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"Mulally's righted the ship in North America, but now he's really got to address the needs in the rest of the world," he said. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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New Shape for the Bauxite and Alumina Industry -- LONDON, January 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LONDON, January 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauxite and Alumina 8th Edition The shape and dynamics of the global bauxite and alumina industry are changing, according to a new report from Roskill. New alumina refining and bauxite production capacity will boost supply over the next five years to meet the rising demand for aluminium, mainly from China, but also other growth areas such as the Middle East and India. The influence of China has changed the dynamics of the bauxite and alumina markets, and this will continue over the next five years. Production increases in Asia World production of bauxite and alumina is growing. The latest report from Roskill details how Australia is the largest producer of bauxite, accounting for nearly 70Mt in 2011, but that production in China, Indonesia and India has grown. Asia now accounts for 45% of global supply, compared with 16% a decade ago. This growth in non-captive bauxite production has led to sharp increases in shipped and traded bauxites, changing the dynamics of the marketplace. Global alumina production increased from 80Mt to 96Mt between 2007 and 2011, with most of the supply increase from China, which is now the largest producer. More refinery capacity is planned over the next three years, with another 14Mt in China alone. If it is all commissioned as scheduled, then the market will be oversupplied in the short term, until demand from the aluminium industry catches up. Chinese seeking bauxite Domestic supply issues are pushing Chinese alumina producers to source their bauxite overseas, often in the form of joint venture companies or acquisitions. New operations and projects are underway in countries such as Australia, Guinea, Ghana, Indonesia and Fiji, which are all described in the new report. New trade patterns emerge The growth in Chinese demand for bauxite has seen a significant rise in imports over the last five years, mainly from Indonesia, but also from Australia. Total Chinese imports have risen from 9Mt in 2006 to 45Mt in 2011. In early 2012, the Indonesian government shook the industry by announcing curbs on exports of unprocessed minerals, which is being phased in over the next two years. As a result, Indonesian bauxite exports to China fell to an estimated 28Mt, down from 36Mt in 2011. This will provide opportunities for other bauxite producers currently planning expansions and new projects in other countries to step in. Aluminium - short term woes? The aluminium industry is the key driver for the bauxite and alumina industry, with some 94% of alumina converted into aluminium. Globally production of aluminium has grown by an average of 6.6% between 2002 and 2011, but by 18.4% in China. However, consumption has grown by a slightly more modest 5.9%. Inventories overhang the market, and throughout 2013 the industry will be stretched by rising production costs and low prices. Despite this present malaise, the aluminium industry is positive about its future, predicting rising consumption growth through to 2020, mostly due to increased industrialisation and urbanisation in emerging economies. Non-metallurgical bauxite - supply concerns Concerns remain in the industry over the availability and security of supply of calcined bauxites, as there are relatively few producers. Calcined bauxites are used principally in the refractories and abrasives industries. New sources of supply and expansions in Guyana and Brazil may ease fears of future shortages going forward. European supply of non-metallurgical bauxites has increased over the last five years, mainly through growing production in Greece, Turkey and Russia. Market growth for non-metallurgical grades Both bauxite and alumina are used for non-metallurgical applications, and in these sectors growth prospects are more mixed. Refractory grade bauxite is predicted to have moderate growth over the next five years, largely linked to the fortunes of the iron and steel industry, while markets such as proppants will exhibit a stronger growth profile, due to the expansion of shale gas production. Chemical grade aluminas outlook positive
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FT.com / US / Economy & Fed The unemployment rate shot up to 10.2 per cent in October, its highest level in over 26 years as the economy shed another 190,000 jobs, according to official data released on Friday, underscoring concerns that the labour market will remain weak even as the economy begins to grow. "The bottom line is that although labour market deterioration is clearly not occurring at the pace suffered late in 2008 and early this year, conditions remain brutal," said Joshua Shapiro, chief US economist at MFR. "Moreover, we continue to believe that the healing process will be a slow one, and that households will be contending with weak income growth and balance sheet issues for some time." The numbers were far worse that economists had expected and Wall Street was disappointed by the news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.52 per cent to 9,968.40 and the S&P 500 fell 0.38 per cent to 1,062.56. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had expected 175,000 jobs to be lost and the unemployment rate to rise 0.1 percentage points from September to 9.9 per cent. October marks the economy's twenty-second consecutive month of job losses. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, 8.2 million Americans have lost their jobs. August and September's numbers were revised upward, showing 91,000 fewer jobs were lost than originally thought. Particularly hard hit were manufacturing, construction and retail trade. The manufacturing sector lost 61,000 jobs, even after a business survey earlier this week unexpectedly showed manufacturing employment growing for the for the first time in 14 consecutive months. Construction lost 62,000 jobs in October and retail trade lost 40,000. In depth: US downturn The effects on the US real economy: job cuts, rising insurance premia and the prospect of deflation The unexpected jump of 0.4 percentage points from September came as an additional 31,000 people left the labour force, a number which would normally hold the unemployment rate down. The number of people who are unemployed, are working part-time because they can't find a full-time job or who have stopped working because they are discouraged rose to 17.5 per cent from 8.8 per cent at the start of the recession. The numbers come after last Thursday's estimates of a healthy 3.5 per cent annualised growth rate in the third quarter. Economists remain worried that a recovery that risks turning anemic as stimulus dollars fade could lead to a jobless recovery even more severe than that of the past two recessions, when the unemployment rate continued to rise for well over a year after the recessions ended. Economists had expected unemployment to peak at 10.3 per cent in early 2010. The Federal Reserve, which was slow to recognise the severity of the labour market downturn, now predicts that unemployment will remain at above 8 per cent until the end of 2011, three percentage points higher than it was at the start of the recession. Indeed, figures released on Thursday showed US labour productivity surging at its fastest rate in six years, spurred in part by companies cutting back on their payrolls. The increase in productivity is likely to further pressure the labour market, as businesses are able to eke out more from their current workers. "There's a good chance that this trend will continue into the first half of next year, with output rising and employment falling, albeit at a gradually slower pace," wrote Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics. Still, the pace of job losses is slowing. The number of jobs lost was about a quarter of its peak of 741,000 in January, and at its lowest level since August 2008.
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The outline of a dual monarchy was already taking shape by 1865, but negotiations were deadlocked on the eve of the war with Prussia. Loss of Leadership in Germany
Through the early 1860s, Austria maintained hope of retaining leadership in Germany because the smaller states preferred weak Austrian leadership to Prussian domination. Nonetheless, by mid-1864 Franz Joseph realized that war was inevitable if Austrian leadership was to be preserved. The immediate cause of the Seven Weeks' War between Austria and Prussia in 1866 was Prussia's desire to annex the Duchy of Holstein. Austria and Prussia had together fought a brief war against Denmark in 1864 to secure the predominantly German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein for Germany. Pending final decision on their future, Prussia took control of Schleswig, and Austria took control of Holstein. In April 1866, however, Prussia plotted with Italy to wage a two-front war against Austria that would enable Prussia to gain Holstein and Italy to gain Venetia. Although Austria tried to keep Italy out of the war through a last-minute offer to surrender Venetia to it, Italy joined the war with Prussia. Austria won key victories over Italy but lost the decisive Battle of K๖niggrไtz (Hradec Krแlov้ in the presentday Czech Republic) to Prussia in July 1866. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Olessi (talk • contribs). == Title ==
The title should be Empire of Austria if we are translating Kaisertum Österreich. "Austrian Empire" is Österreichische Kaisertum. john k
If the reasoning is translation, isn't Kaisertum Oesterreich equal to Emperordom of Austria? I am a bit undecided as to if this should be moved or not because to me it almost seems as if there was no exact Empire of Austria as there was an empire which was "Austrian" and which included the Archduchy of Austria. Charles
That is not true. The Archduchy was dissolved with the foundation of the Empire, so in my opinion the name "Empire of Austria" would be a little better. The "Kaisertum" instead of "Kaiserreich" was just used to avoid the use of the word "Reich" twice. NsMn (talk)
== loser ==
It says that austria-hungary was one of the "losers". Is this term appropriate for an encyclopedia? To call a country a loser in the context of a war or treaty is perfectly acceptable and even people in the context of a duel or battle. Sioraf (talk)
== WikiProject class rating==
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot
== Missing the area ==
I was looking at various historical "empires" in the area and comparing their land areas. This one is missing that information. BenJackson (talk)
Well, that's probably why the article is called Austrian Empire and not Empire of Austria. It wasn't so well defined. Charles
== Map is wrong! ==
The little map thingy in the infobox is blatantly wrong. Greece is portrayed as being separate from the Ottoman empire. This may or may not be correct, depending on the period it purports to represent. It would be the case in 1867, but not at all in 1804. A clarification would be useful. Far more significantly, however, Greece appears to include Thessalonika and all of Aegean Macedonia. In fact, Greece would not reach that extent until after the Second Balkan War in 1913 (whereas this map purports to portray the situation up to, maximally, 1867). Even if one assumes the map portrays the Austro-Hungarian monarchy that succeeded the Austrian Empire, it is muchly mistaken. For in 1913 (the earliest date Greece could be occupying the above territories), Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania were also independent nations. They are no where to be found on this map though. Ergo, the map is wrong. I have no intention of removing it (since it at least shows the Empire's general location, and is therefore better than nothing) but I suggest correcting it, or at least, noting the inconsistencies in a caption (or at the very least, the image summary). Druworos (talk)
== Hungary ==
I'm now removing the part about Hungary not being part of the Empire until 1849.
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Brown annoyed by Flint's 'window dressing' claims Gordon Brown has admitted he was annoyed by former Europe minister Caroline Flint's barb that women were used as "window dressing" in his Cabinet. He insisted that he had always tried to promote females within the Government and that many of Labour's policies had benefited women in the country. Ms Flint's parting shot was one of the most severe criticisms of his leadership at the time of the recent abortive coup. "Several of the women attending Cabinet - myself included - have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing," she wrote to him. "I am not willing to attend Cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer." In his interview with The Guardian, Mr Brown described her resignation letter as "sad." Asked whether Ms Flint's remarks had annoyed him, he said: "It does, because I've tried not only to promote women, but also our egalitarian agenda is an agenda that helps women most of all: the minimum wage, working families tax credit, maternity rights, childcare, new chances in education for people who missed them. The majority of people who benefit are girls and women." He said "many of the important jobs" in Downing Street were done by women. Most of the people he had recently promoted to Minister of State level - one below Secretary of State - were also women, he said. Ms Flint had been offered the opportunity to attend all meetings of Cabinet and he wanted her, Hazel Blears and former home secretary Jacqui Smith to remain in the Government. He reiterated his view that Ms Blears, who also quit this month, should return to the Government. "The point is, (Ms Flint had) been in that job for a few months, she was doing very well, Europe is a big job and she's going to be at Cabinet," he said. "So it wasn't a demotion, it was a promotion."
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"Baby Hope" Update: 1991 cold case victim identified, report says Sketches provided by the NYPD that show what "Baby Hope" might have looked like and the cooler in which the child was found in 1991. / CBS New York (CBS) NEW YORK - A child who came to be known as "Baby Hope" after her decomposing body was found in a cooler along a New York City highway 22 years ago and whose parents or relatives never reported her missing has finally been identified, the New York Post reports. The real name of "Baby Hope" is Angelica Ramirez, a law-enforcement source reportedly told the paper. The case has resurfaced in recent days after authorities announced they identified the mother of the child. The discovery was made after police launched a renewed effort this past July to obtain solid information in order to identify the child, who was malnourished and whose body showed possible signs of sexual abuse when she was found in 1991. Police handed out posters and flyers featuring a composite sketch of what the child - estimated to be 3 to 5 years old -- might have looked like and offered a $12,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. New York City detectives working the case were the ones that actually named the child Baby Hope and pitched in with their own money to buy the girl a headstone and cemetery plot.
As a result, a tip came in from a woman who said she thought she knew Baby Hope's sister and that bit of information reportedly led detectives to the mother of the unidentified child. Law enforcement officials were able to match the child's DNA last week, reports CBS New York. "A DNA match was made with the mother and the mother has been cooperating," New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The mother, who has not been publicly identified, told detectives an abusive ex-husband had run off with her daughters - Baby Hope and an older girl - in 1990. Detectives are now trying to locate the father, who may be in Mexico, according to the New York Post. Police are still encouraging anyone with information about the case to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. Complete coverage of "Baby Hope" on Crimesider
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Daviz Mbepo Simango (born February 7, 1964) is a Mozambican politician, the President of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) and the current mayor of Beira. He is son of Uria Simango, the first Vice-President of FRELIMO. He joined the RENAMO in 1997 and became the mayor of Beira in 2003 as its candidate. On March 6, 2009, he founded a new party, the MDM. ==2009 presidential election==
Simango was the MDM candidate in the 28 October 2009 presidential election. He placed third with 8.6% of the total vote in the election. ==Notes==
1964 births
Living people
Mayors of places in Mozambique
RENAMO politicians
Democratic Movement of Mozambique politicians
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Eduardo Aquiles Fischer (born March 25, 1980 in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil) is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Brazil. He swam for Brazil at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. == Early years ==
Eduardo began swimming at the age of seven, but only started competing at 11. The motivation came from his older brother, who has practiced the sport. His first club was the Joinville Tênis Clube, where he stayed for ten years. In 1999, he went to Minas Tênis Clube, where he went to defend the CR Vasco da Gama until 2002, when he returned to Joinville. The first major title came at the 1997 Brazilian Winter Championship, with the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke. == International career ==
Participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, in the 100-metre breaststroke (31st place) and in the 4×100-metre medley (12th place). In 2001, he already was the South American record holder at 50-metre breaststroke and 100-metre breaststroke
At the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Moscow, obtained his best performance in an international tournament, getting the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke. In addition, he was also in the 100-metre breaststroke final, finishing in 6th place, and in the 4×100-metre medley final, finishing in 7th place. In this competition he beat twice the South American record at the short-course 50-metre breaststroke (27.51 seconds in qualifying and 27.23 seconds in semifinal ), and twice the 100-metre breaststroke (59.64 seconds in qualifying and 59.60 seconds in the final.) beyond the South American record in the 4×100-metre medley final (3:35.59). The South American record of the 50-metre breaststroke was only beaten in 2008 by Felipe França
Participating in the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, finished 21st place in the 50-metre breaststroke, 23rd in the 100-metre breaststroke and 17th in the 4×100-metre medley. At the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley, and bronze in the 100-metre breaststroke. In the 100-metre breaststroke, broke the South American record in Olympic pool, and still hit the index for the 2004 Summer Olympics, with a time of 1:01.88. In 2003, broke the South American record in the 50-metre breaststroke Olympic pool, with a time of 28.21 seconds. This mark was only broke in 2007 by Felipe Lima. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, went to the 100-metre breaststroke semifinals and finished 15th place. Fischer also swam the 200-metre breaststroke, finishing 24th place, and 4×100-metre medley, placing 15th. In the 100-metre breaststroke heats, he broke the South American record, with a time of 1:01.84. This mark was only hit in 2006 by Henrique Barbosa. At the 2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Indianapolis, Fischer was close to winning a medal on three occasions: came in 4th place in the 50-metre breaststroke, 10 hundredths of bronze; 4th in the 100-metre breaststroke, and 4th in the 4×100-metre medley, which broke the South American record with a time of 3:33.02, along with Guilherme Guido, Kaio Almeida and César Cielo. This 4×100-metre medley area record just fell in 2008. He was in the 2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Shanghai, where he went to the semifinals and was ranked 16th in the 50-metre breaststroke, was 22nd in the 100-metre breaststroke and 9th in the 4×100-metre medley. At the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Manchester, went to the 50-metre breaststroke semifinal, but was disqualified, and in 100-metre breaststroke, finished 17th place. In May, 2009, still managed to beat the South American record in the short-course 100-metre breaststroke, with a time of 58.14 seconds, and the 50-metre breaststroke record, with a time of 26.73 seconds.
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NFL: Green Bay 30, San Francisco 24 GREEN BAY, Wis., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Aaron Rodgers passed for two touchdowns and Green Bay hung on Sunday for a 30-24 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Rodgers completed 32-of-45 passes for 344 yards, including touchdown throws of 64 yards to Greg Jennings and 7 yards to Jordy Nelson. Ryan Grant ran 1-yard for a touchdown and Mason Crosby kicked 23-, 27- and 27 yard field goals for the Packers. Green Bay (6-4) led 30-10 before San Francisco charged back with two touchdowns in the final 10 1/2 minutes. Alex Smith passed for 227 yards and three touchdowns for the 49ers (4-6), who have lost five of six games. Smith's touchdown passes were for 38 yards to Michael Crabtree, 24 yards to Vernon Davis and 10 yards to Frank Gore.
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Face Time Face Time Monday, January 3, 2011; A12 Wednesday Small-Business Loans. Workshop covers the SBA guaranteed loan program, eligibility, application and loans available. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., American Bar Association Building, 740 15th St. NW, third floor, Washington. Sponsor: Service Corps of Retired Executives. Contact: 202-272-0390. Web site: www.scoredc.org. Nonprofit Forum. Led by Mike Brunner, this forum will focus on transition and succession planning. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2775 S. Quincy St., Arlington. Sponsor: Arlington Chamber of Commerce. Contact: 703-525-2400. Web site: www.arlingtonchamber.org. Thursday Start Your Business. Seminar will lead participants through the essential steps for successfully starting a small business. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Comfort Suites, 80 Prosperity Ave., Leesburg. Sponsor: Loudoun Small Business Development Center. Cost: In advance, $10; at door, $15. Contact: Cathy Campbell, 703-430-7222. Web site: www.loudounsbdc.org. Smart Start. Networking seminar and information session where individuals learn how to meet new clients and future business associates. 4 to 5:15 p.m., 2009 14th St. N., Suite 111, Arlington. Sponsor: Bank of America Home Loans. Contact: 703-525-2400. Web site: www.arlingtonchamber.org. Networking Reception for Technology Sector Professionals. An event where guests may "gather, grip and grin" for shameless networking purposes. 6 to 9 p.m., Gua-Rapo/Nena, 2039 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Sponsor: Washington Network Group. Cost: Member, $20; nonmember, $40. Web site: www.dctechsource.com. Saturday 2011 Work + Life = Balance. Conference will focus on growing and managing your business while making time for yourself through the smart use of information and data tools. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th floor, Washington. Contact: 202-629-0254. Web site: www.sedatestate.com/conference.html. Send potential listings to [email protected] at least two weeks in advance. Model your entry on the information above, and put the event date in the subject line. © 2011 The Washington Post Company
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North Korea marks Kim Jong-il death anniversary Thousands of North Koreans braved sub zero temperatures on Monday, to pay their respects to former leader Kim Jong Il on the eve of the second anniversary of his death.
It is customary for North Koreans to lay flowers at statues and portraits of their leaders to mark major anniversaries. At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is to deliver facts without any opinion or bias, so that the viewers can form their own opinion on world events. We also think that sometimes images need no explanation or commentary, which is why we created No Comment and now No Comment TV: to show the world from a different angle...
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Juan Ferrero (Puente Almuhey, León, 1918 - Bordeaux, 1958) was a famous Spanish bodybuilder of international stature who won the Mr. Universe Pro title in London in 1952. He was born in Spain and although he became a resident of France at the age of seven, he always showed his origin, which he boasted proudly. He died in a car accident in Bordeaux in 1958. == Early life ==
Juan was born as Fidel Ferrero y Colino on April 5, 1918 in the small town of Puente Almuhey, in the province of León (Spain). His father, Alfonso Ferrero, was an employee at a local charcoal factory known as Felia San Pedro. Ferrero and his family migrated to the city of Bordeaux, France in 1925 for political reasons. As a young child, Ferrero was weak, thin and often sick. His skin tone was very dark and tan, which contrasted with the rest of his family, to the end he doubted his true parentage. In school, his skin earned him the monicker "El Negro" (the black). Years later it was a big plus for his sport, but during adolescence it caused him many problems and conflicts. He also adopted the name of Juan, the name of his grandfather with whom he had a great affection. == Bodybuilding ==
At the age of fifteen, he became interested in gymnastics and soon he got spectacular results in other sports: 11 seconds for the 100 meters, in the long jump with feet together, he could also climbed the smooth rope in five seconds with legs corner. Ferrero later became dedicated to bodybuilding and in 1937 won the Best Athlete competition in Europe. In weightlifting, among other brands, he broke the world record in one arm deadlift. On the evening of July 12, 1952 at the age of 34, Ferrero won the Mister Universe Professional title that was held at the Scala Theatre in London. The award was given by the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association (NABBA), which first held its Professional category. Despite his rise to success in sports, international admiration for his triumph was not a significant impact in Spain under Franco, because Ferrero was a migrant belonging to a non-supporting family of the regime. After he retired from competitions, he opened a prestigious gym in France called "Institut Ferrero", equipped with the most modern equipment at that time. He taught in the physical education, dance and acrobatics. == Personal ==
In 1939, he married fellow Spanish dancer Magdalena Isabel Martínez Cuadros in Bordeaux with whom he had two children, Rodolfo and Anita. Rodolfo followed his father's footsteps, who at the age 23, became the Plus Atlete de France in 1961. == Death ==
Ferrero died on June 17, 1958 in a car accident at the age of 40. He was seated next to the driver of a Renault Dauphine together with four other passengers when the car went out on a curve and overturned. Ferrero was the only dead victim of the accident, the other five were unharmed suffering only minor bruises. == References ==
== External links ==
Picture gallery of Juan Ferrero in Classic Bodybuilders. Personajes leoneses: Deportistas. (Spanish)
1918 births
1958 deaths
People from Montaña de Riaño
Spanish bodybuilders
Professional bodybuilders
Road accident deaths in France
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After an exciting game both sides ended with 3–9 apiece. The replay was not as exciting, however, it was more conclusive, Kilkenny won that game by 1–9 to 0–7 with Downey collecting a fourth All-Ireland medal. All-Ireland success was slow in coming over the next few years; however, Downey won a second National League medal with Kilkenny in 1982. Three years later in 1985 she collected a third winners' medal in that competition. Kilkenny later qualified for another All-Ireland final. Dublin provided the opposition on that occasion; however, they faced a Kilkenny team that was on the verge of dominating camogie for the bones of the next decade. The final ended with a 0–13 to 1–5 victory for 'the Cats', giving her a fifth All-Ireland medal. 1986 saw Kilkenny line out in a second consecutive All-Ireland final, her sixth in all. For the second year in-a-row Dublin provided the opposition, however, once again the result was the same. Kilkenny were much too strong for 'the Dubs' and won the game by 2–12 to 2–3. It was Downey's sixth All-Ireland title. She was later presented with a coveted Texaco Award, thus becoming only the third camogie player ever to win one. In 1987 Downey added a fourth National League medal to her collection after Kilkenny got the better of Dublin in yet another national final. Later that year Kilkenny qualified for the All-Ireland final. It was an historic occasion as Downey's side were hoping to capture a third All-Ireland title in-a-row, something that Kilkenny had never achieved. Cork stood in their way, however, Kilkenny gave a great performance in the final. The full-time score of 3–10 to 1–7 gave Kilkenny the victory and gave Downey a seventh All-Ireland medal. In 1988 Downey had the honour of captaining Kilkenny once again. It would turn out to be a hugely successful year for Kilkenny once again. She began the year by winning a fifth National League medal before later guiding her county to the All-Ireland final once again. It was an exciting occasion as Kilkenny were seeking to add to their great run of success, while Cork were looking for revenge for the previous year's defeat. The game was a high scoring affair, however, Kilkenny won relatively easily in the end by 4–11 to 3–8. It was Downey's eighth All-Ireland medal while she also joined an exclusive club of player that had captained their county to more than one All-Ireland victory. In 1989 no county was able to match Kilkenny's hunger and desire for camogie success. Cork fell in the National League final to give Kilkenny and Downey a sixth title in that competition. The subsequent All-Ireland final was a repeat of the championship deciders of the previous two years. Cork were out to avenge those defeats and avoid losing a third All-Ireland final in-a-row, while Kilkenny were hoping to add another consecutive title to their huge collection. The result was a decisive one with Kilkenny winning the day by 3–10 to 2–6, giving Downey a ninth All-Ireland medal. 1990 saw Downey and Kilkenny continue their winning ways. At the start of the year the county annexed a fourth consecutive National League title. It was Downey's seventh medal in that competition. The subsequent All-Ireland final saw Kilkenny take on Wexford for the first time since 1977. Kilkenny dominated the game from start to finish and completely overwhelmed their near neighbours and rivals. The final score of 1–14 to 0–7 gave Downey her tenth All-Ireland medal on the field of play, a victory which made her joint third with Kay Ryder on the all-time list of leading All-Ireland medal holders. In 1991 Downey was captain of her native-county once again. The year started badly when Kilkenny's great run of success in the National League came to an abrupt end. Cork defeated 'the Cats' in the final of that competition, denying the county a fifth league title in-a-row. In spite of this defeat Downey's side later qualified for the All-Ireland final. Cork provided the opposition once again and an intriguing contest took place. Kilkenny won the day by 3–8 to 0–10. Once again it was Kilkenny's success in getting goals at vital times that gave them a seventh All-Ireland title in-a-row. It was Downey's eleventh All-Ireland medal overall.
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A tag has been placed on Rus Blemker, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If you feel that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Dual Freq
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EDL supporters exposed in hacked list However Mr Fletcher said he now regretted giving the group his financial backing. "I am against extremism in all its forms and I do not support what the EDL stand for in any way, shape or form. Many of the people in the ward I represent in the east of the City are Muslim and I abhor what the EDL says about them," said Mr Fletcher. Also on the list is Hugo Schonhaar, a Nottingham-born pastor with the Toronto Baptist Church, who says he supports the EDL because of his fear of "creeping Sharia law" in Britain and for its stance against Muslim radicals. Pastor Schonhaar refused to reveal how much he had given the organisation - which was involved in clashes with police in Woolwich town centre last week following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by two suspected Islamists. He said: "I felt that [EDL leader] Tommy Robinson is one of the few people in Britain standing up for the traditional British values I grew up with, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion," he said. Pastor Schonhaar claimed that parts of London and Birmingham were now 'Sharia no-go areas" for non-Muslims. Challenged to substantiate the claim he replied: "You try walking through some of those areas wearing a yamulcha [Jewish headgear] and see if you feel safe." Pastor Schonhaar admitted, however, that he now felt uncomfortable at reports that many EDL activists have taken part in violent attacks against individual Muslims, mosques and community centres. Muslim community leaders have reported an increase in such attacks since the murder of Drummer Rigby outside the Royal Artillery's barracks in Woolwich, last Wednesday. Pastor Schonhaar said: "I do not support violence by the EDL. I would see a conflict of interest between my position as a church minister and any violence from the EDL, but otherwise I feel it is legitimate for me to support their peaceful aims." Others named on the list appeared to be a former teacher, a retired council finance manager and a doctor of medicine in Texas. Also on the list is a Stephen M Slaughter, from Allen, Texas. This matches the name of Dr Steven M Slaughter, an anaesthetist practicing at a medical centre 16 miles away in Dallas, Texas. Dr Slaughter could not be contacted. A close examination of the list by the Daily Telegraph has revealed that some of the names appear on it only because they donated small amounts to an online poppy appeal, without realising the money went to the EDL. One man, who gave £2 to the appeal through Facebook, only to find that the cash went to the organisation and not to veterans" groups, said: "I am very upset that this happened. I don't support the EDL in any way and I'm outraged that my money went to them rather than to a genuine poppy appeal. I would never want my name associated with what they do." Also on the list of EDL supporters are a number of individuals with criminal records, including Louise Leslie, from Carlisle, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison after taking part in the racist abuse of two care workers in the town. Leslie was part of a gang of thugs who terrorised the two men, both of Turkish extraction, during weeks of abuse in February last year. The court heard the 42-year-old mother of two swore repeatedly at the men, who she mistook for Pakistanis. Another person named as a donor is Anthony Rimmington, a set designer who was convicted in 2006 of possessing three prohibited pistols and ammunition. Rimmington was sentenced to six months, suspended for two years, after the weapons were found at his flat in Ealing. On a separate occasion Mr Rimmington was convicted of posting racially offensive and threatening material to members of the public, although the conviction was quashed on appeal. EDL supporter Andrew Ossitt, 41, from Newquay, Cornwall, who is also on the list, was found guilty in 2011 of using threatening words and religiously aggravated harassment after taking part in a march through Halifax, during which he chanted "Muslims off our streets" and "You burn the poppies, and we will burn the mosques." Anonymous UK said the EDL "should have expected this" and warned it to "expect more." The publication followed an audio message, recorded with a computerised voice and published on YouTube, from Anonymous UK to the EDL that accused the group of exploiting Drummer Rigby's death and taking "advantage of moments of fear and terror to spread hatred and animosity."
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Before he died he had the Pope remove the "natural" status of three of his
children (legitimizing them in the eyes of the church), including Martin, the son he had with Doña Marina (also known as La Malinche), said to be his favourite. After his death his body has been moved more than eight times for several reasons. On December 4, 1547 he was buried in the mausoleum of the Duke of Medina in the church of San Isidoro del Campo, Sevilla. Three years later (1550) due to the space being required by the duke, his body was moved to the altar of Santa Catarina in the same church. In his testament, Cortés asked for his body to be buried in the monastery he had ordered to be built in Coyoacan in México, ten years after his death, but the monastery was never built. So in 1566, his body was sent to New Spain and buried in the church of "San Francisco de Texcoco", where his mother and one of his sisters were buried. In 1629, Don Pedro Cortés fourth "Marquez del Valle, his last male descendant, died, so the viceroy decided to move the bones of Cortés along with those of his descendant to the Franciscan church in México. This was delayed for nine years, while his body stayed in the main room of the palace of the viceroy. Eventually it was moved to the Sagrario of Franciscan church, where it stayed for 87 years. In 1716, it was moved to another place in the same church. In 1794, his bones were moved to the "Hospital de Jesus" (founded by Cortés), where a statue by Tolsa and a mausoleum were made. There was a public ceremony and all the churches in the city rang their bells. In 1823, after the independence of México, it seemed imminent that his body would be desecrated, so the mausoleum was removed, the statue and the coat of arms were sent to Palermo, Sicily, to be protected by the Duke of Terranova. The bones were hidden, and everyone thought that they had been sent out of México. In 1836, his bones were moved to another place in the same building. It was not until 1947 that they were rediscovered thanks to the discovery of a secret document by Lucas Alaman. His body put in charge of the "Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia" INAH; it was authenticated and then restored to the same place, this time with a bronze inscription and his coat of arms. In 1981, when a copy of the bust by Tolsa was put in the church, there was a failed attempt to destroy his bones. ==Children==
Natural children of Hernán Cortés
doña Catalina Pizarro, born between 1514 and 1515 in Santiago de Cuba or maybe later in Nueva España, daughter of doña Leonor Pizarro, perhaps relative of Cortés. don Martín Cortés, born in Coyoacán in 1522, son of doña Marina (La Malinche), called the First Mestizo; about him was written The New World of Martín Cortés; married doña Bernaldina de Porras and had two children:
don Luis Cortés, born in 1525, son of doña Antonia or Elvira Hermosillo. doña Leonor Cortés Moctezuma, born in 1527 or 1528 in Ciudad de Mexico, daughter of Aztec princess Tecuichpotzin (baptized Isabel), born in Tenochtitlan on July 11, 1510 and died on July 9, 1550, the eldest legitimate daughter of Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin and wife doña María Miahuaxuchitl; married to Juan de Tolosa, a miner. doña María Cortés de Moctezuma, daughter of an Aztec princess; nothing more is known about her except that she probably was born with some deformity. He married twice: firstly in Cuba to Catalina Juárez Marcaida, who died at Coyoacán in 1522 without issue, and secondly in 1529 to doña Juana Ramírez de Arellano de Zúñiga, daughter of don Carlos Ramírez de Arellano, 2nd Count of Aguilar and wife the Countess doña Juana de Zúñiga, and had:
don Luis Cortés y Ramírez de Arellano, born in Texcoco in 1530 and died shortly after his birth.
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Police 'could use more civilians' Almost half of all Derbyshire police officers made no arrests at all last year, figures have revealed. The Policy Exchange think-tank announced the information as it said one in 20 officers carried out roles which civilians could fulfil, wasting almost £150 million a year. Too many sworn officers are working in control rooms and forensic suites whe n those roles could be carried out by cheaper civilian staff, saving better-paid officers for frontline duties, the body said. It came as figures showed more than 14,500 officers made no arrests at all last year. Blair Gibbs, head of crime and justice at the think-tank, said: "There remains a clear gap between additional police resources and the service delivered. As far as the public are concerned, the unprecedented expansion in officer numbers since 2001 may as well never have happened. "The budget cuts in the years ahead will be challenging, but after such a massive investment there is real scope for the police to become more efficient and effective so that taxpayers receive the service they pay so much for." The Cost Of The Cops report showed civilian staff could be used instead of officers in areas such as forensics, control rooms, operational support and business support, saving more than £20,000 per head. In Derbyshire, more than 1,000 of its 2,076 officers made no arrests last year, figures from 18 of the 43 forces in England and Wales showed. A spokesman for the Derbyshire force said policing was a complex area and "not a simple equation of those who arrest and those who do not." Civilians need to make up a bigger share of the police workforce in future to reduce costs and ensure police are better deployed, maximising the visibility of sworn officers, the report said. Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2011, All Rights Reserved.
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Maxim Sorokin (January 22, 1968 – June 30, 2007) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (1992). In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina. In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coached Sergei Rublevsky in the 2007 Candidates matches in Elista. ==References==
==External links==
ChessBase.com - Chess News - GM Maxim Sorokin dies after traffic accident
1968 births
2007 deaths
Chess grandmasters
Chess coaches
Russian chess players
Argentine chess players
Road accident deaths in Russia
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Ex-Detroit Mayor's Corruption Conviction Remains A federal judge has refused to acquit or grant new trials to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his father and a city contractor. The decision Thursday clears the way for Kilpatrick's sentence for corruption on Sept. 3. Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson were convicted in March of a sweeping scheme to enrich themselves through fixed contracts, bribes and kickbacks. Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, was convicted of a tax crime. Kwame Kilpatrick appeared in court wearing tan prison clothes. He and Ferguson have been in custody since being found guilty in March. Ferguson will be sentenced on Sept. 4.
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Thorns is a Norwegian black metal band that formed in 1989 and was part of the early Norwegian black metal scene. They made two highly influential demos in the early 1990s, Grymyrk and Trøndertun, but have only released one full-length album. ==Biography==
In 1989, Snorre W. Ruch and Marius Vold formed the band Stigma Diabolicum and recorded one demo. In 1990, bass player Harald Eilertsen and drummer Bård G. Eithun joined. As the use of Latin within black metal "had escalated" (according to the Stigma Diabolicum re-release booklet), the name was changed to Thorns in 1991. The same year, Eilertsen and Ruch recorded the Grymyrk demo, which had a great impact on the black metal scene and, together with Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, coined the Norwegian black metal riffing, as Darkthrone drummer Fenriz points out. As the band members were "spread far across Norway", they could rarely rehearse; some of the rehearsals were recorded on tape. In 1992, the Trøndertun demo was recorded. The same year, Ruch became Mayhem's second guitarist and disbanded Thorns for a few months. In 1994, Snorre was sentenced to 8 years in prison for "being an accomplice" in the murder of Euronymous. However, according to Euronymous's killer, Varg Vikernes, Ruch was merely "in the wrong place at the wrong time". After a long period of silence due to Ruch's imprisonment for being an accomplice in the murder of Euronymous, Thorns reappeared in 1999 with the split album Thorns vs. Emperor, consisting mainly of old Thorns songs performed by Emperor and vice versa. Then, in 2001, the debut album Thorns was released, with Hellhammer and vocals by Satyr and Dødheimsgard's Aldrahn. In October 2007, Greek label Kyrck Productions released the Stigma Diabolicum compilation, which featured both the Grymyrk and Trøndertun demos, as well as material from the Stigma Diabolicum demos Lacus de Luna and Luna de Nocturnus and two tracks ("Thule" and "Fall") from a 1991 Thorns rehearsal. A follow up to the 2001 debut was announced in September 2008. The band line up has undergone significant changes since the 2001 album. Snorre is still handling the guitars and Aldrahn will be performing all the vocals on the upcoming album. Bassist Jon Wesseltoft, guitarist Christian Broholt, and drummer Kenneth Kapstad have joined the band. ==Members==
Snorre Ruch - guitars/keyboards/programming
Jon Wesseltoft - bass/baritone guitar
Aldrahn - vocals
Christian Broholt - guitars
Kenneth Kapstad - drums
===Former members===
Bård G. Eithun - drums
Marius Vold - vocals, bass
Harald Eilertsen - bass on Grymyrk
Terje Kråbøl - drums on Trøndertun
Ronny K. Prize - bass on Trøndertun
Satyr - vocals on Thorns
Aldrahn - vocals on Thorns
Hellhammer - drums on Thorns
== Discography ==
Demos
Luna De Nocturnus (1989) (as Stigma Diabolicum)
Lacus De Luna (1990) (as Stigma Diabolicum)
Grymyrk (1991)
Trøndertun (1992)
Thule (1992)
Studio albums
Thorns (2001)
Other releases
Thorns vs. Emperor (1998) (split with Emperor)
Stigma Diabolicum (2007) (compilation)
==Related bands==
Thorns Ltd. - experimental/drone/art-circuit offshoot of Thorns featuring Snorre Ruch and Jon Wesseltoft. Mayhem - band in which Snorre played guitars for a short while. He also wrote some of the riffs on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Also Hellhammer's main band. Satyricon - Satyr's primary band. Dødheimsgard - band for which Aldrahn performed vocals until 2003. == References ==
== External links ==
Thorns official website
Thorns on Rockdetector
on Allmusic
Interview with Snorre Ruch
Interview with Bjørn Dencker aka Aldrahn
Official Myspace
Norwegian black metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1989
1989 establishments in Norway
Musical groups from Trondheim
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Redemption for Sidebottom as he dumps out holders The holders are out, the hosts are still in. Improbably, nervously, deservedly, England defeated India by three runs in the World Twenty20 last night. So, the team that had been beaten by the Netherlands only nine days earlier and humiliated by South Africa ended the involvement of the 2007 champions. They keep talking of roller-coaster rides in the England dressing room and the wonder is that they can withstand the G-forces imposed by this journey. It would be gloating, of course, to ask why there has been all that fuss about the Indian Premier League and how it makes Twenty20 experts of all those who sail in her. India failed, narrowly, to chase 154 to win and, although they got closer and closer in the final five overs, as their captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, refused to yield the title lightly, there was just too much ground to make up. The victory was achieved at the home of cricket, the nerve centre of the English game for almost two centuries, yet England must have felt last night as though they were playing in Mumbai or Delhi. The roar of approval for everything India did was staggering to behold and the disappointment was palpable. But what an atmosphere it was. Lord's probably thought it had seen it all. It had seen nothing like this. Paul Collingwood, England's elated captain, said: "It was a bit strange to come back from practising at the Nursery End at the home of cricket and be booed by all the Indian fans. That's never happened before and it gave the lads the motivation to put on a party piece." That the lads did. If England's victory was close, they were always ahead. They scored plenty of early runs and, if they were a few short of the target they ought to have set, their bowling was as precise and cunningly plotted as it can ever have been in this form of the game. The man of the match was Ryan Sidebottom, drafted into the side as part of a key strategy to bowl short and aggressively, but the whole attack served its purpose. There was, too, in a single instant eminent justification for the bold selection in the side of James Foster. His wonderfully alert stumping to remove the danger man Yuvraj Singh, as he began to dig deep into his well-stocked locker of big shots, was a seminal moment. As he sloped slowly off after the third umpire had done his work, the wind could be sensed departing India's sails. England's progress, or otherwise, to the semi-finals will be decided tonight when they play the West Indies at The Oval. It will be the 19th international match of all hues between the sides this year and, in its way, the most crucial for all involved. "We hoped the wicket would have a bit of pace in it today and, thankfully, it went through pretty well and we managed to get some good balls in good areas, they kept going for it and we kept taking wickets," Collingwood added. "Both sides know each other very well, they have some danger men in that side but we'll enjoy this victory and know we have a massive job tomorrow." In its way, it is unfair that England have so little time to savour what was a legitimate and authentic victory. But that is the nature of this competition and it is slightly surprising after a bizarre week that they are still in it. When England, having been asked to bat in blissful sunshine, lost the wicket of Luke Wright early - when he was late on a hook shot - it was possible to fear the worst. But Ravi Bopara and Kevin Pietersen kept England's promise to be bold. They rotated the strike, they ran hard. Trouble loomed when they were out, both a trifle carelessly, and Dimitri Mascarenhas, sent in at No 4 presumably to hit, played a disconcerting innings almost completely bereft of big shots. But England's rally in the last five overs, when they scored 53 without seeming to do much at all, would prove significant. England blasted the Indians from the start. They bowled fast and straight and much of the time they aimed at the body. India had no answer. Sidebottom took wickets in his first and second overs as Rohit Sharma chopped on and Suresh Raina top-edged an ill-judged hook. For Sidebottom, who has had a tough time with injury and the whispered supposition that he might have lost his nip, this was redemption.
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Pancake ought to be added here. ACEOREVIVED (talk)
OK - no one else seems to have done that, so I have added Pancake to this category myself as of today (January 8 2013). ACEOREVIVED (talk)
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Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry fetches record $115 million at auction Elizabeth Taylor may be gone, but her jewelry is still turning heads. The actress's personal collection of jewels went up for auction Tuesday night -- and fetched a record $115 million. A pearl, diamond and ruby necklace known as La Peregrina, a gift to Taylor from Richard Burton in 1969, sold for a record $11.8 million. Christie's, which conducted the auction, had estimated the necklace would sell for $2 million or $3 million. Burton paid $37,000 for it. A 33.19-carat diamond ring, which was projected to go for $2.5 million to $3.5 million, sold for $8.8 million. PHOTOS: The collection of Elizabeth Taylor That sum for a single white diamond could have bought a whole lot of Taylor's White Diamonds. A diamond bracelet given to Taylor by close friend Michael Jackson sold for $194,500. Eighty pieces from Taylor's jewelry collection were auctioned Tuesday in New York, with the remaining 189 items to go Wednesday. Christie's has already blown past the $30 million it predicted as the total sale price. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. More from the late actress' estate will go on sale later in the week, including some of her film scripts and costumes. In February, her collection of Impressionist and Modernist art will go on sale in London. Taylor died in March. Some objects from Jackson's estate also went up for bidding this week. Sadly, the singer's auction wasn't as classy as Taylor's: We're talking fancy diamonds versus fancy clumps of hair. Christie's has no plans to auction Taylor's hair.
Michael Jackson's hair auctioned off for $10,871 Elizabeth Taylor private tribute: Close friends, sweet words Report: Elizabeth Taylor's jewels are expected to be auctioned -- Patrick Kevin Day The Associated Press contributed to this report. Photo: Elizabeth Taylor in 2005. Credit: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
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Bragantino
Clube Atlético Bragantino
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BBC Sport - Manchester United 1-0 Arsenal Robin van Persie punished his former club once more with the winner as Manchester United came out on top in the battle with Premier League leaders Arsenal at Old Trafford. Van Persie, who scored for United against Arsenal in both games last season following his £24m move, gave United a precious three points with a fine 27th-minute header from Wayne Rooney's corner. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Win a big result for Man Utd - Moyes Gunners manager Arsene Wenger insisted before the game that Van Persie was still "an Arsenal man" but the Dutch striker showed no hesitation in celebrating the goal that pushed United up to fifth in the table and to within five points of their opponents. United boss David Moyes knew defeat would have left them 11 points adrift in the title race, a gap which might have proved beyond even the reigning champions. Wenger revealed sickness in his camp had deprived him of defender Per Mertesacker and midfielder Tomas Rosicky, while Mikel Arteta was fit to start despite also feeling unwell. This may have contributed towards a decidedly flat first 45 minutes. And despite a much-improved second half, which included two perfect crosses from full-back Bacary Sagna that somehow went untouched, it was United's fans who were celebrating a win of great significance at the final whistle. It was a disappointing end to a week in which Arsenal made major statements of intent against Liverpool in the Premier League and away to Dortmund in the Champions League. Moyes magic The last team to stop Arsenal from scoring in a league match was David Moyes's Everton on 16 April - 16 games ago The Gunners will still be delighted with their start to the season but this was United's day and Moyes will now feel they are building momentum after a third successive league win. It was the familiar figure of Van Persie who decided the destiny of this game, getting away from Olivier Giroud to meet Rooney's delivery and direct a fine header over Kieran Gibbs on the line. Play was held up twice before half-time for head injuries to Arsenal keeper Wojciech Szczesny and Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic. In a week when much debate has centred on Tottenham's decision to allow goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to continue after his collision with Everton striker Romelu Lukaku at Goodison Park, Szczesny required lengthy treatment following a clash of heads with United's Phil Jones. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Wenger vows to 'come back stronger' He was able to resume - with Jones very unfortunate to be booked for something that was clearly accidental - but Vidic was not so lucky after he was caught on the head by United keeper David de Gea as he punched clear. Vidic got to his feet but went straight off before half-time and was replaced by England midfielder Tom Cleverley for the second half. Arsenal, as they needed to, started the second half with greater purpose but Wenger clearly felt the need for greater creativity as he replaced defensive midfielder Mathieu Flamini with Jack Wilshere on the hour. Just as Wilshere was preparing to come on, Rooney wasted a good opportunity to give United that crucial second goal, doing the hard part to escape Sagna on the edge of the area only to screw his left-foot shot wide. As Arsenal enjoyed a greater share of possession, Moyes introduced the experienced Ryan Giggs for Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa, while Wenger brought on striker Nicklas Bendtner for Santi Cazorla. Chris Smalling - who was playing at right-back for United - headed wide from Van Persie's free-kick, then in the dying seconds Bendtner was unable to get a touch on a wonderful delivery from Sagna and Arsenal's final chance had gone. Manchester United 01 De Gea 12 Smalling 03 Evra 16 Carrick 06 Evans 15 Vidic (Cleverley - 45') 25 Antonio Valencia 04 Jones Booked 20 van Persie (Fellaini - 85') 10 Rooney Booked 26 Kagawa (Giggs - 78') Substitutes 11 Giggs 13 Lindegaard 14 Hernández 17 Nani 23 Cleverley 31 Fellaini 44 Januzaj Arsenal 01 Szczesny 03 Sagna Booked 28 Gibbs 08 Arteta (Gnabry - 83') 06 Koscielny 05 Vermaelen 16 Ramsey 20 Flamini Booked (Wilshere - 61' Booked) 12 Giroud 11 Özil 19 Cazorla (Bendtner - 78') Substitutes 10 Wilshere 17 Monreal 21 Fabianski
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During a visit to Iowa, the first caucus state, McCotter announced he would reveal his campaign plans prior to the straw poll. On June 30, Politico reported McCotter was ready to begin a campaign. ==Campaign developments==
===Announcement===
McCotter filed a presidential campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and opened a campaign website on July 1, 2011. The website, which warned "your American Dream is endangered" was based on his book Seize Freedom! and listed "five core principles". These were:
"Our liberty is from God not the government"
"Our sovereignty is in our souls not the soil"
"Our security is from strength not surrender"
"Our prosperity is from the private sector not the public sector"
"Our truths are self-evident not relative"
McCotter officially announced his candidacy at the WAAM-sponsored "Freedom Festival" in Whitmore Lake, Michigan on July 2. He declared, "what we need in Washington is someone who understands that the wave of the future is not big government, but self-government". He played with his rock band at the event. Upon his entrance, Charlie Cook of The Cook Political Report rated McCotter's chances of nomination as "virtually impossible". CBS News and other outlets commented on McCotter's lack of name recognition and described him as a "little-known" candidate. Nevertheless, the Free Press noted he had about $480,000 available in his congressional account to transfer to his presidential campaign account. Political communications operative Mark Corallo was hired along with a core group of advisers that included former Senator Bill Frist's chief of staff Eric Uelind, and former Iowa representative Christopher Rants. ===Campaign events===
As McCotter embarked on his first official campaign trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, he received media attention for his hometown newspaper's reaction to his run. An editorial in The Oakland Press, based out of Oakland County, Michigan, wrote that the idea of a McCotter presidency "isn't a pleasant thought and is, in fact, a bit scary". It added, "the representative comes off as cold, arrogant and egotistical". McCotter largely ignored the criticism, and continued his campaign in New Hampshire, focusing on the "fundamental restructuring of government", and signing the Susan B. Anthony List's Pro-Life Leadership Pledge. Radio host Chris Buck was hired as leader of operations in New Hampshire. McCotter returned to Iowa in mid-July for further campaign events. Around this time, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post placed McCotter's odds of winning the Ames Straw Poll at one hundred to one, last place among the candidates listed. A Harris poll conducted found that of voters were not familiar with McCotter, and less than one percent supported him when matched against his fellow presidential contenders. In a hypothetical head to head matchup with President Obama, McCotter received, compared to for the President. To build support, McCotter used Twitter, with which he attempted to bypass the news media and connect directly with supporters. Campaign spokesman Randall Thompson stated that McCotter was "relying on social media......developed a very loyal following". McCotter participated in the first-ever Twitter presidential debate, on July 20, against fellow candidates, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, businessman Herman Cain, representative Michele Bachmann, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former Senator Rick Santorum. At one point, moderator S.E. Cupp asked whether President Obama was anti-Israel, McCotter answered, "Obama's motivations are not the issue, the impact of his policies, both proposed and pursued, have strained our relationship" with Israel. When asked to comment on the U.S. role in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, McCotter referred to the Obama administration's mission as "ill-defined," and argued for "no US boots on ground." However, he added the caveat, "once committed, we can't abruptly withdraw." In late July, during the height of the debt ceiling crisis, McCotter canceled several appearances in Iowa and returned to Washington. He supported the plan of House Speaker John Boehner, and voted in favor of the compromise bill. He was the only presidential candidate in the House of Representatives to approve the bill in Congress since both fellow members Bachmann and Ron Paul voted against it. Ahead of the Ames Straw Poll, McCotter had not reached the one percent polling threshold necessary to participate in the event's August 11 debate on Fox News. At the time, McCotter had little support, even at home.
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His future is a virtual blank slate, unlikely to fill up as much. Maybe he will do some game analysis, since he had more than a decade of experience with ESPN before returning to coach. But nothing as consuming as becoming the athletic director at Georgia Tech, his alma mater, where the position is vacant. Instead he has a month to game plan for a significant engagement. On Dec. 15, Curry and his wife, Carolyn, who began dating when he was a player and she a cheerleader at a high school just miles from his current office, will celebrate their 50th anniversary, their union outlasting even football's hold on him.
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Floods ravage Fiji, four dead NADI, Fiji, April 2 (UPI) -- The South Pacific Ocean nation of Fiji has been hit by the worst flooding in decades, with four people dead and extensive damage reported, an official said. With a newly formed weather front, Cyclone Daphne, expected to bypass the island, some of the 8,000 people who had sought refuge in evacuation centers were beginning to return home, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday. The western city of Nadi, with a population of about 42,000, was one of the areas hardest hit by the extensive flooding, a local magazine reported. Tourist flights into Fiji had resumed but power was lacking in many areas, the ABC said. "It's quite extensive," said government spokeswoman Sharon John of the damage. "In Nadi town, shops in Nadi town, the floodwaters went right through. Electricity's out, water's out. There is quite a lot of damage here."
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Prison sentence for urine attack Depute Fiscal Ian Warburton said: "It was while they were drinking that the accused, without provocation, punched the complainer for no apparent reason." 'Bad record' The pair then ended up outside the house. Mr Warburton said: "A witness looked out and saw the accused holding Mr MacIver underneath the arms and was dragging him between parked cars on the street. "The complainer was naked on his upper half. The accused dragged him along the road surface before leaving him there. "They then saw him undo his trousers and urinate on the complainer. It was clear to the witnesses that Mr MacIver was bleeding heavily at that time." The victim was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he was kept overnight for treatment. The court heard Thompson remembered a heated argument had broken out because his mother's boyfriend accused him of stealing. Sheriff Stewart said: "You have a very bad record for assault. There is no alternative other than a custodial sentence."
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Jane the Impaler and a Ghastly Halloween Tradition There is a three-story house of fading red brick in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that gets a bit spooky looking at Halloween, with a rusty fence of iron spikes that only adds to the ominous look. For the past decade, Jane Greengold, who lives in the house and specializes in making public art, has maximized the fence's fearsome feel by impaling small pumpkins on its spikes - 100 of them, all carved with kooky faces and illuminated with a string of holiday lights. "The whole idea is to take advantage of the spikes, as impalers," she said. "It's fence-specific." She calls the display "Impalements," and when she first festooned the fence in this manner she left the pumpkins impaled for a couple of months, she said, because she found that she liked the way they rotted and became "gnarly." Ms. Greengold has continued the tradition every Halloween, to the appreciation of a neighborhood where the holiday is celebrated in full force, with entire families in costume trick-or-treating along brownstone-lined streets. City Room is so taken with this tradition that it will return to the house, at Kane Street and Strong Place, which is owned by her companion, Chip Gray, while the pumpkins remain on display. Call it a hard news story that gets softer each time it is revisited. Ms. Greengold said she typically removed the pumpkins around Christmas, when they have become a soft, nearly goopy mess. This year, she said, it was tough finding a supplier who could provide so many pumpkins because the rainy weather reduced the crop and made it hard to find many small pumpkins. She wound up driving to upper Westchester County to fill her needs - 110 pumpkins this year. In years past, the pumpkins sold for about $1 apiece; this year she paid about $3 apiece. She and her family members began carving the pumpkins three days in advance. On Monday afternoon, trick-or-treaters stopped to stare at the pumpkins and to compliment Ms. Greengold on her tradition. She placed more pumpkins on more spikes and also handed out Halloween candy from a large bowl on the broad stoop to little superheroes and firefighters and princesses and space men. A woman stopped to inform Ms. Greengold that she took a photo last Christmas of some really rotted-out pumpkins on the fence, and used it this year for her Halloween card. One neighbor, Tom McDonald, 62, a sculptor and schoolteacher, rode by on his bike and stopped. He is a big fan of the pumpkin display and has taken snapshots of them in years past. "I love to see how they rot and their expressions change," he said. "They start to look like they're having conversations."
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The case study: How BMW dealt with exchange rate risk The story. BMW Group, owner of the BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands, has been based in Munich since its founding in 1916. But by 2011, only 17 per cent of the cars it sold were bought in Germany. In recent years, China has become BMW's fastest-growing market, accounting for 14 per cent of BMW's global sales volume in 2011. India, Russia and eastern Europe have also become key markets. More On this story On this topic Case Study The challenge. Despite rising sales revenues, BMW was conscious that its profits were often severely eroded by changes in exchange rates. The company's own calculations in its annual reports suggest that the negative effect of exchange rates totalled €2.4bn between 2005 and 2009. BMW did not want to pass on its exchange rate costs to consumers through price increases. Its rival Porsche had done this at the end of the 1980s in the US and sales had plunged. The strategy. BMW took a two-pronged approach to managing its foreign exchange exposure. One strategy was to use a "natural hedge" - meaning it would develop ways to spend money in the same currency as where sales were taking place, meaning revenues would also be in the local currency. However, not all exposure could be offset in this way, so BMW decided it would also use formal financial hedges. To achieve this, BMW set up regional treasury centres in the US, the UK and Singapore. How the strategy was implemented. The natural hedge strategy was implemented in two ways. The first involved establishing factories in the markets where it sold its products; the second involved making more purchases denominated in the currencies of its main markets. BMW now has production facilities for cars and components in 13 countries. In 2000, its overseas production volume accounted for 20 per cent of the total. By 2011, it had risen to 44 per cent. In the 1990s, BMW had become one of the first premium carmakers from overseas to set up a plant in the US - in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 2008, BMW announced it was investing $750m to expand its Spartanburg plant. This would create 5,000 jobs in the US while cutting 8,100 jobs in Germany. This also had the effect of shortening the supply chain between Germany and the US market. The company boosted its purchasing in US dollars generally, especially in the North American Free Trade Agreement region. Its office in Mexico City made $615m of purchases of Mexican auto parts in 2009, expected to rise significantly in following years. A joint venture with Brilliance China Automotive was set up in Shenyang, China, where half the BMW cars for sale in the country are now manufactured. The carmaker also set up a local office to help its group purchasing department to select competitive suppliers in China. By the end of 2009, Rmb6bn worth of purchases were from local suppliers. Again, this had the effect of shortening supply chains and improving customer service. At the end of 2010, BMW announced it would invest 1.8bn rupees in its production plant in Chennai, India, and increase production capacity in India from 6,000 to 10,000 units. It also announced plans to increase production in Kaliningrad, Russia. Meanwhile, the overseas regional treasury centres were instructed to review the exchange rate exposure in their regions on a weekly basis and report it to a group treasurer, part of the group finance operation, in Munich. The group treasurer team then consolidates risk figures globally and recommends actions to mitigate foreign exchange risk. The lessons. By moving production to foreign markets the company not only reduces its foreign exchange exposure but also benefits from being close to its customers. In addition, sourcing parts overseas, and therefore closer to its foreign markets, also helps to diversify supply chain risks. The writers are, respectively, professor of economics and finance and associate dean of research, and a research associate at CEIBS Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012. You may share using our article tools.
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— с.33. Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. — Л: Художник РСФСР, 1959. — с.28. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.19, 358, 381, 386, 397, 442. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7. == External links ==
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The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film starring James Caan and Robert Duvall and directed by Sam Peckinpah. The screenplay was written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant adapted from the Robert Syd Hopkins novel, Monkey in the Middle. The novel was written under Hopkins' pseudonym of Robert Rostand. The film represents the last collaboration between Peckinpah and soundtrack composer Jerry Fielding. ==Plot==
Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the beginning of the film, Locken and Hansen are helping an East European defector, Vorodny (Helmut Dantine) escape. After delivering the defector to other ComTeg operatives, Locken and Hansen throw a wild party to relax. The next day, they go to a ComTeg safehouse to relieve other agents who have been guarding Vorodny, the defector they previously helped escape. Hansen, having been bought out by an unknown rival group, assassinates Vorodny, and then critically wounds Locken in the knee and elbow, telling Locken that he's, "just been retired." Told that he'll be a cripple for life and that his career is apparently at an end, Locken undergoes a long period of rehabilitation when he is subsequently approached with another assignment from his Com-Teg contact man, Cap Collis (Arthur Hill). It requires him to protect an Asian client, Yuen Chung. It also gives him the opportunity to seek revenge against Hansen, who is part of the team out to assassinate the client. Locken, having become well versed in the martial arts using his cane during his rehabilitation, recruits a couple of former ComTeg associates, Mac (Burt Young), a wheelman and a former friend of Locken's and Miller (Bo Hopkins), a weapons expert, to help him. However, the deal turns out to be an elaborate set-up, part of an internal power struggle between rival Com-Teg directors, the aforementioned Cap Collis and his superior, Lawrence Weybourne (Gig Young). In a subsequent assassination attempt on Chung, Hansen gets the drop on Locken, but is shot and killed by Miller. Locken rebukes Miller for killing Hansen. He later forgives him. A final showdown between the Asian rivals takes place aboard a naval vessel on the Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay, California with Locken and Mac involved in the fray and confronting Collis one last time. ==Cast==
James Caan as Mike Locken
Robert Duvall as George Hansen
Arthur Hill as Cap Collis
Gig Young as Weybourne
Mako as Yuen Chung
Burt Young as Mac
Bo Hopkins as Jerome Miller
Takayuki Kubota as Negato Toku
Victor Sen Yung as Wei Chi
Kate Heflin as Amy
Tiana Alexandra as Tommie
Helmut Dantine as Vorodny
Master Gini Lau/Liu (actor/stunt woman) as Yuen Chung's daughter
==Reception==
Japanese film director Shinji Aoyama listed The Killer Elite as one of the Greatest Films of All Time in 2012. He said, "No other movie has taught me as much about human dignity as The Killer Elite." In 1977 James Caan said he only did the film because his advisers told him to work with Sam Peckinpah, and he rated it zero out of ten. ==References==
==External links==
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Elita zabójców (film 1975)
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Federer Leads Murray in Wimbledon Final Roger Federer has rallied to take a lead of two sets to one over Andy Murray in the first Wimbledon singles final to be played under a roof. Federer led 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. The match began in sunshine Sunday, but rain forced a 40-minute delay at 1-all in the third set, and the retractable roof over Centre Court was then closed.
Andy Murray of Britain plays a shot to Roger Federer of Switzerland during the men's final match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Sunday, July 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Close The roof was added in 2009. Federer took charge when he broke for a 4-2 lead in the third set by winning a 20-minute game. The game included a series of improbable exchanges, with Murray falling to the grass three times. Federer was trying to add to his record 16 Grand Slam championships, and tie a record by winning Wimbledon for a seventh time.
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The service concludes with the Ne'ila ("closing") prayer, which begins shortly before sunset, when the "gates of prayer" will be closed. Yom Kippur comes to an end with a recitation of Shema Yisrael and the blowing of the shofar, which marks the conclusion of the fast. ===Repentance (Teshuva) and confessional (Vidui)===
The Talmud states, "Yom Kippur atones for those who repent and does not atone for those who do not repent". Repentance in Judaism is done through a process called Teshuva, which in its most basic form consists of regretting having committed the sin, resolving not to commit that sin in the future and to confess that sin before God. Confession in Judaism is called Vidui (Hebrew וידוי). There is also a commandment to repent on Yom Kippur. Accordingly Yom Kippur is unique for the confessional, or Vidui, that is part of the prayer services. In keeping with the requirement to repent on Yom Kippur, Jews recite the full Vidui a total of 10 times: 2 times during Mincha on Yom Kippur eve, and on Yom Kippur itself during Ma'ariv (2 times), Shacharit (2 times), Musaf (2 times), and Mincha (2 times); at Ne’eilah, only the short confessional is said. The first time in each service takes place during the personal recitation of the Amidah (standing, silent prayer), and the second time during the cantor's repetition of the Amidah, in a public recitation. The Yom Kippur confessional consists of two parts: a short confession beginning with the word Ashamnu (אשמנו, "we have sinned"), which is a series of words describing sin arranged according to the aleph-bet, and a long confession, beginning with the words Al Cheyt (על חטא, "for the sin"), which is a set of 26 double acrostics, also arranged according to the aleph-bet, enumerating a range of sins. It is notable that during the public recitation of Ashamnu together with the cantor, the entire congregation sings these words to a tune, representing the joy of being cleansed from one's sins. ===Avodah: remembering the Temple service===
A recitation of the sacrificial service of the Temple in Jerusalem traditionally features prominently in both the liturgy and the religious thought of the holiday. Specifically, the Avodah ("service") in the Musaf prayer recounts in great detail the sacrificial ceremonies of the Yom Kippur Korbanot (sacrificial offerings) that are recited in the prayers but have not been performed for 2,000 years, since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. This traditional prominence is rooted in the Babylonian Talmud’s description of how to attain atonement following the destruction of the Temple. According to Talmud tractate Yoma, in the absence of a Temple, Jews are obligated to study the High Priest’s ritual on Yom Kippur, and this study helps achieve atonement for those who are unable to benefit from its actual performance. In Orthodox Judaism, accordingly, studying the Temple ritual on Yom Kippur represents a positive rabbinically ordained obligation which Jews seeking atonement are required to fulfill. In Orthodox synagogues, most Conservative, and some progressive a detailed description of the Temple ritual is recited on the day. In most Orthodox and some Conservative synagogues, the entire congregation prostrates themselves at each point in the recitation where the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) would pronounce the Tetragrammaton (God’s holiest name, according to Judaism). The main section of the Avodah is a threefold recitation of the High Priest’s actions regarding expiation in the Holy of Holies. Performing the sacrificial acts and reciting, (“Your upright children”). (These three times, plus in some congregations the Aleinu prayer during the Musaf Amidah on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, are the only times in Jewish services when Jews engage in prostration, with the exception of some Yemenite Jews and talmedhei haRambam (disciples of Maimonides) who may prostrate themselves on other occasions during the year).
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France takes a day to consider its choice It's all over bar the voting. Under French law no electoral campaigning is allowed on the eve of the poll. So France's forty million voters have a day of reflection to consider which one of the two candidates they think will make the best leader of the country, the best next president. Nicolas Sarkozy knows he faces a struggle with socialist rival Francois Hollande leading in the polls. But Sarkozy said on Thursday, the final day of campaigning, that he thinks it will be a close-run contest, and that no French election has ever been so undecided. If the polls do turn out to be correct, then Sarkozy could turn out to be the first French president not to win a second term since Valery Giscard d'Estaing back in 1981. More about: france 2012, François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy, Presidential elections Copyright © 2012 euronews
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The giant kokopu, Galaxias argenteus, is a species of anadromous ray-finned fish in the genus Galaxias, found only in New Zealand. It grows to a length of up to 45 cm and is the largest member of the Galaxiidae family. It is mostly a marine species living round the coasts but it is also one of the five species that join in the whitebait runs that enter New Zealand rivers each spring. Due to the large size of the giant kokopu, it is the only galaxiid species likely to be able to out compete trout, and as such it is thought that the presence of Galaxias argentenus could add to a stream's resistance to brown trout invasion. The giant kokopu has a single dorsal fin and anal fin, both of which are large, rounded, and set back close to the large square caudal fin. The pelvic fins are also large. Like all galaxiids, this fish lacks scales and has a thick, leathery skin covered with mucus. It is a golden-brown colour with the dorsal surface and flanks speckled with numerous ochre spots. Although it can grow to a length of, a more common size is. ==Behaviour==
The giant kokopu is primarily a coastal species and enters rivers in spring but it has never actually been observed spawning and little is known of its reproductive biology. Some fish exist permanently in land-locked stream systems. When in fresh water they prefer slow flowing waters in lowland runs and pools. They usually use cover such as overhanging vegetation, logs, undercut banks or debris to lurk, awaiting passing prey. Their diet includes the freshwater crayfish (Paranephrops spp. ), aquatic and terrestrial insects and spiders. ==Status==
The IUCN has rated the giant kokopu as being a "Vulnerable". Its status was last assessed in 1996 and the IUCN is intending to re-evaluate it soon. ==References==
NIWA Fish Atlas - Giant Kokopu June 2006
David, Bruno O., Closs, Gerard P. andArbuckle, Chris J. (2002) 'Distribution of fish in tributaries of the lower Taieri/Waipori rivers, South Island, New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 36 4, 797 — 808
Galaxias
Endemic freshwater fish of New Zealand
Animals described in 1789
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Salt, Root and Roe, Trafalgar Studios, London The Donmar's second season at the Trafalgar Studios - designed to showcase the work of its young resident directors - gets off to a cracking start with this lovely new play by Tim Price. Salt, Root and Roe homes in on Iola and Anest, a pair of identical Welsh twins, now in their seventies, who live on the coast of North Pembrokeshire. In a fantastical underwater sequence at the start of Hamish Pirie's beautifully realised production, we see the two old ladies tied together with a skipping rope, recreating a childhood game. The rope symbolises the umbilical strength of their bond and, indeed, the next time we see them thus bound, at the end, it is in the ultimate sisterly solidarity of a suicide pact, weighed down with pebbles and walking into the sea. The mettle of their mutual devotion has certainly been proven by Iola's drift into dementia. Price's writing is amusingly alert to the absurdities that surround this heartbreaking situation. The play plunges us into the hapless predicament of Anest's middle-aged daughter, Menna (a comically distraught and very touching Imogen Stubbs). She can't seem to win on any front. Her husband is so obsessed with germs he hasn't touched her for years and makes her wear latex gloves. And when a letter sends her rushing back to her childhood home, all her attempts to put a stop to the schemes of her aunt and mother re-emphasise her essential exclusion from their intimacy. "I used to tell myself I was one of them. That we were three twins," she confides to the local copper. Like triplets, he suggests. No, hers was the forlorn fantasy of being a third twin. Anna Calder-Marshall piercingly traces Iola's erratic shifts between eccentric scattiness (boiling Menna's mobile in the teapot, for example) and bewildered, bullying violence, while Anna Carteret brings a moving dignity to the anguish and determination of her unafflicted sibling. Chloe Lamford's excellent design hangs swags of soiled sails over the proceedings and surreally displays a miniature model of the farmhouse in a bubbling fish tank. Just as Prices's script seamlessly combines the dotty and the distressing, so it is able at once to invoke poetic marine myths and hilariously debunk them. There seems to be a tradition in this family of fathers going missing. Is it because they were mermen? Anest suggests a more prosaic explanation. "What's more likely," she asks, "that he's a cheating bastard, or half-fish?"
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feu vert pour 829 logements dans des colonies de Cisjordanie Israël: feu vert pour 829 logements dans des colonies de Cisjordanie (AFP) - Il y a 2 heures Jérusalem - Les autorités israéliennes ont donné leur feu vert à la construction de 829 logements dans plusieurs colonies de Cisjordanie, a indiqué lundi à l'AFP une ONG opposée à la colonisation. "La construction de 829 logements a été approuvée récemment par une commission de l'administration militaire israélienne chargée de la Cisjordanie," a affirmé Lior Amihaï, un responsable de la Paix Maintenant. Ces logements seront construits dans les colonies de Givat Zeev au nord de Jérusalem, de Nofei Prat, à Shilo, Givat Salit et Nokdim, a-t-il précisé. Le 13 novembre, le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu avait provisoirement renoncé un projet de colonisation record portant sur plus de 20.000 logements pour ne pas se mettre à dos la communauté internationale au moment où il tentait de la convaincre de ne pas signer un accord avec l'Iran sur le programme nucléaire de ce pays. L'annonce de ce projet de construction par le ministre du Logement Uri Ariel, un dirigeant du Foyer juif, un parti religieux nationaliste partisan de la colonisation, avait auparavant soulevé les critiques acerbes des Etats-Unis et la colère des Palestiniens. Un accord sur le nucléaire a été conclu dimanche à Genève entre les grandes puissances et l'Iran, provoquant la colère de M. Netanyahu qui a qualifié cet arrangement "d'erreur historique." Copyright © AFP 2013. Tous droits réservés. Plus "
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Southern Africans in the United States are Americans with ancestry from Southern Africa. They include:
Angolan American
Malawian American
Namibian American
South African American
Zimbabwean American
==See also==
Southern Africa
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Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group, 1913-1963, Ben Uri Museum, London - review Fifty works by 50 artists go on show in this closely packed, historically evocative survey Hans Feibusch, 'Narcissus' (1946) Stretching beyond London's Euston Road and Bloomsbury as far as St Ives in Cornwall, the "London Group" encompassed so many artistic communities, spanning so many decades, that it is almost meaningless as a historical definition. But never mind: Ben Uri's commemoration of the gathering of radical artists, formed in November 1913 and given its name by Jacob Epstein, affords a wonderful opportunity to consider the Englishness of English modernism across half a century, as demonstrated in 50 works by 50 artists - from Sickert, Lowry and Moore to futurist C.R.W. Nevinson, the now forgotten London social realist Ruskin Spear, and a young Leon Kossoff. Ben Uri calls itself a museum of "art, identity and migration," and certainly the immigrant impulse in directing the British avant-garde is a dominant theme here. In sculpture, cubism and primitivism came via Epstein - "Flenite Relief" is compressed, formal, totemic, elemental - and Gaudier-Brzeska ("Bird Swallowing a Fish," originally cast in gunmetal, presages the combatants paralysed in the deadly struggle of the first world war). In painting, the Whitechapel Boys, mostly born in the UK to eastern European parents, particularly responded to early innovative trends: David Bomberg's "Ghetto Theatre," with its stunning vertiginous perspective, and Mark Gertler's bizarre "Creation of Eve," where a bearded God yanks up the erring Eve by her long tresses, are highlights. Ukrainian-born Jacob Kramer brings a New Objectivity frankness to his depiction of a cadaver in "The Anatomy Lesson" (1928); Weimar painter Hans Feibusch's "Narcissus" (1946) is a compelling example of late expressionism. English art is often one of compromise, reluctant to take formal experimentation to extremes, thus missing greatness. English surrealism is tamer than its European counterpart; English abstraction hedges its bets - English Fauve Matthew Smith (the lovely "Fitzroy Street Nude" on a pink ground) is less outrageous than Matisse. But pluralism, negotiation, adaptation are also intriguing strategies, intelligently explored in this historically evocative, closely packed account. Until March 2, benuri.org.uk Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools.
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Tate-Gilmore lives out of a bag, and her job requires that she be highly organized and think on her feet as she juggles planning for multiple White House trips. The eight-day vacation to Martha's Vineyard required her to help set up a White House operation on the island at peak season, when accommodations are hard to find. She helped reserve rooms for media, staff, Secret Service and others supporting the presidential operation in so many places across the island that she's lost count - booking rental homes and even a trailer for staff to work out of when there were no more hotel rooms to be had. Meanwhile, from the island she's dealing with visa applications for Obama's visit to Russia next month and setting up Obama's bus tour next week to New York and Pennsylvania. And she is planning to travel overseas next week to make arrangements for a future presidential trip. Tate-Gilmore has learned to be no-nonsense in her dealings with local officials, hotels and venues Obama will visit. In preparation for his trip to Africa earlier this year, members of the White House advance party suffered bug bites staying in the press hotel. Tate-Gilmore demanded the hotel hire an exterminator - and take along a photographer who could email her pictures back in Washington to prove all the rooms had been fumigated. When a radio reporter contracted food poisoning on the stop in Tanzania, Tate-Gilmore insisted on staying overnight in the hospital and worked with doctors to ensure she got proper care. Reporters, photographers and others with the news media pay their share of expenses when they accompany the president. In recent years, the size of the media entourage has dropped as some outlets have determined that the tab is just too high. With media outlets feeling increasing financial pressure, controlling costs is a big part of Tate-Gilmore's job as she weighs fees for rooms and travel. "The kind of glitz and glamour that people think we bring with the White House - they will roll us if they can," Tate-Gilmore said. But costs are not the only consideration - the White House has to deal with security and access issues as well for its press corps. If reporters were left to travel commercially on their own, they would never be able to keep up with Air Force One flying around the globe and get in and out of the president's security bubble. The press charters a plane that mimics Air Force One's route. Reporters and news crews stay in hotels accessible to presidential events. And they ride in buses that often have police or military escorts to whisk them through security checkpoints. All the costs are covered by the traveling media, but the arrangements are coordinated by the White House Travel Office as under previous presidents. Tate-Gilmore volunteered on Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2003 while home in Chicago from a break as a psychology student at Howard University. Soon she was hired for a paid position managing other volunteers. After Obama's election, she was one of the first hires in his Senate office and eventually worked as his executive assistant. When Obama moved to the White House, Tate-Gilmore came along as an associate manager in the Travel Office under director Peter Newell, who said he recommend her to take over when he left in September 2010. He said her experience with the president, her knowledge of press travel and her relationships throughout the White House made her up to the task even though she was 26 at the time. "What the job required, Ashley had," Newell said. "You need to be a people person and be able to be friendly. Ashley is good at engaging people, and she has a great sense of humor. But she also has a firm backbone, and she can be tough."
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This is a schedule for each car's planned pit stops during the race, and takes into account factors such as rate of fuel consumption, weight of fuel, cornering speed with each available tire compound, rate of tire wear, the effect of tire wear on cornering speed, the length of pit road and the track's pit road speed limit, and even expected changes in weather and lighting conditions. The pit strategy does not just include a schedule of when pit stops will happen; it also includes what service and adjustments are scheduled for each pit stop, particularly in endurance racing, where scheduled changes of wear-limited parts such as brake pads may be planned for specific points during the race. The pit strategy is calculated carefully so that the amount of time to be "given away" to other competitors in pit stops is balanced out by the time gained while on the track, resulting, theoretically, in the shortest possible time to cover the scheduled distance. However, a team's pit strategy is not a fixed, immutable thing; it is subject to change during the race to take into account the unpredictable events that happen in every race. In road racing, for example, if the weather changes from dry to rain, teams will be forced to recalculate their pit strategy based on the unscheduled stop to change from dry-weather "slick" tires to treaded wet-weather tires. Full-course caution periods often see mass pit stops by many teams, hoping to take advantage of the slowed pace to reduce the ground lost to other teams while making pit stops; this forces teams that do so to immediately recalculate their pit strategy to optimize it for the remaining race distance after the stop. Even when a team chooses not to take advantage of the opportunity to stop during a full-course caution, it can still result in significant changes to pit strategy; under caution, the cars run at a reduced speed that results in greatly reduced tire wear and fuel burn for a distance travelled. Depending on the circumstances, this may be enough for a team to gain more by choosing not to pit, hoping that the reduced fuel burn and tire wear will allow them to make one pit stop fewer than the other teams, allowing them to gain distance and time on their opponents. At tracks noted for frequent full-course cautions, teams may even plan their entire race strategy around this, using a suspension and aerodynamic setup suited to short sprints instead of extended runs to gain positions in the short bursts of green-flag racing, and planning their pit strategy on the assumption that cautions will extend their fuel mileage and tire wear enough to make fewer stops than would otherwise be needed to complete the race distance. == Services performed ==
During a scheduled pit stop, the team's pit crew services the car as swiftly as possible, completing a number of different services. The most visible services performed are refuelling the car and changing tires. Other services performed in routine pit stops include removing debris from radiator air intakes; cleaning the windshield; and making adjustments to tire pressure, suspension settings, and aerodynamic devices to optimize the car's performance for the current conditions. In endurance racing, scheduled driver changes and brake pad replacements are also considered "routine" service when done as part of a scheduled pit stop. An unscheduled pit stop may see other service performed; because unscheduled stops are usually due to damage or mechanical problems, they frequently see emergency repairs performed on the car. These tend to have extremely long duration, due to the need to diagnose the car's problems prior to the time-consuming repairs. == Formula One ==
In Formula One, mid-race refuelling has been banned since 2010, and cars make pit stops with the primary purpose of changing tyres. Teams sometimes also make adjustments to the front and rear wings and perform minor repairs, most commonly replacing the nose and front wing assembly. Pit strategies generally call for between two and four scheduled stops, depending on the circuit. The drives between pit stops are commonly known as'stints'. When the car is approximately one lap away from making its stop, the team's pit crew will set up fresh tires and all needed pit equipment. Because of the overhead pneumatic rig, the team may have all pit mechanics in position prior to the car's arrival, with the exception of the rear jack man. Interestingly, unlike almost all other forms of racing that feature routine pit stops, Formula One rules limit teams to a single pit crew for the mandatory two cars entered. Therefore, teams must stagger their pit schedules so that only one of their two cars is in the pits at any given time. Most other racing series that feature routine pit stops permit each car its own pit stall and crew. === Refuelling ===
Refuelling was permitted from the 1994 season until the end of the 2009 season. During this period, a pit stop involved about twenty mechanics, with the aim of completing the stop as quickly as possible.
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Cuccinelli presses McAuliffe on Medicaid expansion - again Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has set his sights on Barack Obama, Tim Kaine and now Terry McAuliffe. Ken Cuccinelli (Tracy A. Woodward - The Washington Post) For the second time in a week, Cuccinelli (R) is pressing presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe on whether he thinks Virginia should opt out of the new federal health law's Medicaid expansion. Cuccinelli says Virginia should opt out. Some Democrats, including state party chairman Brian Moran, say Virginia should opt in. Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) wants more information before he makes a decision. McAuliffe's staff did not respond to messages for comment this week. McAuliffe, through a spokesman, has declined to answer because he is not a declared candidate (he doesn't plan to announce until after the November elections), though the former Democratic National Committee chairman does speak regularly on policy issues on talk shows. "It is clear that Terry McAuliffe has all but announced he is running for governor of Virginia," Cuccinelli said. "As someone who is seeking the highest office in our state - remaining silent on this issue just isn't an option. The people of Virginia deserve to know where Terry stands now while the issue is still being decided, not afterwards. Terry McAuliffe claims to be a leader, but he's hiding from the people of Virginia on an issue that will have ramifications in Virginia for decades. Come on, Terry. Take a stand." Before he can get to any general election, Cuccinelli must first take on Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) in a convention. Bolling called for Virginia to opt out of the expansion last week.
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Air Drops Bring Aid To Typhoon-Isolated Japanese TOKYO -- Helicopters ferried supplies Tuesday to thousands of people still cut off by Japan's worst storm in 28 years. Typhoon Talas left at least 46 dead and 54 missing in a nation still struggling to recover from its devastating tsunami just six months ago. Aid-laden helicopters descended on towns in the hardest-hit areas as police, firefighters and soldiers mobilized to clear roads so they could distribute food, medicine and other assistance to communities fending for themselves since the typhoon made landfall on Saturday. Dozens of hamlets with thousands of people in central Japan were still cut off, primarily because of flooding, landslides or other damage to access roads, Kyodo News service reported. Nearly 3,000 people remained in evacuation centers. As Talas approached Japan, nearly a half million people were advised to evacuate. It then dumped record amounts of rain on central and western Japan and lashed wide swaths of the country with destructive winds before being downgraded to a tropical storm. In worst-hit Wakayama, rescuers recovered nine more bodies Tuesday afternoon, with 34 others still missing, according to prefectural police. That brought the nationwide death toll to 46. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 54 people were missing Tuesday, including those in Wakayama. The 100 dead or missing is the highest toll since heavy rains in 1983 left 117 people dead or unaccounted for, according to government records. The path of the typhoon did not take it over the tsunami-devastated northeast coast, where nearly 21,000 people were killed or are missing after the March 11 disaster. But as the eye of the slow-moving storm hovered offshore in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, heavy rains began to fall anew on the northern island of Hokkaido, prompting evacuation advisories for hundreds of households as rivers began to swell. Talas is a word from the Philippines that means "sharpness."
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Rushing the Sainthood of Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II, 1978., Elliott Erwitt / Magnum When Pope John Paul II is beatified on May 1 before an audience of hundreds of thousands in St. Peter's Square, the event will mark a new land-speed record for arrival at the final stage before sainthood, beating Mother Teresa's previous mark by 15 days. Some have objected to the haste, particularly given persistent questions about John Paul's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Yet if the child is father to the man, this is a clear case of the pope being father to the saint. John Paul notoriously presided over what wags called a "saint-making factory" during his almost 27 years atop the Catholic Church. He produced more beatifications (1,338) and canonizations (482) than all previous popes combined - and since Catholic tradition acknowledges 263 previous popes stretching back nearly 2,000 years, that's no mean feat. This avalanche of halos was the result of a deliberate policy. In 1983, John Paul overhauled the sainthood process to make it quicker, cheaper, and less adversarial, eliminating the office of "Devil's advocate" and dropping the required number of miracles. His aim was to lift up contemporary role models of holiness in order to show a jaded secular world that sanctity is alive in the here and now. A substantial share of John Paul's picks lived in the 20th century, from Padre Pio to Mother Teresa to Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei. In that sense, John Paul's fast-track beatification is a natural byproduct of his own policies, which have been largely upheld by his successor and erstwhile right-hand man, Pope Benedict XVI. Yet John Paul's cause is also a reminder, at least for some, of why waiting a little while isn't always such a bad thing. In theory, sainthood is supposed to be a democratic process, beginning with a popular grassroots sentiment that a given figure was a saint. Six years ago, the evidence of that conviction vis-à-vis Karol Wojtyla, the given name of John Paul II, seemed like a slam-dunk. This was, after all, the pope who brought down communism, who was seen in the flesh by more people than any other figure in human history, who reinvigorated Catholicism after a period of doubt and confusion, and who gave rise to an entire "John Paul II" generation of young priests and bishops eager to take the church's message to the street. Crowds chanted "Santo subito!" - "Sainthood now!" - at his funeral mass. The cardinals who gathered to elect the next pope signed a petition asking whoever it might be to waive the normal five-year waiting period to launch a cause, which Benedict XVI swiftly did. Adulatory coverage in the global media amounted to a sort of secular canonization, making the formal ecclesiastical process seem almost anticlimactic. Today, however, that enthusiasm has been tempered by revelations about the role of the late pope and his aides in the sexual-abuse crisis - by any reckoning, the most destructive Catholic scandal in centuries, and one that critics say metastasized on John Paul's watch. The signature case is that of the late Mexican priest Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the controversial conservative religious order the Legionaries of Christ. John Paul II was a great patron of Maciel, admiring the religious order's unapologetic fidelity to Catholic teaching, its loyalty to Rome and the papacy, and its success in generating vocations among younger Catholics. Yet in the mid-1990s, charges began to surface that Maciel's public face concealed a deeply flawed private life. A complaint was filed in Rome with the office headed by then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, today Pope Benedict, alleging that Maciel had sexually abused a number of former members of the order. That case was tabled until late 2001, and no action was taken until after John Paul's death. Even when Ratzinger's staff began to become convinced there was fire behind the smoke, other senior figures in John Paul's regime gave Maciel aid and comfort. Maciel accompanied John Paul II on several foreign voyages and was extolled by top church officials as a role model for his work with youth. At one stage, the most powerful department in the Vatican, the Secretariat of State, denied there was any case against Maciel, at the very moment Ratzinger's office was reaching the conclusion that Maciel was indeed guilty.
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Price of church weddings and funerals set to rise
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Following more accusations, the proposal of excommunication was made, and the silence of the congregation allowed it to proceed. Wilson delivered the final address, "Forasmuch as you, Mrs. Hutchinson, have highly transgressed and offended...and troubled the Church with your Errors and have drawen away many a poor soule, and have upheld your Revelations; and forasmuch as you have made a Lye...Therefor in the name of our Lord Je Ch...I doe cast you out and...deliver you up to Sathan...and account you from this time forth to be a Hethen and a Publican...I command you in the name of Ch Je and of this Church as a Leper to withdraw your selfe out of the Congregation." With the ordeal over, as Hutchinson walked toward the door, her friend, Mary Dyer, put her arm in Anne's, and walked out with her. A man by the door said, "The Lord sanctifie this unto you," to which Hutchinson replied, "Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ." == Aftermath ==
With Hutchinson's departure the controversy had come to an end. Religious orthodoxy was secured as the intellectual focus of the community with the victory of the conservative party. Freedom of expression and religious choice were terminated as personal options. The established church was now the "sole repository of religious truth", in control of doctrines and morals. === Hutchinson's fate ===
Hutchinson, her children, and others accompanying her, traveled for more than six days by foot in the April snow to get from Boston to Roger Williams' settlement at Providence. They then took boats to get to Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay, where several men had gone ahead of them to begin constructing houses. In the second week of April, she reunited with her husband, from whom she had been separated for nearly six months. During the strife of building the new settlement, Anne's husband, William Hutchinson, briefly became the chief magistrate (judge) of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, but sometime after June 1641, he died at the age of 55, the same age at which Anne's father had died. tis|1962|p=242}} Cotton continued, "You cannot Evade the Argument...that filthie Sinne of the Communitie of Woemen; and all promiscuous and filthie cominge togeather of men and Woemen without Distinction or Relation of Mariage, will necessarily follow...Though I have not herd, nayther do I thinke you have bine unfaythfull to your Husband in his Marriage Covenant, yet that will follow upon it." He concluded, "Therefor, I doe Admonish you, and alsoe charge you in the name of Ch Je, in whose place I stand...that you would sadly consider the just hand of God agaynst you, the great hurt you have done to the Churches, the great Dishonour you have brought to Je Ch, and the Evell that you have done to many a poore soule." With this, Hutchinson was instructed to return on the next lecture day, in one week. With the permission of the court, Hutchinson was allowed to spend the week at the home of Cotton, where Reverend Davenport was also staying. All week the two ministers worked with her, and under their supervision she had written out a formal recantation of her unsound opinions that brought objection from all the ministers. At the next meeting, on Thursday, 22 March, Hutchinson stood, and in a subdued voice read her recantation to the congregation. For some of the ministers, it was not sufficient for this proud, strong-minded woman to submit to the humiliation of making a public confession. Wilson had to explore some of the last things that were brought up in the previous meeting, and new words brought on new assaults. The concerns of some members of the congregation were put aside, and family members were dismissed from having a say because of their natural affection for Hutchinson. Following more accusations, the proposal of excommunication was made, and the silence of the congregation allowed it to proceed. Wilson delivered the final address, "Forasmuch as you, Mrs. Hutchinson, have highly transgressed and offended...and troubled the Church with your Errors and have drawen away many a poor soule, and have upheld your Revelations; and forasmuch as you have made a Lye...Therefor in the name of our Lord Je Ch...I doe cast you out and...deliver you up to Sathan...and account you from this time forth to be a Hethen and a Publican...I command you in the name of Ch Je and of this Church as a Leper to withdraw your selfe out of the Congregation."
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Janie Peterson has son hold "bully" sign in Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma City woman says she made her 8-year-old son stand outside holding a sign calling himself a "bully" after he started a fight at school. Janie Peterson said she came up with the punishment Wednesday after receiving a call from the school principal saying her son, Malachi, was being suspended for three days for fighting with another boy, KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City, reported Thursday. "Me and a boy were fighting over a girl," Malachi said. "Whoever won the fight, they got to be the girl's boyfriend." Peterson had her son stand at the corner of a busy intersection Wednesday evening with a sign reading, "I picked a fight because I'm a bully!" "Malachi never actually put a hand on the other boy, but he was the instigator. He told the boy let's fight," Janie Peterson said. "He's 8-years-old. First off, there's no reason for him to be all about a girl right now, and second off, assault is assault whether you're eight or 88. I'm not going to put up with it." Peterson said reactions to the punishment have been positive, with many praising her "good parenting."
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Take Your Whirlwind Tour in an Ultra-Comfortable Sleeper Coach LOS ANGELES, March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Concert tours can be grueling for a band. Countless gigs in multiple cities can mean a considerable amount of travel. Depending on the quality of your transportation, all those hours on the road can be a lot of fun, or truly unbearable. It doesn't matter how well you get along with your fellow band members; if people are crammed together in a small space for too long, without any way of enjoying privacy when they need it, friction will arise. Don't break up the band over something as trivial as transportation, not when a reputable Los Angeles limousine company like KLS Transportation Services, Inc. offers a sleeper coach that will more than satisfy all your needs. The extensive fleet at KLS includes a sleeper coach that comes with a kitchenette, lounge area, and spacious shower unit. The entire sleeper coach is outfitted with wireless Internet and DirecTV, with large screen (42") TVs in the common area, along with separate television sets in every bunk (the sleeper coach features 8-12 bunks, depending on the number of accommodations you need). That way, the whole band can hang out together when they want, but you also can get away from it all when you need a little alone time, to catch up on some zz's, read a book, surf the Web, or watch your favorite shows. KLS has been providing first-rate luxury transportation for years, and is widely considered one of the top providers in the industry. Their limo service in Los Angeles is highly sought-after for weddings, corporate events, wine tasting tours, or just freewheelin' nights on the town. From their Lincoln Town Car to their 6, 8, and 10 passenger limousines, this company offers its valued clientele a diverse range of choices for luxury travel. The sleeper coach is a perfect choice for bands, or really any large group that is interested in long-distance travel. No more nightly stay-overs in over-priced hotels. No more losing time veering off the highway for bathroom breaks. With the KLS sleeper coach, travel is more comfortable and affordable than ever before. The company's 24 hour, live reservations center is available to answer any questions and book all last minute transportation requests. Ask about convenient flat airport rates. To learn more about KLS, including such popular choices as their sleeper coach or limousine service in Los Angeles, please call 877-936-LIMO or visit online at www.klsla.com. PR submitted by www.Cyberset.com SOURCE KLS Transportation Services, Inc.
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A series of unpopular moves continues to gnaw away at the government's support. A decision to string a power cable across the picture-perfect Hardanger Fjord has triggered bitter opposition from locals and environmentalists. The bungled extradition of a popular and well-integrated Russian teenager has sparked much annoyance. Run-of-the-mill complaints about inadequate health services only add to the prevailing disenchantment. The verdict in the Breivik trial, which is due on August 24th, will hardly improve the government's popularity. Mr Breivik has confessed and his guilt has been established beyond doubt. The only question is whether he will be judged to have been insane when he slaughtered 77 people. Mr Breivik wants to be declared sane so as to bolster the squalid hard-right political thinking behind his actions. Such a ruling would commit him to prison for a maximum of 21 years, though it is reasonable to assume that provisions on being "a continued threat to society" will keep him behind bars for life. Many Norwegians think a verdict of sanity and a stiff prison sentence are the correct outcome. But others disagree. They say Mr Breivik's rambling political doctrine is a shield for lunacy and it would be safer to incarcerate him under psychiatric order. This, they believe, would minimise his chances of walking free on a Norwegian street again. Whatever the verdict, the outcome is likely to be ugly. There may not be riots or violence but there will be arguments. Last year's massacre left a wound that will take time to heal. And even if Mr Stoltenberg battles on, the odds against his re-election next year have risen.
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Nothing to fear as Gomes colours field David Jones ambassador Jessica Gomes with Hawkspur. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: TheAustralian FASHION and horses will all but collide trackside at today's Caulfield Cup, as the Spring Racing Carnival begins its showpiece events. David Jones ambassador Jessica Gomes got race-day ready in a Ginger & Smart dress and Suzy O'Rourke hat, posing with race favourite Hawkspur yesterday. "I was worried I might scare the horse, I'm so bright," Gomes joked of her bold colour choice for the shoot. She was looking forward to getting out to Melbourne Racing Club's Caulfield racecourse to watch the event, her only appearance trackside for the season before the focus moves to the Myer-affiliated Melbourne Cup Carnival at Victoria Racing Club's Flemington track. "Caulfield feels like an introduction to the whole carnival, it's a fun day, a little bit more intimate," said Gomes. "I love that it's a time that you can dress up and get out of your comfort zone. I'm always fascinated with what the girls come up with -- they're so creative. There are some amazing headpieces." Gomes said that it's not just the women getting fashion-focused trackside anymore. "The guys get to wear some fun things, too, lots of patterns and colour. They're getting more into fashion, and they're being more included as well. "It's going to be a great social occasion. I'm definitely going to have a bit of a punt, maybe on Hawkspur -- he was pretty feisty when I was shooting with him, I think he's getting pumped for the race."
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Human cost of Spain's financial disaster Diana and José Escubero are not sure where they and their two young children will be living in a few months time. Since Mr Escubero lost his job in a factory producing animal feed, they have been struggling to meet their mortgage repayments of €1,000 a month. They are coming to the end of their life savings. More On this story On this topic IN Europe If they don't find a way to pay, their bank will seize their Madrid apartment, and the couple will join the 350,000 Spaniards evicted from their properties over the past four years. For the past three weeks, Ms Escubero's father and her husband have been camping outside the headquarters of Bankia, their lender - now nationalised - demanding that the bank cancels the debt. To stave off eviction, the couple moved back in with Ms Escubero's parents to save money. "We will do whatever it takes not to lose the flat," she said, "even it means going on hunger strike." In the past month two homeowners have killed themselves rather than face the catastrophe of eviction. Amaya Egaña, a 53-year-old former councillor in the Basque Country, threw herself from a balcony as officials arrived to seize her apartment. With the country scandalised, Spain's banks agreed this week to delay repossessions for those deemed socially vulnerable, with the government of Mariano Rajoy proposing a law to suspend for two years evictions of people with young children, the disabled, and the long-term unemployed. The Escuberos" situation is being played out across Spain, as families are forced to support jobless relatives with housing, food or by making payments to stave off defaulting on their mortgages. "If it were not for the support of families, the situation would be much worse," said Juan Ignacio Sanz, a professor at the Esade business school. "In many cases grandparents are now the ones who are paying their children's mortgages with their state pensions. I don't know how long that can be sustained." Candela Logrosan, 56, receives food parcels from the church because she is on a low wage, but because her Madrid apartment is subsidised by the state, she gives away the food to her neighbours. They call it "Candela's café." "The little I have, I give," said Ms Logrosan, who earns €400 a month cleaning offices but enjoys a very low rent of €138 a month. Silvia Rodríguez, a Madrid-based sociologist, argues that Spain's tightly knit family culture, and the social support networks it provides, is linked to a collective memory of harder times during the civil war of the 1930s - and to the traditions of the Roman Catholic church. "In Spain there are certain moral values that have always been of the utmost importance, particularly when it comes to family, family support, and your friends and neighbours," she said. As a result, a comparatively low level of people are defaulting on their mortgages. Although Spain suffers almost 26 per cent unemployment, and residential property prices have tumbled by more than a quarter in many areas, the level of mortgages in default stands at only 3.1 per cent of the total, according to the Bank of Spain. There is another reason, bankers say: the country's draconian mortgage law, which forces families to go to extreme lengths to avoid a relative succumbing to a default. Under the 109-year-old law, returning the keys of your property to the bank does not rid you of your debt. A bank can seize a home for 60 per cent of its appraised value and then pursue the owner for the outstanding sum, including interest and legal fees - leaving those unable to pay both homeless and in debt for life. In many cases, during the decade-long property bubble, Spaniards and immigrants were lent amounts they would never plausibly be able to repay, often by crippled banks that have since fallen into the hands of the state. These people now face financial ruin. Maria Moran Sanchez, 45, bought her apartment in 2006 with her sister, borrowing €290,000 on a monthly income of €1,200 as a telecoms worker. Her sister earned €700 a month as a helper to the elderly. When Ms Sanchez lost her job two years ago, they were unable to keep up their repayments and were evicted - but left with a debt of more than €180,000. Now living in a friend's house, Ms Sanchez says this, too, is now at risk of repossession. "It makes me especially sad seeing people who have committed suicide because of evictions," she said. "But I am a realist, I have to continue looking forward. I can't look back into the past. I will continue to fight so that they cancel my debt."
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Corrections Corrections Tuesday, February 1, 2011; A02 A Jan. 31 Page One article about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal incorrectly said that the Obama administration is seeking to bring to completion this year an international treaty banning production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. The administration is seeking the formal launch of negotiations on the treaty this year. A Jan. 28 Weekend review of Kristin Hersh's new album included information about a show scheduled for Thursday at the Birchmere. The show has been canceled. A Jan. 27 Style article about documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival said that "Buck," about real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, will be released later this year by IFC Films and Sundance Selects. It will be released by Sundance Selects; IFC Films was not involved in the deal. The article also incorrectly described Sundance Selects as a cable channel; it is a theatrical division of Rainbow Media. A Dec. 28 article about a Nebraska law that bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy omitted an exception in the legislation. As the article said, there is no exception for a woman's mental health or because of a fetal anomaly. But in addition to exceptions when a woman's life is in danger or to save an additional fetus in the womb, the law allows an exception "to avert serious risk of substantial or irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function" in the woman. The Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appear in the newspaper. Those interested in contacting the paper for that purpose can: E-mail: [email protected]. Call: 202-334-6000, and ask to be connected to the desk involved - National, Foreign, Metro, Style, Sports, Business or any of the weekly sections. The ombudsman, who acts as the readers' representative, can be reached by calling 202-334-7582 or e-mailing [email protected]. © 2011 The Washington Post Company
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=== Classical Cepheids ===
Beyond the reach of the Wilson-Bappu effect, the next method relies on the period-luminosity relation of classical Cepheid variable stars, first discovered by Henrietta Leavitt. The following relation can be used to calculate the distance to Galactic and extragalactic classical Cepheids:
5\log_{10}{d}=V+ (3.34) \log_{10}{P} - (2.45) (V-I) + 7.52 \,. 5\log_{10}{d}=V+ (3.37) \log_{10}{P} - (2.55) (V-I) + 7.48 \,. Several problems complicate the use of Cepheids as standard candles and are actively debated, chief among them are: the nature and linearity of the period-luminosity relation in various passbands and the impact of metallicity on both the zero-point and slope of those relations, and the effects of photometric contamination (blending) and a changing (typically unknown) extinction law on Cepheid distances. These unresolved matters have resulted in cited values for the Hubble Constant ranging between 60 km/s/Mpc and 80 km/s/Mpc. Resolving this discrepancy is one of the foremost problems in astronomy since the cosmological parameters of the Universe may be constrained by supplying a precise value of the Hubble constant. Cepheid variable stars were the key instrument in Edwin Hubble’s 1923 conclusion that M31 (Andromeda) was an external galaxy, as opposed to a smaller nebula within the Milky Way. He was able to calculate the distance of M31 to 285 Kpc, today’s value being 770 Kpc. As detected thus far, NGC 3370, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo, contains the farthest Cepheids yet found at a distance of 29 Mpc. Cepheid variable stars are in no way perfect distance markers: at nearby galaxies they have an error of about 7% and up to a 15% error for the most distant. === Supernovae ===
There are several different methods for which supernovae can be used to measure extragalactic distances, here we cover the most used. ==== Measuring a supernova's photosphere ====
We can assume that a supernova expands in a spherically symmetric manner. If the supernova is close enough such that we can measure the angular extent, θ(t), of its photosphere, we can use the equation
\ {\omega} = \frac \,,
where ω is angular velocity, θ is angular extent. In order to get an accurate measurement, it is necessary to make two observations separated by time Δt. Subsequently, we can use
\ d = \frac{V_{ej}}{\omega} \,,
where d is the distance to the supernova, Vej is the supernova's ejecta's radial velocity (it can be assumed that Vej equals Vθ if spherically symmetric). This method works only if the supernova is close enough to be able to measure accurately the photosphere. Similarly, the expanding shell of gas is in fact not perfectly spherical nor a perfect blackbody. Also interstellar extinction can hinder the accurate measurements of the photosphere. This problem is further exacerbated by core-collapse supernova. All of these factors contribute to the distance error of up to 25%. ==== Type Ia light curves ====
Type Ia supernovae are some of the best ways to determine extragalactic distances. Ia's occur when a binary white dwarf star begins to accrete matter from its companion Red Dwarf star. As the white dwarf gains matter, eventually it reaches its Chandrasekhar Limit of 1.4 M_{\odot}. Once reached, the star becomes unstable and undergoes a runaway nuclear fusion reaction. Because all Type Ia supernovae explode at about the same mass, their absolute magnitudes are all the same. This makes them very useful as standard candles. All Type Ia supernovae have a standard blue and visual magnitude of
\ M_B \approx M_V \approx -19.3 \pm 0.3 \,. Therefore, when observing a Type Ia supernova, if it is possible to determine what its peak magnitude was, then its distance can be calculated.
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==Untitled==
The article about Aruba says that Mike Eman is Jewish, but there is no mention of this fact in this article in spite of a long biography. Tsf (talk)
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Boy 'not proud' of toddler death The jury heard that the boy, who cannot be named, told a health worker: "I'm not proud of what I've done and everyone will think I'm a monster but nobody can ever punish me as much as I'll punish myself." " This child has been subject to a severe and sustained physical assault "
Dr Naomi Carter Pathologist He allegedly inflicted the injuries on the toddler, one being a bite mark, while her mother went out for 90 minutes to collect a child benefit cheque and get a birthday card. The boy claims she fell in the park and bouncing on a bed. However, the head injuries were not compatible with falls, pathologist Dr Naomi Carter told Manchester Crown Court. Dr Carter told the court that the 68 injuries she had counted on Demi Leigh were an "underestimate" of the injuries she received. Dr Carter said: "I don't regard it as reasonable or credible that the vast majority of those injuries were sustained accidentally... "This child has been subject to a severe and sustained physical assault almost certainly just before she was admitted to hospital and she died as a result of that assault." The trial continues.
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China's Short-Term Rates Defy Calming Measures HONG KONG - Money market rates in China surged again on Friday, shrugging off the central bank's efforts a day earlier to provide more liquidity to the market and raising fears that the Chinese financial system could be hit by a credit crunch similar to the one that occurred in June. Banks in China are struggling to borrow money to meet their short-term financing needs after interest rates in the bank-to-bank market doubled over the past five days. On Friday, one such rate, the seven-day repurchase rate, briefly rose as high as 9.9 percent. That was a level last seen in June, when China's money markets froze up and some banks defaulted on their payments. Fears of an interbank cash crunch began to weigh on broader financial markets on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index closing down 2 percent. The situation this week has not reached the painful levels seen in June, but interest rates have soared again in part because China's central bank appears to be willing them to rise. The bank has been purposely refraining from its regular open market operations, or the buying and selling of money market instruments in order to manage liquidity and interest rates. Instead, the central bank, the People's Bank of China, has used short-term liquidity operations, where it provides funds to large commercial banks but does not identify the institutions or disclose the funding amounts. This past week, the central bank made no formal announcement that it had stepped in to bolster liquidity, choosing instead to reveal the measure through a brief posting late Thursday on its account on Weibo, China's Twitterlike messaging service. China's money markets are huge and dynamic but opaque, and are also a key source of funding for off-balance-sheet lending, or shadow banking. Daily trading turnover on the nation's interbank markets averages more than $100 billion, according to figures from the People's Bank of China. Analysts said the central bank is trying to walk a line between curtailing the country's risky but widespread shadow banking activities and making sure that ordinary financial institutions can meet their day-to-day funding needs. On one hand, letting the market play a greater role will drive up interest rates and squeeze speculators and shadow financiers by forcing them to pay more for the money they borrow. On the other, failing to provide adequate liquidity to the interbank lending market could inadvertently lead to financial gridlock - a freeze in lending that triggers a wave of defaults among banks. The central bank "learned the lesson in June and it will surely avoiding playing with fire again," Lu Ting, China economist at Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit, wrote Friday in a research note. "We don't think the People's Bank of China will significantly tighten monetary policies as new leaders still need a stable economic and financial environment to carry out reforms." Analysts said the recent upward pressure on rates has been driven by seasonal factors, namely the combination of year-end fiscal flows and the need among commercial banks to shore up funds in order to meet regulatory requirements for their loan-to-deposit ratios. "This trend is especially pronounced towards the end of each quarter, as banks rush to get more deposits to fulfill their regulatory requirements," Wang Tao, an economist at UBS in Hong Kong, wrote Friday in a research note. "We think clearer communication from the central bank may help to calm market sentiment and prevent rates from rising further," Ms. Wang wrote. "However, it is possible that the People's Bank of China is expecting banks to adjust their behavior accordingly in light of higher rates and tighter liquidity. While we do not expect the current elevated levels in market rates to last, we do expect volatility to continue in China's money market for at least another couple of weeks."
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Mrs Peanberg King said that soon after Axel was taken from her, she heard he was in cardiac arrest. She said: 'It was a tense situation, doctors were almost fighting among themselves to get everything done. 'But when a doctor came to see me in the relatives" room, I knew the battle had been lost.' GP David Lee, employed by Harmoni's out-of-hours service, told the inquest that staff at the centre were not under abnormal pressure when Axel was brought in. When questioned over Harmoni's policies, he conceded the centre would send out urgent text messages to doctors requesting they step in to fill gaps in the rota. The inquest was told how medics reportedly received messages such as 'we are desperate for help' or'very urgent, we need to fill the rota'. Dr Lee said: 'It may look like the language is inappropriate but they are very much part of the conversation which occurs between the rota teams and doctors with a view to bringing doctors on to shifts.' He said practitioners would sometimes be offered work at 'higher pay grades' as an incentive to step in. Meanwhile, he told the hearing he believed Dr Takhar was recruited from an agency but would have gone through a thorough interview process. The inquest heard how Dr Shantikumar formerly worked with Camidoc, a GP co-op in north London which hit the headlines following the death of journalist Penny Campbell. Miss Campbell, 41, died in March 2005 after consulting eight doctors over the course of four days. A report later found she received sub-standard care before her death from multiple organ failure, and singled out problems in how the out-of-hours service was run. The coroner in the Peanberg King case has indicated she is likely to give a narrative verdict, telling the inquest she had been unable to find any evidence to suggest a 'clear cause' of death.
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Economist.com Economist.com Latinos and American politics Power in numbers From The Economist print edition Hispanics, long under-represented as voters, are becoming political kingmakers THE choice of John Pérez to take over as the new speaker of California's state assembly later this month has been hailed as something of a breakthrough - but only because Mr Pérez is openly gay. That he is also Latino is not considered newsworthy. Kevin de León, who competed with Mr Pérez for the post, is also Latino, as are several of Mr Pérez's predecessors, including his cousin, Antonio Villaraigosa, who is now the mayor of Los Angeles. The weight of Latinos in the politics of states like California and Texas (where the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus claims 44 of the 150 members of the state House of Representatives) is already understood to be not only large but normal. This year, after the decennial census that will confirm the huge growth of America's Hispanic population, this influence will become both evident and normal in even more parts of the country. Arturo Vargas, the executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), reckons that during the last census about 1m Latinos were left out of the statistics because "if you live in a garage or on somebody's couch," as many Latinos do, it is easy not to be counted. This time there is a concerted effort to change that. And if the Census Bureau's estimates are corroborated, almost 16% of America's population will be shown to be Hispanic (since the label refers to ethnicity rather than race, anybody who considers himself Hispanic is deemed to be so). That will compare with 13.4% for blacks, according to the estimate. Along with the ageing of the baby-boomers, this Latinisation is the most important demographic change in America, at least according to William Frey at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, dc. Hispanics have accounted for half of America's total population growth since 2000, he notes. To see the America of the future, he says, look to its youth and its cities. White children are already a minority in 31 of America's 100 largest metropolitan areas. For America as a whole, whites will become a minority in preschools by 2021 and in the general population by 2042. One result is more Latino officials and politicians. Mr Vargas counts more than 6,000 in the country, mostly, it is true, on the boards of school and utility districts and other branches of local government that are "the first rung on the political ladder." But there are also two Latino cabinet members, 26 Latino representatives and a Latino senator. The governor of New Mexico is a Hispanic. Since Sonia Sotomayor became a justice on the Supreme Court, says Mr Vargas with a wink, "there is only one office that has eluded us," and it is oval. In the fictional world of "West Wing" (see above), Matt Santos has already made that dream true. And yet, Latinos have so far punched below their weight in American politics, in contrast to blacks, who have punched above theirs, says Paul Taylor, the director of the Pew Hispanic Centre. Many are undocumented immigrants, many more are too young to vote, and others yet have simply not bothered. Moreover, Latinos are "notorious for not getting organised," says Mr Frey, since many consider themselves to be Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorean or Puerto Rican, say, rather than Hispanic. As a result Latinos have been less strong as a block than the Irish were after the immigration wave of the 19th century, or than blacks have been recently, he says. That may partly explain why Texas has never had a Latino governor, and California has had only one, back in the 1830s. But this is changing. "Latinos respond to anger and fear," says Mr Vargas. In California during the 1990s, Latinos read the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Pete Wilson, a Republican governor, as racist and were outraged when voters passed a ballot measure (later ruled unconstitutional) to bar undocumented immigrants from non-emergency public health care, welfare and education. Californian Latinos decided to fight at the ballot box and registered in huge numbers, recalls Monica Lozano, a third-generation Mexican and the publisher of La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in America. A similar, and national, surge has been ongoing since the anti-immigrant media frenzy of 2006.
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Top racehorse owner ousted from Pa. track OXFORD, Pa. -- Pennsylvania racing authorities are ousting the top-earning owner in the sport amid a series of horse breakdowns and a protest from jockeys. Penn National Race Course says the Pennsylvania Racing Commission will deny admission to horses owned by Michael Gill. Jockeys at Penn National Race Course in Grantville have been boycotting races with Gill-owned horses after 10 of his horses broke down on the track over 13 months. Several jockeys have been thrown from their rides. Gill was set to enter horses in four races at Penn National on Wednesday. He vows to sell his horses and retire despite earning $6.7 million from the sport last year. Gill blames the breakdowns on track conditions. Penn National denies the charges. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An embattled large-scale racehorse owner vowed to quit the sport amid a jockey boycott involving the condition of his animals. Jockeys at Penn National Race Course in Grantville are refusing to ride against horses owned by Michael Gill after 10 of his horses broke down on the track in the past 13 months. Several jockeys racing on horses behind them have been thrown from their rides. The Pennsylvania Racing Commission and Penn National have both opened investigations into Gill, a New Hampshire mortgage company owner who topped the industry's leader board last year with $6.7 million in earnings and 370 wins. But it's unclear what will happen when racing resumes Wednesday night at Penn National. Gill has horses entered in four races. Most of the jockeys in those races have scratched, leaving 36 horses listed without a rider. Gill denied suggestions that he uses Penn National as a dumping ground to eke out a few final wins from cheap or late-career horses. He instead faulted the condition of the track, which races four nights per week throughout the often-harsh central Pennsylvania winter. "Penn National has a history of that track being bad, and horses breaking down," Gill told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Gill said the most recent horse to break down, Laughing Moon, pulled a suspensory ligament in its leg when it hit an ice patch at the end of a third-place finish on Jan. 23. Jockeys immediately huddled after the tragic finish - which sent several jockeys tumbling off their mounts and at least one to the hospital - and announced their protest, leading to a delay of the next race. "Clearly, the jockeys and equine athletes should not be put in a position of participating in events that involve their health, safety and welfare, and where their riding strategy is compromised, until the commission's investigation is complete," the Penn National jockeys wrote in a letter to the racing commission on Friday. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter. About 30 jockeys are based at the track. According to Gill, the necropsies conducted on Laughing Moon and a horse named Melodeeman, which broke down days earlier at Penn National, showed no wrongdoing. He insisted that he does not use any illegal drugs on his animals and said he takes good care of them at his training facility in southern Chester County. "They won't even tell you the autopsies of my horses - they were clean, they were sound," Gill said, referring to the two deaths in January. He noted that his horses at Philadelphia Park and Charles Town Races and Mountaineer Park in West Virginia have had no such problems. Penn National plans to let Gill compete Wednesday unless the state concludes its investigation by then and says otherwise, a spokesman said. The track is trying to determine how to handle the shortage of jockeys, but said the condition of the racecourse is sound. "I think the fact that the jockeys are pointing to Mr. Gill and not the track sort of speaks for itself," said Eric Schippers, vice president for public affairs at parent Penn National Gaming Inc. Gill typically runs about five horses a night at Penn National, where he keeps 49 stalls. He had about 1,000 starts last year over 200 racing days, McErlean said this week. Gill, who won the prestigious Eclipse Award in 2005 as the sport's top owner, has owned as many as 400 racehorses, but said he now has about 100. He plans to sell them off quickly and retire from the business, he said. But he predicts the breakdowns at Penn National will continue. "The guys yelling the loudest will be buying the most," he said. "I'll sell them all. Then you watch these horses break down still."
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Yates takes some sociable scrip Top of the buyers' list: Peter Yates. Photo: Glen Hunt Peter Yates headed the buyers this week with his purchase of shares in the low-profile MOKO Social Media. The former Packer employee now has his foot on 10 per cent of MOKO, which develops customised mobile community applications to improve communications within groups such as universities and sports bodies. The stock has doubled over the past month and appears to have got a wriggle-on due to the signing of an agreement with a website used by sports departments in more than 600 colleges in the US. He picked up scrip at 10¢ apiece through an off-market transfer on a day when the shares were fetching 16¢ on the market. Advertisement At Friday's closing price of 20¢, the market now values the company at $94 million, compared with a cash-flow deficit of $1.7 million and a $5.7 million pre-tax loss in the year to June 30. The overall scorecard registered $1.2 million to $9.8 million in favour of sellers. Heading the sellers' table as far as ordinary shares were concerned was Peter Halkett, Kathmandu Holdings chief. The shares have rallied up to 29 per cent since the company released its yearly results last month. Halkett peeled off 38 per cent of his stake and collected about $3.14 a share. Weighing in near the bottom of the buyers' list was Lev Mizikovsky, executive chairman of AstiVita Renewables, which sells bathroom, kitchenware and solar products. Tiny it may be, but big - and rare on the corporate stage - were Mizikovsky's words in his recent chairman's review, where he apologised to shareholders "for not identifying early enough that the structural changes within our industry are permanent and fundamental in nature and were not just temporary negative trading conditions."
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Under "Thatch Material":
"There are more thatched roofs in the the hood and the slums than in any other European country"
Makes no sense. Compare what to what? When rewording this, please omit the slang phrase "the hood" which is a shortened form of "neighborhood". Adriennes (talk)
== a link should be added ==
... with :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague
"Thatched roofs (which had provided splendid places for rats to live) were also forbidden within the city, and remain forbidden under modern codes"
Seems to have been forgotten!!! But I think that if you have rats living above your head, you end up automatically having dust charged with rat's fecaes particles and much worst into your food, and you multiply the chances of interspecies diseaes transmission!!!! How does a rat live in a densely packed mass of thatch? and don't they prefer nice holes in the ground? Mice are more your loft dwellers. GraemeLeggett
==Re: Flammability==
As per dictionary.comflammable and inflammable are considered synonyms. However, inflammable runs the risk of confusion as the latin prefix in- may be mistakenly thought to be the negating english in-. If the two are considered synonyms, then deciding between the two is an issue of style and practicality. Flammable is (imo) clearly more practical. -
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Puntland has arrested and jailed hundreds of pirates, and last year it signed an agreement with private security company Saracen International to train 1,000 man anti-piracy force. After millions of dollars had been spent, the contract was suspended amid concerns over lack of transparency and possible violations of a U.N. arms embargo, highlighting the potential pitfalls of funding anti-piracy efforts in Somalia. But Puntland is still more stable than south-central Somalia, which suffered through 20 years of civil war. Governments are reluctant to fund anti-piracy efforts there for fear men and weapons will be drawn into the war or simply become pirates themselves. In 2009, the Mogadishu government formed and armed a 500-man anti-piracy force. No one seems to know where they have gone. So the international community continues to spend millions on its naval fleet, a solution that Somalia analyst Stig Jarle Hansen called "expensive and seemingly inefficient" in a recent report on piracy funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Defense. Hansen recommended that instead of focusing on rebuilding a central Somali state and coast guard, resources could be directed to regional administrations capable of providing security -- like Somaliland, which he said "might have been a very good ally in the fight against piracy, (but seems) to be ignored."
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Man who Flew Jetliners without a License Fined OUDE MEER, Netherlands, April 13, 2010
(AP) A man who flew passenger jets in countries around Europe for more than a decade without a license has been fined by a Dutch court. The court found that Swede Thomas Salme, 41, flew without a license and fined him 2,000 euros ($2,700), about a third of the maximum penalty for that charge. The presiding judge has rejected prosecution demands for a three-month jail sentence, saying forgery charges were formulated wrongly. Salme lives in Milan and did not show up for his hearing Tuesday. He was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in March on a tip from Swedish authorities and released two weeks later. He was caught in the cockpit of a Corendon Airlines Boeing 737 shortly before it was to depart from Amsterdam for Ankara, Turkey, carrying 101 passengers. © MMX, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. CBSNews.com On Digg
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Feinstein: China 'clearly had a role' in Snowden's departure from Hong Kong Feinstein: China 'clearly had a role' in Snowden's departure from Hong Kong - The Washington Post wpostServer: http://css.washingtonpost.com/wpost
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FT.com / Tax - 40 per cent tax to hit more middle-income taxpayers Hundreds of thousands more taxpayers could be drawn into the 40 per cent income tax band over the next few years, accountants say, following a freeze on the higher-rate threshold and personal allowances in Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report (PBR) this week. Employees and the self-employed - though not pensioners or buy-to-let landlords - are also set to pay an extra one percentage point in national insurance contributions (NICs) from 2011. While the chancellor did not announce any change to headline rates of income tax this week, millions of individuals face increases in tax and NICs of hundreds of pounds a year, according to tax advisers. Richard Proctor, partner at accountancy firm Grant Thornton said: "Clearly, the burden of the government's deficit-reduction programme is going to fall heavily on ordinary taxpayers, as well as on the wealthy." Personal allowances and income tax thresholds will not, unusually, be increased for the next tax year starting in April 2010. The chancellor also said he planned to freeze the point at which individuals start paying 40 per cent tax - currently £43,875 - in 2012-13. This means that people whose incomes rise will be taxed more heavily. More will be pulled into higher tax bands, while those already paying 40 per cent will pay higher average rates on their overall income, accountants say. This so-called fiscal drag - in which tax bands fail to keep pace with earnings growth - has already seen the number of higher-rate taxpayers soar to about 3m since 1997, and accountants say that freezing tax thresholds will fuel this trend. Even basic-rate taxpayers who receive a bonus could be tipped into the unchanged 40 per cent band, said Nicola Roberts, tax director at accountancy firm Deloitte. Mike Warburton, senior partner at Grant Thornton, added: "These are tax rises without the general public realising it - it's the old stealth tax story." He suggested that the £43,875 at which taxpayers generally start paying 40 per cent tax could remain frozen for the next three years, potentially pulling in another 500,000 individuals to the higher-rate band. The unchanged threshold could cost higher-rate taxpayers an extra £1bn overall, he said. NIC rates are due to increase by one percentage point from 2011 - to 12 per cent for earnings up to about £44,000, and to 2 per cent for higher earnings. The increase includes the 0.5 percentage point that Mr Darling announced this week and a similar rise unveiled in last year's PBR. The chancellor said those earning less than £20,000 would be spared higher bills, because the lower threshold at which NICs have to be paid will be raised to about £7,000. For working people in most income bands, the increase will cost hundreds of pounds. However, pensioners as well as others living off "unearned" income - including investments and rental income - are not subject to NICs, and therefore will not be affected. People on incomes over £100,000 already face higher tax bills from April 2010 as a result of the previously announced clawback of their £6,475 personal allowances. Additionally, those earning over £150,000 will be hit by the introduction of the new 50 per cent top rate of income tax. With the increase in NICs, from 2011, the top combined rate of income tax and NICs will be 52 per cent (see graph above), while those earning between £100,000 and £112,950 face effective tax rates as high as 62 per cent because of the tapered withdrawal of personal allowances between these income levels.
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== Summary ==
The logo of Chimay, the Trappist beer and cheese makers. Found at http://www.kin-ball.be/img/sponsorsworld/chimay.gif and adapted to PNG for Wikipedia. === Fair use in Bières de Chimay ===
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
It illustrates an educational article about the entity that the logo represents. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods. The logo is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the logo. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value. == Licensing ==
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But Mr Webb is no ordinary politician. He packed several distinguished careers into his life before becoming a senator - as a marine in Vietnam, a lawyer, a much-published author and secretary of the navy in the Reagan administration. And he is not a man to back down from a fight: one of his best books, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," celebrates the martial virtues of the clan to which he is proud to belong. Some signs suggest that the tide is turning in Mr Webb's direction. Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003. Barack Obama's Justice Department has hinted that it wants to do something about the disparity in sentencing between blacks and whites for drug crimes. Support for both the death penalty and the war on drugs is softening: a dozen states have legalised the use of marijuana for medical purposes. If Mr Webb can transform these glimmers of discontent with America's prison-industrial complex into a fully fledged reform movement, then he will go down in history as a great senator. Lexington now writes a blog, which is open for comment at Economist.com/blogs/lexington
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The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up iticism of Heidebrecht in particular, as many considered the memo to be indicative of a disconnect between the problems widely publicized at Cygnus and upper management's perception of those problems.}} —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.32.213 (talk)
The passages above are cited, with the exception of the sale amount, but I found and added a citation for that. You've obviously admitted a COI here; while that editor may indeed be a disgruntled employee, they're only echoing what's already been published in other sources. I did remove the last part, as the source didn't mention any kind of backlash. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs)
== Artichoker keeps deleting and undoing my contribution to a article ==
I have tried to contribute to the Kanto (Pokémon) article over and over. Artichoker keep undoing my contribution calling it speculation and non notable when I have provided proof on the matter. The dispute is over a small easter egg or feature in the Pokémon Games where in Vermilion City has a Truck located in the port. Though it has had many false rumors about the truck, the truck is real and is one of the only vehicles I know of in the Pokemon games except for the moving van in Sapphire, Rubby, and Emerald. The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up ticism of Heidebrecht in particular, as many considered the memo to be indicative of a disconnect between the problems widely publicized at Cygnus and upper management's perception of those problems.}} —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.32.213 (talk)
The passages above are cited, with the exception of the sale amount, but I found and added a citation for that. You've obviously admitted a COI here; while that editor may indeed be a disgruntled employee, they're only echoing what's already been published in other sources. I did remove the last part, as the source didn't mention any kind of backlash. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs)
== Artichoker keeps deleting and undoing my contribution to a article ==
I have tried to contribute to the Kanto (Pokémon) article over and over. Artichoker keep undoing my contribution calling it speculation and non notable when I have provided proof on the matter. The dispute is over a small easter egg or feature in the Pokémon Games where in Vermilion City has a Truck located in the port. Though it has had many false rumors about the truck, the truck is real and is one of the only vehicles I know of in the Pokemon games except for the moving van in Sapphire, Rubby, and Emerald. The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up icism of Heidebrecht in particular, as many considered the memo to be indicative of a disconnect between the problems widely publicized at Cygnus and upper management's perception of those problems.}} —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.32.213 (talk)
The passages above are cited, with the exception of the sale amount, but I found and added a citation for that. You've obviously admitted a COI here; while that editor may indeed be a disgruntled employee, they're only echoing what's already been published in other sources. I did remove the last part, as the source didn't mention any kind of backlash. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs)
== Artichoker keeps deleting and undoing my contribution to a article ==
I have tried to contribute to the Kanto (Pokémon) article over and over. Artichoker keep undoing my contribution calling it speculation and non notable when I have provided proof on the matter. The dispute is over a small easter egg or feature in the Pokémon Games where in Vermilion City has a Truck located in the port. Though it has had many false rumors about the truck, the truck is real and is one of the only vehicles I know of in the Pokemon games except for the moving van in Sapphire, Rubby, and Emerald. The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up cism of Heidebrecht in particular, as many considered the memo to be indicative of a disconnect between the problems widely publicized at Cygnus and upper management's perception of those problems.}}
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BBC News - Police pay changes 'ensure jobs' - Theresa May
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Fattburger is a jazz group, best categorized in the jazz-funk, contemporary jazz, or jazz fusion subgenres. The band was formed by saxophonist Hollis Gentry, keyboardist Carl Evans Jr., bassist Mark Hunter, drummer Kevin Koch, and guitarist Steve Laury in San Diego during the early 1980s. Tommy Aros soon joined as a percussionist. After their first album, Hollis Gentry left the band to launch his solo career (but came back as a part-time member in the 1990s) and after the release of Come & Get It, Steve Laury also left to embark on a solo career. As a result, their next album, "On A Roll," was the first recording of Fattburger as a four-piece band (although Kiko Cibrian and Mark Shapiro (Evan Marks pseudonym) appeared as studio guitarists). Evan Marks joined the band as a permanent member in 1995. After their latest album, Work to Do (2004), Hollis Gentry died on 5 September 2006 and Carl Evans Jr. died on 10 April 2008. Later, Fattburger regrouped to play live at the Anthology jazz club on 26 June 2009, featuring Allan Phillips as a new keyboardist. Today the band is still touring. Fattburger's most commercially successful CDs were Sizzlin and T.G.I.F.attburger!, although the best representations of their contemporary jazz-funk style may have been five earlier albums: On a Roll, Good News, Living in Paradise, Come and Get It, and Time Will Tell. == Discography ==
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Somewhat new to this environment. So if I make a few mistakes here and there, be patient. Currently working on the Hagia Sophia page with grateful help from Elizium23. The first two churches on the site prior to the completion of the one we see today were not called Hagia Sophia. The term Hagia Sophia was not used until about the middle of the fifth century. One reference for this fact is http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haso/hd_haso.htm. Looking for more. The first church was Inaugurated on 15 February 360 (during the reign of Constantius II) by the Arian bishop Eudoxius of Antioch. While it is logical to assume the nontrinitarian Bishop Eudoxius did not dedicate it to an element of the trinity he did not believe in, I am looking for a reliable second source for this possibility. It was known as the Great Church and was correctly referenced as the Great Church in a number of history books, for example: (Limberis, V., 1994. Devine Heiress: The Virgin Mary and the creation of Christian Constantinople.) Limberis uses the phase "The Great Church" for the second church as well. Also Constas, N., 2003. Proclus of Constantinople and the Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity. The second church was dedicated on 10 October 415. An interesting observation is the significance of dates. During this time period, did the date of dedication of churches have any significance? The third church was consecrated on St. Stephen's day 537. (Which is December 26th in the Western Tradition and December 27th in the Eastern Tradition.) And called the Church of the Divine Wisdom. (Hutton, W.H., 1900. Constantinople The story of the Old Capital of the Empire, London:J.M. Dent & Co.) This book, a little ancient (joke) was, I assume, a rather common turn of the century view of Constantinople, and is a good read from that standpoint. Clearly the third Great Church was not dedicated on Dec 25. What significance, if any, is there to the Dec 27 date?
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The Obamas' new First Dog to be 'introduced on Tuesday' By Philip Sherwell in New York
Last Updated: 8:38PM BST 11 Apr 2009 Barack and Michelle Obama plan to introduce their girls' eagerly-anticipated new First Dog this week, according to US media reports. Perhaps appropriately for a White House that has brought a heavy dose of celebrity glamour to Washington, the details were reported by tmz.com, a website that normally focusses on Hollywood news and gossip. The presidential pooch, famously and very publicly promised by Mr Obama to his daughters Sasha and Malia in his election victory speech in November, is indeed as expected a Portuguese Water Dog, tmz.com reports. It says the chosen pooch comes from a prominent Texas kennel with the help of Senator Ted Kennedy's family and will be unveiled on Tuesday. "The black dog -- a male -- is approximately six months old," it reports. "We've learned it was bred at the kennel and sold to someone who gave it back. The kennel is now "re-homing" the dog to the Obamas. The dog was named Charlie, but the Obamas will rename it. "Now here's where the Kennedys come into play. The kennel has sold the Kennedys three Portuguese Water Dogs in the past, all from the same lineage. The dog the Obamas will be getting is from the same lineage as the Kennedy dogs. The Kennedy family will be presenting the new dog to the Obamas, but it's really coming from the kennel." The report follows a series of other indications that the hound's arrival is imminent. Sen Dick Durbin, Mr Obama's fellow Illinois politician, said the dog had been going through training while the president and the first lady were on their recent travels in Europe. According to another report, the dog has already been to the White House for a "familiarisation" visit. Mrs Obama last week told a reporter that the unveiling would be "soon...so soon." And Tuesday's timing makes sense as the White House will welcome thousands of families for the traditional Easter egg roll on the lawn on Monday and the family would not want to overshadow that event. For White House correspondents accustomed to covering more pressing matters of state, the end of Pooch Watch will probably be a relief. Asked for the latest update at his most recent press conference, President Obama maintained the suspense to the end. "Oh, man, now, that's top secret," he said to laughter. "That's top secret."
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Spain's Stolen-Babies Scandal: Empty Graves and a Silent Nun The elderly woman who left Madrid's courthouse on Thursday morning looked stooped and ghostly, but neither her obvious frailty nor the plain blue habit she wore kept the small crowd of onlookers from screaming at her. "Shameless!" one woman shouted. "How could you cause so much suffering?" Thursday was supposed to be the day that began to bring resolution to those who believe themselves victims of decades of baby robbing in Spain. The nun called to testify, Sor María Gómez Valbuena, is the first person indicted for her alleged involvement in a scheme which supposedly saw thousands of newborns taken from their mothers and sold to adoptive parents. But once in front of the judge, Gómez exercised her right to remain silent. And later that day at a meeting with representatives of victims' associations, Spanish government officials admitted that, although they would dedicate administrative resources to attempting to reunite mothers and children, the chances for bringing to justice those who had separated the families were slim. Some 1,500 accusations of baby stealing, dating from the late 1950s until mid-1980s, have been filed in Spain in the past year or two. Most follow the same chilling narrative: a single mother or a married woman who already had several children gave birth to an apparently healthy child, but was soon told - often by a nun who worked as a nurse - that the baby had died. Although the adoptive parents frequently paid significant amounts of money for their child, ideology more than greed appears to have been behind the thefts. "These are nuns and priests who strongly believed that the child would be better off with a more traditional or more'moral,' family," explains journalist Natalia Junquera, who has led the newspaper El País's investigation of the thefts. "They honestly thought they were doing the right thing." (MORE: Stolen Babies: Confronting Spain's Dark Past) Since the cases first began garnering attention more than a year ago, DNA testing has reunited six mothers with children they believed dead. Dozens of parents have found that the coffins in which they believed their newborns to be buried are in fact empty, or that civil registries do not contain death certificates for children they thought had died at birth. And yet until Sor María, no one had actually been charged with a crime. The courts have closed many of the cases for lack of evidence. "The prosecutors are frustrated," says Junquera. "They have signs that something is wrong - what could be clearer than an empty grave? - but nothing that will hold up in court." Victims had hoped that Sor María's indictment would change that. The nun was charged after DNA tests reunited María Luisa Torres with her daughter Pilar, whom she had not seen since birth. According to her testimony before the court, Torres was 24 years old in 1982 and separated from her husband when she became pregnant by another man. Having heard about a nun at the Santa Cristina clinic in Madrid who helped women in her situation, she met with Sor María, and then, entering the clinic once she went into labor, called on her again. "After the delivery she told me my daughter had died," Torres told the press. "Then she said that the baby had been given to another family. And she threatened me that if I didn't go along with it, she would tell the authorities that I was an adultress, and they would take away my other child as well." (MORE: Why Juan Carlos' Reign in Spain Has Become a Royal Pain) On Friday, the adoptive father of the daughter that Torres gave away testified that he and his wife had paid Sor María for their daughter, though at the time, he thought he was merely paying the expenses of a young woman in trouble. "Sor María was a very strong woman. I see her now, and I don't recognize her. She was a terribly cold woman, but I was immensely grateful to her because she gave me a daughter." By way of denial, Sor María issued a public letter the same day she appeared in court, stating that the idea of separating a child from his or her biological mother was "repugnant" to her. Although she remains under judicial investigation, without corroborating proof that she did indeed coerce Torres into giving up her child, there is little chance that she - or any of the other doctors, nurses, nuns, and priests purportedly involved in these cases - will be prosecuted.
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Mid Glamorganshire may refer to:
Mid Glamorgan, a historic county of Wales
Mid Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Henry Winter: Premier League moves from Fab Four to Magnificent Seven By Henry Winter
Published: 5:31PM BST 24 Oct 2009 Stop all the stadium clocks, cut off the telephone-number salaries, Prevent the police-dog from barking with pie and mushy peas, Silence the Tannoy announcer and with muffled din, Bring out the coffin of the Big Four, let the party begin.* The Big Four is dead. Long live the Famous Five, possibly the Super Six, even the Magnificent Seven. Today is the day when Manchester City could fully embed themselves among the elite, when Liverpool's VIP membership comes under significant scrutiny. Like City, ambitious Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur push for acknowledgement by the aristocrats, the quartet who have finished in the Champions League positions season after season. In the cosy world at the top of the Premier League, four clubs enjoyed a relaxed game of musical chairs. There were four chairs. So whenever the Premier League music stopped in mid-May, the same clubs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United, invariably settled back comfortably into the Champions League again. No pressure. Occasionally, those upstairs would be troubled by cheeky forays from those downstairs. Everton even got into the Champions League briefly one year. Villa pushed Arsenal close last season but faded. Spurs had a go but choked on their lasagne. The Premier League mood music has changed. This season is proving gloriously unpredictable. The old order is under sustained threat from the new firm of City, Villa and Spurs. They have money, lashings of it in City's case, and outstanding managers in Mark Hughes, Martin O'Neill and Harry Redknapp, respectively (and don't completely rule out David Moyes" Everton). Hughes spoke for all the contenders when observing "that the invincibility of the top four isn't there any more"," predicting a more "open race"." City's manager added: "There's a lot of clubs, ourselves included, that think we can take points off the top four, which hasn't been the case for many seasons. It's good for the Premier League."" No wonder Barclays executives fished down the back of the boardroom sofa to find the cash to meet Richard Scudamore's increased demand to sponsor the Premier League. The negotiation went something like this: "£82m over three years, please."" "How much? Up from £68m! Why?"" "Because we're worth it."" And they are. This season is proving a classic. Sadly, the outpourings of virtuosity are not sustained - with the odd respectful nod to Andrei Arshavin, Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres and Craig Bellamy - as the defending is too poor. It is the shocks that have lit up the Premier League. The quality seems spread more evenly in the top half of the table. Attractive teams like Steve Bruce's Sunderland and Roberto Martinez's Wigan Athletic add to the footballing festivities, creating the occasional upset. Liverpool lost to Sunderland, who almost took three points off Manchester United, who narrowly beat Manchester City. Hughes" side put four goals past Arsenal, who did the same to Wigan, who embarrassed Chelsea. Carlo Ancelotti's side also succumbed to Villa, who also conquered Liverpool having struggled against the Big Four in recent seasons. Spurs also defeated Liverpool. Eye-catching in the short term, maintaining the challenge in the long term is the real test. What gives hope that City, Villa and Spurs can make it a Magnificent Seven, regardless of occasional blips, is that they have not simply strengthened their starting XIs. Hughes, O'Neill and Redknapp have deepened their squads. When winter bites, when resources are traditionally stretched, decent reserves can step up. Look at Eastlands. If Bellamy's knee plays up, Martin Petrov sprints on. Even when Robinho is fit, the Brazilian who will start for the World Cup favourites next summer is not guaranteed a place at City. Any bench also containing Stephen Ireland, a shoo-in for most starting XIs, deserves respect while Michael Johnson makes a welcome return from his assorted travails. Anfield must glance longingly at the exceptional Gareth Barry, who should have replaced Xabi Alonso but Liverpool dithered, allowing City to strike. Rafa Benítez checked on Lee Cattermole but decided to wait for Alberto Aquilani to get fit. Until his unfortunate injury, Cattermole has shone under Bruce at the Stadium of Light. Surveying the danger posed by Bruce, Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson, Benítez must feel there is a United conspiracy against Liverpool. Where Benítez needs time to persuade the club's owners to act in the transfer market, Hughes can swoop suddenly.
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Spin bowler Dean Cosker signs new Glamorgan contract Spin bowler Dean Cosker has signed a fresh two-year contract with Glamorgan. The deal keeps Cosker, 35, at the Welsh county until 2015. Cosker made his debut in 1996, forming a bowling partnership with Robert Croft until the latter's retirement in 2012. "I love taking wickets for Glamorgan, so I'm pleased to commit myself to Glamorgan for another two years. I am a Welsh lad and am proud and honoured to be playing for this club, which is on the up," said Cosker. In 2013 Cosker took 37 wickets in the County Championship, 15 in the YB40 as they reached the final in which they lost to Nottinghamshire - and seven in the Twenty20 competition. Glamorgan hope to develop spinner Andrew Salter, 20, as their next long-term prospect. Also related to this story
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Green living: 19 ways to save the planet Published: 8:00AM BST 01 Jul 2009 1. Carbon credit cards 2. Happiness lessons 3. More outdoor education 4. Free bikes 5. Locally produced food 6. Grow vegetables on public land 7. Increase NHS spending on preventing ill health 8. Use internet to help communities work together 9. Public forum on the future to look at Government policy for the long term 10. Royal Bank of Sustainability invests money in climate change projects 11. Government-issued green bonds invest in renewables 12. Low carbon zones of energy efficient housing 13. Councils and private companies join up to provide cheap insulation 14. Pay-as-you save to help households pay for efficiency measures by taking cost from electricity bills 15. Green jobs for the unemployed 16. Cap amount of energy from fossil fuels that companies can sell 17. Look at new ways of controlling global emissions as part of any international agreement 18. Charcoal produced from burning wood chips or "bio-char" could be ploughed back into the ground as fertiliser 19. Carbon captured from burning fossil fuels can be used to grow algae which is then converted into biofuels
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Rivalling this stunt in Fringe infamy, in 1989, Hardee and Arthur Smith wrote a rave 5-star review of Hardee's own Fringe show and successfully managed to get it printed in The Scotsman under the byline of the influential newspaper's comedy critic. At the Fringe in 1996, The Independent reported that he attempted to sabotage American ventriloquist David Strassman's Edinburgh show by abducting the act's [dummy, holding it to
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BBC to make public the cost of its TV and radio talent, but not individually THE BBC will make public the total amount it spends on its stars, but will continue to keep individual talent fees secret, the corporation announced yesterday. While the exact salary of senior executives and top decision-makers will be released, the wages of top talent will not. The pay of the top 50 earners in BBC management was released yesterday, revealing that dozens earn far more than the Prime Mini ster's annual salary of £189,994. The director- general, Mark Thompson, was the highest paid member of staff with a salary of £647,000. In future the BBC said it intends a breakdown of pay for the top 50 earners in BBC management and the decision-makers "with the greatest responsibility both for spending public money and for overseeing the BBC's services and operations." Mr Thompson said the total number of managers involved will be around 100 people beyond the executive board. He added: "To repeat, in each case, there will be full disclosure of remuneration by name." But on the matter of high-profile stars, Mr Thompson said: "It has been our view that it does not make sense for the BBC to disclose individual talent fees. Why? We operate in an industry where confidentiality is the norm in which only one of our competitors is themselves subject to freedom of information. "There's a real danger that talent would migrate to broadcasters where confidential information about how much they are paid will not be disclosed. But we recognise that the public have a legitimate interest in how much the BBC spends on talent, including top talent. "In future, we will disclose the total amount we spend on talent as a whole, and we will work on a plan to make our spend on talent more transparent so the public can monitor the direction of travel over time." It has been reported that leading stars at the BBC face substantial pay cuts due to the recession. Those on large contracts include Jonathan Ross, said to be on £6 million a year; Graham Norton, who is believed to earn £2.5 million a year and Jeremy Paxman, reported to be paid £1 million. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee said the BBC appeared to be paying some of its radio presenters more than twice what commercial stations paid theirs. The BBC refused to give the National Audit Office (NAO), the public spending watchdog, a breakdown of presenters' salaries for a selection of radio shows unless the NAO signed a non-disclosure agreement. Edward Leigh MP, the chairman of the committee, said it was "disgraceful" that the BBC could dictate what the NAO could inspect when public money was at stake. Mr Thompson emphasised that the entry level for a BBC presenter was not "£6 million a year." He said: "The overwhelming majority (of) our talent who work with us to help inform and entertain the public are paid pretty modestly. But we do employ a small number of people who earn a great deal." Mr Thompson argued that, from experience, disclosure of individual talent fees was likely to lead not to better value for money but fresh upward pressure on pay. He said on-air artists were not public officers of the BBC but freelancers, adding: "They are not the kind of individual public servant the Act envisaged disclosure about."
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Former Fellows of New Hall in the University of Cambridge. See also Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge. New Hall, Cambridge
Fellows of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
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Eventually the hurricane attained its peak intensity as a Category 4 storm roughly 345 mi (555 km) east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. The storm attained maximum winds of 135 mph (215 km/h), the highest of any storm during the season, before weakening slightly as it turned north. The large storm passed roughly 175 mi (280 km) west of Bermuda as a Category 2 hurricane. Further weakening took place as Bill brushed the southern coast of Nova Scotia the following day. Shortly before making landfall in Newfoundland, Bill weakened to a tropical storm and accelerated. The storm eventually transitioned into an extratropical cyclone after moving over the north Atlantic before being absorbed by a larger non-tropical low on August 24. In addition to Tropical Storms Ana and Bill tracking through the Atlantic Ocean on August 16, a new tropical depression formed over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This depression quickly intensified into Tropical Storm Claudette as it neared the Florida Panhandle. The storm attained a peak intensity of 60 mph (95 km/h) offshore but quickly weakened as it neared land. Claudette made landfall early on August 17 near Fort Walton Beach, Florida and weakened to a tropical depression shortly thereafter. The system dissipated over Mississippi later that day. Around the same time the remnants of Hurricane Bill dissipated over the northern Atlantic,, a new tropical storm developed near the Bahamas on August 26. The system, immediately declared Tropical Storm Danny on its first advisory, erratically moved in a general northwestward direction. Danny attained peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) before succumbing to high wind shear. After turning northward, the storm weakened and was eventually absorbed by another low pressure system off the east coast of the United States early on August 29. ===September===
On September 1, the season's fifth named storm, Tropical Storm Erika, formed east of the Lesser Antilles. Upon forming, the storm had attained its peak intensity with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h). Persistent wind shear prevented the system from intensifying and resulted in the storm's convection being completely displaced from the center of circulation by the time it passed over Guadeloupe on September 2. After entering the Caribbean Sea, Erika briefly regained strength before fully succumbing to strong shear. The system eventually dissipated on September 4 south of Puerto Rico. Several days after Erika dissipated, a new tropical depression formed southeast of the Cape Verde Islands on September 7. This depression rapidly intensified within an environment of low wind shear and high sea surface temperatures. Receiving the name Fred on September 8, the storm quickly developed an eye feature and was upgraded to a hurricane roughly 24 hours after being named. Within a 12 hour span, the storm's winds increased by 40 mph (65 km/h) to its peak of 120 mph (195 km/h). Upon reaching this intensity, Fred became the strongest storm on record south of 30°N and east of 35°W in the Atlantic basin. Not long after the intensification ceased, it began to weaken as dry air became entrained within the system. By September 11, the storm nearly stalled northeast of the Cape Verde Islands and weakened to a tropical storm. The following day, Fred degenerated into a remnant low before taking a westward track across the Atlantic. The remnants of Fred persisted for nearly a week, nearly regenerating into a tropical depression several times. The low eventually dissipated on September 19 south of Bermuda. In late September, a new, well-defined tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean. By September 25, the system had developed sufficient deep convection for the NHC to classify it as Tropical Depression Eight. Shortly thereafter, wind shear and decreasing sea surface temperatures caused the depression to weaken. The system degenerated into a remnant low on September 26 before degenerating into a trough of low pressure. ===October–November===
Originating from an extratropical cyclone east of Newfoundland on September 27, the precursor to Tropical Storm Grace tracked westward towards the Azores, gaining subtropical characteristics.
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Cairo students hold second day of sit-in to protest death of peer CAIRO, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Cairo University students said they held the second day of their sit-in on Sunday in protest of security forces' alleged killing of a student. Mohamed Reda, 19, was shot and killed 10 days ago during clashes with authorities as he and other students protested harsh prison sentences given to female supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Students pitched tents near the offices of the Faculty of Engineering Sunday, walked the campus holding pictures of Reda and hung signs denouncing the police, Ahram Online said. The students said the sit-in would not end until those responsible for the death are brought to justice. Gaber Nassar, the head of the university, said security forces stormed the campus, using tear gas and firearms against the students. But the Interior Ministry denies the allegation, and the general prosecutor's office said in a statement that Reda was shot by fellow student protesters. © 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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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index American Life League
•warnings by that you could die from using birth control pills •loathing of iPhone users for automobiles
•utter lack of knowledge about - "I don't know anything about cars" - of incoming General Motors chairman Beck, Glenn
•horrific dolphin impression of Burkle, Ron
•salacious details about Bush, George H. W.
•bikini-clad young woman plops in lap of, after which speedo-sporting young man sidles up to wife of Cheney, Dick
•catalogue of damage done by Cheney, Liz
•opinion of that Obama's refusal to go to other countries and declare that "America is the best nation that ever existed in history, and clearly that exists today" - in other words, to travel the world thumbing his nose at other people and telling them they suck compared to us - is "troubling to Americans," or at least to this one American •ridiculous ubiquity of Colbert, Stephen
•self is debated by about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" cows
•problematic burps of Department of Homeland Security
•prescience of in predicting right-wing violence is followed by failure of to actually release the report containing said predictions because, boo-hoo, some right-wing groups didn't like it •right-wing extremism report of is mocked by right-wing extremist group Doherty, Pete
•arrest of after being found slumped on a toilet on a British Airways flight on which a hypodermic needle was also found, followed by arrest of for driving erratically in a car in which drugs were found, puts in perspective recent claims by of being "mostly clean" Dowd, Maureen
•defense of Obama's leisure activities by in a column that also contains a devastating one-sentence summation of Bush's ignorance, arrogance and incompetence gets Karl Rove's dander up Gosselin, Mady
•complaint of thirst to mother of results in stunning spectacle of said mother procuring a bottle of water, drinking some herself, and recapping the bottle without offering any to mattress
•daughter's gift of new one to mother in Tel Aviv is unhappy surprise, as discarded old one contained life savings of nearly $1 million Murray, Daniel James
•arrest of after closing out bank account and announcing to teller, "We are on a mission to kill the President of the United States" National Review
•Sotomayor is depicted on cover of as - because to these morons anyone non-white is interchangeably other - an Asian-eyed Buddha New York Times
•The Daily Show pays a hilarious visit to The Onion
•J.D. Salinger's obsession with Terminator films is reported by Palin, Sarah
•citing of by less than 0.5% of Gallup poll respondents to question of who speaks for the Republican Party, which translates to four at most out of 1,015 •David Letterman is attacked by for admittedly tasteless joke about daughter of after being attacked by for referring to the "slutty flight attendant look" of •slutty flight attendant toenails of Prejean, Carrie
•sudden former Miss Californianess of Sotomayor, Sonia
•"racist" labeling of by Gingrich is amended - the proper epithet for is "racialist" •self-imposed hobbling of Spector, Phil
•wall of scalp of Summers, Larry
•popularity - oh, no, sorry - extreme unpopularity of Supreme Court
•refusal of to be asked or told about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" •millions of households - but mainly ones with poor, elderly or handicapped people living in them, so sponsors won't care that much - will suddenly not be able to watch von Brunn, James W.
•first six chapters of book by reveal antipathy toward Jews of •Holocaust Museum murder - oops, sorry, alleged murder - by is condemned by fellow white supremacist because "it makes us look bad" Weller, Robert J.
•racist e-mails are sent out by, and really, don't get all piously P.C. about it because "I didn't do anything other than what everybody else in the world does. The president of the school board is no more holy than a minister, and a minister probably sends a lot more stuff than I do. These are just jokes" Wright, Jeremiah
•falling out with Obama of is blamed by on "them Jews"
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2009-12-31 00:00:00
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B.C. Taser case trial begins The first of four RCMP officers involved in the death of Robert Dziekanski, who died after he was stunned with a Taser at Vancouver's airport, stands trial beginning Monday on charges of perjury related to a public inquiry into the case. Constable Bill Bentley was among four officers who confronted the Polish immigrant in October 2007, stunning him multiple times with a Taser within seconds of arriving to a call about a man throwing furniture. Mr. Dziekanski died on the airport floor. The fatal confrontation fuelled a national debate about the safety of Tasers, prompting a public inquiry in B.C. that forced Constable Bentley and the other three officers to account for why they used so much force so quickly on a man who, on an amateur video of the incident, appeared calm when police arrived. Commissioner Thomas Braidwood's final report concluded the officers used too much force and had no justification for using the Taser. The report prompted the province to appoint a special prosecutor to review the case. In May of 2011, the prosecutor approved perjury charges against Constable Bentley, Constable Kwesi Millington, Constable Gerry Rundell and Corporal Benjamin Robinson. The officers have all pleaded not guilty and none of the allegations have been proven in court. Constable Bentley's lawyer, David Butcher, said at the time the charges were approved that there was "no substance to the allegations at all." Mr. Butcher did not respond to a request for comment ahead of Constable Bentley's trial. A receptionist at Mr. Butcher's law firm directed calls about the case to his colleague, Peter Wilson, who also did not respond. Constable Bentley, who started working as an RCMP officer since the spring of 2006, is the first to stand trial. Separate trials are scheduled for the others this coming November and February of next year. Mr. Dziekanski arrived in Vancouver on Oct. 13, 2007, as he moved to Canada to live with his mother in Kamloops, B.C. He was in the airport for nearly 10 hours, unable to communicate with anyone because he did not speak English. In the early morning of Oct. 14, Mr. Dziekanski became distraught and began throwing furniture. Several bystanders called 911. The four officers arrived several minutes later and immediately approached Mr. Dziekanski. In the video, Constable Bentley can be seen hopping over a railing and walking through a sliding security door as he and the other officers approached Mr. Dziekanski, who stood with his hands by his sides. Within seconds, the officers surrounded Mr. Dziekanski and one of them fired his Taser multiple times, causing Mr. Dziekanski to scream and writhe on the floor. The video, captured by a traveller at the airport, was played countless times at the inquiry, with Constable Bentley and the other officers narrating the clip with their versions of what happened. Constable Bentley testified that, based on the 911 call and Mr. Dziekanski's appearance, he approached the man prepared for a possible fight. He said at first, Mr. Dziekanski was calm, but then he became "unco-operative" when he threw his hands up and walked away. Constable Bentley testified that Mr. Dziekanski picked up a stapler, turned toward the officers and swung it in their direction, with the stapler coming within a foot of him. The video does not show Mr. Dziekanski swinging the stapler, but his back is to the camera - a limitation the officers" lawyers focused on during the inquiry. Constable Bentley was also confronted at the inquiry with his own notes from that night and his subsequent statement to homicide investigators. He included the following account in his notes: "Subject grabbed stapler and came at members screaming." At the inquiry, Constable Bentley conceded the note was wrong, but said he was confused about a fast-moving situation. He later insisted the note was "somewhat accurate" because Mr. Dziekanski did start screaming once he was stunned with the taser. "If we didn't have a video of this matter, would you be here today telling us that the subject grabbed a stapler and came at the members screaming? Would that be your evidence?" asked commission lawyer Patrick McGowan. "I don't know," replied Constable Bentley. Several lawyers at the inquiry, including a lawyer for Mr. Dziekanski's mother and a lawyer representing the Polish government, accused Constable Bentley and the other officers of outright lying - an accusation they all denied. In the end, the commissioner did not believe Constable Bentley's testimony about why Mr. Dziekanski was stunned with a taser. The facts in the case involving the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski:
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India sentences youngest defendant in New Delhi fatal gang rape to 3 years in reform home An Indian juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, convicting a teenager of rape and murder and sentencing him to three years in a reform home, lawyers said. The victim's parents denounced the sentence, which was the maximum the defendant faced. The family had long insisted the teenager, who was 17 at the time of the December attack and is now 18, be tried as an adult - and so face the death penalty - insisting he was the most brutal of the woman's attackers. "He should be hanged irrespective of whether he is a juvenile or not. He should be punished for what he did to my daughter," the victim's mother, Asha Devi, told reporters after the verdict was announced. Indian law forbids the publication of the teen's name because he was sentenced in a juvenile court. The attack, which left the 23-year-old victim with such extensive internal injuries that she died two weeks later, sparked protests across the country and led to reforms of India's antiquated sexual violence laws. The government, facing immense public pressure, had promised swift justice in the case. The convicted teen was one of six people accused of tricking the woman and her male companion into boarding an off-duty bus Dec. 16 after they had seen an afternoon showing of "Life of Pi" at an upscale shopping mall. Police say the men raped the woman and used a metal bar to inflict massive internal injuries to her. They also beat her companion. The victims were dumped naked on the roadside, and the woman later died from her injuries in a Singapore hospital. The victim's father said the family was deeply disappointed with the verdict. "This is completely unacceptable to us," Badrinath Singh said. "We are not satisfied with this outcome. He is virtually being set free. This is very wrong." "No family should have a daughter if this is the fate that lies ahead for women. In this country, it is crime to be born a girl," he said. Indian law forbids the publication of the names of rape victims, even if they die. S.K. Singh, a lawyer for the victim's family, said they would challenge the juvenile court's verdict in a higher court. "We will also seek a review of the man's age by a medical panel, since we believe he was not a juvenile when the incident took place," he said. In India, especially in rural areas, many people do not have their births properly registered, and school certificates are used as proof of age. Singh and the defendant's lawyer, Rajesh Tewari, both confirmed the conviction and sentence. Reporters were not allowed inside the courtroom. Scores of television crews lined up on the road outside the court building beginning early Saturday, waiting for the verdict. Four of the other defendants are being tried in a special fast-track court in New Delhi and face the death penalty. The sixth accused was found dead in his jail cell in March. The court is expected to hand down the rest of the verdicts in September. The convicted defendant was tried as a minor on charges including murder and rape. The time he has spent in a juvenile home since he was arrested in December will count as part of his sentence, Tewari said. The attack set off furious protests across India about the treatment of women in the country and led to an overhaul of sexual assault laws. A government panel set to suggest reforms to sexual assault laws rejected calls to lower the age at which people can be tried as adults from 18 to 16. In July, India's top court also refused to reduce the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16 years. However, it later agreed to hear a new petition seeking to take the "mental and intellectual maturity" of the defendant into account, and not just age.
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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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Arthur Scargill loses battle to have union meet costs of London flat Arthur Scargill, the former National Union of Mineworkers leader. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA The former National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill has lost his fight to have the union continue to meet the costs of his London flat for his lifetime. The NUM had asked Mr Justice Underhill at London's high court to declare that it has no such continuing obligation to 74-year-old Scargill, who was its president for 20 years until July 2002. Scargill has occupied the Barbican apartment, rented from the Corporation of London, since June 1982. The union also successfully disputed Scargill's fuel allowance at his Barnsley home and payment for the preparation of his annual tax return, but not the cost of the security system at his Yorkshire home. Explaining his decision, the judge said Scargill's predecessors had enjoyed the "very generous benefit" of having houses in or near London bought for them by the union, adding that they were also allowed to occupy the properties after retiring at a very low rent, or to buy them at a "very reduced price." But Scargill, he noted, had not taken up the benefit when it appeared in his first contract in 1982 - although the union's national executive committee had agreed to pay the rent and other expenses on his Barbican flat, which was near the NUM's London headquarters. He rejected Scargill's claims that the union's payment of the rent on the flat was intended to replace the benefit his predecessors had enjoyed and was therefore a lifetime benefit. The judge said the claim was not reflected in the original minutes of the NEC, was not backed up by the contract Scargill signed, and pointed out that the union had continued to subsidise the mortgage on his Yorkshire home. He added: "It was [also] known at the time of his election that the union might well shortly be moving its headquarters outside London (as it in fact did). I have found that it is more likely that the understanding at that time was that the payment of the rent of the Barbican flat was in the nature of a facility to enable Mr Scargill to do his job properly and that he retained the right in due course to have a house bought for him by the union." The judge went on to note that the union had not paid the rent on the flat for a six-year period from 1985, and that Scargill had decided in 1991 that he did not want to take up the housing benefit to which he had been entitled since 1982, preferring the union to resume paying the rent on the flat. What Scargill should then have done, he said, was go back to the union and get authorisation for the arrangement. Instead, without obtaining the NUM's blessing, he had sought legal advice, which supported his right to have the union pay for the flat. "None of this was disclosed to the NEC," said the judge. "The legal advice was based on information provided by him which did not give the full picture; and anyway it could not make up for the absence of NEC authorisation." As a result, he concluded, the contract appearing to give Scargill the right to have the NUM carry on paying the rent after he retired was not effective as the NEC had not approved it in the first place. After the ruling, the NUM general secretary, Chris Kitchen, said it was "regrettable" that it had had to bring the case, while Scargill said the judgment was "perverse" and flew in the face of all the evidence. He said: "There can be no doubt that 30 years ago I was given an entitlement to a property by the union and that entitlement continued during my retirement, as it had done for all my predecessors including Lord Gormley and, after he died, his widow Lady Gormley." On the question of an appeal, he said: "I shall talk to my lawyers about what the best course of action will be, but I think any independent observer will regard this as yet another judgment with the anti-Scargill feeling about it."
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2012-12-31 00:00:00
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Body found during search for Stefan Sutherland 17 September 2013 Last updated at 14:22 A body has been found during a search for a missing 25-year-old Caithness man Stefan Sutherland. Police said the discovery was made by a member of the public on the shoreline near Occumster at about 12:17. A police spokesman said the body has not been indentified. Mr Sutherland's family has been informed. Mr Sutherland was reported missing from Lybster on 6 September. Police, search dogs and a mountain rescue team have been involved in searches for him.
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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, John Brockman, the impresario and literary agent who presides over the online salon Edge.org, asks his circle of scientists, digerati and humanities scholars to tackle one question. In previous years, they have included "how is the Internet changing the way you think?" and "what is the most important invention in the last 2,000 years?" This year, he posed the open-ended question "what is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?" The responses, released at midnight on Sunday, provide a crash course in science both well known and far out-of-the-box, as admired by the likes of Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, physicist Freeman Dyson and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Several of the nearly 200 scholars nominated what are arguably the two most powerful scientific theories ever developed. "Darwin's natural selection wins hands down," argues Dawkins, emeritus professor at Oxford University. "Never in the field of human comprehension were so many facts explained by assuming so few," he says of the theory that encompasses everything about life, based on the idea of natural selection operating on random genetic mutations. Einstein's theory of relativity, which explains gravity as the curvature of space, also gets a few nods. As theoretical physicist Steve Giddings of the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes, "This central idea has shaped our ideas of modern cosmology (and) given us the image of the expanding universe." General relativity explains black holes, the bending of light and "even offers a possible explanation of the origin of our Universe - as quantum tunneling from 'nothing,'" he writes. Many of the nominated ideas, however, won't be found in science courses taught in high school or even college. Terrence Sejnowski, a computational neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, extols the discovery that the conscious, deliberative mind is not the author of important decisions such as what work people do and who they marry. Instead, he writes, "an ancient brain system called the basal ganglia, brain circuits that consciousness cannot access," pull the strings. Running on the neurochemical dopamine, they predict how rewarding a choice will be - if I pick this apartment, how happy will I be? - "evaluate the current state of the entire cortex and inform the brain about the best course of action," explains Sejnowski. Only later do people construct an explanation of their choices, he said in an interview, convincing themselves incorrectly that volition and logic were responsible. To neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University, the most beautiful idea is emergence, in which complex phenomena almost magically come into being from extremely simple components. For instance, a human being arises from a few thousand genes. The intelligence of an ant colony - labor specialization, intricate underground nests - emerges from the seemingly senseless behavior of thousands of individual ants. "Critically, there's no blueprint or central source of command," says Sapolsky. Each individual ant has a simple algorithm for interacting with the environment, "and out of this emerges a highly efficient colony." Among other tricks, the colony has solved the notorious Traveling Salesman problem, or the challenge of stopping at a long list of destinations by the shortest route possible.
Stephen Kosslyn, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, is most impressed by Pavlovian conditioning, in which a neutral stimulus such as a sound comes to be associated with a reward, such as food, producing a response, such as salivation. That much is familiar. Less well known is that Pavlovian conditioning might account for placebo effects. After people have used analgesics such as ibuprofen or aspirin many times, the drugs begin to have effects before their active ingredients kick in. From previous experience, the mere act of taking the pill has become like Pavlov's bell was for his dogs, causing them to salivate: the "conditioned stimulus" of merely seeing the pill "triggers the pain-relieving processes invoked by the medicine itself," explains Kosslyn. Science theories that explain puzzling human behavior or the inner workings of the universe were also particular favorites of the Edge contributors: * Psychologist Alison Gopnik of the University of California, Berkeley, is partial to one that accounts for why teenagers are so restless, reckless and emotional. Two brain systems, an emotional motivational system and a cognitive control system, have fallen out of sync, she explains. The control system that inhibits impulses and allows you to delay gratification kicks in later than it did in past generations, but the motivational system is kicking in earlier and earlier.
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2012-12-31 00:00:00
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