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Karen Mills, President Obama's?Small Business Administration chief, claimed this morning on MSNBC that she has not heard one case of Obamacare hurting small business:

"You know, I travel all around the country, every week I go to a different part of the country. I'm with small businesses. And I'm not hearing that," Mills said in response to a question about how she would explain employers cutting work hours for employees because of Obamacare regulations.

"You've never heard that?" host Joe Scarborough responded. "You need to talk to your staff and tell them to get you out of the bubble, because we are hearing that all the time."

Mills continue, "We are out there every single day--"

And then?Scarborough, still surprised, interrupted to ask again, "Have you never heard that before?"

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Afghan president says U.S. needs to release detainees

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghanistan's president has accused U.S. forces of continuing to capture and hold Afghans in violation of an agreement signed earlier this year between the two countries.

Hamid Karzai's statement late Sunday came at a sensitive time ? just days after the beginning of negotiations on a bilateral security agreement that will govern the U.S. military presence in the country after the majority of troops draw down in 2014. Karzai's critics say he frequently strikes populist, nationalist stances that give him leverage in talks with the Americans.

In the statement, the Afghan president said some detainees are still being held by U.S. forces even though Afghan judges have ruled that they be released. He also decried the continued arrest of Afghans by U.S. forces.

Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi on Monday told reporters that more than 70 detainees continue to be held by the Americans despite being ordered released by Afghan courts.

The two countries signed the detainee transfer pact in March but the handover of detention facilities has been slowed by the U.S., which has argued both that the Afghans are not ready to take over their management and insisted that the Afghan government agree to hold without trial some detainees that the U.S. deems too dangerous to release.

"These acts are completely against the agreement that has been signed between Afghanistan and the U.S. president," said Karzai's statement and urged Afghan officials to "take serious measures" to push for taking over all responsibility for the detention center on the edge of the main U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan.

Detention without trial, often called administrative detention, is against Afghan law, said Faizi, the Afghan president's spokesman.

"There is nothing by the name of 'administration detention' in our laws, yet the U.S. is insisting that there are a number of people who, while there is not enough evidence against them, are a threat to U.S. national security," he said.

Faizi also said that Karzai had agreed in a video conference call with President Barack Obama earlier this fall to give the Americans two months to figure out an alternative to detention without trial, until after the U.S. presidential election. This grace period has now expired, said the spokesman.

The detainee transfer deal was one of two pacts that were key to a broad but vague strategic partnership agreement signed by Kabul and Washington in May that set forth an American commitment to Afghanistan for years to come. The second pact covers "special operations" such as certain American raids and other conduct on the battlefield.

A third detailed pact ? dubbed the bilateral security agreement ? is now under negotiation, and covers logistical and legal questions such as the size and number of bases and the immunity of U.S. forces from prosecution.

The two countries officially opened negotiations on the bilateral security agreement last week, and have given themselves a year to sign the pact.

Karzai is under pressure to give an appearance of upholding Afghan sovereignty ? which he has repeatedly claimed to champion ? without putting so many restrictions on U.S. forces that an agreement becomes impossible.

It is believed that the United States wants to retain up to 20,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 to train and support Afghan forces and go after extremists and groups, including al-Qaida. Afghanistan now has about 66,000 U.S. troops and it remains unclear how many will be withdrawn next year as they continue to hand over security to Afghan forces. The foreign military mission is evolving from combat to advising, assisting and training Afghan forces.

The bilateral security agreement will set up a legal framework needed to operate military forces in Afghanistan, including taxation, visas and other technical issues. It does not need to be ratified by Congress. The U.S. has similar agreements with dozens of countries. In Iraq, a similar deal fell apart after U.S. officials were unable to reach an agreement with the Iraqis on legal issues and troop immunity that would have allowed a small training and counterterrorism force to remain there.

Karzai said last month that the issue of soldiers being protected from prosecution in Afghanistan could be a problem in the talks. He has said Afghanistan might demand prosecutions in some cases.

The issue took on new meaning following the case of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales charged in the attacks on Afghan civilians in two villages in southern Afghanistan earlier this year. The American soldier faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder in the March 11 attacks against civilians. A preliminary hearing was held this week at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.

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Associated Press writer Heidi Vogt contributed from Kabul.

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French ex-minister sues tycoon for paternity

FILE - This Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 file photo shows French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who is pregnant, arriving to a welcoming ceremony for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, unseen, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when _ while serving as France?s justice minister _ she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. This week, Dati took one of France?s richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4, 2012 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

FILE - This Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 file photo shows French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who is pregnant, arriving to a welcoming ceremony for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, unseen, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when _ while serving as France?s justice minister _ she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. This week, Dati took one of France?s richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4, 2012 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

FILE - This Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 file photo shows French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who is pregnant, arriving to a welcoming ceremony for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, unseen, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when _ while serving as France?s justice minister _ she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. This week, Dati took one of France?s richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4, 2012 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

FILE - This Sept. 17, 2009 file photo shows Casinos Barriere group chairman Dominique Desseigne during a press conference in Paris. Rachida Dati, while serving as France?s justice minister, had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. This week, Dati took one of France?s richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4, 2012 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

FILE - This Tuesday, July 14, 2009, file photo show French European deputy Rachida Dati at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France. Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when _ while serving as France?s justice minister _ she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. This week, Dati took one of France?s richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4, 2012 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz, File)

PARIS (AP) ? Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when ? while serving as France's justice minister ? she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was.

Now, what was once thought to be an exercise in discretion has morphed into a messy scandal involving tales of power, sex and ambition. Dati, now 46, says simply: "I have a complicated private life."

Dati was the toast of Paris and foreign capitals when she served as justice minister under then-President Nicolas Sarkozy from June 2007 to June 2009. With her Algerian and Moroccan parents and humble origins as one of 11 children in a housing project, she was his emblem of diversity in a new France. Her bling-bling style ? a penchant for Dior clothes, stiletto heels and expensive jewels ? quickly transformed her into Cabinet cover girl.

This week, Dati took one of France's richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test.

The 68-year-old Desseigne, a friend of Sarkozy and the widowed father of two, is reportedly planning to exercise his right to refuse to provide a DNA sample. Experts say he would do so at his own risk.

The tale is the latest in a series of amorous sideshows that has spiced up the French political scene. These increasingly complicated liaisons have gnawed away at the country's long-standing veil of silence over top politicians' private lives.

Today, the press doesn't shirk at recounting the jealousies of President Francois Hollande's live-in companion toward the mother of his four children. Or Sarkozy's divorce while in office after his wife had an affair, and his quick remarriage to former model and singer Carla Bruni. Or the series of sexual lawsuits involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund.

Nor has it held back with the Dati case. The newspaper Le Monde suggested that Dati entertained a string of eight lovers around the time she was seeing Desseigne. Le Point ran a five-page spread entitled "The Incredible Story of Rachida Dati," prompting Dati to announce Friday that she plans to sue the magazine's director "and his band of so-called journalists."

"What bothers them about me? That I have a life ... that I'm a free woman?" she said on RTL radio, denouncing articles based on "rumors and calumny."

As the country's top judicial official, Dati had a bevy of detractors and raised the ire of lawyers, magistrates and aides who resigned one after the other. The nation, of course, was fascinated.

Still, her star was falling by the time Zohra was born on Jan. 2, 2009. Dati hung on until a government reshuffling in June. She now serves as a member of the European Parliament and keeps a link to the Paris power elite as the mayor of the capital's tony 7th district.

Throughout her pregnancy, rumors flew about the baby's father. An Arab sheik? A French politician? A Sarkozy brother? The name of the Spain's then-prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, was bandied about so prominently that he was forced to publicly deny it was he.

Dati still hasn't spoken about the little girl's father. But she wants Desseigne, chief of the Lucien Barriere casino group and owner of the famed Champs-Elysees establishment Fouquet's, to step forward. Doing so would give her daughter his name, access to child support and rights as an heir.

The court in Versailles has refused to release any information. But Desseigne, whose wife died in 2001, told M magazine he would contest the request for DNA.

Legal experts say that may be harder than he thinks.

Under the French Civil Code, paternity tests are given voluntarily. But text messages, emails, photos and airline tickets showing the two vacationed together all can be used to prove a relationship, said family law expert Laurence Mayer. And with such corroborating evidence, refusing a paternity test "can be analyzed as an admission."

The man denying fatherhood can try to discredit the woman by "showing she led a dissolute life," but Mayer said he does so "at his risk and peril."

Dati has already shown she is not to be taken lightly. Two men ? both prison inmates who wrote letters claiming they were the father of Dati's child ? have been convicted of insulting a public official.

Mayer doubts Dati would go this route without strong reason.

"If she does this, she is sure of herself," Mayer said. "Mrs. Dati is not just anyone. I don't think she will make herself ridiculous."

Associated Press

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Nvidia Announces Much Improved Linux Gaming Drivers

Nvidia just released a new version of its GeForce Linux drivers.

The company promises "double the performance and dramatically reduce[d] game loading times."

According to the company, the R310 driver was developed in collaboration with game developers over the course of "almost a year" and "showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system." Nvidia said that the driver was "thoroughly" tested with Valve's Steam for Linux.

The press release published to support the release of the driver has plenty of calming words for the Linux community, which has grown increasingly unhappy with Nvidia's tight grip on its Linux drivers. It is unlikely that Linux enthusiasts will change their mind simply because of the release of an improved driver, but those who use Linux for gaming would be ?silly not to take advantage of the driver.

However, Valve's quote - "Nvidia took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers", attributed to the company's vice president of marketing, Doug Lombardi, may not sit so well with the Linux community, which would prefer Nvidia to be in a position to make its code accessible and give the community that "leadership" position.

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SmartAsset Raises $1.5M To Help You With The Big Financial Decisions

SmartAsset, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering interactive tools to help homebuyers understand the financial ramifications of their decisions, has raised $1.5 million in new funding. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, with participation from YC, Peterson Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, and Identified CEO Brendan Wallace. SmartAsset actually announced funding just two months ago ? in the intervening months,?SmartAsset took the stage at YC Demo Day, which probably attracted some new investors. With the new money, the company has raised a total of $2.4 million, and?Javelin Managing Director Jed Katz is joining SmartAsset's board of directors.

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