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Diamonds skipper wants passion and pride
New Australian netball captain Laura Geitz has called for the Diamonds to show passion and pride against arch foes New Zealand in Invercargill on Sunday. It will be Geitz's first match in charge, with Australia out to end a record four-match losing streak. The New Zealanders currently top the world rankings, with Australia in second place, and the two teams meet five times over the next four weeks. The Diamonds face a tough task against a more experienced Silver Ferns outfit and the renowned parochialism of the local crowd. Advertisement New Zealand have six players with 50 or more caps and Australia none, though defender Bianca Chatfield and midcourter Kimberlee Green will both attain that milestone if they play on Sunday. "Experience obviously counts for something, but it's all about the pride and the passion," Geitz told AAP. "I think that's what our girls have and that's what will make up for lack of experience. "We want to be winning these games and we know that we've got the team to do it. "We've been disappointed with our previous international campaigns in the past 12 months. "This group of 12 girls really wants to spin it around and regain some pride and passion, so that's exactly what we're looking to do." The Firebirds defender said leading her country meant the world to her and she had dreamt of doing so from a young age. "It's a really exciting opportunity for myself to lead the girls out on Sunday," Geitz said. "But in saying that, I just need to concentrate on playing well and leading by example. "I don't want to say there's extra pressure, but you've got to obviously be aware that for us it's really do or die." It will be the first major hitout for players from both teams since the trans-Tasman tournament finished in July. "We're both unknown quantities and having not played against each other for a while, we've also got lots of changes in our lineups," Geitz said. "Us with with some of the older girls retiring and stepping down, and the Silver Ferns having some fresh faces in their side as well. "We don't really know where each other stands just yet."
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Short-handed Spurs defeat Mavs - washingtonpost.com SAN ANTONIO -- Richard Jefferson scored 29 points and the San Antonio Spurs survived another game without Tony Parker and Tim Duncan, beating the Dallas Mavericks 92-83 on Wednesday night. Manu Ginobili had 13 points in the first meeting between the Texas rivals since the Mavs cruised past the ailing Spurs in the first round of the playoffs last season, handing San Antonio its earliest playoff exit since 2000. San Antonio was banged-up again without Parker and Duncan, who continue to rest sore ankles, but poor shooting did in Dallas in this rematch. Dirk Nowitzki had 29 points and 12 rebounds, but was 9 of 27 from the floor. Jason Terry added 19 points for the Mavericks. George Hill scored 11 points in his second start for Parker for the Spurs, who watched the Mavs celebrate advancing to the second round following an easy Game 5 win the last time Dallas came to town. This one didn't look much like last time. Four members of San Antonio's starting lineup weren't even with the Spurs last season, and Ginobili was 3 of 8 from behind the arc after sitting out the Mavs series last spring with two bad ankles. Ginobili's shot at the halftime buzzer - a 3-pointer heaved in front of the scorer's table - finished a 22-8 run that put Dallas at arm's length until the fourth quarter. The Mavericks chipped a 15-point deficit down to four with under 4 minutes left, but Matt Bonner sank San Antonio's 14th shot from behind the 3-point line to stall the rally. Bonner finished with 11 points. Josh Howard, playing back-to-back games for the first time this season, was 2 of 11 from the field and finished with eight points. Dallas shot 35 percent from the field, and were at 31 percent after three quarters. Shawn Marion had 11 points for Dallas. Parker and Duncan each hurt their left ankles Friday in a loss at Portland. Duncan participated in shootaround about an hour before Wednesday's game but, like Parker, sat on the bench in street clothes. At least one of them is likely to play Saturday against Oklahoma City, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said, though he didn't hint as to which one The injuries are considered mild. The traditionally defense-first Spurs have been anything but so far, entering Wednesday's game allowing an average of 102.5 points per game, putting them in the bottom third of the league. Popovich struggled to explain the slack defense before the game but noted it was slow to catch on last season, too. He'll feel better about this effort: the Spurs held the Mavs to their fewest points this season. Keith Bogans had 13 points for the Spurs and was 3 of 6 from behind the arc. Notes: The Spurs trotted out their third different starting lineup in as many games.... Mavs F Drew Gooden, who was benched in his final game during his brief Spurs stint last season, scored two points in 9 minutes. Gooden was playing his second consecutive game since after four because of a strained rib cage muscle.
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Vivaldi can refer to:
Antonio Vivaldi, the Baroque music composer. Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, brothers who were Genovese explorers in the thirteenth century. Juan Manuel Vivaldi, an Argentinian field hockey goalkeeper. Vivaldi Potatoes, a variety of potato that is scientifically engineered to be lower in calories and carbohydrates. Vivaldi Atlantic 4, a team of British rowers who broke the record for fastest time across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. Vivaldi (TV series), a Québécois television program broadcast in 1988, written and directed by Richard Bocking. Vivaldi (crater), a crater on the planet Mercury. Vivaldi coordinates, the virtual positioning system in the field of networking. Vivaldi-antenna, a broadband antenna suitable for ultra-wideband signals. Italian-language surnames
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THE federal government will provide extra money for states that did not sign on to Labor's now-doomed schools funding reform package. Jurisdictions that reached an agreement with the former government under the so-called Gonski reforms will receive funding as planned for 2014, before a new national scheme is introduced for 2015, Education Minister Christopher Pyne said. But that arrangement left states and territories that didn't sign up to the plan in the cold. "What I'm announcing today is $230 million of extra money that the Abbott government managed to find to make sure that Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory are not short changed," Mr Pyne told ABC Radio on Wednesday. The minister's office is expected to release further details of the new funding later on Wednesday.
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The Great British Bake Off backlash has begun David Dimbleby also weighed in on the subject this week, suggesting in a radio interview that BBC4 and BBC2 should merge to make a more cerebral whole. "Cut out some of the gardening and the cookery and all that on BBC2, and turn it back to the quality thing it was meant to be," he said. They are both talking sense, although quality and cookery do not have to be mutually exclusive. Television is there to entertain, even comfort, as much as it is there to inform. And there are far greater ills and wastages to target than Mary Berry and co - like the bikini-fascism and kangaroo balls of I'm a Celebrity..., say, or the huge salaries of those countless BBC directors of strategy and synergy and what have you. In other words, I was all set to start the backlash against the backlash. But then BBC2 announced the latest addition to its programming, The Great Interior Design Challenge, a search for "Britain's keenest amateur interior designers." Turns out you can have too much of a Great thing. The Dimbleby Effect is already taking hold. Just days after the broadcaster, 75, revealed his scorpion tattoo, an inking parlour in my hometown of Nantwich stuck a new sign in its window. "Did you know we offer discounts for over-65s?" it says, in pensioner-friendly, lilac bubble writing. "Enquire within. Proof of age required." Required, presumably, so that the tattooists can check that any such customers are old enough to know better.
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Strong quakes rattle remote Antarctica Two strong earthquakes 40 minutes apart rocked the remote South Orkney Islands in Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the first, a magnitude 6.6 temblor, was at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), some 539 kilometers (334 miles) west of Coronation Island, the USGS said. No destructive tsunami was created, according to a US-based warning center. The first quake occurred at 1340 GMT. About 40 minutes later the region was struck by an aftershock measured at 6.2. A second 5.1-magnitude aftershock occurred at around 1640 GMT, USGS said later. The South Orkney Islands form a remote archipelago in the Southern Ocean to the northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. An ownership dispute between Britain and Argentina was resolved by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, which allowed for any of the 12 signatories to use the islands for non-military purposes. The British Antarctic Survey staffs a small research station on Signy Island, while Argentina maintains a base on Laurie Island. "There is the small possibility of a local or regional tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a few hundreds kilometers from the earthquake epicenter," the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 caused waves that hit an ice shelf in Antarctica 13,000 kilometers (8,100 miles) away, smashing parts of it into huge icebergs. The largest berg measured about 9.5 by 6.5 kilometers (5.9 by 4.0 miles), making it slightly bigger in surface area than Manhattan, according to the European Space Agency. An early USGS alert Sunday put the depth of the first Antarctica quake at just one kilometer and located it closer to Coronation Island. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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FOXNews.com - 162,000 Women's Robes Recalled After 6 Deaths - Women's Health Friday, June 12, 2009
Consumers are being urged to immediately stop wearing a certain type of chenille robe made by Blair LLC due to a fire hazard that is believed to have killed at least six people. The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Blair LLC, based in Warren, Pa., on Thursday said they were issuing the second recall notice in two months after receiving reports of six deaths due to the robes catching on fire. In five of the six cases, the victims were women who were cooking at the time; three of the victims were in their 80s. The recall applied to 162,000 robes. "CPSC urges all consumers to report any incidents or injuries involving consumer products, even after a recall has been announced," said acting CPSC Chairman Thomas Moore. "Contact the CPSC so that we may help prevent tragic deaths or injuries like those that might be related to the Blair robes." CPSC and Blair initially announced their voluntary recall in April, citing three reports of the robes catching on fire, including one report of second-degree burns. The robes, made in Pakistan, have the following item numbers: 3093111, 3093112, 3093113, 3093114, 3093115, and 3093116. They are a one-piece garment made of plush sculpted chenille, a shaped stand collar, and horizontal chenille front and back yolks and cuffs. The robes have a full-button front with seven matching button closures. The robes were sold in Blair catalogs and on the company Web site, as well as Blair stores in Warren, Pa., Grove City, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., from January 2003 through March 2009. Consumers may return the robe to Blair and receive a refund or a $50 gift card by contacting the company at (877) 392-7095 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET Monday through Saturday, via the firm's Web site, or by e-mail at [email protected]
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Neeld's AFL sacking not cure-all: Demons
Mark Neeld has been dumped as Melbourne coach halfway through his three-year term but the Demons say that alone will not solve their problems. Neeld was dumped on Friday after coaching just five wins in his 33 games and leading the club to a series of humiliating heavy defeats this season. Neil Craig - who was head coach at Adelaide for 166 games before leaving the Crows late in the 2011 season - will take over as interim Melbourne coach until the end of the current campaign. But the Demons are expected to look elsewhere for an experienced permanent replacement. Advertisement Mark Williams, Rodney Eade and Paul Roos are among those likely to be sounded out, along with John Worsfold, if he and West Coast part ways at the end of the season. Josh Mahoney will fill the newly-created position of general manager of football operations for the rest of the season. The Demons also forecast several more board members will step down, following last week's resignation of president Don McLardy and fellow director Stuart Grimshaw. Demons chief executive Peter Jackson said the decision to sack Neeld - who will be paid out in full, an amount believed to be $600,000 - was put to the board at a meeting early this month. It was confirmed on Friday after the AFL Commission agreed to give the club almost $3 million of additional funding to help them restructure. "This is a rebuild of the football club as a whole," Jackson told reporters on Monday. "This is not about a single person called a senior coach. "Whether Mark continued on as senior coach or whether we replaced Mark with someone else, that in itself was not the answer for this football club. "It's a total rebuild, it starts with the board." Seventeen of Melbourne's 28 losses in Neeld's tenure were by more than 50 points and four of the five victories were against expansion clubs Gold Coast and the GWS Giants. "From the board's perspective and my perspective, the results just aren't acceptable," Jackson said. He added the Demons had to act to ensure Melbourne players could see a future at the club and so could members. He said this year's terrible early results had resulted in a revenue hit the club couldn't handle without AFL help. "When the wheels fell off, so to speak, at the beginning of the year with the heavy losses, so did the revenues," he said. He added the AFL's incentive to bail the Demons out was increased by their draining effect on the entire competition. "We are a huge impediment to the industry at the moment in terms of opposition clubs playing us as their home games, our stakeholders, the MCC, broadcasters, everything you look at," he said. Neeld said his main emotion when Jackson told him of his sacking at 8am (AEST) on Monday was disappointment. "It's certainly been a rollercoaster ride for the last 18 months," said Neeld. He was boosted by the presence of the entire Melbourne playing list and the football department at Monday's media conference. "They're good people," he said. "They have probably got the hardest job in all of this. "In five days' time they're off to the MCG to take on St Kilda." When asked to describe his time as Melbourne coach, Neeld replied: "We had a crack. In the end it didn't work out."
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Firefighters tackle Sparkbrook furniture factory fire
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"I'm here and I get to perform my new song," she said with a grin. "And it's still so close to me that I'll perform it with every piece of energy I can muster."
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North Korean intrigue: The execution of power JANG SUNG TAEK, the uncle and political guardian to Kim Jong Un, North Korea's young dictator, had been in disgrace before. By some accounts, he fell out of favour with all three of the country's hereditary ruling Kims. Purged and banished to a steel mill around 1978, and quietly cast out again in 2003-04, Mr Jang twice returned to big party jobs. This time he is gone for good, executed for "such an unpardonable thrice-cursed treason" as opposing Mr Kim's succession and planning a coup. The haste with which the execution was carried out, immediately after the verdict on December 12th, suggests Mr Jang posed a real political threat. So did the rush to erase hundreds of state news reports about him, and Mr Kim's absence during the purge in his distant summer retreat. But Park Hyeong-jung, director of the Korea Institute for National Unification, a government think-tank in Seoul, thinks the idea of a threat "basically nonsense." It is not surprising that the young Mr Kim would rid himself of his regent. Since succeeding his father, Kim Jong Il, the second anniversary of whose death was marked this week, he has shuffled or removed about 100 senior officials. Of the seven men who escorted Kim's hearse, only two (both in their 80s) remain in power. For the official press to reveal (or invent) disloyalty such as Mr Jang's is highly unusual. But whereas a one-off disposal can be concealed, a widespread purge is trickier to hide. The official charge sheet attacked Mr Jang's "faction" and Mr Park reckons it was also aimed at the 3,000-odd people once under his patronage. A broader purge suits two groups Mr Park thinks abetted his fall: the army; and the Organisation and Guidance Department, a "party within the party" (positions are hereditary too) that long kept the Kims" relatives, like Mr Jang, in check. Mr Kim's right-hand man, Mr Jang was in charge of public security as well as business with China, and controlled some of the state's biggest trading companies. Power in the regime is a zero-sum game, says Mr Park. State entities compete in resource acquisition and dealmaking to get hold of foreign currency. Mr Jang was accused of making "a little kingdom" of his department, the party's administrative arm, and saddling the country with huge debts. The indictment also suggests that he was "too close to the Chinese," says Adam Cathcart, a historian at the University of Leeds. The charges include selling off resources cheaply and leasing land, including the Rason special economic zone, for 50 years to China. So Mr Jang's exit is likely to harm cross-border business. He was the chief backer of Rason and two other zones on North Korean islands, leased to China, at the mouth of the Yalu river. Lee Kum-ryong, a defector who works for Free North Korea Radio, says that when he visited the offices of North Korean businessmen in Beijing after Mr Jang's fall, he was met only by Mr Kim's goons, come to "arrest" them; the staff had already fled. A widespread and indiscriminate purge could prompt defections, says Mr Cathcart. In so far as it is possible for a dynastic tyranny in the grip of a reign of terror, North Korea has been keen to convey a business-as-usual image. A senior official claimed that Mr Jang's removal would not alter economic policy "at all" - indeed, that it would quicken progress. On the day the purge was made public, the state press reported that Chinese investors had signed a contract to build a high-speed railway and highway connecting the two border cities of Sinuiji and Kaesong. And on the day of the execution, North Korea suggested talks with the South on improving the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex. Though China's foreign ministry has said the political purge is the North's own "internal affair," Shi Yinhong of Renmin University in Beijing believes it is worried: the two countries" sole functioning joint economic zone, at Rason, is now "threatened." Two weeks before Mr Jang's downfall, North Korea announced it would build 13 new economic zones with its own financing and under its sole sovereignty. The wording of the indictment is fuzzy enough to suggest this is not a total reset of the relationship, says Mr Cathcart, even if Mr Kim replaces the North Korean ambassador to Beijing, who was seen as one of Mr Jang's men. China remains North Korea's biggest source of fuel, food - and foreign exchange. The battle in Pyongyang for the fruits of that relationship has not ended with Mr Jang's death.
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Ernst & Young Item Club upgrades economic growth forecast 24 June 2013 Last updated at 00:41 A leading economic forecaster has revised upwards its prediction for growth in the Scottish economy this year - but only marginally. The Ernst & Young Scottish Item Club raised its growth forecast by 0.1% to 0.8%. It said it had revised the figure because of a strong end to 2012 and an improving global economic picture. The prediction for this year is slightly behind the group's expectation of 1% for the UK as a whole. Its latest summer update forecasts further growth of 1.4% in the Scottish economy next year and a return to pre-crisis growth figures of about 2% in 2015/16. Growth gap The item club attributed this year's predicted growth gap between Scotland and the UK to Scotland's smaller stake in faster-growing sectors and larger share of sectors where declining outputs are expected. The three sectors with the fastest forecast growth - professional and administrative services, retail and wholesale, and transport, storage and communication - account for less than 28% of Scotland's economy, but more than 33% of the UK's. Those sectors witnessing the biggest decrease in output - mining and quarrying, construction and accommodation, and food services - form 14% of Scotland's economy compared with 12% of the UK's, it said. However, the report concluded that Scottish businesses were performing, on average, at least as well as their UK peers because they only underperformed in two of the big sectors - retail and wholesale and transport, storage and communication. Export base The group also warned that expansion of Scotland's export base was "essential," given its reliance on the whisky industry. Scotland's drinks industry now accounts for 28% of Scottish exports - 10% up on a decade ago. Continue reading the main story "Start Quote There is danger in Scotland's non-oil export performance becoming heavily exposed to the continued success of one industry" End Quote Jim Bishop Ernst & Young Jim Bishop, Ernst & Young's Scotland senior partner, said: "Investment in capital projects has supported Scotland's economy to an extent, but attention must also be placed on expanding the country's export base. "When you consider that exports in traditional areas such as engineering are down, there is danger in Scotland's non-oil export performance becoming heavily exposed to the continued success of one industry that relies heavily on an appetite for high-end consumer products in the emerging economies." Potential impact The report also argued that the slow growth of Scotland's economy was likely to result in only small gains in average employment levels, with momentum in the labour market predicted to pick up towards 2015. It concluded that Scotland would have to wait until the end of the decade for employment levels to mirror pre-crisis levels. The report warned that its overall forecast was dependent on a range of assumptions, such as the eurozone remaining intact, growth in the US being sustained and world trade growth accelerating. It also pointed out that forecasts for the future of the Scottish economy faced a number of uncertainties, including the potential impact of next year's referendum on independence. Meanwhile, a report from analysts KPMG said the majority of Scottish businesses believed they would increase turnover, profits and staff numbers in the year ahead. When asked about independence and the referendum, the majority of Scottish businesses said that information was lacking concerning taxation and Scotland's relationship with the European Union. Craig Anderson, senior partner for KPMG in Scotland, said: "A driving force behind economic growth is business confidence; the confidence to launch new products or enter new markets, the confidence to take on more staff or the confidence to invest in your business. Our survey suggests some of Scotland's largest businesses are looking to the future with optimism. "They feel, despite the uncertainty of an independence referendum in just over a year, Scotland is a good place to do business."
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Institut de Formation Internationale (IFI) is a leading school of international business located in Rouen, France. The school is part of the ESC Rouen group of schools, and offers Bachelor of Business Administration degrees. IFI is EQUIS accredited by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Education), and has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education ("visa"). The aim of IFI is to train students for careers in trade and management in companies with an international dimension. Immersion in the field of international business is the IFI’s strong point; each student spends one year in a foreign university and carries out a six-month internship in a company outside France. Altogether, IFI students have the advantage of 18 months experience abroad. Skills such as awareness of intercultural differences, flexibility and adaptability, fluency in foreign languages (two languages compulsory), and expertise of international business are developed by the IFI programme. The school teams up with prestigious international partners such as Georgetown University (McDonough School of Business), University of Western Ontario (Richard Ivey School of Business), Indiana University (Kelley School of Business), Calpoly State University, or the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Educational institutions established in 1986
Business schools in France
1986 establishments in France
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Four treated after fire at flats The fire service said that earlier, another sofa had been set alight in the street and a shed was also damaged in a fire. Fire officer Andy Robb said there they were keeping an open mind about whether the incidents were linked. "These are severe incidents which could have resulted in loss of life," he added. The police and the fire service are conducting a joint investigation into the fire.
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Olivia Newton-John's Sister Dies - ABC News
By Jessica Wilder Olivia Newton-John's older sister, Rona Newton-John, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last month, died May 24 at age 70. "She was surrounded by the love of her four children-Fiona, Brett, Tottie and Emerson and her wonderful friends," Newton-John wrote on her Facebook page. "I will miss her forever-my beautiful, smart, talented, funny, brave sister Rona." The 64-year-old actress also battled cancer just 20 years ago and had always been supportive of her sister, postponing a Las Vegas show to be with her in April. "As a cancer thriver, myself... I am aware of the importance of love, support and family during this journey," she said at the time. Rona, an actress herself, was married to Newton-John's "Grease" co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 to 1985. She had been working for several years on a memoir, "The Dark Side of Charisma," set for release this summer. In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations to the ONJWC where a brain tumor wellness program will be started in Rona's name.
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The list should also contain various important Czech topics that are not yet covered. The list is divided into categories, ordered alphabetically (initially inspired by List of United Kingdom-related topics). Make new categories, rename or update them. Place the entries that don't fit or deserve its own category into the 'Miscellaneous' at the bottom of the list. ==The main page==
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Music of the Czech Republic
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Cinema of the Czech Republic
Literature of the Czech Republic
Theatre of the Czech Republic
Art of the Czech Republic
==Economy of the Czech Republic==
Czech koruna
Communications in the Czech Republic
==Education==
List of universities in the Czech Republic
==Environment==
rivers:
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others
==Built environment==
==Food==
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==Geography of the Czech Republic==
Bohemia
Moravia
Silesia (the Czech part)
Regions of the Czech Republic
List of cities in the Czech Republic
List of reservoirs and dams in the Czech Republic
List of lakes in the Czech Republic
List of ponds in the Czech Republic
==Geology of the Czech Republic==
==History of the Czech Republic==
List of rulers of Bohemia
Medieval
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==Languages in the Czech Republic==
Czech language
==Law and Policing==
Czech nationality law
Judiciary of the Czech Republic
Legal system of the Czech Republic
==Media, Newspapers, etc.==
List of Czech language television channels
Radio 1
==Military of the Czech Republic==
==Monuments==
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc
==People in the Czech Republic==
Demographics of the Czech Republic
Czechs
List of Czechs
Youth in the Czech Republic
==Politics of the Czech Republic==
List of presidents of the Czech Republic
List of Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
List of political parties in the Czech Republic
Czech nationality law
Foreign relations of the Czech Republic
misc: Constitution of the Czech Republic, Kde domov můj (the anthem)
Security Information Service, intelligence agency
==Religion==
Baptist Union in the Czech Republic, Hussites, Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, Religion in Communist Czechoslovakia,
==Science and technology==
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==Transportation in the Czech Republic==
List of Czech cars, Czech Airlines, Prague Metro, Ruzyně International Airport, Tatra (car)
==Miscellaneous==
Tourism in the Czech Republic
Companies of the Czech Republic
==See also==
Lists of country-related topics - topics related to other countries
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Garcia shrugs off finger injury to share Byron Nelson lead
DALLAS (Reuters) - Sergio Garcia charged into a share of the early lead in the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship on Thursday just three days after pulling out of a British Open qualifier with a finger injury. Despite not having played the TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas in practice this week, the Spaniard holed out with a sand wedge to eagle his opening hole on the way to a sparkling four-under-par 66. Garcia also carded three birdies and a lone bogey at the par-four 15th in dazzling sunshine to end the round level with Americans Dustin Johnson, Jeff Quinney, Scott Piercy and Will Strickler. "It was definitely a nice round to start the week," Garcia, 31, told reporters. "On Tuesday I didn't think I had a chance of playing... the finger was so sore. "But we worked on it on Tuesday, they gave me some antibiotic cream and I kept putting on that cream and taking the antibiotics. "It definitely feels better. A little sore but definitely I can play without having to think about it, which is good." Garcia, who withdrew on Monday from the U.S. qualifying tournament in nearby Plano, Texas, for this year's British Open, surprised himself with his red-hot start to the round. He hit a wayward drive on his opening hole, the par-four 10th, but was fortunate to end up with a good lie.
"I thought if I hit a good shot with a sand wedge I could start with a birdie and calm me down after everything that's been going on through the week," Garcia said. "And I hit it and I saw guys on the green saying 'in' and I thought: 'Perfect!' I couldn't have started in a better way." Garcia's playing partner Johnson matched him with an opening 66 after rebounding from an ugly par, double-bogey start with six birdies the rest of the way. "I hit two good shots on 10 and kinda missed it (the birdie putt) on the low side," the long-hitting Johnson said. "Then I hooked it in the water on 11, hit a good drive after that and pitched it over the green and got up and down for a double. "But I came right back and birdied the next hole, hit it close on the next one and just played really well from there on out." Johnson relished playing with Garcia and South Korean K.J. Choi, winner of the prestigious Players Championship two weeks ago, in the opening round. "It was a nice day," Johnson said. "K.J. played well for the most part, missed a few putts, hit a lot of good ones. Overall it was a fun day." Australian Jason Day, however, did not have quite as much fun as he launched his title defense with a 72. Winner here by two strokes last year, Day bogeyed three of his first six holes and then fought back to level before double-bogeying the par-four ninth, his final hole, after hitting his second shot into water. (Writing by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Julian Linden)
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Leading article: Not at the dinner table Islamophobia is not just rife but socially acceptable in Britain today. Indeed it "passes the dinner-table test" of being seen as normal and uncontroversial in polite society. So Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim to sit in the Cabinet, was to warn last night. Her speech has surprised and riled many, not least her fellows in the Conservative Party. What she says is true, which is what so irritates her critics. Prejudice against Britain's Asian community does not, since 9/11, attract the social stigma that prejudice against other religious and racial groups rightly brings. Studying the language the media uses about Muslims is revealing. The actions or demands of Islamic extremists are routinely reported with generalised headlines proclaiming that Muslims demand x or do y - as though it were all Muslims. Or commentators speak of the "challenge of Islamisation"- as if Britain is in some way threatened by the birthrate of the Muslim population rather than by a handful of criminal extremists. Muslims are implicitly considered the enemy within. They are not. We all need to be more conscious of our hidden patterns of thinking. Otherwise we will unwittingly fuel misunderstanding and intolerance.
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Nation's $12bn reward for removing red tape LAST week the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, set out a framework for principled and consistent policymaking to enhance confidence. It includes getting the budget back to surplus and faster improvement in business productivity by addressing excessive compliance and complexity as a result of regulation.
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Jeff Salway: Growing pressure for action over dodgy PPI claims handlers Published on Saturday 10 March 2012 06:11 IF YOU wondered why temperatures rose so suddenly on Tuesday morning, it might have something to do with the gleeful rubbing together of hands in the claims management industry as the City watchdog told banks to step up the hunt for potential PPI mis-selling victims. Nearly a year after losing a High Court challenge against rules forcing them to review past sales, the banks must now tell customers who may have been mis-sold PPI (payment protection insurance) that they could be entitled to compensation. If the banks thought they'd seen the worst of it, having paid out some £1.9 billion in PPI mis-selling compensation last year, they were wrong. The letters the Financial Services Authority now wants them to send out could trigger around £3bn of claims on top of those already paid or currently being processed. To recap very briefly, PPI is designed to cover people's loans in the event of them losing their income due to illness or unemployment. The product itself is fine; when sold on its own and not alongside the loans it is intended to cover it has proved valuable. Yet the greed of the financial services industry took over. Millions of people were conned into taking out the policies, including those who would not be able to claim in any event. Many had the policies added to their loan contracts without being told, or were threatened with having their loan offer withdrawn if they didn't also take out the insurance. This sorry episode encapsulates so much that is rotten in the banking industry. It may yet prove a turning-point if it leads to genuine reform of the short-term sales culture that has done so much to erode trust in high street banks. There's one knock-on effect that is not being given sufficient attention, however, and that's the way in which claims management companies have exploited the PPI scandal. These are the companies bombarding millions of us with adverts, e-mails and texts telling us to apply for PPI compensation. I get them on a daily basis and, given they haven't yet got my name right and I've never taken out PPI, it's fair to say they take a scattergun approach to their work. Yet it succeeds. Around eight in ten of the PPI complaints received by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) are a result of claims management referrals. The FOS has repeatedly stressed that going through a claims handler makes no difference to the chances of success. Yet millions of people are giving up to 30 per cent of their compensation to claims management companies. With the total PPI bill now set to top the £10bn mark, it's a lucrative business. The practices of claims handlers were raised in the House of Lords on Monday, Lord McNally hitting out at the "very dodgy practices" by the firms. He called on the government to take action. That need became more urgent the following day, with the FSA's latest instructions to the banks. The FSA claims management rip-off is in danger of causing a stink to rival the scandal from which the firms are so handsomely profiting and it's about to get even worse. Combine an ageing population with a dramatic plunge in the value of the annuities used by most people to convert their pensions into a retirement income and the last thing you need is a system in which millions are unable to get the best deal on the table. Over the past decade, retirees have missed out on some £7 billion of potential income by settling for annuities inferior to those available from other pension companies, Oxford Economics estimated last year. That's because of a difference of up to 20 per cent between the best and worst annuities available on the market. Then there are the enhanced annuities available to the growing population of pensioners with some form of health or lifestyle conditions that undermines their life expectancy, which could boost pension incomes even further. There's finally been some good news on this front, however. A new code of conduct unveiled by the Association of British Insurers this week requires its members to do more in the information they send out ahead of a customer's retirement to highlight the value of shopping around for an annuity. It doesn't go far enough - we'll eventually get to a point where shopping around is the default option - but it's progress. As is Nationwide Building Society's launch of a new annuity brokerage service last Monday. The big plus point here is that Nationwide will give advice to those with pension pots as low as £18,000 (below the average pension savings of £25,000). This is a market in which advice is woefully inadequate, meaning those who most need the best annuity deals are the least likely to get them.
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New Best Friend is a 2002 American film based on a story by author James Edwards. The film was originally owned by MGM, which eventually let this film go. Since then, TriStar Pictures acquired the rights to distribute this film in the United States and some other territories, primarily for market; still, TriStar Pictures gave this film a limited theatrical release in the United States on April 12, 2002. ==Summary==
A North Carolina sheriff (Taye Diggs) investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of an underachieving college girl (Mia Kirshner) and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery. ==Cast credits==
Mia Kirshner: Alicia Campbell
Meredith Monroe: Hadley Ashton
Dominique Swain: Sidney Barrett
Rachel True: Julianne Livingstone
Eric Michael Cole: Warren
Scott Bairstow: Trevor
Taye Diggs: Sheriff Artie Bonner
Oliver Hudson: Josh
Joanna Canton: Sarah
Dean James: Max
Glynnis O'Connor: Connie Campbell
Ralph Price: Eddie
==Notes==
==External links==
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American films
English-language films
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2000s thriller films
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Other witnesses, including Linda Sohus' mother and her best friend, testified about the missing woman's life and the mystery of why she had disappeared. Susan Coffman said she and Sohus were best friends and that she kept a detailed diary of their conversations. She said Linda Sohus had some unhappy romances before she met and married John Sohus, and that the woman said after the wedding she was happy for the first time. Coffman testified that in February 1985, Sohus called to say she and her husband had to go to New York briefly for jobs. Both she and Linda Sohus' mother, Susan Mayfield, were told that Linda Sohus planned to be back in two weeks. But the couple vanished and both women received cryptic postcards from Paris signed by John and Linda saying they had gone there instead of New York. Coffman found it suspicious and said many years later she was sure it was not her friend's handwriting. She said she contacted the television show "Unsolved Mysteries" and had them investigate, as well as prodding police to do something. But until bones were dug up in the backyard of the Sohus home, she said there was little interest. After the bones were found, she said, police promised to give the case another look but many years passed before anything happened. Another neighbor in San Marino, Winslow Reitnouer, said she knew Gerhartsreiter as Chichester. She testified that she saw him visit the neighborhood in 1986. She said she once got a phone call from him on a crackly line in which "he said he was in Stockholm and just calling to say hello." The preliminary hearing will determine whether Gerhartsreiter is bound over for trial on the murder charge. The prosecutor estimated the hearing will end Tuesday. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Man dies in hospital after crash Man dies in hospital after crash A man has died after being injured in a road accident in County Down earlier this month. The accident happened on the Ballycrochan Road in Bangor on Friday 18 September. Three men in their 20s were taken to hospital after it and one of them, a 23-year-old, died on Sunday morning. The victim's name has not been released. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them.
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Huntsman facing jail over assault In October 2006, he was sentenced to nine months, suspended for two years, for causing actual bodily harm to 58-year-old Kevin Hill Mr Hill was left with two black eyes and needed six stitches after being punched while filming the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. In the latest attack, magistrates heard that Helen Weeks was filming near Whimpole as Marles repeatedly rode his horse into her. The footage was shown in court. The chairman of the bench, Elizabeth Hibbick, found Marles had intentionally assaulted Ms Weeks with his horse. She accepted that he had not tried to physically hurt her but that his idea was to put fear into her. Speaking after the hearing, Ms Weeks said: "I expected him to ride on by and he just turned his horse in one movement towards me. "He didn't stop, he just carried on. He took the horse by surprise and the horse just went into my shoulder and pushed me into the ditch."
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A boycott and what it means to be â˜pro-Israelâ™
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This week, Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi said the government was considering cutting the allotment of gas Iranians get at subsidized prices to 55 liters (14 gallons) a month, down from 100 liters (26 gallons), the ISNA news agency reported. Such a move would likely further anger Iranians, already struggling in a faltering economy. RAND's Nader said fuel import sanctions "could seriously hurt Iran and its economy" but cast doubt on whether that would force the regime to back down. "This is a government that has shown it can handle great pressure by resorting to intimidation and violence," he said, referring to the government's fierce postelection crackdown on opposition protests. New financial restrictions would build on existing U.S. sanctions that seek to cut off Iran's access to outside financing and banks. Those sanctions have so far been the most effective. The Iranian Labor News Agency reported last month that the debt of the country's 11 state-run banks to the Central Bank surged tenfold over the past four years, hitting over $32 billion. That indicates these banks, which include the Revolutionary Guard-linked Bank Melli, are being forced to shoulder a bigger burden as access to foreign capital grows tougher. "The overall purpose is not to totally isolate Iran," said Michael Jacobsen, a sanctions expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "The overall purpose is to raise the costs of doing business. That's a more realistic goal, a more achievable goal."
AP Business writers Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and George Frey in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed to this report. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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==Events and trends==
747 BC—February 26 – Nabonassar becomes king of Babylonia. 747 BC—Meles becomes king of Lydia. c. 747 BC—Third Intermediate Period of Egypt ends. Late Period of ancient Egypt starts. Nubian period starts in Ancient Egypt. c. 747 BC—Piye starts to rule in Ancient Egypt. 745 BC—The Crown of Assyria seized by Pul, who takes the name Tiglath-Pileser III. 745 BC—Legendary death of Titus Tatius Roman King (Diarchy with con Romulus ). 743 BC—Duke Zhuang of the Chinese state of Zheng comes to power. 743 BC—Beginning of the First Messenian War. 740 BC—Tiglath-Pileser III conquers the city of Arpad in Syria after two years of siege. 740 BC—Start of Ahaz's reign of Judah. ==Significant people==
Romulus and Remus
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The other thing not mentioned above is that the most fundamental problem, which I keep repeating, is this: as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, somebody will keep burning them - implication, we must put a rising price on carbon. (Not cap-and-trade! A simple, honest approach - collect a fee from fossil fuel companies at first sale, distribute that money, 100 percent, to the public.) Nevertheless, the easiest thing that he could do, and perhaps the best that we can hope for, is for him to give a strong boost to nuclear power. Unfortunately, he seems to fall prey to Democratic politics on this, rather than being a responsible leader.
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==Departures==
I'm pretty sure multiple sources have mentioned Hammond's leaving...and since Wiig has appeared in Weekend Update promotional material, is it safe to add her in to the returned category?Purplebackpack89 (talk)
What sources? And don't say TV.com because that's very unreliable since that can be edited by anybody. - Jasonbres (talk)
Uh, for Wiig, the 2009-10 season preview at hulu.com? Purplebackpack89 (talk)
What about Hammond? And again, don't use TV.com. - Jasonbres (talk)
:Well, it doesn't exactly matter now...he's not listed under departures anymore. Say, can IMDB be edited by unreliable peeps as well? Purplebackpack89 (talk)
::In this article from People, it says that Bill will be the only cast member with a child in the upcoming season. That would exclude Darrell, who already has two. Hippieanger (talk)
==Jenny Slate slips up and says "fuck" on her first show==
Previous editor was a bit prissy (mentioned only "an expletive") and exhibits a poor grasp of the show's history. The "Charles Rocket incident" was thought to be deliberate on Rocket's part. Jenny Slate's accidental utterance of "fuckin'" in "Biker Chick Chat" shares the same bit of vocabulary but the similarities end there. It's more like the Norm Macdonald incident (1997-APR-12) and even more like the Paul Shaffer incident (15-MAR-1980), wherein the sketch performed contained numerous uses of the nonce word "fluck". (Coincidentally, Bono, part of the musical guest ensemble on the same episode, let slip a "fuckin'" at the 2003 Golden Globes ceremony, which was transmitted live in some markets. Neither he nor the broadcaster were penalized.) as for the ramifications of this incindent, it is likely that nothing too big will come of it, Slate was seen during the ending being teased by head writer Seth Myers, obvious that the problem had been addressed, and dealt with. (talk)
U.S. West Coast viewers, please report what alteration (if any) was made to your version of the broadcast. SNL's SOP for these types of situations is to air the dress rehearsal version. Branden (talk)
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Some user (70.54.1.223) edited my comments! Most uncool. Fixed. Branden (talk)
==Brian Austin Green played by Jason Sudekis==
I'm watching the episode right now and that is clearly NOT Sudekis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.53.101 (talk)
== Don Pardo ==
At what point do we decide that Don Pardo is officially "back"? It's pretty apparent that they aren't going to release a statement. 3 episodes? 4? 72.78.58.237 (talk)
== Lady GaGa says "shit" ==
Uh, why isn't this mentioned? I think it's noteworthy when someone says a curse like "shit" or "fuck" on the show. Why was it removed? It happens so often, it barely merits a mention. Take last week's episode for example. The digital short with Thompson as Reba featured a "fuck" by Samberg that got past censors. If we start mentioning it here, then by all rights we should document all its past utterances in previous seasons. I don't know about you, but there's way too much work to be done already before we can even start considering something like that. Mainly.generic (talk)
What show are you watching? You make it sound like they cuss every episode, when they don't. And I don't think Lsnicket was talking about EVERY time they curse, just the obvious ones. Jenny Slate saying "fuck", Gaga singing "shit", these are obvious. When somebody says something under their breath, and you can bairly hear it, don't mention it. When someone yells "FUCK", that's noteworthy. As for "Best of Both Worlds," I didn't hear an unbleeped "fuck". With all due respect, BrianGriffin-FG (talk)
== December 5-19 shows ==
A twitter page is not a source, is it?
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Prize Lady is a top New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse. She is most noted for winning two Auckland Cups, in 2007 and 2008. She was the first horse to achieve this feat since Il Tempo in 1970. She attempted to win her third Auckland Cup in 2009, but finished 8th in what proved to be her last ever race. Sire:Prized(USA)
Dam:Pen Bal Lady(GB)
Damsire: Mummy's Game(GB)
Career Record 26-4-4-3
Career Earnings NZ$ 964,875. See:Zealand racehorses]
Auckland Cup winners
Individual mares
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5, 1999 (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences), Enreca Occasional Paper Series - Cuture and the Disciplines: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops/Tapti Guha Thakurta (35.54 p.)
Christopher Harding, ‘The Freud Franchise: Independence of Mind in India and Japan’, in R. Clarke (ed), Celebrity and Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in (Post) Colonial Cultures (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009). ==External links==
Biography
Bose-Freud correspondence. About IPA, see "How did the IPA begin?" 1886 births
1953 deaths
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Indian psychiatrists
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Frank Nagai (フランク 永井; March 18, 1932 – October 27, 2008) was a Japanese singer. Known for an attractive low tone voice. His real name is Kiyoto Nagai (永井 清人 Nagai Kiyoto). == Life ==
Frank Nagai was born in Matsuyama, Miyagi, Japan. He had his major debut in 1954 when he was discovered by composer Tadashi Yoshida (吉田 正). He had many hit songs such as Yurakucho de Aimasho, Tokyo Night Club, Kimi Koishi, and Omae ni. He also appeared in motion pictures, including the film Nishi Ginza Eki Mae (1958), for which he sang the title song. He enjoyed immense popularity as a singer in Japan. He is credited with discovering female singer Kazuko Matsuo (松尾 和子), who later became quite famous. The two often sang duets together. His singing career was favorable, but he attempted suicide on October 21, 1985. He tried to hang himself, distressed that his lover bore a child. He escaped death, but the attempted suicide left him with permanent brain damage. He never recovered. ==Notable songs==
（有楽町で逢いましょう Yūrakuchō de Aimashō） lit. Lovers in Yurakucho aka Let's Meet in Yurakuchô (1957)
Nishi Ginza Station square （西銀座駅前 Nishi-ginza ekimae） (1958)
Tokyo of 3:00AM （東京午前三時 Tokyo Gozen Sanji） (1958)
Tokyo Night Club （東京ナイト・クラブ Tokyo Night Club） (1959)
I yearn for you （君恋し Kimi Koishi） (1961)
For you （おまえに Omae Ni） (1972)
Kiriko's Tango （霧子のタンゴ Kiriko no Tango） (1962)
Osaka Roman （大阪ろまん） (1966)
Sixteen Tons (cover song)
==References==
1932 births
2008 deaths
People from Miyagi Prefecture
Enka musicians
Japanese musicians
Japanese male singers
Deaths from leukemia
Cancer deaths in Japan
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The Indian Placement Program, or Indian Student Placement Program was a program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1947 to 2000, in which LDS Native American students were placed in Latter-day Saint foster homes during the school year, where they would attend public schools and become assimilated into American culture. Cost of care was borne by the foster parent. The program was initially developed to respond to the needs of Navajo teenagers and even younger children who were coming to parts of Utah to work. It was felt it would be better for them to get an education. Only church members could participate in the program, which meant that children had to be eight to be involved. The program initially operated under the Relief Society and eventually became part of Latter-day Saint Social Services (now LDS Family Services). Beginning in the 1970s, however, the Indian Placement Program came under criticism. In 1977, the U.S. government commissioned a study to investigate accusations that the church was using its influence to push children into joining the program. The commission rejected these accusations, however, finding that the program was largely positive, and enjoyed emphatic support both from Native American parents and white foster parents. However, the criticism of the program continued. Supporters believed that exposure to white culture was beneficial to Native American children, and that it improved educational and economic opportunities, while critics believed the program undermined the children's Native American identity. In 2000 the last student graduated from the program, though the program never was officially discontinued. ==Historic precursor==
A century earlier, during the earliest days of the LDS Church in Utah, there was a Latter-day Saints practice of raising Native American children in Mormon homes. Brigham Young advocated buying children held by Native Americans as slaves (a legal practice in the Utah Territory prior to the American Civil War), and encouraged Latter-day Saints to educate and acculturate them as if they were their own children. ==Notes==
==References==
James B. Allen, "The Rise and Decline of the LDS Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-1996," Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World: Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson, ed. Davis Bitton (Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 85-119. Matthew Garrett, "Mormons, Indians and Lamanites: The Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2010. 1996 disestablishments
Defunct Latter Day Saint organizations
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Cherie Blair: Women's progress in business 'too slow'
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I have excavated the bones of white-tailed eagles from Bronze Age sites and Anglo-Saxon settlements (letters, 29 December). And there are numerous places in England which, including Earley in Berkshire, take their names from this magnificent bird. How much more native can you get? Archaeological and anecdotal evidence indicate that white-tailed eagles, a close relative of America's national emblem, the bald eagle, succumbed to the pressure of a rapidly rising human population about the time of the First World War. Parakeets are not native to Britain. Today, mobs of them screech through Greenwich Park in London with such elan that they might have been raised in the Alfred Hitchcock School for Birds. David Miles London SE3 Going, going, gong As the absurdity of the New Year's Honours list with gongs for the mostly not-so-worthy-but-well-placed-and-positioned becomes apparent, isn't it time for abolition of the list and its replacement, if there must be one, with a civic award more appropriate for a parliamentary democracy in the 21st century? Keith Flett London N17 Unfair to Clegg When Bruce Anderson refers to Nick Clegg (Comment, 4 January) as being "only about a quarter British," he is not only insulting but being unfair. Winston Churchill, Michael Howard, and Michael Portillo among the Tories and Patricia Hewett, Peter Hain and Gisela Stuart for Labour, and Lembit Opik for the Lib Dems can chart part if not all of their ancestry from beyond these shores. Our political system has been the better for their presence. John Marriott North Hykeham, Lincoln Sweden's howler The Swedish parliament has decided there should be no more than 210 wolves in their country. At present, there are 27 too many. Now, some 10,000 "hunters" are preparing to cull the excess. There are 9.2 million people in Sweden. So far, the wolves seem to have decided to leave them alone. David Gibbs London SW4 BBC backtrack The BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson, claimed in his Radio 4 interview with P D James (report, 1 January) that the BBC had to pay high salaries to keep the right people. He said the Controller of BBC1 took a pay cut when she moved back to the BBC from the commercial sector. Some contradiction there, surely? Nick Allen Oxford Blame supermarkets In your leading article, "A national drinking problem" (2 January), no mention was made of supermarkets selling beers, wine and spirits at drastically discounted prices. A lot of binge-drinking problems can be attributed to this. Andrew Morley Wirral No Straw man Jack Straw's comments about police (report, 1 January) are substantiated by new figures about what some officers do in "work-time." Apparently, more than 400 police have been sacked or given written warnings for looking at grossly inappropriate - and obscene - material on their police computers. Godfrey H Holmes Somersall, Chesterfield
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Brenton Sanderson and wife Veronika announce they are expecting their first child Brenton Sanderson with his wife Veronika, who is now pregnant. Source: News Limited THE Adelaide Crows are preparing to welcome another Sanderson to the nest at West Lakes. Crows coach Brenton Sanderson and wife Veronika today revealed they are expecting their first child. Veronika is 14 weeks pregnant and due sometime in early December, meaning the Crows finals campaign, if they make it, will be well and truly over. "We're very excited. We had a scan recently and the baby was jumping around," Sanderson told the Adelaide Football Club website. "Veronika is due well out of football season, so the timing has worked out perfectly too." The couple tied the knot in January. They were married on at a ceremony in Prague, where Veronika's family live. Sanderson's family flew over from Adelaide for the nuptials, which were kept small and intimate. Leave a comment below to send your well wishes to Brenton and Veronika
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John Wilmerding's most recent book is "The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art."
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== November 2010 ==
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; you are welcome to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding below this notice the text. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk)
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Walter Bonatti - Telegraph Two other members of a team of 18 Italian climbers, Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, were the first to the top on July 31. But Bonatti always claimed that the summiteers refused to help him and his Pakistani porter, Amir Mahdi, as they struggled behind, leaving them for dead. Though other members of the expedition denied this for more than half a century, in 2008 Bonatti's version was finally accepted as the truth. The controversy was complex. Having been charged with abandoning Bonatti to reach the summit, Compagnoni counter-claimed that Bonatti had used up part of the oxygen supply intended for the final assault on the peak, so that it ran out at the crucial moment. Bonatti always disputed this, and he and Compagnoni were never reconciled. While lower than Everest, K2 (8,611 metres/28,251ft) is a steeper and more dangerous mountain, with more intense weather. The expedition's organiser, the geologist and explorer Professor Ardito Desio, chose Compagnoni to make the final assault on the summit on account of his leadership qualities and hardiness. The ascent had been beset with difficulties. The weather was appalling, and on June 21 one of the porters died of pneumonia. By July 30, however, Compagnoni and Lacedelli were at Camp 9, some 500 metres below the summit. There they awaited Bonatti and his porter, Mahdi, who were due to deliver oxygen masks and cylinders for the attempt on the summit. Underpinning the dispute that followed was the evident desire of all three Italians to reach the top. Indeed, as the climber then in the best physical condition, 24 year-old Bonatti was the obvious choice to make a successful dash for the peak, a feat that would have eclipsed the ageing Compagnoni (then 40). As Bonatti recalled in his memoir On The Heights (1964), "Compagnoni looked obviously exhausted." But as they struggled for Camp 9, Bonatti and Mahdi found that it had been moved to a spot higher than agreed. Compagnoni's explanation was that the tent had been shifted to avoid an overhanging ice ridge, but the change of location had forced Bonatti and Mahdi to bivouac in the open at 8,100 metres, an ordeal that cost the frostbitten porter his fingers and toes. It also had the effect of putting an end to Bonatti's own chances of reaching the summit, a blight for which Compagnoni later suggested that Bonatti had taken revenge by siphoning off some of the oxygen in the tanks, knowing that the summiteers would run short at a critical moment on their way to the top. Whether the shortage was deliberate or accidental, Compagnoni suggested that it almost proved fatal. After setting off at 5am, he and Lacedelli were nearing the top and gasping for breath when, he said, their oxygen supply ran out in the late afternoon. Despite this they managed to reach the summit at 6pm, embrace each other, and tie two small flags - Italian and Pakistani - to an ice-axe. There they took two photographs which suggested that, in contrast to Compagnoni's claims, they had not run out of oxygen at all. One image showed Compagnoni still wearing an oxygen mask, while the other featured Lacedelli, maskless, but with his moustache and beard ringed with congealed ice. On top of this was the fact that they never discarded the heavy tanks despite saying they were empty. When their triumph was announced to cheering crowds in Genoa, Compagnoni and Lacedelli were acclaimed national heroes. It was a reputation cemented a decade later when, on the 10th anniversary of the successful climb, the persistent rumours about the final ascent were examined in a newspaper article by the climbing journalist Nino Giglio - who concluded that Bonatti had tried to steal the summit from Compagnoni and Lacedelli. Bonatti, wrote Giglio, had promised Mahdi the glory of being the first Pakistani to stand at the top of K2. Compagnoni and Lacedelli had run out of oxygen short of the summit because Bonatti had siphoned off at least an hour's worth of the precious gas as he huddled in his bivouac. Although Bonatti successfully sued Giglio's paper for libel, he was ostracised by other mountaineers and spent years living down a reputation for selfishness and egotism. But the full story only emerged in 2004, when Lacedelli published his book K2 - The Price of Victory.
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Brilliant Brumbies trounce Sharks 29-10 in Durban In one of the best performances of the club's new era, the Brumbies trounce the Sharks 29-10 at Kings Park. Matt Toomua goes over for the Brumbies third try during the Super 15 rugby union match against the Sharks in Durban. Source: AFP A SUPERB first-half team effort set up the Brumbies for a 29-10 triumph over South Africa's Sharks in a surprisingly one-sided Super 15 clash. Brilliant ball retention and powerful straight and angled running by backs and forwards earned the visitors a four-try bonus point before going into the interval 26-3 ahead at Kings Park in this Indian Ocean city. A fourth consecutive victory since the southern hemisphere championship season kicked lifted leaders Brumbies to 23 points, six ahead of defending champions Waikato Chiefs of New Zealand. It was a great start to a two-match South Africa tour for the Canberra outfit coached by Jake White, who lost his position as Springbok coach after winning the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Paris. Brumbies skipper and flank Ben Mowen said: "It was an absolute bonus to win this game with a bonus point. We knew what to expect from the Sharks and our preparations centred on getting off to a good start." Fit-again Sharks captain and flank Keegan Daniel had no excuses: "We had no ball in the first half and no continuity. It is hard to say now exactly what went wrong." While Brumbies were following up victories in Australia over the Reds, Rebels and Waratahs, it was the first loss for the Sharks after victories in South Africa against Cheetahs, Stormers and Kings. Brumbies stamped their authority from the kick-off in a showdown between the last two unbeaten sides in the competition and full-back Jesse Mogg crossed for the first try on five minutes with two unmarked team-mates outside him. Left wing Joseph Tomane dotted down on the opposite side of the field to give the rampant Australians a 12-point lead in as many minutes and it got worse for the Sharks as fly-half Matt Toomua and right wing Henry Speight also went over. Inside centre Christian Lealiifano converted three of the four tries and all 2012 runners-up Sharks could manage in reply was a solitary penalty from fly-half Patrick Lambie. After scoring 52 points in his first three outings this season, it must have been a shock for Springbok fly-half Lambie to get only one shot at goal in 40 minutes. Sharks finally broke through 11 minutes into the second half when No 8 Ryan Kankowski dived over for a try Lambie converted, but there was to be no brave comeback from the home team as teeming rain made conditions difficult. While it was understandable that the Brumbies could not maintain the intensity of the first half, they held their own and closed the scoring 12 minutes from time when Lealiifano slotted a penalty. Brumbies, who just missed out on the play-offs last season, travel south west to Cape Town for a clash with Western Stormers next weekend while Sharks host Melbourne Rebels.
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I think that if characters are going to go under a heading of their title (for example, Sergeants) I dont think we need include their title before their name aswell, and their first name should be included. I also think we should keep CID and uniform seperate, as they are really different departments. Mark bickley 17:10, 12 June '07
If Emma's surname in the credits, is now Keane, then yep, I think that's how it should be on here. Fair enough about the title. I see your point about cid and uniform being seperate, but I also think that the fact that Jack and Sam etc are Senior officers should be recognised. Having two senior officers sub sections underneath uniform and cid might seem a bit excessive, what do you think? Thetoaster3
The change to the layout has been made. I still think that the other senior officers should be acknowledged though, and hopefully a consensus can be agreed about that. Thetoaster3
It looks like it's all changed ONCE again... BNC85
Am I the only one that thinks all of tb1983's edits ruin the article? He's blanked the page twice.Thetoaster3
I agree and have reverted edits where possible. It appears s/he does not given any explaination in the edit summary either. Shouldnt Sam, neil, gina and jack all be in the senior officers section as well as heaton because at the moment he is the only one in that section. Mac256
Yeah there is a trade off their, if we include Jack, Neil and Sam in Senior Officers, we cant include them in CID, and its just a case of deciding which title is more appropriate. Mark bickley 22:45 15th June '07
Well technically they are senior officers, and people like jack and gina dont need thier own section because there will only ever be one DCI, inspector, ect. Mac256
Well technically the DI's and the DCI are CID aswell... Fair enough they might not need their own section but if we put them under Senior Officers we can't put them under CID. To be honest I think the Character list is okay as it is its nice and clear and aslong as the information it contains is appropriate and its all there then it doesn't really need altering. Mark bickley 19:10 16th June '07
==Spoiler tags==
I've removed spoiler tags from the forthcoming character changes section, because it's clearly marked and self-explanatory. If necessary, use to signal encyclopedic concerns about the nature of the information and its sources. I'm sorry but I have put the spoiler warning back for reasons which I explained in my edit summary. Some users don't like reading spoilers especially those who are not regualar viewers or editors, so a clearer warning would be nice, as the title may not be self explanitary in some cases. Its not doing any harm so I dont think there is any need to remove it. Mark bickley 22:45 15th June '07
The tag is more encyclopedic and more accurate. Why not use that? Because that tag is alot bigger than and I thought it was a compromise to have something small that still gave a warning for those who wanted it but not too predominant for those who didn't want it. Mark bickley 19:05 16th June '07
It's quite obvious from the section title – upcoming character changes – that the info there is going to include future cast changes. The spoiler tag is just redundant. — Carl (CBM · talk)
I dont think that the 'endspoiler' tag is redundant. Fair enough if people are so against it for whatever reason then the title will do for a warning but there is nothing that closes the section. Mark bickley 14:30 23rd June '07
The next section DVD releases, makes it clear enough that the sectionon character changes is over. I don't think endspoiler should be used without spoiler being used, and I don't think spoiler is needed here. — Carl (CBM · talk)
==Past characters list on main page==
The past characters list makes more sense and looks better on the main page. The link at the very end of the page is too small and it is not highlighted to catch people who might be looking for the past characters list attention.
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==Other baseball squirrels, importance of?==
There are three sections: One about Rally Squirrel, one about other squirrels also named Rally Squirrel, and one about about other squirrels who appeared at ballgames but weren't (necessarily) named Rally Squirrel. An edit has tagged the the latter section with the importance tag, like this:
I'm not a big fan of drive-by tagging like this and would have preferred if he'd gone to the talk page, but whatever. The editor is making the point that other squirrels not named Rally Squirrel don't belong, and maybe he's right. On the one hand, it's related info. On the other hand, it's not directly related, so I don't know. At any rater, either the tag or the section should be removed. Which? I can see it either way, but my inclination is to keep the material. Herostratus (talk)
I'm the tagger, I did put an edit summary, but of course that got lost over time. On the subject of tagging, there's discussion at Village Pump about the pros and cons. The article is about Rally Squirrel, the 2011 STL phenomena. I can understand the mention of other past squirrels specifically named "Rally Squirrel" as a type of disambiguation, but mention of all instances of other squirrels is trivial, and doesnt help to understand Rally Squirrel any better. At best it might warrant a single sentence to the effect of "there have been other reported squirrels on baseball fields" without needing to enumerate them. Reader can go to the citations for more details.—Bagumba (talk)
OK, I see your point. I don't feel strongly about it but I still think the material is OK. Let's see if anyone else weights in. Herostratus (talk)
:It seems to me that the whole "Rally Squirrel" phenomena is not just that a squirrel or two appeared at a couple of ball games but that this was taken up by both Cardinals fan and the team itself, and has developed significant interest. It certainly is worth mentioning that squirrels have appeared on other occasions at other ballparks, but unless they were called "rally squirrel" too or otherwise became some sort of phenomena, there is no need to list each occurrence. Wschart (talk)
It is rather difficult to disambiguate this phenomenon when the wiki article is titled "Rally Squirrel." Maybe it could be retitled along the lines of "Buschy the rally squirrel" or "Busch Stadium Rally Squirrel." The Rally Monkey article is not about all primates that have appeared at sporting events
If this article is about all squirrels appearing on all ballfields, then it might be germane to add a section explaining that relocation can be bad for mammals...some scientists argue that it is less humane than euthanasia. (Trustworthy sources abound.) Jcalton (talk)
It's particularly bad for squirrels at this time of year
Anyway, I don't think we want to get into mammal relocation in general, and based on the above discussion it looks like the general consensus is the we should not include much material on squirrels other than the One True Rally Squirrel, and I've reduced this material considerably (although not removed it altogether) and removed the tag, is this acceptable? The material could just be deleted altogether and that would arguably be OK too. Herostratus (talk)
== New pics ==
FYI
== Picture of regular squirrel ==
The picture of the non-Rally Squirrel should be removed because it is, well, not a picture of the subject of this article. Would you put a picture of a regular Collie in the article on Lassie? No, because that would be dumb, even if " all." This is doubly true because there are actual photos of Rally Squirrels available. If you have a photo of the Cardinals Rally Squirrel that passes muster as far a CC lcensing or public domain by all means be bold, upload it nd replace the current pic. As you'll see above I tried once but it was deleted on some rather nit-picky grounds by some Russian admin. dude. Good luck! Sector001 (talk)
I'd put a picture of a regular collie in Lassie if that's all I had. If you don't know what a squirrel (or a collie) looks like, a picture of a squirrel (or collie) is useful for envisioning the Rally Squirrel (or Lassie), in a general sense, I think, and is a lot better than nothing.
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It's a simple drive, in a car that feels properly constructed, rather than fashioned from plastic. It doesn't emit carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, unburned hydrocarbons - it doesn't emit anything except a high-pitched whine. And charging it means sticking a blue plug into a six-pin socket and sticking the three-pin plug at the end of a long yellow flex into a household socket, for up to eight hours. Call me a dreamer, but the Smart ED seems to represent the normalisation of the electric car. If only someone could apply the transformation to a family-sized saloon... Should you have an unusually large family - very large - you might talk to Peugeot, who are taking part in the Government's trial. For a year from this autumn, they'll supply 40 of their "zero emission vehicles" (ZEVs) for drivers in Glasgow, in partnership with the local battery company, Axeon. During the trial period, Scottish Power will set up 40 electric-charging points around Glasgow. All the data about car journeys will be recorded by satellite and analysed by boffins at Strathclyde University. The only drawback to the plan is that ZEVs aren't your usual family runaround. They are big commercial vans and "multiple passenger vehicles" (or as we say in English, "buses"). I headed for the Peugeot showroom in Chiswick and took out a Peugeot Expert Eurobus. It's a big, roomy, metal box with windows; it will never appeal to the boy racer but, in its electrical incarnation, it's fun to drive. You feel like you're sitting six feet above other motorists, humming along in near-silence. The suspension is so bouncy that driving over speed bumps is like hitting a trampoline - and then there's the gear lever. Just the sight of it made me laugh out loud. Plonked in the middle of the wide dashboard, sitting on a metallic pad the size of a beer mat, the lever is the size of a toothpick, tapering outwards at the top. It resembles one of those miniscule screwdrivers you get in a Christmas cracker. You flick it forward an inch, and the 3,000kg bus moves forward. Flick it back an inch, and the metal Behemoth obediently reverses. I flicked it back and forth a dozen times, entranced by the power and heft that could be accessed by prodding something the size of a Twiglet. The Eurobus has a top speed of 70, and a range of 100 miles between rechargings; the makers suggest you treat it like a pet, settling it down after a hard day's driving, for "a good night's charge," so you can assume eight hours is standard. I was beginning to warm to electric cars - their silent efficiency, their clean energy, their lack of bits that can go wrong. Hard-core petrol-heads will never love them - without all the complex engine parts, no exhaust system, fuel system, gearbox or clutch, they rather resemble a human body with no internal organs, only a robot brain and an On/Off switch - but you can see them catching on, as soon as the problem of recharging availability is solved. Should sockets be available on the forecourt of every petrol service station? Or would the petrol companies consider that helping the enemy? What I missed about the cars I'd tried was a sense of style. Then I learned that the Tesla company was opening a London outpost. Tesla is a name that raises goose-bumps on some motorists' skin. Rumours have flown for months about the Californian company owned by Elon Munsk, whose electric Roadster is a sports car that can reportedly out-race a Porsche and a Ferrari from a standing start. The showroom was in Knightsbridge. The four cars on display were jaw-droppingly beautiful - sleek and glistening in red or silver. The makers have adapted the chassis from a Lotus Elise, made it 6in longer and 2in wider, its carbon-fibre skin as smooth as butter. The gear stick is a perfect silver ball like a Ferrari's. The seats are low-lying and buttock-clenching. The leather upholstery is black and red, finished with exposed stitching like a Savile Row suit.
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North and South Korea exchange artillery volleys into the sea Reporting from Seoul - North Korea fired artillery shells that landed near the disputed maritime line in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, prompting South Korea to respond by firing its own shells toward the North's sea border, officials said. The shells landed in the water and no injuries were reported, officials said. The afternoon exchange took place in an area of sea that in November saw the last lethal flare-up between the two sides when North Korean shelling killed four South Koreans on Yeonpyeong Island. About 1 p.m. Wednesday, the North's shells landed near the so-called Northern Limit Line, according to military officials in Seoul. The South responded about an hour later with its three-shot volley. "We haven't noticed any particular movements in the North Korean military but we're maintaining a defense posture," said a spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. South Korean forces have been on high alert since last fall's artillery attacks, which brought assurances from South Korean President Lee Myung-bak that his nation would beef up security in the area. Officials in Seoul said they did not know where the other side's shells were fired from, but suspected that they came from one of North Korea's front-line islands bordering southern-controlled waters. They said the North's shelling came as a surprise as there were no known military drills going on in the area. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il often uses surprise to keep tension high along the land and sea borders that have separated the two sides since a truce was called in the Korean War in 1953. North Korea has long maintained that the Northern Limit Line was mistakenly drawn, robbing the North of valuable fishing sites. Experts downplayed the significance of Wednesday's development in the dispute. "I don't think it's anything to be concerned about at this point," said Daniel Pinkston, deputy project director of the Northeast Asia Program for the nonprofit International Crisis Group. Lee Dong-bok, a South Korean foreign affairs expert, agreed, pointing out that one of the North Korean shells may even have landed short of the maritime line. "Currently, the North has been trying to create tension to threaten South Korea and the U.S. to get what they want," he said. "But this time they threw a weak punch."
Choi is a news assistant in The Times' Seoul bureau.
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Cheers, Chzz ►
== ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL ==
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHEMICAL ADHESIVE/SEALANT USED TO ENCAPSULATE OR COVERING THE COPPER WIRE COIL,IN SUBMERCIBLE PUMP, WHICH IS VERY HARD AND BRITTLE DARK GREEN GLOSSY COMPOUND.. THE PUMP IS USED IN Evaporative air
cooler IN INDIAN TERRAINS.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbrainy (talk • contribs)
Sorry, this page is for helping people with using wikipedia, and not with general questions. You can perhaps ask over at the reference deskTiggerjay (talk)
== File Histories ==
Would it be possible to make it so that on erence to a "reliable source" (such as a newspaper, book, news website) to add a fact like that. As long as you have a reference, please feel free to add it yourself. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Chzz ►
Do you mean List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents? That list includes the Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw from Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 which crashed in Tripoli last year. He was added a year ago so perhaps you saw an outdated mirror of the list at another site outside Wikipedia's control. PrimeHunter (talk)
== reporting inappropriate photo ==
please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 for an inappropriate photo at the bottom of page 124.182.18.165 (talk)
That was caused by vandalism, which was removed less than 2 minutes later, and the user who did it has been blocked from editing. If you're still seeing it, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447?action=purge to force a refresh. Cheers, Chzz ►
== ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL ==
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHEMICAL ADHESIVE/SEALANT USED TO ENCAPSULATE OR COVERING THE COPPER WIRE COIL,IN SUBMERCIBLE PUMP, WHICH IS VERY HARD AND BRITTLE DARK GREEN GLOSSY COMPOUND.. THE PUMP IS USED IN Evaporative air
cooler IN INDIAN TERRAINS.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbrainy (talk • contribs)
Sorry, this page is for helping people with using wikipedia, and not with general questions. You can perhaps ask over at the reference deskTiggerjay (talk)
== File Histories ==
Would it be possible to make it so that on rence to a "reliable source" (such as a newspaper, book, news website) to add a fact like that. As long as you have a reference, please feel free to add it yourself. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Chzz ►
Do you mean List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents? That list includes the Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw from Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 which crashed in Tripoli last year.
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VP Reads Message From Ailing Chavez to Military In a message read by his No. 2, President Hugo Chavez saluted Venezuela's military and acknowledged he was facing "complicated and difficult" times as he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba. The message read by Vice President Nicolas Maduro during a military event in eastern Venezuela offered no details on Chavez's condition and it was unclear when the president composed it. Chavez, 58, has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery in Havana on Dec. 11. "I have had to battle again for my health," the president said in the message. He expressed "complete faith in the commitment and loyalty that the revolutionary armed forces are showing me in this very complicated and difficult moment." There have been no new updates on Chavez's condition since Maduro announced Monday night that he had received a phone call from the president who was up and walking. Maduro and other government officials have tried to drill optimism into their supporters at raucous events nearly every day since. But uncertainty about Venezuela's political future has grown with no guarantee that Chavez will be back in time for his scheduled Jan. 10 inauguration for a new six-year term. A group of opposition candidates demanded Friday that Maduro provide an official medical report on Chavez's health. Lawmaker Dinorah Figuera said the country needs "a medical report from those who are responsible for the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of the president." "The Venezuelan people deserve official and institutional information," Figuera told Venezuelan media. Before leaving for Cuba, Chavez acknowledged the precariousness of his situation and designated Maduro his successor, telling supporters they should vote for the vice president if new elections are necessary. But a legal fight is brewing over what should happen if Chavez, who was re-elected in October, cannot return in time for the inauguration before the National Assembly. National Assembly Diosdado Cabello insisted Monday that the Venezuelan Constitution allows the president to take the oath before the Supreme Court at any time if he cannot do it before the legislature on Jan. 10. Opposition leaders argue the constitution requires that new elections be held within 30 days if Chavez cannot take office Jan. 10. They have criticized the confusion over the inauguration as the latest example of the Chavez government's disdain for democratic rule of law and have demanded clarity on whether the president is fit to govern.
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FDA Tells 23andMe to Halt Sales of Genetic Test The Food and Drug Administration is ordering genetic test maker 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits, saying the company has failed to show that the technology is backed by science. In a warning letter posted online, FDA regulators say the Silicon Valley company is violating federal law because its products claim to identify health risks for more than 250 diseases and health conditions. Only medical tests that have been cleared by the FDA are permitted to make such claims. The letter follows years of back-and-forth between the government and Google-backed 23andMe, the most visible company among a new field of startups selling personal genetic information. The proliferation of consumer-marketed genetic tests has troubled many public health officials and doctors who worry that the products are built on flimsy science. For years, 23andMe resisted government regulation, arguing that it simply provides consumers with information, not a medical service. But last year the company appeared to change course, submitting several of the disease-specific tests included in its test kit. A spokeswoman for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company said 23andMe recognizes "that we have not met the FDA's expectations," for addressing questions about the submission. "Our relationship with the FDA is extremely important to us and we are committed to fully engaging with them to address their concerns," said Kendra Cassillo in a statement. The FDA letter suggests that regulators have gone to great lengths to try and work with the company. Regulators even mention "more than 14 face-to-face and teleconference meetings, hundreds of email exchanges, and dozens of written communications." "However, even after these many interactions with 23andMe, we still do not have any assurance that the firm has analytically or clinically validated," its technology, the letter states. The FDA warning takes issue with a number of claims the company makes for its saliva-based test kit, particularly calling it a "first step in prevention" against diseases like diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer. Regulators worry that false results from the test could cause patients to receive inadequate or inappropriate medical care. For instance, 23andMe says its test can identify women who carry the BRCA gene mutation that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. But a false result could lead women to undergo unnecessary screening, chemotherapy and surgery. The test also claims to predict how patients will respond to popular drugs, including the ubiquitous blood thinner warfarin, which is used to prevent blood clots. The FDA warns that an inaccurate reading there could "have significant unreasonable risk of illness, injury, or death to the patient," if they don't receive the appropriate drug dose. 23andMe was co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, who married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2007. Google confirmed in September that the two are separated, though Google and Brin have invested millions in the privately held company over the years. 23andMe executives have previously said that they first contacted the FDA in 2007, before launching their product. The agency did not take an interest in the technology until 2010, when it issued letters to several testing companies, stating that their products are considered medical devices and must be approved as safe and effective. The FDA already regulates a variety of genetic tests administered by health care providers, such as those given to pregnant women to detect cystic fibrosis in a developing fetus. The FDA's concern with 23andMe appears to center on its commercial approach, which sidesteps doctors and health professionals. Consumers order the company's product online. When the kit arrives by mail consumers are instructed to spit into a small tube, providing a saliva sample which is sent back to the company for analysis. 23andMe says the customer's DNA is analyzed to determine their likelihood of developing various diseases and responding to various drugs. The test also claims to provide information about ancestral background, though this information is not regulated by the FDA.
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Toyota Motor Corp.'s top-shelf brand is also eyeing an expanded lineup that could include a car-based, seven-seat people mover and fresh variants of its CT entry-level hatchback, as well as a sporty coupe drawing from the Lexus LF-LC hybrid concept unveiled at the Detroit auto show. A phaseout of the low-end, slow-selling HS dedicated hybrid also could be down the road. And the brand gradually will shift from body-on-frame trucks to unibodies. But one thing Lexus won't do is dip down-market into smaller segments. Top executives who outlined the strategy to Automotive News say the goal is to enliven the brand, make it sportier and infuse it with emotion. Lexus surrendered its 11-year reign as the best-selling luxury brand in the United States last year. Japan's March 11 earthquake hurt sales by constraining production. But executives concede their traditionally staid lineup needs more allure. Acura: New products to lift sales
Acura expects a whopping 46 percent increase in sales this year, powered by a string of new products that begins with two entry-luxury vehicles arriving this spring. The ILX entry-luxury sedan and RDX crossover will be in showrooms in March, followed by a redesign of the rest of the lineup within the next two years. In 2015, Acura will see the rebirth of the NSX sports car as a hybrid sports car, developed and built in the United States, said Takanobu Ito, CEO of Honda Motor Co. The new products, plus the ability to produce at full capacity after recovering from the Japan earthquake and Thai floods, means Acura's U.S. sales will increase from about 123,000 123,299 units in 2011 to 180,000 this year, said Tetsuo Iwamura, CEO of American Honda Motor Co. "If we do 180,000 units, that will be a success," Iwamura said. "We are much more ambitious for the future. Last year, we struggled a lot with production, but this year we can go full speed." A larger replacement for the RL flagship comes this fall, followed in spring 2013 by the mid-sized TL sedan.
Based in Detroit, Automotive News has been the place for all the news that is happening among automotive retailers, suppliers and manufacturers since 1925. In addition to the 100% paid weekly print issue that is received by 60,000 subscribers, autonews.com is a vibrant Web site with more than four million page views monthly. It contains the day's breaking news and features two daily newscasts and webinars. Daily and weekly e-mails and breaking news alerts keep the industry's top executives up-to-date. SOURCE Automotive News
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The methylglyoxal pathway is an offshoot of glycolysis found in some prokaryotes, which converts glucose into methylglyoxal and then into pyruvate. However unlike glycolysis the methylglyoxal pathway does not produce adenosine triphosphate, ATP. The pathway is named after the substrate methylglyoxal which has three carbons and two carbonyl groups located on the 1st carbon and one on the 2nd carbon. Methylglyoxal is, however, a reactive aldehyde that is very toxic to cells, it can inhibit growth in E. coli at milimolar concentrations. The excessive intake of glucose by a cell is the most important process for the activation of the methylglyoxal pathway. ==The Methylglyoxal pathway==
The methylglyoxal pathway is activated by the increased intercellular uptake of carbon containing molecules such as glucose, glucose-6-phosphate, lactate, or glycerol. Methylglyoxal is formed from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) by the enzyme methylglyoxal synthase, giving off a phosphate group. Methylglyoxal is then converted into two different products, either D-lactate, and L-lactate. Methylglyoxal reductase and aldehyde dehydrogenase convert methylglyoxal into lactaldehyde and, eventually, L-lactate. If methylglyoxal enters the glyoxylase pathway, it is converted into lactoylguatathione and eventually D-lactate. Both D-lactate, and L-lactate are then converted into pyruvate. The pyruvate that is created most often goes on to enter the Krebs cycle (Weber 711-13). ==Enzymes and regulation==
The potentially hazardous effects of methylglyoxal require regulation of the reactions with this substrate. Synthesis of methylglyoxal is regulated by levels of DHAP and phosphate concentrations. High concentrations of DHAP encourage methylglyoxal synthase to produce methylglyoxal, while high phosphate concentrations inhibit the enzyme, and therefore the production of more methylglyoxal. The enzyme triose phosphate isomerase affects the levels of DHAP by converting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GAP) into DHAP. The usual pathway converting GAP to pyruvate starts with the enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Weber 711-13). Low phosphate levels inhibit GAP dehydrogenase; GAP is instead converted into DHAP by triosephosphate isomerase (Wikipedia Triosephosphate isomerase). Again, increased levels of DHAP activate methylglyoxal synthase and methylglyoxal production (Weber 711-13). ==The oscillation of Methylglyoxal concentration in feast concentrations==
Jan Weber, Anke Kayser, and Ursula Rinas, performed an experiment to test what happened to the methylglyoxal pathway when E. coli was in the presence of a constantly high concentration of glucose. The concentration of methylglyoxal increased until it reached 20 μmol. Methylglyoxal concentration then began to decrease, once it reached this level. The decrease in the concentration of methylglyoxal was connected to the drop in respiratory activity. When respiration activity increased the concentration of methylglyoxal increased again, until it reached the 20 μmol concentration (Weber 714-15). ==Why does the Methylglyoxal pathway exist?==
This pathway does not produce any ATP, this pathway does not replace glycolysis it runs simultaneously to glycolysis and is only initiated with an increased concentration of sugar phosphates. One believed purpose of the methylglyoxal pathway is to help release the stress of elevated sugar phosphate concentration. Also when methylglyoxal is formed from DHAP, an inorganic phosphate is given off which can be used to replenish a low concentration of needed inorganic phosphate. The methylglyoxal pathway is a rather dangerous tactic, both because less energy is produced and a toxic compound, methylglyoxal is formed. (Weber 715). ==References==
Weber, Jan, Anke Kayser, and Ursula Rinas. Metabolic Flux Analysis of Escherichia Coli In. Vers. 151: 707-716. 6 Dec. 2004. Microbiology. 10 Apr. 2007. "Methylglyoxal." Wikipedia. 15 July 2006. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 10 Apr. 2007. "Triosephosphate Isomerase."
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BBC News - John Swinney urged to re-think 2013-14 spending plans 22 January 2013 Last updated at 09:17 Holyrood's opposition parties have called on the Scottish government to change its budget priorities. The plea has come ahead of a debate on the SNP's 2013-14 spending plans. Labour wants the £35m college cut dropped; the Tories want Scottish Water taken out of public control and the Lib Dems want nursery provision extended. Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney said he would work with all parties to deliver a budget bill for "jobs and growth." However, he said any alternative proposals must be funded by savings elsewhere. Mr Swinney added: "As in previous years we will continue to work collaboratively with all parties to build agreement on the Bill's contents and to secure a budget that meets the needs of Scotland's people and its economy. "But I have had to make difficult choices in order to deliver a sound budget and I would call on those who wish to make changes to face the same discipline. "To those who argue that I should make changes, or increase funding for particular areas, my answer is this: Scotland lacks the full powers of an independent nation and must operate within fixed resources. "If you want to see changes and increases to sections of the budget, you must also demonstrate how you will pay for it." Continue reading the main story Budget extras £40m for affordable housing, starting this year £80m for the Schools for the Future programme Creation of an Energy Skills Academy Employer recruitment initiative for young people £17m for college education and student support £6m for cycling £1m for "elite athletes" £2.5m for hybrid buses £1.5m for VisitScotland £1m for historic buildings He said the total budget, which amounted to about £28.6bn from the Treasury, would "accelerate economic recovery" in the face of Westminster constraints. Labour wants the government to reverse a £35m college cut, invest extra UK cash in housing and reinstate the "full scope" of rail improvements between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The party's finance spokesman Ken Macintosh said: "John Swinney needs to match his words with his actions. "These are three budget decisions which are fair, affordable and which would make a genuine difference to employment prospects and economic confidence here in Scotland. "The SNP cannot blame Westminster if they fail to use the powers and funding they have at their disposal." Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown repeated his call to take Scottish Water out of public hands - which he estimates will save "around £250m" over two years - and restore the housing budget to previous levels. He added: "Taking Scottish Water out of public hands would allow the Scottish government to put £70m back into the housing budget while leaving millions more for capital projects. "It has been our view for some time that this new business model would create around £250m over two years. "That would help turn around an industry which is absolutely central to the overall economy in terms of jobs and building homes for the next generation." 'Triple boost' Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has called on the government to extend free nursery provision to more two-year-olds and reverse planned cuts to the college budget. He explained: "Extending free childcare to more two-year-olds could give a triple boost to Scotland's economy. "It will deliver opportunities for our children, it will allow more parents to return to work and the government's budget will provide more jobs to a sector dominated by women. "These are fair decisions which will deliver opportunities for hard-working people across Scotland." Mr Swinney set out his initial spending priorities for the budget in a statement to MSPs in September last year. He identified £40m for "affordable housing," a new energy skills academy and an employer recruitment scheme designed to help create up to 10,000 jobs for young people.
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Military helicopters crash near Washington base By msnbc.com staff and wires Updated at 2:35 a.m. ET SEATTLE -- Two military helicopters crashed Monday night at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, Seattle TV station KING reported. Brendalyn Carpenter, a spokeswoman for JLBM, located near Tacoma, Wash., confirmed that "there was an accident" involving at least one helicopter around 9:15 p.m. local time and military police and emergency personnel were en route to the accident scene. JLBM public affairs could not confirm or deny anything to NBC News. KIRO TV reported that the two helicopters were OH-53 Kiowa Warriors. The station reported that local fire crews reached the crash sites, but there were no survivors. KCPQ TV reported that the two helicopters crashed during training exercises and at least six were dead, according to sources, but there was no official confirmation. This is a breaking news story, check back for more updates. Reuters contributed to this report.
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Orthothelphusa is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Orthothelphusa holthuisi (Rodríguez, 1967)
Orthothelphusa roberti (Bott, 1967)
Orthothelphusa venezuelensis (Rathbun, 1905)
==References==
Pseudothelphusidae
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NFL moves 1st game to Wednesday to avoid Obama NEW YORK (AP) - Powerful as the NFL is, it's making way for President Barack Obama. Opting to play a game on a Wednesday for the first time in more than 60 years, the NFL will open the regular season on Sept. 5, to avoid conflicting with Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention the next night. The Super Bowl champion New York Giants will host the Wednesday night season-opener starting at 8:30 p.m. EST; their opponent hasn't been announced yet. According to the league, it hasn't played a game on a Wednesday since Sept. 22, 1948, when the Rams faced the Lions. The NFL regular season has started on a Thursday since 2002. This year's change was announced by the league on Tuesday. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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le Danemark sacré en Suède Eurovision: le Danemark sacré en Suède (AFP) - il y a 1 heure MALMO (Suède) - Avec une ballade envoûtante, le Danemark a remporté samedi l'Eurovision à Malmö, troisième ville de Suède, à l'issue d'une compétition enlevée et joyeuse. Pieds nus, sa marque de fabrique, et accompagnée par des batteurs et un joueur de flûte, la jeune Danoise Emmelie de Forest a enflammé le public avec "Only Teardrops." Avec 14 points au total, la France a terminé 23e de la compétition, sur 26 finalistes. Les quelque 11.000 personnes rassemblées dans la Malmö Arena ont accueilli les 26 contributions avec une égale bonne humeur. Les drapeaux des participants virevoltaient près de la scène. Le spectacle a captivé le public pendant plus de trois heures. Grande favorite des parieurs et des experts, la jeune Emmelie, dont le père est Suédois, a obtenu 281 points juste devant l'Azerbaïdjan (234 points) et l'Ukraine (214 points). Vendredi, lors d'une conférence de presse conjointe avec, signe prémonitoire, Loreen, la gagnante de l'édition 2012, la chanteuse de 20 ans était restée prudemment optimiste. Mais samedi, en fin de soirée, elle a hurlé de joie lorsqu'elle a compris que la victoire lui appartenait. "Je croyais en la chanson, mais ce qui est excitant avec l'Eurovision c'est qu'on ne sait jamais ce qui va se passer," a confié Emmelie de Forest à la presse à l'issue de la compétition dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche. Son dauphin, l'Azéri Farid Mammadov, a interprété un titre accrocheur, "Hold me." Son numéro a marqué les esprits: ses mouvements étaient reflétés par un danseur enfermé dans une boîte en verre. La grandiloquente performance ukrainienne restera un moment fort du spectacle: la chanteuse Zlata Ognevich a été portée sur scène par un géant de 2,34 mètres, censé symboliser sa force intérieure. Les premiers résultats étaient très favorables à la Grèce. Dans "Alcohol Is Free," Koza Mostra et Agathon Iakovidis ont décrit à l'aide de métaphores les souffrances de leur pays ravagé par la crise économique. Mais la Grèce a terminé 6e avec 152 points, elle n'aura donc pas à organiser l'événement l'an prochain. Cette 58e édition de l'Eurovision a également affiché son soutien à son public gay. Dans un intermède représentant un simulacre de mariage, deux danseurs se sont embrassés, rivalisant ainsi avec la représentante de la Finlande, Krista Siegfrids, qui a embrassé l'une de ses danseuses à la fin de sa chanson "Marry Me," considérée comme un hymne au mariage homosexuel. Ces deux baisers pourraient expliquer la décision de la télévision publique turque TRT de ne pas retransmettre l'événement, même si officiellement, la Turquie a expliqué sa décision en invoquant le faible taux d'audience. Il s'agit de la troisième victoire du Danemark à ce concours regardé par quelque 125 millions de téléspectateurs à travers le monde.
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==Joke article?==
Is this article a joke? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlad Dracula (talk • contribs)
It strikes me as odd that no photograph of the original is offered. Captainbeefart (talk)
==Statue of Liberty==
Hello. This is my very first edit, so please be merciful. I offered this correction based on Tsao Tsing-yuan's account of the construction of the statue. sigrid
==Political Manipulation==
The statue was in fact meant to symbolize socialism, thus the flamed torch, which is used in many former flags of socialist countries (Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, for one), and also the lady figure was a prominent Soviet and communist symbol. Like so much of the Tianamen protests themselves, and their impact, it was turned into an instrument of political manipulation by foreigners (mostly Americans) who were anti-socialist, and used to distort the nature of the Tiananmen opposition into some kind struggle for capitalism, and tried to create an ahistorical view of the Tiananmen protests as some kind of Cold War idiom. Thus the laughably so-named 'Victims of Communism Memorial' which George Bush (of all people) spoke at the dedication to (where is the memorial to the victims of capitalism?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.134.241 (talk)
==Merge?==
I'm questioning the stub notation, myself. I mean, it's the papier-mache statue that the PLA destroyed when they killed all the protestors. Is it really that big a deal? I can't see how this can become more than it is, which begs the question: do we move all this information to the Tianenmen Square article or do we simply remove the stub notation and let it sit? Philwelch
It is a big deal. It may have been made of paper-mache and only stood for five days, but it was and continues to be a huge symbol. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.200.200 (talk)
an eclipse doesn't last forever but it will always matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.179.11.35 (talk)
==Why the Goddess of Democracy is important==
The statue is a big deal. It an extremely notable part of the protests. In my opinion, it is the image of the Tiananmen Square protests. Media coverage tends to focus on the man in front of the tank
This statue was built, by their own hands, to embody their dreams, to focus their thoughts, and to give their beliefs a symbol and a form. How often do people get together, and in the space of a few days, construct a statue 40 feet high, yet light enough to be carried by hand? That effort cannot be ignored. This is one of the most inspirational images I have ever seen. It reminds me of something Thomas Paine wrote:
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." - The American Crisis, December 19, 1776
People who have been born into freedom and democracy have obtained it without a struggle; it is often easy to take these things for granted. The Goddess of Democracy reminds us that freedom is precious
I think that bronze duplicates of this statue should be built in the cities of London, Paris, and Washington D.C.
Several small scale replicas of the statue have been made already. This is a very important subject, and the current article only scratches the surface. This article needs to be expanded, not merged. - Pioneer-12
Well that's nice but...what's the point of writing it here? This isn't some activist site. I don't see what you can do by writing about it on a talk page on Wikipedia. Adam Bishop
(1) To prevent some clueless person from nominating this for vfd. (2) To inspire people to find out more about the statue and expand the article. - Pioneer-12
:Why would anyone nominate this for VFD? Adam Bishop
::Because this is Wikipedia. All it takes is one clueless person to start a pointless vfd vote. - Pioneer-12
:::Nonsense. This article has been here for a year and a half without anyone listing it on VFD. Besides, it would obviously survive, even without your rant.
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti makes key public works appointments Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday named third-place mayoral candidate Kevin James to the powerful Board of Public Works - the latest appointment to go to a political supporter. James, a Republican radio host who campaigned aggressively for Garcetti in the run-up to the May 21 runoff election, was one of six new appointees announced by the newly installed mayor. He has already tapped former mayoral candidate Jan Perry, who also endorsed him in the campaign, to run a new economic development agency on an interim basis. Other public works commissioners announced by Garcetti are Matt Szabo, former deputy chief of staff to former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Barbara Romero, a planning commissioner under Villaraigosa; Monica Rodriguez, an executive with the California Assn. of Realtors, and former Assemblyman Mike Davis, who represented part of South Los Angeles until last year. Davis, like Perry and James, endorsed Garcetti during the mayoral campaign. The public works board is the only city commission with full-time salaries. It oversees such nuts-and-bolts services as tree trimming, pothole filling, trash pickup and sewer maintenance. Each appointee earns more than $136,000 annually, according to the city's Personnel Department, and must be confirmed by the City Council. James, 49, spent much of his mayoral campaign discussing the city's aging infrastructure, particularly roads. He said there is "no better place to get into the nitty-gritty of running a city than public works." "Street services for me will be a big priority - getting potholes filled," he said. "I want to fill more potholes with less money." During the campaign, James repeatedly came under fire from Garcetti's opponent, then-City Controller Wendy Greuel, and many of her supporters for disparaging remarks he made about immigrants in the country illegally. James said earlier this year he had changed his views on the topic after participating in immigrant workshops and learning about the barriers to citizenship. James said he now favors naturalization for immigrants who have been in the United States for at least a decade and he supports California's version of the Dream Act, which guarantees access to college for students who have lived here most of their lives. Garcetti also hired former Ventura City Manager Rick Cole to be his deputy mayor for budget and innovation. Cole is a former Pasadena mayor who has also served as city manager in the San Gabriel Valley city of Azusa. Cole, 60, said he doesn't personally know Garcetti and didn't contribute to his mayoral campaign. But he supports the new mayor's "back to basics" vision, which has come up repeatedly during Garcetti's speeches and inaugural address. "I believe in their message and I believe they are real about their message," he said. Cole resigned from his job as Ventura city manager last year amid talk that he and a majority of the City Council had philosophical differences on several issues, including growth and development. Garcetti has already named Doane Liu, a former chief of staff to Councilman Joe Buscaino, as his deputy mayor for city services. Two other deputy mayor posts have not been filled.
Times staff writer Catherine Saillant contributed to this report.
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==Notable people==
Randy Primas - First African-American Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1981–1990)
Elliott White Springs - WWI flying ace, author, industrialist, and a member of the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Vance Walker - an American football defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons. He was regarded as a top prospect at his position in the 2009 NFL Draft and he was drafted with the 1st pick in the 7th round by the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and high school football at Fort Mill High School. ==References==
==External links==
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Technology Stocks May Become an Unlikely Haven THE stock market has been fighting an army of economic worries - including slowing economic growth and corporate earnings, a weakening dollar and what until last week were surging oil prices. For the most part, investors have been so focused on the excellent performance of individual companies that they've been willing to overlook these threats. But with first-quarter earnings season nearing an end, "the market will refocus from the micro- to the macroeconomic picture," says Jeffrey N. Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. And once that happens, he contends, the view won't be as rosy. If economic head winds strengthen - a distinct possibility - some strategists say the market could shift in meaningful ways. For starters, stocks could suffer their first major pullback or correction since last spring, when fears over Europe's fiscal crisis dominated the news. At the same time, technology stocks, which have been laggards this year, could become a favored sector if they benefit from some of the same forces that trouble other parts of the market. Right now, the broad market's performance is "approaching too-good-to-be-true status," said Brian G. Belski, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer. Historically, equity prices tend to move in anticipation of corporate earnings growth, which tends to recover before the broad economy does, Mr. Belski said. "Well, in the last two years, we've seen the market double and a huge rebound in profits," he said. "Yet it remains to be seen if the economy will follow through and deliver on its part." Last month, the Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product grew at a slower-than-anticipated annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter, down from 3.1 percent at the end of 2010. David C. Wright, managing director of Sierra Investment Management, said he was particularly worried that high food and fuel costs were making it hard for consumers to spend much on anything else. He said he was also concerned that despite economic worries, stocks are more expensive than they've been in years, leaving little room for error. Based on 10-year average earnings, the stock market's price-to-earnings ratio is currently more than 23, versus the long-term average of 16. The last time the ratio was this high was in late 2007, at the start of the last bear market. By contrast, tech stocks are significantly less frothy than they've been in years. Historically, shares of technology companies have traded at about a 30 percent premium to the broad market, based on their P/E ratios. That's because tech companies have traditionally enjoyed faster earnings growth than other types of businesses. Today, however, technology's P/E is on par with that of the overall Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Yet tech is still exhibiting solid earnings growth. I.B.M., Apple and Intel were among several tech giants that have recently reported better-than-expected first-quarter profits. Intel's results - which included a 25 percent jump in revenue - were particularly embraced by Wall Street, as they were viewed as a sign that demand for hardware like PCs may be stronger than anticipated. Over all, tech sector earnings are on track to climb 25 percent in the first quarter, while revenue is expected to jump 15 percent, according to Thomson Reuters. By comparison, profits for the S.& P. 500 are expected to grow 18 percent, while sales predicted to climb 9 percent. Earnings aren't the only area where some tech businesses are financially healthier than the typical S.& P. 500 company, said Robert E. Turner, chief investment officer at Turner Investment Partners, a money management firm in Berwyn, Pa. For one thing, big tech companies are sitting on billions of dollars in cash, which they are starting to use to raise dividends and make acquisitions. Recently, Texas Instruments announced plans to buy a rival, National Semiconductor, for $6.5 billion - representing more than a 70 percent premium to what the stock had been trading for. Despite a surprising uptick in operating expenses recently reported by Google, tech companies in general are doing a better job of keeping their costs under control. In fact, according to Deutsche Bank, tech is one of only three market categories where expenses as a percentage of sales have been falling over the past five years. (The others are health care and consumer staples.) Even if energy prices resume their rise, analysts note that technology companies aren't likely to be hurt as much as other parts of the market because oil isn't as large a component of expenses as it is in sectors like the industrials or transportation. At the same time, tech spending could actually benefit if oil prices rise, because other companies and consumers are likely to look for ways to improve productivity and lower expenses. That may mean a jump in investment in technology.
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CHNV-FM is an adult album alternative radio station broadcasting at 103.5 FM in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada and is also heard at 91.9 FM in Crawford Bay with the call sign CHNV-FM-1. The station is branded as 1035 The Bridge and is owned by the Vista Broadcast Group. ==History==
The station originally began in 2005 as a rebroadcaster of CKQR-FM (Mountain FM) in Castlegar. On August 19, 2008, Vista applied to change the authorized contours of its transmitter CHNV-FM in Nelson by increasing the average effective radiated power from 84 watts to 1,100 watts (maximum effective radiated power of 2,400 watts), by increasing the effective antenna height to 376 metres and by relocating the transmitter. This was approved on October 21, 2008. At midnight on June 11, 2010 it split off from being a rebroadcaster and moved to its own programming. It was still branded as Mountain FM and continued to have a mainly active rock format, though with more emphasis on Indie music. September 3, 2010 saw a format change to adult album alternative, and a rebranding to the current 1035 The Bridge. ==References==
==External links==
1035 The Bridge
CHNV-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
Radio stations in British Columbia
Active rock radio stations in Canada
Vista Broadcast Group radio stations
Radio stations established in 2005
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U.S. eyes Persian Gulf buildup WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A boost in the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf could come as the last troops are withdrawn from Iraq, officials said. U.S. military officials as well as officials of countries in the region have shown concern that the withdrawal of troops from Iraq could cause instability in the area. In light of an increasing threat from Iran, the Obama administration is seeking to reinforce military ties with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, The New York Times reported. Central Command officers expect to position combat forces in Kuwait, incorporating successful deployment plans from previous years, although no specifics have been discussed, the Times said. The size of the combat force is still under negotiation, but officials predict smaller deployments. "We are kind of thinking of going back to the way it was before we had a big 'boots on the ground' presence," Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, Central Command's chief of staff, told the newspaper. "I think it is healthy. I think it is efficient. I think it is practical." The United States is also considering deploying more naval warships to international waters in the area, officials said.
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Coventry City 0 West Bromwich Albion 0: match report By Tom Harverson at the Ricoh Arena
Published: 6:48PM BST 24 Oct 2009 West Bromwich Albion manager, Roberto Di Matteo believes an inability to score is to blame for his side's continuing slump in form which has now cost them top-spot as they slip back into third in the Championship. Boos echoed out from the travelling Baggies fans on the final whistle as the early season flyers failed to find a way through a Coventry defence that managed its first clean sheet in the league since late August. Their current form is light years away from that demonstrated in the opening stages of the season when the Baggies boasted seven wins and a draw from their first eight league fixtures. "Every game is very difficult it doesn't matter who you play," said Di Matteo. "We had a lot of chances but at the moment we aren't taking them. "We are struggling a little bit, you need to score goals to win games and we will have to address that. "We know that we can score goals because we have scored quite a few this season but at the moment it doesn't seem to go for us, we will have to keep working on it." Both sides appeared overly cautious going forward with neither front line making much of an impact before the break. City captain Stephen Wright handed early possession to Joe Mattock who slid a ball through to Luke Moore but the final shot was comfortably saved by Dimi Konstantopoulos who had replaced the injured Keiren Westwood after ten minutes. The home side offered little in return with Michael McIndoe and Clinton Morrison both jumping short of two early crosses whilst Freddy Eastwood headed wide. The flat feeling continued into the second half but Isaac Osbourne managed to send a long-range effort screaming over Scott Carson's bar to inject some venom into the seemingly harmless City attack. Konstantopoulos then earned his man of the match stripes five minutes before time as he raced out to block substitute Chris Wood's close-range shot to guarantee Coventry's point and nudge them up to sixteenth in the table. Match details Coventry: Westwood (Konstantopoulos 10), Cranie, Wright, Turner, Clarke (Bell 69), McIndoe, Osbourne, Cork, Van Aanholt, Eastwood (Madine 90), Morrison.
Subs: Ward, Hussey, Cain, Grandison.
Booked: Van Aanholt, Osbourne, Cork.
West Brom: Carson, Zuiverloon, Méïté, Olsson, Mattock, Thomas (Cech 83), Mulumbu, Jara, Koren (Teixeira 68), Dorrans, Moore (Wood 84).
Subs: Kiely, Reid, Martis, Cox.
Booked: Thomas, Moore, Jara.
Referee: K Stroud (Hampshire).
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Clickability Named Finalist for 2009 CODiE Award Winner of 2008's 'Best Content Management Solution' is Selected as Finalist for Second Consecutive Year; Clickability CEO to Speak at Affiliated SIIA Software Summit SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Clickability, Inc., the global leader in on demand Web Content Management (WCM), today announced that its On Demand WCM Platform (http://www.clickability.com/solutions/) has been recognized by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a CODiE Award finalist. Chosen for the second year in a row from among more than 850 products, Clickability will compete in the "Best Content Management Solution" category. "We're honored that SIIA has once again recognized Clickability and our SaaS solutions as the best in the industry," said John Girard, CEO of Clickability. "This accolade is a testament to our innovative approach to Web Content Management, as well as the demand for a comprehensive content management solution that is not only cost-effective and drives innovation, but also offers a rapid return on investment." The SIIA's recognition follows on the heels of the launch of Clickability Media (http://www.clickability.com/solutions/media/) and Corporate Solutions (http://www.clickability.com/solutions/corporate/). (See press releases at http://www.clickability.com/news/press-releases/.) Clickability remains the first and only single-instance, multi-tenant, Web-based content management service on the market. Clickability combines best-of-breed content management solutions with a "Platform as a Service" that includes technology, infrastructure, a community for sharing ideas, code and best practices, and a partner ecosystem for third-party developers and solutions. More specifically, Clickability's on demand WCM solutions enable non-technical users to easily and efficiently manage sophisticated websites across the complete content lifecycle -- creation, management, publishing, delivery, measurement and adaptation. With the Clickability Platform as the centerpiece of their Web publishing efforts, companies are better able to build global brands, reduce costs, increase revenues and foster stronger customer relationships (http://www.clickability.com/customers/success/). According to SIIA President Ken Wasch, "The competition is particularly steep this year during the 24th Annual SIIA CODiE Awards, making selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement." Wasch further added, "All the companies on this year's list of CODiE Finalists should feel justifiably proud of their accomplishment in making it to this stage, and have much excitement to look forward to regarding the upcoming CODiE Awards voting!" The CODiE Awards hold the distinction of being the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program, providing companies with a unique opportunity to earn praise from their competitors. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the CODiE Awards have raised the standard for excellence and serve as a prestigious representation for outstanding achievement and vision in the software and information industry. Finalists were judged and selected by industry experts from the trade press, mainstream technology writers, analysts, consultants and subject-matter experts. Winners will be determined by SIIA member votes and announced at a gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on May 5, 2009, in conjunction with SIIA's co-located conferences, SIIA NetGain and the SIIA Software Summit. Additionally, Clickability's John Girard will be participating in the "Best of the Breed" panel at the SIIA Software Summit on May 4, 2009. This panel will feature CEOs from past CODiE winners to discuss problems and solutions relevant to software businesses today. Each panelist will discuss a development, marketing, or distribution challenge and how they approached it. About Clickability, Inc.
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First look: Stylish trailer released for the final season of Breaking Bad AMC has released a tantalising, mostly spoiler-free trailer for the hotly anticipated final season of its flagship drama, Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad charts the fortunes of druglord Walter White (Bryan Cranston; Right) and his partner Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Source: Supplied Oh, WE remember. Source: Supplied AMC has released a tantalising, mostly spoiler-free trailer for the hotly anticipated final season of its flagship drama, Breaking Bad. And even though, like we said, it's mostly spoiler-free, look away if you're a Breaking Bad fan* and you're not caught up to the latest episode. When we last saw Walter White, he'd bowed out of the methamphetamine production game and left that whole mess behind in New Mexico. That was midway through the split fifth and final season. Walter looked set to get off scot-free. Life seemed good. His wife Skyler seemed happy. Jesse Pinkman seemed less high and Walter White less murderous. (Pause: Is everyone else still coming to terms with the fact that Walter White was the dad in Malcolm In The Middle?) But there was one final twist: the bathroom scene. The 'WW' scene. Hank Schrader, Walter's brother in law and local drug enforcement agent, discovered a book in Walter's bathroom that had been given by deceased chemist-turned-meth-cook Gale to his mentor, 'WW'. Hank had previously joked that it was a reference to Walter, and the pair laughed it off. After all, how could Walter, a retired chemistry teacher, cancer victim and car wash owner, be the elusive drug kingpin that Hank and his crew had been after? But now he knows. Hank knows. Which brings us up to now. The trailer - cold, artful, stylishly menacing - teases fans not with glimpses of what comes next, but with a moody montage of location shots from Albuquerque, set to an eerie, whirring sound effect and the most ominous thing of all - Walter White's voice. White, played by Bryan Cranston, delivers a gravelly, intense reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias. The poem ends with a glimpse of Heisenberg's black hat, covered in desert dust, the final lines of verse a warning of what may be to come: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, alone and level, sands stretch far away." The show premieres on August 11 in the US and is expected to hit Australian screens via Foxtel shortly after. Drooooooool. *If you're not a BB fan, then sort yourself out immediately.
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Site For 9/11 Trial Isn't Its Only Obstacle For much of President Obama's first year in office, his national security team worked to devise a secure plan to send dozens of Yemeni detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba - the largest single group at the prison camp - home to Yemen, perhaps to a rehabilitation program. Then came the Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt, which was planned in Yemen, and the president put all transfers there on hold. Since November, the administration had been preparing to move the highest-profile Guantánamo prisoners - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accomplices accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - to Manhattan for a federal criminal trial. But overwhelming opposition from New York politicians concerned about costs, disruptions and security now has the Justice Department scrambling to come up with a Plan B, even as Congress threatens to block money to pay for a criminal 9/11 trial altogether. That could force the administration to revive the very option that the president and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had rejected: military commissions at Guantánamo for the 9/11 plotters. For a president who campaigned on a promise to close Guantánamo, and who just missed a self-imposed one-year deadline to get the job done, the meltdown of a potential Manhattan 9/11 trial is the latest measure of the stubborn complexity of his national security inheritance. "It's obviously proven a lot more difficult than a lot of us expected to close Guantánamo," said Sarah E. Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who has studied the issue intensively. She called the turnaround of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other New York officials "disappointing" and the costly security plan they proposed for Manhattan excessive, given the major Al Qaeda trials held there in the past with far less disruptive procedures. "We need to develop a greater resiliency in this country on security issues," she said. "The administration needs to remind the American public that we have convicted 195 international terrorists in federal courts since 2001." For some who have always advocated military commissions for the 9/11 plotters, the demise of the Manhattan plan simply proved their point. "It just shows what a dumb idea it was in the first place," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, in an interview Thursday. Mr. Graham plans to reintroduce legislation in a few days to block criminal trials for the 9/11 suspects altogether. A similar bill is already pending in the House. Two Democratic senators, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Jim Webb of Virginia, joined several Republican colleagues last week in coming out against criminal trials for the Qaeda plotters, raising opponents" hopes that Congress could make the hunt for a new 9/11 courthouse moot. "The attacks of 9/11 were acts of war, and those who planned and carried out those attacks are war criminals," the group of six senators wrote in a letter to the attorney general. They said that any American venue for a trial would become a terrorist target, and that military commissions were the proper way to bring terrorists to justice. But administration officials note that 348 international and domestic terrorists are being held in federal prisons after they were convicted in civilian criminal trials. By contrast, in the eight years since the Bush administration first set up military commissions, only three Guantánamo detainees have been convicted, in part because of legal challenges to the tribunals. Two of the three received modest sentences and are now free. Mr. Obama last week restated his commitment to criminal 9/11 trials, and the Justice Department is looking at alternative sites, including some on military bases or at prison complexes. Federal venue rules provide for wide leeway in choosing a location, requiring only "a plausible connection" between the crime and the district, said Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at American University. For a murder charge, federal law requires a trial venue tied to "the place where the injury was inflicted, or the poison administered or other means employed which caused the death." Mr. Vladeck said that might arguably extend beyond the sites where the hijacked airliners crashed - New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia - to Massachusetts and New Jersey, where two of the jets took off. For a terrorism conspiracy charge, the list of possible venues could grow still longer to include states where the hijackers lived and plotted, among them California, Maryland and Florida. The most experienced terrorism prosecutors are in New York's Southern District, which includes Manhattan, the Bronx and six counties north of the city. The next most experienced are in the Eastern District of Virginia, outside Washington, which also meets the jurisdictional requirements. There are numerous military installations in both districts, though most lack adequate facilities to host a trial.
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Kremer used pretty strong language - "baloney" - to condemn Obama's statement, but the evidence provided by the Tea Party Express actually supports the president's point. By available evidence, it appears all but impossible for the Treasury Department to pick and choose among payments - or to keep up that balancing act up for very long. Four Pinocchios (About our rating scale) Check out our candidate Pinocchio Tracker Follow The Fact Checker on Twitter and friend us on Facebook.
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After Miss Julie at the American Airlines Theatre, New York, review
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Newcrest shares plummet on production downgrade NEWCREST Mining shares were hammered down to a fresh four-year low after the gold miner delivered its fourth big production guidance downgrade since chief executive Greg Robinson took the reins 21 months ago. Credit Suisse analyst Michael Slifirski said the downgrade, which was mainly because of a damaged autoclave at the Lihir Island plant in Papua New Guinea, was "profoundly disappointing" and was expected to result in $177 million of lost full-year earnings, which were now expected to be $716m. Citi analysts said the downgrade would knock $313m from their full-year net profit forecast, which had now dropped to $665m.
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Move over Oprah! Chavez's gift a best-seller Move over Oprah! Chavez's gift a best-seller Before exchange, book's paperback edition ranked 54,295 on Amazon.com The Associated Press updated 2:30 p.m. ET April 19, 2009 A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on Amazon.com. It's an astounding jump for "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano. The paperback edition was ranked 54,295 on the online retailer before Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language edition of the 1971 book on Saturday. It had jumped to No. 5 by Sunday. The English hardcover edition is listed as out of print. Galeano's book documents how foreign interests have dominated and afflicted Latin America since the Spanish conquest. It's a favorite among leftists. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Sebastian Vettel heads Lewis Hamilton in Malaysia final practice Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel headed Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in final practice at the Malaysian Grand Prix. The world champion edged Hamilton by just 0.133 seconds, with Force India's Adrian Sutil close behind in third. Red Bull's Mark Webber was fourth ahead of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, who did not look as comfortable as he had in an impressive performance on Friday. "The circuit has helped us in being smoother - we have been able to get the car closer to its peak in terms of where the downforce and ride-height curve is" Jenson Button Force India's Paul di Resta was sixth and McLaren's Jenson Button seventh. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso only 10th. BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson said: "We know the Red Bulls have that one-lap pace. We saw that at the first race in Australia last weekend. Looking after the tyres in the race is another matter. "Sutil and Di Resta third and sixth for Force India - that's a fantastic effort." Ferrari appeared to be struggling for pace - Alonso was 0.867 seconds off Vettel and was also 0.356secs adrift of team-mate Felipe Massa, who was eighth fastest. Ferrari technical director Pat Fry said after Friday practice that the team still had work to do: "I still think we're behind. And we still need to keep on developing so we can catch up and hopefully pull out a lead. "You can't hide from the truth. Last year we didn't have the quickest car; maybe we did at one race. We still haven't got the quickest car. We need to develop it so it is." The Ferraris were split by Nico Rosberg's Mercedes, 0.381secs behind team-mate Hamilton. The Englishman suffered a torn tread on his right front tyre at the end of the session. Raikkonen complained that the car was too "on the nose" - had too much front grip. BBC 5 live pit-lane reporter Jennie Gow reported that the team had not changed the car significantly overnight but that the track conditions had changed. Button's performance was encouraging for McLaren, who were uncompetitive at the season-opening race in Australia last weekend. At Sepang, the 2009 world champion was only 0.387secs off the pace. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Formula 1 weather forecast On Friday he had suggested that part of the team's improvement was down to the layout and surface of the Malaysian track highlighting the weaknesses of the McLaren car less than Melbourne's Albert Park. "I don't think we've improved the car in terms of ride quality," Button said. "The circuit has helped us in being smoother - we have been able to get the car closer to its peak in terms of where the downforce and ride-height curve is. "It's still not quick but I feel we're doing a good job of working towards the best possible set-up with the car." His team-mate Sergio Perez was only 12th fastest, 1.103secs off the pace. The line-up sets the scene for an intriguing qualifying session at 08:00 GMT. Results: 1. Sebastian Vettel (Ger), Red Bull - Renault 1:36.435 2. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes - 1:36.568 3. Adrian Sutil (Ger), Force India - 1:36.588 4. Mark Webber (Aus), Red Bull - 1:36.613 5. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin), Lotus - 1:36.806 6. Paul Di Resta (GB), Force India - 1:36.807 7. Jenson Button (GB), McLaren - 1:36.822 8. Felipe Massa (Brz), Ferrari - 1:36.946 9. Nico Rosberg (Ger), Mercedes - 1:36.949 10. Fernando Alonso (Spa), Ferrari - 1:37.302 11. Pastor Maldonado (Ven), Williams - 1:37.359 12. Sergio Perez (Mex), McLaren - 1:37.538 13. Nico Huelkenberg (Ger), Sauber - 1:37.685 14. Romain Grosjean (Fra), Lotus - 1:37.690 15. Valtteri Bottas (Fin), Williams - 1:37.936 16. Esteban Gutierrez (Mex), Sauber - 1:38.294 17. Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra), Toro Rosso - 1:38.376 18. Daniel Ricciardo (Aus), Toro Rosso - 1:38.425
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William Cox may refer to:
William Cox (athlete) (1904–1996), United States Olympic medallist
William Cox (governor) (born 1936), known as Bill Cox, Governor of the state of Tasmania, Australia
William Cox (pioneer) (1764–1837), constructor of the road across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
William Cox (general) (1776-1864), british general of the peninsular war. William Cox (UK politician) (1817–1889), Member of Parliament for Finsbury 1857–1859, 1861–1865
William B. Cox (1910–1989), president of the American Football League, 1941, later owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team
William Denton Cox (1883–1912), heroic steward aboard RMS Titanic
William D. Cox (1910–1989), American businessman and sports executive
William E. Cox (1861–1942), U.S. Representative from Indiana
William George Cox (c. 1821–1878), Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek Gold Rush
William Harold Cox (1901–1988), U.S. federal judge
William Hopkinson Cox (1856–1950), American politician; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
William John Cox (born 1941), American public interest lawyer, prosecutor, author and political activist
William R. Cox (1832–1911), Confederate general in the United States Civil War, later Secretary of the United States
William Robert Cox (1901–1988), prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets
William Samuel Cox (1831–1895), Australian racecourse owner, namesake of the Cox Plate
William Sands Cox (1802–1875), surgeon in Birmingham, England
William Sitgreaves Cox (1790–1874), court-martialled acting third lieutenant of the USS Chesapeake
William Wesley Cox (1865–1948), Presidential, Vice Presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party
Bill Cox (American football) (born 1929), former American football end
Bill Cox (baseball) (1913–1988), Major League Baseball pitcher
Billy Cox (born 1941), American bassist best known for playing with guitarist Jimi Hendrix
Billy Cox (baseball) (1919–1978), American Major League Baseball middle infielder
==See also==
William Cox Ellis (1787–1871), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
George William Cox (1827–1902), British historian
William Coxe (disambiguation)
William Cocks (disambiguation)
William Cocke (1748–1828), American lawyer
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Jon Huntsman, former ambassador to China, tests a 2012 presidential candidacy
Jon Huntsman Jr. was leaving for dinner here early Friday evening when he was greeted on the front porch of his hotel by another guest. "I'm looking forward to supporting you," the guest said, "but I haven't heard you yet." The remark summed up the anticipation - and the absence of information - that surrounds the former governor of Utah. For the past two years, he was the U.S. ambassador to China, appointed by President Obama. By June, he is likely to be running for the Republican presidential nomination with the goal of unseating the man who sent him to Beijing. A more awkward political pivot is hard to imagine, but Huntsman, who returned to the United States about a week ago, appears ready to try to pull it off. With the Republican field still taking shape and dissatisfaction with the choices evident among party activists, the little-known Huntsman and the team of advisers he has assembled think there is opportunity for a fresh face to shake up the GOP race. Huntsman's first public outing post-China was a nonpolitical event. On Saturday morning, he was the featured speaker at commencement exercises for the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Sciences. The only signs that this might be a campaign in the making were the presence of his young videographer prowling the stage as he spoke and a retinue of advisers standing off to the side. His speech sounded little like a candidate's, which was understandable given the setting. But two things were noteworthy. Huntsman spoke about the harsh repression of dissidents in the country he just left, rather than taking note of China's economic prowess. In fact, he dismissed the idea that China was "the next big thing." America, he said, still holds the world's attention. He also offered the first hint of how he will try to persuade Republicans that his service in the Obama administration is not, on its face, disqualifying. He will tell skeptical Republicans he went to China out of a sense of patriotic duty, not a personal allegiance to the president. On Saturday, he couched it as part of his advice to the graduates. If asked, serve your country, he told them, adding: "I was, by a president of a different political party. But in the end, while we might not all be of one party, we are all part of one nation." Huntsman, a fluent Mandarin speaker, has dived into preparations for a possible campaign. Last Sunday, he held a series of meetings with his advisers. He later traveled to New York to meet with prospective donors and fundraisers. In South Carolina this weekend, he met with newly elected Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and with state Attorney General Henry McMaster, who praised him effusively. Stops next week will include more sessions with fundraisers and a meeting with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has captivated many Republicans with his tough talk about getting spending under control and who has ruled out running for president in 2012. Later this month, Huntsman will deliver another commencement address, this time in New Hampshire. That trip, unlike the visit to South Carolina, will include a string of public events aimed at stoking interest in his prospective candidacy. His team is managing a media rollout to help introduce him to the country.
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In medieval Japan, some Buddhist monasteries took an active military role during periods of political disintegration and breakdown of law and order. Currently, some Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have the reputation of being aggressive and militant supporters of Sinhalese nationalism. AnonMoos (talk)
"Indifference" doesn't seem like the right word, as it implies not responding. The Buddhists I've met who have been practicing intensely for years are all extremely engaged in the world. What's the point of compassion if you don't do anything about it? How would one of these people react if you deliberately insulted them? Who knows. Perhaps a punch in the face is exactly what you need. Pfly (talk)
== Any sports/games where the player is drowned in vegetables/salad etc ==
I am looking for info on any sport (may be a 2 memebr team) where one of the players is lying on a table and vegetables/fruits/salads are thrown on hera Frenchman, from their reputed habit of eating frogs." About the crapauds de Paris: n the Garden of Versailles is the Pool of Latona (Bassin de Latone) because the theme of Versailles is the triumph of Apollo, Louis XIV of France being the "Sun King". For the myth of Latona and the frogs, see Latona. Why should we french feel aggravated when rosbifs call us "frogs"? A frog is beautiful & delicious, just as a rosbif, & was part of human diet even before Homo erectus, I believe. But unhappily, we don't enjoy frogs anymore, since like many fine fishes & crayfishes they have disappeared from our streams and ponds : chemical pollution. The frog-thighs you may find now, mainly deep-frozen & coming from Asia, taste like wood-saw mingled with urea, just as nowadays snails are like rubber bits in your mouth. Fishing frogs is a grand remembrance of my youth, & I've fished a lot of fishes of all kinds & sizes. Look at Maurice Genevoix's "La Boîte à Pêche" ("The fishing-tackles box"), 1926, if you want to know more about it (good article on Genevoix in WP:fr). And those tender fried muscles, with some garlic & parsley... (as for nasty ethnic slurs, you may be interested in knowing that in France, when a woman is menstruated, she often uses à litote to speak about it : "Les Anglais ont débarqué" ("The englishmen have landed")...:-) ) T.y. Arapaima (talk)
There are certainly a number of Gilray cartoons using the term; however the French wore white uniforms before the revolution and blue afterwards. To be fair to the French, they often take the joke in good part. A French president, (Mitterand?) when asked how the Channel Tunnel rail link was built through the French countryside more quickly than in England replied that you don't ask the frogs before you drain the pond! Alansplodge (talk)
I had a quick look and found that while most of his troops wore blue, Napoleon's mounted troops did indeed wear dark green... which of course proves nothing, but I thought I'd mention it. 81.131.66.164 (talk)
Hahaha. Because of redcoats, obviously. 81.131.66.164 (talk)
The sound correlation shouldn't be completely ignored. If you say "Frank" (as in Frankish) with a french accent, like, it does sound a lot like 'frog', particularly with some English accents. Steewi (talk)
== Music ==
Hi. I've been playing music since I was very young, and now I'd like to learn how to recognize different types of music. First off, I need to be able to tell the key and time signature of a piece without looking at the sheet music. Any ida how I can do that? Thx
Time sigs are relatively easy. Just count the number of beats in the bar, and you have the top line. The bottom line is a bit hit and miss, could be 4, 8 or even 16 but that one's rare. Key is a little harder. You should by now be able to tell major vs minor keys. Sometimes I amuse myself by guessing what key a piece of music I hear on the radio is in, and after 40 or so years I think I've managed to pin down all the "easy" keys. I do this by the way they sound - D major sounds particularly happy.
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No tuition or loan for college? No problem (MoneyWatch) Can you imagine attending college without paying tuition or taking out a single college loan? For millions of college students in Oregon, this could soon become a reality. 10 Photos 10 priciest state universities for out-of-state students Last week, the Oregon legislature unanimously passed a bill that could lead to students attending one of the state's seven public universities without incurring any upfront costs. In what proponents are calling a pay-it-forward model, students would agree to designate a small percentage of their future income to repay the state for their education. Gov. John Kitzhaber is expected to sign the measure into law shortly. For the plan to work, supporters have projected that former students would have to contribute about three percent of their income during a 24-year repayment period. Graduates using this social insurance program would reimburse the state for their bachelors degrees through payroll deduction. According to estimates, a student whose adjusted gross income over 24 years was $500,000 would ultimately pay $15,000 for his or her bachelor's degree. Someone earning $2.5 million over the same period would pay $75,000. Over time, advocates of this program say, it would create a stable funding stream for public education in the state. Initial funding would be needed until enough college graduates are repaying their loans. The approved legislation specifically directs the state's higher education coordinating commission to create a Pay-It-Forward pilot program. According to the Oregon University system, students in the state who took out federal student loans owed an average of $24,616. The average debt load for undergrad borrowers nationwide is $30,000, according to Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert and the publisher of college education resource site Edvisors. The pay-it-forward approach is not new as way to fund college education. The bill, which originated with the Economic Opportunity Institute, a nonprofit group in Seattle, is based in part on a model used in Australia. Last year students at the University of California Riverside also created an organization called UCFix to promote a similar idea. According to the Economic Opportunity Institute, legislators in other states including Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and Washington have expressed interest in the concept.
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Gay scores 17 as Raptors beat Celtics in preseason action Rudy Gay and Tyler Hansbrough both scored 17 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 97-89 preseason victory over Boston on Monday night in Celtics" coach Brad Stevens" NBA debut. DeMar DeRozan had 13 points and Terrence Ross added 12 for the Raptors. Gerald Wallace led the Celtics with 16 points, and Jared Sullinger had 14 with six rebounds. The 36-year-old Stevens was hired in July after a successful run at Butler University. "Really, really different just because it's a 48-minute game, something to get used to because of the timeouts," Stevens said. "It's a little unique and different. There's eight more minutes (than college) and a lot more possessions because of the 24-second shot clock. Hopefully I'll get used to it in seven (preseason) games, but hopefully it doesn't last much longer than that. But it is different. It's unique." The Celtics had seven new players, mainly due to a blockbuster deal that sent likely future Hall of Famers Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets in a draft-night deal. GM Danny Ainge wanted to start rebuilding the team before the two became ineffective or retired. Ainge also traded coach Doc Rivers to the Los Angeles Clippers for a first-round draft pick during the off-season. The Raptors also made a big trade during the off-season, sending Andrea Bargnani to the New York Knicks in early July for three players and three draft picks. "Turnovers," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said of his team's play. "You see we turned it over 25 times. I know it's an exhibition game, but we've got to get that way down." The teams will face each other in the season opener in Toronto on Oct. 30. Boston point guard Rajon Rondo is expected to miss at least the season's first month after undergoing surgery for a torn ligament in his right knee last season. "As a team, I felt like we moved the ball well," said guard Avery Bradley, who will run the team in Rondo's absence. The game was tied at 84 midway into the fourth before the Raptors pulled away with an 11-3 run. "At the end of the game when we had a chance to cut into it, I thought we got pretty good looks," Stevens said. "And it's the first exhibition game, so we'll see if those go down as we move forward." Boston trailed 67-58 in the third, but scored 15 of the next 21 points, tying it on Wallace's basket. The Celtics" debut under Stevens didn't get off to a good start. They missed their first seven shots from the field and didn't score their first point until Kris Humphries" foul-line jumper nearly 4 minutes in. Boston had only six rebounds in the first half. Toronto led 14-2 in the opening 7 minutes.
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== Stele Master Award ==
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non native speaker English, please feel free to correct my English. Udimu
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The 2007 UCF Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach is George O'Leary. 2007 was the first year the UCF Knights played all of their home games at Bright House Networks Stadium, which they had just opened on the main campus of UCF in Orlando, Florida. The Knights were led on offense by quarterback Kyle Israel and Consensus All-American running back Kevin Smith. UCF sought to prove they belonged on the big stage, and got their first chance by hosting the Texas Longhorns, ultimately losing by only a field goal. UCF ultimately went 9-3 in the regular season and 7-1 in C-USA, with their only conference loss being at East Carolina, and won the Eastern Division. They would go on to host their second Conference USA Championship. Taking revenge on Tulsa for beating them two years before, UCF won the game, 44-25, to take their first Conference USA title. They would go on to their first Liberty Bowl berth against Mississippi State. Their defense held it close, but the offense was unable to re-fire, and UCF lost the game, 10-3. Kevin Smith would ultimately forego his senior year and go to the 2008 NFL Draft, where he was selected with the first pick of the third round by the Detroit Lions, the highest Knight to go in the draft since Daunte Culpepper in 1999. ==Schedule==
==Game Summaries==
===Week 1: North Carolina State (September 1)===
The NC State Wolfpack played the Knights for the first game of the season. This is the first game where the UCF Knights played with their new logo and white helmet, and also marked UCF's first win over an ACC opponent ever, and was the first win over a BCS team since George O'Leary became head coach. ===Week 2: Bye===
Bye
===Week 3: Texas (September 15)===
This was the first ever meeting between the Texas Longhorns and the UCF Knights. Texas was the first opponent in the Knights new stadium, Bright House Networks Stadium, and the 2007 game is the first of three scheduled meetings between the schools. During the game, lightning spotted near the stadium caused a fifteen minute delay. The game was a back-and-forth contest. Texas took an early three point lead and then UCF made a touchdown to go ahead 7 3. The Longhorns led 20 10 at half-time, but the Knights came back to take a 24 23 lead early in the fourth quarter. Texas then scored two field goals and a touchdown and appeared to be on the way to running out the clock before a Jamaal Charles fumble gave the Knights the ball back with about two minutes left in the game. UCF made a touchdown and a two-point conversion to cut Texas' lead to 35–32 with 35 seconds remaining. When the Knights were unable to recover their onside kick attempt, Texas was able to run out the clock and preserve their three-point victory. Jamaal Charles of Texas rushed 22 times for 157 yards and UCF's Kevin Smith rushed 27 times for 150 yards for UCF. UT's Colt McCoy completed 68% of his passes for a total of 227 yards; UCF's Kyle Israel completed 35% of his passes for a total of 133 yards. Texas ran 47 passing plays and 43 rushing plays to UCF's 26 plays passing and 41 rushing attempts. ===Week 4: Memphis (September 22)===
This was the first Conference USA game for both teams. UCF took a strong lead early in the game, with the halftime score at 42-0, and a lead at one point of 49-0. The UCF Knights have beaten Memphis every time they have played them since joining Conference USA three years ago. During the game Kyle Israel and freshman Michael Greco were used in tandem at quarterback, and their success in the game drew immediate comparisons to Chris Leak and Tim Tebow at Florida the previous year. ===Week 5: Louisiana-Lafayette (September 29)===
UCF again took a command lead of 30-6 into halftime, but this time permitting the winless Louisiana-Lafayette team within 20 was more concerning. After the game, Coach O'Leary resolved to remind his team of the importance of playing hard all four quarters of the game, which would be important especially with two road games coming up.
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Blackburn director Paul Hunt not sacked over letter say owners Venkys Blackburn's co-owner has insisted the club is not for sale despite their relegation from the Premier League. Venkatesh Rao says Indian poultry giants Venky's are with Blackburn for the long-term. He also insisted deputy chief executive Paul Hunt has left the club as a cost-cutting measure rather than being sacked over a leaked letter. Asked if Venky's wanted to keep Blackburn in the long-term, Rao told the Times of India: "Yes, it is a company of ours and there is nothing whatsoever in [the speculation]. These allegations are not correct." Hunt's letter to the owners in December, which was leaked earlier this week, asked them to sack manager Steve Kean and spend more money on new signings. It was confirmed today Hunt had left the club. Rao said: "It is not sacking because of that. Some staff have to go to bring the budget down, it is nothing to do with it [the letter]." Rao admitted he expected criticism from fans in the wake of relegation, but that they had a right to do so. "We were relegated so naturally they are going to do that," he said. "We have to come out of this situation, that's the most important thing. The fans have the right to do what they want. "It's bound to happen when someone loses that somebody criticises. We have to come out of this situation. Nobody is to be blamed." Venky's have continued to stand by Kean as manager and the Rovers boss has said he does not know what savings he will have to make on the playing staff. Kean said: "I don't know to what extent we will have to cut costs. The budget is still be agreed. That will be a process that happens as quickly as possible. "I think what we have got to do is assemble a squad and keep the players we can keep. Certainly the young players that are coming through, there is going to be lots of interest because they have done so well. "We have established players like Paul Robinson and Morten Pedersen that have only played at a high level. I don't know if there will be other interest, but in conversation with them they are just as devastated as everyone else. "I have spoken at great length with the owners and that will continue over the next six or seven days. The only objective for the owners and myself is to build a squad, it is as simple as that."
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The Ladies' Challenge Plate is one of the events at Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England. Crews of men's eight-oared boats below the standard of the Grand Challenge Cup can enter, although international standard heavyweight crews are not permitted to row in the Ladies' Plate. The Ladies' Plate was first competed for in 1845, initially as the New Challenge Cup. The following year, it became the Ladies' Challenge Plate, and it has been competed for every year since, except for years which were affected by the two World Wars. Until 1966, the Ladies' Plate was originally for academic institutions in the United Kingdom, and Trinity College, Dublin, but in 1967, the entry requirements were relaxed to allow entries from academic institutions throghout the world. Further changes in 1985 allowed entries from any club, and certain restrictions were placed on entries of the Thames Challenge Cup to ensure that crews of the required standard entered the more senior Ladies' Plate.
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Exclusive: SPX in talks to buy Gardner Denver By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim
NEW YORK (Reuters) - SPX Corp (SPW.N) is in exclusive talks to buy rival Gardner Denver Inc (GDI.N) and hopes to finalize a deal by the end of the year, four people familiar with the matter said, in a merger that could create an industrial machinery conglomerate with a market value of over $7 billion. Gardner Denver told private equity bidders KKR & Co LP (KKR.N), Advent International and a consortium of TPG Capital LP and Onex Corp (OCX.TO) to put their pencils down until January while it negotiates a deal with SPX, the people said on Monday on condition of anonymity because discussions are confidential. With a market value of about $3.5 billion, SPX is of similar size to Gardner Denver, which has a market capitalization of $3.35 billion. SPX could use both cash and its own shares to pay for a deal and has reached out to banks for financing to support the cash element of its offer, one of the people said. Private equity firms, which invest money in buyouts on behalf of major institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance firms, would have been expected to pay Gardner Denver shareholders all cash to take control of the company. Gardner Denver, SPX, KKR, TPG and Advent declined to comment, while Onex did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gardner Denver said on October 25 that it was pursuing strategic alternatives, including a sale of the company, after Reuters reported it had asked its financial adviser, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), to solicit buyout offers. Last week, SPX said it had completed the sale of its service solutions business to Robert Bosch GmbH for expected net proceeds of about $1 billion, exiting its roots in the car industry to focus on growing its flow technology segment. SPX Chief Executive Chris Kearney has worked over the past few years to focus the company on its flow control business, which makes equipment used to produce liquids ranging from petroleum to dairy products. "Even with roughly $1 billion of proceeds expected from the sale of service solutions, SPX would still need to tap the financial markets to finance the acquisition," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a December 3 note, cautioning that a deal with Gardner Denver would present a significant financial strain for SPX. Charlotte, North Carolina-based SPX also makes electrical transformers and cooling towers for power plants, and has been adding and selling businesses to focus more narrowly on becoming a flow technology company. (Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim in New York; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Norway Court Orders New Psychiatric Evaluation of Confessed Mass Killer Anders Behring Breivik
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Peruvian authorities reopen investigation into forced sterilizations
Nobody really knows how many women were forcibly sterilized throughout Peru The investigation was reopened in October "I felt mutilated," said a mother who has won a court case Lima, Peru (CNN) -- For the last 15 years, Victoria Vigo has been trying to find the truth about her infertility. After her third child was born dead, the 49-year-old leadership skills instructor who lives in Lima, the Peruvian capital, was never able to conceive again. Three months after losing her child, a doctor confirmed her worst fears: her tubes had been tied without her knowledge or consent. "I felt mutilated. That's the truth. My rights as a mother and woman were violated," Vigo said. Vigo is not the only woman in Peru who was sterilized in the nineties during the government of President Alberto Fujimori. Human rights organizations say there are more than 2,000 documented cases of women who had their tubes tied without their consent. Nobody really knows how many women were forcibly sterilized throughout Peru, but Victor Cubas, the special prosecutor who reopened the investigation in October, says that the number is in the thousands. "The Peruvian attorney general's office has knowledge of about 2,000 women (in this situation), but cases of forced sterilization based on the number of people (who participated in the campaign) could undoubtedly be larger at the national level. There are many women who I'm sure haven't reported this and therefore their cases are not yet documented," Cubas said. All inquiries about the sterilizations were shelved in 2009 and it was not until late October when Cubas was tapped to reopen the investigation by the new government of President Ollanta Humala. Rossy Salazar, a human rights attorney at Demus, a women's rights organization in Peru, also says there could be many more cases. "What happened was that [the government] instituted a policy of quotas, in a way forcing and giving incentives to doctors, gynecologists and nurses to sterilize a minimum of three women every month," Salazar says. Both government officials and human rights organizations agree that about 300,000 women throughout Peru participated in a birth control campaign during the nineties. The campaign involved several methods including what Peruvian officials call "voluntary contraceptive surgery" or tying of the Fallopian Tubes. But Salazar says that this particular method was used in women in rural Peru, especially those who spoke no Spanish, without their knowledge and sometimes by force. In a documentary made by the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women Rights several women testify that they were sterilized by force or coerced. In her native Quechua tongue, an unidentified woman says she was taken by force to a clinic where she was sterilized in spite of her objections. Another woman says she and her husband were coerced to sign a consent form for sterilization. Marino Costa Bauer was the Peruvian health minister between 1996 and 1998. He denied any wrongdoing when he testified before the Peruvian Congress in the late nineties. And he denied it again, in a recent interview at his Lima office. But Costa Bauer admits the campaign could've been have been executed better. "Of course there were problems," Costa Bauer said. "I'm not going to deny it. I have never denied that there were problems. But what did we do about it? First, we investigated all of the accusations that were filed; absolutely all of them without exception." Costa Bauer categorically denies that the government was targeting poor, indigenous women in rural communities. "There was never any order or instruction from my office favoring one method over another; much less did we ever provide incentives for that to happen," the former health minister said. So far Victoria Vigo is the only woman in Peru that has won a case of forced sterilization. After a seven-year trial, she was compensated $2,750, but her doctor didn't serve time in prison. She's now trying to prove that her doctor was acting on government orders and that it was all part of a campaign to deceive women, especially the most vulnerable. "As a woman, I feel indignant and that's why 15 years ago I said no woman should remain silent when her body has been violated," Vigo said. It has been more than a decade since those believed to be responsible for the forced sterilizations left office. For women like Victoria Vigo, the reopening of the probe is the first hope in years that justice may be within reach.
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Keeping it in the family at the Vienna Phil The New Year's Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has become a part of New Year celebrations. Not everyone knows though that in this top orchestra, know-how, custom and experience are handed down from generation to generation, often within the same family, just like a workshop in Renaissance times, when the elders would pass their skills on to the youngsters. The Tomböck clan; father, son and grandson are far from being a common-or-garden family. Wolfgang Tomböck Jr told euronews: "I remember as a very small child playing with my brother under the pianoforte and my mother was playing Chopin or Schubert, and she always asked: "Is it too loud for you"?" He laughed and added: "We were playing with our Matchbox cars... "No, no, it's ok."" Wolfgang senior joined the VPO after World War II playing the French horn under the world's greatest conductors. His grandson Johannes now plays first violin in the Philharmonic. Wolfgang Sr told us: "My grandson came to my house for many years; I accompanied him on the piano when he was playing his sonatas and concertos; he came four or five times a week to my house. And today the result is highly satisfying." So is it an honour or a major responsibility to be a third generation musician in the VPO? Grandson Johannes Tomböck said: "I think my father never put pressure on me to enter this orchestra, but my personal pressure was very strong because every relative in my family is in the Vienna Philharmonic! I thought: "If I want to be a musician the only way to do it is by entering this orchestra!"" Ernst Ottensamer is first clarinet in the VPO, and his two sons have followed suit: Andreas as solo clarinet with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Daniel following father in Vienna. The pair were brought up surrounded by music. Ernst told us: "We tried to give them a love of music, without forcing them, and they accepted that easily. This may be our merit: you cannot be a good musician with forcing and stress, this will not open your heart, and music is not in the brain but more in the heart." Daniel Ottensamer explained what a musician father can hand down to his musician son. "For example how to react when a conductor says something, or how (much I should play like a soloist) in the orchestra: you always practice at home, but then you have to work with the whole orchestra, and you just have to discover "what's my role, and when to play more or just hold back."" He went on: "Of course he was always there when I needed some advice, that made it really a lot easier for me to manage all the new things - it was a really good collaboration!" In this story there are excerpts from the following works: Johann Strauss, An der schönen blauen Donau, Walzer (The Blue Danube Waltz) op. 314 Johann und Josef Strauss, Vaterländischer Marsch (Fatherland March) Eduard Strauss, Carmen - Quadrille More about: Austria, Classical music, New Year celebrations, Vienna Copyright © 2012 euronews JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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Ravens vs. Chargers: Late fourth and 29 conversion helps Baltimore win in overtime The winning field goal was set up by Torrey Smith's 31-yard catch down the right sideline. Quarterback Joe Flacco, who struggled for much of the game, converted on third down three times during the winning drive. The victory, coupled with Pittsburgh's 20-14 loss to Cleveland earlier in the day, gives the Ravens (9-2) a three-game lead in the AFC North over the Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The Ravens host the Steelers next week. The Ravens trailed San Diego (4-7) by 10 points with less than eight minutes to play and at that point, they hadn't scored a touchdown since at the 9:24 mark of the third quarter of their Week 9 game against the Oakland Raiders. However, Flacco led his team down the field and hit tight end Dennis Pitta for a four-yard touchdown with just more than four minutes to play in regulation; it ended the offense's touchdown drought at more than eight quarters. The Ravens forced a three-and-out on the ensuing drive and had the ball back with 3:09 to play. On fourth and 29, Flacco dumped the ball to Ray Rice, who sprinted to his right and cut back across the field. The referees initially gave Rice the 30 yards it would have taken to get the first down. However, the play was reviewed and the ball was moved back a yard, but the measurement confirmed that Rice still got the first down. A couple of plays later, Tucker split the uprights from 38 yards as time expired to tie the game at 13 and force overtime. Shut out for the first half, the Ravens finally got on the board at the 12:03 mark of the third quarter on a 43-yard field goal by Tucker. The play was set up by a 54-yard Flacco-to-Smith pass on third and seven. That was the Ravens" longest play from scrimmage of the season. The Ravens got the ball back and again drove deep into Chargers territory by relying heavily on Rice. Rookie Bernard Pierce gained 18 yards on third and one; two straight Rice runs set up another third and one, this one from the San Diego 14. Flacco ran a sneak but did not get the first down. The Ravens went for it on fourth down and Pierce was stopped by Corey Liuget. The Chargers, aided by a questionable personal foul on Ravens safety Bernard Pollard, then got the ball back with 7:39 to play. They made it a two-possession game as Nick Novak made a 30-yard field goal for a 13-3 lead. The Ravens" offense was dreadful in the first half; they had just five first downs and gained 90 yards on 32 plays. Flacco was 8 of 16 for 59 yards in the first half and missed several big plays. On one drive, the Ravens advanced to the San Diego 34 after a 12-yard completion to Smith. However, Flacco threw an incomplete pass on first down, Jacoby Jones dropped a pass on second down and Flacco was sacked on third down. Overall, the Ravens went three and out on three straight possessions. Meanwhile, the Chargers started to seize control of the game in the second quarter. Two long Philip Rivers completions - a 26-yarder to Danario Alexander and a 16-yarder to Malcom Floyd - followed by a one-yard run by Jackie Battle on fourth down put the ball deep in Baltimore territory. Rivers hit Floyd, who badly beat Cary Williams, on a slant for a 21-yard touchdown. Trailing 7-0, the Ravens gave the ball right back on a punt following three Rice runs. This time, Rivers engineered an 11-play drive that ended with Novak converting from 47 yards to make it 10-0. - Baltimore Sun
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Polonization (or Polonisation) (polonizacja) was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular, Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially influenced by Poland. As with other examples of cultural assimilation, it could either be voluntary or forced and is most visible in the case of territories where the Polish language or culture were dominant or where their adoption could result in increased prestige or social status. Such was the case of the nobility of Ruthenia and Lithuania throughout the ages. To a certain extent Polonization was also administratively promoted by the authorities, particularly in the period following World War II. Polonization can be seen as an example of cultural assimilation. Such view is widely considered applicable to the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) when the Ruthenian and Lithuanian upper classes were drawn towards the more Westernized Polish culture, political and financial benefits of such transition, as well as, sometimes, by the administrative pressure exerted on their own cultural institutions, primarily the Orthodox Church. The conversion to the Roman Catholic faith (and to a lesser extent, Protestant) was often the single most important part of the process as for Ruthenians of that time being Polish culturally and Roman Catholic by religion was almost the same. This aspect of Polonization that led to the diminishing of the Orthodox Church was most resented by Belarusian and Ukrainian masses. In contrast the Lithuanians, who were mostly Catholic, were in danger of losing their cultural identity as a nation, but that did not become evident for the wide masses of Lithuanians until the Lithuanian national renaissance in the middle of the 19th century. On the other hand, the Polonization policies of the Polish government in the interwar years of the 20th century were again two-folded. Some of them were similar to the mostly forcible assimilationist policies, implemented by other European powers that have aspired to regional dominance (e.g., Germanization, Russification), while others resembled policies carried out by countries aiming at increasing the role of their native language and culture in their own societies (e.g., Magyarization, Rumanization, Ukrainization). For Poles, it was a process of rebuilding the Polish national identity and reclaiming Polish heritage, including the fields of education, religion, infrastructure and administration, that suffered under the prolonged periods of foreign occupation by the neighboring empires of Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary. However, as a third of recreated Poland's population was ethnically non-Polish and many felt their own nationhood aspirations thwarted specifically by Poland, large segments of this population resisted to varying extent policies aimed to assimilate them into Polish culture. Part of the country's leadership emphasized the need for the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of the state in the long term. However, the governmental advancement of Polish language in the administration, the public life and, especially, the education were perceived by some as an attempt at forcible homogenization. In areas inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians for example, actions of the Polish authorities seen as aiming at restricting the influence of the Orthodox and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church caused additional resentment, and were considered to be closely tied to religious Polonization, as most ethnic Poles were Catholics. ==History of Polonization==
===12th-16th centuries===
Between the 12th and the 14th centuries many towns in Poland adopted the so-called Magdeburg rights that promoted the towns' development and trade. The rights were usually granted by the king on the occasion of the arrival of migrants. Some, integrated with the larger community, such as merchants who settled there, especially Greeks and Armenians. They adopted most aspects of Polish culture but kept their Orthodox faith. Since the Middle Ages, Polish culture, influenced by the West, in turn radiated East, beginning the long and uneasy process of cultural assimilation. ===Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)===
In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the non-Polish ethnic groups, especially the Ruthenians and Lithuanians, found themselves under the strong pressure of Polish culture and language. The Polish influence in the regions started from the 1569 Union of Lublin, when many of the Ruthenian territories formerly controlled by the
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== VALSHE ==
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They have had four children: Prince Leopold (1984-1984), Princess Maria-Anunciata (1985), Princess Marie-Astrid (1987), Prince Josef-Emanuel (1989). Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, the Grand Duke's youngest brother, was born on 1 May 1963. He was married on September 8, 1994 to Sibilla Sandra Weiller (the daughter of Donna Olimpia Torlonia dei principi di Civitella-Cesi and Paul-Annick Weiller, and great-granddaughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain), now Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg. Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg, the Grand Duke's aunt, was born on 2 August 1925. She was married on 6 November 1951 to Knud, Count af Holstein-Ledreborg (1919-2001). They have issue. Joan, Dowager Duchess of Mouchy (née Dillon), the Grand Duke's aunt, was born on 31 January 1935. She was widow of Prince Charles of Luxembourg they married on on 1 March 1967. They have issue:
Princess Alix, Dowager Princess of Ligne, the Grand Duke's aunt, was born on 24 August 1929. She is a Princess of Luxembourg and Nassau. She was married on 17 August 1950 to Antoine de Ligne, 13th Prince de Ligne (1925-2005). They have issue. ==Succession to the throne==
The preference for men over women in succession to Luxembourg's throne was abandoned in favour of absolute primogeniture on 20 June 2011 by decree of Grand Duke Henri. Henceforth, any legitimate female descendant of the House of Luxembourg-Nassau born of authorized marriage shall inherit the throne by order of seniority of line of descent and of birth as stipulated in Article 3 of the Constitution and the Nassau Family Pact without regard to gender, applicable first to succession by the descendants of Grand Duke Henri. The Grand Duke's Marshal issued an addendum to the decree explaining the context of the change: pursuant to the United Nation's 1979 call for nations to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, in 2008 the Grand Duchy dropped the exception to gender non-discrimination it had declared in the matter of the grand ducal succession. ==Summary family tree==
For the ancestry of the House of Nassau, see Family Tree of the House of Nassau. ==Arms==
A complete armorial is given at the Armorial de la Maison de Nassau, section Lignée Valramienne at the French Wikipedia, and another one at Wapen van Nassau, Tak van Walram at the Dutch Wikipedia. ==See also==
List of Grand Dukes of Luxembourg
Line of succession to the throne of Luxembourg
==References==
History of Luxembourg
Luxembourgish monarchy
National symbols of Luxembourg
House of Nassau
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Museums Special Section - In Bostons Museum of Fine Arts, the History of the Americas - NYTimes.com
THE Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is renowned for its American collections: Paul Revere's silver Sons of Liberty Bowl, portraits by John Singleton Copley and John Singer Sargent, and the Modernist landscapes of Georgia O'Keeffe. Visitors to the museum's Art of the Americas Wing, opening in November, will see these works in an ambitious new context. The 53-gallery wing, designed by the London-based firm of Foster & Partners, expands the definition of American art both geographically and chronologically: it covers the entire hemisphere, including South, Central and North America, and extends from "ancient America" to the late 20th century - from Mayan ceramics to Jackson Pollock. "We're telling a much more complicated story of the strands that make up America," said Malcolm Rogers, 61, the Ann and Graham Gund director of the museum since 1994. He was speaking from his glass-enclosed corner office in the north pavilion of the new wing, which looks out on a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park and the skyscrapers of Back Bay. "From early on," Mr. Rogers said, "it was clear to me that if we were going to build an American wing here, that we wanted to show the art of North and South America." The purpose of the display - of paintings, decorative arts, musical instruments, photography and works on paper - will be to illustrate both "the richness of the whole continent" and "the patterns of immigration and migration" that make up contemporary America, he said. "I didn't want this to be white man's America. I wanted it to be today's America," with representation of African-American, American Indian and other minority artists, said the British-born director. Mr. Rogers said he chose to become an American citizen, in 2003, in connection with the new wing. While many museums are seeking diversity in their collections, curators elsewhere describe Boston's approach to American art as unusually comprehensive. "I don't think there's any other museum that has united the hemisphere in this fashion," said Kathleen A. Foster, director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ms. Foster said that she was particularly excited about the planned pairing of Latin American and United States Colonial art. The links between their two stories, she said, "are really profound." At the San Diego Museum of Art, which is in the process of reinstalling its permanent collection, a gallery on 20th-century art now mingles works from Europe, Latin America and North America that share similar influences. "People are tending to realize that the idea of a national school, as well as the idea of media-based installation, needs to be reassessed," said Julia Marciari-Alexander, the museum's deputy director of curatorial affairs and co-interim director. "They tell just one story." Located on the east side of the Boston museum, the 121,307-square-foot Art of the Americas Wing consists of a rectangular central building connected by glass bridges to two square pavilions. The Foster addition features the same Deer Isle granite, from Maine, used in the facade of the museum's 1909 Beaux-Arts building, designed by the Boston architect Guy Lowell. The American wing is linked to the rest of the museum by a glass-enclosed interior courtyard that will contain a cafe and a special exhibitions gallery. The wing, along with other building renovations, cost $345 million and has been financed by a $504 million capital campaign. To fill gaps in its American collections, the museum has embarked on a series of acquisitions, including its first Tiffany window, American Indian art and paintings by African-American artists like Henry Ossawa Tanner and by, say, the Cuban Wifredo Lam. The new space will allow the museum to put about 30 percent of its American holdings, or more than 5,000 artworks, on view - about three times more than in the past, Mr. Rogers said. "My passion is to make the collections as accessible as possible," he said. The museum is open seven days a week, including three nights, and offers free admission to those 17 and younger, except during school hours. The current building project has included the refurbishing of the museum's two historic entrances, gallery renovations and a new visitor center. Next year, I. M. Pei's 1981 West Wing, renamed the Linde Family Wing, will open as a space for contemporary art. In the future, Mr. Rogers said, the museum will convert the nearby Forsyth Institute building, acquired in 2007, into a curatorial study center, freeing up yet more gallery space for art.
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Other downsides to "traditional" life include the common practice of infanticide (which often involves killing one twin, to guarantee a sufficient supply of mother's milk for the other), and the many life-threatening dangers that exist in the jungle: being killed by falling trees, being killed by falling out of trees, being eaten by a jaguar, and being incapacitated by an infected thorn scratch which turns ulcerous or gangrenous, to name just some of the commonest causes of death. Welcome to what Romantic theorists used to call the "life according to nature." Jared Diamond is not at all starry-eyed about this, though he does his best to extract positive lessons where he can find them - about child-rearing, for example, or about the simple diet which makes diabetes and high blood pressure unknown in these societies. But the obvious conclusion is not that "traditional" life is best; it is that our WEIRD life, if lightly modified by some of these insights, could be even better than it is. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond Allen Lane, £20, 499pp
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Emma Lockhart (born December 15, 1994) is an American actress, best known for her roles as a young Rachel in Batman Begins, and Laura, the love interest, in Pet Detective. ==Career==
She has had numerous small roles in television, movies, and the stage. Lockhart also appeared in The Seeker, as Gwen Stanton. She was the young Rachel in Batman Begins (2005). She was the female lead in Pet Detective, which was released in March 2009, direct to video. ==Filmography==
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| rowspan =1 | 2003
| Eve's Dropping In
| Renee
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| Malcolm in the Middle
| Girl Scout
| TV episode: "Reese Comes Home"
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| rowspan =3 | 2005
| Special Ed
| Meghan
| aka Saving Lives (Australia: Pay-TV title)
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| Batman Begins
| Rachel Dawes - age 8
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| Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
| Laura
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| Canvas
| Tiffeny
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| rowspan =1 | 2007
| The Dark Is Rising
| Gwen Stanton
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| Pet Detective
| Laura
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| 2011
| True Jackson, VP
| Callie
| TV episode: "True Mall"
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==References==
==External links==
1994 births
21st-century American actresses
American child actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Senate Will Delay Action on Punitive Tax on Bonuses Jarred by a cool reception from the White House and fears of unintended consequences across the financial world, Senate leaders are likely to delay until late next month legislation to punitively tax bonuses at banks and investment firms that receive federal aid. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced last week that the Senate would move ahead with the legislation as soon as possible, and he attempted to bring the bill to the floor Thursday night. But he revised that timetable yesterday, saying that the chamber will spend this week debating a national-service bill before turning to a long-scheduled showdown over the budget for fiscal 2010. With just two weeks to go until Congress departs for a spring recess, action on the tax measure would be unlikely before late April. Reid's shift came as senators in both parties voiced increasing skepticism about the tax approach taken by the House, echoing President Obama's admonition Sunday night on CBS News's "60 Minutes" against using the tax code "to punish people." Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who introduced a Senate version of the bill Thursday, said yesterday that it is "unclear at this point" when the measure will be considered. He initially hoped to pass his legislation in a matter of days but said White House officials and other senators were offering "a lot of ideas" for modifying his proposal. But he added that no consensus has emerged on the specifics of the bill, as opposed to the unified outrage over the bonuses. "Everybody knows you've got to address the outrage -- that's a no-brainer," Baucus told reporters. Slow-walking the legislation would allow more time for leaders of American International Group, the troubled insurance giant at the center of the controversy, to attempt to recoup the targeted bonuses voluntarily. New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said yesterday that 18 of the 25 AIG Financial Products employees who received the biggest retention payments had agreed to return them, amounting to more than $50 million. [Story, D1.] The delay also would give lawmakers room to consider more measured restraints on executive pay. The AIG bonuses stirred an unusually potent bipartisan furor on Capitol Hill from lawmakers still troubled by the scope of the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program approved in October, and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke are slated to testify on the matter today before the House Financial Services Committee. On Thursday, five days after the AIG payments were disclosed, the House voted 328 to 93 to impose a 90 percent tax on the $165 million in bonuses distributed this month to employees of the firm's derivatives division, where high-risk trades led AIG to the verge of collapse and helped trigger the global financial crisis. But the House bill would also apply to thousands of workers at major institutions such as Citigroup and Bank of America that have received more than $5 billion in TARP funding. The Senate version of the legislation, released shortly after the House vote, is even more broad, applying to firms that received less aid. As the scope of the bills sank in over the weekend, industry leaders warned that some firms might reject government funding in an effort to free themselves from federally imposed compensation restraints, potentially jeopardizing economic recovery plans. Obama's response to the House vote was decidedly neutral. Yesterday, on the eve of the president's prime-time news conference focusing on his administration's attempts to stabilize the economy in partnership with the nation's top financial firms, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs expressed the administration's concerns about the bill's potentially damaging downsides. "We cannot and should not reward failure with bonuses and the message that would send," he said. But he added that administration officials "also want to make sure you don't do harm to the financial system."
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There's a lesson to be learned from U.S. education policies In December, California's application for a waiver from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act was denied by the U.S. Department of Education. This, we were told, was because California had failed to embrace the federal department's reform agenda, especially on issues of evaluating teachers. The denial is disturbing for what it reveals: namely, that the American education system is being reshaped in a truly fundamental way, and with little debate. National policymakers now behave as if they believe their role in making education policy ought to be much the same as that of the states in setting goals and standards, creating accountability systems, defining teacher quality, determining strategies for producing high-quality teachers and improving low-performing schools. Left unresolved, the conflicts this creates about who is in charge are likely to worsen. Today's situation represents a sharp departure from previous policy. Historically, the federal government's role was to aid, assist, prod and push schools, districts and states. But the key word was always "aid." From the 1950s to the 1990s, there was never a question about who was in charge of schools, and it was not the federal government. The feds avoided interfering in any important way with the design of a state's education system unless issues of civil rights were involved, and in those cases, it was generally the courts rather than the executive or legislative branches that sparked the intervention. Over the last few decades, the federal role in education has undergone a massive transformation. This process, which started during the George H.W. Bush administration, has continued under Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama. The increasing federal involvement was initially fueled by frustration in Congress and the executive branch about a lack of improvement in student achievement, despite decades of increases in state and federal spending on education. Building on the work of George H.W. Bush's administration, which had pushed for more clarity in education goals, Bill Clinton went further, calling for explicit standards for student academic performance. Building on those standards, George W. Bush and a bipartisan coalition followed by passing the draconian No Child Left Behind legislation, which employed standardized tests to measure whether goals had been met. Under the terms of No Child Left Behind, schools that didn't make adequate progress toward the goals defined by the standards and the tests would be punished. To avoid sanctions, many states simply lowered their standards. That led the Obama administration, during the height of the fiscal crisis, to make certain federal education funds contingent on states adopting national standards for student performance. His administration also redesigned the accountability system to focus less on schools, as it had under No Child Left Behind, and more on teachers. The idea is to improve teacher quality by identifying and getting rid of teachers who fail to sufficiently raise student performance on standardized tests. The Obama administration has also pressured states to allow more charter schools and to institute merit pay for teachers. The result of these decades of federal education reforms has been a massive reshaping of the American education system. Its key features now include national standards aligned with national tests, a push for evaluating (and rewarding or punishing) teachers based on their students' test scores, and a strong emphasis on marketplace pressures, including charter schools, to ensure the survival of successful schools - and the failure of weak ones. Some of these reforms have been shown to be effective, others have shown mixed results or have little research to support their use. In the early years of this process, Congress and the executive branch largely agreed on the agenda. More recently, since the onset of the fiscal crisis, the executive branch has acted independently to implement its agenda without the agreement of Congress. One way it has done so is by granting waivers from the requirements of No Child Left Behind to states that embrace the administration's agenda. While Congress gave the secretary of Education authority to waive provisions of the law, it is unlikely lawmakers envisioned that the authority would be used in this way. The U.S. Constitution leaves responsibility for education policy to the states. In recent years, however, the federal government has ignored the framers' intention. The changes have been instituted without any significant debate about the role of the federal government in elementary and secondary education. And now, the executive branch alone is setting education policy without the active participation of either the states or Congress. No nation has reached the top ranks of education performance without clearly defined roles for the national government and the state or provincial levels of government. In the United States today, the roles are ill-defined and overlapping. Do we really want the executive branch of the federal government to decide, pretty much by itself, what the aims of American education should be and how they should be achieved? Do we want the federal government to be the principal architect of a national education system? Do we want the states to be in the driver's seat? Or do we want both the federal government and the states to have important, but complementary, roles in education policy?
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