tuesday.

 God, he said, “frees us from anonymity, from a life of emptiness and selfishness.”

 Thousands cheer as Pope Francis rides through Central Park. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Still flanked by the heavy security that has been with him every step of the way since he got to Gotham, Francis took the Popemobile on a procession down West Drive where he basked in the adoration. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

 Near the end of the Mass, thunderous applause echoed through the hall when Timothy Cardinal Dolan stood up and declared, “We pray for Francis our Pope, and now here you are.”

 Calling his Papa Francesco, Dolan said, “It is so dazzlingly evident this evening that the church is our family, and you Holy Father, thanks for visiting us, your family.”

 Then Dolan hugged the Pope and handed him a golden chalice while somene yelled "Viva Papa!" from the crowd.

 And when Francis stood up and gave a parting blessing, he did so in English.

 “Go in peace,” he said. “Please I ask you, don’t forget to pray for me.”

 It was the crowning end to a day that began with Francis urging the United Nations General Assembly to combat climate change, segued into a solemn visit to the National September Memorial & Museum, was followed by a trip to East Harlem to meet Catholic school children and a ride through Central Park where 80,000 people cheered him on.

 Back in 1979, one of Francis’ popular predecessors, Pope John Paul, got the rock star treatment at MSG when he attended a youth rally for 20,000 kids.

 Francis got the same kind of reception when he arrived at the Garden around 6 p.m. after taking a ride through Central Park where he was feted by 80,000 New Yorkers.

 MSG erupted in cheers as Francis did a quick ride-through on a white golf cart, waving and shaking as many hands as he could.

 At one point Francis blessed a baby that was brought out to him before he ducked out to change into his green vestments for a celebratory mass.

 “This is a once in a lifetime thing,” said Dennis Hogan of Staten Island, who had been waiting with his wife Judy since 11:30 a.m. when the line to get in was three blocks long.

 Hogan, a deacon at Our Lady Queen of Peace in the New Dorp section, was enlisted to help distribute Holy Communion.

 “We prepared for this for years, and when it happens it's a culmination of a dream,” he said.

 Asked if he had any pre-Mass jitters, Hogan smiled and said, “I'm strangely calm."

 They were lining-up to see Francis hours before he showed-up at MSG.

 The faithful waiting patiently outside began heading in at 2 p.m. when the doors opened and once inside there they were stuck. The heavy security that had been protecting Francis from the moment he arrived in New York City on Thursday did not allow anybody to leave.

 But nobody seemed to mind.

 Paul Kelaher, 61, who lives upstate in Clifton Park, called Francis a "unique guy" and said he had a more common touch than his predecessor Pope Benedict.

 Pope Francis presides over an interfaith service as he visits National September 11 Memorial and Museum Friday in New York City. (TONY GENTILE/REUTERS) Leaders of different faiths watch Francis speak at the multi-religious service. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Pope Francis, left, is escorted by Timothy Cardinal Dolan through the museum near the Ladder Company 3 truck. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News )

 "I think he's more open-minded than other popes, in his own way more progressive," he said. "We went from a guy who was wearing Gucci to a guy in a Fiat."

 To pass the time, the faithful said the Rosary, both in English and Spanish, and they sang sacred songs.

 They gazed down on the altar, which was decked-out in the Vatican colors of white and gold.

 And they shopped at the concession stands where Pope-themed merchandise, including Swarovski crystal Rosary beads for $175, "Official Papal NYC 2015" baseball hats for $25, and commemorative Christmas ornaments for $30 were on sale.

 Then at 3:30 p.m., Francis’s warm-up act appeared — West Wing actor Martin Sheen — to start the pre-Mass program.

 “It is a joyful privilege for all of us in Madison Square Garden to welcome Pope Francis to New York City and into our hearts," he said.

 What followed was a show called “A Journey in Faith” that featured other performers like singers Kelli O’Hara, James “D-Train” Williams and Norm Lewis.

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 Jennifer Hudson belted out "Hallelujah." Harry Connick Jr. did a jazzy version of "How Great Thou Art." Then the Broadway Inspirational Voices, a Grammy-nominated gospel choir, and the St. Charles Borromeo Choir, got the house rocking.

 Late Show host Stephen Colbert, who is a practicing Catholic, pre-taped a video message for Francis.

 "Let me say I'm deeply honored to be part of this historic mass,” he said. “It's a good day for New York, a good day for the world. Enjoy today’s Mass and please say a prayer for me."

 After Mass, Francis heads back to the residence of the Vatican’s rep to the United Nations on E. 72nd St. to rest up after a day during which he logged 54-miles around Manhattan in the popemobile — and his now famous Fiat 500L.

 But Francis won’t be able to sleep-in on Saturday. He’s got a plane to catch to Philadelphia in the morning.

 Earlier, Francis took a spin through Manhattan’s green jewel on Friday with 80,000 of his biggest fans — and let his hair down a bit during one of the fun parts of his first and only full day in the city.

 Still flanked by the heavy security that has been with him every step of the way since he got to Gotham, Francis took the popemobile on a procession down West Drive where he basked in the adoration.

 Soaking up the waning afternoon sunshine, Francis smiled broadly and blessed the cheering throng.

 In Washington, police carried babies over to the car for the Pope to bless.

 But police kept the crowd in the park on a tighter leash — possibly because Francis was already running late for the mass at MSG.

 Pope Francis places a white rose after praying for victims Friday at the September 11, 2001 memorial in New York. (TONY GENTILE/REUTERS) Timothy Cardinal Dolan, left, and the pontiff place flowers on the memorial. (SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS)

 The Pope arrived at the park after a grueling and emotional day that began with an address to the United Nations General Assembly and a prayer service at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

 He got a pick-me-up in East Harlem when he got to meet the kids at Our Lady Queen of Angels School.

 Standing in the popemobile, the 78-year-old leader of the Catholic Church looked refreshed and energized by the show of devotion.

 And when the 15-minute ride-through was over, Francis hopped back into his now famous Fiat 500L for the ride down to MSG, where thousands awaited him — and where a rainbow was spotted.

 For Francis, the ride in the park was a chance to unwind after a wrenching visit to the 9/11 memorial where he made it his mission to mend hearts broken by the tragedy.

 With a handshake and a few quiet words, Francis consoled some of the still-inconsolable relatives of those who perished at the hands of terrorists. And he remembered the heroic cops and firefighters who were killed on that awful day.

 “We ask you in your goodness to give eternal light and peace to all who died here,” the Pope said in his halting English while standing near the underground flood wall that survived the 2001 terrorist attacks.

 “The heroic first-responders: our firefighters, police officers, emergency service workers, and Port Authority personnel, along with all the innocent men and women who were victims of this tragedy simply because their work or service brought them here on September 11, 2001.”

 For those who needed comfort the most, the very fact that Francis was there was a balm.

 Pope Francis prays for the victims at the September 11, 2001, memorial in New York. (TONY GENTILE/REUTERS)

 “It speaks volumes, the kind of person that he is, his heart, his soul, his desire to be with and among people who are experiencing some sort of tragedy, even 14 years later,” said Anthoula Katsimatides, whose brother John was killed on 9/11.

 "He's the Holy Father for a lot of us, who aren't even Roman Catholics,” said Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was a pilot on the plane that hit the Pentagon. “For me his coming here is acknowledging the best of humanity. We saw a lot terrible things on 911 and the world responded with great love and compassion. He's acknowledging that with us.”

 Among those Francis met with were widows Virginia Bauer, whose husband David perished in the North Tower, and Monica Iken-Murphy, whose husband Michael died in the South Tower.

 “Everyone has a story here,” said a weeping 43-year-old Loretta Sabella, whose firefighter brother Thomas Sabella was killed. “I hope he brings peace to this place, where many have been suffering for the last 13 or 14 years.”

 Francis also blessed wheelchair-bound NYPD Detective Terrance McGhee, a terror specialist who helped bring down Osama Bin Laden’s brother.

 A solemn-looking Francis arrived at 11:11 a.m. and waved to the excited crowd while legions of police officers and Secret Service agents kept watch.

 “Bless us!” some in the crowd yelled out. “If you don't bless us? Who will?!"

 Francis went over to the pool where the South Tower once stood, said a silent prayer and left behind a white rose. He took a moment to take in some of the inscribed names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and in a lonely Pennsylvania field, as well as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

 Then Francis shook hands with former mayor Michael Bloomberg and went over to speak to the grieving families.

 Joining them were Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and former mayor Rudy Giuliani. Then the Pope descended into the museum for a service that included Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and other representatives of the world’s major religions.

 “I can tell you, Papa Francesco, we in New York are sinners," Timothy Cardinal Dolan said at the start of the service. "We have many flaws. We make many mistakes."

 But one of the city's strengths, Dolan said, is cultivating friendship and good will between people of different faiths. "Your prayer, your presence, and your words this morning inspire us,” he said.

 Going back to his native Spanish, Francis said at the service, “I feel many different emotions standing here at Ground Zero, where thousands of lives were taken in a senseless act of destruction.”

 “Here grief is palpable,” he said.

 Francis called the water flowing into the pools where the Twin Towers once stood “the silent cry of those who were victims of a mindset which knows only violence, hatred and revenge.”

 May God bring “peace to our violent world” and to “turn to your way of love” those who justify killing in the name of religion, Francis said.

 One of the most haunting moments of the service was when Cantor Ari Schwarz sang a Jewish prayer for the fallen, his soaring voice echoing through the museum.

 Before he left, the Pope viewed the famous 9/11 cross — two pieces of steel that fused together after the attacks — which became a focal point at Ground Zero.

 After lunch, the Pope headed uptown.

 Earlier, Francis took his campaign to combat global warming to the UN when he condemned the “misuse and destruction of the environment” and the “culture of waste.”

 It was a message Francis had hammered home earlier this week during his White House speech.

 “We human beings are part of the environment,” the Buenos Aires-born pontiff said in Spanish. “Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm to humanity.

 Mankind, he said, “is not authorized to abuse it, nor is he authorized to destroy it.”

 Without naming any names, Francis also accused the world’s powerful countries of a “selfish and boundless thirst” for money.

 Francis said this is not just destroying the planet, but it’s making paupers of the weak and disadvantaged.

 “We are dealing with real men and women who live and struggle and suffer,” he said. “To enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny.”

 The poor, Francis said, have an inherent right to what he called the “three L’s” — lodging, labor and land.

 Pope Francis speaks at the United Nations General Assembly Friday in New York City. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) Before Francis addressed the big shots, he met with about 400 janitors, cooks, electricians and secretaries and other workers who keep the UN going and thanked them. (MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS)

 The Pope also said women and girls have a “right to education.”

 That statement cheered 18-year-old Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist who survived being shot by a Taliban triggerman — and who was in the hall for the papal address.

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 Francis was the fifth pope to address the UN. His pro-environment message has been lauded by President Obama and Democrats but has angered some Republicans — especially those with ties to the oil industry who continue to insist global warming is myth.

 The Pope also voiced support for another thing the GOP has fiercely objected to — the Iran nuclear agreement.

 Calling it “proof of the potential for political good will,” Francis said he hopes “it will bring forth the desired fruits with the cooperation of all the parties involved.”

 But Francis also gave social conservatives something to applaud by underscoring the Catholic church’s continued objection to gay marriage, abortion and birth control.

 Before Francis addressed the big shots, he met with some 400 janitors, cooks, electricians and secretaries and other workers who keep the UN going and thanked them for making “possible many of the diplomatic, cultural, economic and political initiatives.”

 “Be close to one another, respect one another,” he said.

 “Thank you for your spiritual guidance ... and love for humanity,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, told Pope Francis. (TONY GENTILE/REUTERS)

 Then he asked the workers to pray for him.

 Francis’ humble request prompted a round of cheers, and a broad grin creased the holy man’s face.

 The Vatican flag was flying above the UN when Francis arrived. He was greeted at the world body by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

 “Thank you for your spiritual guidance ... and love for humanity,” he said.

 Then the Pope signed the UN visitors’ book. The pontiff took a white card from his pocket and copied a lengthy message into the bound book. It was not immediately clear what he wrote.

 When Francis was done, the UN chief showed the pontiff a Norman Rockwell image on the wall called “The Golden Rule” which bears the famous words: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

 That was a theme Francis sounded on Thursday during his historic address to a joint session of Congress in which he urged lawmakers to embrace the migrants heading north to the U.S. in search of a better life — and the refugees fleeing to Europe to escape the civil war in Syria.

 Francis had been invited to speak to the body by House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican and a Catholic. On Friday, he stunned his colleagues by announcing that he would give up both his leadership post and seat in Congress at the end of October.

 Francis, who had never set foot in New York City before, arrived in the city on Thursday to the strains of a Catholic high school band playing “New York, New York” and then headed into Manhattan for a prayer service at the newly refurbished St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

 “As soon as you walked through the door, you became a New Yorker,” Dolan told the Pope.

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 With Thomas Tracy ||||| New York (AFP) - Pope Francis on Friday visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York, where he prayed and laid a white rose at one of the reflecting pools, before he is to lead a multi-faith service for peace.

 The memorial is dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and six victims of a first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993.

 The 78-year-old Argentine pontiff clasped his hands together and bowed his head in prayer at one of the two reflecting pools built in tribute to the worst terror attack on US soil.

 After he placed a white rose on the edge of the pool, on which the names of the victims of the 9/11 attacks are inscribed, the crowd broke into chants of "Francisco, Francisco."

 The pope spoke to a group of 9/11 families and responders, before he was to descend into the memorial. He will offer a prayer of remembrance with around 700 representatives of different faiths.

 The memorial occupies eight of the 16 acres on the World Trade Center site, where the Twin Towers were destroyed in the Al-Qaeda attacks that killed 2,753 people. |||||
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– At a reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial, Pope Francis prayed and laid a white rose before leading a multi-faith service for peace today. "Francisco, Francisco," the crowd chanted after he placed the rose on the pool's edge, according to AFP. The pontiff met with 9/11 families and responders, including two widows, before the service; he blessed a wheelchair-bound NYPD detective who helped catch Osama bin Laden's brother. The service included a prayer of remembrance: "We ask you in your goodness to give eternal light and peace to all who died here," he said, per the New York Daily News. Also at the service: Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and representatives of other major religions.


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– California Gov. Jerry Brown made history today, but not in a way he's happy about: He ordered the state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions amid a brutal drought, reports CBS Local. A slew of new rules will aim to curb water use by 25% over nine months. "It's a different world," said Brown. "We have to act differently." He emphasized the point by making the announcement from the Sierra Nevada on bare ground—at a spot that normally would be covered in several feet of snow this time of year. This year's Sierra snowpack is about 5% of the state average, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1950, meaning it won't be able to provide needed runoff in the spring and summer, reports the Los Angeles Times. Among other things, the state will team with local governments to replace 50 million square feet of lawn with more drought-tolerant landscaping; golf courses and cemeteries will have to scrimp on watering; and residents and farmers will be encouraged through rebates, new pricing models, and penalties to install more efficient systems. If it all works, the savings would amount to 1.5 million acre-feet of water by the end of the year. “This is sort of unchartered territory,” says a spokesperson for the state Department of Water Resources. It's "dismal."

SAN JOSE, CA - JANUARY 28: A small pool of water is surrounded by dried and cracked earth that was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California. Now in its third straight year of drought conditions, California is experiencing its driest year on record, dating back 119 years, and reservoirs throughout the state have low water levels. Santa Clara County reservoirs are at 3 percent of capacity or lower. California Gov. Jerry Brown officially declared a drought emergency to speed up assistance to local governments, streamline water transfers and potentially ease environmental protection requirements for dam releases. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)A small pool of water is surrounded by dried and cracked earth that was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ||||| The directive comes more than a year after Brown asked for a 20% voluntary cut in water use that most parts of the state have failed to attain, even as one of the most severe modern droughts drags into a fourth year. It also came on the day that water officials measured the lowest April 1 snowpack in more than 60 years of record-keeping in the Sierra Nevada.

 Wearing hiking shoes and a windbreaker in an area that normally requires cross-country skis this time of year, Brown announced the executive order in a Sierra Nevada meadow that provided a dramatic illustration of the state's parched conditions.

 "We're standing on dry grass," Brown said. "We should be standing on five feet of snow."

 Emphasizing that the drought could persist, Brown said Californians must change their water habits. "It's a different world," he said. "We have to act differently."

 The order focused on urban life even though agriculture accounts for roughly three quarters of Californians' water usage. Cities have to stop watering the median strips that run down the middle of roads. The state will partner with local agencies to remove 50 million square feet of grass — the equivalent of about 1,150 football fields — and replace it with drought-tolerant landscaping.

 State agencies will create a temporary rebate program to encourage homeowners to replace water-guzzling appliances with high-efficiency ones. Golf courses, campuses and cemeteries must cut their water use. New developments will have to install drip or microspray systems if they irrigate with drinking water. Water agencies will discourage water waste with higher rates and fees.

 The order aims to reduce the amount of water used statewide in urban areas in 2013 by 25%.

 Some critics of Brown's order said it didn't do enough to address agricultural uses. Adam Scow, director of Food & Water Watch California, called the order disappointing.

 "The governor must save our groundwater from depletion by directing the state water board to protect groundwater as a public resource," Scow said in a statement.

 Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board, said the measure isn't about "finger-pointing"…"It's about everybody having to step up in these tough times."

 The water board will release draft regulations in mid-April to implement the order. It plans to approve the regulations in early May.

 Marcus said local agencies will receive targets for cutting water use based on how well they've done so far

 Local agencies that have been slow to conserve since then will feel the order's effects most dramatically, Marcus said.

 "You're rewarding the early adopters ... and you're saying to the laggers, 'You have to make a change,'" she said.

 Most of the burden of enforcement will fall on local agencies.

 If they don't follow the governor's order, the state can fine them as much as $10,000 a day.

 Many Southern California agencies are already taking steps called for in Brown's order. For instance, under a turf rebate program administered by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, spokesman Bob Muir said homeowners are planning to remove almost 89 million square feet of turf, the equivalent of more than 59,000 frontyards. It's unclear whether Brown's mandate for 50 million square feet of lawn replacement includes work already done by local agencies. Similarly, Los Angeles already has a tiered water-rate structure to encourage conservation.

 Although Southern California water managers said it might be tough for some cities to meet the 25% target, they welcomed Brown's action.

 "It's the right time. It's a proper directive," said Rob Hunter, general manager of the Municipal Water District of Orange County.

 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti praised the executive order, noting that last year he called for a 20% cut in the city's water use by 2017.

 In Long Beach, Water Department General Manager Kevin Wattier said the order would have the biggest effect on water districts that use much more water per capita than Long Beach and Los Angeles.

 "The governor understands we don't have time to allow any voluntary measures to work," said Mark Gold of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. "This is such a growing crisis that mandatory conservation was absolutely necessary."

 Lester Snow, executive director of the California Water Foundation and former state secretary of natural resources, said even more restrictions may be necessary in the future, such as banning all outdoor water use. "We're probably going to need more action before we're through the summer," he said.

 Brown issued his order at Phillips Station, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, where state workers conducted a manual snow survey as part of statewide readings that revealed that the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack was only about 5% of the average for April 1. That is the lowest for the date in records going back to 1950.

 The Sierra snowpack accounts for about 30% of the state's water supply, and although major reservoir storage is better than it was last year, there will be little snowmelt to replenish reservoirs this spring.

 Nurit Katz, UCLA's Chief Sustainability Officer and co-chair of a UC system-wide water task force, said every campus has created a water action plan focused on reducing consumption. UCLA is installing artificial turf on its intramural field, retrofitting fixtures such as toilets and developing a smart water filtration system.

 Combined with other efforts, the campus expects to save millions of gallons of water each year, she said.

 Brown's order requires agricultural districts in depleted groundwater basins to share data on groundwater use with the state.

 "The agricultural community is already being hit very hard," Marcus said.

 For the second year in a row, Central Valley growers without senior water rights are likely to get no supplies from the valley's big federal irrigation project. Last year farmers idled about 500,000 acres for lack of water, and this year they may be forced to leave even more cropland unplanted.

 "Some people want to say, 'What about the farmers?' And farmers want to say, 'What about those people watering their lawns?'" Brown said. "We all have something to do, and we can all do a little better." |||||


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Crews from the company Clean Harbors began power-washing sidewalks and street areas with a bleach and chlorine solution in downtown San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to stop the spread of hepatitis A among homeless people.

 The area cleaned Monday included sidewalks around 17th Street and Imperial Avenue, where hundreds of homeless congregate and live in tents and other shelters along city streets. The cleanings will continue in other downtown areas on Wednesday and Friday and repeat every other week.

 A hepatitis A outbreak has left 15 homeless people dead and hospitalized nearly 300 others over the past 10 months. A lack of adequate access to restrooms, showers and hand-washing stations is believed to have contributed to the spread.

 Besides starting the washing program Monday, the city announced it was extending the hours of 14 restrooms in Balboa Park, which will be open 24 hours a day starting Tuesday.

 “By disinfecting our sidewalks and making additional public restrooms available 24/7, we’re following the direction of County health officials to address the unsanitary conditions that have helped fuel this outbreak,” said Craig Gustafson, senior director of communications for Mayor Kevin Faulconer. “We’re taking swift action to eradicate this virus from our streets and keep our most vulnerable residents safe.”

 On Friday, Gustafson said Faulconer expected to announce this week a plan to set up multiple large tents to provide temporary, immediate shelter relief for hundreds of homeless people. Those tents will be equipped with restrooms, hand-washing stations and showers, he said.

 The sidewalk washings and extended restroom hours this week were in response to a letter sent by county health official Aug. 31 asking the city to move forward with a list of specific sanitation actions to help control the spread of hepatitis A.

 The county gave the city five business days to respond with the plan for remedying what it called a “fecally contaminated environment” downtown.

 On Monday, county Communications Director Michael Workman said health officials still were evaluating the city’s response to the request.

 The county also has taken steps to address the outbreak and plans to expand its efforts to other cities in the region soon.

 County health officials already have provided hepatitis vaccinations to 19,000 people, including 7,300 considered to be at-risk of contracting the disease. The county also hired its own contractor to install 40 hand-washing stations in areas where the homeless often gather, and it has plans to install more this week.

 The city has identified three downtown areas to be cleaned every other week. Monday’s areas included the sidewalks along Imperial Avenue below the Interstate 5 overpass, where the city had installed jagged rocks in an attempt to deter homeless people from camping in April 2016. Homeless people still used the site, prompting a need to wash the area.

 The Monday cleaning area also includes streets north of National Avenue, south of F Street, west of 22nd Street and east of 10th Avenue. It also includes several blocks north of F Street and south of B Street between 10th Avenue and 17th Street.

 On Wednesdays, crews will move west and clean streets north of Broadway, south of Fir Street, west of 10th Avenue and east of Pacific Highway.

 On Fridays, crews will clean streets north of Harbor Drive, south of Broadway, west of 10th Avenue and east of Pacific Highway. ||||| SAN DIEGO (CNS) - In the latest effort to house the growing number of homeless in the San Diego region, city officials Wednesday said three new temporary shelters will open, the first one or two by the end of this year.

 "The solutions are not perfect, but they are necessary" said Mayor Kevin Faulconer at a news conference.

 While the city has worked on finding housing opportunities for the homeless, the decision also comes in the wake of a deadly hepatitis A outbreak, which has largely impacted the homeless. Each facility will have more than 100 beds, with restrooms and showers. Service providers will also be on site at all three locations, offering alcohol and substance abuse counseling and job search training.

 "This represents a significant expansion of our homeless service network and is one of the most immediate and effective actions we can take to provide relief to unsheltered people who are suffering and want help," said Faulconer.

 RELATED: City, county provide handwashing, vaccines to stop hepatitis A outbreak

 The homeless population in the city of San Diego has been growing in recent years. In January, 5,619 transients were counted, a 10 percent increase from last year. Of those 3,231 were living on the street.

 In order to find housing opportunities for the homeless, the city has partnered with individuals in the private sector to fund operation costs. The final price is to be finalized in the coming weeks. But at least two businessmen have offered to donate $1.5 million to help expedite the opening of these shelters.

 Industrial tent shelters will include beds, restrooms, showers, meals & 24-hr security. A temporary solution to the growing homeless problem pic.twitter.com/mN4pwKie71 — Mimi Elkalla (@10NewsMimi) September 13, 2017

 The city has identified shelter locations at:

 -- the parking lot on Father Joe's Villages campus at 14th and Commercial Streets in the East Village

 -- a vacant lot in the 2700 block of Sports Arena Boulevard, behind the Goodwill store, in the Midway District to be run by the Veterans Village of San Diego

 -- a vacated street at 16th Street and Newton Avenue for a shelter to be operated by the Alpha Project

 The 16th Street location was used for several years for a tented shelter during the cold weather months.

 There are skeptics of the plan. Joel Rocco, owner of Undisputed Gym in the East Village said he thinks there are too many homeless people in the area for temporary housing to be useful.

 "I don't think it will make a dent, honestly," said Rocco.

 He claims the large homeless encampments surrounding his gym have detracted new clients, hurting his business.

 "Unless this city finds a permanent housing solution, nothing is going to work," he said.

 The mayor said he hopes to have at least one operating by the end of December. The cost of the plan has not been announced. Faulconer said he plans to present a final version to the city council in the coming weeks. ||||| The mayor's morning news conference was scheduled for the parking lot next to Father Joe's Villages, which provides services and indoor shelter for the homeless in downtown San Diego. It is unclear whether the parking lot will be a site for one of the tents or how long it will take the city to get the tent program up and running. |||||

– Declared a public health emergency on Sept. 1, a hepatitis A outbreak in California is only getting worse, the Los Angeles Times reports. There have been 421 confirmed cases of hepatitis A in San Diego County, and 292 people have been hospitalized. Sixteen people have died. The county has vaccinated 19,000 people, and on Monday workers started spraying sidewalks and and streets in downtown San Diego with bleach-infused water to kill the virus, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Hepatitis A can be spread when people don't wash their hands properly after going to the bathroom. The current outbreak has hit San Diego's homeless population hardest. The county is installing 40 hand-washing stations where homeless people congregate and is making some public restrooms available 24 hours a day. KGTV reports San Diego will be opening three temporary homeless shelters that, along with beds, will have restrooms and showers. Officials warn it could be months before these new measures show any positive effect on the outbreak.


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 As the sun sets on Promenade des Anglais, the city of Nice begins its second night of mourning.

 "Vive la France," a man calls out and a few others in the crowd echo him.

 As well as candles and flowers, well wishers have left bears and cuddly toys as a tribute to the children who died in the attack.

 One banner reads "Pourquois lea enfants?" and others say "Pray for Nice".

 Police have cordoned off an area around the vigil to shield the growing crowd of well wishers from passing cars.

 Christina Adlers, 68 and her husband Bengt, 65, from Sweden were at the vigil and recalled their horrific ordeal on Thursday night.

 "We had come down to the beach with some friends to have a glass of champagne and watch the forewords," Mrs Adlers said.

 "When the fireworks finished we decided to let the families with children go up to the promenade first, as we were not in a rush. That's is why we are alive. We wonder what happened to the ones who went first."

 As they walked up from the beach they saw the lorry and heard screaming and gun shots so turned round and ran to a restaurant where they hid in the kitchens for two and a half hours.

 Mr Adlers said: "We came to the vigil last night too. It's hard trying to deal with all the images in your head. I will never forget that white truck."

 Read more of the news as it unfolded on Saturday, July 16 ||||| Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was behind the wheel of a truck that barreled into Bastille Day revelers and claimed 84 lives. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)

 Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was behind the wheel of a truck that barreled into Bastille Day revelers and claimed 84 lives. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)

 With the arrest of three more suspects Sunday, French authorities are widening their investigation into the Bastille Day truck attack that killed 84 people in this French Riviera city to include potential accomplices of the man the Islamic State described as one of its warriors.

 French authorities arrested an Albanian man and woman who they believed supplied weapons to the 31-year-old attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. Authorities also said Bouhlel, who has been described by family and friends as a troubled loner, had sent a text message saying “Bring more weapons” to another suspected accomplice and had visited the scene of the attack days before the carnage.

 Late Sunday night, authorities announced that they had detained the man believed to be the recipient of the text message. Seven others had been detained earlier in connection with the Thursday attack. They included Bouhlel’s ex-wife, but she was reportedly released from custody Sunday morning, according to authorities speaking to local media.

 Bouhlel, 31, was a “soldier of the Islamic State,” the militant group declared Saturday. French authorities said the Tunisian-born attacker was inspired by terrorist organizations.

 Twelve victims have not been identified, France’s minister of health, Marisol Touraine, told reporters Sunday. A 6-month-old child was among 18 people still in critical condition in the hospital.

 The number of wounded rose to 256, according to the French prosecutor’s office, with 85 still hospitalized.

 Bouhlel’s text message was sent at 10:27 p.m. Thursday, roughly a half-hour before the attack on the landmark Promenade des Anglais, where tens of thousands had gathered to watch a Bastille Day fireworks display. The phone Bouhlel used, police said, was found inside the rented 19-ton refrigerated truck after he mowed down people for more than a mile and was killed in a shootout with police.

 French authorities on Sunday also provided more details that suggested the attack was carefully premeditated.

 Two days before the violence, security-camera footage showed Bouhlel driving the truck on the Promenade des Anglais, apparently staking it out, Jean-Michel Decugis, head of the judicial police department, told local media. He added that Bouhlel also emptied out his bank account, according to one of the suspects in custody. He was supposed to have returned the truck to the rental company the day before the attack.

 Investigators are also continuing to look into Bouhlel’s possible path to radicalization. It remains unclear whether the Islamic State orchestrated the attack, inspired Bouhlel and was taking responsibility, or was seeking publicity despite having no direct influence.

 Thursday’s attack was the third major terrorist assault in France in the past 18 months. In January 2015, militants targeted the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris, and on Nov. 13, gunmen launched a wave of attacks in the city, focusing on the Bataclan concert hall. A huge outpouring of solidarity and resilience followed those attacks. But in the aftermath of the carnage here, anger and resentment at the government have erupted over what many French describe as a failure of security to protect the Bastille Day celebrations.

 On Sunday, though, a sense of normality returned. Thousands of sunbathers flocked to the beaches of the Promenade des Anglais, sipping wine under blue umbrellas or windsurfing on the blue waters of the Côte D’Azur.

 Read more:

 Anger in France over Nice attack focuses on apparently lax security

 One of the first victims of the Nice terror attack was a Muslim mother

 Two Americans among the dead in Nice attack

 Today’s coverage from Post correspondents around the world

 Annabell Van den Berghe contributed to this report. |||||
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– French authorities have arrested two more people—a man and a woman—in connection with the Thursday terror attack in which Mohamed Lahaouaiej Bouhlel drove a large truck through Bastille Day crowds in Nice, France. The man, a 37-year-old, is suspected of giving weapons to Bouhlel, 31, who was shot and killed by police during the rampage, the Telegraph reports. Just before the attack, according to reports, Bouhlel sent a text that read: "Bring more weapons, bring five of them to C." In another text, he says: "I've got the material." The latest people arrested were described as an "Albanian couple," per the Telegraph. With the latest arrests, seven people have thus far been detained for having a possible link to the attack, the Washington Post reports, though Bouhlel's ex-wife was released Sunday. As authorities in France investigate the third major terror attack in that country in 18 months, additional details have emerged. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls tells a French newspaper, "We now know that the killer was radicalized very quickly." The Los Angeles Times reports Bouhlel started frequenting a mosque just three months ago; prior to that, acquaintances say he did things that don't jibe with Muslim codes, like smoke pot and wear shorts. Footage from security cameras in Nice shows Bouhlel driving along the Promenade Des Anglais on the two days before the attack. Beaches in Nice have re-opened, per the Post, "creating a jarring contrast between the tourists frolicking in the gentle Mediterranean surf and the blood-stained pavement above."