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The terrorist attack by masked gunmen on the newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead — including the top editor, prominent cartoonists and police officers — and was among the deadliest in postwar France. The killers escaped, traumatizing the city and sending shock waves through Europe and beyond. |
Officials said late Wednesday that two of the suspects were brothers. They were identified as Said and Chérif Kouachi, 34 and 32. The third suspect is Hamyd Mourad, 18. News reports said the brothers, known to intelligence services, had been born in Paris, raising the prospect that homegrown Muslim extremists were resp... |
Early Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor said that Mr. Mourad had walked into a police station in Charleville-Mézières, about 145 miles northeast of Paris, and surrendered. |
“He introduced himself and was put in custody,” said the spokeswoman, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre. |
The assault threatened to deepen the distrust of France’s large Muslim population, coming at a time when Islamic radicalism has become a central concern of security officials throughout Europe. In the space of a few minutes, the assault also crystallized the culture clash between religious extremism and the West’s devo... |
Officials and witnesses said at least two gunmen had carried out the attack with assault weapons and military-style precision. President François Hollande of France called it a display of extraordinary “barbarism” that was “without a doubt” an act of terrorism. He declared Thursday a national day of mourning. |
He also raised the terror alert for the Île-de-France region, which includes Paris, to its highest level, saying several terrorist attacks had been thwarted in recent weeks as security officials here and elsewhere in Europe have grown increasingly wary of the return of young citizens from fighting in Syria and Iraq. |
The French authorities put some schools on lockdown for the day; added security at houses of worship, news media offices and transportation centers; and conducted random searches on the Paris Métro. |
Corinne Rey, a cartoonist known as Coco, who was at the newspaper office during the attack, told Le Monde that the attackers had spoken fluent French and said that they were part of Al Qaeda. |
An amateur video of the assailants’ subsequent gunfight with the police showed the men shouting: “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad. We have killed Charlie Hebdo!” The video, the source of which could not be verified, also showed the gunmen killing a police officer as he lay wounded on a nearby street. |
The victims at Charlie Hebdo included some of the country’s most popular and iconoclastic cartoonists. One, the weekly’s editorial director, Stéphane Charbonnier, had already been receiving light police protection after earlier threats, the police and Mr. Molins said. An officer assigned to guard Mr. Charbonnier and th... |
As news of the assault spread, there was an outpouring of grief mixed with expressions of dismay and demonstrations of solidarity for free speech. |
By the evening, not far from the site of the attack in east Paris, an estimated 35,000, young and old, gathered at Place de La République. Some chanted, “Charlie! Charlie!” or held signs reading, “I am Charlie” — the message posted on the newspaper’s website. |
Vigils of hundreds and thousands formed in other cities around France and elsewhere. |
Mr. Molins said that two men armed with AK-47 rifles and wearing black masks had forced their way into the weekly’s offices, at 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert in the 11th Arrondissement, at about 11:30 a.m. They opened fire at people in the lobby before making their way to the newsroom on the second floor, interrupting a staff ... |
The attackers then fled outside, where they clashed three times with the police. They then drove off in a black Citroën and headed north on the right bank of Paris. During their escape, prosecutors said, they crashed into another car and injured its female driver before robbing another motorist and driving off in that ... |
The precision with which the assailants handled their weapons suggested that they had received military training, the police said. During the attack, which the police said lasted a matter of minutes, several journalists hid under their desks or on the roof, witnesses said. |
Treasured by many, hated by some and indiscriminate in its offensiveness, Charlie Hebdo has long reveled in provoking. |
Masked gunmen shot a wounded police officer on Wednesday after bursting into the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper that had drawn threats for lampooning Islam, killing 12 people in a methodical hail of gunfire. |
In 2011, the office of the weekly was badly damaged by a firebomb after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections. It had announced plans to publish a special issue renamed “Charia Hebdo,” a play on the word in French for Shariah l... |
Police said the dead included four celebrated cartoonists at the weekly, including Mr. Charbonnier, known as Charb, Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac. |
“So, no doubt in my mind that this is terrorism,” he said. |
Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris, one of France’s largest, expressed horror at the assault. “We are shocked and surprised that something like this could happen in the center of Paris. But where are we?” he was quoted as saying by Europe1, a radio broadcaster. |
The attack comes as thousands of Europeans have joined jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, further fueling concerns about Islamic radicalism and terrorism being imported. Those worries have been especially acute in France, where fears have grown that militants are bent on retaliation for the government’s support for the... |
The cover of the current issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. |
Last month, Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered hundreds of additional military personnel onto the streets after a series of attacks across France raised alarms over Islamic terror. |
In Dijon and Nantes, a total of 23 people were injured when men drove vehicles into crowds, with one of the drivers shouting an Islamic rallying cry. The authorities depicted both drivers as mentally unstable. The attacks came after violence attributed to “lone-wolf” attackers in London in 2013, in Canada in October an... |
In September, fighters in Algeria aligned with the Islamic State beheaded Hervé Gourdel, a 55-year-old mountaineering guide from Nice, and released a video documenting the murder. Mr. Gourdel had been kidnapped after the Islamic State called on its supporters to wage war against Europeans. |
President Obama issued a statement condemning the killings. “Time and again, the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended,” he said. |
An earlier version of this article misstated the location of the abandoned car believed to have been used by the gunmen, using information from the police. It was found in the 19th Arrondissement, not the 20th. |
Aurelien Breeden and Laure Fourquet contributed reporting from Paris, and Michael S. Schmidt from Washington. |
Quakers, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians in the Baltimore area have come together to plan a series of four Wednesday morning programs to acquaint the public with their shared -- and sometimes diverse -- Protestant traditions of faith, worship, architecture and music. |
A meetinghouse and three churches on the free series of tours are all within an 11-block stretch of North Charles Street. |
Lunch will be provided at a nominal cost, or for a donation, in connection with each of the ecumenical programs. |
Reservations are necessary for some meals. |
The series, "Saints or Sinners," will begin at 11 a.m. Oct. 18 at Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church, 6200 N. Charles St., where organist Susan Gonzales will give a recital and talk about the church's new Holtkcamp organ. The instrument has 1,774 pipes, 30 ranks and 23 speaking stops. |
L A guided tour of the church building is part of the program. |
Lunch reservations and information: 377-7232. |
The second event in the series will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 15 at Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles St., where the Rev. Emora T. Brannan, the senior pastor, will discuss the roots of American Methodism and the congregation's 127-year heritage of service to the community. |
Bruce Eicher, the director of music, will accompany his discussion of Methodist hymns on the church's large M. P. Moller pipe organ. |
An experience of a very different worship tradition will be provided at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 at the Stony Run Friends Meeting House, 5116 N. Charles St. |
Music is not part of the "unprogrammed" Quaker meeting, which will be explained. |
Three centuries of the Friends' worship and influence in Maryland will be discussed. |
Donations will be accepted for a simple lunch. Reservations are not required. Information: 435-3773. |
The series will conclude with an 11 a.m. program Feb. 14 at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St., where organist Henry Lowe will give a lecture, "Music in Our Liturgy," and present organ selections that demonstrate the use of music in Episcopal worship. |
There will be a guided tour of the 1958 sanctuary designed by influential Italian-born architect Pietro Belluschi and the adjacent mid-19th century church that is now a chapel. |
Lunch reservations and information: 435-4843. |
Priests speaking Spanish, French, Italian and German -- as well as English -- will be available for confessions during more than 12 hours of continuous prayers and meditations tomorrow at St. Benedict Roman Catholic Church, 2612 Wilkens Ave., to prepare Catholic communicants for Sunday's visit to Baltimore by Pope John... |
The daylong observance will begin at 8 a.m. with Morning Prayer, Mass and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The vigil will conclude with Holy Hour and Benediction services starting at 7:30 p.m. |
celebrations Sunday in the Baltimore area. The Rev. Billy Kim, pastor of the 10,000-member Central Baptist Church in Suwon, South Korea, will be among the speakers at the World Missions Conference at Perry Hall Baptist Church, 3919 Schroeder Ave. Sunday's services will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. |
Also Sunday, Kiel Smithson will be the soloist for the musical portion of an 11 a.m. service marking the second anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Bill Golden at First Church of the Brethren, 4500 Liberty Heights Ave. He was formerly associate minister of New Shiloh Baptist Church. |
The Rev. Victoria R. Sirota, assistant professor of church music at Yale Divinity School, will address the Churchman's Club of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland at its 6 p.m. dinner meeting Wednesday at the Belvedere Hotel. |
The Good Supports a full suite of connectivity options including Wi-Fi and cloud printing services from Apple and Google, fast print speeds and excellent output quality. |
The Bad Lacks Pictbridge-compatible USB port. |
The Bottom Line Don't be fooled by its small stature: the Epson Expression Home XP-420 all-in-one inkjet printer forges ahead of the competition with its compact footprint, cloud connectivity options and its ability to print high-quality snapshots directly from an Android phone or iPhone. |
The Epson Expression Home XP-420 is worth your attention if you're shopping for a fast, reliable printer in the sub-$100 category that fits in tight spaces. This compact "small-in-one" (as Epson brands it) inkjet printer can print, copy and scan along with an array of productivity features, including a 2.5-inch color L... |
Partnered with three separate ink tanks, average ink refill costs, and a generous bundle of desktop and mobile software to guide you along the way, the $99 list price (£89.99 in the UK, AU$120 in Australia) Epson Expression Home XP-420 should be at the top of your list when shopping for an affordable all-in-one. |
The XP-420's space-saving design is the printer's main focus, measuring a little more than 15 inches wide, 20 inches deep, and 11 inches tall. Its small form factor is almost the same size as its photo-friendly predecessor, 2011's Epson NX-430 . Like that model, the XP-420 features folding paper corral tray guides that... |
The printer has a sensor inside that can tell what size and type of media you load into the rear tray, but you still need to push the sliding corral tab so it's snug up against your paper, or you'll get a paper jam as it tries to spool a sheet into the feeder. That only happened to me once during testing before I made ... |
The retracting trays give the XP-420 a size advantage over the Canon Pixma MG5620 , another inkjet printer that falls into the same sub-$100 inkjet category but will cost you more on ink cartridges in the long run. Relative to other printers, however, the Xp-420 falls somewhere between a single function inkjet and a mo... |
Epson improves upon the design its previous inkjet all in ones with new display that doesn't require as much pressure to engage some of the buttons. Also, the display itself feels more solidly built now that the company did away with the mushy plastic display cover that used to interfere with the user experience. |
I can't fault a $99 device for not including an auto-document feeder or multiple paper input trays, so all paper handling is fed through the single 100-sheet tray on the back and exits through the "mouth" below the controls. Workhorse offices with high output printing needs should consider Epson's WorkForce line, like ... |
That's not to say that the XP-420 is lacking in extras for the home user -- the front has a memory card reader that lets you walk up and print from an SD card without actually touching a computer. Unlike previous models, however, you don't have an open USB input to connect a flash drive; if you want to upload your phot... |
It's not a big deal, especially now that Epson now offers one-touch photo uploads to Facebook and cloud-based services. You can preview your photos on the LCD and even make simple adjustments to crop dimensions, resize, or perform one-button touch-ups. |
Published: August 16, 2008 12:00 am Updated: Aug. 16, 2008 12:33 a.m. |
Today, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, corner of West Temple and North Temple, is offering classes in Dutch research for anyone with ancestors from the Netherlands. |
The library will offer classes in Italian research on Saturday, Aug. 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
Classes will treat "Finding the Place of Origin," "Basic Research," "Marriage Records," "Reading Church and Civil Records" and "Italian Research on the Internet." All classes run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To view the schedule online, go to www.familysearch.org. |
A Bible Study group is being formed for Christian Scientists, their families, friends, neighbors and community members. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend a get-acquainted meeting today, 10 a.m. to noon, at the Christian Science Reading Room, 2309 S. Highland Drive. More information is available by callin... |
Enjoy National Wrestling Association Pro Wrestling UCW-Zero Action, today, 7 p.m., at the sports field at St. Joseph the Worker Parish, 7405 S. Redwood Road. Tickets are $10 general admission, $3 for children and $45 for families and groups. Proceeds benefit the parish building fund. Call 255-8902. |
The Salt Lake City Religious Transition Group of CALM Community after Leaving Mormonism will meet on Sunday, Aug. 17, 12:30 p.m. at 6876 S. Highland Drive (2000 East). The group provides honest discussion and support for those questioning or feeling uncomfortable with their traditional religion. Contact Bill Dobbs ... |
The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake, 569 S. 1300 East, will conclude its summer forum on Sunday, Aug. 17, 10 a.m., with "Healing the Great Divide: Mission Impossible?" by Deen Chatterjee. For information, call 582-8687 or go to www.slcuu.org. |
The Rev. Joshua Harding will be preaching a sermon titled "A Proper Attitude Toward Trials" on Sunday, Aug. 17, 11 a.m. at Provo Bible Church, 1449 W. 1150 South, Provo. Call 801-373-8272. |
Worship '08, a Christian music festival, will be Sunday, Aug. 17, 5-8 p.m. at the Gallivan Center, 230 S. Main. This year's event will feature Adam's Road from Florida. This will be the group's first performance in Utah. This is a free outdoor event and open to the public. Bring blankets and chairs. |
Christ United Methodist Church will sponsor a church summer barbecue on Sunday, Aug. 17, 4 p.m., at Sugarhouse Park, 1330 E. 2100 South. The event will begin with a youth soccer game. Thee churches' Vacation Bible School kids will be performing at about 5:15 p.m. Call 486-5473. |
The Krishna Temple, 8628 S. Main, Spanish Fork, has planned a transcendental birthday party for Saturday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m., to celebrate the Appearance Day of Shree Krishna. There will be Indian dance, drama, music, hot meals, exhibits and gifts for all. This holiday for Hindus compares to Christmas Day. Admission is fr... |
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Vietnamese Parish, will host a carnival on Saturday, Aug. 23, from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the church, 5415 S. 4360 West, Kearns. Admission is free and there will be food, entertainment and games. |
The Rev. Rhett Durfee of the First Baptist Church of Provo has announced his retirement. His final Sunday at the church is Aug. 31. The church will have a business meeting on Aug. 24, immediately following the 11 a.m. worship, to vote on calling an interim pastor. For more information call 801-369-7968 or visit www.pro... |
St. Catherine of Siena Parish and the Newman Center will host their annual Mass on the Grass, Sunday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m., at Presidents Circle, 170 S. University, the University of Utah. The public and especially students are invited. Call 359-6066. |
Temple Har Shalom, 3700 N. Brookside Court, Park City, is presenting "The Art2art Exhibition: Israel 60 Years" through Oct. 18. The exhibit is free and open to the public on weekdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment. It features 60 memorable photographs. Contact Dondea at 435-649-2276 for details. |
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Web 2.0 is just a staging post. Web 3.0 is coming, and it's going to recreate our notion of the application as well as upsetting a few applecarts along the way. |
Any veteran of the software industry will tell you that version 2.0 of any product tends to be a shortlived staging post on the way to 3.0, which is where it finally hits the mark. Windows was a classic example. 1.0 was so buggy it was hardly worth using. 2.0 fixed some serious problems but still had a lot of shortcomi... |
Don't be surprised, then, if Web 2.0 also turns out to be just a staging post on the way to a much more mature and durable Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of business applicationsWeb 3.0 era. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be writing a series of posts about what I see as the key characteristics... |
I'd like to make one thing is absolutely clear right from the outset: Web 3.0 isn't just about shopping, entertainment and search. It's also going to deliver a new generation of business applications that will see business computing converge on the same fundamental on-demand architecture as consumer applications. So th... |
API services form the foundation layer. These are the raw hosted services that have powered Web 2.0 and will become the engines of Web 3.0 — Google's search and AdWords APIs, Amazon's affiliate APIs, a seemingly infinite ocean of RSS feeds, a multitude of functional services, such as those included in the StrikeIron We... |
Aggregation services form the middle layer. These are the intermediaries that take some of the hassle out of locating all those raw API services by bundling them together in useful ways. Obvious examples today are the various RSS aggregators, and emerging web services marketplaces like the StrikeIron service. I'll have... |
Application services form the top layer, and this is where I believe the biggest, most durable profits will be found. These will not be like the established application categories we are used to, such as CRM, ERP or office, but a new class of composite applications that bring together functionality from multiple servic... |
Serviced clients are the 'and-a-half' layer I mentioned earlier. There is a role for client-side logic in the Web 3.0 landscape, but users will expect it to be maintained and managed on their behalf, which is why I've chosen to call these clients 'serviced'. Whether those clients are based on browser technology or on W... |
Were you offended by the ending of How To Train Your Dragon, with its dragon-appeasement? If so, you're not alone. One viewer of the movie was so incensed, he took to Amazon to complain. |
Thank you Least Helpful for finding this review, and for this hilarious statement: "THIS KIND OF BLEEDING-HEART DRAGON APPEASEMENT IS WHAT GAVE US HITLER." |
Nicholls State University's second annual Give "N" Day today was a smashing success, literally. |
The fundraising event for campus organizations featured President Jay Clune being smashed with pies in his face, a reward for the organizations who raised the most money for their endeavors. |
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