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=== Sculptural decoration ===
It has been proposed that there were statues positioned on top of the lower level, on either side of the central, aediculum-like, niche of the upper level, as was common for this architectural form; Theseus and Hadrian are the most commonly advanced candidates for these two statues, based on the inscriptions. Ward-Perkins has proposed that the attic held additional multiple statues, located over the projecting Corinthian columns of the lower level. In stark opposition to these proposals, Willers states that there is no evidence of the type of doweling needed to mount statuary on the top of the lower level and that the stone is far too roughly worked on the upper surface for statues to rest on it. Although Willers has done an excellent study of the lower level of the arch, permission was not granted for close study of the upper level, so his statements concerning the upper level are based on previously published measurements and images. A complete investigation of the monument, perhaps with limited excavation of the foundations as Willers suggests, remains to be done. === Inscriptions and location ===
Two inscriptions are carved on the architrave of the arch’s lower level, one centered over the arched opening on either side. On the northwest side (towards the Acropolis), the inscription was:
ΑΙΔ' ΕIΣΙΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΘΗΣΕΩΣ Η ΠΡΙΝ ΠΟΛΙΣ (this is Athens, the ancient city of Theseus). The inscription on the southeast side (facing the Olympeion) reads:
ΑΙΔE ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΟΥΧI ΘΗΣΕΩΣ ΠΟΛΙΣ (this is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus). An ancient scholium (marginal note) on a manuscript of Aristides states that the emperor Hadrian, when he was expanding the city wall (of Athens), wrote (inscribed) at the boundary of the old and the new areas of Athens a double inscription matching the sense, but not the exact wording, of the inscriptions on the arch. Based on a combined reading of the arch inscriptions and the scholium, it was at first accepted that the arch stood on the line of the Themistocleian wall and that it marked the division between the old city of Theseus and the new city of Hadrian. In this view, the second inscription referred to a new urban section on the eastern side of Athens created by Hadrian, and - for convenience - this area is termed Hadrianopolis in subsequent scholarly discussion. This newer, Roman section of the city was though to have been added to the ancient Greek city during the period of the pax romana (Roman peace). Adams has proposed that the inscriptions, rather than dividing Athens into an old city of Theseus and a new city of Hadrian (Hadrianopolis), claim the entire city as a refoundation by the emperor. In this view, the inscriptions should be read: this is Athens, once the city of Theseus; this is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus. One option claims a part and the other the whole of Athens for the emperor. Adams has also challenged the idea that the arch was on the line of the Themistocleian wall, and this position has now been generally accepted. A gate of the Themistocleian wall has been excavated c. 140m east of the arch, which has settled the question. Stuart and Revett, who did the earliest and only complete architectural study of the arch in 1751-53 CE, were perplexed by the fact that the arch is not aligned with the Temple of Olympian Zeus, despite the fact that it is only c. 20m from the peribolos wall (boundary wall) of that complex. Excavations in the intervening time have shown that the arch is aligned with an ancient road that was roughly on the same course as modern Lysikrates street. The arch faces the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates 207m to the northwest along this street. === Preservation ===
At the time that it was recorded architecturally by Stuart and Revett in the mid-18th century, the base of the arch was buried in earth only to the level of around three feet. Given that it was thus never protected by being buried during its nearly nineteen centuries of existence, the arch entered the modern era in extraordinary condition.
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60 years old: happy birthday to the single What was the first record you ever bought? As the 7-inch disc celebrates six decades, Jonathan Owen asks 60 celebrities for their musical memories Mick Box Uriah Heep Nola: Les Paul (1950) "I spent weeks trying to get the guitar part off and it was very difficult because it was so fast. I ended up with sore fingers and a headache." Pete Waterman Producer Deadwood Stage: Doris Day (1953) "It's a fantastic song, a great song. I wouldn't mind them playing it at my funeral - everybody would laugh." Jane Asher Actress Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea: Max Bygraves (1954) "I'd had a small part in a film with Max Bygraves and had fallen desperately in love with him." Jess Conrad Actor and singer Rock Around the Clock: Bill Haley (1954) "I remember buying this in 1955 from Brixton Market, aged 19. I still have it in my record collection, and am certainly not embarrassed about it!" John Gribbin Author Peggy Sue: Buddy Holly (1957) "It was my 13th birthday and I have treasured it ever since. It is the greatest single ever made. I still have it, but rarely play it for fear of damaging it." Bob Harris Radio DJ Diana: Paul Anka (1957) "I was on holiday and passed an amusement arcade where it was playing on the jukebox. There was a magic to it that made me want to be a part of the world it came from." Jon Snow Journalist China Tea: Russ Conway (1959) "I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles "All You Need Is Love," one of the most evocative singles of all time!" James Whale Radio DJ Little White Bull: Tommy Steele (1959) "It's a bit embarrassing. It doesn't mean anything at all to me now. In fact I don't think I have ever mentioned that to anyone. I wish I hadn't told you." Steve Howe Yes Apache: The Shadows (1960) "I loved the energy and rushed out to buy the single, but if anything, I was disappointed with the single, which did not capture the energy I'd seen live." Max Clifford Publicist Runaway: Del Shannon (1961) "I just liked it. I just really liked it, the whole feel to it. I'm not embarrassed by it. I've always been a romantic, despite what some people may think." Fern Britton TV presenter My Boomerang Won't Come Back: Charlie Drake (1961) "I thought it was hilarious and can still remember the words when I sing it back. I have a CD recording of it now and my daughters love it, too." Mick Brown Writer Walking Back to Happiness: Helen Shapiro (1961) "I played it endlessly. It was like the first kiss - the beginning of a love affair with pop music that continues to the present day." Geoff Downes Asia The Young Ones: Cliff Richard and the Shadows (1962) "I first heard it on Radio Luxembourg: the Horace Bachelor show, I think. I would have been around six or seven. I am very embarrassed now." Lynsey de Paul Singer/songwriter Love Came to Me: Dion (1962) "It was a really good pop record of its time. Certain songs have emotional associations in one's life. This was almost a coming of age." Chris Barber Band leader Release Me: Esther Phillips (1962) "It was quite a while before Engelbert Humperdinck recorded his rather pale version. I am not embarrassed at having bought it - only sad that Esther Phillips didn't get much credit!" Ozzy Osbourne Singer She Loves You: The Beatles (1963) "I was 14 years old. I bought this because it was the Beatles. They were like a religion to me." Andy MacKay Roxy Music Phoenix City: The Skatalites (1965) "Ska was very cool in Reading. Also, the first band I was in played that tune and I had to learn it. I still think the Skatalites are great." Adrian Utley Portishead Thunderbirds March: theme tune (1965) "It was a really intense tune, very powerful and the whole imagery of Gerry Anderson who made all that stuff was really, really real to me - and those tunes were really well done - brilliant orchestration." Carl Palmer
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Allen Dulles used the term in a speech on 3 December 1945, referring to only Germany, following his conclusion that "in general the Russians are acting little better than thugs", had "wiped out all the liquid assets", and refused to issue food cards to emigrating Germans, leaving them "often more dead than alive." Dulles concluded that "n iron curtain has descended over the fate of these people and very likely conditions are truly terrible. The promises at Yalta to the contrary, probably 8 to 10 million people are being enslaved." ==During the Cold War==
===Building antagonism===
The antagonism between the Soviet Union and the West that came to be described as the "iron curtain" had various origins. The Allied Powers and the Central Powers had backed the White movement against the Bolsheviks during the 1918–1920 Russian Civil War, and the Soviets had not forgotten the fact. During the summer of 1939, after conducting negotiations both with a British-French group and with Germany regarding potential military and political agreements,
the Soviet Union and Germany signed the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (which provided for the trade of certain German military and civilian equipment in exchange for Soviet raw materials) and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (signed in late August 1939), named after the foreign secretaries of the two countries (Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop), which included a secret agreement to split Poland and Eastern Europe between the two states. The Soviets thereafter occupied Eastern Poland (September 1939), Latvia (June 1940), Lithuania (1940), northern Romania (Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, late June 1940), Estonia (1940) and eastern Finland (March 1940). From August 1939, relations between the West and the Soviets deteriorated further when the Soviet Union and Germany engaged in an extensive economic relationship by which the Soviet Union sent Germany vital oil, rubber, manganese and other materials in exchange for German weapons, manufacturing machinery and technology. Nazi-Soviet trade ended in June 1941 when Germany broke the Pact and invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. In the course of World War II, Stalin determined to acquire a buffer area against Germany, with pro-Soviet states on its border in an Eastern bloc. Stalin's aims led to strained relations at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and the subsequent Potsdam Conference (August 1945). People in the West expressed opposition to Soviet domination over the buffer states, and the fear grew that the Soviets were building an empire that might be a threat to them and their interests. Nonetheless, at the Potsdam Conference, the Allies assigned parts of Poland, Finland, Romania, Germany, and the Balkans to Soviet control or influence. In return, Stalin promised the Western Allies that he would allow those territories the right to national self-determination. Despite Soviet cooperation during the war, these concessions left many in the West uneasy. In particular, Churchill feared that the United States might return to its pre-war isolationism, leaving the exhausted European states unable to resist Soviet demands. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt had announced at Yalta that after the defeat of Germany, U.S. forces would withdraw from Europe within two years.) ===Iron Curtain speech===
Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address
of 5 March 1946, at Westminster College, used the term "iron curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe:
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "Iron Curtain" has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. Much of the Western public still regarded the Soviet Union as a close ally in the context of the recent defeat of Nazi Germany and of Japan. Although not well received at the time, the phrase iron curtain gained popularity as a shorthand reference to the division of Europe as the Cold War strengthened. The Iron Curtain served to keep people in and information out, and people throughout the West eventually came to accept and use the metaphor. ===Political, economic and military realities===
====Eastern Bloc====
While the Iron Curtain remained in place, much of Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe (except West Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria) found themselves under the hegemony of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union annexed:
Estonia,
Latvia
Lithuania
as Soviet Socialist Republics within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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NADH dehydrogenase 1 alpha subcomplex subunit 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFA6 gene. ==References==
==Further reading==
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VMware, EMC, Microsoft, Citrix Systems and Genuine Parts CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) and Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=5513 Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog: VMware Reports Stellar 3Q VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) reported a stellar third quarter 2011, as earnings per share (EPS) escalated 68.0% year over year and surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 9 cents. The better-than-expected results were driven by solid revenue growth, based on strong global demand for VMware products. EPS (including stock-based compensation) was 42 cents in the reported quarter compared with 25 cents in the year-ago quarter. Excluding one-time items and stock-based compensation, EPS was 53 cents, up 35.9% from 39 cents reported in the year-ago quarter. Operational Performance Gross profit (including stock-based compensation) was $817.7 million, up from $622.4 million in the previous-year quarter. Gross margin was 86.8% versus 87.1% recorded in the prior-year quarter. The year-over-year decline in gross margin was due to higher proportion of service revenue in the mix. Operating income (including stock-based compensation) in the reported quarter jumped 49.9% year over year to $193.6 million. Operating margin was 20.5% in the quarter, compared with 18.1% in the year-ago quarter. The upside was primarily driven by strong revenue growth and strict cost control measures. Net income (including stock-based compensation) was $180.0 million, up from $110.4 million in the third quarter of 2010. Net margin was 19.1%, up from 15.5% in previous-year quarter. Revenue Revenues increased 31.9% year over year to $941.8 million, marginally beating the high end of management's guided range of $915.0 million to $940.0 million. The upside was primarily driven by strong Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) growth, strong demand in the U.S. and across Asia-Pacific markets, and seasonal strength with the U.S. Federal Government. License revenue was up 29.3% year over year to $443.6 million, and was primarily attributable to strong global demand for vSphere and VMware's management tool solutions. ELA were 22% of total third quarter bookings and included two transactions worth $10 million or more. The company experienced stronger demand for end-user computing and management products with the renewals of ELAs. Services revenue jumped 34.3% year over year to $498.2 million. Software maintenance and support revenue was $426.8 million, up 35.9% year over year. VMware stated that with every new license being purchased, customers continued to buy more than 24 months of support and maintenance, a reflection of their strong commitment to VMware, as a core element of their data center architecture and hybrid cloud strategy. Professional services revenue was $71.5 million, up 25.7% from the year-ago quarter. US revenues (47.0% of the total revenue) increased 22.0% year over year to reach $443.0 million. Similarly, international revenues (52.0% of the total revenue) witnessed a year-over-year growth of 42.0% to gross $499.0 million. Balance Sheet and Cash Flow VMware exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents (including short-term investments) of $3.98 billion, compared with $3.70 billion in the previous quarter. Cash from operations was $524.0 million versus $539.0 million in the prior quarter. Free cash flow was $494.0 million in the quarter, an increase of 108.0% prior-year quarter. During the quarter, the company used $365 million in aggregate for M&A, capital spending and share repurchase program and was benefited from a tax refund of $100 million from EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC).
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He believes nature to be “ferocious.“ This indignation is seen as he notices the “maggots’ might” on the groundhog while the sun shines with “Vigour“ and “immense energy.” He capitalize vigour to state that the nature is cruel to those who die. As he leaves the groundhog, the speaker prays on his knees to find “joy in the sight of decay.” This shows that the speaker views decay and nature as cruel and merciless. In Autumn, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He notices the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” and its “bony sodden hulk” remains. However, his emotions and perceptions towards death have changed since June. As the weather in Autumn is benign, he does not despise nature for being “ferocious” towards death. Everything the speaker has felt in June “had lost its meaning.” The speaker says the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” because the speaker’s anguish and despair have also “gone out.” Thus, the speaker loses his “loathing” for death as he has become “Mured up in the wall of wisdom.” The speaker is beginning to mature emotionally. During the next summer, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He sees “only a little hair” and “bones bleaching in the sunlight.” By now he has changed completely since his first visit. He does not experience anguish, melancholy, or despair at the sight of the groundhog. Watching the groundhog’s bones as if it was “architecture” or a “geometer,” the speaker finally begins to see the beauty in nature and decay. The speaker visits the groundhog the following summer. He sees “no sign of the groundhog” in the “whirling summer.” As he is indifferent to the annihilation of the groundhog‘s existence, nature is not merciless or cruel to suffering, but it is just indifferent. Then he feels his “withered heart” and think of Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Michel de Montaigne, and Saint Theresa. He realizes that no amount of money, power, faith, or fame can stop one’s fate to die and decay. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experience extraordinary change. His “senses shook” and could only think about his mortality as he first saw the decaying groundhog. But as time passes by, he matures emotionally and his views on decay changes dramatically. He is fully able to understand the inevitability of decay. He realizes that everything one lives for will eventually die and decay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Canadiancofee (talk • contribs). ==Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1102824.jpg==
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== if:15:51, August 22, 2007 (UTC)| 15:51, August 22, 2007 (UTC)}}. ==english essay==
Phil Yoon
Period 7
The Groundhog
August 22, 2007
Nature and Decay
In the “The Groundhog,” Richard Eberhart explores death and decay as the poem’s primary theme. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experiences a loss of innocence by observing the metamorphosis of a dead groundhog for three years. Before he saw the dead groundhog, the speaker was afraid of his own mortality. But as time passes by, he comes to realize that death is inevitable. His encounters with the dead groundhog shapes his perceptions and emotions surrounding death and decay. The speaker first meets a dead ground hog in June.
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Dale Farm clearance cost £7m The cost of clearing the UK's largest illegal travellers' site has been
confirmed as £7 million - but the council in charge has warned that a
fresh enforcement action remains likely. Basildon Council said it spent £4.8 million on last October's operation to remove families living at Dale Farm, Essex. This includes £1.6 million spent by the council after the initial attempt in September was delayed by a High Court injunction. The bill still came in under the authority's £8 million budget, which included a contingency fund. Essex Police has already announced that it spent £2.4 million on its part in the operation. Despite coming in under budget, council leader Tony Ball admitted: "The ongoing saga around Dale Farm continues to sadden and annoy me in equal measure. "It gives me some degree of satisfaction that the operation was carried out under budget and this is thanks to the hard work and professionalism of council staff, our contractors and our partners in the fire, health and police services. "I was, however, and remain, annoyed that £1.6 million was added to our final bill by the delay and legal costs incurred between September and October when the travellers launched their last-minute legal challenge against the council's right to clear Dale Farm." The clearance, which resulted in violent clashes, followed a decade-long row over authorised plots on the six-acre site. Mr Ball said that, other than four plots which are allowed to remain, the site had been cleared. But he said travellers living on a neighbouring site were continuing to flout the law. He said: "There are currently a number of caravans parked on the road leading up to the old Dale Farm. "These are in breach of planning regulations and should not be there. Numbers vary over time as individuals come and go but at the last count there was in the region of 16 units on the road. "There are also a significant number of caravans crowded on to the legal Oak Lane pitches. "These pitches are approved to accommodate no more than two caravans, or one caravan and one mobile home. "On approximately half of these pitches this is being exceeded, again in flagrant disregard of the conditions attached to the planning permission." Mr Ball said the overcrowding was dangerous and a breach of planning conditions. "We are aware that some of those now camped on the side of the road and crowded illegally on to Oak Lane came from the original illegal Dale Farm settlement," he said. "We are also aware that there are a number of new faces among this makeshift community. "The situation at Oak Lane is unacceptable and this council will not tolerate it. "We have appealed to those present to move on but these appeals have not been heeded. "We are working to a clear timetable and time for those travellers illegally occupying this part of Cray's Hill is running out."
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Bolts closing in on 1st losing year under Turner Bolts closing in on 1st losing year under Turner
AP Sports Writer Associated Press Sports updated 4:58 p.m. ET Dec. 3, 2012 SAN DIEGO (AP) - With a quarter of the season still to play, everything is pointing toward the free-falling San Diego Chargers having their first losing record in Norv Turner's six years as head coach. All but mathematically eliminated from the playoffs for the third straight season, odds are pretty good the Chargers (4-8) will clinch a losing record Sunday. They play at Pittsburgh, where they're 0-14 in regular-season games, and the Steelers (7-5) have beaten both the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals. Plus, the Chargers have yet to beat a team with a winning record this season. The Chargers are coming off home losses to the Ravens and Bengals in which they blew fourth-quarter leads. They can't run the ball and Philip Rivers had two more crucial turnovers in Sunday's 20-13 loss to the Bengals. Their offensive line, which couldn't protect Rivers even before a rash of injuries, is certain to have even more upheaval this week. The Chargers were shut out in the second half on Sunday after taking a 13-10 halftime lead. They didn't score an offensive touchdown for the third time this season as they lost their fourth straight game and for the seventh time in eight games. Now they have to face the Steelers, who, playing for the third week without Ben Roethlisberger, won 23-20 at AFC North-leading Baltimore on Sunday behind 37-year-old Charlie Batch. The Steelers are tied with the Bengals for the second AFC wild-card berth. They're two games behind the Ravens. The Steelers have won the last three games against the Chargers, including a 38-28 playoff victory following the 2008 season. The Chargers' only wins in Pittsburgh have been in the playoffs, a wild-card win after the 1982 season and their AFC championship game upset after the 1994 season that propelled them to their only Super Bowl. Three-quarters of the way into the season, the Chargers still can't play a complete game. And they can't explain why they can't. The Bengals went ahead on Andy Dalton's 6-yard scamper up the middle with 4:11 left Sunday, and San Diego's final two drives ended with turnovers by Rivers. The week before, they let Ray Rice convert on a fourth-and-29 dump-off pass and the Ravens won in overtime. "It's not so much the fourth quarter," the embattled Turner said Monday. "It stands out because it is the fourth quarter, but we have not been able to move the ball consistently in any quarter. And when we can make some plays we're able to move the ball. Sometimes you're able to scheme them, sometimes guys make plays. We've had too many negative plays that keep us from being a consistent team. It's not one guy." Safety Corey Lynch, who had an interception against the Bengals, was asked why the Chargers have trouble finishing. "Every week I kind of ask myself that same question and there's just no words. I don't have an answer for that. It's been disappointing for all players, who I feel like when I'm on the sideline watching the game, everyone's giving 100 percent. I feel like when I'm in the game, playing the game, all my teammates are giving 100 percent. So, on Monday, I don't have an answer." Turner has had some revealing comments recently that seem to sum up the state of the Bolts' roster. A week ago, Turner acknowledged the Chargers were outmanned by the Ravens in a number of areas. After the loss to the Bengals, he said: "I think there are a lot of guys that are playing about as good as they can play right now." On Monday, he said: "I think we've played two really good football teams and I think we stood there toe-to-toe with them, and we've just come up short." The Steelers' defense provides a contrast to San Diego's lack of consistency. Although Steelers stars Troy Polamalu and James Harrison have missed time this season, the Steelers lead the NFL in overall defense.
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is a Japanese former outfielder. After ten seasons with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball, he played eight years in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, followed by a final two years in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes. Taguchi is the first Japanese National League player to win a World Series. Taguchi is also the first Japanese player to win two World Series with different teams – with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008. ==Early life==
Taguchi was born and raised in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University in his hometown, with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. He was a teammate of Ichiro Suzuki when the two played for the Orix BlueWave in the Pacific League of NPB. Although he was drafted by the BlueWave as an infielder, he was moved to the outfield later in his career. ==Career==
===St. Louis Cardinals (2002–2007)===
He was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as a free agent in at the age of 33, a year in which he rose through the minor league system, playing for the New Haven Ravens and the Memphis Redbirds, compiling a.262 batting average, with 6 s and 51 RBI. He eventually earned a call-up on September 7, and recorded the first hit of his major league career in the second inning against the Chicago Cubs. Taguchi became the first (and to date only) Japanese-born player in Cardinal history. He originally requested to wear the number 6, but he couldn't because it was retired for Stan Musial, nor could he turn 6 upside down because 9 is retired for Enos Slaughter. He could not wear the number he had at the Olympics because 1 was retired for Ozzie Smith. He was also unable to double 6 as Rick Ankiel was on the roster that year. Finally, he decided to wear 99. Taguchi got another brief call-up in, then got more playing time with the Cardinals in, appearing in 109 games. He was included on the '04 Cardinals postseason roster, and appeared in two games of the 2004 World Series, which the Cardinals lost to the Boston Red Sox in a four-game sweep. In, injuries to outfielders Larry Walker and Reggie Sanders opened up manager Tony LaRussa's lineup card, and Taguchi became an everyday player. He responded with his best season, batting.288 in 396 at-bats with eight home runs and fifty-three RBI, and contributing with his stellar defense at all three outfield positions as the Cardinals won 100 games and had the best record in the National League. Cardinal radio announcer Mike Shannon took to calling Taguchi "the So-man" and praising his hard work and extreme personal courtesy. By habit Taguchi would even give a little bow to the umpire whenever he stepped up to the plate. His modest and happy demeanor, as well as shyness due to struggling with English in interviews early on, endeared him to St. Louis fans. In, Taguchi's playing time declined somewhat, his at-bat total falling to 316 from 396 the year before. However, Taguchi would make the playoff roster for the Cardinals for the third year in a row, and have a heroic postseason moment: on October 13, 2006, he hit the go-ahead home run off Billy Wagner in the top of the 9th inning of Game 2 of the NLCS. The home run gave the Cardinals a 7–6 lead in a game they would win 9-6. Taguchi played in four of five games of the 2006 World Series for the Cardinals, hitting.182, and won a World Series ring as the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to one. Taguchi agreed to a one-year deal worth $925,000 with the St. Louis Cardinals for the season. Taguchi returned to the Cardinals in 2007 and had another solid season, batting.290 as a part-time player, with 307 at-bats in 130 games. He was one of manager Tony La Russa's most valuable pinch-hitters; of 46 games in 2007 where he's shown to have had just 1 AB, Taguchi picked up 15 hits. Taguchi played 617 innings in the field, with 41 starts (and 22 other appearances) in center (where Jim Edmonds was banged up) and 21 starts (20 other) in left (where the Cardinals hadn't settled on one player until 2008 and Skip Schumaker). Taguchi played sparingly in right field (2 starts, 6 other) and part of a game at 2B.
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Indian air force to buy French fighters Later this year the Indian Air Force will finalize a contract to purchase French Dassault fighters. NEW DELHI, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The Indian air force is to finalize a contract to purchase 126 French Dassault Rafale jet fighters this year, in one of 2012's largest armaments purchases. The sale marks a significant diversification of India's armaments base as previously its major supplier of weaponry was the Russian Federation. In Bangalore, Indian Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne stated that, while negotiations are ongoing on with Dassault Aviation, New Delhi is optimistic that the negotiations be finished and contracts exchanged in the current fiscal year, which ends in March. The contract for the 126 Rafale medium multi-role combat aircraft is worth $20 billion, Indo-Asian News Service reported Thursday. The fighter jets are intended to replace the air force's fleet of MiG-21s. Given its high accident rate, the MiG-21 was deeply unpopular with Indian pilots, who referred to it as "the flying coffin" and the "widow-maker." Four months ago in Parliament Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony said 482 MiG aircraft accidents took place through April 19, 2012. Antony added that the MiG-21 crashes killed 171 pilots, 39 civilians and eight other military personal. The accidents were caused by "both human error and technical defects," he said. The assembly's response was immediate and critical. "The Indian air force has lost several talented pilots, senior and junior, thanks to the flying coffin that the MiGs are," an unnamed source said to be a retired air force wing commander told the Indo-Asian News Service. "It is very easy for officers on the ground conducting inquiries to blame pilots and the human element after each crash. But each IAF pilot puts his life at stake from Day One." Former air force Vice Chief of Air Staff Pranab Kumar Barbora said that, while it was a fact the air force has lost many MiG-21s and a substantial number of highly skilled pilots, the subsequent rate of MiG-21 accidents in the context of the number of flying hours had been reduced." Indian air force Air Marshal Barbora, who flew a MiG-21 just before he retired in 2010, maintained that it was a "fantastic" even though its high landing speed made it "slightly tricky" to handle. Last year Minister of State for Defense M.M. Pallam Raju said, "The MiG 21s will get phased out by 2015-16. I think the last of the squadrons of the aircraft will be phased out by 2017." The Indian air force purchased 946 MiG-21s, of which 476 were lost in various accidents over the past 45 years. Raju said that after the phasing out of the "MiG 21s from operational service, the air force will have the LCA, SU-30MKI, Medium Multirole Combat Aircraft and the Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft, which is being developed with Russia." Competition for the 126 MRCA IAF fighter aircraft contract was fierce. Besides Dassault, the Eurofighter Typhoon was short-listed, while other competitors included the Russian MiG 35, Swedish Saab Gripen and the American Boeing F/A-18 E/F and the Lockheed Martin F-16 combat jets.
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But her children appear to be entangled in a familiar cycle. Just like Lopez, her daughter became pregnant at 17. Her son became a father when he was 18, and her 17-year-old son is expecting a child soon. Lopez has three grandchildren. The health bill, Lopez said, would give her youngest the means to "understand what happens with their bodies." When you use them, it's not like you've sided with evil.
Cecilia Lopez, 52, about birth control Young people in the Philippines lack health services and education, said Daniels from the U.N. Population Fund. This has caused a problem of skyrocketing teen pregnancy rates in the Philippines, which are the second highest in Southeast Asia. "We are also failing the young people in the Philippines," she said. "Ideally it's a time when young people are focused on education and skills- the things they need to live productive lives. Instead, we have a situation where children are having children." A pack of condoms cost about 50 pesos and upwards, and birth control pills start at 100 pesos. When Lopez's husband can find work, he earns about 350 pesos a day. Condoms are sold in convenience stores and groceries, and pills are available, but they're harder to find in remote areas. The health bill would make various forms of birth control free and available to the country's poor. It would help quell the dramatic rise in maternal mortality rates, which has increased from 11 women dying per day to 15, from 2006 to 2010, said Daniels. It would also help address the fact that the Philippines is one of seven countries in the world where HIV rates are increasing, according to a U.N. report. Proponents of the Reproductive Health bill say it is about human rights, health and sustainable human development, not religion and sex. Church resistance The Catholic Church hierarchy has seen the bill differently- saying that artificial birth control is a sin and its distribution will relax moral standards. "Preventing fertilization is not a surgical, but a chemical or medical abortion," said Father Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Philippines. "It's like okay, go ahead. As long as you don't get pregnant or you do not impregnate anyone, you can have any physical relationship. It will destroy the trend of marriage in our country. And slowly when you bring down the bar of morality, everything follows." Castro said the government is infringing on territory beyond its authority by "legislating an immoral law," and maintained that the state should not intervene in the moral and religious realm. But Lopez, who is Catholic and regular church-goer disagreed. With a faded print of Christ and the Last Supper hanging on a wall behind her, the mother of 12 said, "The choice is yours if you need them for your own family, your own life. When you use them, it's not like you've sided with evil." The battle over the health bill has both Catholic officials and lawmakers accusing each other of overstepping boundaries between church and state. The bill in its previous five attempts at passage, has languished in Congress. The stiff resistance from the Catholic Church, which is influential in politics, has prevented the passage of the bill, said Elizabeth Angsioco, national chairperson of the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines, which supports the health bill. In the past, politicians have hesitated openly supporting the bill in fear of going against the Catholic Church and damaging their chances of re-election, she said. "Legislators are called on regularly by bishops, one by one, and some priests visit legislators in their districts, to 'convince them' to drop support or strengthen their opposition to the bill," she said. For years, politicians have feared the Church's moral influence on voters, said Solita Monsod, professor emerita at University of the Philippines, School of Economics. Preventing fertilization is not a surgical but a chemical or medical abortion.
said Father Melvin Castro, Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Philippines "There are two kinds of Catholics in the Philippines, the unthinking - who say I don't need to read that bill because my priest is the guardian of my morality and whatever they say goes. And the thinking -- who will study the issues, follow their own conscience, and don't let anybody try to sway that," she said. But Father Castro denies that the church gets overly involved in politics. Bishops issue guidelines when Catholics decide whom to vote for, but they do not openly endorse political candidates, Castro said. "It's up to the voters to ask themselves if this particular candidate possesses those needed criteria to lead our nation."
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San Diego power firm's plan gets contrasting opinions A judge and a PUC member give opposing recommendations on San Diego Gas & Electric's proposal to shut off power to rural customers during high winds. An administrative law judge and a member of the Public Utilities Commission offered different recommendations Tuesday about a controversial plan by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. to shut off power to fire-prone backcountry areas during high winds. The full commission will consider the contrasting recommendations at its Sept. 10 meeting, officials said. PUC member Timothy Alan Simon proposed that the utility be allowed to shut off power, although he attached several conditions. Among other things, he wants SDG&E to consult with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection before taking such a step. But Administrative Law Judge Timothy Kenney recommended that the PUC turn down the SDG&E plan as too risky. SDG&E wants the authority to shut off power to rural areas of up to 178,000 residents when the National Weather Service issues a red flag warning. But backcountry residents warn that they could be left helpless without power during critical periods. SDG&E devised the plan amid findings that downed lines caused the wind-whipped brush fires in 2003 that destroyed thousands of structures and burned hundreds of thousands of acres. The contrasting recommendations came after lengthy hearings. Dianne Jacob, chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, praised Kenney for "recognizing that the current plan is an ill-crafted gamble that would put lives, property and businesses at great risk."
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The 1985 FIRS Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the roller hockey tournament known as the Intercontinental Cup, played between the 23 and 25 of August, 1985. This second edition saw a drastic change in format, as the winner of the CERH European Cup played the winner of the Roller Hockey South American Club Championship, in a two-legged final. Unión Vecinal de Trinidad won the cup, defeating FC Barcelona. ==Matches==
==See also==
FIRS Intercontinental Cup
FIRS Intercontinental Cup
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BBC - Newsbeat - US'smart gun' unveiled
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Sutter Health Leader Sarah Krevans Named Woman of the Year by Women Health Care Executives SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sarah Krevans, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region President, has been named "2011 Woman of the Year" by Women Health Care Executives. The Northern California-based professional organization for women in health care also celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year. "Sarah stands out as a remarkable leader and innovator among her peers," said Sutter Health President and CEO Pat Fry. "We've set a goal to reduce expenses across Sutter Health by about $700 million between now and 2014. Sarah is helping guide our network's broad efforts to transform how we deliver our services to ensure that high-quality health care is accessible yet more affordable for our patients and communities." As President of Sutter Health's Sacramento Sierra Region, Krevans helps guide the delivery of health care that is personalized to the needs of patients and communities in nine Northern California counties - Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba. The region includes seven acute care hospitals, two mental health facilities, more than 11,500 employees and 530 medical group physicians. Under Krevans' leadership, Sutter Health and the Sacramento Sierra Region have made tremendous advancements in further improving patient care: Quality Advancements In the past year, two affiliated medical groups in Sutter Health's Sacramento Sierra Region were honored as among California's top performing physician organizations. In addition, five hospitals in Sutter Health's Sacramento Sierra Region received certificates of excellence from the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task Force (CHART) in 2010. In March, Sutter Davis Hospital was chosen as one of the 100 top hospitals in the United States by Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®. Sutter Davis also won a Best Place to Work in Healthcare award in 2010 from Modern Healthcare magazine. Community Benefit The Sacramento Sierra Region invested $224 million in community benefit services for patients and communities - a 30 percent increase over the previous year - part of the Sutter Health network's total investment of $751 million in health care programs, services and benefits for the poor and underserved and broader community last year. Access Improvements Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is undergoing a major expansion. Part of Sutter Health's multi-billion-dollar investment in hospital construction throughout Northern California, the comprehensive project in midtown Sacramento totals $724 million and includes multiple projects. Once complete in late 2012, the health care campus will be among the region's most innovative and advanced. In addition, the Sutter Rehabilitation Institute at Sutter Roseville Medical Center significantly expanded to better serve the needs of patients. Sutter Amador Hospital in rural Amador County enlarged its emergency department and a new ambulatory surgery center opened in the rapidly growing Sacramento County community of Elk Grove. Background on Sarah Krevans Before joining Sutter Health, Krevans worked with Kaiser Permanente for many years in various leadership capacities, including Senior Vice President and Area Manager; she also directed the state of Maine's Health Policy and Planning functions. Krevans serves as a board member for Make-A-Wish, Sierra Forever Families and Voluntary Hospitals of America West Coast. In addition, she serves as a board member for Sutter Health's Sacramento Sierra Region, Sutter Medical Foundation, and Sutter Health Pacific. Krevans earned master's degrees in Public Health and Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. She and her husband have three children and live in the Sacramento area. Krevans will receive the 2011 Woman of the Year award at WHCE's 30th Anniversary dinner in San Francisco on June 16th. About Sutter Health Serving patients and their families in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns, Sutter Health doctors, not-for-profit hospitals and other health care service providers share resources and expertise to advance health care quality and access. The Sutter Medical Network includes many of California's top-performing, highest quality physician organizations as measured annually by the Integrated Healthcare Association. Sutter-affiliated hospitals are regional leaders in cardiac care, women's and children's services, cancer care, orthopedics and advanced patient safety technology.
About Women Health Care Executives (WHCE) WHCE is a Bay Area professional organization whose diverse members represent integrated health care systems, hospitals, biotech, community based organizations, law, architects and consultants. The purpose of WHCE is to promote the career advancement of women in all health care fields, increase the technical and professional knowledge of its membership through education, provide a forum for communication, networking and support and promote members and their accomplishments. To learn more about WHCE, please visit www.whce.net. About Woman of the Year Gala Dinner
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FT.com / Brussels / Economy The financial markets may have offered a recent respite to highly indebted eurozone members but they will still be forced into early sovereign restructuring, said leading economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Their warnings come as political leaders and central bankers pledged cast-iron support for the euro but stopped short of spelling out the reforms that will be necessary to stabilise the single currency. Speaking on Thursday, Carmen Reinhart of Maryland University who has examined centuries of sovereign debt crises, said: "It is very difficult for me to look at the [eurozone] debt numbers and say a restructuring is going to be avoided." Her comments were echoed by Larry Summers, until recently chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama. Commenting on the step-by-step nature of the eurozone response to its sovereign debt crisis, he told the Financial Times: "Europe is testing the limits of reactive incremental strategy... The laws of economics, like the laws of physics, do not respect political constraints." Even economists who are more optimistic about the steps being taken by European leaders say debt restructurings are necessary. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said: "I do expect significant debt restructuring in a few countries, but also expect that a combination of EU-IMF bail-outs and ECB support for the banks will avoid any significant breakdown." George Soros, the financier, said the euro "will certainly hang together" but that "you cannot wait until 2013 to restructure some of the debt - Ireland is going to force the issue because it is so blatantly unfair to have the population shoulder all of the losses and the bondholders of the banks to get off free." Some economists at the forum, such as Simon Johnson of MIT, are already looking ahead to a new Germanic euro following a "serious crisis this year." Then, he said, "the euro will become more appealing as a reserve currency." With such scepticism ringing in politicians" ears, it is not surprising that George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, expressed frustration that when people spoke to him at the forum "last year the question [to me] was will Greece default and this year the question is will Greece default." The most resounding defence of the euro came on Thursday from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who insisted the politicians of Europe would "never" let it fail. "Never, listen to me carefully, never will we turn our backs on the euro, never will we drop the euro," he said, adding that he was also speaking for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. "The euro is Europe," he said. "We will never let the euro be destroyed... It is not simply a monetary or an economic issue. It has to do with our identity as Europeans." Few practical suggestions for resolving Europe's debt crisis were aired in the public discussions in Davos. Most politicians and central bankers called for greater economic union and a return to the original aims of the euro. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, said it was amazing that in 2004 and 2005 France and Germany had attempted to "blow up" the eurozone's fiscal rules covering budget deficits. Calling for a "quantum leap" in European economic governance, he said the consolidated eurozone deficit and debt levels were much stronger than those of the US or Japan. But he added: "It is no time for complacency and in some cases [the situation] is far from sustainable." Nick Clegg, British deputy prime minister and a euro supporter, said he would not wish to join the club now but urged eurozone members to go back to the initial principles of the single currency. "I don't think it's a question of revisiting the drawing-board but returning to what the drawing-board said in the first place," he said. Additional reporting by Gillian Tett in Davos
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The guidelines also say doctors should: Take yearly blood pressure measurements for children starting at age 3. Start routine anti-smoking advice when kids are ages 5 to 9, and counsel parents of infants not to smoke in the home. Review infants' family history of obesity and start tracking body mass index, or BMI, a measure of obesity, at age 2. The panel also suggests using more frank terms for kids who are overweight and obese than some government agencies have used in the past. Children whose BMI is in the 85th to 95th percentile should be called overweight, not "at risk for overweight," and kids whose BMI is in the 95th percentile or higher should be called obese, not "overweight - even kids as young as age 2, the panel said. "Some might feel that 'obese' is an unacceptable term for children and parents," so doctors should "use descriptive terminology that is appropriate for each child and family," the guidelines recommend. They were released online Friday by the journal Pediatrics. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. More from Children's health
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Health in the Republic of Ireland
Professional associations based in Ireland
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Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC from 1978 until 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series (with the exception of special episodes filmed in Hawaii and San Francisco) was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike. ==Plot==
Dan Tanna is a detective available for private hire. One of his chief clients was Phillip Roth (Tony Curtis), aka Slick, the owner of multiple hotel casinos including the Maxim Hotel and Desert Inn Hotel & Country Club, in Las Vegas. Tanna was always called in when something was awry at the hotel. Many times this involved the criminal element, though he was sometimes brought in to investigate the absurd. One example included a nun who claimed to own the land on which the Desert Inn stood, when she was bequeathed an old deed from a prospector who died. (To further complicate matters, she initially wanted to turn the hotel into a convent.) Tanna lived on the Las Vegas Strip next to Circus Circus Hotel/Casino, in the theatrical props warehouse owned by the Desert Inn Hotel and Country Club, which he converted into his living place. The design of Tanna's pad (long before the popularity of loft space) allowed him to park his T-bird in his living room. Tanna also used gadgets that were very high-tech for the time (but are pretty commonplace today), such as a car-phone and an answering machine (that physically picked the phone up off the hook and the receiver spoke directly into the microphone of a tape recorder). This warehouse in reality no longer exists, as it was replaced by a shopping center which included an Arby's and a museum; which in turn has been replaced with a new high-rise condominium tower. For most of the series Tanna's choice of weapon was a Dan Wesson Firearms.357 magnum that he didn't like to use, but would if the situation deemed necessary. During the first season Tanna carried a Smith & Wesson Model 28.357 magnum. Most often Tanna would use more non-lethal means, such as his fists. Tanna often did battle with many of the various criminal element that would threaten the desert oasis. Some villains he faced include a psychopath who thought he was Wayne Newton (and subsequently Newton was impersonating him), as well as a mafia boss named Martin Gleaver (Tom Simcox) who blackmailed a magic sisters act with photographs of "all the sick/weird things they used to do" referring to when they used to host risque Hollywood parties. Tanna was a veteran of the Vietnam War. This was illustrated through flashbacks in various episodes. It is curious, however, that during these flashbacks, he was participating in ground combat. In the first season episode "Kill Dan Tanna", Tanna is addressed by his former commanding officer Captain North (Richard Lynch), a former member of 5th Special Forces Group, as lieutenant. In a later episode, where he gets mixed up with a case involving a defector from the Soviet Union, he shows up at Nellis Air Force Base in his old United States Air Force uniform. (The Air Force was rarely, but occasionally, involved in direct ground combat during Vietnam.) He is also referred to as "Captain Tanna", indicating that he was an officer. He served with his best friends Harlon Two-Leaf (Will Sampson), the chief of a local Native American tribe, and Mitch Costigan (Chick Venerra), a Vegas lounge singer. In the second season episode "Casualty of War", Costigan mentions that he served in 93rd Rangers (a fictional United States Army Rangers unit) and in a Vietnam flashback scene he is wearing an United States Army uniform with the 101st Airborne Division patch on it. Though the 93rd Rangers is fictional the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War did have Ranger-Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol units. Also shown in that episode is a picture of Tanna, Costigan, and Two-Leaf taken in Vietnam, all are wearing tiger-stripe camouflage uniforms and black berets- which was the common but unofficial headgear of Ranger units in Vietnam. Two-Leaf and Costigan would occasionally join Tanna in investigating various mysteries. ==Episodes==
==Supporting cast==
Phyllis Davis played Beatrice Travis, Tanna's assistant, who is a single mom and a former showgirl. There is evidence that she was married before, but her husband had died.
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Average for jobless claims at fresh 5-year low WASHINGTON The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid barely changed last week, and the average over the past month fell to a fresh five-year low. The decline in layoffs is helping strengthen the job market. Weekly unemployment benefit applications rose just 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Over the past four weeks, applications have dropped by 7,500 to 339,750. That's the lowest since February 2008, just three months into the recession. Economists pay close attention to the four-week average because it can smooth out week to week fluctuations. The steady decline in unemployment claims signals that companies are laying off fewer workers. That suggests many aren't worried about economic conditions in the near future. The four-week average has fallen nearly 15 percent since November. The trend has coincided with acceleration in the job market. Employers have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month since November. That's nearly double the average from last spring. And in February, the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.7 percent. The job market is benefiting from stronger auto sales and a healthy recovery in housing. Homebuilding permits jumped to their highest level in 4 1/2 years in February, suggesting that recent strong gains in home construction will continue. New-home sales jumped 16 percent in January to the highest level since July 2008. Auto sales, meanwhile, rose in January and February after hitting a five-year high in 2012. The housing and auto sectors are being helped by the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep interest rates low, policies the Fed stood by Wednesday after a two-day meeting. The Fed reinforced its plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild. And it said it would continue buying $85 billion a month in bonds indefinitely to keep long-term borrowing costs down. During a news conference after the meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged the job market has accelerated but said the Fed wants to see sustained improvement before altering its stimulus policies. Unemployment benefit applications are one of the measures Bernanke said the Fed is closely monitoring.
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ABC News" Own Cookie Swap and Recipes Jeff Swartz's sprinkle cookies are shown here. Courtesy Jeff Swartz. Cookie swaps are taking the holiday season by storm, and despite participation in a virtual cookie swap, we decided to hold an old fashioned swap right in the office. With cookies like oatmeal cinnamon chip and homemade oreos, we all left work with an amazing assortment of cookies we can bring to parties or use on our holiday tables. Interested in hosting your own cookie swap? Here are a few tips: 1. Set the amount of cookies you want everyone to make. Most swaps call for guests to bring 5-6 dozen, which might seem like a lot. We all made 3 dozen cookies and it worked perfectly. Most guests made a few extra which were good for snacking while swapping. 2. Ask for recipes in advance. This gives you time to print out a recipe booklet for everyone to take home. This is a great way to gain a few new delicious recipes. 3. Buy cheap plastic bags or containers. Ask people to bring a container to take their cookies home. Just in case they forget, it's always good to have extra bags or containers on hand. 4. Make something savory. While most people will be munching on cookies, it's a good idea to have a few savory appetizers for guests to snack on to avoid an unwanted sugar high. 5. Don't try something new. When you're making cookies in bulk, it's best to avoid baking a new recipe. Use a recipe that you've made before and know works well. (This avoids a lot of unwanted stress and unsuccessful cookies in the garbage.) I brought the cookies home and they vanished. See the recipes below that were made, and try them this week for yourself. (If you have time!): Sprinkle Cookies Grasshopper Cookies Retro Dessert's Homemade Oreos Hershey's Oatmeal Cinnamon Chips Cookies Nestle Tollhouse Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies White Chocolate Pumpkin Dreams The Compost Cookie (adapted) Hot Chocolate Cookies
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Hornbeker Mühlenbach is a river of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ==See also==
List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein
Rivers of Schleswig-Holstein
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Stephen Lawrence Murder: New Police Appeal Police are launching a fresh bid to convict all those who may have been involved in the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence. The latest appeal comes in the wake of the 20th anniversary of the death of 18-year-old in Eltham on April 22 in 1993. On the BBC programme Crimewatch later, Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll will run viewers through the events of the night he died in a bid to jog the memory of anyone who may have seen anything suspicious. The programme also features an interview with Stephen's mother, Doreen, who talks about why it remains so important for any outstanding witnesses to come forward. Gary Dobson and David Norris were convicted of Stephen's murder in January 2012, but police still believe that others were involved. They are particularly keen to speak to witnesses who they have been told were nearby at the time. They include two men who got off a bus at a stop opposite where Stephen was attacked, another man who was walking towards the attack and anyone else in the area around the Coronet Cinema. Stephen is thought to have been set upon by up to six white youths in an unprovoked racist attack as he waited at a bus stop at Well Hall Road. Gary Dobson, left, and David Norris were convicted of murder last year After an initial confrontation, he ran to Dickson Road where he was fatally stabbed. He managed to run another 130 yards before collapsing. The suspects escaped down Dickson Road. Stephen was taken to Brook Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Police believe it is impossible that all those who saw what took place have come forward and spoken to them. As a result, they are asking people to come forward. DCI Driscoll said: "Although two individuals are serving a life sentence in connection with this murder, we have always known there were other people involved in the attack. "As such, this investigation remains open and my team is committed to pursuing all viable lines of inquiry available to us. It is hoped this appeal will assist with our inquiries. "We believe there were people in the area that night who may have seen something. Not the murder itself necessarily but events or individuals leading up to the event. "I am taking this opportunity to appeal directly to those people to come forward and speak to us. "You may think you won't remember something from so long ago, but we would still implore you to come forward." The teenager's death sparked a change in how race crimes are investigated The initial investigation resulted in five suspects being arrested, but no one was convicted. In 1994, the Lawrence family took out a private prosecution, but were unsuccessful. In 1997, at the inquest, all of the then five suspects refused to answer questions. The same year, after extensive discussion of the case in the media, the Government instigated the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, conducted by Sir William Macpherson, which rewrote how the police investigated racially motivated crime. A cold review in 2006 resulted in new evidence being found. As a result, in 2011, a new trial was started which led to the conviction of Dobson and Norris in 2012. Dobson was jailed for 15 years and two months and Norris received 14 years and three months.
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Cops: Pa. Woman Hides Pot in Dirty Diaper
(AP) State police say a western Pennsylvania woman tried to hide marijuana in a child's dirty diaper. Trooper Stefani Plume had just asked permission to search the car of 23-year-old India Banks, of Clairton, when Banks allegedly handed the diaper to the trooper and asked her to toss it into a bag of garbage inside the vehicle. Plume says she thought it was odd of Banks to hand over the wet diaper instead of throwing it in the bag herself. So the trooper checked inside and found a small bag of marijuana. Plume described the Oct. 25 traffic stop when Banks appeared in court Wednesday to waive her right to a preliminary hearing. Banks will enter a special probation program for first time offenders that will enable her record to be expunged if she complies with her probation terms. © MMX, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Man convicted in 'Fatal Vision' murder case to get chance at new trial over 40 years later WILMINGTON, N.C. - Jeffrey MacDonald, a clean-cut Green Beret and doctor convicted of killing of his pregnant wife and their two daughters, is getting another chance to try proving his innocence -- more than four decades after the nation was gripped by his tales of Charles Manson-like hippies doped up on acid slaughtering his family. The case now hinges on something that wasn't available when he was first put on trial: DNA evidence. A federal judge planned to hold a hearing Monday to consider new DNA evidence and witness testimony that MacDonald and his supporters say will finally clear him of a crime that became the basis of Joe McGinniss' best-selling book "Fatal Vision" and a made-for-TV drama. It's the latest twist in a case that has been the subject of military and civilian courts, intense legal wrangling and shifting alliances. "This is Jeff's opportunity to be back in court almost 33 years to the day of his conviction," said Kathryn MacDonald, who married him a decade ago while he has been in prison. MacDonald, now 68 and not eligible for parole until 2020, has never wavered from his claim that he didn't kill his pregnant wife, Colette, and their two daughters, 5-year-old Kimberley and 2-year-old Kristen. He has maintained that he awoke on their sofa in their home at Fort Bragg in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 1970, as they were being attacked by three men and a woman. In an October 2000 letter MacDonald wrote to Kathryn MacDonald, provided by her to The Associated Press, he wrote: "It would be a dishonor to their memory to compromise the truth and `admit' to something I didn't do -- no matter how long it takes." The gruesome stabbing and beating deaths came just three months after the Manson Family slayings in California were revealed. The pregnant wife and MacDonald's description of the woman attacker chanting "acid is groovy, kill the pigs" all fed into fears that Manson-type killers were on the loose in North Carolina. The word "pig" was written in blood on a headboard -- the same word that was written on the door of pregnant Manson victim Sharon Tate's house in Los Angeles. The Army charged the Ivy League-educated MacDonald with murder, then dropped the charges months later after an Article 32 hearing. By December 1970, MacDonald was not just a free man but also had received an honorable discharge. But his father-in-law, Alfred Kassab, who initially believed in his innocence, changed his mind and eventually persuaded prosecutors to pursue the case in civilian court. In 1979, MacDonald was charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, a sentence he now serves at the federal prison in Cumberland, Md. MacDonald has stood by his innocence claim so strongly that he refused to apply for parole for years, and when he did, he refused to acknowledge any guilt and was rejected. MacDonald and his supporters have continued to pursue legal avenues over the years to try to clear his name. U.S. District Court Judge James Fox will consider two types of evidence: three hairs that don't match the family's DNA and a statement from Jimmy Britt, a deputy U.S. marshal when the case was tried. Britt, who has since died, gave a statement to defense attorneys in 2005 that he heard prosecutor Jim Blackburn threaten Helena Stoeckley, a troubled local woman whom MacDonald had identified as one of the attackers. A previous MacDonald attorney has said Stoeckley was prepared to testify she was in the MacDonald home the night of the murders until Blackburn threatened to charge her with the slayings. She later testified she couldn't remember where she was that night. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted MacDonald's request for the hearing. It's expected to last up to two weeks, and Fox will determine whether to order a new trial. "This is the first time the judge is having to consider all the evidence in the case as a whole," said Chris Mumma, head of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, which has a pending request for DNA testing on other items found in the home. "Pieces of evidence were considered in the past. Now the 4th Circuit has told the judge to consider the evidence as a whole, whether admitted at trial or not." A lab was able to get DNA testing from the roots of hair, so Mumma is optimistic that other evidence can be tested if the judge agreed. The center has asked that 40 items be tested. Hundreds of bloodstains were collected, along with the weapons, the eyeglasses the children wore and pieces of the gloves used to write the word "pig."
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Blplatt (talk)
I've tagged it for speedy deletion. There's no assertion of notability here, and precious little material to work with. == Hewins/Songs And Rituals In Real Time ==
I have created a new page for an album by Time Berne. Please let me know what you think. Dan Hewins (talk)
== Grandmadge/Romel Wallen ==
Are my references and categories now ok to go live? Grandmadge (talk)
Your footnote formatting is slighting off. I fixed the first footnote for you, so hit Edit and look at how I typed the coding, so that the link is hidden in the title and makes it clickable. That way you have the link, you have a full citation (both for ease of verification and also in case the original link ever moves), yet the bare URL is tucked neatly into the title so you don't see a long string of "http://www..." all over the place. Suggest you apply that fix to the rest of your footnotes. Same thing for your "External links", tuck the link up into the title. Also, your categories are way too broad; he is not a "football" not a "university". Try Jamaican footballers. Also, you have several of what appear to be good references just chucked into "External links", newspaper articles and the like. Why not check them and see which facts they prove, and footnote and/or add those facts to the article to make it even better-referenced?MatthewVanitas (talk)
== Namibia Heros Jakop Marenga and many others==
My name is Petrus Naftali Indongo, I am the other so publish these wonderful materials for the benefit of cultural exchange and international relations. ve reviewed and added tags of things that need fixing, so please check those out. For the Bare URLs issue, I've given folks advice on this on today's page and yesterday's, so please check those out (rather than me retype; common problem). Also still have some concerns about Notability; can you dig up any clearer, reputable, news or academic mentions of this gallery? Not just passing mentions on a list, but some more substantive coverage. MatthewVanitas (talk)
Great, thanks for reviewing! I'll definitely look into these and dig up some better sources. Chelseagallerygirl (talk)
I fixed your first footnote; check out the format I used and copy that for all your footnotes (plus publisher and publication date if applicable). Also your EL should be displayed just as "Official site" with the link itself hotlinked into that term; it's a given that it's the subject's site, so "Official site" is the WP standard label. MatthewVanitas (talk)
== Anthony Lolli ==
Short article about a rising NY real estate mogul. Needs more sources? Blplatt (talk)
I've tagged it for speedy deletion. There's no assertion of notability here, and precious little material to work with. == Hewins/Songs And Rituals In Real Time ==
I have created a new page for an album by Time Berne. Please let me know what you think. Dan Hewins (talk)
== Grandmadge/Romel Wallen ==
Are my references and categories now ok to go live? Grandmadge (talk)
Your footnote formatting is slighting off. I fixed the first footnote for you, so hit Edit and look at how I typed the coding, so that the link is hidden in the title and makes it clickable. That way you have the link, you have a full citation (both for ease of verification and also in case the original link ever moves), yet the bare URL is tucked neatly into the title so you don't see a long string of "http://www..." all over the place. Suggest you apply that fix to the rest of your footnotes. Same thing for your "External links", tuck the link up into the title. Also, your categories are way too broad; he is not a "football" not a "university". Try Jamaican footballers. Also, you have several of what appear to be good references just chucked into "External links", newspaper articles and the like. Why not check them and see which facts they prove, and footnote and/or add those facts to the article to make it even better-referenced?MatthewVanitas (talk)
== Namibia Heros Jakop Marenga and many others==
My name is Petrus Naftali Indongo, I am the other so publish these wonderful materials for the benefit of cultural exchange and international relations.
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D.C. police seek leads in 2010 killing of Rajeshkumar Patel D.C. police have released a video in hopes of generating leads in the fatal 2010 shooting of a Bowie man in Northeast Washington. Police found Rajeshkumar Patel, 46, suffering from a gunshot wound when they arrived in the 3600 block of 12th St. NE about 6:40 p.m. on Dec. 18. Patel was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The surveillance video, which is 19 seconds long, shows two men entering a convenience store. One, wearing a gray jacket and hood and dark pants, walks toward the camera and then turns around. The second, hearing a light-colored hood and dark jacket, remains in the background before walking off-camera to the left, his arm raised. It appears as if he is pointing a weapon. The suspects should be considered armed and dangerous, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call 202-727-9099. Anonymous text message can be submitted to 40511.
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Surgeons or salesmen: Potential conflict of interest eyed in implants Baldness cure may be within reach A new way to grow hair may be on its way. The procedure has only been tested on mice, but so far, the results have been promising. Angela Christiano, the study's senior author and a professor of dermatology and genetics at Columbia University Medical Center, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to discuss the study's findings.
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An example of what I'm wondering about is this: Somebody mentions a word/name of something that makes an impression, and then you see this word/name in advertisements perhaps on the street or anywhere else which is obviously a bizarre coincidence (coincidence as described through modern science). This is going to sound really stupid but I saw the name for this particular phenomenon on Uberfacts (twitter) a while back, I googled it, thought I bookmarked the page that gave the most information, end of story. Please let me know, because it's really bugging me. Thanks. Lighthead þ
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. That's it! Thanks. A million credits... Lighthead þ
:Yes, it goes by that name, but it need not involve the paranormal or crowd psychology. If you dig around wikipedia, you'll see that we've had an article named Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but it was very contentious, and was ultimately removed (lack of notability and reliable sources, if I recall). Now our disambiguation goes to List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion, which is offers a fairly simple and well-known explanation. I also like to describe the effect as a salience/ recency bias, as in Salience_(neuroscience)#Salience_in_psychology and Recency_illusion. Basically, "Baader-meinhof syndrome" is a word made up by a blogger a few years ago (I think, I may be suffering from a recency bias ;). It (as a word) has no real currency in academic writing, though the phenomenon is very interesting and well-discussed. SemanticMantis (talk)
::There was a 3-part series on a cable channel, called BrainGames, which talked about what we observe and don't observe. The core premise is that we observe selectively, as we can't observe everything. They didn't get into this familiar phenomenon, but it's a bit like confirmation bias - you ignore something until you see it, and then you start paying attention to it and ascribing importance to it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→
== Methods to analyze sacred texts? ==
Some time ago, I found an interesting website that listed different methods to analyze sacred texts. Now, I lost it and don't exactly remember the name. In any case, can anybody list for me the methods to analyze sacred texts (socio-historical method included)? I do remember reading one of Bart Ehrman's textbooks, in which he wrote extensively on the topic, but unfortunately, I vaguely remember a thing. 140.254.227.54 (talk)
You might find most of what you're looking for at Historical criticism. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK)
I don't see "socio-historical method of analysis" anywhere in the article. There are methods of criticisms. I think I am looking for methods of analysis. 140.254.227.54 (talk)
Could start at Form criticism... AnonMoos (talk)
== Gun control ==
Some anti-gun control advocates are using the argument that Stalin, Hitler, Mao and the Khmer Rouge "took away the guns" in their countries. Is that true? 216.93.234.239 (talk)
I suspect you mean gun nuts in the US. That would only be a concern if we thought the government was contemplating committing genocide on a portion of the population. I see no reason to suspect that, now, although various groups might have had reason to fear this in the past, like American Indians and blacks. StuRat (talk)
I think that this article can clarify things somewhat
Gun_control#Associations_with_authoritarianism "Historians have pointed out, however, that the preceding democratic Weimar Republic already had restrictive gun laws, which were actually liberalised by the Nazis when they came to power." Hcobb (talk)
:As far as Cuba and Stalin's Russia are concerned, although it's not quite the same thing, both governments issued firearms to a very large proportion of the adult population in order to resist attacks by outside powers (attacks from the USA in the former case, and attacks from Nazi Germany in the latter case.) So the effect of these governments was that more citizens had guns, not less. ::Nobody in their right mind called that "civilian" gun ownership... neither of those regimes allowed gun ownership in the way the U.S. does. That's a spurious comparison.
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Quinn Gillespie & Associates (QGA) is an American bipartisan lobbying and communications firm founded in 2000 by Republican political strategist Ed Gillespie and Democratic operative Jack Quinn. It was sold in 2004 to WPP, one of the world's largest communications services groups. It was one of the first government relations firms in Washington to employ professionals of both political parties. Ed Gillespie, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Jack Quinn, former White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, founded the firm along with former co-chairman Jeff Connaughton. Since 2003, QGA has been in the top 10 of DC lobbying firms by revenues. ==Client List==
American Public University System
Amaranth
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Association for Information Protection
AT&T
Broadway League
BNSF Railway
Caribbean Property Group
Cayman Islands Financial Services Association
Cemex
Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
Creative Coalition
DBR Ventures
Diageo
EADS North America
eHealth
Entergy
Exelon
First Data
Forest County Potawatomi Community
Genomatica Roll Call
H-E-B
ICAP
Imara Corporation
Immigration Voice
Japan External Trade Organization
Knights of Columbus
MASN
MBA Polymers
MetLife
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
National Association of Realtors
National Venture Capital Association
PetroAlgae
Pink Media Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Qualcomm
Republic of Macedonia
Republika Srpska
Royal Caribbean
SatCon
Strong American Schools
State Farm
Sony
T-Mobile
The Science Coalition
US Chamber of Commerce
US Telecom
Verizon Wireless
Virtua Health
Visa Inc.
Zurich
==Staff==
Management
Jack Quinn, Co-founder and chairman, Former Counsel to President Bill Clinton and Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore
J. Dave Hoppe, President, Former Chief of Staff to then-Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
Democrats
Michael Hussey, Served as Chief of Staff and Chief Federal Lobbyist for the American Resort Development Association
Bonnie Hogue Duffy, Former legislative assistant to Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Senior Health Policy Advisor to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee
Ambassador Ralph R. Johnson (ret.)
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Smithsonian names director for NYC's design museum WASHINGTON (AP) - The designer of the first laptop computer has been named director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough announced the appointment Wednesday, calling Bill Moggridge a visionary leader in the design world. The 66-year-old spent years as a designer and author and has taught at Stanford University. He has designed high-tech products, including the Grid Compass laptop computer in 1980, and co-founded the design firm IDEO. Moggridge will start at the museum in March. He succeeds Paul Thompson, who led the museum for eight years before leaving to lead the Royal College of Art in London. The Cooper-Hewitt is undergoing a $64 million expansion of its home at Manhattan's Carnegie Mansion.
On The Net: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: http://cooperhewitt.org Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Honey Point Township (T9N R6W) is located in Macoupin County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 155 and it contained 87 housing units. ==Geography==
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which (or 99.97%) is land and (or 0.03%) is water. ==Adjacent townships==
Shaws Point Township (north)
Zanesville Township, Montgomery County (northeast)
North Litchfield Township, Montgomery County (east)
South Litchfield Township, Montgomery County (southeast)
Cahokia Township (south)
Gillespie Township (southwest)
Brushy Mound Township (west)
Carlinville Township (northwest)
==References==
==External links==
City-data.com
Illinois State Archives
Townships in Macoupin County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois
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Blanca Guerra (born January 10, 1953) is a Mexican actress born in Mexico City. In 1983 she was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. == Films ==
Venganza en el Valle de las Muñecas (2009)
Bajo la sal (2008)
Cosas insignificantes (2008) - Mara
La zona (2008) - Lucía
Kada kien su karma (2008)
Morirse está en hebreo (2007)
Niñas mal (2007)
Un embrujo (1998)
Violeta (1997)
Salón México (1996)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
La reina de la noche (1994)
Principio y fin (1993)
Danzón (1991)
Morir en el golfo (1990)
Sandino (1990)
Santa Sangre (1989) - Concha
Walker (1987) - Doña Yrena
Días difíciles (1987)
El juego de la muerte (1986)
El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Nocaut (1984)
Eréndira (1983) - Ulysses' mother
Chile Picante (1983)
Burdel (1982)
Mojado Power (1981)
Perro Callejero II (1981)
Las siete cucas (1981)
Perro Callejero (1980)
Estas ruinas que ves (1979)
Mojado Power (1979)
Complot mongol (1978)
Pedro Páramo (1978)
El Coyote y la Bronca (1978)
== Televisión ==
Abismo de pasión (2012) - Alfonsina Mondragon de Arango
Para volver a amar (2011) - Special guest with Rebecca Jones
Alma de hierro (2008-2009) - Elena Jiménez de Hierro
Amarte es mi pecado (2004) - Leonora Madrigal de Horta
Velo de novia (2003-2004) - Ricarda del Alamo
La casa en la playa (2000) - Marina Villareal
La mentira (1998) - Miranda Montesinos
Mujer, casos de la vida real (1997)
Si Dios me quita la vida (1995) - Virginia
Valentina (1993-1994) - Debora Andrade
Al filo de la muerte (1991-1992) - Alina
Nuevo amanecer (1988) - Norma
La hora marcada (1986)
Juana Iris (1985) - Magali
Lo que el cielo no perdona (1982)
Corazones sin rumbo (1980) - Magda
Yara (1979) - Regina
Una mujer (1978) - Mabel
Estas Ruinas que Vez (1978) - Gloria
== References ==
== External links ==
1953 births
Living people
Mexican film actresses
Mexican telenovela actresses
Actresses from Mexico City
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
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In 1964, the British Labour Party retook Westminster after a 13-year run by the Conservatives. The victory was narrow and largely due to the sordid (and sexy) scandals that had rocked the government of Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But the victor of 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was re-elected in convincing fashion just two years later. Wilson's re-election proved a turning point for Britain. His victory closed the debate that had bubbled in the nation from the end of World War II about what kind of government Britain should have. It would be another 13 years before Margaret Thatcher reengaged the nation in that discussion, but by then, the parameters were much more limited. In 1979, there wasn't much question about what kind of country Britain would be, but only how it would be administered. American politics has seen several of these moments, often involving incumbent presidents. The 1832 re-election of Andrew Jackson, the 1936 re-election of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide are all examples of realigning contrast elections. Americans had stark choices between a new idea and an old one, and went for the new stuff with gusto. The Republicans are approaching the coming election gravely because they understand that a second term for Obama will be a ratification of his policies and the long-term narrowing of America's political debate that has been raging for decades about what kind of government America ought to have. But persuadable voters don't generally think in those terms. They tend to be more practical, less ideological and very interested in character and personality. Republicans are running with what they believe is the grim determination merited by serious times, but to voters they will look like a clothesline full of wet blankets. Chris Stirewalt is FOX News" digital politics editor. His political note, Power Play, is available every weekday morning at FOXNEWS.COM.
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As Obama sets course for immigration reform, roadblock appears The president tells lawmakers at a White House meeting he wants to overhaul the system by early next year. But how to regulate the future influx of foreign workers emerges as a sticking point. Reporting from Washington -- President Obama told congressional lawmakers Thursday that he would push for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration system by early next year. But during the White House meeting, a new political obstacle came into view: how to regulate the future influx of foreign workers. The issue was raised by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a principal architect of past attempts to rewrite immigration laws. McCain challenged Obama and other Democrats to stand up to labor unions that are pushing a plan business groups fear could be overly restrictive in admitting future immigrant workers. "I would expect the president of the United States to put his influence on the unions in order to change their position," McCain said following the hourlong session that included Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, senior White House officials and about 30 lawmakers from both parties. McCain's comments came as the White House took pains to foster the impression that the senator would be a partner in striking a deal. Obama sat directly beside McCain, his former campaign rival, during the meeting. And the president praised the senator in his public remarks, saying McCain had "already paid a significant political cost for doing the right thing." Still, Obama offered no commitments on how to handle future immigrant workers, and White House officials said the meeting was not meant to be a forum for policy details. Obama did offer his firmest pledge yet as president to push aggressively for legislation by the end of this year or early 2010, according to meeting participants. The president had been reluctant to offer a timeline. As his administration in recent weeks focused its attention on healthcare and energy, some Latino leaders and immigrant advocates cautioned that delaying on immigration could anger Latino voters who turned out strongly for Obama in last year's election. "What I'm encouraged by is that after all the overheated rhetoric and the occasional demagoguery on all sides around this issue, we've got a responsible set of leaders sitting around the table who want to actively get something done and not put it off until a year, two years, three years, five years from now, but to start working on this thing right now," Obama said. Obama said his administration was "fully behind" an immigration overhaul, and that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would spearhead the effort. One major sticking point is whether the House would pass one of the key provisions demanded by advocates for immigrants -- a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently living in the country. About 40 House Democrats represent conservative swing districts where there is little support for the idea. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told reporters Thursday that "the votes aren't there" to pass such a plan. But it was clear Thursday that regulating the future flow of foreign workers was emerging as a partisan point of contention. Past plans included a temporary guest worker program that was supported both by business groups and immigrant advocates. But many labor unions were wary of that plan. Some union members have argued that guest workers drive down wages and displace American workers. This year, immigrant advocates and unions pulled together to propose that an independent commission study labor market needs and decide how many immigrant workers should be allowed into the country. The commission plan has drawn opposition from business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and McCain on Thursday left no room for compromise in opposing it. Ana Avendano, the AFL-CIO's point person on the issue, said the unions did not intend to give up. "Just because McCain said no [on Thursday] doesn't mean we're not going to continue pushing policies that are good for working people in the United States," she said. Democrats indicated that they are open to compromise in order to bring McCain and other Republicans aboard. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of a Senate committee on immigration, said that "both parties, left and right, are going to have to give in some to get immigration reform." If it is not passed by next year, he added, "we might not be able to do it for a generation."
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Oscar change sparks Puerto Rican ire SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Latino actors and filmmakers are appealing a change to Oscar rules that deny Puerto Rican films from being considered in the Foreign Language category. Esai Morales, Benicio del Toro, Jimmy Smits and Maria Conchita Alonso have joined in a petition calling on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reverse its decision to stop accepting Puerto Rican films in the Foreign Language category because of its status as a U.S. protectorate. "According to the 14th rule for the Foreign Language category, Puerto Rican films qualify because we produce in Spanish and we are geographically and legally outside of the U.S., as resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Academy must honor the category's criteria," Frances Lausell, producer of the film "America," based on Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago's book, said in a statement Wednesday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it stopped accepting Puerto Rican films in the category after 2010 to correct an inconsistency that allowed a U.S. territory to compete in a category meant for countries other than the United States, Variety reported earlier this month. Lausell called the rule "uninformed and a mistake that seems discriminatory against all Puerto Ricans and offensive to the Latino community in general." Lausell and director Sonia Fritz said their submission of "America" as the Puerto Rican entry in the Foreign Language category was denied by the Academy because of the rule change.
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Press releases have indicated that he is pro-choice and supports ending the abstinence-only policy of sex education and increasing the use of contraception to make abortion "less necessary" over time. His voting record since 2003 has reflected mixed ratings from abortion rights groups. He has criticized Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions) for promoting voting machines that fail to leave a traceable paper trail. He was one of the thirty-one who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004. === Foreign policy record ===
Kucinich has criticized the foreign policy of President Bush, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and what he perceives as growing American hostility towards Iran. He has always voted against funding it. In 2005, he voted against the Iran Freedom and Support Act, calling it a "stepping stone to war". He also signed a letter of solidarity with Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 2004. He advocates the abolition of all nuclear weapons, calling on the United States to be the leader in multilateral disarmament. Kucinich has also strongly opposed space-based weapons and has sponsored legislation, HR 2977, banning the deployment and use of space-based weapons. Kucinich advocates US withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) because, in his view, it causes the loss of more American jobs than it creates, and does not provide adequate protections for worker rights and safety and environmental safeguards. He is against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) for the same reason. Kucinich is also in favor of increased dialog with Iran in order to avoid a militaristic confrontation at all costs. He expressed such sentiments at an American Iranian Council conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey which included Chuck Hagel, Javad Zarif, Nicholas Kristof, and Anders Liden to discuss Iranian-American relations, and potential ways to increase dialog in order to avoid conflict. He believes the US should move aggressively to reduce emissions that cause climate change because of global warming and should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, a major international agreement signed by over 160 countries to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by each signatory. Kucinich and Ron Paul are the only two congressional representatives who voted against the
Rothman-Kirk Resolution, which calls on the United Nations to charge Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the genocide convention of the United Nations Charter based on statements that he has made. Kucinich defended his vote by saying that Ahmadinejad's statements could be translated to mean that he wants a regime change in Israel, not death to its people and supporters, and that the resolution is an attempt to beat "the war drum to build support for a US attack on Iran." In October 2009, Kucinich and Ron Paul were the only two congressional representatives to vote against H.Res.175 condemning the government of Iran for “state-sponsored persecution of its Bahá’í minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.”
On January 9, 2009, Kucinich was one of the dissenters in a 390-5 vote with 22 abstentions for a resolution recognizing Israel's "right to defend itself " and reaffirming the U.S.'s support for Israel. The other 4 "no" votes were Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Maxine Waters of California, Nick Rahall of West Virginia, and Ron Paul of Texas. Kucinich is the only congressional representative to vote against the symbolic "9/11 Commemoration" resolution. In a press statement he defended his vote by saying that the bill did not make reference to "the lies that took us into Iraq, the lies that keep us there, the lies that are being used to set the stage for war against Iran and the lies that have undermined our basic civil liberties here at home." In a visit to the rest of the Middle East in September 2007, Kucinich said he did not visit Iraq because "I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation." Kucinich was criticized for his visit to Syria and praise of the President Bashar al-Assad on Syria's national TV. He praised Syria for taking in Iraqi refugees. "What most people are not aware of is that Syria has taken in more than 1.5 million Iraqi refugees," Kucinich said. "The Syrian government has actually shown a lot of compassion in keeping its doors open, and being a host for so many refugees." Despite Kucinich's committed opposition to the war in Iraq, in the days after the September 11, 2001 attacks he did vote to authorize President Bush broad war making powers, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.
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Some Internet users mocked the CCTV report. 'The price of housing, cars and gasoline, Internet service and taxes in China are all more expensive than in other countries,' argued one Sina Weibo user. 'Why can't Starbucks be more expensive, too?' Share or comment on this article
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Oh, hi! Welcome to my user page! If you wish to discuss any of my edits, let's have a chinwag. As you can see from the simplicity of this page I'm a bit of a beginner, so be gentle. ==Wiki code==
·I believe in editing rather than discussing. The only instance where confirring is truly necessary is where two scientific sources contradict each other. Generally, any other dispute should be possible to resolve with a link to a wikipedia guideline page. ·If I've spent 2 hours overhauling an article and you disagree with one sentence, edit the sentence. Please don't revert my edit, it pisses me off. ·Base opinion on currently known information rather than past beliefs. ·Be curious. ·Take pride in this amazing project. 212132131232
==Background==
I'm half British, half Swiss, and was born in Hereford. Both of my parents are teachers, my brother is a sports maniac. I'm in uni studying Maths. ==Interests==
Videogames, art, writing. I research all sciences, politics, philosophy, counterculture, history, etc. ==Beliefs==
I'm an atheist and an anarchist, although left wing when I need to be. I hold a contempt for the ego and for money. I believe there are too many labels to society. I'm extremely curious about the world, and have the utmost respect to science, its methods and its technologies. However, the more I've found out about how society works and how it interacts with the earth, the more I've become pessimistic about our future. I'm determined to change the world as most and as best I can. Change the world or go home. Specifically, I respect vegetarians and wish I had the effort to become one. I'm almost completely sure that the september 11 attacks were not commited by Al-Qaida (if it exists). We're the first part of the internet revolution, and we are initiating a global shedding of the old superstitions and prejudices. We're children of history.
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Obama lifts Bush ban on stem cell research President Barack Obama lifted a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, lauding potential medical breakthroughs and a new era for US science shorn of political ideology. The president signed an executive order reversing predecessor George W. Bush's ban, which critics say hampered the fight to find treatments for grave diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes. Warning that scientists were deserting the United States for other nations, Obama said "medical miracles" come about only through painstaking research and rejected the "false choice" between sound science and moral values. "When government fails to make these investments, opportunities are missed. Promising avenues go unexplored," he said at a White House ceremony attended by US lawmakers, religious leaders and scientists including three Nobel laureates. "Ultimately, I cannot guarantee that we will find the treatments and cures we seek. No president can promise that," Obama said. "But I can promise that we will seek them -- actively, responsibly, and with the urgency required to make up for lost ground," he said, paying tribute to research advocates such as late Superman actor Christopher Reeve. Obama directed the National Institutes of Health to formulate guidelines within 120 days on how to proceed with federal research on lines of stem cells procured from private laboratories such as fertility clinics. His order cannot affect a congressional ban on federal money being used directly to create new stem cells, which are primitive cells from early-stage embryos capable of developing into almost every tissue of the body. Obama, who has already broken with Bush in other areas such as climate change, endangered species and family planning, also issued a presidential memorandum "restoring scientific integrity to government decision making." In a clear rebuke of his predecessor, the president ordered officials to ensure that "we base our public policies on the soundest science," and appoint scientific advisors based on expertise and "not their politics or ideology." Obama said his administration was opening up a "new front" for US scientific endeavor -- but would not permit stem cell research to stray into human cloning, which he said "has no place in our society, or any society." There was fierce fire from social conservatives and right-to-life groups, who back research on cells taken from human adults rather than embryos. House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said Obama had undermined "protections for innocent life, further dividing our nation at a time when we need greater unity to tackle the challenges before us." US Catholic Cardinal Justin Rigali called Obama's announcement "a sad victory of politics over science and ethics." But veteran Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, who is battling a malignant brain tumor, said Obama had "righted an immense wrong done to the hopes of millions of patients." "The president's action today unlocks the enormous potential of life-sustaining medical progress against a wide range of serious illnesses and injuries, all within strong ethical guidelines," he said. Reeve Foundation president Peter Wilderotter said that "with a stroke of his pen," Obama had tapped into the will of most Americans for potentially life-saving research. "By removing politics from science, President Obama has freed researchers to explore these remarkable stem cells, learn from them and possibly develop effective therapies using them," he said. Bush barred federal funding from supporting work on new lines of stem cells derived from human embryos in 2001, allowing research only on a small number of embryonic stem cell lines that existed at the time. The former president argued that using human embryos for scientific research -- which often involves their destruction -- crossed a moral barrier and urged scientists to consider alternatives. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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Mount Hood Parkdale is the official United States Postal Service-designated name of the combined post offices of the communities of Mount Hood and Parkdale in the U.S. state of Oregon. Its ZIP code is 97041. Unincorporated communities in Hood River County, Oregon
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Genevieve Hughes Houghton is known for as one of three women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Rider and a staff member of CORE. She grew up in the upper middle class suburb community of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hughes studied at Cornell and upon her graduation, moved to New York City to work as a stockbroker. In the late 1950s she became involved within the New York chapter of CORE, and she organized a boycott of dime stores that worked with chain restaurants that resisted the sit-in movements down south. Hughes started to become ostracized from her colleagues on Wall Street, and she decided to work full time to end racism (Arsenault, p. 99). In fall of 1960 she took the position as CORE's field secretary and, in doing so, she was the first woman to serve on CORE's Field Staff. John Lewis spoke of her, "as graceful and gentle as her name" but, "not at all afraid to speak up when she had strong feelings about something" (Arsenault p. 99). When explaining her decision to join the Freedom Rides she said, "I figured southern women should be represented so the south and the nation would realize all southern people do not think alike" (Arsenault, p. 99). During the journey from Washington, DC to New Orleans, she and the other Freedom Riders encountered many acts of violence towards them, particularly in Anniston, Alabama, where their Greyhound bus was engulfed in flames by angry mobs. She recounts her experience in the Anniston hospital,
"There was no doctor at the hospital, only a nurse. They had me breathe pure oxygen, but that only burned my throat and did not relieve the coughing. I was burning hot and my clothes were a wet mess., Ed and Bert were brought in, choking. We all lay on our beds and coughed. Finally, a woman doctor came in- she had to look up smoke poisoning before treating us. They brought in the Negro man who had been in the back of the bus with me. I pointed to him and told them to take care of him. But they did not bring him into our emergency room. I understand that they did not do anything at all for Hank. Thirteen in all were brought in, and three were admitted: Ed, the Negro man, and myself. They gave me a room and I slept. When I woke up, the nurse asked me if I could talk with the FBI. The FBI did not care about us, but only the bombing" (Arsenault, p. 146). == References ==
. Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Print. "American Experience." Freedom Riders. PBS. Television. Gross, Terry. "Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961: NPR. NPR : National Public Radio, Web. 08 Apr. 2011. Unseen. Unforgotten. Editorial. The Birmingham News Birmingham '', 26 Feb. 2006. Alabama Local News - Al.com. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. Freedom Rides of 1961. "History and Timeline" Web
Living people
American civil rights activists
Stockbrokers
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CNS demyelinating autoimmune diseases are autoimmune diseases which primarily affect the central nervous system. Examples include:
Diffuse cerebral sclerosis of Schilder
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Multiple sclerosis (though ethiology is unknown, it is sure that immune system is involved)
Transverse myelitis
Neuromyelitis optica
==See also==
Idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating diseases - A wider group of diseases which includes also the non-autoimmune demyelinating diseases. Demyelinating diseases - Group including them all, regardless of their autoimmunity or idiopathic and inflammatory status. Autoimmune_diseases
Demyelinating diseases of CNS
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==The Forum (Norwich, England)==
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page The Forum (Norwich, England). Your test worked, and has been or will soon be removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. -- Merope Talk to me/Review me
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Video: The widest mouth in the world The 20-year-old from Sambizanga in Angola is able to fit a can of soda in his mouth, sideways. Joaquim, also known as Chiquinho, recently appeared on an Italian TV show where he placed and then removed a can of coke from his mouth 14 times in one minute. After finding out that he would feature in the Book of Guinness World Records 2011, Chiquinho said that it was "a dream come true."
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Bishop Says London Protesters Likely to Move On The Bishop of London says anti-capitalist demonstrators camped outside the city's iconic St. Paul's Cathedral have said they will likely move on. Both the church and the local authority, the City of London Corporation, have launched legal action to seek to clear the scores of tents from a pedestrianized square and footpath outside the cathedral.
Supporters of the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest take part in a mass meditation on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. The senior St. Paul's Cathedral priest who welcomed anti-capitalist demonstrators to camp outside the London landmark resigned Thursday, saying he feared moves to evict the protesters could end in violence. Other senior clergy and politicians urged the campers to leave peacefully, as the cathedral announced it would reopen to the public Friday after a weeklong closure triggered by the demonstrators' tents. (AP photo/Matt Dunham) Close Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, held talks Sunday with demonstrators, who were inspired by New York's Occupy Wall Street movement. He told Sky News television that the protesters had said "we shan't be here forever." The church reopened Friday after being closed for a week on health and safety grounds, the first time the 300-year-old church had closed since German planes bombed the city during World War II.
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'Mercy killing' mother is jailed for life A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his "living hell" was told today she must serve at least nine years in jail. Frances Inglis, 57, was given a life sentence for killing 22-year-old son Tom after he suffered severe head injuries when he fell out of a moving ambulance. She gave a tearful and emotionally-charged account to jurors of how she had "no choice" and had done it "with love" to end his suffering. But a judge instructed them to put emotion aside and told them no one had the "unfettered right" to take the law into their own hands. Inglis, of Dagenham, east London, was found guilty today of both murder and attempted murder. She first tried to end his life in September 2007 and was charged with trying to kill him before going back and succeeding in November 2008. Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, told her: "We can all understand the emotion and the unhappiness that you were experiencing. "The fact is that you knew that you intended to do a terrible thing. You knew you were breaking society's conventions, you knew you were breaking the law, and you knew the consequences." Inglis, wearing a green cardigan, sat quietly in the dock occasionally looking up and nodding barely perceptibly as the judge outlined what she did. He said: "However we look at all this, this was a calculated and consistent course of criminal conduct." She believed that her son would not recover following his accident in July 2007, and the judge accepted her view was "sincerely held." "You were a devoted mother and highly regarded for your work in the community," he added. "This is a highly unusual and very sad case. I accept that his life and yours were changed on July 7. "What you did was to take upon yourself what you thought your son's wishes would have been, to relieve him from what you described as a living hell. "But you cannot take the law into your own hands and you cannot take away life, however compelling you think the reason. You have to take responsibility for what you did." The judge told Inglis she must serve a minimum of nine years in jail, less the 423 days she has already spent in custody. He thanked the jury for their work on the "harrowing" two-week trial and told them: "You could not have had a more difficult case." Earlier there had been weeping and cries of "shame on you" from the public gallery at the Old Bailey as the jury returned their 10-2 majority verdicts after more than six hours of deliberations. After the verdicts Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, said there was no other case of a similar kind to give any guidance on sentencing. The court heard that Inglis had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and had a history of depression. Sasha Wass QC, defending, said: "Clearly Mrs Inglis loved her son, she was devoted to her son." Inglis had also spent much of her life in "altruistic employment" as a voluntary carer, she said. "She was a woman who in her life, until the events of July 7 altered her life completely, showed great compassion for the vulnerable and the disabled." The judge said that because of the circumstances of the case he was able to "make a reduction well outside the usual limits" of the minimum term she must serve - for which the starting point was 15 years. During the trial Inglis wept as she described her despair at the "horror, pain and tragedy" of her son's helpless condition. "For Tom to live that living hell - I couldn't leave my child like that," she told the Old Bailey. She admitted ending her son's life but said: "I did it with love in my heart, for Tom, so I don't see it as murder." Miss Moore told jurors: "It would be a hard-hearted person who didn't have sympathy for her position. "It is a tragic case but it is not a defence to murder to end someone's life to put them out of their misery." Inglis, who was a carer for disabled children, was training as a mental health nurse at South Bank University at the time of her son's accident in July 2007 but left the course two months later. She had three sons with her partner Alex, a lorry driver, during a relationship of nearly 20 years, but the couple have been estranged since 1995. Inglis had for part of their schooling taught the boys at home rather than send them to school, showing an apparent reluctance to let them out of her control according to a police source.
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Each shelf has an even load capacity of more than 350kg (800lb), ample for the heaviest of kitchen items. Each wine shelf holds nine bottles, with additional bottle storage on top. The unit also comes with six steel butcher's hooks to hang pots and pans and assembles in minutes. Dimensions: 92cm wide x 36cm deep x 188cm high. Visit www.theholding company.co.uk/kitchenrack or telephone 020 8445 2888 and quote "Kitchen Rack." For free postage and packing on this item quote "PPFOC." Offer ends November 23. Build a second home - on your existing plot The Devon-based company Soutra Timber Frame produces attractive coach houses, annexes and other outbuildings at economical prices. It specialises in robust timber-frame constructions that fully comply with all the current building regulations. Adding value to your home, they can be used in a variety of different ways. They are an ideal hideout for the children, a space to work from, and can also help to house elderly relatives close-by. Constructed from low-cost, green and durable timber frames, Soutra constructions are stylish, and can also be clad with brick, stone or timber. All you need is about the space of a good-sized double garage. Prices range from £30,000 for a one-bedroom annexe to £65,000 for a two-storey, two-bedroomed micro-home. For more information, call 01404 841130 or visit www.soutratimberframe.co.uk A fruitful combination Store fruit, vegetables or sweet treats in this practical apple storage rack from the Burford Garden Company. This hardwood rack is offered at 25 per cent off to Telegraph readers for £221.25* and it comes fully assembled. Visit www.burford.co.uk for more exclusive offers for Telegraph readers and quote "Burford26" to claim your discount online. Alternatively, call 01993 823 117 or visit the store at Shilton Road, Burford, Oxfordshire Offer ends November 7 or while stocks last. *Delivery fee £5.95 Giveaway of the week With winter looming, the days are drawing in, and nights are getting longer. At this time of year, a restful night is essential for our health and wellbeing. To help you enjoy a good night's sleep, Warren Evans, famed for its handcrafted beds and supportive mattresses, has a fabulous offer. It is giving one lucky Telegraph reader the chance to win an FSC-certified, wooden Sunday bed and Sienna mattress worth more than £1,000. Also included is a 50g bag of limited-edition Warren Evans tea, a delicious infusion blended by Yumchaa. To enter, text "bed" to 83222 (texts cost 50p plus standard network rate). To enter online and for terms and conditions, visit www.homesandbargains.co.uk/comps. Competition closes on November 23. For more information, visit www.warrenevans.com For more fabulous homeware bargains visit www.homesandbargains.co.uk and to find a recommended tradesman near you, visit www.problemsolved.co.uk (020 7290 6060). The companies listed here are wholly independent of Telegraph Media Group Limited. While care is taken to establish that they are bona fide, we recommend that you carry out your own checks before entering into any agreement.
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Swansea 3-1 Doncaster Swansea ended Donacaster's eight-match unbeaten run thanks to goals from Jason Scotland and a brace from Jordi Gomez. James Coppinger had put Doncaster ahead on 11 minutes after Dorus de Vries could only parry Paul Heffernan's shot. James O'Connor bundled stand-in Swansea captain Alan Tate over in the box, and Scotland slotted home from the spot. Gomez's deflected shot from the edge of the box sealed the win, Richie Wellens then sent off for a second yellow and Gomez blasting in an injury-time shot.
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Printer Friendly Dial 999 and call up the search teams. Posted missing, days before the European elections, is a satisfactory cliché for English identity. The Welsh have their leeks, the Irish their leprechaun outfits, the Scots their kilts, the Germans their lederhosen. And the English, well...the English don't really have anything, do they? We seek it here, we seek it there, but all that is to be found right now is the squalor of the BNP and the jelly-bellied flag-flappers of English First and UKIP, all seizing the iconography of Englishness in the hope that votes will follow. You know things are bad when the left-of-centre Institute for Public Policy Research comes out in favour of reclaiming the English flag and promoting St George's Day as a public celebration. Yes, you read that correctly. Those who would once have broken out in hives at the very mention of the patron saint are now recommending festivals in his honour. If the thought of the left-wing intelligentsia gathering to wave St George's crosses, watch terrier racing and applaud welly-boot throwing makes you smile, you're not alone. But the IPPR has understood finally that the BNP has its tank on the long-neglected lawn of Englishness and is capitalising on grievance- fuelled politics. It urges mainstream parties to "combat the insinuation that Englishness is forbidden in our cultural and political life." The research paper, by Michael Kenny and Guy Lodge, acknowledges "a growing sense that Englishness is disapproved of by the politicial elite and most public authorities." Dislike of English symbolism and the public celebration of English traditions, they add, has become prominent in recent years. Kenny adds: "It is imperative that we do not let Englishness be tainted by the BNP and other opportunistic far-right parties. A sense of pride in being English and a growing wish to celebrate our English heritage and culture are positive developments that should be... encouraged by the main political parties." Hallelujah, some might say. This is revolutionary stuff for the ideologues who have regarded Englishness as shorthand for unreconstructed brutalism. Things are easier on the Celtic fringe, where national identity is tediously omnipresent. But in England, far too few recognise that identity is an infinitely more subtle, modest thing, so easy to mock and so much harder to protect. After years of Englishness being unfashionable, there is suddenly a realisation that identity is precious and rather fragile - quite how precious nobody will realise it is until it is lost, least of all the proponents of Labour's "intolerant centralism," as the IPPR describes it. But there are two main problems for those who seek to reverse the neglect and embrace populist Englishness. One is to define it: to move beyond the groaning old clichés about morris dancing or the tattooed white working class. For me, Englishness resides in character, not anything physical. It is an indefinable stew of tolerance, decency, resourcefulness and humour that only manifests itself when called upon. Englishness means being determinedly unshowy; modest to the point, often, of crashing dullness. Englishness means possessing a deep sense of fairness, usually completely inarticulated, and a prize-winning ability for a good moan. Englishness may be vulgar: whether it be shell suits and pitbulls; or monogrammed initials on your well cover - God bless you, Sir Peter Viggers - but on the whole it would rather do you a good turn than a bad. The next issue is how to nurture this identity and protect it from extremist exploitation. The IPPR recommends measures to recognise English cultural expressions - such as making St George's Day a holiday, festivals, encouraging the use of an English national anthem at sporting events, but it adds "for such reforms to be credible they cannot simply be imposed top-down by the State." You bet they can't. It will take more than corny festivals - can you imagine how dull they would be? - to nurture Englishness, though a day off, a bit of respect, and some economic realignment would be a good start. Future governments, if they want to control racist attitudes, must engage with the arguments and do some listening. They also must tackle the issue of England's democratic deficit. Labour can't make up its mind - and may now never get the chance to choose - between creating a tier of English regional government and a policy of (centrally controlled) localism. The Conservatives have espoused "English votes for English law" in recent manifestos, but do not favour an iconic separate English parliament.
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When Obama Answers for His Surrogates At times in his presidency, Barack Obama has had to act like a janitor, cleaning up the mess spilled by people who work for him. Sometimes it's low-level spokespeople, and other times it's his vice president. Here's a run down the aisle of the allies who have prompted Obama to control the unforced damage. P.J. Crowley Job: Profuse spokesman at the State Department What he did wrong: Publicly criticized the way the government was treating Bradley Manning, the soldier detained for allegedly providing classified documents to WikiLeaks What Obama said: Obama was actually asked about Crowley's comments at a press conference. Obama said he'd asked the Pentagon whether Manning's detention was appropriate, and that the Pentagon said the terms were meeting basic standards. What happened: Crowley resigned Hilary Rosen Job: Democratic strategist, working mom What she did wrong: Insulted Ann Romney for not having a job. What Obama said: Being a mom is the toughest job, and "anybody who would argue otherwise, I think, probably needs to rethink their statement." What happened: Rosen apologized Cory Booker Job: Snow shoveler, impromptu firefighter, mayor of Newark What he did wrong: Said Obama's anti-Mitt Romney ads about the presumptive Republican nominee's Bain Capital experience made him "uncomfortable." What Obama said: "[The issue of what Romney did at Bain] is not a distraction. This is what this campaign is going to be about." What happened: Booker talked with the Obama campaign and then published a video more on message with the talking points. Ben LaBolt Job: Mouthpiece for Obama What he did wrong: Said Booker hadn't spoken with the campaign before making that video; Booker said he had spoken with the campaign. LaBolt says he didn't speak inaccurately, because while a Democratic official did speak to Booker, the official didn't ask Booker to make the video. What Obama said: Nothing, yet. Joe Biden Job: Vice president, Amtrak spokesman What he did wrong: Endorsed gay marriage What Obama said: He endorsed gay marriage What happened: See above
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Three athletes (two men and one woman) from Tunisia competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. ==See also==
Tunisia at the Paralympics
Tunisia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
== References ==
Nations at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
1996
Summer Paralympics
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A Government in Search of a Country ISTANBUL - Pushing aside international skepticism, the Syrian opposition gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 18 to take the first steps toward setting up a government to rival that of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. In a meeting that stretched into the early hours of March 19, they finally settled on an interim prime minister: Ghassan Hitto, a 50-year-old technology executive who built his career in Dallas, Texas. Hitto's task is nothing less than the formation of an interim government that can establish itself on the ground in northern Syria, administer local services, and provide a viable alternative to Assad's rule. He has his work cut out for him: Not only is the opposition starting from scratch in building government institutions, his selection provoked a mutiny among certain members, who see him as the handpicked choice of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which they fear is trying to dominate the opposition. At least 12 members of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, which aims to be an umbrella group for the anti-Assad forces, announced they had suspended their membership following Hitto's selection. One of those figures is Suheir Atassi, a vice president of the coalition and a leading secular activist: "I won't be a woman who they think decorates their conferences and their meetings while they decide and argue about fateful things," she wrote in a Facebook post. Another member who resigned, Walid al-Bunni, told Foreign Policy that Hitto was installed at the direction of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. "That one being chosen as prime minister was chosen without anyone knowing about him," he said. "I think this is some kind of humiliation for Syria." It's true that Hitto, an ethnic Kurd who immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, had not previously been one of the opposition coalition's more visible members. His LinkedIn profile identifies him as a employee of the mobile communication firm Integrated Telecom Solutions, and after the 9/11 attacks he advocated on behalf of Muslim-Americans with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The coalition's media team had identified him to journalists in the days before the election as the likely victor, due to his effectiveness in providing humanitarian aid inside Syria. Hitto became directly involved in the uprising in November, when he was appointed deputy head of the coalition's humanitarian relief unit. In his first speech after being selected, Hitto promised to return all Syrian refugees "to the freed provinces," and install an interim government to handle local administrative issues there. Even if Hitto can win the support of the dissident coalition members, he still has a daunting task before him. The interim government aims to provide humanitarian aid, medical assistance, electricity, water, communications, courts, and education in the rebel-held areas. Whether it can do so depends on its ability to establish a foothold within Syria, and gain major international backing for its efforts. While pledges of financial support have been made by a number of countries, little has been received, according to coalition members. Hitto could see his support within the coalition fade quickly if he cannot show progress in developing functional institutions. Coalition members already want to hear about his specific goals: "He should come back to us with his time frame and his action plan," said Hisham Marwah, a member of the coalition's legal committee. "Otherwise we should nominate someone else." Hitto's next step is to choose a cabinet and create the basic infrastructure of government. According to a timeline sketched out in several of the coalition's working papers, he must appoint ministers and form a temporary government within about two weeks, Marwah said. Members of the coalition have contemplated the creation of seven to 11 ministries, including a Defense Ministry, an Interior Ministry, and a ministry devoted to the management of energy resources. Hitto will also "communicate with the revolutionary powers to see if they are ready to support the government," said Samir Nachar, a coalition member, describing how Hitto will have to move quickly to connect with local committees, rebel fighters, and activists inside Syria. "He will be given a month to measure the support." It's unclear, however, whether Assad's grip over northern Syria has loosened to the extent that an interim government can operate effectively. Despite assurances from coalition members that the north is "liberated," the regime still carries out frequent airstrikes, and fires shells and missiles into rebel territory. On March 19, the Assad regime and the rebels each blamed each other for launching a chemical weapons attack in Khan al-Asal, a village near the northern city of Aleppo.
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Does health regenerate like Call of Duty or does it come from "pickups" or "self-heals" like Battlefield? Is there sway on sniper scopes like most modern FPS's? So many unanswered questions. As a whole, this review should be an objective encyclopedic entry instead of a review or advertisement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FlashHawk4 (talk • contribs)
==Removal of dedicated servers has not happened==
It was a scheduled downtime to upgrade them, and they are back up, as I am currently playing on the KAOS ranked servers right at this moment. Edited to remove the misinformed info. == GameTap unlimited availability ==
As of latest GameTap now has Frontlines for their premium subscribers. Maybe add a note for people who want to try it on the cheap. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparcdr (talk • contribs)
== nFusion Interactive added under developers ==
I have added them under the developer category since they were hired by THQ to work with KAOS on the game and also had created the Frontlines: Fuel of War Multiplayer Demo. -Vincetti (talk)
== Massive steaming pile of OR in the synopsis ==
"The game also contains some political commentary on how much wars cost in terms of fuel; how in certain occasions it can be more than the actual amount secured. It is also interesting to note the gung-ho mentality of the Western Coallition; zealous and blind to the war's effects. Hints of fanatical militarism can be picked up from in-game commentary and the unconventional objectives making one wonder if the cause is entirely just. Nor does the Western Coallition seem to hesitate in taking down massive amounts of armed civilians as they tear through ruins in Moscow. It brings reminescence to such media as Starship Troopers. However, it is uncertain whether the developers intended the game to be a subtle anti-war statement by means of in-game dialogue and with a less-than-subtle pro-imperialist portrayal of the Western Coallition, or if they simply haven't thought this through. The prior seems more likely if one is to acknowledge various hints and pointers dropped, such as a soldier's questioning as to why they always end up in the desert, the constant build-up of aggression displayed by the protagonists in both demeanor and narration, disregard for humanity (a hypothetical example could be the dropping of tactical nukes on their own forces in order to instigate further promotion of the war against the Red Star Alliance) and the loudspeakers in the final mission claiming the invaders are fighting an unlawful and immoral war halfway across the world against a union that strives for global interest as opposed to the Western Coallition's ideals for their own society which would mean "the death of the human species." The Reporter seems to hold a neutral aura amidst the two sides as a buffer for thought to the player, i.e. : Upon completing a mission in Russia, he notes the exceptional death and destruction caused by the Western Alliance, to which a soldier narcissistically replies: "Yep, mission accomplished." This could be a reference to the infamous speech given by George W. Bush in 2003. The name Stray Dogs could also imply the fact that soldiers are blindly sent to war by warmongering commanders and greedy governments." Unsourced philosophical musings of one editor about the game that aren't even in the right section if they were sourced. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Say Shalom!
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All My Sons Moving of Jacksonville Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Its Customers JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jacksonville Moving Company, All My Sons Moving hails as one of the top movers in Jacksonville, offering stellar customer service to its Jacksonville community. "We treat our clients like family, it's that old fashioned care our company was founded upon," shared a representative of the Jacksonville Movers. As far as Jacksonville moving companies go, this one is experiencing significant growth and attributes it to the degree of quality service they give. "We are delighted to have a presence in this area, and it shows in the level of white-glove service we provide to our customers...they keep coming back," concluded an All My Sons Moving representative. About All My Sons Moving and Storage Headquartered in Dallas, TX, All My Sons Moving and Storage services 23 states nationwide. Founded in 1995 and beginning with one location, All My Sons Moving and Storage pioneered the concept of providing a friend in the moving business. All My Sons Moving and Storage recently opened their first location in Mexico City, taking their commitment to quality service for an affordable price international. More information about All My Sons Moving and its services can be obtained through the All My Sons Moving Web site. Information on Pro Bono Moving Services Go to All My Sons Moving Charities Visit All My Sons Moving on Wikipedia at All My Sons Moving Wiki For information about Moving Careers go to All My Sons Moving Careers Book your move with All My Sons Moving online today at All My Sons Moving For Moving Reviews go to All My Sons Moving Reviews For Moving Supplies go to All My Sons Moving Supplies You can become a fan of the page by going to All My Sons Moving on Facebook You can read the Tweets by going to All My Sons Moving Tweets For Moving News go to All My Sons Moving News For information on all our sites go to All My Sons Moving SOURCE All My Sons Moving and Storage
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Pension reform in California: Mayors to the rescue CALIFORNIA'S Bay Area, one of the most left-wing parts of the United States, is not the first place you might expect to see a backlash against organised labour. But there is no better way to irritate a San Franciscan than to take away his public transport. On October 18th workers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system began their second strike of the year, for four days forcing tens of thousands of commuters to suffer the indignities of sitting on a bus or shivering on a ferry. One poll found that 77% of locals, including 72% of Democrats, opposed the walkout. The strike had more to do with the rules governing arcane matters like overtime and pay stubs than with wages or benefits. But many Bay Area locals have been surprised to learn during the course of the row that BART's well-paid workers contribute nothing to their pensions. (Under a new contract, this will change.) The generosity of public pensions troubles progressives elsewhere in the state, too. Last week the Democratic mayors of four Californian cities (and one Republican) unveiled a reform they hope to place on the ballot next year. If voters approve the Pension Reform Act of 2014, public employers will be able to change the pension arrangements of employees for future work (benefits already earned will not be touched). Federal law empowers private employers to do this, but the "Californian rule" of case law, which several other states have copied, means that once a public worker signs a contract his or her pension arrangements are guaranteed for life. The effort is led by Chuck Reed, mayor of San Jose, another Bay Area liberal bastion. Mr Reed has become a standard-bearer for pension reform in California after winning 69% support for a measure he placed before his city's voters last year. That reform, which gave city workers a choice between higher contributions or lower benefits, is snarled up in the courts: a situation Mr Reed hopes his measure will enable other municipalities to avoid. The mayor makes a straightforward progressive argument. Pensions are eating into government budgets, and residents are losing out: more than one-fifth of San Jose's general fund goes to retirement costs. In a state where Republicans wield as much power as a dead lemur, this is how debates over fiscal responsibility are won, and some polling suggests the argument will find receptive ears. But it will also face determined opposition. The measure must first attract over 800,000 signatures to reach the ballot. Assuming it gets that far, California's deep-pocketed public-employee unions will dig in to stop it becoming law. And if it does pass, says Steven Maviglio of Californians for Retirement Security, a lobby group, "You can bet that folks will use any means necessary to make sure it's not implemented." Unions think a modest statewide pension reform, applying only to new recruits, that passed last year is change enough. Mr Reed will need some wealthy backers of his own; as he acknowledges, "You can't do this with bake sales." But the politics will be challenging, too. It is notable that the reform effort is led by mayors; Democrats in the state legislature, many with strong union links, are less exposed to the consequences of ballooning pension costs and some will oppose reform. (None of the local representatives surveyed by the San Francisco Chronicle said he or she backed a ban on future BART strikes.) Dan Schnur at the University of Southern California notes that ballot measures in California that attract serious opposition rarely pass: last year unions handily saw off a Republican-backed proposal that would have reduced their ability to raise funds. If the reformers win in California the reverberations will be felt elsewhere. California-style tussles over prospective pension rights, says Josh Rauh at Stanford University, are one of the three battlegrounds for state and local governments facing pension shortfalls, along with the cost-of-living adjustments applied to pension benefits and the effect of municipal bankruptcies on pensioners. Many of the leading reformers are Democrats. Not, perhaps, what they entered politics for, but a worthy progressive battle nonetheless.
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Design space: McDonald's uniforms - FT.com Product: McDonald's uniforms
Design: Hemingway Design
Territory: UK McDonald's redesign of its UK branches to look more like restaurants than
fast-food outlets, and the switch from bright red and yellow to more muted tones, has widened to include what the staff wear. More On this story IN Management For the new-look uniform, McDonald's turned to Hemingway Design, set up by fashion stalwarts Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway. In response to the colour scheme of the new interiors the designers replaced the black and brown of the old uniforms with aubergine, dark green and mustard. They also ditched the baseball cap for a shorter-peaked cap like those traditionally worn by bakers or staff in an Italian pizzeria. Managers" suits are more formal, with sharper tailoring and subtle detailing, skinny ties for men and pencil skirts for women. All 87,500 UK staff will wear the outfits by the end of the year. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012. You may share using our article tools.
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There is evidence that ocean circulation patterns are disrupted by glaciations. Since the Earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we are currently in a glacial minimum of a glaciation. Such a period between glacial maxima is known as an interglacial. The glacials and interglacials also coincided with changes in the Earth’s orbit called Milankovitch cycles. The Earth has been in an interglacial period known as the Holocene for more than 11,000 years. It was conventional wisdom that the typical interglacial period lasts about 12,000 years, but this has been called into question recently. For example, an article in Nature argues that the current interglacial might be most analogous to a previous interglacial that lasted 28,000 years. Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now, even in absence of human-made global warming (see Milankovitch cycles). Moreover, anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases might outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues. == Positive and negative feedbacks in glacial periods ==
Each glacial period is subject to positive feedback which makes it more severe and negative feedback which mitigates and (in all cases so far) eventually ends it. === Positive feedback processes ===
Ice and snow increase the Earth's albedo, i.e. they make it reflect more of the sun's energy and absorb less. Hence, when the air temperature decreases, ice and snow fields grow, and this continues until competition with a negative feedback mechanism forces the system to an equilibrium. Also, the reduction in forests caused by the ice's expansion increases albedo. Another theory proposed by Ewing and Donn in 1956 hypothesized that an ice-free Arctic Ocean leads to increased snowfall at high latitudes. When low-temperature ice covers the Arctic Ocean there is little evaporation or sublimation and the polar regions are quite dry in terms of precipitation, comparable to the amount found in mid-latitude deserts. This low precipitation allows high-latitude snowfalls to melt during the summer. An ice-free Arctic Ocean absorbs solar radiation during the long summer days, and evaporates more water into the Arctic atmosphere. With higher precipitation, portions of this snow may not melt during the summer and so glacial ice can form at lower altitudes and more southerly latitudes, reducing the temperatures over land by increased albedo as noted above. Furthermore, under this hypothesis the lack of oceanic pack ice allows increased exchange of waters between the Arctic and the North Atlantic Oceans, warming the Arctic and cooling the North Atlantic. (Current projected consequences of global warming include a largely ice-free Arctic Ocean within 5–20 years, see Arctic shrinkage.) Additional fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic during a warming cycle may also reduce the global ocean water circulation (see Shutdown of thermohaline circulation). Such a reduction (by reducing the effects of the Gulf Stream) would have a cooling effect on northern Europe, which in turn would lead to increased low-latitude snow retention during the summer. It has also been suggested that during an extensive glacial, glaciers may move through the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, extending into the North Atlantic ocean far enough to block the Gulf Stream. === Negative feedback processes ===
Ice sheets that form during glaciations cause erosion of the land beneath them. After some time, this will reduce land above sea level and thus diminish the amount of space on which ice sheets can form. This mitigates the albedo feedback, as does the lowering in sea level that accompanies the formation of ice sheets. Another factor is the increased aridity occurring with glacial maxima, which reduces the precipitation available to maintain glaciation. The glacial retreat induced by this or any other process can be amplified by similar inverse positive feedbacks as for glacial advances. According to research published in Nature Geoscience, human emissions of carbon dioxide will defer the next ice age. Researchers used data on the Earth's orbit to find the historical warm interglacial period that looks most like the current one and from this have predicted that the next ice age would usually begin within 1,500 years. They go on to say that emissions have been so high that it will not. == Causes of ice ages ==
The causes of ice ages are not fully understood for both the large-scale ice age periods and the smaller ebb and flow of glacial–interglacial periods within an ice age.
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Shantakumaran Sreesanth denies spot-fixing in Indian T20 Indian fast bowler Santhakumaran Sreesanth, pictured playing against Australia, has been arrested for alleged spot-fixing in the IPL Source: AFP INDIAN Test player Shantakumaran Sreesanth has denied spot-fixing after being arrested in a scandal in the cash-rich Indian Premier League, while he and two teammates from his Rajasthan-based team remain in police custody. "I'm innocent and have done no wrong," Sreesanth said in a statement released through his lawyer. "I've never indulged in any spot-fixing." Sreesanth said he was confident he would be proved innocent even though police claim to have enough evidence against the players. "As a cricketer, I've learnt to take knocks along with accolades, in my stride," he said. "I recognise that I'm going through a tough period in my life. I have utmost faith in our judicial process and I'm confident that, with time, I'll be proved innocent and my honour and dignity will be vindicated and restored." Sreesanth was arrested last week along with fellow bowlers Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan and provisionally suspended by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). They are accused of conceding above a certain number of runs per over in exchange for up to 6 million rupees ($110,000) each from gamblers. Police claim they have evidence to prove the allegations, including recorded phone conversations with bookmakers and have also recovered two million rupees ($36,500) from a kit bag belonging to Chandila. More than a dozen bookmakers and their associates have been arrested across the country over the past week, which include three domestic-level cricketers and Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa, who has been shown by television channels as watching an IPL game in the company of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's wife Sakshi. Meanwhile, two Public Interest Litigations (PIL) have been filed in different courts, asking the government to take over private bodies BCCI and IPL arguing that they have failed to promote the game. The Delhi High Court said on Wednesday it will hear a petition filed by a non-government organisation on August 23, while the Madras High Court has asked the sports ministry, BCCI president Narainswamy Srinivasan and IPL commissioner Rajeev Shukla to respond by June 6 to a case filed by an advocate. Earlier on Tuesday, the Supreme Court had asked the BCCI to complete its internal investigation within two weeks after a similar PIL filed in New Delhi asked for the IPL be banned.
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Union Pacific Railroad diesel-electric streamliner M-10002, photographed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 7, 1937 by Otto Perry. The M-10002 seems to have a second power car of one of the M-10003-M-10007 trains in the set, possibly due to failure or refurbishment of the original car. Permission was requested and received by Morven. == Fair use in List of GM-EMD locomotives ==
It is believed that this image qualifies under the fair use guidelines in the List of GM-EMD locomotives article because:
The image is a picture of one of the trains described by the article. The image depicts the train as it appeared in 1937. No free equivalent can be created because images of the train can no longer be obtained. Train has been scrapped. Union Pacific Railroad images
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I believe the (linguistically) correct term is Afrikaan, but I don't think that term is very widely used in everyday language. Elf-friend
In Afrikaans "Afrikaans" and "Afrikaner" mean "African". Compare "Suid-Afrikaans(e)" = "South African" (adjective) and "Suid-Afrikaner" = "South African" (somebody from South Africa), or even "Amerikaner" = "American" and "Amerikaans(e)" = "American" (adjective). If the terms "Afrikaner" and "Afrikaans" were not used in their present meanings in Afrikaans it would have meant "African". The term "Afrikaan" is sometimes used in Afrikaans to mean "African" (somebody from Africa), but, indeed, it has a somewhat artificial feel. There is no single Afrikaans word for "African" and usually one elaborates, by for instance saying something like "mense in Afrika" ("people in Africa"). The adjective "Afrikaans(e)" can be used to refer to something from Africa if coupled with an orientation, for example "Wes-Afrikaanse olie" = "West African Oil" but, generally, "Afrikaans(e)" is not used to refer to Africa in general. Usually the noun "Afrika" will be coupled with the noun that needs to be described as "African", e.g. "Afrika-lande" = "African countries". By the way, the term "Afrikaner" is not used as much in South Africa. Someone would rather be described as "Afrikaans" than as "an Afrikaner". ==T-V distinction==
Does Afrikaans have a T-V distinction, like Dutch? Yes, its the same: "u" or "U" is formal, and "jy" is informal. == Archived discussion from RFM for the move ==
====Afrikaans language → Afrikaans====
As per the naming conventions, if the language's name is unique, it shouldn't have the "language" suffix. The name Afrikaans refers exclusively to the language. Agree. I don't agree with all the naming conventions, but this is a good one. SECProto 21:14, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
Neutral, tentatively (leaning to agree) (changed vote) Afrikaans also refers to the people who speak the langauge. Before I decide a final stance, Naive cynic, I'd like your answer on the question of whether Afrikaans would be best as an comprehensive article on the Afrikaans people, discussing culture, history, etc.? —ExplorerCDT
I wasn't aware that it is also used in this meaning. The article you ask about already exists under Afrikaner. Didn't know that existed. Then, wholeheartedly support —ExplorerCDT
Oppose! Naming conventions say that all languages should have language in them. Neutralitytalk 22:12, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
I would encourage you to read the naming conventions before making authoritative comments about them. Support. Afrikaans is not an ethnonym; cf. Ladino, Quechua, Esperanto. Latin had more points in favor, and it's survived several move attempts. ADH (t&m) 04:05, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
Support. Rd232
== sociolinguistics
Would it be interesting to mention something in the sociolinguistics section about Afrikaans-speakers' relation to Dutch and vice versa? I believe that Dutch under the Apartheid regime was appreciated as a part of the Afrikaander cultural heritage, and that consequently Dutch was taught in secondary schools (I read that many Afrikaanders read Dutch children's books in the original version, like Koning van Katoren by Jan Terlouw) and Radio RSA (the South-African external service) prominently broadcast in Dutch. Obviously (or not?) this affection was increasingly refuted by the Dutch during the 60ies and 70ies and declined after the end of apartheid. I also heard that in the apartheid days, some Dutch modern literature was banned, like books by Jan Wolkers. How widely did people have acces to progressive literature, ideas through Dutch, and what was the government's attitude to this?
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For a TV Ratings Lift, Try a Naughty Trend Ron Batzdorff/Comedy Central Drunk History, an alcohol-infused series on Comedy Central, features, from left, Bob Odenkirk, Jack McBrayer and Jack Black. Let's be clear: as a general concept, the making of television shows while drunk must be condemned in the strongest terms. The potential for inflicting harm on viewers - incoherence, idiocy, general distastefulness - increases exponentially when the people creating programming are intoxicated, and television already has more than enough incoherence, idiocy and general distastefulness. That said, "Drunk History," an Internet phenomenon that Comedy Central turns into a TV series on Tuesday, is pretty funny if you're in the right mood. The show is a version of Derek Waters's popular creation for the Web site Funny or Die: someone with moderate fame volunteers to get drunk, and once inebriation is achieved, the volunteer tries to recount a well-known historical episode. The three segments in the premiere give us fractured versions of Watergate (as detailed by the intoxicated Matt Gourley), the Lincoln assassination (Allan McLeod) and an odd request Elvis Presley once made of President Richard M. Nixon (Eric Edelstein). The amusing element is that the drunkard's semi-coherent history lessons are re-enacted as we hear them, and some of the re-enactors are big-name celebrities. Jack Black and Dave Grohl are among those in Tuesday's episode. But never mind trying to give this show a critical assessment. Newcomers either will like it or they won't, and fans of the Web series either will find the television series to be too much of a good thing or will be thrilled to see it expanded. Let us instead consider the series as advancing a mini-trend of increasingly naughty adjectives in television show titles. Discovery recently brought us a survival series called "Naked Castaway," about a man deposited nude on a deserted island, and then upped the ante last month with "Naked and Afraid," with a man and a woman doing the wilderness buff thing. It has long been known in fringe theater circles that a good way to increase audience size is to put a shock-value word in the title, especially "naked." Now might television, struggling for viewers as mightily as any August black-box stage show ever did, be about to flood us with the adjectives of sin and scandal? The progression we've already seen would seem to suggest as much. The innocuous "American" held sway for a while: "American Restoration," "American Hoggers," "American Chopper." Then came all sorts of "Extremes" and "Xtremes." So "Drunk" and "Naked" TV seems inevitable. And since it is, no sense in complaining about it. Instead let's consider how this might be harnessed as a sort of public service. Plenty of television shows aren't very good or have been around so long they've grown stale. Adding a saucy word to the title might be an improvement. For instance, Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" has become more boring with each passing season. But "So You Think You Can Dance Naked" might make the show watchable again. Yes, next season will be the last for CBS's "How I Met Your Mother," but perhaps "How I Met Your Mother Naked" would help goose it along, ensuring that the explanation promised by the title will finally be given. But you don't have to be naked to get attention. Sometimes, as exploitive straight-to-videos have shown, "naughty" will do. ABC already has "Wife Swap," "Mistresses," "Revenge" and "Scandal," all shows with the PG version of shocking titles. Add a "Naughty" to any of them and you have a re-energized series and a lot more viewers. Should the durable "NCIS" ever start to fade, there's always "NNCIS." Even a simple "Bad" could help some shows, as the movies have already shown. "Bad Teacher" was a more interesting movie, presumably, than plain old "Teacher" would have been. Same with "Bad Santa" and "Bad Lieutenant." So, "Emily Owens, Bad M.D."? Comedy Central, having brought us "Drunk History," has probably studied the implications of various eyebrow-raising adjectives for its other shows. Stephen Colbert is still at the top of his game, but some day when ratings begin to flag, expect a reboot: "The Colbert Report: Drunk, Naked, Bad and Naughty."
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.I even checked the latest 2009 Consular Sheet released by the US Department of State in February 2009 and I don't see any warning referring to either Andhra Pradesh or indirect reference to Sathya Sai Baba under the crime section. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1139.html#crime. I have also started a discussion about this in the reliable source notice board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Question:Can_an_articles_be_updated_as_per_the_new_2009_Consular_Travel_Warning_For_India.3F. So far the verdict has been to exclude this information as it is a BLP concern. Radiantenergy (talk)
Reports of Sexual Abuse Section: Even this section heading sounds biased and advocating a POV. I am thinking about more neutral heading. For instance even the 2006 consular sheet mentioned the word "Unconfirmed" when referring to the allegations on Sathya Sai Baba. The BBC documentary made those allegation reports based on Alaya Rahm case. Later when Alaya Rahm filed a case of allegations on Sathya Sai Baba in the supreme Court of California - Alaya Rahm was defeated. Sathya Sai Baba was proved innocent in this case. So I think atleast the heading should be more appropriate and neutral like "Unconfirmed Allegations". Please let me know what do you think. Radiantenergy (talk)
I made the above change in your Sandbox. Also I want to address another issue. There are number of negative videos in this article which were added during White_Adepts edits. These videos under the Claims of materialization and other miracles section are clearly biased. I watched this video a couple of times it is not very clear but the message seems to be clearly advocating POV views saying he is faking the "materialization" of a necklace. for adminship/FlyingToaster 2|recent RfA]], which passed with a tally of 126/32/5. I am truly humbled by the trust you placed in me, and will endeavor to live up to that trust. FlyingToaster
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Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record.I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk)
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== Sai Baba Article ==
Hi Onopearls,
I am going to be adding sourced positive but non-bias content to article such as teachings and general facts about Sai Baba and more of His own words.
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This file should not be speedy deleted as lacking necessary licensing information, because... (your reason here) --~~~~
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Rugby: Standing up to onslaught is key SCOTLAND skipper Mike Blair has urged his side to stand firm in tomorrow's RBS Six Nations Championship clash at Murrayfield in refusing to be Italy's fall guys, writes BILL LOTHIAN. "This is a game Italy target to win every year," admitted the scrum-half, adding: "We have to put in a good enough performance to simmer them down a bit and then take it from there." Especially if Scotland can see off an onslaught then Blair belie ves much could hinge on how well they retain possession. "Both sides have obviously got a lot to prove and our performance at home to Wales was just not good enough. "Fortunately there was a lot more positive stuff in France but we have got to come out and dominate the breakdowns and collisions. "Get these things right and you are a long way towards winning a test match. "Defence was another plus to come out of Paris; both individually and collectively we responded well but that is the minimum requirement. "Now, certainly, we look to build on that with the sort of continuity we haven't shown for a while." Edinburgh captain Blair will also be able, on this occasion, to call on Glasgow counterpart Ally Kellock for strong backing. And in returning to the side, Kellock hopes the team can achieve the sort of bounce-back-ability that saw Glasgow transform a heavy Celtic League defeat in the Capital (6-39) over Christmas into 25-20 victory a week later. Emphasising how quickly fortunes can change in rugby, Kellock, a former Edinburgh second-row stalwart who steps in for the injured Jim Hamilton, says: "What we needed to transform our fortunes in the space of a week at Glasgow was a bit more steel. It can be done." The full article contains 303 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
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Emily Nussbaum's Best Television of 2013 (Sort of): The New Yorker For the past two years at this magazine, I have resisted the editorial demand to produce a top-ten list, having endured much numerical violence in my writing past. The first year, I simply explained that I hate top-ten lists. The second year, I explained once again that I hate top-ten lists, and then I proceeded to tap-dance my way through some diversionary sentences about trends. Let's hope that there is a third technique, because, once again, for the record, I would like to state my enduring emotional and philosophical opposition to top-ten lists, which are simultaneously reductive and boring. The best TV shows of the year can't be boiled down to numbers - and definitely not when the person writing about them is terrible at math. Plus, like many TV critics, I haven't seen every show. If I have but one rule, it's that critics shouldn't opine on subjects they know nothing about, or use the word "opine." As some evidence that I have no great gift for math, to my mind the best series of 2013 is Mike White's anxiety-provoking, weirdly humane dark comedy "Enlightened," which was cancelled in March. If I was a TV executive, maybe I'd have cancelled it, too, since the ratings stunk. But when you're as numbers-blind as I am, you can see that it was actually a huge success, in the only way that matters: it shook up old ideas about what is possible on television. Anyway, these are the other shows that I enjoyed the most in 2013: "The Good Wife," "Please Like Me," "Orange Is the New Black," "Bob's Burgers," "Top of the Lake," "Behind the Candelabra," "Girls," "Scandal," "Mad Men," "30 Rock" (did that end this year?), "The Middle," "Raising Hope," "Eastbound & Down," "Veep," "Orphan Black," "Always Sunny In Philadelphia," "Key & Peele," "Parks and Recreation," "Inside Amy," "The Fosters," "Children's Hospital," "Game of Thrones," "Switched at Birth," "Breaking Bad," "American Horror Story," "Treme," "The Americans," "Call the Midwife," "Parenthood," "The Returned," "Broadchurch," and "The Fall." They are not in any order, because that would be insane. ("Breaking Bad" versus "Behind the Candelabra." Meth versus rhinestone. Two different forms of mano a mano.) Some of these shows are better than others, but so what? They're all good. Here are shows that I became extremely angry about when they were cancelled: "Bunheads" and "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell." Here are network shows I like and want to lobby you to watch: the "Modern Family" corrective "Trophy Wife" and the appealingly silly "Sleepy Hollow." Here are some shows I didn't catch up on this season: "Justified" (I'll do so eventually); "Sons of Anarchy" (the creator's Twitter feed rendered it too annoying to bother with); and the final few episodes of "Downton Abbey," because I'd lost interest in anything except the violet dresses and Edith. I watched a few "Boardwalk Empire" episodes, so I can see why people are writing paeans to it this season, but not enough to put it on any list, pro or con. I panned "Ray Donovan," but I didn't keep up; I watched early episodes of "Low Winter Sun," and they were boring; I didn't like "Ja'mie" enough to review it; and while "Rectify" was very original, it has faded in my memory. Same thing with Season Four of "Arrested Development." I haven't seen "Getting On" yet. But, really, there are plenty of shows that I should have watched but didn't, including "The Vampire Diaries." Here are shows I watched consistently but wouldn't put on any lists: "Nashville," "Glee" (the New York parts were surprisingly good), "The Mindy Project" (a mess but I love it anyway), "House of Cards" (hypnotic, highbrow, empty calories), and "The Newsroom," because once I pan a show that harshly, I feel obliged to keep watching it, in case it improves and I am forced to apologize (nope).
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Ball State stuns Tennessee 71-55 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Tennessee's title defense ended sooner than expected, wrapping up the worst season ever for Pat Summitt's vaunted program. Ball State stunned the two-time defending national champions 71-55 in the opening round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday night, snapping one of the more remarkable streaks in college basketball history. The Lady Volunteers (22-11) had never lost on the opening weekend of the tournament, going 42-0 through the years. Tennessee also became the first defending champ to lose in the first round of the women's tourney. Old Dominion won the title in 1985 and failed to make the tournament the following year. The 12th-seeded Cardinals (26-8), who were making their NCAA debut, will play Iowa State in the second round on Tuesday.
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Thysanodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calliostomatidae. ==Distribution==
Species of this marine genus can be found off New Zealand and New Caledonia. ==Species==
Species within the genus Thysanodonta include:
Thysanodonta aucklandica Marshall, 1988
Thysanodonta boucheti Marshall, 1988
Thysanodonta cassis Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta chesterfieldensis Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta diadema Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta eucosmia Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta festiva Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta opima Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta pileum Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta wairua Marshall, 1988
==References==
Marshall B.A. (1988) Thysanodontinae: A new subfamily of the Trochidae (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 54: 215-229. page(s): 217
==External links==
Calliostomatidae
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Spitzer Aide Is Fined by State and Says He Will Sue The embattled state ethics commission announced Wednesday that it had fined a former top Spitzer administration official $10,000 for his role in disseminating the travel records of Joseph L. Bruno, the former Senate majority leader. But the aide, Darren Dopp, who was the communications director for Gov. Eliot Spitzer, said Wednesday that he planned to sue the commission, whose investigation of the travel matter has been criticized by the state inspector general. "This case is about Mr. Dopp, as part of a scheme to discredit a political opponent, violating the State Code of Ethics by misusing the resources of the State Police to create official-looking documents, which otherwise would not have existed, so that he could have them reproduced in a newspaper," said Michael G. Cherkasky, chairman of the state's Commission on Public Integrity. "Such misconduct erodes public confidence in both the integrity and the independence of our State Police." Mr. Dopp has long said he did nothing wrong. "I am the first public information officer in history to be sanctioned for releasing public records in response to a media request and at the specific direction of the governor," he said Wednesday. "I believe the decision was tainted, erroneous and unfounded. I intend to sue to the commission. I am looking forward to an independent judge's review." Wading back into the Bruno travel case, known in Albany as Troopergate, has risks for the integrity commission. The state inspector general, Joseph Fisch, excoriated the commission earlier this year for mishandling the case, in a lengthy report that accused the commissioner's former executive director of leaking sensitive information to another top Spitzer aide. Following that report, Gov. David A. Paterson called on all sitting commissioners to resign, and he was ignored. The man he later named to take over the commission's vacant chairman position, Mr. Cherkasky, subsequently criticized the inspector general's report. Lawmakers also tried to overhaul the commission this year, but the matter died in the Senate last month. So what is Troopergate, exactly? Back in the summer of 2007, aides to Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, got in hot water for releasing travel records that detailed how Mr. Bruno, the former Senate majority leader, was using State Police helicopters and police cars as ground transportation. Mr. Bruno, an upstate Republican who was Mr. Spitzer's chief political antagonist, was using the transportation to travel to New York City on trips that combined both political events and some amount of state business. Such mixed use travel was permissible at the time, though the rules have since been changed. The office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo issued a scathing report in July 2007, accusing the Spitzer administration of misusing the State Police to gather and even recreate missing records of Mr. Bruno's travels. The commission has previously settled charges against two other former Spitzer aides.
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An investor should consider the Program's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. The program disclosure statement at www.scholars-choice.com, which contains more information, should be read carefully before investing. If an investor or an investor's beneficiary is not a Colorado taxpayer, they should consider before investing whether their home states offer 529 Plans that provide state tax and other benefits only available to state taxpayers investing in such plans. Investments in the Scholars Choice College Savings Program are not insured by the FDIC or any other government agency and are not deposits or other obligations of any depository institution. Investments are not guaranteed by the State of Colorado; CollegeInvest, Legg Mason Global Asset Allocation, LLC; Legg Mason Investor Services, LLC; or Legg Mason, Inc. or its affiliates, and are subject to investment risks. Scholars Choice is a registered service mark of CollegeInvest. CollegeInvest and the CollegeInvest logo are registered trademarks. Administered and issued by CollegeInvest, State of Colorado. Legg Mason Global Asset Allocation, LLC, Investment Manager. Legg Mason Investor Services, LLC is the primary distributor of interest in the Program; together, they serve as Manager of the Program. Legg Mason Global Asset Allocation, LLC; ClearBridge Advisors, LLC; Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc.; Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.; Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC; Royce & Associates, LLC; Western Asset Management Company and Western Asset Management Company Limited; and Legg Mason Investor Services, LLC are Legg Mason, Inc. affiliates. Thornburg Investment Management, Inc. is not affiliated with Legg Mason Inc. and its affiliates. (1) Source: Financial Research Corporation, "2Q11 College Savings Quarterly Update." (2) Source: Financial Research Corporation, "529 College Savings Quarterly Fee Analysis, Second Quarter 2011." SOURCE Legg Mason, Inc.
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Voluntary grocery retailer code spin, says Victorian Farmers Federation FARMERS have slammed the voluntary code of conduct governing supermarkets' dealings with suppliers, saying it will do nothing to protect them from market leaders Coles and Woolworths. Victorian Farmers Federation president Peter Tuohey today slammed the code, more than 12 months in the making, as "pure spin,' and called for a mandatory code to better protect suppliers from misuse of market power.
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-Aaron Hefel
hefel.wordpress.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.255.95.87 (talk)
No, I just chose the colors myself. In MuPad, I chose : Red->CornflowerBlue for the real part, CadmiumYellow->SapGreen for imaginary part, and CadmiumYellow->Red for the absolute value. I just fiddled around with the colours until I obtained something nice. Anyway, thanks. == The residues page graph ==
I'm just wondering how that function was evaluated, is it the real part or imaginary part? and what is does the hue display? Complex arguement perhaps? Just wondering =} 193.217.64.142 (talk)
You're right that I didn't say precisely so in the article, I corrected that. So the image is the absolute value of the function described in the text, and the hue just describes the height of the absolute value. There's absolutely no information in that plot about the imaginary part. Thanks for your interest and your correction. Ok thank you, i was just wondering what the beautiful plot was. T.Stokke (talk)
== Graph for counterexample ==
You seem to generate nice graphs! Can you please produce one for the counterexample? Schmock (talk)
Yes, sure, just added it to the article! Be sure to ask if you have any other ideas for mathematical diagrams, I'm happy to help. Thanks
Great, thank you! == Nice picture. ==
I like your pictures. They really help me understand my math books. Thanks, it's nice to know that. Which ones in particular helped, and how? If you know of any topics for which it would help to have some more visualisation, I'd be happy to know. Right now, I'm studying hyperbolic trigonometry, and your UTC)
Well the MuPAD SVG export feature doesn't really work well - often the font doesn't come out correctly, and some other bugs frequently occur. And, having had a look at the SVG that were created, they honestly aren't really editable nor convenient to work with. I do agree however that using SVG would be a good idea, just that I'm not a graphist and don't want to be approximating the curves by drawing splines in some vector image editing software. Sorry. Sure, I understand. Thank you for the many very nice pictures you contributed. Oleg Alexandrov (talk)
== Simplifying Complex Functions ==
I was wondering if MuPad had the ability to handle complex functions more intuitively. In particular, is there a way to set up a complex function and have MuPad extract the numerical values for the Real and Imaginary parts? With all of the tests that I've done I have ended up evaluating the real and imaginary parts and then plugging them into MuPad, which is quite complicated, especially when graphing the Absolute Value. Vjasper (talk)
In particular, how did you handle the Gamma function? I can't find anything that isolates the real and imaginary parts of the function. Vjasper (talk)
Well the Im, Re and abs (note the case) give the imaginary part, the real part and the absolute value, respectively. Does that answer your question? I understand what each of the graphs represent, I'm just curious what you actually plugged into MuPad in order to get them. That is to say, if you take the 3D example code, what actual function did you use for, say, the Real part of the Gamma Function? The reason I'm asking this is because, as far as I can tell, there isn't a good way to isolate the Real output of the Gamma function for complex input. In the case of things like, for instance, cos(z), you can expand it to cos(x + iy), then use the additive angle laws for Cosine in order to produce cos(z) = cos(x)*cosh(y) - i*sin(x)*sinh(y) (the hyperbolic functions coming, of course, from their relationship to the complex trigonometric functions). In this case you could easily use the left hand and right hand sides of the equation (those with and without an imaginary coefficient) to produce a graph of your Real and Imaginary parts, respectively. My question is basically, how did you manage to do this with functions that do not have an explicit (or even implicit) formula with which you could substitute complex values in, and then try to solve and isolate the real and imaginary parts?
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Born 1913, into a royal family with a line of great leaders and chiefs in Ikot Mbon Ikono, Uyo, in the present Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria; his father chief Nsentip Ekown, a prominent, and an awesome Ruler of Ikono and the suburbs, named him Ukpong Nsentip Ekown. At his school age, there were no schools in the whole of Uyo division, and it was difficult to establish any, because of strong opposition by Ibibio people, in and around Uyo. Prior to his birth, his father Chief Nsentip Ekown had signed a treaty with the British Consul – Sir Robert Brooks which established Uyo as a British Colonial Administrative station. Chief Nsentip Ekown was a Paramount Ruler amongst his people. He was thus confirmed, honoured, with this title, and crowned as the first Warrant Paramount Ruler of the area through the Consul by King Edward VII in 1902. Chief Nsentip Ekown, in conjunction with Chief Udo-Ekong Umana Ekam of Abak, led the British to establish the Government School at Abak. As a Warrant Ruler, Chief Nsentip Ekown played a prominent role by assisting the British to subdue Essien Inyang Ide of Abak whose parcel of land the school was established. It would be quite unsafe for anybody linked with the name Nsentip to attend the school; hence Ukpong Nsentip Ekown had to adopt the name Elijah Akpan Okon to acquire education at the Abak Government School. This was also an era, which the early missionaries and the colonial teachers in Nigeria preferred to, and renamed the Nigerian students with biblical and European names other than African. In 1940, Chief Elijah Akpan Okon studied Rural Science Education, and community development at Umuahia. He also had a Graduation Certificate in Agriculture and Home Economics in 1947, through the Pennsylvania State College, USA. In 1952 he obtained a Diploma in Business Management and company Secretarial studies from a school in London. After completing his Primary school education in 1929, he took a job as a teacher in a local school, primarily to have the opportunity of encouraging the people to send their children to school. From 1937–1950, he was a teacher, and Head Master at Ukana Methodist School in Ikot Ekpene. Between 1942 and 1949 Chief Elijah Akpan Okon was the secretary, Nigerian Union of Teachers (N.U.T.) Ikot Ekpene Branch. His passion as a community leader and organizer showed up early in his life. Around 1933–1939, Chief Elijah Akpan Okon founded Ikono Young-men Meeting whose aim was to raise funds and sponsor the youths of that era to have secondary education from the few colleges such as Government College, Umuahia; Etinan Institute, Methodist Boys High Schools in Oron and Uzuakoli etc. Several youths of Ikono availed themselves of that opportunity. In 1950, he returned from Ukana, Ikot Ekpene to his village Ikot Mbon Ikono, Uyo. He was appointed a rural science teacher in the Uyo Federated schools (1951–1955). He left that post, and brought up his village school Ikono Central School (now the AME Zion Mission School ) where he was a teacher and the Head Master from (1956–1960). Within 1949, he had attempted, in vain, to form the Ikono Federation but in the process Northern Ikono Federation emerged in 1950. During his tenure as the founder and first President of the Northern Ikono Federation, a community Centre was built which housed a meeting hall, a library, a postal agency, etc. Arrangements were made for the local people to learn weaving, and pottery at the center. At its entirety, the aim of the federation was to raise funds and give scholarships for the local youths to attain. Sir Clement Pleass, K.C.M.G; K.B.E. the British Governor of Eastern Nigeria was invited and he did the inaugural opening of the center on June 29, 1955. Chief Elijah Akpan Okon was given a Certificate of Faithful Service to the people of Uyo, by the Governor. Chief Elijah Akpan Okon used his political influence and affiliations to establish; and promoted the Primary Education (U P E) programme in Uyo, and the whole of Calabar Province. He set up oil palm seedling nurseries in schools and some communities. He encouraged the local farmers to participate in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivation which was a major foreign exchange earner for Nigeria. He ensured that certain farm equipment and fertilizer were distributed free to the local farmers.
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The two pages have in common the idea of listing the stories in chronological sequence as they occur in the story, rather than as they were broadcast or printed (since Dr Who involves time travel, that is an important distinction). Unless there is a WP policy reason for deletion, the article should stay. That said, it may be preferable to merge it into Chronology of the Doctor Who universe, although there might be reasons to keep them separate. Regarding the nominator's comment that This has the potential to be very large - that is not a reason to delete, per NOTPAPER - we have plenty of very long articles. I don't know enough about the stories to make that determination. If they are not merged, and this one is kept, then they should be clearly disambiguated. I have re-edited my comment to change to Neutral because after reading the further discussions here, I realize I don't have enough knowledge of this surprisingly complicated topic to make an informed choice. Now I want to watch the DVDs though,... how will I find any time to edit Wikipedia? Maybe I could watch them and then go back to the past to re-edit my comment in this debate after I am more familiar with the topic. That probably won't work though, so I'll keep my comment at neutral. Changing to Neutral — see below. Reluctant delete or redirect to Chronology of the Doctor Who universe. The notability of the episodes isn't the issue — there are plenty of reliable sources about Doctor Who episodes, novels, and audios (e.g. the I, Who series of guides, AHistory, etc.) The problem is that it's not really possible to say definitively what order the stories take place in. It's fine when you're dealing with the Missing Adventures, which say on their covers "This story takes place between such-and-such and so-and-so". But if you're going to try to place the audios and novels in together with the TV stories, you'll have to use some criterion to determine, for example, whether Time of Your Life comes before or after The Holy Terror. Both are set in the same period in the Doctor's life (after the trial, before he meets Mel "for the first time"), but to determine which comes first is original research. This is just one example of the sorts of determinations you'd have to make in constructing this list. Unfortunately, there's just no way to make those determinations without violating Wikipedia's rules on original research. Dominique Boies (a fan) has a list of the sort you're looking for here, but there's no place for that in Wikipedia's article space. As an aside, you're always free to copy the content of this list into your own user space (at something like Victory93/Chronology), and use it to navigate Wikipedia's Doctor Who articles. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs)
Addendum: This list already engages in original research by stating that The Infinity Doctors takes place before "An Unearthly Child" — Lance Parkin deliberately made the placement of TID in the Doctor's life story unclear (it could be a future Doctor who's returned to Gallifrey — yes, I know it's been destroyed, but it hadn't been when Parkin wrote the book). Similarly, how do we know that The Murder Game takes place after Invasion of the Cat-People? The order you suggest is the one on my bookshelves, but that's hardly a reliable source. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs)
Neutral — I've changed my mind, per the argument by DHowell below. The structure he suggests might make it possible to construct this list without violating NOR; it would be difficult and time-consuming, but not impossible. I still have concerns that it would be quite difficult to avoid original research in this article, but now I see how it could be done. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs)
Keep The list may not be perfect but no article on wikipedia is. Nick mallory
Delete Its full of origional research and is not needed, don't merge into the other well writen page either, it would just make it worse. The books and so on are not considered cannon with the rest of the Whoniverse so merging wouldn't fit. Comment This page is a different type of chronology then Chronology of the Doctor Who universe, its the order the stories were made rather the order of the time the stories were set in. That's interesting - I may have misunderstood that from looking at the article.
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Iggy and the Stooges also have a song titled "Sick of You". Currently there is no article on that song, but perhaps the disambiguation sentence should mention it.JeffStickney (talk)
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Iran refuses to hand back US drone "Iran is among the few countries that possesses the most modern technology in the field of pilotless drones. The technology gap between Iran and the US is not much," he said. Officers in the Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, had previously claimed that the country's armed forces brought down the surveillance aircraft with an electronic ambush, causing minimum damage to the drone. American officials have said that U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that Iran neither shot the drone down, nor used electronic or cybertechnology to force it from the sky. They contend the drone malfunctioned. The officials had spoken anonymously in order to discuss the classified program. But Salami refused to provide more details of Iran's claim to have captured the CIA-operated aircraft. "A party that wins in an intelligence battle doesn't reveal its methods. We can't elaborate on the methods we employed to intercept, control, discover and bring down the pilotless plane," he said.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was delete. Black Kite (talk)
===Ben Duscher===
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Fails Athlete. Doesn't play in the AFL, nor has he been drafted by an AFL club. Jevansen (talk)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. czar · ·
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. czar · ·
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Delete, doesn't seem to meet any of the ATHLETE notability criteria for Aussie Rules players. Lankiveil (speak to me). Delete as fails ATHLETE. — Joaquin008 (talk)
Delete as fails ATHLETE for Aussie Rules.Doctorhawkes (talk)
Weak keep point 3 of the Aussie rules section of the oft-quoted ATHLETE says "is known, and has received significant coverage in reliable sources, for major individual achievements in a state football league." Being named club captain and winning his club's best and fairest award is about the minimum requirement for that. And whilst most of the sources are from Bendigo local papers, there are some from major papers, so GNG is met too. The-Pope (talk)
Clear keep as fulfilling point 3 of ATHLETE"is known, and has received significant coverage in reliable sources, for major individual achievements in a state football league:" Significant coverage in reliable sources-documented. Captain of Bendigo VFL and Essendon VFL. Selected in VFL combined team. Article listing him amongst top players in VFL. Asked to train with Western Bulldogs and Essendon at end of 2012 season. AFL Draft combineNimbusWeb (talk)
Clear delete being asked to train with a club is not the same as actually playing with the top professional league. needs to have actually played a game of AFL not VFL. LibStar (talk)
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Bradley Manning Speaks Publicly for First Time Private First Class Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified and confidential military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, took the stand in a military court today to make his first public statements since his arrest in 2010. Manning appeared confident and animated at a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland as he described the mental breakdowns and extreme depression he suffered during his first year in detention, from cells in Iraq and Kuwait to the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Within weeks of his arrest, Manning said, he became convinced he was going to die in custody. "I was just a mess. I was really starting to fall apart," the 24-year-old former Army intelligence analyst said. Manning said he didn't remember an incident while in Kuwait where he bashed his head into a wall or another where he fashioned a noose out of a bed sheet as his civilian attorney, David Coombs, said he had, but Manning did say he felt he was "going to die... [in] an animal cage." "I certainly contemplated [suicide]. There's no means, even if the noose... there'd be nothing I could do with it. Nothing to hang it on. It felt... pointless," he said. Manning had been on suicide watch since late June 2010, a month after his initial arrest in Baghdad. Manning faces 22 charges related to his alleged use of his access to government computers to download and pass along a trove of confidential government documents and videos to WikiLeaks, including the 2010 mass release of 250,000 State Department cables detailing years of private U.S. diplomatic interactions with the governments and citizens the world over. The unprecedented document dump became known as "Cablegate." Earlier this month Coombs wrote on his blog that Manning was willing to plead guilty to some lesser offenses. On Thursday the military judge in the case said eight lesser charges could be reviewed by Manning's defense attorneys for a potential plea deal, but a response likely won't be determined until December. The most serious charge Manning now faces, aiding the enemy, could bring a penalty of life in prison should he be found guilty. Manning's defense has argued for all charges to be dropped, citing a perceived breach of Manning's right to speedy trial and his "unlawful pretrial punishment" while in custody at the Marine brig in Quantico. But in today's hearing, Manning described his time in custody prior to his stay at Quantico as an ordeal of its own. He recounted an incident in Baghdad when he fainted from the heat in his cell. Later in Kuwait, Manning said he was initially given phone privileges he used to call an aunt and friend in the United States, but that privilege was taken away a short time later. After his alarming breakdown in June 2010, Manning told a mental health specialist that he really "didn't want to die, but [he] just wanted to get out of the cage," saying he believed his life had "just sunk." Manning was given medication that improved his mood to the point that the young soldier felt he "started to flatten out" and resigned himself to "riding out" whatever was coming his way. After he had been held in Kuwait, Manning said he was "elated" when he learned he was being transferred back to America. He had feared being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba or to a U.S. facility in Djibouti in Africa. "I didn't think I was going to set foot on American soil for a long time," he said. Once at Quantico Manning was still on suicide watch for two weeks. After that ended, he remained on maximum custody and prevention of injury status, which required strict vigilant monitoring of his behavior. He remained in this status for the duration of his nine-month stay at Quantico. Testimony presented at this week's pre-trial hearing showed that psychiatrists treating Manning repeatedly assessed that he was no longer a suicide risk and should not remain on prevention of injury status. Manning said he spent 21 to 23 hours a day in his cell. He was allowed 20 minutes in the yard to soak up some sunshine and said he was only allowed to sit on his bed with crossed legs if his guards allowed it. His feet were in restraints and he could not rest against the walls. He was once again placed on suicide watches in January and March, 2011 following comments to his brig guards that indicated to them that he might be suicidal. During the March incident Manning's underwear was taken away from him and he slept naked for a few nights and and required to stand naked at attention one morning. During Thursday's testimony Manning demonstrated the dimensions of his cell that Coombs had marked on the courtroom carpet with masking tape. He also demonstrated the suicide prevention blanket and smock issued to him during those incidents.
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Printer Friendly As a travel writer, I've stayed in hundreds of five-star hotel rooms and learnt both to appreciate their finer points (luxury bed linen may be pricey, but, trust me, it's worth it) and to dismiss the more gimmicky excesses (I once slept very well on a £14,000 Ammique King bed - mind you, I've slept just as well on beds that cost a fraction of that price). The thought of yet another muslin-draped four-poster is enough to bore me to sleep standing up. What hoteliers do with bathrooms, however, can be genuinely exciting. At Maia, in the Seychelles, for example, a square stone bath in my villa was sunk into its own infinity pool, steps from the foot of my bed. At Soho House, in New York, my suite was dominated by an extraordinary bath that looked like half a giant dinosaur's egg. At Barnsley House, in the Cotswolds, our split-level room had side-by-side freestanding tubs, book-ended by a plasma TV. They were all fabulously decadent and, as I was on holiday, I didn't mind that the one in the Seychelles took ages to fill and its razor-sharp edges were uncomfortable. Nor that in New York, the vastness of the tub, combined with the fact that I am rather vertically challenged, made it difficult to maintain a foothold and turned my ablutions into something akin to the Shelley Winters swimming scene in The Poseidon Adventure. I was even happy to overlook the fact that, in a quaint corner of the Cotswolds, "open plan" rather unappealingly included the lavatory, bringing an entirely new meaning to the expression "a dirty weekend away." But would you want a bathroom like that at home? Mark Macauley, a documentary-maker from London, did. His three-bedroom flat in South Kensington has an elegant drawing room with the original 1890s shutters and stained-glass windows in the dining room, but the most eye-catching feature is undoubtedly the handmade £5,200 copper-clad bath that takes centre stage in the master bedroom. The inspiration was not just the colonial splendour of African safari lodges that Macauley, 53, has visited over the years, but also Babington House hotel in Somerset, where three of the 32 rooms have baths by the beds and Room Six - Madonna's favourite - has one on the balcony. "It is controversial to have the bath at the end of the bed," says Macauley, "and I did have to take down a wall so I would have the space to do it. But I returned the room to its original dimensions so it felt right and in keeping, as this is how the gentry used to wash in grand old houses - when they did wash, which was only about once a month." His girlfriend, Jana Pflimpflova, 26, an architecture student, was initially sceptical. "In fact," admits Macauley, "several people were, until they saw the bath in place; then they all loved it. The ceiling is 16ft high, so the room doesn't get steamy. I keep my towels and toiletries in wardrobes and I have a trolley I can wheel across, where I put a glass of champagne and other things." In any case, if a future buyer is not keen, there are three other conventional bathrooms, albeit with hotelly touches such as underfloor heating. The flat is on sale for £2.975m through John D Wood & Co. Chris Sanderson, a director at the Future Laboratory, a trend-forecasting consultancy, says people increasingly want their own homes to be like the hotels where they stayed on holiday - especially the bathrooms. "It has made us realise they didn't have to be poky places where we knocked our elbows against a mouldy shower door," he says. "We now want wet rooms, scented candles and shelves full of gorgeous bath products." If anything, he says, the practice appears to have increased during the recession. Ed Mead, sales director at agents Douglas & Gordon, has seen an increase in this sort of extravagant bed-bath merger. "People are beginning to realise it's a terribly cool idea," he says. "It's also a good solution to modern living - space constraints mean bathrooms tend not to be large, so if you want a really big bath, you put it in the bedroom." The most unusual example he has seen is in a house in Wandsworth, southwest London, where the bath was made from glass with fake fish embedded in the side panels, creating the impression that the bather is in a pond or aquarium.
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Libya militia told "lay down your arms or join army" Lay down your arms or join the army, Libya's militias have been told. New army chief Colonel Salem Qineydi issued the ultimatum after deadly clashes between the Libya Shield militia and protesters in Benghazi left 31 dead. Armed groups played a large role in the overthrow of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. The government still relies on them to maintain order. However, they are reluctant to lay down their weapons. They are also refusing to work in the army under officials who served under Gaddafi. Violence erupted as protesters stormed the Libya Shield headquarters on June 8 in Benghazi. They were demanding that the militias come in line with Libya's security forces or give up their weapons. The bloodshed has highlighted public anger over freewheeling militias and the government's failure to rein them in. More about: Islamists, Libya, Libyan army Copyright © 2013 euronews JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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Artit Daosawang (อาทิตย์ ดาวสว่าง) is a Thai footballer. He plays for Thai Premier League side SCG Muangthong United. He is a Defender. ==Football Career==
Artit Daosawang is known as the youngest player to play the Thai Premier League. He debuted when he was just 16 years and 131 days old when he played for TOT-CAT FC against Muangthong United on 24 March 2009. ==International Career==
Artit played for Thailand's first team against China in a friendly match, which Thailand won 5-1. He represented Thailand U23 in the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. ===International goals===
====under-23====
==Honours==
International
Thailand U-19
Winners, 2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship
Thailand U-23
Sea Games Gold Medal (1); 2013
Muangthong United
Thai Premier League Champions ; 2012
==External links==
Players Profile - Thai Premier League
1992 births
Living people
Thai footballers
Muangthong United F.C. players
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Brazil Rocinha drug lord 'Nem' jailed for 12 years 25 January 2013 Last updated at 20:21 One of Brazil's most wanted drug traffickers has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, also known as Nem, headed a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha neighbourhood. Police arrested Lopes as part of their "pacification programme," an attempt to wrest control of poor parts of the city from criminal gangs. They found Nem in November 2011. He was hiding in a car driving out of Rocinha as hundreds of officers moved in. His driver tried to prevent the car from being searched by claiming diplomatic immunity. He said he was the honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brazil has been trying to clean up its most dangerous regions ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Special operation forces have so far moved into more than 20 neighbourhoods and established a permanent police presence there.
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Blair was told Iraq weapons 'dismantled' LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told 10 days before the 2003 Iraq invasion that Iraq's chemical weapons had been "dismantled," an ex-official says. Testifying Wednesday before a panel reviewing Britain's role in the Iraq war, William Ehrman, director of international security for the British Foreign Office from 2000 to 2002, said in the days before the invasion Downing Street received information that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's chemical arsenal had been dismantled, The Daily Telegraph reported. "We were getting in the very final days before military action some (intelligence) on chemical and biological weapons that they were dismantled and (Saddam) might not have the munitions to deliver it," Ehrman testified. "On March 10 we got a report saying that the chemical weapons might have remained disassembled and that Saddam hadn't yet ordered their re-assembly and he might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents." Blair's assertion that Saddam was a security threat because he still had chemical and biological weapons that could be launched at 45 minutes' notice was presented to the public as a key justification for the invasion, the Telegraph said. The inquiry's goal is to determine whether Blair misled Parliament over the reasons for going to war.
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Their labours have also produced BudgIT, a website that allows people to slice and dice the federal budget and determine, for example, whether the government really needed to cut subsidies of imported fuel last year (none of the oil the country produces is refined here). The cuts sparked large-scale protests that soon morphed into a loose movement dubbed Occupy Nigeria and fuelled by another of the hub's apps: Ojise ("message" in a local dialect), which makes using Twitter and uploading files easier on Nigeria's congested mobile networks. Ojise developer Seun Akinfolarin, 28, predicts more protests as tech-savvy young Nigerians tackle what they consider to be the country's corrupt old order. "If we can't get the government to help," he says, surrounded by colleagues leaning over laptops, "we'll have to do it ourselves." Makoko: A slum fights to stay afloat With each paddle stroke, the canoe lurches slowly through the greasy water, drifting past floating trash and beneath footbridges that connect shacks built on stilts far into Lagos Lagoon. Here, in the middle of Nigeria's largest city and within plain view of commuters, is a floating slum. The air smells of raw sewage and wood smoke, but it is Sunday in this incredibly religious country, so children walk above the water in gleaming white robes; hymns drift from packed churches. Half on land, Makoko is one of about 120 slums in the city. It has 150,000 residents, as well as schools, convenience stores, even sawmills, but nearly no services provided by a government that wants badly to get rid of the place. That is why Djibe Felix has such an expansive view: A fishing boat is all that stands between the platform he shares with three wives and seven children and the towering 12-kilometre Third Mainland Bridge in the distance. But a forest of jagged stumps sticking from the water at his doorstep is a stark reminder of the many shacks authorities destroyed last summer in a week of violence. One shack was his, Mr. Felix says, his temper rising. "When they come again, we will fight them!" he yells, thumping his chest. "Their bullets will turn to water!" Makoko is a test case for what the stewards of Africa's largest city have in mind. It is one of nine slums meant to be improved by the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project with a $200-million (U.S.) loan from the World Bank. The official goal is to improve basic services, but the city of islands in a swampy lagoon is desperate for land to expand. "As the city expands, access to affordable housing is shrinking," says Felix Morka, a Harvard-educated community activist advising Makoko residents. "Whatever is added, is added to the upper class." Slums are home to two-thirds of the population, and there is little low-income housing in central Lagos. Costs are so high even the middle class is scattered to distant suburbs. Few inhabitants of Makoko - many of them originally from down the Nigerian coast or neighbouring countries - own their homes in any legal sense. Most lack education and don't understand property law; they also fish for a living and do not want to move away from the water. To help them stay, Mr. Morka is bringing in experts and wants to submit redevelopment plans that benefit the people already there. Since residents held a march to muster support, the city has suspended the demolition plan and apologized for the death of a local chief shot by security forces. It also is meeting with the community, but won't let Mr. Morka or his staff at the Social and Economic Rights Action Center take part. Publicly, officials say they will resettle residents such as Fokosi Okimigi, but the 49-year-old fisherman bemoans Makoko's precarious state. "Many white men come with cameras, and nothing gets done," he complains. "We just want the government to allow us to stay. We are citizens of Nigeria." For his part, Mr. Morka is so skeptical of the public-private partnership authorities are proposing - "a plan to give land to their cronies... the new phase of corruption in this country" - that he resigned from the project's steering committee. "It's just despicable - there's no regret," he says. "That's not how to build a city." Eko Atlantic: The future on a grand scale Ahmadu Bello Way runs along the coast past a row of dilapidated seaside hotels and businesses, many now boarded up and abandoned.
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Åsa-Britt Maria Torstensson (born 25 March 1958) is Swedish politician and a member of the Centre Party. She has a university degree in social work (socionomexamen). She was a member of the Riksdag between 1998 and 2002 representing Västra Götaland County. Torstensson was re-elected to the Riksdag in the 2006 general election. On 6 October 2006 she was selected to become Minister for Infrastructure in the Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt. After the 2010 general election she left the cabinet and returned to the Riksdag. == References ==
== External links ==
Åsa Torstensson at the Riksdag website
Åsa Torstensson at the Centre Party website
1958 births
Living people
Members of the parliament of Sweden
Centre Party (Sweden) politicians
Swedish women in politics
Swedish Ministers for Communications
Mid Sweden University alumni
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Babies 'detect emotion in voices' "Babies can tell sad voices at 3 months," according The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper reported that brain scans have shown that parts of the brain "light up more when babies hear sad voices." A sample of 21 babies aged three to seven months old were given a special type of MRI scan to measure the activity in different regions of the brain. While asleep, they listened to human speech and also to various ânon-speech vocalisationsâ, which were each made to sound emotionally neutral (such as coughing), happy (laughing) or sad (crying). The scanner revealed that, in babies, an area of the brain called the temporal cortex is very sensitive to voices, much as it is in the developed brains of adults. The researchers also noticed that, while there was little difference in brain activation caused by neutral and happy sounds, sad emotions activated slightly different areas of the brain. This suggested that the ability of the brain to process human voices and negative emotions happens very early on in life. This is an interesting biological study of brain activation in young babies in response to human sounds, but limited conclusions can be drawn from this study alone. It is not known from this study whether the brain is activated differently when the baby is awake or asleep, when the vocalisations come from different people (for example, whether the babyâs brain responds differently to crying from a stranger or a parent), or when listening to more complex, emotionally charged speech (such as an argument). Also, the study cannot tell us whether exposure to different emotional sounds has any influence on a babyâs development or personality.
Where did the story come from?The study was carried out by researchers from Kingâs College, University College London and Birkbeck College. It was funded by a number of UK institutions, including the Medical Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research, Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kingâs College London. The study was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Current Biology. The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph both reflected the findings of this scientific research.
What kind of research was this?This study used brain scans to identify which areas of the brain were activated in babies when listening to various adult vocalisations, such as speech, laughter and crying noises. The researchers say that human voices play a principal role in social communication and that various specific regions of the brain are involved in processing the emotional content of voices. However, it is still unknown at what stage of growth a person will develop this specialist ability. For example, previous brain imaging studies in babies have suggested that, unlike adults, the infant temporal cortex (an area at the side of the brain responsible for processing sounds) is not able to differentiate speech from music. However, other studies have suggested that the temporal cortex in babies is able to identify speech but that the area of the temporal cortex that carries out this function is in a slightly different location during infancy. Another area of uncertainty is which specific areas of the brain are involved in processing non-speech human sounds and vocalisations such as laughter - a subject that is the focus of this experimental research. The research had two specific aims: to determine whether the temporal cortex of babies shows specialisation for human voices, and to determine which brain areas are activated when babies process non-speech vocalisations, indicating their ability to perceive emotions in these sounds.
What did the research involve?The study involved 21 babies aged three to seven months. While they were sleeping naturally, the babies were placed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. This is a special type of MRI scan which is able to detect the extent of blood flow in different areas of the brain. It is based on the principal that increased nerve cell activity is associated with increased blood flow, and can identify activity in specific regions of the brain. The babies were presented with speech and three types of non-speech vocalisation: emotionally neutral (such as coughing or sneezing), emotionally positive (laughing) and emotionally negative (crying). They were also assessed when listening to a series of non-voice environmental sounds that they may have been familiar with (such as water splashing and toy sounds). The researchers looked at the patterns of brain activation on fMRI imaging when the babies listened to speech and non-speech vocalisations, as well as whether there were any differences between the different emotionally charged vocalisations.
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Mayor Says NYC Marathon Won't Divert Resources The blue and orange finish line is in place in Central Park, no superstorm debris in sight. Little else is normal with the New York City Marathon. The course will be the same since there was little damage but getting to the finish line could still be an adventure for runners from outlying areas. Such is life in Sandy's aftermath - disrupted trains, planes, buses and ferries, flooded buildings, blocked roads and knocked out power. Mayor Michael Bloomberg saw none of this as insurmountable and defended the decision to hold the race, insisting resources wouldn't be diverted from storm victims. He noted Thursday that electricity was expected to be restored to all of Manhattan by race day, freeing up "up an enormous number of police." "This city is a city where we have to go on," he said. City Council member Domenic Recchia Jr., however, called plans to hold the race "just wrong" in light of the ongoing misery among residents with no food, shelter or electricity. The marathon brings an estimated $340 million into the city, and race organizers say some of it will be used for recovery efforts. New York Road Runners, which operates the event, will donate $1 million to the fund and said more than $1.5 million in pledges already had been secured from sponsors.
Workers assemble the finish line for the New York City Marathon in New York's Central Park, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The crane atop a high rise that collapsed during superstorm Sandy is visible at background left. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Workers assemble the finish line for the New York City Marathon in New York's Central Park, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The New York City Marathon is on Sunday, with many logistical questions to be answered. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Close It was still unclear whether runners would get to the start by bus or ferry. NYRR President Mary Wittenberg said organizers commissioned buses to transport runners to Staten Island, but the city wanted to use the ferry, as in the past. Bloomberg expected full ferry service to resume by Saturday. Runners from Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and New Jersey, with trouble reaching Manhattan, will be bused directly from those areas to the start. Organizers planned to release complete details on transportation Friday. Many of the nearly 30,000 out-of-town entrants were still scrambling to get to New York, aided somewhat by the reopening of the area's three major airports. Wittenberg predicted more than 8,000 of the 47,500 entrants originally expected won't make it. Kenyan runners, including men's favorites Wilson Kipsang and Moses Mosop, flew from Nairobi to London to Boston, then drove to New York, arriving late Wednesday. Favorites in the women's race include Olympic gold medalist Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia, bronze medalist Tatyana Arkhipova of Russia and world champion Edna Kiplagat of Kenya. The course winds from Staten Island to Brooklyn, then Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and back into Manhattan for the finish in Central Park. The park was still closed Thursday, but will be ready by Sunday. The route has never included areas hit hard by flooding, such as Coney Island and Lower Manhattan Meantime, many locals prepared for the race while coping with the messes Sandy left behind. Latif Peracha was evacuated from the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca. While his building is flooded, his sixth-floor apartment is fine but he can't move back until next Thursday at the earliest. Meantime, he is staying with a friend. He knew his first marathon was going to be special; now he believes it's so much more. "I think it'll be a great testament to the city's resilience," he said. Dave Reeder was supposed to fly from Denver to LaGuardia on Thursday with his wife and two children. Then they saw the photos of the flooded airport. Should they still try to make the trip? The race felt a bit "frivolous," he said.
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== Licensing ==
== Fair use ==
It is believed that this image, Book-IncredibleJourney.jpg, is subject to fair use in the article The Incredible Journey because:
This image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes the person in question for which it promotes. It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality). It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work. No free or public domain images have been located for this item. Creator/Source: Harpercollins
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Justin Mortimer is an American former world champion swimmer. ==College career==
Mortimer was a 13-time All-American for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. ==International career==
At the 2003 Summer Universiade Mortimer took silver in the 400m freestyle. At the 2005 Summer Universiade Mortimer took gold in the 1500m freestyle, silver in the 400m freestyle, and bronze as part of the 4x200 relay team. At the 2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Mortimer was a gold medalist as part of the United States 4x200 relay team as well as a bronze medalist in the 400m freestyle. ==References==
Living people
American male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
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Japan intervenes in currency markets to weaken the yen
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Man stabbed by gang of youths in Govan
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Iraq poll in doubt after veto of election law Iraq's general election planned for January was thrown into doubt on Wednesday after Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi announced his veto of the election law. "On November 15, I sent a letter to parliament asking for the law to be amended. Parliament said I could veto the contested first article (of the law), which is what I have done today," Hashemi said. Parliament must now reopen debate on the proposed law, leading to a likely delay of the polling date. The war-torn country's presidential council, composed of President Jalal Talabani and two vice presidents, has demanded a greater say in the election for minorities and nationals living abroad. MPs had finally passed the electoral law for the contest earlier this month after several weeks of wrangling. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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(Михал Орела )
==Retrofit topic year headers/subpages==
18-Nov-2008: I have added subheaders above as "Topics from 2006" (etc.) to emphasize the dates of topics in the talk-page. Older topics might still apply, but using the year headers helps to focus on more current issues as well. Afterward I inserted missing topic headers. Then I added "Talk-page subpages" beside the TOC. -Wikid77 (talk)
==Unprovable generalities==
18-Nov-2008: Article text must be verifiable (per policy VERIFY), and sweeping generalities, such as "most users prefer" cannot be proven. Even if Albert Einstein had said, "95% of people are not psycho"...that is not proof, because it requires knowing all people, "95% of (all) people": the most that could appear in an article is a quote from Einstein about a generality. I will comment-out the following text, which states 5 generalities:
"These concepts in turn intrigued many bright, young, often underemployed people (many of Generation X), who realized that new business models would soon arise based on these possibilities, and wanted to be among the first to profit...." -Removed 18Nov08
Perhaps that text could be a quote from a recognized dotcom expert, but it should not be stated as absolutely true in Wikipedia. Beware of text that claims "many" or "most" or "all" as generalities, which are difficult to prove for small groups, and almost impossible to prove for large populations. Also see: PEACOCK. -Wikid77 (talk)
== web and business ==
How can the web change a business? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.100.36.24 (talk)
== Challenges to the Web ==
I suggest the article could be enhanced by a section with this title or similar. One fact it might detail is the first version of the Microsoft Network, which was designed as a proprietary Web killer, and for a few months in 1995 seemed a strong contender, (with many companies designing twin sites, one for the Web and one for MSN), before Microsoft admitted defeat to the Web. This crucial history tends to be sidelined or forgotten in the telling of the greater story. Engleham (talk)
=Topics from 2009=
==Unassessed?==
The article is a failed GA nominee. Why is this not even assessed to B-class? =Hypertext and Engelbart=
There is no mention of Douglas Engelbart pioneering hypertext in his NLS (see also The Mother of All Demos) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.70.41.213 (talk)
== Invalid Markup ==
I have noticed that in the fourth paragraph there is some invalid Markup Code. == 1980–1991: Development of the World Wide Web==
dia, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. BetacommandBot (talk)
==Provision of exact citation for the creation of the name World Wide Web==
I notice that there is a request for citations. In particular, Berners-Lee settled on the name WorldWideWeb (no spaces). This is reported on page 29 of the paperback edition of the book Weaving the Web...
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However, as I was about to edit, I checked further and discovered an earlier text on p.23 which seems more appropriate. (Михал Орела )
Done! The needs citation marker has been removed. (Михал Орела )
==Provision of exact citation for the SLAC web server==
done! (Михал Орела )
==Removal of the Unreferenced notice==
I do not see any other "citation required" items. Hence I removed "{{Unreferenced|date=November 2007}}" so that the article does not look like it is being ignored by editors.
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Paola Pivi - "Ok, you are better than me, so what?" - "Audible Presence" - NYTimes.com 909 Madison Avenue, at 73rd Street Through Oct. 26 Dominique Lévy 909 Madison Avenue Through Nov. 16 There are several ways to describe the frisson between the shows with which Galerie Perrotin, of Paris, and Dominique Lévy have inaugurated their galleries, in a former bank. Ms. Lévy's show of works by Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein and Cy Twombly, plus Mr. Perrotin's show of new work by the Italian Conceptual sculptor Paola Pivi, equals handmade versus factory-made, pre-Pop versus post-Pop, then versus now. Sharing market hotness, they form a useful core sample. On Perrotin's lower level, Ms. Pivi - for whom excess is a frequent theme - is showing "Money machine (true blue, baby I love you)," a big, grim blue metal cube that regularly disgorges a few coins or $1 bills from one of three slots. This possible commentary on buying art as investment is undermined by Ms. Pivi's ground-floor display. Here eight life-size stuffed polar bears cavort in hides of neon-colored parrot feathers. Conjuring two threatened species, the bears comment on - but also satisfy expensive tastes for - big art, exotic animals and pricey children's toys à la F.A.O. Schwarz. That's called having it both ways. Upstairs Ms. Levy's exhibition features often little-known works by the three revered artists (all dead) who exaggerated or abused painting to good effect. Twombly often treated stretched canvas as a writing surface. Excellent examples of Mr. Fontana's punctured or slashed canvases are here, but the main attraction is the biomorphic plaster ceiling decoration he designed for a home in 1949 in Milan. Klein is best represented by a rare white sponge painting and an installation involving quantities of his signature eye-searing blue, on the ground and on six hanging dowels of wood. You may want to compare the time spent with both shows.
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Jaguar and Williams to produce electric supercar The British car maker plans to produce 250 of the C-X75, which was first unveiled at the Paris Motor Show last year as a concept car. Carl-Peter Forster, head of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata Motors, said the car was a "showcase of what the UK can do." The hybrid car will be able to reach 60 miles per hour (mph) in three seconds, and have a top speed of more than 200 mph. The car will be powered with two electric motors combined with a petrol engine. It will be able to travel for more than 30 miles using only its electric engines, according to Jaguar. Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW have also announced plans to build electric supercars. The limited run of C-X75's wil be produced 2013 and 2015.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was keep. Renaming can be done boldly through the usual channels. The Bushranger One ping only
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Original research, and no relevant hits for "false document" on Google Books. I suggest a redirect to exposition. Spannerjam (talk)
Neutral. This article suffers from a severe lack of focus. Despite the assertion in the lead that "a false document should not be confused with a mockumentary", it then goes on to list scores of mockumentaries as examples. There's a few flat-out forgeries mixed in, and there's a lot of crossover with fictional book, epistolary novel and found footage (genre). As far as I can tell from the lead, I think this article's supposed to be about novels which cite, and quote from, non-existent documents, in order to create a sense of authenticity. While I did find a few sources that use the term "false document" to refer to some sort of literary device, none of them appear to define it in the same way as the article. For example, in this New York Times article, Eileen Pollack (who apparently taught a seminar on the subject) says that the intent of a false document isn't to fool anyone, but to "make them think about the nature of reality"; she gives Spinal Tap and the Blair Witch Project as examples. The book Twisted Society (p. 288, footnote 347) describes Robinson Crusoe as a false document because it is "an account of supposedly factual events that never occured". And then there's Fiction as False Document, which is about the work of E. L. Doctorow, who incorporates real historical figures into his novels to blur the line between fact and fiction. All of these sources seem to be using the term to loosely mean "fiction presented as fact", which is a bit too broad a subject for a Wikipedia article, encompassing pretty much any book, film, etc that claims to be based on a true story. Nevertheless, I'm reluctant to!vote delete because I'm certain that false documents as defined by this article are a real phenomenon – I've come across them often enough – and I'm surprised that I can't find any sources discussing the concept. One book mentioned in the article, The Invention of False Medieval Authorities as a Literary Device in Popular Fiction, is more the kind of thing I was hoping to find, but it's only available in snippet view. Worth noting, however, that the term "false document" doesn't appear anywhere in the book, so there's probably a different name for this kind of thing. I'll keep looking. DoctorKubla (talk)
Just because the concept is real, does not mean the term is (a supposed literary technique). But perhaps I misunderstood you? Spannerjam (talk)
If the concept is real but the term isn't, the article should be renamed rather than deleted. Hence my!vote below. DoctorKubla (talk)
Keep and rename. I'm satisfied now that the concept of citing non-existent documents to lend credibility to a work of fiction is a real and notable literary technique, used by Steven King, Enchi Fumiko, Edmund Morris, Alan Moore, Chaucer (who cites Corynne and Lollius), and Isaac Asimov, among others. But the term "false document" is generally used to mean something different, so the article should be renamed to something more appropriate (I'd suggest Fictional document). And it goes without saying that the listcruft should be substantially cut back. DoctorKubla (talk)
Comment WP has difficulty holding on to articles about concepts, even well-known ones, when the concept doesn't have a specific name. I wonder if that is the situation here. I find myself agreeing with what the good Doctor says and I'll have a further think. If it is relevant the article started out life in 2001 (!) and has had many editors. There is also False documents. Thincat (talk)
This is absolutely a relevant and significant concept
Keep, rename, refocus. See also Necronomicon. Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.
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MGM declares bankruptcy after Icahn agrees plan Legendary Hollywood film studio MGM declared bankruptcy Wednesday, with reorganization plans approved by billionaire investor Carl Icahn under an agreement with Spyglass Entertainment. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court seeking approval of a "pre-packaged" plan approved by its creditors after rejecting a takeover offer from Lionsgate and its biggest shareholder, Icahn. The plan allows the company's secured lenders to exchange more than four billion dollars in outstanding debt for most of the equity in MGM upon its emergence from bankruptcy protection, the company said in a statement. The main difference between the plan submitted Wednesday and another approved by its major creditors on Friday is linked to Spyglass, which recently released the Clint Eastwood-directed film "Invictus" and is preparing to release "The Tourist" with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. An MGM spokeswoman told AFP that in exchange for Icahn's support of the bankruptcy reorganization plan, Spyglass's existing catalog would not part of the deal, but future films would be included. According to media reports, Icahn thought the previous plan overvalued the Spyglass catalog. The size of Spyglass's stake in the reorganized MGM was not disclosed in the statement. Initially, Spyglass would have taken about five percent of the shares. In addition, Spyglass founding bosses Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum would not head the board of the new MGM. Instead, they would serve as co-chief executives of MGM Holdings Inc. and as co-chairmen and co-CEOS of the primary operating subsidiary of MGM Holdings Inc. Icahn said in a separate statement that he will be able to name a board member. MGM said it hopes the modified plan will be confirmed by the court within about 30 days. "For many months, we have been working with our lenders to explore the strategic options available to MGM to improve MGM's financial position and maximize the company's value," co-CEO Steve Cooper said. "By sharply reducing MGM's debt load and providing access to new capital, the proposed plan of reorganization achieves these goals... We now look forward to quickly emerging from Chapter 11." Famous for its trademark roaring lion logo, MGM has the Bond franchise as well as the "Pink Panther" and "Rocky" series. The studio, with a 4,000-strong back catalog that also includes "The Wizard of Oz" and "Singin' in the Rain," has been struggling in recent years, and its owners put it up for sale a year ago. Several candidates emerged, including US-Canadian studio Lionsgate, as well as America's Liberty Media, Australian-born US media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and India's Reliance Entertainment. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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In June “Hamlet”, with Matthew O'Sullivan in the title role, was staged at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Official recognition also came with a one-off grant of $8,000 from the Australia Council and $1,000 from the NSW Government. A double bill of Ionesco's “The Lesson” and Olwyn Wymark's “Lunchtime Concert” played through September-October; “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Becket was staged in October-November. The year ended with a revue, “And Now at Last the Nibble Nobby's Nuts Show”, devised and directed by Rodney Delaney (who was also in the cast) and, by day, Matthew O'Sullivan's adaptation (he also directed) of “Winnie The Pooh”. === The Staff ===
The company comprised a core group of five people – Rodney Delaney and Matthew O'Sullivan (the two artistic directors), administrator Michael Tobin, Sonia Lester (public relations and marketing) and stage manager Tony Wright (who also directed “The Happy Apples”). Guest directors were hired for ”Hamlet”, “Lunchtime Concert” and “Waiting for Godot”. === The Third Year ===
The company went into its third year with a major reconfiguration of the acting space. A triangular stage was created in the centre of the hall with raked bench seating on two sides, seating approximately 100 people. The year began with a revival of Harold Pinter's “The Caretaker” in March, directed this time by Alan Faulkner, but the repertoire system of two plays was resumed in June with “The ‘Naked’ Hamlet”, Joseph Papp's radical reworking of “Hamlet”, and Tom Stoppard's “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”. The latter play hadn’t been seen in Sydney since its original production and became one of the company’s biggest successes. Both plays were directed by Rodney Delaney with a total of twelve actors - the largest casts employed so far. The cast played the same roles in both productions with Peter de Salis as Hamlet, Les Asmussen and Scott Lambert as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. September and October saw a children's play, “The Tails of Koalaroo” during the day, and Ibsen's “Ghosts” and “City Sugar” by Stephen Poliakoff with Bevan Wilson(another Australian premiere) alternating at night. November-December brought another Pinter play, the Australian premiere of “No Man's Land” with Rodney Delaney directing veteran British actor Alexander Archdale. === The Last Year ===
Shakespeare's “Othello” was the opening production of 1978, and Matthew O'Sullivan's final production as co-artistic director. The eight week season was almost booked out before it opened but a huge fire in the block behind the Ultimo theatre forced the closure of the building for some weeks. The Mayfair Theatre, an 800-seat Hoyts cinema in the Sydney CBD, was offered as an alternative. “Othello” transferred there for a further week before a short tour to NSW regional centres. Othello was initially played by Fred Steele, the first time in Australia that the role had been played by an African-American actor. The Actors’ Company Theatre reopened with a production of “Romeo and Juliet” directed by Steve Agnew. This was followed by the company’s most successful production, both critically and financially:
Rodney Delaney directed “The Glass Menagerie” with Shirley Cameron and Diana O’Connor. “Razzle Dazzle, the Silver Screen Blues” with Sally McKenzie occupied the late-night spot. Amanda Field directed another children’s show at this time: “The Ugly Duckling” with Bernadette Ludwig. In September-October the Company did three Australian works: David Williamson’s “The Removalists”, “Halloran’s Little Boat” by Thomas Keneally and “An Evening with Adolf Hitler”. This latter was the world premiere of a play co-written by poet and playwright Jennifer Compton and Matthew O’Sullivan, who also directed and played Hitler. The Actors’ Company did its first (and as it turned out, only) musical in December 1978.
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