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== Summary ==
== Fair Use rationale for image use on American Luthier==
This is a poster for Randy Parsons: American Luthier. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, David Aldrich, the publisher of the film, or the graphic artist. Source: The poster art can or could be obtained from David Aldrich. It is available on-line. It is anticipated that the entire poster image will be used because the image is poster art, a form of product packaging or service marketing, the entire image is needed to identify the product or service, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image. The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original poster. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as counterfeit artwork, pirate versions or for uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork. The purpose of use is for the Main infobox of an article that will be written about the film. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work, product or service for which it serves as poster art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work product or service and know they have found what they are looking for.Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the creator providing graphic design services, and in turn the marketing of the promoted item. As film poster art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the same artwork or poster would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary. Use of the poster art in the intended article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above. Souris40 (talk)
== Licensing ==
Film poster images
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Disabling WikEd did. WikEd 0.9.36; Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11. No changes in my.js or.css in weeks but using Lupin's popups. Thanks. Saintrain
Strange, when I use the same Firefox version (I keep an outdated version for testing purposes) and even your monobook.js, everything works fine for me. Do you see any error messages related to that in the JavaScript console under Tools? Does anybody else have the same problem? Cacycle
Stranger. Post-double-check: behavior doesn't happen when editing this page or Gilliam class attack transport but does in USS Barrow (APA-61) and (the page I first noticed) Saintrain/S2/Barrow!? Saintrain
Thanks for spotting that! What was it? I took quite a few tries to get rid of it in Saintrain/S2/Barrow How do I not type that again? Saintrain
I do: Right now I can't seem to edit Infobox Amtrak.Circeus
It's on the 6th line at ';">ssion to use the program on a wiki other than Wikipedia, however, how do you copy the image files (buttons, etc.) to that wiki? I use the MediaWiki software internally on my network, which is not connected to the internet; therefore I have to copy the entire program. Thank you! HeathersAngel
The images are here: Images, copy them to your network (e.g. upload them to your wiki). Add the new image addresses as a user customization array instead of changing the code, that way you could update simply by copying the code. If you get it to work, maybe you could write a short how-to... Cacycle
I have created a working version of that howto/faq at my page: HeathersAngel/wikEd_Local_Install I maintain it on my own system as well, and if anyone makes suggestions to the instructions I will merge everything. Thank you! I have edited your draft, some things can be done easier. Cacycle
Thanks for your effort, I have now updated the wikEd homepage, see Cacycle/wikEd#Wikis_without_internet_connection. It is actually much easier than you thought... Cacycle
The uploaded file prefixes will always be the same because they are calculated from the filename. Cacycle
== troubleshooting local(offline) installation ==
first of all- Thanks for this Great tool! Hi my name is Paul I'm real new to wikipedia.. (wikipedia username:gargamel573)
I read your comment about using wiked offline (LAN for ex)
I'm having trouble with the local wiked.js file. what template should i use to store it on my mediawiki installation? -instead of the following in your original wiked.js page:
/* */
I pasted the installation code into common.js with a link to the local wiked.js file but after refresh the editor does not appear (it does appear when i link to your (Cacycle's) user page on wikipedia...)
any help greatly appreciated! Thanks
Paul gargamel573
You have to copy the whole program code to your wiked.js and use the adjusted complete (non-template) installation code in common.js. It it doesn't work please check the JavaScript error console (under Tools). Cacycle
Thanks for the reply!
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==Fair use rationale for Image:4375.png==
4375.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page. If there is other fair use media, 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. — Save_Us_229
==Fair use rationale for Image:Q4 spear.jpg==
Q4 spear.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page. If there is other fair use media, 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. — Save_Us_229
== Infobox ==
In the Infobox, the "Platform(s)" field specifies "PC". I think that the "Platform(s)" field should specify a value or values from the " Supported platforms" section of the Vgclegend template. For example, if Spear of Destiny (video game) only runs on MS-DOS, then Spear of Destiny (video game)'s Infobox should specify "DOS" in the "Platform(s)" field. ProResearcher (talk)
== Lost Episodes "palette swaps"? ==
"The Lost Episodes contain new level textures and new palette swaps of old enemies." I was the one who originally changed it to claim it was not a palette swap. It has since been reverted. The statement, however, is false- it is not a palette swap. Let me make concessions:
yes, the source does say "These add-ons have some new level graphics and some differently colored actors", and that could be interpreted to mean it is a palette swap
yes, the games Spear of Destiny and its episodes Return to Danger and Ultimate Challenge are extremely similar, to the point of using the same executable file
yes, the Guards in the games are functionally identical as a result of using the same executable, as well as visibly similar
yes, my edit was not very eloquently worded... However, I maintain that it is not a palette swap. The Apogee FAQ hardly seems like an end-of-everything source. They didn't even have anything to do with the release of the Lost Episodes, they didn't even sell them at any point I don't think. They were just making a FAQ for Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. Furthermore, visibly, it is clear that the two guards' frames are not palette swaps of one another. Compare:
an animated GIF of the Guard from Wolfenstein 3D (identical to that from the original Spear)
an animated GIF of the Guard as he appears in the Lost Episodes. (Both GIFS were made by me in days past from extracted game files and uploaded to the Wikia Wolfenstein Wiki, of which I am the chief contributor and administrator.) The movements are completely different, beyond the definition of a "palette swap", though yes, they are similar. "Differently colored" just refers to the obvious fact that one is brown, one is green.
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10,000 people fear dead in C. Philippines by typhoon "Haiyan" • An estimated 10,000 people in central Philippine province of Leyte might be killed by typhoon "Haiyan." • The national government departments and disaster agency have not confirmed the figure yet. • A team of 120 police has been sent to Tacloban city, as reports said looting occurred in the city. Click here for more photos>>> MANILA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 10,000 people in central Philippine province of Leyte might be killed by super typhoon "Haiyan," local media reported Sunday. The figure was based on estimates of officials in Tacloban city, the worst hit capital of Leyte province, after a meeting last night with the governor of Leyte, local newspaper inquirer quoted regional police chief Elmer Soria as saying. The national government departments and disaster agency have not confirmed the figure yet. "I don't know how to describe what I saw. It's horrific," Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas, who flew to Tacloban city on Saturday, said on television footage. The city became dark everywhere due to interruption of power supply, he added. Roxas admitted the government found it difficult to give an accurate count of the extent of casualties after communication lines in hard-hit areas were cut off. A team of 120 police has been sent to Tacloban city, as reports said looting occurred in the city. Related: 125,604 people evacuated as supertyphoon lands in Philippines MANILA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least 125,604 people have evacuated to safe places as typhoon "Haiyan," believed to be the strongest cyclone of this year in the world, made a landfall over Guiuan municipality in eastern Samar of the Philippines Friday morning.Full Story Schools close, thousands flee as Supertyphoon Haiyan nears S. Philippines DAVAO CITY, Philippines, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Classes in some provinces of southern Philippines were canceled Thursday as supertyphoon Haiyan came nearer to the country's eastern coast.Full Story
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The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was a military operation in the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) in which an English fleet under Admiral Robert Blake attacked a Spanish treasure fleet that had already landed the treasure at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. Most of the Spanish merchantmen were scuttled and the remainder were burnt by the English. ==Background==
England had decided to support France in her war in the Low Countries with the Spanish. War was openly declared in October 1655 and endorsed when the Second Protectorate Parliament assembled the following year. One of the prime enterprises was the blockade of Cadiz, which had not previously been attempted on such a scale. Robert Blake was to be in charge and also to come up with methods that he had used in his previous encounters with the Dutch and Barbary pirates. Blake kept the fleet at sea throughout an entire winter in order to maintain the blockade. A further six ships were sent from England as reinforcements towards the end of 1656, including the George, which became Blake's flagship. In February 1657, Blake received intelligence that the convoy from Mexico was on its way across the Atlantic. Although his captains wanted to search for the Spanish galleons immediately, Blake refused to divide his forces and waited until victualling ships from England arrived to re-provision his fleet at the end of March. In the meantime a Spanish convoy was destroyed by one of Blake's captains: Richard Stayner. After this Blake (with only two ships to watch Cadiz), sailed from Cadiz Bay on 13 April 1657 to attack the plate fleet, which had docked at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands to await an escort to Spain. Blake's fleet arrived off Santa Cruz on 19 April. Santa Cruz lies in a deeply indented bay and the harbour was defended by a castle armed with forty guns and a number of smaller forts connected by a triple line of breastworks to shelter musketeers. In an operation similar to the raid on the Barbary pirates of Porto Farina in Tunisia in 1655, Blake planned to send twelve frigates under the command of (now) Rear-Admiral Stayner in the Speaker into the harbour to attack the galleons while he followed in the George with the rest of the fleet to bombard the shore batteries. ==Battle==
The attack began at 9 o'clock in the morning of 20 April. Stayner's division manoeuvred alongside the Spanish ships, which protected the English ships to some extent from the guns of the castle and forts. No shot was fired from the English ships until they had moved into position and dropped anchor. Blake saw what the Spanish had not; that the six galleons masked the fire of the other ten ships. While the frigates attacked the galleons, Blake's heavier warships sailed into the harbour to bombard the shore defences. Blake ordered that no prizes were to be taken; the Spanish fleet was to be utterly destroyed. Most of the Spanish fleet, made up of smaller armed merchantmen and were quickly silenced by the superior gunnery of Stayner's warships. The two great galleons fought on for several hours. Blake's division cleared the breastworks and smaller forts; smoke from the gunfire and burning ships worked to the advantage of the English by obscuring their ships from the Spanish batteries. Around noon, the flagship of the Spanish admiral Don Diego de Egues caught fire; shortly afterwards it was destroyed when the powder magazine exploded. English sailors took to boats to board Spanish ships and set them on fire. By 3 o'clock in the afternoon, all sixteen Spanish ships in the harbour were sunk, surrendered or ablaze. Contrary to orders, the Swiftsure and four other frigates each took a surrendered ship as a prize and attempted to tow it out of the harbour. Blake sent peremptory orders that the prizes were to be burnt. He had to repeat his order three times before the reluctant captains obeyed. Having achieved its objective of destroying the Spanish vessels, the English fleet was faced with the hazardous task of withdrawing from Santa Cruz harbour under continuing fire from the forts. According to accounts the wind miraculously shifted from the north-east to the south-west at exactly the right moment to carry Blake's ships out of the harbour; however, this story is probably based upon a misunderstanding of a report pertaining to general weather conditions on the voyage as a whole. The English fleet worked its way back out to the open sea by warping out, or hauling on anchor ropes, a tactic Blake had introduced during the raid on Porto Farina. The Speaker, which was the first ship to enter the harbour and last to leave, had been badly damaged, but no English ships were lost in the battle.
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Cities in Hiroshima Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. Also see Dissolved municipalities of Hiroshima Prefecture. Populated places in Hiroshima Prefecture
Hiroshima
Hirosima-koān ê chhī-teng-chhoan
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Royal Bank of Scotland investigation: the full story of how the 'world's biggest bank' went bust After trying to hold the "no publication line" for a week, the FSA folded "at the first sound of grapeshot" according to one key banking figure. They would produce some form of report this month which would give more detailed findings and outline the lessons learnt from the financial debacle. The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph have for the past two months conducted their own investigation into the circumstances surrounding RBS's failure, interviewing for the first time more than 20 senior managers both within RBS and across the financial sector, politicians, Whitehall officials and others involved with the events running up to the multi-billion-pound bail-out. Many of the people have never spoken before about the circumstances surrounding the collapse and many of them have not been spoken to by the FSA. The investigation has also uncovered diaries of key protagonists and never-before-seen internal documents that add more detail on the inner workings of the bank and how it imploded so spectacularly. The result is the most detailed account yet of how a small Scottish retail bank was transformed in less than two decades into not just one of Britain's, but one of the world's largest banks. And how it went from a position of global leadership to basket case - a failure at the height of the financial crisis that almost brought down the entire UK financial system. At its most basic, this is the story of The Bank That Went Bust.
In late 2005, Sir Fred Goodwin, RBS chief executive, was having a crisis of confidence. Not one given over to self doubt, he nevertheless had been struck by some sharp personal criticisms. Shareholders were angry about the recent £5.8bn acquisition of Charter One in the US - which had not been a good deal - and had banned him from making any more purchases. Then, in August, James Eden, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, said the unthinkable. "Some of our investors think Sir Fred is a megalomaniac who cares more about size than shareholder value," he told the then RBS chairman, Sir George Mathewson, at a public analyst meeting. "It was as though he was saying the emperor has no clothes," one senior RBS director recalled. Suddenly, Sir Fred, who for years had gone unchallenged after building a fierce reputation on the acquisition of NatWest in 2000, was forced to confront his shortcomings. "He had an extended period off over Christmas, about six weeks on and off, when he thought about leaving," one senior aide said. Another director confirmed that Sir Fred considered resigning because "the shareholder thing was niggling [him]." It could have been a turning point. But Sir Fred stayed. In the new year, 2006, he made an immediate change. He responded to shareholders" demands for better returns in the only way he considered possible - to release RBS's until then relatively slow-growing investment bank. Global Banking & Markets (GBM) and UK Corporate Banking would grow their combined balance sheet over the next two years, increasing its assets from £500bn to £830bn. In 2008, excluding the distorting effects of the ABN Amro acquisition, GBM alone would account for almost half the group's total risk-weighted assets - £195bn of a total £482bn. Put simply, Sir Fred had bet the bank on GBM even before he doubled down with the calamitous acquisition of ABN Amro. Naturally suspicious of investment bankers, Sir Fred had previously resisted pressure from Johnny Cameron and Brian Crowe - the heads of GBM - to expand their empire. With nowhere left to turn for the results shareholders craved, he now gave his investment banking deputies the order to deliver growth. "Cameron never had to bid for capital [to support growth]. That was where the risk committee was so poor," the former RBS director said. But, initially, it worked. GBM delivered. Sir Fred's confidence redoubled. His notorious ego grew larger. He had beaten his demons. "When he decided to stay, that's when things got really bad," the director recollected. "He had survived. He began to think he was invincible." The expansion of a commercial and retail bank into investment banking was in keeping with the fashion of the times. Barclays was already well on the way to becoming a vehicle for the ambitions of its investment bank, Barclays Capital. And at the summit stood investment banking thoroughbreds like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, which seemed to offer those with the guts and capital to copy their models the chance to make the kind of money in a year retail banks would take decades to earn.
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EU's 'biggest synthetic drugs site' found in Belgium 23 October 2013 Last updated at 17:09 Police in Belgium have uncovered what is said to be the biggest synthetic drugs production site in the EU, inside an old pig shed, making five arrests. They swooped on the site near the north-eastern town of Opglabbeek, close to the Dutch border, Europe's police intelligence agency Europol said. Four Dutchmen and one Belgian man were arrested on suspicion of belonging to an organised crime group. Shortly after the raid, a suspicious fire broke out in the shed. The site was reportedly equipped to produce several hundred kilos of ecstasy a week. Spread over 1,000 sq m (10,764 sq ft), it contained high volume custom-made equipment, Europol said. Police seized and removed 35 tonnes of chemicals, finding materials and products valued at around 3m euros (£2.5m; $4.1m). Europol described it in a press release as the "largest synthetic drugs production site ever found in the EU." However, in August, synthetic drugs were found at a laboratory in southern Belgium with a street value of 1.3bn euros, according to Belgian prosecutors. Europol could not be reached for comment on Wednesday afternoon. 'Huge fire' "With a street value of between 2,250 to 6,000 euros per kilo, MDMA [ecstasy] produced from this laboratory is likely to have resulted in several million euros of turnover each month during active production," Europol said after the new find. The raid took place on Friday but was only reported by Europol on Wednesday. In the early hours of Monday, a suspicious fire broke out in the pig shed, destroying equipment which had not been removed by police. "The fire was so huge that the exact cause cannot yet be confirmed. However, due to the suspicious circumstances, police cannot rule out that it may have been a deliberate attempt to destroy evidence," Europol said. The laboratory found in August was discovered in a rural area near Chimay. Nine men and two women, aged 30 to 50, were arrested and charged with possessing, manufacturing and trafficking drugs. The suspects, from Belgium, Turkey and Poland, were part of an international criminal group, police said. Europol supported Belgian authorities with intelligence analysis during the latest operation and Europol experts helped dismantle the laboratory. "Large-scale MDMA production is back in the EU and we will make it a priority to identify the organised criminal structures responsible," Michael Rauschenbach, Europol's head of serious and organised crime, said on Wednesday.
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Lebanon plane crash: pictures of the Ethiopian Airlines 737 that crashed into the sea off Beirut
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A Chance to Learn From a Senseless Death On Jan. 12, three sheriff's deputies moonlighting as mall security guards in Frederick County, Md., assaulted and killed a 26-year-old man, Robert Ethan Saylor, who had refused to leave his seat in a movie theater. Mr. Saylor suffocated on the floor, on his stomach, hands cuffed behind him. His death was ruled a homicide. The deputies" handling of an unarmed, vulnerable young man with an intellectual disability (Mr. Saylor had Down syndrome) was plainly lethal and incompetent. A county grand jury declined to bring criminal charges, but the Justice Department is investigating whether Mr. Saylor's civil rights were violated. As Mr. Saylor's family and disability-rights advocates await answers, Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland is doing something useful. On Monday, he announced the creation of a commission to examine how law-enforcement officers, paramedics and others deal with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Saylor case has exposed gaping deficiencies in law-enforcement training, which often fails to distinguish between mental illness and mental disability. Mr. Saylor might have been stubborn and argumentative, but he was not mentally ill or a criminal. Those who know him insist that the encounter could have been defused with patience and sensitivity. Three deputies who lacked understanding of mental disabilities might have benefited from practical instruction, which the Frederick County sheriff acknowledged no one in his department had ever received. The chairman of the governor's commission is Timothy Shriver, chairman and chief executive of the Special Olympics, the international movement dedicated to raising that understanding. If the Maryland commission comes up with policies and practices that change the way agencies see and treat those with disabilities and prevent future tragedies, it will have delivered a measure of recompense for Mr. Saylor's senseless death. It is charged with producing a preliminary report by Jan. 9, which would have been Mr. Saylor's 27th birthday.
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Nurse who silenced baby's heart alarm struck off Last Updated: 5:14PM BST 20 May 2009 Nicola Waterfall ignored the six-month-old's alarm while working on the high dependency section of a ward at the hospital. A disciplinary panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council found Miss Waterfall had been involved with previous incidents of "defective performance" and ruled she was still a "danger to the public." The panel ruled the 31-year-old from north London was not fit to practice and she was struck off the register following the incident during a night shift in January 2006. The hearing was told Miss Waterfall turned off the baby's emergency alarm so she could talk to the parents of a child in another bed. The alarm would only sound if the baby's heart level had fallen to a dangerously low level. The hearing was told the nurse had been seconded to the ward from another unit in the hospital. The panel said: "An emergency alarm was sounding because the baby's heart rate had fallen to a dangerously low level. "Miss Waterfall's attention should have been fully occupied with her patient. "Instead she seems to have given priority to the conversation she was having with the parents of the other child. "She should not have taken her attention away from her patient, even for a short period. "The alarm was sounding at its highest level, indicating an emergency. "Miss Waterfall turned to silence the alarm, then turned back to the parents and continued to talk to them." Between 2001 and 2006 Miss Waterfall had been involved in "numerous serious incidents of defective performance," the hearing was told. The panel said: "Some of these have endangered the lives of the patients under her care. "The hospital seems to have given her every possible support to improve her practice." Miss Waterfall did not attend the hearing.
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Pumped full of character: Listed art-deco garage restored and converted into flats after falling into disrepair Petrol station was built in 1934 but closed in 1973 and went unloved for 40 years It has been lovingly restored to its former art-deco glory and converted into luxury apartments A two-bedroom flat in the complex costs £300,000 By James Drummond
Complete with swaying palm trees, this stunning art-deco building would not look out of place on the French Riviera. But it's actually in West Sussex and has been lovingly restored to its former glory after failing into a state of disrepair. The 1930s petrol station - called the Manor Road Garage - has been converted into a series of luxury apartment, with a two-bedroom flat on the market for £300,000. Former glory: This stunning art-deco petrol station in West Sussex has been converted into luxury apartments after being ignored for 40 years Unloved: The Manor Road Garage was built in the art-deco style in 1934 but it closed in the 1970s and was left abandoned for four decades As these stunning images show, the weed-infested court yard has been stripped and replaced by gleaming tarmac. And the four petrol pubs, faded by the sun, and four decades of neglect have been buffed, shined and painted a brilliant yellow. The windows that were previously boarded up have been replaced and restored to their former glory. Eerie: With weeds growing in the forecourt and the facade boarded up, the garage in East Preston was a shell of its former self Transformation: The pumps, which were installed in the late 1940s or early 1950s, add to the character of this unique art-deco listed garage The sign, saying 'Manor Road Garage', remains but it has been repainted and now stands in front of four fully lit up Shell petrol pumps. The façade and the four petrol pumps were awarded Grade II listed status six years ago by English Heritage, making in a building of "national importance" and "special interest." Its front was built in 1934 in the "moderne" - or art deco - style, with the petrol pumps added sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s and described as "very rare survivals" by British Listed Buildings. The garage, in East Preston, was a working petrol station until 1973 and was run by John Lillywhite, who died in 1997. Groundwork: The foundations are laid behind the original art-deco facade, which was given a Grade II listing by English Heritage in 2007 When the garage was cleared a decade later, vintage Rolls Royces, MGs and a grey Fergie tractor were all found in various states of disrepair inside. Estate agents Glyn Jones said: "A truly stunning redevelopment of this art modern 1930s building. "There is just one remaining apartment that offers the potential purchaser a unique property with very highest level of specification and period features. 'Features include a fantastic open plan living space, two bedrooms, en-suite, off road parking, 125 year lease, luxury kitchen and shower room and landscaped communal gardens. "It is pleasantly situated within a half a mile from East Preston seafront and approximately one and a half miles from Rustington village.' A two-bed flat in the property fetches nearly £300,000, double the cost of the average apartment in West Sussex, which comes in at £159,000. Art-deco: This unique building sits flush against a row of terraced houses in East Preston, West Sussex Proud: The garage was a working petrol station until 1973 and was run by John Lillywhite (left), who died in 1997 but it fell into disrepair until it was lovingly restored Luxury: A two-bedroom flat in the art-deco complex costs £300,000 to buy... but there's only one left A room with a view: A two-bed apartment in Manor Road Garage costs £300,000 - double the average cost of a flat in West Sussex True to form: The inside of the flats are also styled in art-deco, with the use of rounded plastics and varnished floors in the kitchen ART-DECO: A style that embodied the optimism of the 1920s The style we now call art-deco originated in France in the early 20th Century, and its heyday was from 1920 to 1940. It became widely known following the great Exposition des Arts Modernes Decoratifs et Industriels, held in Paris in 1925. Art-deco expressed all the vigor and optimism of the roaring twenties, and the idealism and escapism of the grim thirties.
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Shane Williams out for 10 weeks Wales wing Shane Williams will be out of action for at least 10 weeks after dislocating his left shoulder, it was announced here on Monday. Williams is now doubtful for the start of Wales's Six Nations Championship campaign in February, never mind he has no chance of playing in either of his country's remaining Tests this month here at the Millennium Stadium, against Fiji on Friday and New Zealand a week later. The Ospreys flyer suffered the injury just before half-time during last weekend's 29-25 loss at home to world champions South Africa. "A scan has revealed that Shane did, as was thought, dislocate his shoulder, before it immediately moved back into place," said Wales physiotherapist Mark Davies. "He will now undergo exploratory surgery in the next 48 hours to assess the full extent of the damage caused by the dislocation, but we know he will be out of action now for a minimum of 10 weeks." Andy Powell has also been ruled out of the Fiji fixture with a groin problem although Wales hope to have him back in time to play the All Blacks. "Andy will be re-assessed at the start of next week, but he won't figure on Friday night," Davies added. 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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les pays arabes prêts à compenser toute baisse de l'aide occidentale Egypte: les pays arabes prêts à compenser toute baisse de l'aide occidentale (AFP) - Il y a 5 heures Jeddah (Arabie saoudite) - Le chef de la diplomatie saoudienne, le prince Saoud al-Fayçal, a affirmé lundi que les pays arabes étaient prêts à compenser toute baisse de l'aide occidentale à l?Égypte. "Ceux qui ont annoncé l'arrêt de leur aide à l?Égypte ou menacent de le faire doivent réaliser que la nation arabe et islamique, avec les ressources dont elle dispose, n'hésitera pas à apporter son aide à l?Égypte," a déclaré le prince Saoud alors que l'Union européenne réfléchit à une possible suspension de ses aides financières au Caire. Les chefs de la diplomatie des 28 pays de l'UE se réunissent mercredi à Bruxelles en vue de réagir à la crise en Egypte. Ils pourraient décider de suspendre l'aide financière au Caire, alors que l'UE a approuvé fin 2012 un programme de 5 milliards d'euros en faveur de l?Égypte pour la période 2012-2014. Aux États-Unis, des sénateurs, dont l'influent républicain John McCain, ont demandé dimanche que Washington coupe l'assistance militaire annuelle de 1,3 milliard de dollar qu'elle fournit à l?Égypte, après le "massacre" de centaines de personnes lors de la répression sanglante de manifestations ces derniers jours. Le prince Saoud, dont le pays a déjà annoncé 5 milliards de dollars d'aide à l?Égypte après le renversement début juillet par l'armée du président islamiste Mohamed Morsi, a vivement déploré les positions des pays occidentaux dans lesquelles il a vu un soutien aux islamistes égyptiens. Les voisins et alliés de Ryad, le Koweït et les Émirats arabes unis, ont annoncé des aides respectives à l?Égypte de 4 et de 3 milliards de dollars. Le chef de la diplomatie saoudienne s'exprimait à son retour en Arabie saoudite après des entretiens à Paris avec le président français François Hollande. Il a estimé que la communauté internationale, en s'abstenant de dénoncer les islamistes égyptiens, les encourage à plus de violences. "Les positions de la communauté internationale (à propos de l'Egypte) ont pris une étrange direction. Elles donnent l'impression de vouloir couvrir les crimes de ceux qui incendient l'Egypte et tue son peuple, voire d'encourager ces parties à poursuivre leur oeuvre," a déclaré le prince en référence aux islamistes qui soutiennent le président déchu Mohamed Morsi. "Nous n'allons pas oublier ces positions si elles sont maintenues," a-t-il prévenu en les qualifiant de "positions hostiles aux nations arabe et islamique." Il a dénoncé "les incendies de mosquées, d'églises, d'installations militaires et les actes destinés à terroriser les innocents et à transformer la crise en une guérilla urbaine." "La concomitance de ces actes de violence avec les actes terroristes au Sinaï," où 25 policiers ont été tués dans une attaque attribuée à des islamistes radicaux, "confirment que la source de ces actions est la même," a-t-il insisté.
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Ireland becomes a test for EU crisis remedy LONDON - The Irish government on Tuesday declared that it would hold a referendum on Europe's freshly inked fiscal treaty, effectively setting up a vote on whether the troubled island nation is willing to accept years of tough austerity to remain within the euro zone. The decision will amount to the first public test of a new accord that would seek to enforce budget discipline throughout the region, setting strict limits on state spending to restore investor confidence in the bloc's indebted countries. Last month, 25 of the European Union's 27 nations - all but Britain and the Czech Republic - agreed to the German-led treaty, with the nations involved now in the process of trying to ratify it. Yet opinion polls across Europe suggest a deepening suspicion of European Union institutions, with those in Ireland particularly suggesting a wide gap between the public and its leaders over the wisdom of granting more power to authorities in Brussels. While the new treaty appears to enjoy more support in countries such as Germany - where famously frugal taxpayers have been heavily tapped to bail out Greece, Ireland and Portugal - in Dublin and elsewhere, opponents say they see their sovereignty at stake. "I don't think the Irish feel we have any sovereignty left anymore," Shay Moran, a 41-year-old unemployed semi-conductor engineer and treaty opponent, said recently at the Gravediggers pub in Dublin where Irish revolutionaries once plotted against British rule. "All I see is [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel wielding a big stick and telling us what to do." The move by the Irish to put the question before voters who have a history of rejecting European accords could not alone scuttle the new treaty. Although 25 nations have agreed to the new accord, only 12 of the 17 nations that share the euro must ratify it for the treaty to come into effect. So far, only Ireland has declared it will hold a public vote. Yet Ireland's announcement comes as doubts are already swirling about the treaty's backing in France, the region's second-largest economy and without whose support many would see the treaty as effectively dead. In Paris, the Socialist candidate in upcoming presidential elections, Francois Hollande, has indicated that if he were elected in May, he would renegotiate the treaty to make it more oriented toward promoting growth in European economies - something the Germans continue to strongly oppose. The Irish referendum, analysts said, amounts to a further complication to a treaty meant to prevent the onset of another European debt crisis and which was used to persuade German politicians this week to support a costly second bailout for near-bankrupt Greece. More importantly, a rejection of the treaty by the Irish people could put in jeopardy Ireland's $112 billion bailout package agreed to in 2010, setting up a new crisis over whether Ireland could continue to receive rescue funds or even remain within the euro zone. Ireland's Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, who strongly backs the treaty, described the referendum on Tuesday as an "opportunity to reaffirm Ireland's commitment to membership of the euro."
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Daredevils defy health and safety zealots by holding Cheese Rolling race in Gloucestershire Rebel rollers chase 8lb piece of Double Gloucester down a steep hill World-famous competition in Gloucestershire was cancelled in 2010 4,000 spectators watched athletes pursue 'cheese' down 1:2 gradient By Mark Duell
An international field of daredevils today defied health and safety zealots to tumble down a hill as they took part in the annual Cheese Rolling competition. Rebel rollers again staged their own unofficial event after the world-famous competition, which sees thrill seekers chase an 8lb piece of Double Gloucester down a steep hill, was cancelled in 2010. Organisers behind the event at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, had this year replaced the cheese with a lightweight foam version in order to make the downhill race safer. Scroll down for videos Going downhill: Competitors take part in the annual Cheese Rolling event at Copper's Hill in Gloucestershire Crash: Rebel rollers again staged their own unofficial event after the world-famous competition, which sees thrill seekers chase an 8lb piece of Double Gloucester down a steep hill, was cancelled in 2010 Taking a tumble: Organisers behind the event at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, had this year replaced the cheese with a lightweight foam version in order to make the downhill race safer There was a large police presence at entrances to the competition, but it went ahead as planned. The bizarre annual event attracts participants, spectators and media from across the world. Around 4,000 spectators basked in the blazing sunshine to watch around a dozen daredevil athletes pursue the "cheese" 200 metres down the 1:2 gradient slope of grass, brambles and nettles. Competitors slip, somersault and tumble their way to the bottom in spectacular fashion during the bone-crunching races - and the first person to grab the cheese wins. Last week it was revealed police had warned cheesemaker Diana Smart not to supply the Double Gloucesters for the race because she might be held liable for any injuries suffered by chasers. Watching on: Spectators line the slope for the annual Cheese Rolling event at Coppers Hill near Brockworth Winner: Kenny Rackers (left) celebrates victory in the first race of the event, which was a fierce battle (right) In front: Lucy Townsend from Brockworth leads the field in the ladies race of the annual Cheese Rolling event But although today's races did finish with an ambulance being called to a man with a suspected broken leg, there were no other serious injuries. John Anderson, whose soldier son Chris could not defend his chasing crown today because he is on a military training exercise in Kenya, said the police should not have spent money on a helicopter to watch the event. "They are probably up there filming everything so that next year they have ammunition to try to get the cheese rolling banned," he said. "But although there are far more people here than there have been at the unofficial races last year and the year before there is nothing for the police to worry about. On his way to victory: The first downhill pursuit was won by jubilant American Kenny Rackers (right), 27 On the ground: A man falls down the steep gradient of Cooper's Hill during the annual Bank Holiday tradition Fancy dress: Competitors take part in the annual Cheese Rolling event at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire "Everyone is behaving themselves. It shows that this event can take place without marshals, security men, emergency services and expensive insurance." Chris Anderson, 25, has been the main winner of the races over the last five years and has claimed 13 cheeses in that time. He intended to defend his record today, watched by his platoon from 1 Rifles Regiment. But Mr Anderson Snr said his son was 'gutted' that a six week training exercise in Africa had been brought forward from mid-June and he could not take part. It left the races wide open to challengers and the first downhill pursuit was won by jubilant American Kenny Rackers, 27, from Colorado Springs, Colorado. The estate agent, wearing a morph costume with his hair dyed to match, said: "I've come especially for this and it feels great to win. Dangerous: Around 4,000 spectators basked in the blazing sunshine to watch around a dozen daredevil athletes pursue the 'cheese' 200 metres down the 1:2 gradient slope of grass, brambles and nettles Challenging: Competitors slip, somersault and tumble their way to the bottom in spectacular fashion during the bone-crunching races - and the first person to grab the cheese wins
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For Solazyme, a Side Trip on the Way to Clean Fuel STARTING when they became friends in freshman year at Emory University in Atlanta, Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison F. Dillon would take off into the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado for weeks at time. They spent their days hiking in the wilderness and their nights drinking bourbon by the campfire, talking big about how one day they would build a company that would help preserve the environment they both loved. They graduated, and the backpacking trips grew shorter and further between. Mr. Dillon went on to earn a Ph.D. in genetics and a law degree, and ended up working as a biotech patent lawyer in Silicon Valley. Mr. Wolfson received law and business degrees from New York University and eventually started a software business. But the two still got together every year. And they kept talking about the company that, they imagined as time went on, would use biotechnology to create renewable energy. "These were delusional rantings of kids," said Mr. Wolfson, who, like Mr. Dillon, is now 42. Then Mr. Dillon found microalgae, and delusional became real. Microalgae, a large and diverse group of single-celled plants, produce a variety of substances, including oils, and are thought to be responsible for most of the fossilized oil deposits in the earth. These, it seemed, were micro-organisms with potential. With prodding, they could be re-engineered to make fuel. So in 2003, Mr. Wolfson packed up and moved from New York to Palo Alto, Calif., where Mr. Dillon lived. They started a company called Solazyme. In mythical Valley tradition, they worked in Mr. Dillon's garage, growing algae in test tubes. And they found a small knot of investors attracted by the prospect of compressing a multimillion-year process into a matter of days. Now, a decade later, they have released into the marketplace their very first algae-derived oil produced at a commercial scale. Yet the destination for this oil - pale, odorless and dispensed from a small matte-gold bottle with an eyedropper - is not gas tanks, but the faces of women worried about their aging skin. Sold under the brand name Algenist, the product, costing $79 for a one-ounce bottle, would seem to have nothing in common with oil refineries and transportation fuel. But along with other niche products that the company can sell at a premium, it may be just the thing that lets Solazyme coast past the point where so many other clean-tech companies have run out of gas: the so-called Valley of Death, where young businesses stall trying to shift to commercial-scale production. For years, policy makers, environmentalists and entrepreneurs have trumpeted the promise of harnessing the power of the sun, wind, waves, municipal solid waste or, now, algae. There has been some success. Since 2007, United States energy consumption from renewable sources has grown nearly 35 percent, and now accounts for about 9 percent of the total, according to the Energy Information Administration. But the gains have been punctuated with prominent failures. Once-promising clean-tech ventures that attracted hundreds of millions in federal support - like the solar panel maker Solyndra, the cellulosic ethanol maker Range Fuels and the battery supplier A123 Systems - have failed. While ethanol, derived from crops like corn and sugar cane, has become a multibillion-dollar industry, it threatens to drive up the price of those plants for food and cannot yet replace conventional fuel. The next generation of biofuels, based on nonfood plants, is still struggling to take off. Venture capital, which once gushed to renewable-energy start-ups like crude from an oil well, has slowed. In contrast to software-based companies like Instagram or Facebook, these new energy businesses burn through staggering amounts of capital over many years for research and early-stage equipment before even demonstrating their promise, much less turning a profit. Worldwide in 2012, venture capital investing in clean technologies fell by almost one-fourth, to $7.4 billion, from $9.61 billion in 2011, according to the Cleantech Group's i3 Platform, a proprietary database. "These are very high-innovation, capital-intensive, long-term businesses, and new-energy technology is a very new field," said David Danielson, a former venture capitalist who is assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Energy Department. "We need a new model for how these projects are going to get financed and commercialized."
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Gaius (floruit AD 130–180) was a celebrated Roman jurist. Scholars know very little of his personal life. It is impossible to discover even his full name, Gaius or Caius being merely his personal name (praenomen). As with his name it is difficult to ascertain the span of his life, but it is safe to assume he lived from AD 110 to at least AD 179, since he wrote on legislation passed within that time. From internal evidence in his works it may be gathered that he flourished in the reigns of the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. His works were thus composed between the years 130 and 180. After his death, however, his writings were recognized as of great authority, and the emperor Theodosius II named him in the Law of Citations, along with Papinian, Ulpian, Modestinus and Paulus, as one of the five jurists whose opinions were to be followed by judicial officers in deciding cases. The works of these jurists accordingly became most important sources of Roman law. Besides the Institutes, which are a complete exposition of the elements of Roman law, Gaius was the author of a treatise on the Edicts of the Magistrates, of Commentaries on the Twelve Tables, and on the important Lex Papia Poppaea, and several other works. His interest in the antiquities of Roman law is apparent, and for this reason his work is most valuable to the historian of early institutions. In the disputes between the two schools of Roman jurists he generally attached himself to that of the Sabinians, who were said to be followers of Ateius Capito, of whose life we have some account in the Annals of Tacitus, and to advocate a strict adherence as far as possible to ancient rules, and to resist innovation. Many quotations from the works of Gaius occur in the Digest (Roman law), created by Tribonian at the direction of Justinian I, and so acquired a permanent place in the system of Roman law; while a comparison of the Institutes of Justinian with those of Gaius shows that the whole method and arrangement of the later work were copied from that of the earlier, and very numerous passages are word for word the same. The Digest (Roman law) and the "Institutes of Justinian" are part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Probably, for the greater part of the period of three centuries which elapsed between Gaius and Justinian, his Institutes had been the familiar textbook for all students of Roman law. == The Institutes of Gaius ==
The Institutes of Gaius, written about the year AD 161, was an introductory textbook of legal institutions divided into four books: the first treating of persons and the differences of the status they may occupy in the eye of the law; the second of things, and the modes in which rights over them may be acquired, including the law relating to wills; the third of intestate succession and of obligations; and the fourth of actions and their forms. Another circumstance which renders the work of Gaius more interesting to the historical student than that of Justinian, is that Gaius lived at a time when actions were tried by the system of formulae, or formal directions given by the praetor before whom the case first came, to the judex to whom he referred it. Without a knowledge of the terms of these formulae it is impossible to solve the most interesting question in the history of Roman law, and show how the rigid rules peculiar to the ancient law of Rome were modified by what has been called the equitable jurisdiction of the praetors, and made applicable to new conditions, and brought into harmony with the notions and the needs of a more developed society. It is clear from evidence of Gaius that this result was obtained, not by an independent set of courts administering, as in England previous to the Judicature Acts, a system different from that of the ordinary courts, but by the manipulation of the formulae. In the time of Justinian the work was complete, and the formulary system had disappeared. The work was lost to modern scholars, until, in 1816, a palimpsest was discovered by BG Niebuhr in the chapter library of Verona, in which some of the works of St Jerome were written over some earlier writings, which proved to be the lost work of Gaius. The greater part of the palimpsest has, however, been deciphered and the text is now fairly complete. More recently, two sets of papyrus fragments have been found. The discovery of Gaius' work has thrown a flood of light on portions of the history of Roman law which had previously been most obscure.
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==Spelling==
This page was created with a probably made up spelling of Rafael Álvarez. Likely just pulled out of thin air. At the very least, that spelling differs from that used on the subjects own web page, and from that used in all the pre-existing links that were turned from red to blue by creation of this article, except for two of them referring to a different person, a Spanish diver. Gene Nygaard
Wow so much for assume good faith and civil tone. I created the page yesterday and came across pages that used both spellings - the first place I looked was iMDB which uses the accent, I figured omission of the accented A was due to word processing laziness in some sources and created the page with the accent. Some sources? Looks like you used a zillion of them without the accent. Pretty clear how he is best known. I didn't notice any iMDB link, either; is there one on the page? Gene Nygaard
:FYI: In any case, the sort keys for categories, whether added individually or through the magic words DEFAULTSORT or the listas template parameter, SHOULD NOT INCLUDE ANY LETTERS OTHER THAN THE 26 LETTERS of the English language. No diacritics of any sort. hey can also include numbers; most punctuation marks should be stripped, though a comma and space separates surname from given name for people. Gene Nygaard
::Thank you for the advice about using default sort, I'm not sure about how you typed a "rule" in all caps then contradicted it afterwards. Can you point me in the direction of a guideline that gives this information in a more readable and logical manner? ::There is no iMDb link in the article but it was my very first port of call when I started writing it as it's a good way to get a quick list of a TV writers credits that you can then back-up by corroboration with other more reliable sources. Here's the link should you require it There are only twenty three sources on the article so a zillion is an inappropriate exagerration. I didn't say "some sources" use the accent anywhere in my reply I said I came across both spellings and explained why I used the accent. I have no problem with the article being moved and welcome your edits to my work, but I expect a civil tone and the assumption of good faith by any editor I come across and you gave neither.--
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==Possible sources==
Here are a few possible sources, for enterprising German-speaking editors: [http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7841/711296/kabel_eins/,
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Billboard names Taylor Swift big money maker of 2012 By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Taylor Swift, 22, was named Billboard Magazine's biggest money maker on Friday, beating powerhouses U2, Lady Gaga and Adele to top the list with earnings of more than $35 million in 2011. The "Love Story" singer pocketed more cash from her album sales and world tour in 2011 than Irish rockers U2, country music veteran Kenny Chesney, pop star Lady Gaga, and rapper Lil Wayne, who rounded out the top five on Billboard's annual list of 40 of music's biggest money makers. The list was compiled by the music magazine's editors using data from Boxscore archives of U.S. concert gross figures, Nielsen SoundScan data for album and single sales on physical and digital platforms, and Nielsen BDS data on musical airplay on radio, downloads and online streaming sites such as Spotify. Sade, rockers Bon Jovi, Canadian singer Celine Dion, country singer Jason Aldean and current pop music darling Adele rounded out the top 10, with earnings ranging from $32 million to $13 million. Swift, a native of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, kicked off her career as a teenager with a self-titled album that included her first single "Tim McGraw," and has since built a strong musical career. The singer won critics and fans with her raw, honest lyrics and themes of teenage love and life. Her breakthrough 2008 album, "Fearless," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and 11 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, led by "Love Story." Now 22, Swift sold more than 1.8 million copies of her albums in the U.S. in 2011, led by 2010's "Speak Now," which sold 967,000 copies. The singer also has dominated digital singles charts, selling 7.8 million digital tracks last year. The country songstress paired her "Speak Now" album with a worldwide tour of 89 shows in 2011, grossing $88.5 million in the U.S. alone, and making a profit of $29.8 million. Swift has also become a branding powerhouse, with her own management company and lucrative contracts with companies such as Covergirl. She also launched her own perfume, Wonderstruck. She has a following of more than 29 million fans on Facebook and 11 million fans on Twitter, and was one of only a handful of artists to enter Billboard magazine's first music industry power chart earlier this year, coming in at No. 78. Swift continues her "Speak Now" world tour this year, and will feature in the soundtrack for the upcoming film "The Hunger Games," providing the film's lead single, "Safe and Sound." (Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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'Generation next' at Brisbane Lions set to re-vive team Lions ruckman Matthew Leuenberger was in outstanding form before a dislocated thumb in the Round 9 loss to Carlton disrupted his season. Source: Getty Images BRISBANE is just days away from re-signing ruckman Matthew Leuenberger, with fellow stars Daniel Rich and Pearce Hanley set to follow in his giant steps by recommitting to the Lions. Leuenberger, Rich and Hanley form the core of Brisbane's 'generation next' and their retention is vital for the Lions as they attempt to climb out of the AFL's cellar. Leuenberger was in outstanding form before a dislocated thumb in the Round 9 loss to Carlton disrupted his season. At his best, the 25-year-old is in the top half-dozen ruckman in the AFL. Brisbane football manager Dean Warren said the ink should be dry on a new contract for Leuenberger inside the next week. "We've had really productive discussions with Leuey's manager and we should be making an announcement in the near future. We are not far away at all," Warren said. "Discussions with Richy and Pearce are ongoing but are also well-advanced." Rich is closer to coming to terms than Hanley but there is no danger of the Irishman leaving the Gabba. Brisbane resume from the bye this Saturday with arguably the toughest road trip in the AFL, Fremantle at Perth's Patersons Stadium. Languishing in 15th place on the ladder with a 3-7 win-loss record, the success at the negotiation table could not come at a better time for the depleted Lions, who will be without the suspended duo of Jonathan Brown and Daniel Merrett. Rich (shoulder) and Leuenberger (thumb) are both outside chances to play against the Dockers after overcoming injuries. They both trained yesterday and will be assessed this morning, but are more likely to be given one more week on the sidelines. Defender Mitch Golby and midfielder Tom Rockliff are both available for selection and should be named tonight, while midfielder Brent Moloney is still battling a back injury and is a 50-50 chance of taking on the Dockers. Lions coach Michael Voss said the club did not want to take any risks with Rich and Leuenberger by rushing them back too soon. "They've certainly done the work but we are going to make sure that if they're right to go, they are absolutely right to go. The game is too brutal to do otherwise. They are a chance," Voss said. Meanwhile, Voss said Brisbane did not deserve to be given a chance against Fremantle, based on the club's first half of 2013. Brisbane are rank underdogs for the Patersons Stadium clash at $9 in head-to-head betting with TattsBet, with the Dockers at $1.06. Far from flying the white flag, Voss said the Lions needed to lift their game across the board to compete with the fifth-placed Fremantle. "I don't think we've earned the right to (be given a chance). It's up to us to be able to provide something different," he said. "The important thing for us is that we've got to make sure we provide a contest. There's little things we've got to make sure we get right."
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The Ross Perot presidential campaign of 1992 began when Texas industrialist Ross Perot opened the possibility of running for President of the United States as an independent candidate on the February 20, 1992 edition of Larry King Live. Though he had never served as a public official, Perot had experience as the head of several successful corporations and had been involved in public affairs for the previous three decades. Spawned by the American dissatisfaction with the political system, grassroots organizations sprang up in every state to help Perot achieve ballot access following his announcement. James Stockdale, a retired United States Navy vice admiral, stood in as Perot's vice presidential running mate to ensure ballot eligibility. Perot focused the campaign on his plans to balance the federal budget, further economic nationalism, strengthen the war on drugs and implement "electronic town halls" throughout the nation for direct democracy. His views were described as a combination of "East Texas populism with high-tech wizardry." Supporters saw Perot as a nonpolitical and witty "folk hero", but critics described the candidate as "authoritarian" and "short-tempered". Perot largely financed his own campaign and relied on marketing and wide grassroots support. In certain polls, Perot led the three-way race with Republican nominee George H. W. Bush, the incumbent President, and Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, the Democratic nominee. He dropped out in July 1992 amid controversy, but reentered in October, and surpassed the 15% polling threshold to reach his goal of participating in all three presidential debates. Despite an aggressive use of campaign infomercials on prime time network television, his polling numbers never fully recovered from his initial exit. On Election Day, Perot appeared on every state ballot as a result of the earlier draft efforts. He won several counties and finished in third place, receiving close to 19 percent of the popular vote, the most won by a third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. ==Background==
Ross Perot had never been elected to public office, but he ran several successful corporations and was involved in public affairs for decades. After serving in the United States Navy in the 1950s, Perot joined IBM as a salesman. He surpassed his one-year sales quota in just two weeks. After the company ignored his idea for electronic storage, he founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, which was then contracted by the United States Government to store Medicare records. Perot earned a fortune with the company, and by 1968 was named by Fortune as the "fastest, richest Texan." Perot was known to run the company in a militaristic fashion, built on loyalty and duty. His best known venture with the company was in 1979, when he sent a private militia into Iran in the midst of the Iranian Revolution to rescue two of his employees who had been imprisoned. The episode inspired the 1983 novel, On Wings of Eagles. Perot eventually sold his company to General Motors in 1984 for $2.55 billion, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. By 1992, his fortune was judged to be $3 billion. Perot was a hawk on the Vietnam War, an advocate for Americans held as prisoner of war and a supporter for their families. During the war, he aided soldiers by providing supplies and holding rallies for those returning home. In public affairs, he led the Texas War on Drugs Committee in 1979 at the behest of Republican Governor Bill Clements, and was put in charge of the Select Committee on Public Education in 1983 by Democratic Governor Mark White. Perot's most dear political effort involved the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. He worked extensively to free soldiers that he believed had been left behind, and even engaged in secret diplomatic talks with the Vietnamese government, to the chagrin of the Reagan White House. Perot had been supportive of President Ronald Reagan and labeled him as a "great president" in 1986. He even pledged $2.5 million to support his presidential library, but the relationship soured after Perot was sent on a trip to Hanoi, and determined afterwards that the administration was not taking the POW/MIA issue seriously. He revoked his pledge to the library in 1987, based on the POW/MIA issue as well as his disillusionment from the administration's actions during the Iran–Contra affair. He became a critic of the George H. W. Bush administration, and opposed the 1991 Gulf War. ==Initial campaign==
Ross Perot appeared on the February 20 edition of Larry King Live on CNN, his fourth appearance on the show since 1991. After a lively interview concerning political issues, King directly asked Perot if there was "any scenario in which would run for president." Perot firmly stated that he did not want to run, but spontaneously affirmed that he would begin a campaign if "ordinary people" signed petitions and helped him achieve ballot access in all 50 states.
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Flipping through the pages of the ledger book takes one back to a time when drugstores were neighborhood hubs, selling everything from health remedies to beauty products mixed up by the stores' chemists. And among the formulas being mixed up in drugstores were treats for the soda fountain. A two-page spread in Waters' book has recipes for "Soda Water Syrups," including pineapple, lemon and strawberry. "There were very few national brands," Riley said. "Their lifeblood was all their formulas."
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Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (1929 — June 16, 2000) was an Iranian poet and writer. ==History==
Rahmani was born in the slums of Tehran. He received his college degree from Ministry of PTT. After just a few years of services in the Ministry, Nosrat Rahmani sought employment with the state radio. Subsequently he abandoned government employment for journalism and freelance writing. ==Poetry==
His poetry is the poetry of the stubborn, humiliated and revolting down-town people in Tehran's slums; he never forgets his concern for the plight of the urban poor. His memoirs entitled, The Man Lost in the Dust (1957), provide an emotional account of the life of an addict. During the 60's and 70's, Rahmani was especially popular among the youth. As a whole, his poetry is dramatic in structure and fantastic in effect, often attempting to recapture the past by poeticizing its recollections. ==Death==
He died in Rasht in June 2000 at the age of 71. ==Works==
Migration and Desert
Cashmere
Rendezvous in the Slime
The Burning of Wind
Harvest, Sword
the Darling of the Pen
The Goblet Made Another Round
== References ==
== External links ==
Iranian poets
1929 births
2000 deaths
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Israeli Charged With Trafficking African Migrants An Israeli man has been charged with participation in a human trafficking ring that captured and tortured African migrants in Egypt's neighboring Sinai desert. The indictment, announced Sunday, says the accused extorted tens of thousands of dollars from Eritrean and Sudanese migrants in Israel whose relatives were held captive in Sinai. The charge sheet says that over the past nine months, the suspect collected ransoms of up to $40,000 each for dozens of captives held by Sinai Bedouin. The Bedouin were supposed to smuggle them over the border into Israel. According to the indictment, the traffickers threatened to kill the captives or remove their kidneys for sale if their relatives in Israel didn't pay up.
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"The villages have been burned down and some people have fled. A few have remained in the area, but others have tried to flee to the camps in Sittwe," said Lewa. "In some villages quite a lot of people have been killed, but we are still trying to find out how they died. Some died in the fires and some were attacked by Rakhine [Buddhists]. We also heard that the army shot at some of the Rakhine people. We heard about 170 people killed in one village alone." Teff said the outlook for peace was grim. "There is a total lack of hope for the Rohingya. They have been rejected by many countries," she said. "The only way out is for the international community to act on the current situation."
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Hard times put holidays on hold Four in ten Scots have ruled out taking a holiday this year because of rising costs, according to research. Most of those who won't be going away for a holiday say they can't afford it, a survey by Glasgow Credit Union (GCU) found, with cost the biggest factor dictating holiday plans for half of Scots. And as households feel the impact of rising household bills and fuel prices, continued difficulties in getting affordable credit and a rise in flight surcharges, those heading overseas are having to make cutbacks elsewhere. Two-thirds of Scots planning a holiday intend to go abroad, with half believing it is cheaper than a UK-based break. Paul McFarlane, head of operations at GCU, said: "Many of our members have booked their time off work but are waiting to book last-minute deals. There are some great deals to be snapped up if you are flexible about where you travel to."
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3 safe, 4 sought in building collapse blamed on illegal work nearby ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Security forces have rescued three survivors from a three-story building in Egypt that collapsed Friday, but continue to search for at least four others. The collapsed building was located in Alexandria, Middle East News Agency reported. Officials said the collapse was not due to a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that shook the city early Friday, but was probably caused by the unlicensed construction of a nearby building.
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Dam Project Would Displace Villages in Jungle Valley of Peru BOCA SANIBENI, Peru - Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rhythmic humming of an outboard motor draws the stares of curious Ashaninka children. With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas" hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighboring Brazil. The dams would displace thousands of people in the process. Antonio Metzoquiari, 59, a thin man wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, considered the implications for his community. "This is a grave matter," Mr. Metzoquiari said. "It's a return to violence, another war. I don't know where or how, but we would have to find a new place to live." At a time when hydroelectric dams have fallen out of favor in some parts of the world, the projects might seem an anachronism. But dams remain attractive in much of Latin America, where a number of nations have plenty of water but lack other conventional and affordable energy sources. For now, the project is stalled in the Peruvian Congress, where it awaits debate by the Foreign Relations Commission. President Ollanta Humala has yet to take a position on the dams, but how he manages this and numerous other initiatives across the country that pit development against local and predominantly indigenous communities could very well define his presidency, said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a research organization based in Washington. "The biggest test for Humala is how he strikes the middle ground," Mr. Shifter said. "I think he understands that if he moves too hard and too fast on this development path, that it can really come back to bite him." Already Mr. Humala is being tested in northern Peru, where thousands of people have taken to the streets in recent months to oppose the $4.8 billion Conga gold mine that the protesters say would pollute water supplies. Mr. Humala capitalized on social movements like these, especially among Peru's large and historically marginalized indigenous population, to win the presidency, much to the chagrin of the middle and upper classes in Lima, the capital, who were the primary beneficiaries of a decade-long economic boom based substantially on mining. Mr. Humala opposed the Conga mine during the campaign, but he has since given the project his support while pledging to ensure quality of life improvements for surrounding communities. This conciliatory approach might be a first glimpse at how the president plans to achieve his social agenda while assuaging wary investors, said Fernando Romero, a sociologist and an expert on social conflict in Peru. "I think what we are seeing is that the government will look to mining and investment from Brazil as the principal source of funding for its plan for social inclusion," he said. So far, Mr. Humala has not staked out a clear position on the proposed dams, though that is likely to change when President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil visits Peru, a visit expected soon. Officials with the Energy and Mining Ministry say the dams make economic sense only if much of the energy they produce is exported. The ministry added that while it considered environmental and social issues important, it also wanted to make sure that affected local populations benefit from the projects through electrification. Despite claims that the welfare of affected communities is a top priority, several of the projects passed feasibility studies before local residents were even informed that the government had awarded concessions on the land. In response to that disclosure, the Central Asháninkia del Rio Ene, which represents Ashaninka populations in the Ene River Valley, went to court to compel the Energy and Mining Ministry to disclose all feasibility studies on the dam proposals. After the project was announced, the organization brought together 17 Ashaninka communities to explain that a dam would inundate some communities and dry out others that depend on the river for sustenance and transportation. Many people would be forced from their homes, critics argue, evoking memories of Peru's war against the Moaist-inspired Shining Path rebels, which officially ended in 2000 but scarred the Ashaninka. Of the 70,000 people who were killed over two decades, 6,000 were Ashaninka, experts said. Thousands more were displaced and only over the past few years have they begun to resettle their communities along the Ene.
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The origins and evolution of Islamic law (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? The Early Essays on the History of Islamic Legal Theories by Wael B. Hallaq / ed. and trans. Atsushi Okuda (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2003; in Japanese, containing translations of a number of the below articles). Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). A history of Islamic legal theories : an introduction to Sunnī uṣūl al-fiqh (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Law and legal theory in classical and medieval Islam (Aldershot, UK; Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995; containing reprints of twelve articles published between 1984 and 1993). Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians / translated with an introduction and notes by Wael B. Hallaq (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; a translation of Jahd al-qarīḥah fī tajrīd al-Naṣīḥah, an abridgement by al-Suyūṭī of Ibn Taymīyah’s work Naṣīḥat ahl al-bayān fī al-radd ʻalá manṭiq al- Yūnān). Series editor
Themes in Islamic Law, 7 vols. (Cambridge University Press; two volumes published to date). Edited anthologies
The formation of Islamic law (Aldershot, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2004). Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams / edited by Wael B. Hallaq and Donald P. Little. (Leiden; New York: Brill, 1991). Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature : Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata, edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and Wael Hallaq (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000). Articles
"Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qur’ān and the Genesis of Sharī‘a," Islamic Law and Society, vol.16 (2009): 239-79. "Islamic Law: History and Transformation," The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4, ed. R. Irwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 142-83. "What is Sharia?" Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 2005–2006, vol. 12 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007): 151-80. "Juristic Authority vs. State Power: The Legal Crises of Modern Islam," Journal of Law and Religion, 19, 2 (2003–04), 101-116. "Can the Shari‘a be Restored?" in Yvonne Y. Haddad and Barbara F. Stowasser, eds., Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2004), 21-53. "’Muslim Rage’ and Islamic Law," Hastings Law Journal, 54 (August, 2003), 1-17. "The Quest for Origins or Doctrine? Islamic Legal Studies as Colonialist Discourse," UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 2, 1 (2002–03), 1-31. "A Prelude to Ottoman Reform: Ibn ‘Abidîn on Custom and Legal Change," Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, eds. I. Gershoni et al. (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner, 2002), 37-61. "Takhrij and the Construction of Juristic Authority," Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, ed. Bernard G. Weiss (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 317-35. "On Dating Mâlik’s Muwatta’," UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 1, 1 (2001-02), 47-65. "From Geographical to Personal Schools? : A Reevaluation," Islamic Law and Society, 8,1 (2001), 1-26. "The Author-Jurist and Legal Change in Traditional Islamic Law," RIMO (Maastricht), 18 (2000), 31-75. "The Authenticity of Prophetic Hâdith: A Pseudo-Problem," Studia Islamica 89 (1999), 75-90.
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Hesar-e Hasan Beyk (حصارحسن بيك, also Romanized as Ḩeşār-e Ḩasan Beyk and Ḩeşār-e Ḩasan Beyg) is a village in Behnamarab-e Jonubi Rural District, Javadabad District, Varamin County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,019, in 262 families. == References ==
Populated places in Varamin County
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Heathrow chaos: new figures show Border Force missed targets almost daily " Unless we get this right, the UK's reputation will be permanently damaged." Performance targets agreed by the Border Force set a 25 minute maximum waiting time for passengers arriving from the European Economic Area - the EU along with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. At Heathrow this target was missed at at least one terminal on six out of 30 days. On April 10, the queue reached just over an hour, approaching three times the maximum in Terminal 5. The figures for non EEA passengers are even more damning. At Terminal 5, which is operated by British Airways, the target of clearing 95 per cent of passengers within 45 minutes, was missed on 23 out of 30 days. At Terminals 3 and 4, the Border Force failed on 21 days. Passengers at Terminal l fared slightly better with the target being missed "only" on 12 days. Airlines who met Theresa May, the Hoe Secretary, stepped up their demand for greater long term investment in the Border Force. "In the short term, the problem may be eased by pumping in temporary additional resources - but as the Home Secretary acknowledges a sticking plaster solution is not the answer," said a spokesman for the British Air Transport Association, which represents 11 major ailrines including British Airways, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic. The latest statistics are another blow for the Government which is bracing itself for a walkout by members of the Immigration Services Union next Thursday in a dispute over pensions. After weeks of criticism over lengthy queues at Heathrow airport, up to 4,600 immigration officials are expected to walk out on May 10 They will coordinate their strike with 200,000 public sector workers who have already announced plans for a national day of industrial action. Home Office officials last night drew up contingency plans to draft in Military Police officers and civil servants to man immigration desks. They said disruption would be "minimal" and advised passengers not to cancel. One union representing border staff warned of queues of up to four hours at Heathrow, which is already overstretched, because the drafted-in staff would take even longer to process passengers. Another raised concerns that passengers may simply be waved through without being checked if long queues built up. They say this happened during a Border Force strike in November. Conservative MPs rounded on the unions involved, the Immigration Services Union (ISU) and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Around 250,000 people fly into British airports on a typical weekday. In particular, they questioned the legitimacy of the strike because only one in five members of the ISU, which represents most of the border staff, voted for action in a ballot last week. Gavin Barwell, Tory MP for Croydon Central, said new laws should be considered that would require a majority of all union members to back a strike call for a walkout to be legitimate. Mr Barwell said: "With such a low turnout in the ballot, you have to question the legitimacy of going out on strike." Business leaders condemned the strikes, saying that immigration controls, which have caused queues of up to three hours at Heathrow this week, are already taking a toll on the economy. Simon Walker, director-general of the Institute of Directors, said: "The current problems at Heathrow are bad enough without strikes adding to the chaos. Our border controls are an international embarrassment, putting British jobs and economic growth at risk, and this strike will make that worse." The strike was immediately criticised by Damian Green, the immigration minister. "This strike is completely unnecessary and we believe the public will find it unacceptable if unions push ahead," he said. "The security of the UK border is of the utmost importance and we will use tried and tested contingency plans to ensure we minimise any disruption caused by planned union action." The Border Force staff will join civil servants, lecturers, health staff, Ministry of Defence employees and members of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary who are taking industrial action on May 10. The Police Federation will also stage a rally. Unions representing border employees have argued that government cuts have left them short-staffed, contributing to delays for incoming passengers. Ministers have responded by announcing plans to draft in hundreds more staff to make sure travellers arriving for the Olympics are not affected. Lucy Moreton, the ISU's deputy general secretary, said that disruption next week was inevitable. "I would be amazed if we didn't see queues of up to four hours at Heathrow," she said. "Last time the Home Office threw a large number of managers at it and the airlines co-operated by encouraging passengers to travel on another day. "Unless they do the same things again there could be really serious problems."
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Australian pedophile gets 30 years in US QUEENSLAND pedophile Peter Truong, who bought a newborn boy for $US8000 and then allowed men around the world to abuse the child, has been sentenced in a US court to 30 years' jail. Truong, 36, faced a maximum 40-year sentence, while the plea deal he struck with prosecutors could have allowed a minimum of 24 years. US District Court judge Sarah Evans Barker, in announcing the sentence on Monday in Indianapolis, took note of Truong's willingness to work with authorities to lead them to other pedophiles and his own history as a childhood abuse victim. Truong's domestic partner, Mark Newton, 42, also from Queensland, was jailed in June for 40 years. Prosecutors say Truong and Newton bought the boy from a woman in a "foreign" country, believed to be Russia, and then transported him around the world to engage in sex with more than half a dozen other men, all before his sixth birthday. Truong entered guilty pleas to one count of conspiracy to sexually exploit a child and conspiracy to possess child pornography. Prosecutors asked that Truong be sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment. Truong and Newton were arrested in Los Angeles in 2011 and the boy was taken into protective custody.
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== DOS scrolling games in 1992 and 1993 ==
Should the 2 DOS scrolling games developed by Peakstar and published by Alternative in 1992 and 1993, "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Thomas the Tank Engine 2," be included in this article? Or should they be includsed elsewhere since this article deals with Thomas "and friends"?. Info about these games can be found at Home of the Underdogs (209.120.136.195). They probably belong here. If necessary, the title of the page can be adjusted to suit. Certainly don't want to create a new page just for them! EdJogg
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Spain's Garzon cleared by Supreme Court The campaigning Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon has been cleared of illegally ordering an investigation into mass murder by forces loyal to the former fascist dictator General Franco.
Spain's Supreme Court judges acquitted him in a six-to-one vote.
Garzon is internationally known for ordering the arrest of Chile's General Pinochet in 1998.
In a separate case earlier this month he was disbarred for 11 years for illegally recording defence lawyers" conversations with clients.
This latest ruling is based on an inquiry Garzon ordered into the murders of more than 100,000 people by Franco forces.
He was charged with violating a 1977 amnesty for political crimes, but he maintained he was acting at the behest of the victims" families and he was supported by international law.
Franco ruled Spain from the end of the civil war in 1939 until his death in 1975.
Garzon's investigations have highlighted present-day divisions in Spanish society between those who suffered under the regime and those who did not.
The UN Human Rights office has urged Spain to investigate Franco-era crimes, and to repeal the amnesty. More about: Human Rights, Justice, Spain, Trial Copyright © 2012 euronews JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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US elections 2012: Rick Perry is back in the running Mitt Romney remains the front-runner, albeit one unable to earn the trust of conservatives and break through a ceiling of 23-25 per cent in polls. Herman Cain remains the wild card whose charm and affability could conceivably pull off a major early surprise. Rick Perry, the Texas governor, finally showed that he is not a totally incompetent debater, and while not winning did enough to suggest that he will be a major contender when the Iowa caucuses are held on Jan 3. Cain will probably fall by the wayside soon afterwards. His fund-raising is puny by comparison to the other two and his campaign infrastructure negligible. On Tuesday he admitted he had only three full time staffers in New Hampshire, another crucial early voting state. His 9-9-9 tax reform plan has won a lot of attention and praise for its bold call to scrap the current complex tax code. But when each of his rivals, not to mention conservative tax specialists, is disparaging the plan for hitting the poor too hard, he clearly has a problem. Perry won the fund-raising contest in the last quarter ($17 million to Romney's $15 million) and has the time to regain ground lost after his dramatic start. The biggest winner on Tuesday night however could have been Barack Obama. Romney was called a hypocrite and a liar by his rivals on several occasions, and you can be sure that first thing this morning the president's campaign team will be bookmarking those clips for future use. If Republicans don't trust Mitt, why should you, they will argue. Feisty debate is all well and good - and this debate was probably the most watchable so far - but Perry and Rick Santorum overstepped the mark. It was left to Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker running an elder statesman's campaign, to admonish Romney and Perry at the end. "Maximising bickering is probably not the road to the White House," he said.
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Author of Rahm Emanuel Alternate Reality Tweets Outs Himself The author of a celebrated Twitter account that served for months as an amusing and expletive-filled alternate reality to the campaign of Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel has been outed as a Columbia College assistant journalism professor named Dan Sinker. Sinker, the founder of now-defunct Punk Planet magazine, came out to The Atlantic on Monday after evading efforts by reporters to identify him as the source of @MayorEmanuel. The account was so popular that even Emanuel read it -- and offered $5,000 to the charity of the author's choice if he would reveal himself. On Monday, Emanuel's spokesperson confirmed that the incoming mayor would follow through on his promise. Sinker told The Atlantic that only his wife, a few friends and a Chicago public schools teacher knew he was the man behind the famous tweets, but he became increasingly paranoid that he would be discovered. "He's a super intelligent person to write," Sinker said of Emanuel or his alter-ego. "He has a really interesting background -- not the one you'd expect -- and he carries himself in a very colorful way." Over the course of the tweets, @MayorEmanuel went on a "mustache tour" of Chicago (meeting with Italians and Teamsters), floated down the Chicago River on an ice floe, and spent a glorious night on top of City Hall with an imaginary Mayor Daley, checking out a special garden of celery and looking into the Chicago vortex, MyFoxChicago reports. After Emanuel's election, Sinker told The Atlantic it was time to end the saga, a decision mourned by fans. Click here to read more from MyFoxChicago.
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2011 K League Championship is postseason championship playoff of 2011 K League. The championship are a series of playoff matches contested by the teams 1st to 6th in the 2011 K League table. All matches are played one leg, except final is played two legs. With 6th playing 3rd and 5th playing 4th, winner of each matches play one match in higher team's homeground. This match's winner gain the next 2012 AFC Champions League spot by the secured 3rd position. The winner of second round playing regular season's 2nd position team in the 2nd team's homeground. The final is played home and away format.
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Gates begins farewell visits with troops Gates begins farewell visits with troops Jun 5 02:31 AM US/Eastern AP National Security Writer FORWARD OPERATING BASE WALTON, Afghanistan U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is beginning two days of farewell visits to remote U.S. troop bases in Afghanistan. He began by flying Sunday morning to a base near Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan, where he was greeting soldiers and having lunch with junior enlisted troops. Gates, who is retiring June 30, is assessing the situation ahead of a presidential decision within weeks on the start of a U.S. troop withdrawal this summer. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Dekker pleads innocent to DUI LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Television actor Thomas Dekker has pleaded innocent in a California court to two counts of driving under the influence, officials said. TMZ reported the development in the case Thursday. Dekker was arrested last month for alleged drunken driving after police said he hit a 17-year-old bicyclist with his car near a freeway on-ramp in Los Angeles. The teen was treated for minor injuries, TMZ noted. Dekker, 21, is best known for his work on the recently canceled TV series "The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
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Sandy's Slam Dunk: East's tilt at sixth cup success boosted by Marshall's return Published on Friday 10 February 2012 12:00 With their season probably on the line, Edinburgh Kool Kats coach Graham Gunn is looking for much tougher defence from his team when they line up for the second time in a week against Glasgow Rocks at St Maurice's High, Cumbernauld on Sunday (12.20pm). Beaten 72-60 in the Scottish Cup final at the Pleasance last Sunday, Kats know they will have to lift their game considerably if they are to turn that around on their opponents" court and save their Scottish League title. "We've got to be tougher all round but in particular we need to be smarter "in the paint" to deal with Rona Corkindale," said Gunn. Victory would leave Rocks two wins clear of Kats and two-nil up in the head-to-heads. "We've got two games to come against Rocks and two against Polonia and we probably need to win all four," said Gunn, who has kept faith with his cup 12. "Same team but I hope different players," he remarked. Though there is still the commendable end-of-season play-offs to come, these have still not attained the status where victory in them would atone for losing their cup and league crowns. Coach Gunn meanwhile has another hoops date tomorrow when he takes the second Scottish Universities trial at Portobello HS (3-5pm). High noon for our teams All the local senior men's Scottish League action is around midday tomorrow with Boroughmuir Blaze at home to falling Stirling Knights at the Crags SC (12.20pm) and Dunfermline Reign facing Glasgow University at Queen Anne High (12.30pm). "Knights beat us easily in the first fixture on their court and we see this as a significant test of our improvement," said Blaze coach Simon Turner. Edinburgh Kings face their bogey team Glasgow Storm at Portobello High at 11.15am, the City club's only home game of the weekend. In his St Mirren playing days Storm coach Iain Maclean would have put the wind up many a Kings team but, though he has wrought a big improvement in the Scotstoun-based side, he is pessimistic about their prospects tomorrow: "We're missing one or two players," he explained. Kings juniors are away to Glasgow Rens as are the unbeaten Cadet men, who took the Scottish Cup last Saturday. Blaze juniors face a daunting away trip to unbeaten St Mirren but their cadets should fare better there at the early start of 10.45am. Phoenix aim to fly high Polonia Phoenix, on three defeats, are at home to St Mirren at Wester Hailes on Sunday (3pm) and should win to stay in touch with the top two. The Phoenix cadettes, still on a high from their last-gasp Scottish Cup win over the Rocks, entertain the Saints before the senior game at 1pm. They will still be without their injured national under-16 team point guard Hilary Wood. Phoenix juniors have a chance to avenge their Cup defeat at the hands of the Paisley club at WHEC tomorrow (1pm).
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Tony Hand takes reins with GB ice hockey team
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Dominykas Galkevičius (born 16 October 1986 in Jonava) is a Lithuanian football midfielder, who is currently playing for Naftan Novopolotsk. ==Career==
===Club===
In November 2010, he came on trial to Serbian side Red Star Belgrade. In 2011 he joined Zagłębie Lubin on two and a half year contract. In January 2013 Galkevičius joined the Latvian Higher League club Daugava Rīga. He left the club in September 2013, joining the Belarusian Premier League club Naftan Novopolotsk. ===International===
On 25 May 2010 he made his international debut against Ukraine in Kharkiv. ==References==
==External links==
1986 births
Living people
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Lithuanian expatriates in Poland
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FC Belshina Bobruisk players
FK Daugava (2003) players
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Mexico captures Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales MEXICO CITY, July 16 (UPI) -- Mexican authorities said Monday they captured Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales in an early morning raid south of the U.S. border. A helicopter stopped a pickup truck carrying Trevino when he was about 17 miles from the border city of Nuevo Laredo, CNN quoted Mexican government security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez Hernandez as saying. Trevino, aka Z-40, was in possession of eight weapons and $2 million when he was captured, Sanchez said. Two others in the truck also were arrested. Sanchez said Trevino was notorious for his "cruelty" and "the fury with which he attacked his victims." Trevino, 40, was expected to face charges of homicide, torture, money laundering, organized crime, kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking. The U.S. State Department had offered a $5 million award for information leading to Tevino's capture, and the Mexican government had offered its own reward of $2.4 million. "Credit goes to the Mexican government for this," CNN quoted an unnamed senior State Department official as saying. "It is a very big get. We work well with these guys and congratulate them."
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Ourimbah is a small township and a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located about north of the Sydney CBD. The township today consists of small scattered local shops and businesses along the Pacific Highway, as well as the Central Coast campus of the University of Newcastle. == History ==
The Aboriginal word "Oorin" meaning "Belt of manhood" in which a stone axe was carried on hunting expeditions, and "Oorinbah" which is the bora ring or ceremonial ground in which the initiation ceremony of conferring the "belt of manhood" was carried out is where the name for Ourimbah originates from. Ourimbah was also known as ‘Blue Gum Flats’ which is what the school was called. The name of Ourimbah was universally adopted for the School, Post Office, Railway and Township in the late 1800s. There are many sites around Ourimbah which provide evidence of Aboriginal occupation. These include axe grinding grooves, archaeological deposits of campfires and food scraps, cave art, as well as many stone implements which have been purloined by museums and privateers. Blue Gum Flat Public School (Ourimbah Public School) was built in 1863 on the site of the present railway station. In 1886 the school was moved to the opposite side of the road and a wooden building constructed. The Ourimbah railway station was built in the same year and opened on 15 August 1887 and was the only station other than Narara between Gosford and Wyong at this time. The relocation of the school and construction of the railway provided the opportunity for the subdivision of land into "town-size" allotments and the creation at Ourimbah of a townscape at first dubbed "Beckford". An area had previously been earmarked for a township to the north of this planned subdivision. The town of Ourimbah, with its blue gums, blackbutts, round leaved gum, spotted gum and white mahogany trees, was an ideal place for the milling of timber to support a Sydney building boom between 1840 and 1870. The 1840s saw a major growth of population in the Ourimbah area. Attracted by the availability of work cutting timber, a great number of young couples moved all through the Central Coast, gradually forming settlements at which many began to put down roots. While the timber supply thinned out, other means such as Citrus fruit and dairy farming restored the fortunes of Ourimbah. Later, in the 1950s it was realised that the dairy industry could not survive. The citrus farmers found themselves in a similar bind, unable to match the economies of scale available to producers elsewhere. In January 1970, Ourimbah was the venue for Australia's first major rock festival drawing 11,000 fans. The early 1970s land boom, which saw much land redeveloped into smaller holdings, was the end of any serious potential for farming as a means of supporting a family in Ourimbah. Land use once again changed, with pockets of urban development amongst the acreages, themselves now valuable for the leisure opportunities they offered rather than as agricultural holdings. == Education ==
Ourimbah Public School is the oldest school on the Central Coast, opening in 1863 as Blue Gum Flat School. (http://www.ourimbah-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/documents/2573097/2579271/1317966347621_19eb9eec26e2ca27012702ba259a1167.pdf)
It continues to grow and change from its once small stable rural environment to its present rapidly expanding urban environment. The University of Newcastle has a major presence on the Central Coast at Ourimbah through a multi-sector co-located partnership of the University and TAFE NSW - Hunter Institute. "Ourimbah" is an Indigenous word expressing a place of learning, and the campus is located on traditional lands where this learning took place. The Ourimbah campus offers University, TAFE and Community College programs and courses on one site so that students can take advantage of pathways between levels and sectors of education and training. Affiliates are the Central Coast Community College and the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music. The University of Newcastle commenced teaching at the Ourimbah Campus, also known as the Central Coast Campus, in 1989. Campus Central is the Ourimbah Campus student association. Campus Central has been operating as an independent student organisation at the Ourimbah Cmapus since 1994. Campus Central has retained autonomy through the VSU (Voluntary Student Unionism) legislation changes and continues to provide services to students, members and the Campus community.
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Hepatozoon is a genus of Apicomplexan protozoa which incorporates over 300 species obligate intraerythrocytic parasites. Species have been described from all groups of tetrapod vertebrates, as well as a wide range of haematophagous arthropods, which serve as both the vectors and definitive hosts of the parasite. By far the most biodiverse and prevalent of all [the genus is distinguished by its unique reciprocal trophic life cycle which lacks the salivary transmission between hosts commonly associated with other apicomplexans. While particularly prevalent in
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Wikipedia is viewed more than 8000 hits a second...
we're the fifth largest website in the whole world....and we're only a little more than 10 years old! Who writes this Wikipedia?
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Last Storyteller Delaney knows how to get attention By Andrea Burzynski
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Frank Delaney knows a surefire way to capture a person's attention. In fact, the New York Times bestselling author and former BBC broadcaster claims he can do it with only eight words. "You say, 'Listen, I have a story to tell you,' and everybody's looking," he told Reuters. In the "The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland," being published on February 7, Delaney does just that -- grabs readers simply by telling stories. The final book of his historical fiction trilogy interweaves ancient legends with stories from his characters, while protagonist Ben McCarthy learns to make sense of his life by telling his own tales and those of others. The novel follows McCarthy, a collector for Ireland's Folklore Commission, as he traverses the landscape of his country seeking stories. Along his journey, he tries to reunite with his estranged wife and falls into an uneasy friendship with an IRA gunrunner. Ben hears many myths and legends - often from an old masterful storyteller whom he seeks to emulate - and finds versions of these ancient tales playing out in his own life and in the lives of those around him. "Legend echoes life, and life echoes legend all the time," Delaney told Reuters. "That's the theme of the book - that our own stories, no matter what they are, can be found always in legends and mythologies." Delaney said the legends he incorporated into the book came from a variety of sources, including his own imagination. "Some of the stories are from the very ancient past, some of them I embellished, and some I just plain made up," he said. "They're all there for a purpose, and they all move the story along in one way or another."
"The Last Storyteller" is the third title in a series that included "Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show" and "The Matchmaker of Kenmare," which also feature McCarthy as the key character. Though his most recent book completes the trilogy, Delaney said he wrote "The Last Storyteller" as its own novel for readers who don't know the previous two. The book takes place during the 1950s, which was a time of political uncertainty, poverty and violence in Ireland. In some ways, that volatility mirrors society today. And Delaney acknowledges that the appetite for stories can be bolstered by tough times, although he believes storytelling is a universal and timeless art. "When times are tough, we almost need story more than any other time," he said. Stories can be a way to escape reality during hard times, he said, pointing to the number of movies based in fantasy or exaggeration since 2008's global recession led to lost jobs and weak economies. Delaney noted that storytelling traditions of the past are being carried on today through movies, television, books and online media. He calls Hollywood action movies "a mutation of the fireside dragon story." He cites the movie "Moneyball" with Brad Pitt and the "Harry Potter" books by J.K. Rowling as examples of good contemporary storytelling, saying that any well-told tale compels its audience to find out what happens next. Whether told by a fireside, in a book, or on a movie screen, Delaney hopes that "The Last Storyteller" will lead to a lot of first-time storytellers. "The way you tell your story cannot be done by anybody else," he said. "It's the one unique thing we have, our own personal private culture. The purpose of this particular book is to show us how to use that culture." (Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte)
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Arsene Wenger optimistic amid self-belief of Arsenal team Arsene Wenger accepts his Arsenal side remain Champions League underdogs despite their first-leg victory over Barcelona - but thinks a new-found self-belief could prove crucial. Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin both scored in the last 12 minutes to turn imminent defeat into a famous victory at the Emirates, with David Villa on target in the first half. That away goal - coupled with the 4-1 hammering Arsenal received at the Nou Camp last season - means Wenger still rates Barca as favourites to reach the quarter-final. Yet he believes the fact that his side now know they can beat a side widely rated as the best in the world over 90 minutes could play a vital role. "I am highly delighted. It was a special football night," said Wenger. "The game promised a lot and fulfilled that promise. It was two exceptional teams who tried always to be positive. "We are not favourites now, but what is important is the belief that we have a chance. "Barcelona are still favourites. We know now that we can beat them, though. We did not know that last year. "This gives us a chance to to go to Barcelona with belief. Every game is difficult but we will prepare well and be highly focused." Wenger was particularly happy to see his players keep their composure during the phases of the game when Barca denied them possession for long periods. That is typically Arsenal's job in the Premier League and he appreciated his team's versatility. "Against Barcelona you are exposed many times when they have possession but we kept resilient and strong," Wenger said. "The problem with their possession is that if you are a fraction late you are in trouble. You have to be tight with the marking and if you don't it is difficult. "We were prepared mentally to live with that. Usually we have the ball more than our opponents but we knew that 60% of the time we would have to be focused on them." Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was complimentary of Arsenal's style and was measured in his assessment of the visitors' efforts. Villa delivered Guardiola's minimum requirement of an away goal, meaning victory in the second leg already looms large on his mind. "I think we were okay. We have lost the first leg so we have to win the second leg," he said. "We controlled the play for most of the match but we know they can play very well positionally. They are very good and very fast when they counter-attack. "If we analyse this result it is not too bad. I think in general I am happy with the performance. But we need to score goals in the second leg. "They will attack and we will attack too."
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Travellers' Century is a 2008 BBC Television documentary series presented by Benedict Allen that profiles the lives of three influential 20th century British travel writers. ==Production==
BBC Four controller Janice Hadlow commissioned the series from Icon Films for broadcast as part of the channel's Journeys of Discovery season. The series combines footage of explorer and travel writer Benedict Allen following in the footsteps of his subjects with interviews and archive footage to provide an insight into their lives. Allen has written that the series was made to answer a question he had first asked himself when he lost his dog team in the Bering Strait pack ice and his prospects looked grim. Where does the troublesome urge of the British to wander off alone, often without even bothering to give a half-decent excuse, come from? ==Reception==
Sarah Dempster writing in The Guardian describes the, wonderful little series, as, part leisurely biography, part arduous travelogue, that, offers an unabashedly nostalgic peek into the life of the 20th-century adventurer. Tim Teeman writing in The Times described episode one as, hopelessly muddled, slow and uninsightful, opining that Allen managed to extinguish all the lyricism, and spirit of adventure and discovery, from Newby’s work, but concluding that, it was lovely to see Newby in archive footage cycle in the roiling morning commute, head high and defiantly and perilously weaving through the middle lane as beeping echoed all about him. Joe Clay writing in the same publication called it, a mature, inspiring hour of quintessentially British spirit. ==Episodes==
===Episode one: Eric Newby===
Allen begins his film chatting with the attendees of Eric Newby's memorial service in Covent Garden. Newby’s wife Wanda discusses the curiously British drive for exploration and Newby’s split-personality of urbane and adventurous. Allen visits Newby’s childhood home in Hammersmith where at St. Paul's School he reads of Newby’s poor academic ability. Newby was unable to complete his studies and his friends Pat Allen, Katherine Whitehorn and Adrian House of the Travellers' Club ponder whether this drove him to prove himself by enlisting on the tea clipper Moshulu. Wanda relates how Newby’s captioning of his photographs for publication resulted in The Last Grain Race. On the eve of World War II Newby enlisted in the Black Watch and after Sandhurst he was captured on an SBS mission in Italy. Fellow POW Pat Spooner recalls Newby’s positive attitude at this time when he first met his future wife. Wanda recalls after the war the couple joined the family costumier firm Lane and Newby where he indulged his passion for fashion but was ultimately unfulfilled. Allen meets Newby’s old travelling companion Hugh Carless at Snowdonia where the two novice climbers spent weekend practising for an impromptu trip to Afghanistan. Wanda gives Allen Newby’s bag as he sets off, with cameraman Peter Jouvenal, to follow in his footsteps. Allen finds life in remote Nuristan little changed since Newby’s time and the Panchea Valley and its inhabitants match his descriptions. Allen locates Newby’s original guide who reminisces about Newby and Carliss and the impression that they made. Newby and Carliss never made it to the summit of Mir Samir but the author’s self-deprecating style is best exemplified for Allen in his book of the trip A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Allen is also forced to turn back but pauses at the point where a historic meeting between Newby and the professional explorer Wilfred Thesiger symbolised the beginning of the age of the traveller. ===Episode two: Laurie Lee===
Explorer, writer and broadcaster Benedict Allen retraces part of author Laurie Lee's journey across Spain in 1935, which became the basis for his celebrated travelogue As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. Lee thought of himself first and foremost as a poet, and the book reveals a poet's sensibility in its meticulous, distilled observations of the country and people he quickly came to love. Allen tries to find out whether Lee's evocative prose actually works as travel writing and Lee is revealed as an enigmatic, mercurial figure in the tradition of the wandering minstrel or troubadour, with a huge array of talents and an astonishing facility to charm. ===Episode three: Patrick Leigh Fermor''===
Benedict Allen follows Patrick Leigh Fermor's epic 1934 quest across Europe, tracing the inns, haystacks and castles the young adventurer stayed in as he foot-slogged his way through the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Romania towards Byzantium.
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Feuz, Kroell tie in men's super-G Austria's Klaus Kroell, pictured after a downhill run at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Feb.15, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch KVITJELL, Norway, March 2 (UPI) -- The World Cup men's super-G race in Norway Friday ended with Beat Feuz of Switzerland and Austria's Klaus Kroell in a rare tie for first place. Both were timed at 1 minute, 32.35 seconds and Kjetil Jansrud of Norway took third place a mere 3/100 of a second behind the leaders. The dual win was the fourth victory of the season for Feuz, who regained the lead in the overall World Cup standings. Didier Cuche of Switzerland took fourth place in the race, which was delayed for an hour at the start by high winds. His Swiss teammate, Axel Lund Svindel, placed fifth and took the lead in the super-G standings. "After the downhill practice and my knee injury at Moscow, this was totally unexpected," Feuz said. "It's a big surprise but it's a great one as it puts me back on course in both the overall World Cup and in the super-G standings." Feuz leads Marcell Hirscher of Austria in the overall standings by just five points. Hirscher did not compete in Friday's race, nor did Croatian Ivica Kostelic, who is in third place overall.
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Accused Mark Clattenburg will not officiate this weekend Referee Mark Clattenburg, accused of using "inappropriate language" toward Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel, will not officiate a game this coming weekend. The Premier League announced the officials for the upcoming round of Premier League fixtures this afternoon, and Clattenburg was not among them. The decision to drop Clattenburg was taken after consultation with the referee said Mike Riley, general manager of Professional Game Match Officials Limited. "PGMOL was fully prepared to appoint Mark to matches this weekend. However, having discussed this with him, we both consider that it is in Mark's best interests that he has this week away from officiating duties while he prepares to help The FA and police with their enquiries," said Riley. Chelsea play Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, and while it was inconceivable he would have been handed that particular game, it was thought he might return in one of the other nine Premier League fixtures taking place across the weekend. Clattenburg was stood down from the last round of fixtures after he was accused of targeting language at Mikel that could be constituted as racist. Clattenburg is said to be astounded by the claims and is eager to return to officiating as soon as possible. The allegations, relating to Clattenburg's officiating during Chelsea's defeat in the Premier League to Manchester United, are currently being investigated by the FA and Metropolitan police.
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2 Kidnapped Children Found Safe The Associated Press
Phoenix police have found two young children taken when armed gunmen burst into a home. The children, a 2-year-old boy and an 11-month old girl, were dropped off at a house in south Phoenix after they were apparently kidnapped Tuesday morning. They were apparently unharmed. Police say they don't think the mother of the children knew the suspects, who whisked the children away in a white sedan with dark tinted windows. Police say the case may have initially been an attempted robbery. No other details were immediately available. Police are still searching for the suspects.
Information from: KPHO-TV, http://www.kpho.com/ THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. PHOENIX (AP) - Phoenix police have found two young children taken when armed gunmen burst into a home. The children, a 2-year-old boy and an 11-month old girl, were dropped off at a house in south Phoenix after they were apparently kidnapped Tuesday morning. They were apparently unharmed. Police say they don't think the mother of the children knew the suspects, who whisked the children away in a white sedan with dark tinted windows. Police say the case may have initially been an attempted robbery. No other details were immediately available. Police are still searching for the suspects.
Information from: KPHO-TV, http://www.kpho.com/
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"You Should Be Dancing" is a single by the Bee Gees, from the album Children of the World, released in 1976. The single hit number one for one week on the American Billboard Hot 100, number one for seven weeks on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart, and in July the same year, reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. The song also peaked at number four on the Billboard R&B chart. It was this song that first launched the Bee Gees into disco. It was also the only track from the group to top the dance chart. The song was their third Billboard Hot 100 number-one and their sixth number-one in Canada. It ended up the year as the number 31 song of the year on the Hot 100. In the '70s some of the Bee Gees' songs were deemed too uptempo for AC/Easy Listening Radio which led to "You Should Be Dancing" only reaching number 25 on that chart. It also hit number four in Ireland. In Australia, where the brothers spent a number of years in their youth, it managed only to nick the top 20. "You Should Be Dancing" is known today as the first chart-topper in which Barry Gibb uses his now-trademark falsetto in a lead vocal (he had previously used it on the top-10 "Nights on Broadway" and on "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)"). Earlier songs, such as "Jive Talkin'", had Gibb use a melodic blue-eyed soul vocal style. The song was prominently featured in the movie Saturday Night Fever and appears on its soundtrack album. Live performances of "You Should Be Dancing" during the 1979 Spirits Having Flown tour featured the Bee Gees' younger sibling, Andy Gibb, on backing vocals. The Boston Celtics also play this song when they are about to win a basketball game in a convincing manner accompanied by the ever popular "Gino Time" video from the television show American Bandstand. Recently, the Tampa Bay Rays have started playing the song at home games between innings. The song was also featured at the end of the movie Despicable Me, in which the minions replace ballet music with the song so everyone (including both a reluctant-at-first Gru and a stranded Vector, who is still on the moon) can dance. ==Chart performance==
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==Blockster's version==
Blockster released a cover, titled "You Should Be...", which reached number three in the UK chart in January 1999. ==Other cover versions==
Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol, performed the song on the show on 8 May 2007. His studio version was later released on the American Idol official website and on American Idol Season 6: The Collector's Edition, a compilation of studio versions of songs performed by Idol finalists. In 2012, the song was featured in the Glee episode "Saturday Night Glee-ver". The song was sung by Blaine Anderson (portrayed by Darren Criss), Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr.) and Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris).
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I have been advised by Jeremy, (see below) to add citations, which I did. I also edited the text to make it shorted, which was requested by a tag from orange mike. I humbly request that now the tags be removed now, if I have done what was requested. Linda Wolf (talk)
october 23, 2010
I would like to ask anyone who is willing to please update my wikipedia page with sources. They are easy to find in google. Clearly, I didn't know I was not able to correct things myself. All apologies. I am a novice at this site, was glad to see it created and would love to see it stay up. Warmly, lindaLinda Wolf (talk)
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Osborne to brief MPs as factory data adds to economic gloom The NIESR thinks growth in the UK has totalled just 0.6 per cent over the whole of the past 12 months Chancellor George Osborne will use tomorrow's recall of Parliament over the riots to brief MPs on Britain's increasingly fragile economic recovery amid further data that suggests growth is faltering. Mr Osborne will make a statement and answer questions in the House of Commons, after a week of stock market gyrations following the US credit rating downgrade and ongoing concerns over the eurozone debt crisis. The latest evidence on the performance of the domestic economy yesterday was also downbeat, with official data showing a shock contraction in manufacturing output in June. The Chancellor faces a growing challenge to defend the £80bn of cuts the Government says are needed to bring the overweening public debt back into line. Mr Osborne faces calls to produce a convincing plan for boosting econ- omic growth, after the most recent GDP figures showed an anaemic 0.2 expansion in the second quarter, prompting warnings of a "bumpy and uneven recovery" from the International Monetary Fund. The Office of National Statistics'production index will not help the Chancellor. The figures published yesterday reveal a slide in Britain's manufacturing industries, which have so far led the economy's recovery from the 2008 banking crisis. Manufacturing output was down by 0.4 per cent in June, the ONS said, confounding expectations of a 0.2 per cent rise and taking output down by 2.1 per cent over the year since June 2010. The June figures add up to a 1.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter contraction - suggesting performance may have been worse than was estimated in the national accounts, and raising the possibility that the second-quarter GDP figure could even be revised still further downwards. The outlook for Britain's manufacturers is no cheerier. The most recent survey evidence from both manufacturing purchasing managers and the Confederation of British Industry suggests further contractions to come. Howard Archer, the chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "Although manufacturing output only accounts for 12.8 per cent of GDP, it was the economy's best-performing sector in 2010 and early 2011, so its recent marked falling away is of significant concern." The Bank of England's latest Inflation Report - which will include inflation and GDP forecasts - is unlikely to offer much succour when it is published this morning. The widely respected think tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), said yesterday it believed GDP growth had totalled 0.6 per cent over the three months to the end of July. However, the NIESR warned that "special factors continue to exert their influence" - namely that the drop in output in April, thanks to the disruption of the royal wedding and the Japanese tsunami, is flattering the rate of expansion. "Underlying growth is significantly weaker than the headline number reported," the think-tank added. "The level of GDP is now only 0.6 per cent higher than a year ago." The direction of the trend is also a concern. Although economists counsel against paying too much attention to shifts from one month to the next, it is notable that the NIESR's estimates for GDP in July show a second consecutive monthly fall, with the totals having been pulled down by a sharp drop in industrial output.
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Menegazzia weindorferi is a species of lichen found in Australia. ==Other Menegazzia Species==
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Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for the archer, and its symbol is (Unicode U+2650 ♐), a stylized arrow. Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur drawing a bow. It lies between Scorpius and Ophiuchus to the west and Capricornus to the east. == Visualizations ==
The constellation's brighter stars form an easily recognizable asterism known as 'the Teapot'. The stars δ Sgr (Kaus Media), ε Sgr (Kaus Australis), ζ Sgr (Ascella), and φ Sgr form the body of the pot; λ Sgr (Kaus Borealis) is the point of the lid; γ2 Sgr (Alnasl) is the tip of the spout; and σ Sgr (Nunki) and τ Sgr the handle. Marking the bottom of the teapot's "handle" (or the shoulder area of the archer, are the bright star (2.59 magnitude) Zeta Sagittarii (ζ Sgr), named Ascella, and the fainter Tau Sagittarii (τ Sgr). To complete the teapot metaphor, under good conditions, a particularly dense area of the Milky Way can be seen rising in a north-westerly arc above the spout, like a puff of steam rising from a boiling kettle. The constellation as a whole is often depicted as having the rough appearance of a stick-figure archer drawing its bow, with the fainter stars providing the outline of the horse's body. Sagittarius famously points its arrow at the heart of Scorpius, represented by the reddish star Antares, as the two constellations race around the sky. Following the direct line formed by Delta Sagittarii (δ Sgr) and Gamma Sagittarii (γ Sgr) leads nearly directly to Antares. Fittingly, Gamma Sagittarii is named Alnasl, the Arabic word for "arrowhead," and Delta Sagittarii is called Kaus Media, the "center of the bow," from which the arrow protrudes. Kaus Media bisects Lambda Sagittarii (λ Sgr) and Epsilon Sagittarii (ε Sgr), whose names Kaus Borealis and Kaus Australis refer to the northern and southern portions of the bow, respectively. == Notable features ==
=== Stars ===
α Sgr (Rukbat, meaning "the archer's knee", despite having the "alpha" appellation, is not the brightest star of the constellation, having a magnitude of only 3.96 (not shown on the main map as it is located below the map's southeastern corner, north is up). Instead, the brightest star is Epsilon Sagittarii (ε Sgr) ("Kaus Australis," or "southern part of the bow"), at magnitude 1.85. Sigma Sagittarii (σ Sgr) ("Nunki") is the constellation's second-brightest star at magnitude 2.08. Nunki is a B2V star approximately 260 light years away. "Nunki" is a Babylonian name of uncertain origin, but thought to represent the sacred Babylonian city of Eridu on the Euphrates, which would make Nunki the oldest star name currently in use. Zeta Sagittarii (ζ Sgr) ("Ascella"), with apparent magnitude 2.61 of A2 spectra, is actually a double star whose two components have magnitudes 3.3 and 3.5. Delta Sagittarii (δ Sgr) ("Kaus Maridionalis"), is a K2 spectra star with magnitude 2.71 and only 85 light years from Earth. Eta Sagittarii (η Sgr) is a double star with component magnitudes of 3.18 and 10, while Pi Sagittarii (π Sgr) is actually a triple system whose components have magnitudes 3.7, 3.8, and 6.0. The Bayer designation Beta Sagittarii (Beta Sgr, β Sagittarii, β Sgr) is shared by two star systems, β¹ Sagittarii, with apparent magnitude 3.96, and β² Sagittarii, magnitude 7.4. The two stars are separated by 0.36° in the sky and are 378 light years from earth.
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Some employees have focused on the internal report that showed a deficiency in customer cash accounts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. The internal report, produced on Oct. 28, reflected end-of-day figures for Oct. 27, a person briefed on the matter said. The employees who are said to have noticed the deficiency, Matthew Hughey and Mike Bolan, reported to Christine Serwinski, the firm's North American chief financial officer. The two were unable to immediately confirm whether the deficiencies were real or the result of an accounting error, according to one of those briefed on the matter. The new details raise concerns about whether Ms. O'Brien's staff and Ms. Serwinski's team were isolated from one another during the crucial period. Some say tensions have mounted between the two units in the aftermath of the collapse, with each pointing fingers at the other. Some people close to the case have said Ms. O'Brien's staff sent wire transfers on Oct. 28 without checking the reports showing the level of customer cash. Others have countered that Ms. O'Brien was not given access to reports on that final day of operations. Adding to the disorder, the people say, was that Ms. Serwinski was on vacation much of that final week. One of her deputies, a person briefed on the matter said, also spent part of the week away at a conference.
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Georgia's Gov. Deal signs 'fetal pain' bill Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signs a bill enacting tighter abortion policies on May 1, 2012. (Photo courtesy Georgia Office of the Governor.) ATLANTA, May 2 (UPI) -- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal approved new restrictions on late-term abortions performed in the state, signing a bill that generally bans abortions after 20 weeks. Among other things, the law tightens medical exemptions for ending pregnancies and requires any abortion performed after 20 weeks be done in a manner to remove the fetus alive, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday. The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, doesn't exempt rape or incest, saying a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks so the state has an interest in protecting it. "Today, we are reaffirming Georgia's commitment to preserving the sanctity of all human life," Deal said in a statement. "This legislation provides humane protection to innocents capable of feeling pain while making an important exception for... medically futile pregnancies." The law included an exemption that gives doctors the option to perform an abortion past 20 weeks when a fetus has congenital or chromosomal defects and protects doctors from civil suits filed because of the legislation. Doctors who perform abortions after 20 weeks that don't meet the law's mandates could face felony charges punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Deal also signed into law a bill that would make assisting someone commit suicide a felony. The bill was passed after the state Supreme Court ruled the state's previous assisted-suicide law as unconstitutional. The governor was prepared to sign into law Wednesday a bill that would reform the state's penal system, representing a first step in his long-term plan to reserve prison beds for the state's most violent criminals, the Journal-Constitution said. Deal told the newspaper he will sign an executive order to continue a panel that studied the state's prison system and recommended changes to control soaring growth in prison spending. "We didn't get everything we originally asked for, but we got the bulk of it," Deal said of the prison reform legislation. "We think it is a significant step in the right direction.... We do think it's the right thing to do. We don't believe it jeopardizes the safety of Georgians. In fact, we believe it enhances it." Reforms in the legislation are projected to save $264 million over the next five years.
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Tanzania's Hadza group sheds light on ancient social networks Long before Facebook made it possible to share photos of your breakfast with hundreds of friends and let them know just how you feel about your latest parking ticket, humans were forming social networks with essentially the same structure people use today. A team of researchers has mapped out the relationships among a remote group of 205 hunter-gatherers in Tanzania who live as humans did about 10,000 years ago and found that their social networks are very much like ours, even in the absence of the complicating factors of megacities, cellphones and the Internet. The researchers found that individuals who are willing to cooperate prefer the company of other cooperative people and that free riders tend to stick to their own kind as well. The results appear in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature. "These networks of primitive cultures are not that different from the kinds of networks that exist in modern society," said Stanley Wasserman, a statistician at Indiana University who was not involved in the study. "This is great stuff." The findings offer an answer to the much-debated question of why humans cooperate with one another. Natural selection would dictate that free riders in a community - those selfish individuals who take advantage of other people's generosity - would outcompete their more selfless brethren. Social networks may have been very useful in making sure that the cooperative individuals were able to work together successfully. Recent work linking genetic variation to social network structure lent further credence to the idea that social networks may have evolved for purposes of survival. For instance, scientists have found that the social networks of identical twins are more similar than those of fraternal twins, suggesting that genes play a role. "If these properties are written in our genes, is this something we would find in humans who lived like we would have lived thousands of years ago?" asked UC San Diego social scientist James Fowler, one of the study's coauthors. To test the theory, Harvard Medical School researcher Coren Apicella traveled to remote regions of Tanzania to study members of a tiny group of hunter-gatherers known as the Hadza. The Hadza live as ancient humans in the Pleistocene are thought to have lived: no agriculture, carrying few or no possessions, setting up camp to forage and hunt, and relocating every four to six weeks after stripping the bushes and baobab trees within walking distance. "They provide a kind of window into the past," said study senior author Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social scientist at Harvard University who studies how social networks affect health. The Hadza travel in wandering bands spread out around Lake Eyasi. If individuals don't like their current band, they can leave and join another one, setting up an interesting opportunity for the researchers to probe their social network. First, Hadza in 17 different bands were shown what could be considered a primitive version of Facebook - a printout with head shots of all the Hadza in all bands - and asked to identify who they'd like to be with in the next band they joined. (Men were shown only men and women shown only women, so that romantic aspirations would not complicate the results.) The Hadza were also given three sticks of honey, a prized possession, and asked to choose three people to whom they would give each honey stick. These two tests enabled the researchers to map out the Hadza's social networks. For the third exercise, the Hadza were given four honey sticks. They could keep all four, but they were told that each stick they contributed anonymously to a common pile would be tripled by the researchers and redistributed later. This game was a test to see which individuals were more cooperative and which were free riders, opting to secretly keep their sticks while also benefiting from the redistribution of sticks in the common pile. When the researchers put this information together, they found that Hadza who contributed more to the common good were more likely to be friends with other cooperative people. These connections formed clusters that were often near the center of the social networks. That, in turn, made the group more successful and better able to compete with other groups for scarce resources, Christakis said. The researchers were surprised to find that the free riders were more likely to be friends with other free riders, and they aren't quite sure why that is. It could be that those who cooperate choose to be friends with people like themselves, leaving no space for free riders, or that the former influence those around them to become more cooperative. Another possibility is that free riders actively prefer the company of other free riders because they're less likely to be sanctioned for their behavior, said Joseph Henrich, an evolutionary researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver who was not involved in the study.
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The three had been in contact with the Essex Regiment based in Bandon during the conflict, supplying information on the local IRA. She writes it was "firmly established" later that Fitzmaurice and Gray had been informers, and that their information had done a great deal of damage to the IRA. In Gray's case (as a ten-year-old girl averred to Meda Ryan) he sought out "information from children in their innocence" and hence children were warned against chatting with Gray despite his kindness. Ryan writes that Fitzmaurice, Gray, Buttimer, and Harbord were associated with the Murragh "Loyalist Action Group" known locally as the "Protestant Action Group," and all were involved in espionage. All the surnames of those shot in this period were listed as "helpful citizens" in Auxiliaries' documents found in Dunmanway; in two cases, only last names were given. Peter Hart disputes that the men had informed on the IRA. He writes that the term informer was used a form of "generic abuse" and he finds "no evidence whatsoever" that they had been active in opposing the IRA. Meehan writes that the killings were not "motivated by either land agitation or by sectarian considerations." Brian Murphy agrees, citing a British document A Record of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1920–1921:
the truth was that, as British intelligence officers recognised in the south, the Protestants and those who that supported the Government rarely gave much information because, except by chance, they had not got it to give. An exception to this was in the Bandon area where there were many Protestant farmers who gave information. Although the Intelligence Officer of the area was exceptionally experienced and although the troops were most active it proved almost impossible to protect those brave men, many of whom were murdered while almost all the remainder suffered grave material loss. He concludes that "the IRA killings in the Bandon area were motivated by political and not sectarian considerations. Possibly, military considerations, rather than political, would have been a more fitting way to describe the reason for the IRA response to those who informed." Most recently, historian John Regan, in his paper, The Bandon Valley Massacre Revisited, has argued the incident is most likely best understood in the light of IRA fears that the British were planning a reoccupation of the south of Ireland and was a preemptive move against people believed to have been informers. He has argued that the selective use of evidence by Peter Hart to emphasise the sectarian dimension to the killings highlights a wider problem in the politicisation of Irish history. ==TV programme on RTÉ==
Cork’s Bloody Secret shown on RTÉ on 5 October 2009 dealt with the Dunmanway killings. The programme was produced by Sean O Mealoid, and included interviews with two descendants of two of the Protestant victims. It included a dialogue between two local historians, Donald Woods and Colum Cronin and featured Professor John A. Murphy and Eoghan Harris (who later debated the issue in the Irish Times, alongside UCC historian Andy Bielenberg.). ==Notes==
==References==
Tom Barry, Guerrilla Days in Ireland, Mercer Press, Cork, 1997
Niall C Harrington, Kerry Landing, August 1922: An Episode of the Civil War, Anvil Books, 1992:8. ISBN 0-947962-70-0
Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins, Arrow Books (1991), ISBN 978-0-09-968580-7
Meda Ryan, Tom Barry, IRA Freedom Fighter, Mercier, 2005 (paper back edition), ISBN 1-85635-480-6
Dorothy Macardle, The Irish Republic, 1999
Peter Hart, The I.R.A.
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Cortixa is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae. ==References==
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Oenochrominae
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Asi, ya empesado el proyecto, nos dedicabamos a grabar en nuestros tiempos libres, nos poniamos de acuerdo para idear cosas o simplemente para hacerlas, ya que a veces si alguien ya tenia una idea en la cabeza solo nos hablabamos para llevarla acabo, después de el video de la bola en la ingle, vino el culo en la ingle,el puño en la ingle y el bebe en la ingle, por nuestra propia seguridad decidimos intentar nuevas cosas, ya que viviamos con el miedo de ser golpeados en las ingles por nosotros mismos, asi salieron la ingle party, el tunel de la serpiente cachetona, carretillas racing, etc..
Con diferentes lugares para grabar, como las casas de nosotros, como quintas, o simplemente en el parque de el Funda, y un buen proceso de Edicion por parte de Cuyo y Buru, asi como las juntas para saber que se subiria, el proyecto marchaba a la perfeccion. “El final se acercaba”
Con algo de fama local, dada por publicidad como Fotolog, nosotros mismos y por amigos y personas que no conociamos pero les gusto lo que haciamos (se podria decir que nuestros fans) FundaProductions era el éxito NO esperado, ya que no buscabamos eso..solo queriamos divertirnos. Con el paso de las grabaciones, salio la idea de hacer una película casera, con escenas y situaciones que no se podian subir, sin censura, y se empeso a grabar parte de esto. Ala par que grbabamos los ultimos capitulos de lo que nosotros llamabamos PRIMERA TEMPORADA, el ultimo capitulo fue el de : El agua, amiga o enemiga?, nuestro video numero 10 en la red, con el cual cruzamos un poco mas la barrera de el dolor, fue el video mas visto de nosotros en ese entonces y habiamos cerrado con broche de oro nuestra primera temporada, y nos dedicariamos a una segunda y a la película. Durante las grabaciones de parte de lo que seria la película, Miguel tomaria una actitud algo incomoda para el resto, con el hecho de grabar cuando a el le conveniera y las cosas que solo el quisiera. Poco a poco esto trajo el descontento de los demas, y tiempo después el decide salir de FundaProductions para seguir su vida escolar y personal. Esto no detuvo a los 4 miembros restantes, pero los animos y disponibilidad de todos nostros no pudieron vencer a los demas factores que nos rodeaban, como lo eran el tiempo, las obligaciones, el dolor y cansancio de lo que haciamos, seguiamos grabando pero cosas muy indiferentes, asi un buen día sin darnos cuenta FundaProductions quedo en el olvido por todos nosotros. “El fin de una era”
En un intento por rescatar el concepto, un año después Eric le pide a Cuyo los videos que no llegaron a ser editados y subidos a la red, para editarlos el y tratar de que los demas recobraran el espiritu de seguir con lo nuestro.
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But if the Government's cap has no hope of meeting the unrealistic expectations invested in it - to reduce net immigration from almost 200,000 a year to the "tens of thousands" the Prime Minister has said he is aiming for - this does not mean that nothing can or should be done. Politically, the case for lower immigration has been pretty much accepted. Nor is the economic argument for an open door unimpeachable. Do we really have a skills shortage on a scale that free movement within the EU cannot address? In trying to reduce immigration, however, the Government has to accept realities. The only new arrivals Britain has the power to restrict are those from outside the EU. But there is little point curbing a small and shrinking subcategory - those coming to work and already subject to the points system - while leaving the two far bigger groups untouched. This means, as the Commons report concluded, albeit with excessive caution, reviewing student visas and family reunions. It defies logic to treat these two groups as sacrosanct. Universities are already pleading the necessity of attracting ever more high-paying students from abroad (China and India), yet higher fees for British students could help fill the gap. Nor need universities suffer disproportionately. Why not simply stop all visas for study at establishments other than universities - solving at a stroke the problem of bogus language schools. As for family reunions, despite stricter conditions for new spouses over the years, the provision of visas for relatives intending to settle here remains generous by international standards. The bar could be set higher than it is, preferably through an agreement negotiated to standardise the rules across the EU. MPs on the Home Affairs Committee say they will be considering these questions further, acknowledging their sensitivity. But if Mr Cameron really wants to cut net immigration to "tens of thousands," he should urge them to hurry up.
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Summer 2012: Family-friendly festivals - News & Advice - Travel - The Independent Jousting knights and juggling jesters will help recreate the spirit of medieval Sweden at the Medeltidsveckan Festival (00 46 0498 29 10 70; www.medeltidsveckan.se), in the walled city of Visby on Gotland island from 5-12 August. Sunvil Discovery (020-8758 4722; sunvil.co.uk/discovery) has a week from £1,385 per person including return flights on SAS Scandinavian Airlines from Heathrow via Stockholm to Visby, accommodation with breakfast and car hire. Head to Le Grand Bornand in the French Alps from 26-31 August for the Youth Festival of Culture (aubonheurdesmomes.com). This festival is dedicated to youngsters and features more than 90 visual arts and theatre companies, all free to see. La Clusaz Tour (00 33 04 50 32 38 33; laclusaz-tour.com) offers seven nights' self-catering in the resort by the same name from €480 (£384). Return flights to the nearest airport, Geneva, are available from Edinburgh, Liverpool, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester on easyJet (0843 104 5000; easyjet.com), from around £86. Spraoi (00 353 51 841 808; spraoi.com), in Waterford, Ireland, has become one of the biggest street festivals in Europe. From 3-5 August, around 100,000 people descend on the city to see artists perform from around the world. Events include a sculpture-cum-circus parade. Stay at nearby Seacliffe Holiday Cottages, which offers a week in a property sleeping five for £818 through Irish Ferries Holidays (08717 300 400; irishferries.com), including ferry crossings. The Shambala Festival, 23-27 August (shambalafestival.org), is a little bit different - featuring debates and guerrilla science with music, theatre and comedy. The event is held in Northants near Market Harborough, but the precise location is revealed only once you've bought your tickets. There's a special family cabaret tent and a dedicated Kids' Field, where youngsters can get messy in the art tent or try hula-hooping, trampolining and circus skills. Pitch up at its campsite or in the dedicated Family Live-In Vehicle Field. Tickets cost £125 for adults, £84 for teens (15-17) and £32 children (5-14).
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Andre Villas-Boas insists there is 'no truth' in reports linking Wesley Sneijder with Tottenham Wesley Sneijder promises to feature heavily in the gossip columns during the January transfer window, although it would appear a move to Tottenham Hotspur can be ruled out. The midfielder appears almost certain to leave Inter Milan next month having been dropped from the squad altogether at times this season. Coach Andrea Stramaccioni says the decision to leave the Netherlands international out has been solely tactical - although there appears to be more to it than that. Sneijder's wife Yolanthe said recently: "We are about to emigrate. It should happen in early January and we are looking for a nice place for our family," however she later claimed the quote had been made up. Tottenham have been heavily linked with a move having failed to replace Sneijder's compatriot Rafael van der Vaart who left in the summer. Manager Andre Villas-Boas has been thwarted in his efforts to sign Joao Moutinho and it was understood he had turned his attention to Sneijder. Yet the Tottenham manager has said there is "no truth" in the rumours. That follows the same assertion by one of Sneijder's representatives who told Dutch publication Algemeen Dagblad: "There is nothing, absolutely nothing true about that." A move to the Premier League cannot be ruled out for Sneijder, with Manchester United also linked with a £25m swoop. The possible retirement of Paul Scholes at the end of the season may influence any decision to make a bid. Big spending Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala are also among those linked with the 28-year-old.
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FT.com / Personal Finance - Chasing higher returns is growing option Income investors in need of higher returns are now considering using their tax-free Individual savings account (Isa) allowance to feed money into the stock market, rather than accept pitifully low cash interest rates, say brokers. Since last year, investors have been able to move cash Isa savings into equity Isas, without losing the tax exemption. And stockbrokers report that investors are increasingly opting to forgo the security of cash for market risk in exchange for better yields. Returns on cash investments are at historically low levels. For savers who need instant access to their money, the best cash Isa rate available is 3.55 per cent from Barclays Bank. The rate includes an introductory bonus of 1 per cent that will expire in a year. Those willing to tie their money up fare no better. Leeds Building Society has the best five-year fixed Isa rate, but it is only 3.5 per cent. Cash rates will pick up in due course as and when the Bank of England raises the base rate, and the tax saving means real returns on money are higher, particularly for higher rate taxpayers. However, rates on offer from banks still look miserly when compared to last year. By contrast, markets have performed relatively well this week, thanks to the announcement of various government stimulus plans. But a decision on whether to invest in cash or equity depends on an individual's view of the equity market, says David Black at analysts Defaqto. There are no guarantees that markets will not fall again. Investors should also be aware that, under current rules, once cash Isas have been moved to stocks and shares, they cannot be switched back again. Malcolm Cuthbert at Killik & Co says that, in spite of this, a growing number of clients have been chasing higher returns by transferring cash Isas into stocks and shares. Even the most cautious investor can find opportunities in stocks and shares that yield higher returns than cash, he argues. Funds such as Jupiter Corporate Bond and Invesco Perpetual Income, run by seasoned investor Neil Woodford, offer growth opportunities for those with a lower risk appetite. For investors seeking an income, Killik recommends BNP Paribas UK High Income, which invests in a diversified portfolio of FTSE 100 stocks and generates revenue from dividend income. And for those interested in taking on greater risk, brokers recommend the Jupiter Financial Opportunities fund, run by Philip Gibbs, which has managed to make money despite investing in financials. The First State Asia Pacific Leaders fund has also attracted attention by topping its sector peer group over a five-year period. There is speculation that the government may increase the threshold for Isas, or allow savers to keep as much money in cash as in stocks and shares. But this won't be known for certain until the deadline for the 2008/09 tax year has passed. The most important thing in the meantime, according to Ben Yearsley, investment manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, is not to waste the opportunity of saving money tax-free. "If investors think the market has bottomed out then they should go straight in, but for those who are unsure it's still advisable to put money into an Isa so as not to lose the allowance," he advises. Investors can set aside cash, investing it as and when the opportunities arise. But this strategy does have some drawbacks. Cash cannot be held in a stocks and shares Isa indefinitely. And unlike money held in a cash Isa, remember that money held in an equity Isa will be taxed at 20 per cent.
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Linda Norgrove charity reveals first grants
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Activists try making vegetarianism sexy in China BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Want to be sexy? Don't eat meat -- that's the message behind a campaign to promote vegetarianism in China, where meat consumption is booming on the back of rapid economic growth. Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unveiled the campaign on Thursday, fronted by sultry Taiwanese actress and singer Barbie Hsu. Hsu, better known in the Chinese-speaking world as "Big S," will appear in adverts in fashion magazines and websites in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong within the next few weeks to promote the benefits of giving up meat. Vegetarianism is not a widely popular concept in China, where until fairly recently many people struggled to feed themselves, and where all sorts of creatures -- some of them endangered -- are considered food, to the chagrin of environmental groups. PETA's China campaign follows on other global efforts involving celebrities, such as its annual "sexiest vegetarian alive" awards, which last year were given to performers Anthony Kiedis and Leona Lewis. In the China adverts, a smiling Hsu holds a little yellow chick up to her face above the slogan "vegetarians make chicks happy," though the wording in Chinese literally translates as "Love her, love vegetarianism." "My health has improved a lot since I became a vegetarian," Hsu, who said she had not touched meat for a decade, told Reuters. "I want to tell this good news to all of my friends, to tell them the advantages... so this campaign is perfect for me. PETA promotes vegetarianism not only for its health benefits, but as a way of improving the lot of farmyard animals, that it says are often brutally treated by factory farms. But PETA is hoping that using Hsu, who shot to fame in the hit Taiwanese soap opera "Meteor Garden," will appeal to younger Chinese, who are becoming more health conscious in the wake of several scandals involving tainted food. "Healthy vegetarian diets support a lifetime of good health and protect against heart disease, cancer and strokes," the group said in a statement. "A vegetarian diet is also the easiest way to stay slim and sexy," it added. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Christina Hu, editing by Miral Fahmy)
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Imtiaz Ali (born 16 June 1971) is an Indian film director, actor and writer. In 2005, he made his directorial debut with the film Socha Na Tha. However, it was his second film Jab We Met (2007) that brought him success and fame. His 2009 film Love Aaj Kal gained much critical success, and was declared a super hit at the box office. His latest movie Rockstar (2011) was also a commercial success. ==Early life==
Imtiaz Ali ( Hindi: इम्तिआज अलि, Urdu: امتیاز الی) was born in Jamshedpur. He had his origins in Darbhanga, Bihar from a Muslim family. He was brought up in Patna and Jamshedpur. His father Mansoor Ali did irrigation jobs and as a child he would sometimes accompany him which gave him a taste of what was going on in the innards of India. He had his early education in St. Michael's High School, Patna and later in D.B.M.S. English school, Jamshedpur,
In an interview with the Times of India he talks about his childhood days in Jamshedpur and his early influences. My parents were still in Patna but I, along with my brother Arif, joined mid-term and stayed with my aunt at Karim Mansion (an old well-known building in Jamshedpur, where they had three cinema theatres, two of which were attached to the house). Even when I went to sleep, I had the sound of cinema in the background and since we lived there, I could go there whenever I wanted even though I was not allowed to. I had made friends with the projectionist and would see him changing reels and call him from his bidi break if the reel stopped in between. I was not studying and I failed. I was so self-conscious after that and for the first three days, I could just not go back to school. This whole embarrassment of failing and craning my neck down and avoiding my friends who had become my seniors, was difficult. Even though I had failed, my father never made me feel worse and was only there to always encourage me. It's after that, that I started applying myself and excelled in studies and sports and started doing theatre. Later he attended University of Delhi in Delhi, where he took part in college theater. He started Ibtida, the dramatics society of Hindu College. Thereafter he moved to Mumbai and did a diploma course from Xavier Institute of Communication. Imtiaz was married to Preety Ali. ==Career==
Imtiaz began his career directing TV programs including Kurukshetra for Zee TV and Imtehaan for Star Plus. He later moved on to Bollywood films. In 2005, he made his directorial debut with the film Socha Na Tha starring Abhay Deol and Ayesha Takia. Despite its box office failure, the film won critical acclaim. His second film, Jab We Met, starred then real-life couple Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, and became his first box office success. His movie Love Aaj Kal starred Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone, and emerged as his biggest commercial success to date. Ali's latest film Rockstar has also done well at the box office despite mixed reviews. Imtiaz Ali will make a remake of the 2009 South Korean movie My Girlfriend Is An Agent, 22 Tango starring Shahid Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. On June 10, 2013 it was reported that Ali is working on a new film with Ranbir Kapoor and either Deepika Padukone or Alia Bhatt. He also has a production company called Window Seat Films and the first film under this banner is Highway starring Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt.
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=== Hindu revivalism and Neo-Hindu movements ===
Although Vivekananda did not write any commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, his works contained numerous references to the Gita, such as his lectures on the four yogas – Bhakti, Gyaana, Karma, and Raja. Through the message of the Gita, Vivekananda sought to energise the people of India to claim their own dormant but strong identity. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay thought that the answer to the problems that beset Hindu society was a revival of Hinduism in its purity, which lay in the reinterpretation of Bhagavad Gita for a new India. Aurobindo saw Bhagavad Gita as a "scripture of the future religion" and suggested that Hinduism had acquired a much wider relevance through the Gita. Sivananda called Bhagavad Gita "the most precious jewel of Hindu literature" and suggested its introduction into the curriculum of Indian schools and colleges. In the lectures Chinmayananda gave, on tours undertaken to revive of moral and spiritual values of the Hindus, he borrowed the concept of Gyaana yajna, or the worship to invoke divine wisdom, from the Gita. He viewed the Gita as a universal scripture to turn a person from a state of agitation and confusion to a state of complete vision, inner contentment, and dynamic action. Teachings of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Gaudiya Vasihnava religious organisation which spread rapidly in North America in 1970s and 1980s, are based on a translation of the Gita called Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is. === Scholarly translations ===
The first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita was done by Charles Wilkins in 1785. In 1981, Larson listed more than 40 English translations of the Gita, stating that "A complete listing of Gita translations and a related secondary bibliography would be nearly endless". He stated that "Overall... there is a massive translational tradition in English, pioneered by the British, solidly grounded philologically by the French and Germans, provided with its indigenous roots by a rich heritage of modern Indian comment and reflection, extended into various disciplinary areas by Americans, and having generated in our time a broadly based cross-cultural awareness of the importance of the Bhagavad Gita both as an expression of a specifically Indian spirituality and as one of the great religious "classics" of all time." Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller produced a translation in 1986 intended to emphasize the poem's influence and current context within English Literature, especially the works of T.S. Eliot, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The translation was praised by scholars as well as literary critics and became one of most continually popular translations to date. The Gita has also been translated into other European languages. In 1808, passages from the Gita were part of the first direct translation of Sanskrit into German, appearing in a book through which Friedrich Schlegel became known as the founder of Indian philology in Germany. Swami Rambhadracharya released the first Braille version of the scripture, with the original Sanskrit text and a Hindi commentary, on 30 November 2007. The former Turkish Scholar-Politician, Bulent Ecevit translated several Sanskrit scriptures including the Gita into Turkish language. Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar translated the Gita in Tamil in sandam metre poetic form. ==Contemporary popularity==
With the translation and study of the Bhagavad Gita by western scholars beginning in the early 18th century the Bhagavad Gita gained a growing appreciation and popularity. === Appraisal ===
The Bhagavad Gita has been highly praised not only by prominent Indians including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan but also by Aldous Huxley, Henry David Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Herman Hesse and others. The Gita's emphasis on selfless service was a prime source of inspiration for Gandhi, who said:-
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, commented on the Gita,
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life. Upon witnessing the world's first nuclear test in 1945, he later said he had thought of the quotation "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds", verse 32 from chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita.
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Nigel Farage condemns 'fascist scum' who forced him to take refuge in Edinburgh pub He linked their views to the Scottish National Party led by Alex Salmond, the First Minister, and challenged him to "condemn this sort of behaviour." Mr Farage described being "overwhelmed by a flash student protest" from which he had to be rescued by a police riot van. However, he insisted that Ukip would still make inroads with the Scottish voters, including getting an MEP at next year's European elections. "I do not believe 15 yobs not prepared to engage in debate represent the views of the Scottish people," he said. The incident in Edinburgh on Thursday rattled Mr Farage as he was giving media interviews. He was left stranded in the middle of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, surrounded by around 50 nationalists and socialists calling him a racist, demanding that he: "Go home to England." Police attempted to persuade two taxi drivers to take Mr Farage away from the trouble but both refused as the protesters continued to barrack the MEP with chants of "racist Nazi scum." Officers then insisted for his own safety that he enter the Canon's Gait pub, the wooden doors of which were then locked. The protesters continued to jeer and shout abuse, with some unveiling a 20ft banner that, referring to next year's referendum, stated: "Vote Yes for Scotland."
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St Martins Property Group is a leading property development, investment and asset management company based in the United Kingdom representing the real estate interests of the State of Kuwait with their headquarters in London Bridge City, London. Their flagship projects are the London Bridge City, an office area and Cheapside, a residential new-build. St Martins Property Group has operations in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Australia. == History ==
The Company was incorporated in February 1924 as The St Martins-Le-Grand Property Company Limited to carry on the business of property investment. The company started to expand after the war years and in 1947 it merged with the Cheapside Land Development Company Limited which owned a number of London office properties. The Company then acquired Porkellis Property & General Investment Trust Limited in 1954, further expanding the portfolio of office investments. Rapid growth was to follow after 1956, with the acquisition of a number of property companies including London & Northern Properties Limited, introducing significant portfolios of investment properties and development sites. It was during this period that the name of the Company was changed to St Martins Property Corporation Limited. In addition to growth by acquisition, the company embarked on an extensive programme of property development and during the 1960s and 70's many schemes were completed including King's Mall Shopping Centre at Hammersmith, which was later sold in 2011. During the 1980s the company expanded its portfolio with the completion of major office, retail and warehousing schemes including London Bridge City, Windmill Hill Business Park in Swindon, the Drummond Centre in Croydon, Monument Mall Newcastle, Cathedral Lanes Coventry, Fieldhead Business Centre Bradford and Elliots Field Retail Park at Rugby. All properties except for London Bridge City and the Windmill Hill Business Park were disposed off during 2011. The company is currently undergoing a restructuring, selling and having sold smaller, older non-core properties and non-office stock in the UK and in Continental Europe, whilst pursuing sizeable (£100m+)quality investment opportunities in Central London first of all, and subsequently also in the largest cities in developed markets. Globally, St Martins owns close to of commercial property across Europe, in Turkey, Australia and in Japan.In Australia, St Martins own 50% of the iconic Rialto Tower in Melbourne, a landmark 250 metre-high building comprising two towers of 56 and 43 floors, providing 83,500 sq m of prime office space. St Martins has also historically had various holdings in Perth. In September 2006, St Martins acquired the 101-unit Plejada shopping centre in Sosnowiec, Poland, which was then extended and reconfigured. In March 2007 St Martins completed the purchase of Europe's largest shopping centre, Cevahir Mall, in Istanbul. Cevahir has seen strong growth in foot fall. St Martins acquired a new-build office building at 51 Lime Street in the City of London in June 2008. This building was later renamed the Willis Building as it is the UK head quarters of insurers The Willis Group. The Willis building is one of the City’s most iconic developments. Designed by architect Norman Foster, the Willis Building is located in the centre of the City opposite the Lloyd’s building. It is one of the tallest buildings in the City, with 45,615 sq m of space on 29 floors, together with a 10-storey building on 25 Fenchurch Avenue. It is let on a long-lease, typical of the kind of investment stock St Martins is looking to acquire. St Martins then purchased the 27-storey luxury residential tower Lietocourt Arx Tower in Minato, Chuo-Ku, adjacent to Nihonbashi and Ginza, Tokyo's well-established business and retail district. This 281-apartment building in Japan was acquired in February 2009, and is more than 95% let. St Martins went through a restructuring of its portfolio in 2010 and 2011 when smaller assets were sold off in the UK and in Continental Europe, plus retail shopping centres in the UK. Savills ran the portfolio sales under the code name 'Project Blue'. Subsequently money has been re-invested in core property acquisitions and the company remains in an acquisitive mode. The most recent purchases are 60 Threadneedle Street and 1 Bunhill Row in the City of London in 2012, and 5 Canada Square in Canary Wharf, Docklands in January 2013. In December 2011, 60 Threadneedle Street was acquired from Hammersons, and is a landmark office building in super-prime City of London location. the building completed in 2009 and is 99.8% let on long-term leases to quality tenants with breaks in 2019/2020. The property offers strong rental growth potential, with a current rental income of £8.8m. BREEAM rating: 'Excellent'.
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Hsin-an may refer to:
Xin'an County
Bao'an County, Guangdong
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Nnamdi Asomugha retires after signing 1-day deal with Raiders OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Former All-Pro cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha confirmed he was retiring after signing a symbolic one-day contract with the Oakland Raiders. Asomugha, 32, spent eight of his 11 NFL season with the Raiders and rejoined the team for a day Friday to announce he was hanging it up. Asomugha represented the Raiders at the all-star game three times. He signed a jackpot contract with Philadelphia in 2011, but struggled on the field and was released. He caught on with San Francisco this season but was waived last month. Off the field, Asomugha married actress Kerry Washington in June. The couple are expecting their first child this year, E! Online said. © 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.
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==Charter of Liberties==
To omit mention of King Henry's landmark "Charter of Liberties" of 1100 is absurd. It's the forerunner to, and almost as important as, the Magna Carta. It promises justice and lawfulness to all, and is a seminal moment in human legal history. KyZan (talk) KyZan
There is a lot of academic work on this, but I don't think it supports that position. Worth reading through Hollister's or Green's analysis of the charter; the references and page numbers are cited in the article. Hchc2009 (talk)
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Loren -
I have revert your correction as regards Richard and William. I agree that the evidence for Richard is very slender ( it pretty much consists of a reference to Richard, the son of Queen Matilda, in her will) but it is there. The slenderness of his existance is noted in the article. Arno
There is a factual discrepancy between this article and White Ship: this article describes Richard as legitimate while the other says the opposite. I don't know which one is correct, so I don't think I should change it myself. - rsutphin
I've rewritten the article to remove the contradiction. Thanks for pointing it out. Arno
William of Malmesbury frankly states that Richard (who drowned on the White Ship) was born to King Henry before his marriage, the son of a woman of low birth. The only reference to a legitimate son named Richard is from Gervase of Canterbury, an early but not contemporary chronicler. Gervase describes the births of Empress Maud and William Adelin, then writes "Alium quoque habuit filium Ricardum, et cessavit parere" (Another son, Richard, was had, and then no more ). If this son Richard existed, then he must've died in infancy. Hermann of Tournai says King Henry had "duos filios et unam filiam genuit" (Two sons and one daughter were born to him) but this is probably a mistake for Henry's illegitimate son Richard. Hermann of Tournai is so error-prone it's hard to accept anything he says. Missi
I've written parts of the article to smooth out some of the paragraphs, specifically to put things in a more orderly time sequence. I also included:
a boldface Beauclerk and a mentioning origin of term
brief synopsis of major accomplishments of his reign in opening paragraph
discussion of how William divided up his kingdom, leading to eventual succession issues. mentioning of Charter of Liberties (arguably most important thing in his reign)
mentioning of Treaty of Alton
clarification of events leading up to Battle of Tinchebray
clarification of succession issues with Mathilda and Stephen
inclusion of references and external sites
I think there's a lot more to be done and fleshed out. I didn't touch the paragraphs about his marriages and children. I am not at all sure about that "holding the record for illegitimate children." I would like to see a source on that. I also avoided the verb "usurp" (which I think was in the article previously) which although is probably technically true, has a perjorative ring about it, especially considering that up through Anglo-Saxon times, the designation of an heir by an existing king still had to be ratified by the witan. The article as it stands is basically a discussion of how he achieved the throne and kept it, and well as the mess of passing it on to an heir. I'm planning in the near future to expand the section on his governmental reforms, which I think are the most important features of his reign. Most of the material I've added is from Cross' history, which is nice and detailed. Decumanus
I've been using Alison Weir's researches on the matter of Henry's illegitimate children, Decumanus. I daresay a google search will come up with something as well. Also, what word would you use in place of usurp? Henry didn't exactly acquire the throne by anyone's agreement. Arno
Further to this, your factual additions are certainly appreciated. But why the occasional use of bold type for Henry's name. Also, isn't beauclerc spelt with a c? Arno
Allison Weir. I just looked the name up. The feminist writer? It sounds interesting.
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Nobody writes like Dickens anymore. There are authors who write as well or better, but they do it differently. Tastes change, and a truly Dickensian 21st century novel would be as weird a cultural experience as a sudden rash of non-ironic Mondrians. But a lot of the expectations contemporary readers have when we pick up a novel are the ones the great 19th century novelists - Austen, Dickens, Eliot - established for us. Perhaps the most important one is that, even after all the dissonances of modernism and post-modernism, the majority of readers still expect a novel to be satisfying, whether it's a mystery or a romance or science fiction, whether it ends with a birth, a marriage or a death. Reading Dickens now, you can still feel the energy that drove that huge leap in literacy - the energy that created demand and then satisfied it. It's wrapped up in the idea that reading can change lives, from an individual's life to the collective life of a nation. It happens right there in the books, as Pip fulfills his great expectations and Mr. Boffin becomes a member of high society and all the sad children in the Gradgrind school in Hard Times learn to read but not to wonder, and David Copperfield, the voracious young consumer of fiction, grows up to be a famous writer. For the next two weeks, I'll be blogging about Dickens" best novels, ranking my top 10. (He only wrote 14 and a half, so place your bets now on which ones won't make the cut.) I love reading Dickens. I find his novels - even the bad ones - surprising and provocative and deeply emotional, and also illuminating as to the ways we read now. For anyone who thinks of him as homework, I'll provide counter-evidence: the hilariously funny drunk scenes, the hilariously awful marriage proposals, the wicked satires, the inventive deaths (spontaneous combustion, anyone?). And I'll plug my favorite TV and movie adaptations of his books. There's no shame in watching Dickens instead of reading him. In fact, he'd have loved it. READ: The Top 10 Moments in Reading 2011 READ: Charles Dickens - An Author of Demonic Energy
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NY probes foreclosures on military: source By Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general is investigating potentially illegal home foreclosures on active-duty members of the U.S. military, according to a person familiar with the probe. The investigation was sparked by data released earlier this month by the federal Office of the Controller of the Currency, which found thousands of cases of possibly illegal foreclosures, said this person, who did not want to be identified because the probe is not public. The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act protects active-duty service members by postponing or suspending certain civil obligations for mortgage payments, pending trials and eviction from housing. The probe is part of a broader investigation by the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of major banks' mortgage operations, the person said. Schneiderman has been a key opponent of a proposed settlement between major banks and a coalition of federal and state officials over claims of foreclosure abuses. Schneiderman has said he opposes a deal that gives banks broad immunity from lawsuits involving their mortgage practices. Lauren Passalacqua, a spokeswoman for Schneiderman, declined to comment on the military foreclosure probe. The investigation was reported earlier by the Financial Times. (Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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Azeffoun is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria., located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou. == Geography ==
=== Location ===
The area of the municipality of Azeffoun is 126.66 km2 and a population of 16,096 inhabitants (census of 1998) and 17 435 inhabitants in 2008. Azeffoun is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the town of Aït Chafâa on the east, and the common Akerrou, Aghrib in the south and Iflissen in the west. The town is located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou, and 83 km western of Bejaia. === Villages of the commune of Azeffoun ===
Iagachene
Tiouidiouine
At Rhuna (Ait Rhouna)
Cheurfa
At Lḥusin (Ait Lhocine)
Iḥanucen (Ihanouchene)
Tazaɣart (Tazaghart)
Amriɣ (Amrigh)
At Sidi Yeḥya (Ait Sidi Yahia)
Naith ou Aissa (Ait Sidi Aissa)
Mlaṭa Iɛeggacen (M'latta Iagachene)
Mlaṭa (Mlatta cité)
Isumaten (Issoumatene)
Zituna (Zitouna)
Tiza
Lxibya (El Khibia)
At Yillul (Ait Illoul)
KHANIS
Tala Ḥadid
Iɛbac (Iabache)
Tagemunt n Yeɛbac (Taguemount Iâvache)
Ɛcuba (Achouba)
At Warẓiq (Ait Ouarzik)
At Wandlus (Ait Ouandelous)
Tifrest
At Naɛim (Ait Naiem)
Ijanaten (Idjanaten)
Qirya (Kiria)
Azeffun
Bezerqa (Bezerka)
Iḥemziwen (Ihamziouene)
Iberhuten (Iberhoutene)
Imuluden (Imouloudene)
Tagemunt n Wedrar (Taguemount Boudrar)
Lqelɛa (El Kelâa)
Tidmimin
Ɣerru (Gherrou)
Iɣil Leɣzel (Ighil Leghzel)
Taẓebbujt n Tiza (Tazebojt n Tiza)
Imidiqsen (Imidiksen)
Laɛzib Saḥel (Lazib Sahel)
Agni n Riḥan (Agouni n Rihane)
Taɛinṣert (Taincert)
Tifezwin (Tifezouine)
Timluka (Timlouka)
Aɣulid (Aghoulid)
Sidi Qurci (Sidi Korchi)
Cote Bitar
Ait chaffa
Tafraout
Ighil Mehni
Jemha
Tagarcifth
== History ==
In Roman times it was called Ruzasus and was a very strategic military base because of its location, bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, in the south by mountains rising to 500 m
Built by the French settlers to the last third of the nineteenth century, the colonial city, called Port Gueydon overlooks the sea from a hill which descends from Mount Tamgout perpendicular. It derives its name from Admiral Gueydon. The fishing port is the first infrastructure to see the day According the first settlers. The common of Port-mixed Gueydon was among the largest in the Kabylie time of the French administration. Dozens of villages occupied its geographical area bounded on the southeast by Ighil Tafraout Jehma and Zekri and south-west by the villages and Abizar Timizart N'sidi Mansour.
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Paul McCartney asks Russia's Putin to release Greenpeace activists Paul McCartney appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to release 30 Greenpeace activists detained for staging a protest two months ago at an Arctic drilling platform, reminding the Kremlin leader of their friendly 2003 meeting and the Beatles' 1968 ode "Back in the USSR." "Forty-five years ago I wrote a song about Russia for the White Album, back when it wasn't fashionable for English people to say nice things about your country," McCartney wrote in his letter to Putin, which was posted on his website. "That song had one of my favorite Beatles lines in it: 'Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home,' " McCartney recalled. "Could you make that come true for the Greenpeace prisoners?" The former Beatle politely conceded that the Russian judiciary and presidency are independent of each other, but wondered "if you may be able to use whatever influence you have to reunite the detainees with their families." Twenty-eight Greenpeace activists and two journalists covering their protest Sept. 18 were arrested after sailing the ship Arctic Sunrise to an oil platform of the state-owned Gazprom energy conglomerate. They were originally accused of piracy and held in the Arctic port Murmansk. Last week they were transferred to a jail in St. Petersburg, where they now face trial on reduced charges of hooliganism. McCartney said he was concerned by Russian portrayals of the activists "as being anti-Russian, that they were doing the bidding of Western governments, and that they threatened the safety of the people working on that Arctic oil platform." He said "the Greenpeace I know" is an annoyance to many governments whose operations the activists see as threatening the environment. But Greenpeace members are above corruption by Western or any other governments or corporations, he said. "Above all else, they are peaceful," McCartney assured Putin. "In my experience, nonviolence is an essential part of who they are." McCartney addressed his letter to "Dear Vladimir" and recalled his concert at Red Square a decade ago, saying, "I still often think about Russia and the Russian people." He ended by expressing the hope that "we can meet up again soon in Moscow" when schedules allow. There was no immediate response from the Kremlin, where spokesman Dmitry Peskov told news agency RIA Novosti that Putin had yet to receive the letter.
Obama cautions Congress against fresh sanctions on Iran 'Nervous' mafia could target Pope Francis, prosecutor warns U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in Philippines for typhoon relief effort Twitter: @cjwilliamslat
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Police looking for robbery suspects who ram motorists Montgomery County police said Monday that the robbers may have tried the gambit at least once before. They are looking for suspects but have no descriptions of the men. Detectives described their vehicle as a white or light-colored sport-utility vehicle with Maryland license plates. In the meantime, police are warning motorists not to exit their cars after relatively minor collisions, particularly in dark areas. "If you think these folks are possibly setting you up, listen to your gut. Listen to your instincts," said Capt. Paul Starks, a police spokesman. "Make sure you're safe before you get out." The most recent incident happened about 12:20 a.m. Saturday, as a 58-year-old man was driving along Jones Lane near Carry Back Drive, about 10 miles northwest of where Interstate 270 and the Capital Beltway merge. Eleven days earlier, shortly before midnight on April 3, a 49-year-old woman driving her Range Rover along Jones Lane passed a parked car near Carry Back Drive, she said in an interview Monday. The vehicle then came up quickly from behind. "I was blinded by the lights in my rearview mirror," she said. The vehicle then struck her SUV from behind, according to the woman and police. The woman immediately called 911 but did not stop her SUV, according to the victim and authorities. After seeing the woman on the phone, the other driver made a quick U-turn and drove away, police said. The woman said that while she was on the phone with the 911 operator, she said she had been followed and intentionally hit but was advised to get out of her vehicle and exchange information with the other driver. "What are you, crazy?" the woman said she asked the 911 operator. Starks, the police spokesman, said the department will review the 911 recordings to understand what was said. "We're concerned about some of the questions and concerns she has brought up," Starks said. "From the beginning, this woman did the right things." The woman said she heard Monday morning from detectives who were looking into similarities between the Saturday-morning incident and hers. They told her that the man in the more recent incident had been badly beaten. "That could have been me," she said. "I could have been killed." Starks said that ramming-type robberies are rare, particularly in Montgomery. Still, he said, stopping along a darkened road can be dangerous simply because of the risk of being hurt again - by another car. When in doubt, he said, call 911 to let everyone know you are not fleeing the accident, and arrange to meet officers at a better-lighted place.
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FT Alphaville " "Hi, please can you help us with our front-running. Ta!" From the New York Times, a Gretchen Morgenson report into an apparently widespread practice of Wall Street analysts giving private equity clients and hedge funds a heads up into their thinking, via the hedgies" monthly or quarterly "questionnaires": The funds say they ask only for public information, but in at least four cases, documents from Barclays Global Investors, now a unit of BlackRock, state the goal is to receive nonpublic information. Two documents state that the surveys allow for front-running analyst recommendations. Yep, apparently, at least one person apparently just came out and wrote like that: A 2009 document on the firm's analyst surveys is even more explicit. "We are trying to front-run recs," it said, referring to trading ahead of analysts" recommendations. A BlackRock spokesman told the NYT: "The language in the Barclays Global Investors internal memos is sloppy and inaccurate and totally inconsistent not only with the stated purpose of the survey but also with the high ethical standards by which BlackRock does business. The survey explicitly states that it requests only information that sell-side research analysts have already disseminated publicly and an analyst cannot even take part in the survey without first clicking a button to confirm that answers would be based solely on public information." He added (by statement) that the surveys were only "one of more than 100 different factors that the group feeds into the models." Morgenson cites two examples of specific equities where BGI's survey results seemed to give a clear heads-up on subsequent ratings actions. One was Bradford & Bingley, where a survey with an average negative response from analysts in August 2007 was followed a few days later by a downgrade of the UK bank by Lehman Brothers; the stock plummeted. Another was Renewable Energy Corporation, a Norwegian company. A positive survey response was followed by an earnings forecast upgrade from one bank. In 2008, a paper prepared by Barclays researchers for the firm's European, United States, Japan and Asian units analyzed the performance of recent surveys. "The results support prior evidence that our signal enables front-running individual analyst recommendations," the report concluded. One of the pioneers of the survey was apparently hedge fund Marshall Wace, which now says it has about 3,000 brokers participating in its surveys, Morgenson reports. We got the distinct impression, reading this story, that the practice is an open secret - after all, it claims that analysts from numerous big banks participate in them. The question is whether non-public information was (or, is) sought and received in these surveys. And that's surely a question for certain regulators might be interested in. After all it's not like they are okay with banks giving their research views out early to some. This year alone there has been an investigation launched into whether Morgan Stanley analysts let big clients know early about changes to earnings guidance, and Goldman Sachs was fined by the SEC for its "huddles" between analysts and traders. However, according to Morgenson's report regulators are not that interested: an SEC spokesman "declined to comment" while the FSA, which met with some firms who collect such surveys in 2006, said it was not aware of any ongoing investigation into the practice. Here's the kicker: Many hedge funds in Europe have concluded that the F.S.A. has blessed the programs. Sound familiar? Related links:
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Huddle, huddle, toil and (legal) trouble - FT Alphaville This entry was posted by Kate Mackenzie on Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 12:07 and is filed under Capital markets, Hedge funds, Private equity. Tagged with Barclays Global Investors, blackrock, marshall wace, sell-side analysts. Edit this entry.
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Attorney: Casey Anthony Returned To Florida ORLANDO, Fla. - Casey Anthony has returned to Florida. Speaking Sunday on Fox News' "Geraldo at Large," Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said she's in Florida and will report to a probation office if an appeal fails. "We are going to follow the law wherever the courts follow the law and I am certain she will do what's asked of her if necessary, and hopefully it won't come to that," Baez said. Circuit Judge Stan Strickland sentenced Anthony to a year of probation in January 2010 after she pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a friend. At the time, Strickland said Anthony should serve the probation upon her release, but those instructions never made it into a written order. Corrections officials interpreted the sentence to mean Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail awaiting her murder trial, where she was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Strickland clarified in an order earlier this month that Anthony must begin her probation now that she is out of jail. He then recused himself from the case and turned it over to Judge Belvin Perry, who had presided over Anthony's murder trial. Perry upheld Strickland's order and Anthony's attorneys last week filed an appeal with the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach. In the appeal, Anthony's attorneys accused Strickland of bias, citing an appearance on Nancy Grace's television show in which he said he was shocked by the murder trial verdict. Grace has been a vocal critic of Anthony. The attorneys also argued Strickland couldn't amend the order since the probation sentence had already been completed. The order also violates double jeopardy since Anthony would be serving the same sentence twice, they said. If the order is upheld, Anthony has until noon Friday to report to the probation office in Orlando, under the terms of Perry's order. A Department of Corrections spokeswoman said Monday that there is a possibility that Anthony could report to a probation office in another part of Florida. Speaking in general terms, spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said if a probationer who was sentenced in Orlando has established a residence in another part of Florida, the probationer could report to the probation office in that part of the state rather than return to Orlando. Plessinger, however, said the agency will not disclose when or where Anthony will report to probation, as a safety precaution. Because Anthony has received death threats, Perry said in his order that the department could keep private any probation information that generally is a public record in other cases. Since her release from jail following her acquittal, Anthony has kept a low profile and her exact whereabouts have been a secret. During the Fox News interview, Baez said Anthony had spoken with her parents, George and Cindy, but had not talked with her brother, Lee. Anthony is undergoing therapy and counseling and is "trying to get a grasp of what happened to her," Baez said. Anthony's legal team is concerned about her safety, given that she has received threats, and she is in a safe location, said Baez, although he wouldn't say where in Florida she was. "This is someone who has a lot of figuring out of what is left of her life," Baez said.
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Nicola Sturgeon bullish over Scottish independence Scots will vote for independence when the referendum is held in two years' time, the country's Deputy First Minister said today. Nicola Sturgeon spoke out as the Scottish National Party (SNP) annual conference was getting under way in Perth. It comes days after First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron signed a deal which will deliver a legally binding referendum on independence in 2014. Mr Cameron pledged then that he would campaign to keep the United Kingdom "family" together. And he said: "I hope that people will vote to keep this United Kingdom together." But Ms Sturgeon said she believed Scots would opt for independence when given the chance at the ballot box. She said: "This week's agreement between the Scottish and UK Governments ensures that we will have a referendum made in Scotland, with the outcome respected by all sides - the task now is to go out and win the argument among the people. "And if we win the argument, we will win the referendum." The Deputy First Minister cited polling evidence which suggested almost two thirds of Scots thought the SNP administration was "better at making decisions for Scotland." A YouGov poll, commissioned by the Nationalists, found 64% of those surveyed believed this, compared to 24% who thought the UK Government was better at this. The same poll also found 45% would be likely to vote for independence in the referendum if they could be persuaded that leaving the UK would mean their family would be economically better off. The four-day conference will focus on the opportunities the SNP believe independence will bring Scotland, with Nationalists seeking to contrast these with the consequences of remaining part of the UK. Ms Sturgeon said: "As SNP delegates gather today in Perth, we can take stock of just how far Scotland has come on the country's home rule journey - which I believe we will complete in the autumn 2014 referendum by voting Yes to independence. "A Yes vote is there to be won, and I believe will be won in two years' time. We know that a clear majority of people in Scotland believe that the Scottish Government is better at making decisions for Scotland than Westminster - by 64% to 24% - which is an essential foundation of the case for independence, and is also testament to the success of the degree of independence offered to us by devolution. "And most people are likely to vote Yes for an independent Scotland if they believe that they and their family will be better off." Ms Sturgeon, also the SNP's deputy leader, insisted: "The economic case is on our side - Scotland pays 9.6% of UK taxes for 9.3% of UK spending in return, and in 2010/11 Scotland's finances were stronger than the UK's to the tune of £2.7 billion, or over £1,000 for every household in Scotland."
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Leveson Inquiry: Murdoch papers got hostile after I met chairman, says watchdog He added: "I highlight this because it confirms knowledge of the misconduct at the highest level." Mr Thomas said Mr Hinton "explicitly accepted" that journalists had been involved in procuring confidential personal information from private investigators and "talked a lot about the efforts which would be made to tackle misconduct." Giving evidence in person on Friday, Mr Thomas said he thought that the articles in The Times and The Sunday Times were a result of his meeting with Mr Hinton. "It is not for me to make any hard allegations, but it did seem to me that there may have been a connection," he told the inquiry. "I thought, 'This is very surprising and strange, just 48 hours after I met the most senior person at News International here I am appearing in a lead editorial in The Sunday Times on something that is not part of the public debate at the moment."" In a witness statement submitted to the inquiry, John Witherow, the editor of The Sunday Times, denied that Mr Hinton had instructed him to include the leading article in that week's newspaper. Counsel for News International said the issue of privacy had been topical and that was the reason for the publication of the articles. Rhodri Davies QC, for News International, pointed out that there was an international data protection conference in London the week the articles were published and that Mr Thomas had given an interview to The Times. Mr Davies added that the articles were published at an "opportune time." Mr Thomas's report, What Price Privacy?, was published in May 2006 and highlighted potentially unlawful acts commissioned by journalists across a range of national newspaper titles. His team's work had previously led to the prosecution of Steve Whittamore, a private investigator for several newspapers, who pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection Act in 2005. Mr Thomas said he was extremely disappointed after Mr Whittamore was given a conditional discharge and proposed to the Government that the punishment for breaches of Section 55 of the Act be increased from a £5,000 fine to a custodial sentence. He explained how the move was vehemently opposed by the media. Under cross-examination, Mr Thomas accepted Mr Witherow's statement that the articles were not linked to his meeting with Mr Hinton, but he said that was how he had viewed it at the time. A News International spokesman said on Friday night: "News International welcomes that the former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has now accepted that articles published in The Times and The Sunday Times in 2006 were not subjected to influence by NI executives."
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Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death; lengthy appeals ahead FORT HOOD, Texas Thirteen senior Army officers have sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for carrying out the horrific 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. The panel's recommendation will now go to a convening authority, the general responsible for assembling the capital court-martial, for review and approval. The convening authority can approve or reduce the sentence. On Friday, Hasan was unanimously convicted on 13 charges of premeditated murder and convicted of 32 charges of attempted premeditated murder. His conviction carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison and the panel was authorized to consider the death penalty. During sentencing the government presented 20 witnesses over two days, including soldiers who were injured as well as parents, spouses, and children of those who were murdered by Hasan. Fort Hood rampage victims, kin offer gripping testimony Each described how the shooting has impacted their lives while Hasan, who was paralyzed in the shooting and is now confined to a wheelchair, sat about 20 feet away. On Wednesday, in an emotional 50-minute closing statement, the government revisited the stories of each witness and then told panel, "The acts of 5 November were religiously motivated, but you should not punish him for his religion. You should punish him for his hate." The government argued against the idea that a death sentence would result in martyrdom for Hasan. "He will never be a martyr because he has nothing to give. Do not be misled. Do not be fooled. He is not giving his life. We are taking his life. This is not his gift to God; this is his debt to society. This is not a charitable act. He is not now and never will be a martyr. He is a cold-blooded murderer," argued prosecutor Col. Michael Mulligan. As a convicted defendant, Maj. Hasan had the right to give an unsworn statement before the court or to testify under oath. When it was his turn to present evidence at sentencing, he simply said, "the defense rests." He also declined to present a closing argument on Wednesday. In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is shown as the guilty verdict is read at his court martial, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. / AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley Before voting on a sentence of death, the panel must have already unanimously found Maj. Hasan guilty of premeditated murder. Then the panel must also have found there to be an aggravating factor - in this case the government argued that was multiple murders - and then consider all facts and circumstances including mitigating and extenuating evidence presented in the case. A sentence of death then required a unanimous vote from the panel comprised of nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels and one major. The panel included two women and 11 men, with the highest-ranking officer being a female colonel, who acts as the president of the panel. In courts martial, appellate review is mandatory and cannot be waived or withdrawn when the sentence includes death. Under military law, any sentence calling for more than one year of incarceration gets an automatic review by the Army Court of Military Review, which then goes to the Armed Forces Court of Appeals. Play Video Fort Hood massacre: Major Nidal Hassan found guilty of murder According to South Texas College of Law Professor Geoffrey S. Corn, "If his appeal gets through the process, it will be a long time before it is every carried out - the sentence of death." It has been more than 50 years since the U.S. military executed a U.S. service member. Army Pfc. John A. Bennett was the last service member to be put to death, on April 13, 1961 after being convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl. In 1983, the Armed Forces Court of Appeals ruled that military capital punishment was unconstitutional, but it was reinstated in 1984 when President Reagan signed an executive order adopting new rules for capital courts martial. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there have been 16 military death penalty convictions since 1984, but 11 of those sentences have been overturned. The remaining five service members remain on death row. Corn believes Hasan's sentence will survive appeals. "The efforts have been made in this case to do it right and that means we should have a high degree of confidence that this case will prevail on those appellate challenges," he said. While review is automatic, Hasan's cooperation is not guaranteed. After dismissing multiple defense attorneys, Hasan waived his right to counsel and represented himself at trial and sentencing. The court martial judge, Col. Tara Osborn, appointed stand-by counsel to assist Hasan throughout the case and repeatedly told Hasan that she believed his decision to represent himself is "unwise."
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Cochrane is a Chilean town and commune in Capitán Prat Province of the Aisén Region. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 2,867. The urban population in 2002 was 2,217 and the rural population was 650. Cochrane was founded in 1954 (as Pueblo Nuevo), but didn't have road access to the rest of Chile until 1988, when the Carretera Austral was opened. The town was later named Cochrane in honour of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, a British naval captain and radical politician who was appointed the first Admiral of the Chilean Navy in 1818 and made a major contribution to winning independence for the young nation from Spain. Cochrane remains the southernmost town along the highway, with only a few villages south of it. Nearby is the prominent peak of Monte San Lorenzo, also known as Cerro Cochrane. ==Demographics==
According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Cochrane spans an area of and has 2,867 inhabitants (1,555 men and 1,312 women). Of these, 2,217 (77.3%) lived in urban areas and 650 (22.7%) in rural areas. The population fell by 4.3% (129 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. ==Administration==
As a commune, Cochrane is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Patricio Ulloa Georgia (UDI). The council has the following members:
María Quijanes Millao (PRSD)
Lindor Lopez Cruces (RN)
Jorge Patricio Abello Moll (ILC)
Patricia Quintana Cruces (ILE)
Tatiana Aguilera Lopez (ILC)
Andres Chavarria Alarcon (ILE)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Cochrane is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by René Alinco (PDC) and David Sandoval (UDI) as part of the 59th electoral district, which includes the entire Aisén Region. The commune is represented in the Senate by Antonio Horvath Kiss (RN) and Patricio Walker Prieto (PDC) as part of the 18th senatorial constituency (18). == Climate ==
Cochrane has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) with drying trend in summer. Owing to its location in a valley behind the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, it is shielded from the heavy rainfall caused by the Humboldt Current, but the precipitation is still relatively abundant and able to support forest, unlike further east in Argentinian Patagonia. ==References==
==External links==
Municipality of Cochrane
Information in English
Communes of Chile
Populated places established in 1954
Populated places in Capitán Prat Province
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The buzz surrounding Watchmen did, at the last minute, threaten to be its undoing. Nowadays, Hollywood studios are always on the look-out for a comic book that they can turn into a box office hit, spinning from it not just DVD sales, but rollercoaster rides, a mountain of merchandising and at least two sequels. In the original 1991 "quitclaim" and 1994 "turnaround" agreements that allowed other studios to produce Watchmen, Fox had retained the rights to distribute the finished film and take a slice of the profits. As soon as Watchmen started to generate positive publicity, Fox decided it wanted a piece of the action. Lloyd Levin, Lawrence Gordon's co-producer, issued a statement suggesting that Warners, not Fox, deserved to be rewarded for its bravery in finally funding the film. Warners called Fox's intervention "opportunistic." After trying to have the film's release delayed or cancelled altogether, Fox finally settled for an 8.5 per cent share of the film's gross. The case for Watchmen was strengthened by the success of last year's Batman sequel The Dark Knight. Moody, critically acclaimed, and two-and-a-half hours long, Christopher Nolan's vision of the Gotham crimebuster is also one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Released as it was in the midst of Watchmen's production process, Nolan's film will no doubt have convinced Warners (which also distributed The Dark Knight) that neither duration nor darkness necessarily drives audiences away. Watchmen is 10 minutes longer than The Dark Knight, and has been given an R-rating in the US, which restricts under-17s from watching without adult accompaniment - immediately cutting out the core audience for most superhero films. The comic book movie, like its printed counterpart, is growing up. "Back in the Eighties, Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns leant on each other," says Gibbons. "Frank [Miller]'s book was out of the gate slightly before ours; it drew attention to graphic novels, and we benefited from that. The fact that The Dark Knight movie is almost as long - and is also a thoughtful film - makes it the perfect primer for Watchmen. Superhero movies have become such a staple of the cinema experience that we're now in the perfect position to have something like Watchmen deconstruct them, without having to explain what it is that we're deconstructing." "If people thought The Dark Knight was gritty, edgy and dark," Enos explains, "they're about to get hit with a ton of bricks." 'Watchmen' opens nationwide on Friday. Watching the Watchmen, Watchmen: The Film Companion, Watchmen: The Art of the Film and Watchmen: Portraits, all available from www.titanbooks.com Comic appeal: Five of the best graphic novels "Goodbye!" reads the note left for Jimmy Corrigan, the anti-hero of one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of recent years, at the opening of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth. Within five frames, the co-worker who wrote it is standing on the roof of the office dressed as Superman, and within another two he has jumped to his death. There could hardly be a more apt introduction to the graphic novel as a medium. After the comics of the Fifties and Sixties gave the world characters whose one-dimensional heroism limited their appeal to the young and the immature, later generations of cartoon artists used the medium to explore a dazzling range of stories and topics. Newcomers need look no further than the now legendary Maus by Art Spiegelman, first published in 1986. Depicting the author's father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor, the book borrows a device from George Orwell and retells the story through anthropomorphism. Though the effect is at times crude (German soldiers are depicted as cats and Jews as mice, while the hapless Polish are shown as pigs), perhaps the character of the author, Artie, sums up the medium's crisis perfectly: "Reality is too complex for comics," he writes. "So much has to be left out or distorted." American Splendor, which has run since 1976, is the autobiography of Harvey Pekar, a long-time file clerk at a veterans' hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Written by Pekar and drawn by Robert Crumb and other artists (including, at one point, Alan Moore), the series deals with the writer's everyday troubles, from car problems to his discomfort with the fame he receives when his story was turned into a film in 2003.
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Beheaded British aid worker Khalil Dale was 'gentle, kind and loving' say family "Without question, Khalil was amongst the most gentle, most kind and most loving person we have ever known. For all who knew him, his deeply caring and considerate nature was what left a lasting impression." Mr Dale was a veteran of conflict zones, including Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was a fluent Arabic speaker and converted to Islam. He was working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Pakistan, managing health projects, when he was snatched by masked gunmen. Although the ICRC says it refuses to pay ransoms, it set up a negotiating team which made contact with Mr Dale's kidnappers receiving "proof of life" confirmations on two occasions. A note with the body said he had been killed because a ransom had not been paid and threatened the release of a video showing his death. Mr Dale's friends and relatives said they would not the events of the past week taint his memory. "Khalil was a better man than that," their statement said. "We pity those who took his life. He achieved much in this world. His life was one of love, not hatred." The ICRC has asked media organisations not to use images of Mr Khalil's body. Police believe a criminal gang was responsible, but have not ruled out the possibility that extremists of the Pakistan Taliban or separatist rebels were to blame.
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==Discovery==
Is it correct to say:
It was discovered on February 27, 1700....Were there already people living there? If so, then it wasn't "discovered", but "first explored by Europeans" in 1700. - Eric 3 July 2005 10:45 (UTC)
...so little about such a large island....this needs some research....yum
== Large quotes ==
The whole of 'Melanesian people and culture' looks like it's a quote. While there is a footnote to the effect that the article '...incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.' I don't think it's good practise to have an entire section be merely a quote. What should be done, remove it entirely, prune it, retain it but with clearer quote marks,...? Dougg
The size of a public domain encyclopaedia article (from an encyclopaedia for the general public, just like we are) quoted and sourced as such is not a problem, though certain aspects are likely to get outdated in nearly 100 years; however we must always try to improve on content, which I suspect must be possible in this case, but lack expertise- this is a first entry, meant to be elaborated, better then nothing till the ball gets rolling. Perhaps you're game to have a go, I've just come across a site that looks promising in this field, so I'll add it to sources and references Fastifex
Okay, some changes: I've removed the introductory line
native name Birara,
Because there are numerous languages, and the name for New Britain is different in each language. I've made a bunch of other changes too. The problem with slowly modifying a large quote is that it results in a very strange 'tone', with the parts I've written, it seems to me, contrasting strongly with the quotes, which have a very old-world character. Dougg
== People and culture ==
I removed a few paragraphs from this section which seemed to have come straight from the 1911 Encylopedia Britannica complete with Victorian Imperialst opinions - they seemed a bit offensive and non NPOV for a modern Encylopedia. It still needs a lot of work, though; among other things I imagine a lot's changed in 100 years. Plus it's self-contradictory about whether the tribes have chiefs or not. I'm sorry if I caused any offense with my edits! Tasiel
No offence taken- I've knowingly included old stuff, and in principle quite approve of updating and more objective attitudes, strangely enough a bit of 'provocation' often harvests more progress then none to get the ball rolling. Still I think some parts can be saved after downtuning. Fastifex
The "people and culture" material as it stands definitely shows it age - and colonial origins - it's quite shockingly racist, and frankly ignorant of the real cultures of New Britain. I'd like to rewrite this using more recent, better-informed (and less Eurocentric) sources. I'm quite shocked how wrong the EB 1911 was, apart from its appalling lack of NPOV. Wantok
If you have better sources, please do so and include them! Still it may be worthwhile to keep i mind that even outdated/wrong perceptions on the westeen side can be relevant to understand the colonial & missionary periods Fastifex
The sentence that begins "this'spirit'" is confusing. Am I missing a referent that is in front of my face, or was something left out in copying from Britannica? I'd prefer this sentence be either clearer about what it is referring to or excised. == Dewarra ==
Why is dewarra redirected to this page? I'll change this and create a new page for dewarra if there are no objections. Although, I'm not sure if dewarra is the most appropriate title for it - possibly Tolai shell money, although I think that it is used on the Duke of Yorks too (which I think is where the name dewarra/diwara comes from) so that's probably not appropriate. In Kuanua (at least the dialects I'm familiar with) it is referred to as tabu - but this also has a lot of other meaning. Any thoughts? Agreed, I've never heard dewarra outside Duke of Yorks. It might be used elsewhere but seems not the best general term for ENB shell money. This is probably (yet another) misunderstanding on the part of the Catholic Encyclopaedia and/or Encyclopaedia Britannica from a hundred years ago. Perhaps an article titled something like 'Shell money of the Gazelle Peninsula' or 'Shell money of East New Britain'?
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Drinking yourself to death cannot be a human right Even a law-abiding drunk drowning his sorrows at home imposes health costs on others It has been a frustrating week for well-intentioned and interventionist political leaders. Michael Bloomberg and David Cameron have been roundly defeated in their efforts to prod citizens into health. Both the mayor of New York, who wants to limit the size of sugary drink cups in restaurants and cinemas, and the UK prime minister, who sought a minimum unit price for alcohol, lost the argument. They were portrayed as social nannies pushing policies that discriminated against the poor and minorities, who deserve some pleasures. More On this story On this topic John Gapper They were still right. Societies should try to limit alcoholism and obesity, as they have cracked down on tobacco use. Freedom matters and the ideal policy is both effective and unobtrusive, but they both managed to tread the line between illiberalism and irresponsibility. As with tobacco proscriptions, they will probably be accepted in the end. John Stuart Mill defined it nicely in On Liberty: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." Targeting non-communicable health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and alcoholism is an especially sensitive issue since - to put it bluntly - rich people tend to live more healthily than poor people. Any tax or regulation that penalises the latter must have demonstrable benefits for society as a whole. After his regulation was overturned by the New York Supreme Court, Mr Bloomberg published research on how obesity correlates with consumption of sugary drinks, and where they are concentrated. Both are low in elite districts of New York City such as the Upper East Side and Greenwich Village, and high in poorer areas such as the Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant. There is thus a clear link between social status and health. Call it the Lloyd Blankfein principle. The chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs grew up on a public-housing project in East New York - close to Bedford Stuyvesant - but now lives by Central Park. He was once overweight but he dieted and exercised to get in shape as his fortunes rose. Societies would be healthier if everyone followed his path but it isn't possible. In practice, people enjoy - or find comfort in - sugary drinks and fatty foods or cheap alcohol. The Institute for Fiscal Studies in the UK estimates that a "fat tax" would cost the poor seven times as much as a proportion of income as the wealthy. Mill's principle and the social effects make blunt intervention to force people to eat and drink more healthily hard to justify. In November, Denmark dropped a "fat tax" that it imposed in 2011 on foods with a high fat content. Shoppers had evaded the tax by driving over the border to shop in Sweden, and it had other unintended effects. But the New York ban on serving soda in paper cups larger than 16 ounces - three times the old standard size - would hardly be a draconian clampdown. It would not prevent anyone slurping their way through 24 ounces of Coca-Cola while watching a film or having a meal. He would merely face the inconvenience of buying two cups. Mr Bloomberg's plan is thus a "nudge" proposal of the kind now favoured by psychologists and behavioural economists. It does not impose a ban on an activity - it simply adjusts the environment to give people incentives to make better and healthier choices. Little measures such as changing a cup size sound absurd, but they can be very effective. "We are exquisitely sensitive to environment," says Theresa Marteau, head of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Cambridge university. "We are just like rats - energy misers and cognitive misers. If there is a shortcut, we will take it." Nudges are less blunt than laws, since they still permit people some discretion - they merely try to guide them. Mr Cameron's coalition is keen on the approach, declaring in 2010: "Our government will be a much smarter one, shunning bureaucratic levers... and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves." The minimum price per unit for alcohol was more of a lever than a nudge. The idea was to curb the UK tendency toward binge drinking by barring supermarkets from heavily discounting alcohol. It would not have encouraged people to stop buying booze cheaply - it would have prevented them. You need a very good reason to intervene so forcefully in people's choices, especially when it amounts to a regressive income tax. It puts alcohol firmly in the same category as cigarettes, a pernicious form of good that a government will tax not only to raise revenues, but actively to curb its consumption.
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