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Admiral: U.S. must aid soldiers' mental health Admiral: U.S. must aid soldiers' mental health Says military members and their families hiding their problems The Associated Press updated 8:01 p.m. ET May 14, 2009 WASHINGTON - The highest-ranking U.S. military officer says the United States has to do a better job of taking care of soldiers' mental health. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the killing of five people at a Baghdad mental health clinic appears to back him up. The alleged shooter was a U.S. Army sergeant said to have mental health problems. Mullen told Congress on Thursday there is still a stigma attached to mental health treatment within the military. He told of an exchange with a sergeant last month in which the woman told him bluntly that soldiers and families are hiding their problems. The sergeant told him that probably leads to suicides, and Mullen said he agrees. The Obama administration wants to expand treatment. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Man jailed for life over baby death A man has been jailed for life for the "horrific" murder of a 15-month-old girl who he savagely attacked after her crying interrupted him playing on his X-Box. Violet Mullen was punched, slapped and pinched by Gary Alcock in the three weeks leading up to her death before he delivered a fatal blow to the stomach which tore her internal organs. Alcock, 28, must serve a minimum of 21 years before he can be considered for parole. A jury at Manchester Court had cleared his ex-partner, Claire Flanagan, 22, - the child's mother - of murder. Last month she was instead found guilty of causing or allowing the death of Violet by ignoring the obvious signs of abuse. The court heard Flanagan put her desperate need for a man in her life ahead of her daughter. She was jailed for five years. An ambulance was called to Flanagan's home on January 12 after Alcock told emergency services the child seemed "spaced out" and her lips were blue and cold. Paramedics entered the house in Huddersfield Road, Oldham, and found Violet was not breathing and covered in bruises. They tried to revive her in the ambulance en route to Royal Oldham Hospital but she died 45 minutes after arrival. The youngster died from internal bleeding after suffering 35 separate injuries including multiple bruises, rib fractures and brain damage, which were comparable to injuries suffered in a car crash Alcock had moved in with Flanagan just weeks after they started dating. Sentencing the pair, Judge Clement Goldstone QC, said: "In the three weeks before her death you, Gary Alcock, subjected her to repeated violence... This was the way you chose to cope with a demanding little girl who demanded your attention and interrupted your time-consuming hobby of playing computer games." Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2010, All Rights Reserved.
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But, whatever the changes, I'll be back. The details won't change; the gypsy with a cobra; the street cricket; an elephant in a truck; the little khaki tuk-tuks marked "SL ARMY." In this fabulous city of surprises, I suspect that Fort will always be the place to pick up the drama. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools.
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== Definition for reflexology ==
Definition for reflexology with a citation any objecitons? Reflexology is the physical act of applying pressure to the feet and hand with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques without the use of oil or lotion. it is based on a system of zones and reflex areas that reflect an image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to the body. (The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology (Third Edition) by Barbara and Kevin Kunz)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crusella dawn (talk • contribs)
== More References Needed? ==
Since 2007, this article has been tagged because it lacked a good amount of sources and references. However, it has about 15 at the moment, and given the size of the article, I believe that is a decent number. Should we remove the "needs more references" tag? Gadev (talk)
Done. where indicated should suffice. - 2/0 (cont.) Honestly this article is horrible and obviously written by someone who knows nothing of TCM theories or medical licensing issues. It is poorly written. You should change the needs more references to needs real references and get rid of the skeptic's comments because it can be easily proven that there IS science and research backing reflexology. refer to any of my comments above to find the research. I will gladly act as a consultant on a re-write. Redbaronesse (talk) redbaronesse
If you believe there is substantial evidence contrary to what the article says, please present reliable sources demonstrating such. Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk)
== NPOV removed ==
I've removed the NPOV tag on the article, please use for sections or for a sentence, and clarify the issue(s) here. This will help address problems. - RoyBoy'
==Recent revert==
Thank you to wikipedia for the honest struggle to represent useful knowledge. I would like to talk about this article. Just to let you know, I am a reflexologist. But I don't subscribe to the energy talk out there. The reflex arc works perfectly fine on its own. Yesterday, I added info about the 30 years of research done by a surgeon in Barcelona, Spain. It was undone possibly because I did not go through the right process. I am glad to see that this is a high importance subject.Mkwalton (talk)
The editor who reverted your edit said, "changes appear to place too much emphasis to one in universe source". I'm not sure exactly what that means. I would have reverted the edit as well (maybe we have the same reason?). While you don't "subscribe to the energy talk", most reflexologists apparently do. For fringe topics, such as this, we aim to "(summarize) significant opinions, with representation in proportion to their prominence". Basically, we need to summarize the widely held beliefs of those who accept reflexology (that some mysterious "energy" somehow connects individual locations on the feet to various organs and that massage of those spots somehow addresses supposed "blockages" in this energy) and mainstream science's take (no sign that any of this is in anyway true). I don't doubt that there are other takes on reflexology. I know a woman who "feels" that the energy is the "universal energy" supposedly channeled in reiki. I'm sure there are others. However, we do not present minority opinions at all when the minority is small and need to appropriately weight the opinions we do present based on prominence. If you have other sources positing that reflexology works through some other method than the beliefs presented here, please present them here. The one source you presented, however, is not sufficient to up-end the entire article. - SummerPhD (talk)
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Wash. man allegedly hogtied girl, 4, shot her with BB gun EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A Washington state man allegedly tied up his step-daughter and shot her with a BB gun more than 30 times, police said. The young girl's grandmother initially thought she might have chicken pox because of the red dots covering her body, but the girl said her stepfather, Stetson Tedder, 26, had hog-tied her and shot her with an airsoft gun as a form of punishment, The (Everett) Herald said. A hospital nurse counted 36 wounds on the girl's body. The airsoft gun Tedder allegedly used is designed to sting someone but not break the skin. Tedder was arrested Thursday and charged with felony domestic abuse. Everett District Judge Tam Bui set bail Friday at $25,000.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was delete. Der Wohltempierte Fuchs (talk)
===Drew Powers===
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Previously speedied article about unremarkable radio DJ. Speedy delete declined on the recreation. Delicious carbuncle (talk)
Wait - This article does claim notability by national syndication in BAND point 10. While he's a DJ and not a band, the guideline does specifically mention DJs and syndication of his show is how I would interpret DJs fitting into point 10. I'm still searching for links and working with the editors/creator on references to the claims. The editors are vigilant in keeping this article by fulfilling the Notability requirements and I believe that a little time and a little work will prove this article to be notable. In the future, please mention the issues you have in the talk page so that people can try to fix the article before it's flagged for deletion. Assuming good faith, the creators and editors have the information needed and it just needs to be fleshed out with a little help.OlYellerTalktome
He's a "radio personality" not a "two turntables and a microphone" DJ, so MUSIC doesn't apply here. I understand that you're trying to help new editors (or more probably, editor) but I think you're going to be disappointed here. Delicious carbuncle (talk)
That's a good point. I'm not sure how to interpret that. However, I did find and am now making the edits to prove that he's syndicated in different provinces across Canada. I'll do that and then leave it up to the other Wikipedia-ers to decide as I'm now biased on the future of this article. Btw, the Beck reference made me laugh. :-) OlYellerTalktome
He appears to be "syndicated" in one province only, if you consider being played on stations owned by the same company as syndication. So not nationally. Delicious carbuncle (talk)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. Strong Delete This article was written by Drew Powers himself. How convenient that his bio on the Edge's website links to the Wikipedia page. Even on the Edge's website, there's just a tiny blurb about him... the Wikipedia article is grasping at straws to make it longer and make him seem more notable then he is. Why else would be there so many subtitles for such a short article? Delete this article now. I lived in Sarnia and London for 24 years and I've never heard of Drew Powers or that radio station. Sarnya Do you know this for a fact?? 216.187.106.70 (talk)
Comment I think it should be noted that 216.187.106.70 twice deleted the delete!vote by Sarnya. Their next contributions and the contribution of Captain-amazzing were deleted by over-zealous editors, but I haven't restored them, since I believe that both users are fairly obviously the same person (and also Oh FFS, who created the now deleted Drew powers). Both 216.187.106.70 and Captain-amazzing left the same comment. There's more, but I'll wait and see what happens here before deciding whether or not to pursue it. Delicious carbuncle (talk)
Delete. I don't see how this person is notable at all (Google News search reveals nothing), and the article is an obvious vanity piece. Drmies (talk)
Delete: insufficient independent 3rd party sources, possible vanity MUSICBIO. JamesBurns (talk)
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For older kids: Adolescents can discuss events on a more sophisticated level and may ask those "What will happen next?" type questions. Be prepared for more difficult questions about complicated news coverage like: "What is nuclear energy?" or "Is nuclear power safe?" (And be ready to learn about radiation, nuclear reactors and fuel rods from your teen!) You can also turn certain news events into teachable moments. "Let's go online and read what a reactor plant is." 5. Share stories of hope, compassion
While the headlines feature devastation, war and death, there are glorious stories of heroism, cooperation and goodness. It's important to assure your children that there's more to the world than destruction and sorrow. Find the positive stories in the world to share with your family. For instance, discuss the cooperation and resilience of the Japanese. Or news about a rescue: "Did you hear about the grandmother and her grandson in Japan who were found after nine days? The rescuers never gave up!" 6. Empower kids with ways to help
One proven way to reduce fears is to brainstorm ideas as a family and find ways for kids to help victims. Consider: Draw or write letters: Young children can draw or write letters that convey concern to Japanese school children. Create care packages: Help your kids put together a "care package" (a teddy bear, crayons, coloring book) and send to a child in Haiti or Japan. Make donations: Older kids can start a clothing drive, collect sleeping bags, raise funds with friends for the Red Cross, or gather all the coins to make a donation. 7. Assess family's emotional pulse
Keep a pulse of your child's worries and find what helps your them relax, whether it's listening to soothing music or having backrubs. Or do tension-releasing activities your entire family can do together: go for walks or bike rides, pray or meditate, curl up and read books together, or watch humorous videos. Regular family meal or bedtime rituals help boost security and reduce anxiety. 8. Watch for anxiety signs
You should be concerned if anxiety signs continue to last or increase. Get the help of a mental health professional if your child: • Shows feelings of helplessness or hopelessness
• Has behavior regression: acting out, suddenly clingy or withdrawn
• Is quick to anger, easily upset
• Has fatigue, exhaustion or inability to focus
• Has difficulty sleeping, nightmares, or change in eating patterns
• Headache and nausea Trauma, war, and natural disasters and are a sad but inevitable part of life. The good news is that by offering the right support parents can reduce kid jitters, help them learn ways to rebound and instill optimism about their future. More from Parenting
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"There is a series of precise mechanisms that have to be placed into a U.N. decision. We spoke about this and it should be dealt with in the coming days. I insisted, like Sergei Lavrov, on the necessity to go quickly," he said. Lavrov cautioned that while the Security Council was to adopt a resolution supporting the chemical weapons deal, a separate resolution would be needed to authorize use of force in response to any new attack and after guilt was proven. Along with diplomatic ally China, Russia has used its veto power three times to block Western-backed Security Council resolutions meant to push Assad out or muscle him into ending a conflict that began with a crackdown on protests. Lavrov said putting too much pressure on Assad would encourage his opponents and hurt the chances for peace. Fabius suggested it was Assad who should be kept in line and that he must keep his promise to abandon chemical arms. (Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow, John Irish in Paris and Dominic Evans in Beirut, and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Will Dunham)
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A tag has been placed on Rockin´Pauly and the Sinners requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. — The Man in Question (gesprec) · (forðung)
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Woman 'helped husband film girls' The prosecution has alleged that Mrs Foxall knew her husband was filming the girls. 'Moving in loft' The court heard that the girls were invited over regularly to swim or play on the couple's waterslide. They would also stay over when going with them on trips early the next day. One girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said when they got changed in the couple's bedroom, they could hear Mr Foxall moving around in the loft where one of the hidden cameras was. She said she also saw cameras in their bedroom - one on top of the wardrobe and another poking out of a pile of clothes. In a police video interview played to the court, the girl - who visited the house about four or five times a week - said she thought that was "weird but didn't want to mention it." When she stayed over, she was told to sleep in the couple's bedroom while they slept in a spare room. Mr Foxall also told the girls that only one of them could change in their bedroom at a time. The girl, who gave evidence, added: "After being out we would go and get changed. "When we were in the bedroom you could hear him moving around. "It's weird how they would tell me I could sleep in their room and they slept in another room." The trial continues.
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James Gandolfini funeral New York In 2008, James Gandolfini holds up his Emmy award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series. Photo: Reuters The body of actor James Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack in Italy last week, was flown out of Italy on Sunday on a flight bound for New York, Rome airport authorities said. Gandolfini, best known for his leading role in the Emmy-winning series The Sopranos, was found dead in his Rome hotel late on Wednesday. The actor's body left Rome's Fiumicino airport at around 4pm GMT (2am AEST) on a private flight, an airport official said. Family friend Michael Kobold, speaking to reporters in Rome, thanked the Italian authorities and US Secretary of State John Kerry for helping to accelerate procedures. Advertisement Funeral services will be held 10am on Thursday (midnight AEST) at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City, according to an HBO spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of the family. Gandolfini was on holiday with his 13-year-old son and was due to attend the closing of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily on Saturday. An autopsy showed had died of natural causes. Organisers of Italy's Taormina Film Festival staged a moving tribute to the late actor on the day he was due to be awarded one of the event's top prizes. Gandolfini died just days before he was to accept the Taormina City Prize, alongside actress Marisa Tomei. Instead, a tribute was organised to pay homage to Gandolfini at the Saturday event, with a montage of his best-known film and TV roles played on a big screen in front of thousands of spectators at the Teatro Antico venue. Italian director Giulio Base was in the crowd during Saturday's tribute, and admits many audience members were crying throughout. "James Gandolfini is on the air. The tribute to him by the Taormina Film Fest was moving. I'm crying. And I'm not the only one," he tweeted. Gandolfini's performance as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano made him a household name and helped usher in a new era of American television drama. Since The Sopranos ended its six-season run in June 2007, Gandolfini had appeared in a number of big-screen roles, including the crime drama Killing Them Softly and Zero Dark Thirty, a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Gandolfini had been working on an upcoming HBO series, Criminal Justice, and had two films due out next year. Reuters, with WENN and AP
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Littleport is an unincorporated community and former city in Clayton County, Iowa, USA. After the Volga River flood of May 16, 1999, much of the town was destroyed and most residents moved away. At the 2000 Census, there were 26 residents. The city was officially disincorporated in 2005. ==Demographics==
At the 2000 census, there were 26 people, 13 households and 8 families residing in the city. The population density was 78.0 per square mile (30.4/km²). There were 14 housing units at an average density of 42.0 per square mile (16.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% White. There were 13 households of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.5% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00 and the average family size was 2.44. 15.4% of the populace were under the age of 18, 15.4% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 42.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 54 years. For every 100 females there were 85.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.3 males. The median household income was $23,125, and the median family income was $46,250. Males had a median income of $51,250 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,237. There were no families and 15.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 20.0% of those over 64. ==See also==
Other discontinued cities in Iowa:
Athelstan
Donnan
Green Island
Hurstville
Kent
Moneta
Oneida
Plain View
==References==
Former municipalities in Iowa
Populated places in Clayton County, Iowa
Ghost towns in Iowa
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U.S. Charges Libyan Militia Leader in Benghazi Attack Federal law enforcement authorities have filed murder charges against Ahmed Abu Khattala, a prominent militia leader in Benghazi, Libya, in connection with the attacks on a diplomatic mission there last Sept. 11 that killed the United States ambassador and three other Americans, according to senior law enforcement and United States officials. Bryan Denton for The New York Times J. Christopher Stevens, then deputy ambassador during Colonel Qaddafi's rule, in Benghazi in April 2011. The authorities have identified roughly a dozen others who they said they believe participated in the attacks, and have filed charges under seal against some of them, the officials said. Despite making progress in the investigation, some F.B.I. agents who are leading it from Tripoli, the capital of Libya, have grown frustrated that there have been no arrests, the officials said. Apprehending the suspects will most likely take significant negotiations between the State Department and the Libyan government over who will try to do so and where the suspects will be tried. It is not clear that either government knows the whereabouts of all the suspects. "It is a very difficult environment to work in," one United States official said. "It's a fragile country." The Libyan government has only loose control over some areas of the country, including parts of Benghazi, which are run by militias. United States officials said Tuesday that they would prefer that Libya made the arrests because they did not want to be seen as taking law enforcement action in another country. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in May, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the Justice Department had made significant strides in its investigation. It is unclear, however, whether the government had filed charges at that point. "We are at a point where we have taken steps that I would say are definitive, concrete, and we are - we will be prepared shortly, I think, to reveal all that we have done," Mr. Holder said. He added: "I'm satisfied with the progress that we have made in the investigation. Regardless of what happened previously, we have made very, very, very substantial progress in that investigation." One United States official said the F.B.I. had by then made progress in identifying some suspects. In its most expansive use of social media abroad, the F.B.I. set up a Facebook page that posted pictures of suspects in the hope of identifying them. The charges against Mr. Khattala and the other suspects were reported on Tuesday afternoon by The Wall Street Journal and CNN. One law enforcement official said that the disclosure of the charges might hasten efforts to make arrests. In an interview with The New York Times in October, Mr. Abu Khattala said he had arrived at the American compound in Benghazi as gunfire broke out but had played no role in the attack, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed. He said he had entered the compound at the end of the siege in an attempt to rescue Libyan guards who worked for the Americans and had been trapped. Mr. Abu Khattala accused American leaders of using the Benghazi attack to play "with the emotions of the American people" in an effort to "gather votes for their elections."
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was keep. JohnCD (talk)
===Phantom (russian song)===
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No assertion or evidence of notability substantiated by citations to reliable third-party sources. Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. Now it is substantiated and many other things. keep. I cannot understand why this has been proposed for deletion. Wikipedia is international, not just American. There are reliable sources for this article. comment I am not so sure about those reliable sources. Two references are links to YouTube, which is of course not a RS. The others are to Russian books and from the way they are presented (citing just a single page from each book) it is strongly suggested that each contains only an in-passing mention of the song. keep. Seems high enough quality not to detract from Wikipedia if read. Has some useful info. Seems a notable song if you read the article. Mike Young (talk)
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Obama unveils new campaign slogan: "Forward" President Obama's campaign is out with a Web video that defends his first term on all fronts while unveiling a new slogan: "Forward." The seven-minute, kitchen-sink video begins with the 2008 stock market crash and the beginning of the recession. It goes on to highlight the stimulus, the auto bailout, Wall Street reform, health-care reform, the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the end of the war in Iraq and the death of Osama bin Laden. "On the day Barack Obama took office, America had already lost 4.4 million jobs - an economic disaster, the worst in a generation. Some said America's best days were behind us," the narrator says over shots of tea party rallies. "And like America, he dug deep, fought back and never lost faith in our ability to meet the challenge." The message is similar to that of the David Guggenheim movie produced for Obama's campaign, "The Road We've Traveled" - that the president inherited a crisis, faced an intractable Republican opposition, and yet was able to succeed on many fronts. The video will be shown at Obama's first two big reelection rallies in Ohio and Virginia this weekend, the campaign said. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out with his own Web video Monday morning, "Broken Promises," which argues that Obama failed to keep his pledge to cut government programs that do not work.
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Nuclear Plant Developments Falter, Despite Government Push WASHINGTON - In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed giving the nuclear construction business a type of help it has never had, a role in a quota for clean energy. But recent setbacks in a hoped-for "nuclear renaissance" raise questions about how much of a role nuclear power can play. Of four reactor projects identified by the Energy Department in 2009 as the most likely candidates for federal loan guarantees, only two are moving forward. At a third, in Calvert Cliffs, Md., there has been no public sign of progress since the lead partner withdrew in October and the other partner said it would seek a replacement. And at the fourth, in Texas, a would-be builder has been driven to try something never done before in nuclear construction: finding a buyer for the electricity before the concrete is even poured. Customers are not rushing forward, given that the market is awash in generating capacity and an alternative fuel, natural gas, is currently cheap. "The short answer is, there has to be a market for the power," said John Reed, an investment banker who specializes in nuclear projects. "That's the most immediate hurdle these projects have to get over." Yet there is a fairly sturdy political consensus in favor of building more reactors. By including nuclear power in a proposed "clean energy standard" shifting the electric system away from conventional coal and gas, whose emissions contribute to global warming, the Obama administration is seeking to stoke such support. Many Democrats and most Republicans in Congress back nuclear construction, as do local officials in most places where reactors have been proposed. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and one of the Senate's strongest proponents of nuclear power, suggests that Mr. Obama should make building 100 reactors in the next 20 years a national priority, both for energy security and to limit climate-changing emissions. But for now, he acknowledges, the economics are not in place. "Right now, it's stuck," he said of the planned nuclear revival. Some challenges are not peculiar to the nuclear sector. All forms of clean energy, including solar and wind power, are undercut to some extent by the cheap price of natural gas and the surplus in generating capacity, which is linked partly to the recession. And federal caps on carbon dioxide emissions from coal- and gas-burning plants, which would benefit clean energy sources, are not expected until 2012. But some obstacles are specific to the nuclear industry, like the ballooning cost estimates for construction of reactors, which are massive in scale. Even when projects are identified as prime candidates for federal loan guarantees, some investment partners turn wary. "All that uncertainty creates an incentive for you to wait," said Joseph E. Aldy, who was a special assistant to President Obama until December. To counter the uncertainties, Senator Alexander and others have arranged substantial help for the industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been working for more than 15 years to streamline reactor licensing to cut construction time and to reduce risk. And the 2005 Energy Policy Act provided money for loan guarantees, subsidies for production from the first few reactors and insurance against regulatory delays. Industry executives say that with those changes and the financial help, they had what they needed to build after a gap of three decades. By 2008, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had 15 applications for new nuclear plants in hand and expected 15 more, and it asked Congress for budget increases for personnel to handle the flood. Across from commission headquarters, in Rockville, Md., workers are now digging a foundation for a $131 million, 14-story office tower for 1,500 employees to handle an anticipated flood of applications. But many of the proposed reactors are fading. The four projects identified by the Energy Department after the 2005 act as the strongest candidates to share an $18.5 billion pool of loan guarantee money underline the difficulties. At the Southern Company's Vogtle 3 & 4 reactors, near Augusta, Ga., two holes that are each as big as five football fields have been dug for the foundations, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to grant a license to build and operate the plants this year. But negotiations on the Calvert Cliffs 3 project in Maryland broke down over what fee the builders should pay to the federal government to compensate the Treasury for the risk it was underwriting. One partner, Constellation Energy of Baltimore, gave up, and the other, Électricité de France, has not found a new investor. Preliminary work has begun at another site, the Virgil C. Summer 2 and 3 project of South Carolina Electric and Gas, although one of the municipal partners, Santee Cooper, is looking for another company to take over some of its share.
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When Bernanke Got It Wrong It is amazing that a lot of criticism of the Federal Reserve today focuses on what it clearly got right - the response to the debt crisis in 2008 and thereafter, a response that may well have prevented Great Depression II - and not on what it got wrong: policies that allowed the dangerous imbalances to grow and bring on the crisis. You could see that this week when Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, made his semiannual pilgrimage to Capitol Hill to discuss the state of the economy. Lawmakers voiced concern about possibly excessive regulation of banks, but not about the clearly inadequate capital the big banks - and many small ones - had before the crisis. Some of them seemed to be upset that the Fed's policies had caused stock prices to rise. Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, seemed to think that all current economic problems could be traced to President Obama's excessive spending and was upset that the "Federal Reserve has regrettably, in many ways, enabled this failed economic policy through a program of risky and unprecedented asset purchases." Mr. Bernanke, who is probably nearing the end of his tenure running the Fed, seemed to have had such criticisms in mind last week when he assessed "the first 100 years of the Federal Reserve" at a conference in Cambridge, Mass. In analyzing the Fed's failures during the Depression, he seemed to be taking clear aim at some of his current critics - and perhaps at other central banks that were far less aggressive after the credit crisis. First, he appeared to address the idea, popular in some circles, that we need a new gold standard. "The degree to which the gold standard actually constrained U.S. monetary policy during the early 1930s is debated," he said, "but the gold standard philosophy clearly did not encourage the sort of highly expansionary policies that were needed." He said policy makers, following flawed economic theories, concluded "on the basis of low nominal interest rates and low borrowings from the Fed that monetary policy was appropriately supportive and that further actions would be fruitless." Was that a criticism of the European Central Bank under Jean-Claude Trichet, which lowered interest rates but did little else as the euro zone crisis grew? It certainly helped to explain why Mr. Bernanke felt the need to embark on quantitative easing and to focus on longer-term interest rates as well as short-term ones. Then Mr. Bernanke pointed to "another counterproductive doctrine: the so-called liquidationist view, that depressions perform a necessary cleansing function." That was the view pushed in the early 1930s by Andrew Mellon, the Treasury secretary, to such an extent that it angered even President Herbert Hoover, who did not, however, seem to think he could overrule the secretary. Now the comments could be read as a reproach to those, in the United States and Europe, who push for austerity above all else. "It may be that the Federal Reserve suffered less from lack of leadership in the 1930s than from the lack of an intellectual framework for understanding what was happening and what needed to be done," Mr. Bernanke concluded. It seems to me that something similar could be said for the Fed before the debt crisis erupted. The intellectual framework it used simply could not cope with the idea that financial stability can itself become a destabilizing factor, as investors and bankers conclude that it is safe to take on more and more risk. For a time, the period before the collapse was known as the "Great Moderation," a term that Mr. Bernanke helped to publicize in a 2004 speech. Low levels of inflation, long periods of economic growth and low levels of employment volatility were viewed as unquestioned proof of success. And what brought on that success? In 2004, Mr. Bernanke, then a Fed governor, conceded good luck might have helped, but his view was that "improvements in monetary policy, though certainly not the only factor, have probably been an important source of the Great Moderation." In 2005, three Fed economists, Karen E. Dynan, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Daniel E. Sichel, proposed an additional explanation for the Great Moderation: the success of financial innovation. "Improved assessment and pricing of risk, expanded lending to households without strong collateral, more widespread securitization of loans, and the development of markets for riskier corporate debt have enhanced the ability of households and businesses to borrow funds," they wrote. "Greater use of credit could foster a reduction in economic volatility by lessening the sensitivity of household and business spending to downturns in income and cash flow."
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NY judge blocks higher fees for tobacco dealers NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's fee increases for cigarette-selling shops were temporarily blocked by a state judge, a retail association said on Friday, leaving the current $100-a-year charge in effect for now. State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Feinman issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the state charging fees that could have climbed to as high as $5,000-a-year for stores with high volumes of sales, said James Calvin, president of the New York Association of Convenience Stores. The fee increases were designed to stop about 40 percent of the state's 24,000 licensed tobacconists from selling cigarettes in an effort to improve public health, he said. "But that theory is all wet because most of the displaced smokers would merely shift their tobacco purchases to Indian reservations, the Internet and the black market, making things worse for small business, tax revenue and public health," Calvin said in a statement. A spokesman for New York Governor David Paterson had no immediate comment. The state's governors have for years failed to force Native American reservation stores to charge New York state taxes on sales of cigarettes and gasoline. The state claims it loses hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues as a result. Non-reservation stores say they cannot compete with the lower prices the Native American stores can offer.
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Closings start at Guantanamo detainee's NY trial Closings start at Guantanamo detainee's NY trial Nov 8 11:15 AM US/Eastern Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A prosecutor has urged a New York jury to convict a Tanzanian man on terrorism charges in the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee. Federal prosecutor Harry Chernoff told jurors Monday that Ahmed Ghailani (guh-LAHN'-ee) had the blood of hundreds on his hands. Ghailani is accused in the deaths of 224 people in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. A dozen Americans were among those killed. Chernoff said Ghailani helped build the bombs. Closing arguments began after a judge gave Ghailani one last chance to testify. Ghailani's lawyers called no witnesses. They say the 36-year-old was duped into aiding the attacks. Four others already have been convicted in the bombings and are serving life sentences. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) political advocacy groups in Iceland
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Treating Pets With Human Medicine
Feb. 7, 2013 - There is a growing movement to treat animals with the best that human medicine has to offer, including physical therapy, hydro-therapy, and even alternative therapies -- acupuncture, to be precise. When dog owner Joe Bowerman's beloved Shitzu, Snoot, was suffering from chronic back problems, which is common among the breed, and became paralyzed, Bowerman started looking into acupuncture treatments. "He couldn't use his back," said Snoot's vet Leilani Alvarez of Animal Medical Center in New York City. "Acupuncture works primarily with the central nervous system, so there really isn't an equivalent conventional medicine." Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 12:35 a.m. ET Three million people in the United states use the ancient Chinese therapy for debilitating pain, to help them quit smoking, and more. But at Animal General Hospital, also in New York City, veterinarians are using it extensively for cases like Snoot's. There, three acupuncture treatments a week cost a $100 a visit. "You make sacrifices for the things you care about, things that you love," Joe said. "We all do it in a different way. This guy has given me great companionship, and I didn't want to lose him so I made those sacrifices for him." Delilah's owner Mark Rindler swears that acupuncture made all the difference for the dachshund. "She has a bad back, a back neck... and acupuncture saved her life," he said. "We almost had to put her down last August she was in such bad shape. Medicine didn't help." While animals can't verbalize whether the treatment works or not, their owners said they could see a difference. "I know it was acupuncture because the other stuff didn't work," Rindler said. "After these treatments, she was like a little puppy again." But there is a lot of skepticism too. Some veterinarians say there is no science to prove that sticking dogs with tiny needles is good medicine. David Ramey helped shape the guidelines for alternative therapies for animal treatment plans for the American Veterinary Medical Association and said the root of the issue is "there is no consensus" on if acupuncture has any effect on the animal's health. "You will find some studies that show there is an effect, and you will find that there are studies that show there is no effect whatsoever," Ramey said. "Another half-truth is that there is no such thing as an acupuncture point. Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate that there is such a thing anatomically." But even critics can agree that the best medicine for pets is a lot of TLC, which doesn't cost anything and yet, is still priceless. "I think they should spend time with their animals and take them on walks and massage them and pay attention to them," Ramey said.
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Manning's availability for season opener in doubt INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay says his team must be prepared to start the season without injured quarterback Peyton Manning, and the club might need to find a veteran backup. Irsay posted his comments Saturday morning on his Twitter account, less than 12 hours after the Colts lost their eighth straight preseason game. "We r evaluating the QB sitch, (hash) 18 healing but we must 2 b prepared 4 early season possibility without him,defense has 2 pick it up,big time!," Irsay wrote. During a conference call with reporters, coach Jim Caldwell was asked again when he expected Manning to be back. Caldwell still hasn't provided a timeline for Manning's return and says Manning still hasn't been cleared to practice. Curtis Painter, Manning's backup, has started both preseason games. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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"Those who disrupt the free flow of information in our society or any other pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society," she said. Clinton's remarks came as search engine giant Google maintains it was subject to a sophisticated attack originating from mainland China. Clinton called for China to investigate the Mountain View, Calif., company's claims openly. Another line in the sand WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's proposal to separate government-insured banking from risky investing opened a new battle front between Wall Street and Washington. Although proprietary trading accounts for a small portion of revenue at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., the investments account for 5 percent of the total for Citigroup and Morgan Stanley and about 10 percent for Goldman Sachs, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Even though such trading represents a minor portion of business for some banks, it is not a niche banks will give up without a fight. One chorus of responses denounced the plan as one that simply missed the mark. "Let's not be finding a bogeyman so that we can turn public attention away from what they're doing wrong in the administration," Sen Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said. Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar said "if people are focused on things that caused or were real contributors to the financial crisis, it wasn't trading." But in the thick of the bank reporting season, Obama said he was ready to rumble. His proposals came within a week of his declaring a Consumer Financial Protection Agency was "non-negotiable" part of his reform package and soon after proposing a $90 billion "responsibility fee" for large banks to recoup losses in the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. With former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker at his side, Obama repeated a familiar refrain that the new proposals would ensure that "never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail." The proposal, however, is meant to be simpler than that. Like an Alexandrian sword-stroke, dividing risky banking from depositors means "too big to fail" is patently moot. Any bank is too small to fail if it handles customer deposits. By extension, investment banks of any size -- or banks that own hedge funds or private equity firms -- will have to go it on their own from now on, provided the proposals find the necessary votes in Congress. White House to Main Street effort in Ohio CLEVELAND, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama participates in the second White House to Main Street tour Friday, visiting Lorain County, Ohio. While in the Cleveland area, Obama will visit the Wind Turbine Manufacturing and Fab Lab facilities at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, the White House said. At the college, Obama will have a town hall meeting where he will discuss ways to grow the economy and reduce unemployment. Obama also will visit local businesses in the area, speaking to workers and families about the challenges they face and ask for their ideas for rebuilding the economy in the long term, the White House said.
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U.S. Economy Growing at Modest Pace, Fed Says The U.S. economy expanded at a "modest to moderate" pace in most of the country between early July and late August, according to a Federal Reserve report that was just strong enough to reinforce the prospect of a pullback in monetary stimulus. With most Fed officials seemingly bent on moving away from controversial asset purchases aimed at keeping long-term rates down, investors are expecting the Fed to begin reducing its $85 billion monthly pace of bond-buying at its next meeting later this month. Recent economic data has been mixed, but not weak enough to suggest any upset to a sluggish recent recovery, which is slowly bringing down unemployment. The Beige Book report, which is compiled from conversations with Fed business contacts, pointed to firming residential real estate activity, confirming this year's rebound in the housing market. "Reports from several districts suggested that rising home prices and mortgage interest rates may have spurred a pickup in recent market activity, as many 'fence sitters' were prompted to commit to purchases," the report said. (Reporting by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa; Editing by Krista Hughes)
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Accept. Sheesh. Someone get the trout. Accept. Been down this road too many times already. Wheel wars, especially block wheel wars, sent a very confusing message to the blocked editor, as well as being extremely uncollaborative. FloNight♥♥♥ On reflection, Recuse. FloNight♥♥♥
Accept to consider the behavior of everyone involved. Kirill (prof)
Decline. Paul August ☎
Decline. No chance of any result which would not involve a riot which would outweigh any benefit. Blnguyen (bananabucket)
Accept. Reluctant accept. I don't often say "I told you so", but this entirely avoidable case would not have happened had the'special enforcement' amendment passed. Sam Blacketer (talk)
Accept. Charles Matthews (talk)
===Temporary injunction===
1) For the duration of this proceeding, is not to be blocked, or unblocked, by any administrator, other than by consent of a member of the Arbitration Committee. Passed 5 to 0 at. =Final decision =
All numbering based on /Proposed decision, where vote counts and comments are also available. ==Principles==
===Administrators===
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2) In a non-emergency situation, administrators are expected to refrain from undoing each others' administrative actions without first attempting to resolve the dispute by means of discussion. Passed 11 to 0,. ===Use of administrative tools in a dispute===
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6) As Wikipedia and its editorial community continue to grow, it is inevitable that philosophical differences among the participants will result in disputes over questions regarding project policy and governance. Editors are encouraged to engage in frank discussion of matters affecting the project, and are encouraged to share even those facts and opinions which demonstrate the shortcomings of the project, its policies, its decision making structure, and its leaders. Nevertheless, the purpose of Wikipedia is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors. Discourse is limited by the expectation that even difficult situations will be resolved in a dignified fashion. Editors who have genuine grievances against others are expected to avail themselves of the dispute resolution mechanism rather than engaging in unbridled criticism across all available forums. It is unacceptable for editors to engage in vituperative rhetoric and public attacks in order to harass perceived adversaries. Passed 10 to 0,. ==Findings of fact==
===William M. Connolley===
1) On 1 July, inappropriately extended a block that he had made, because of incivility directed at himself. Connolley later inappropriately reapplied his block after it was reversed by Geogre. Passed 10 to 0 (with one abstention),. ===Geogre===
2) On 1 July, reversed a block placed by William M. Connolley, without first discussing the block either with William M. Connolley or other administrators, instead merely announcing that he disagreed with the block. Geogre also reversed page protection applied by apparently intended to cool the dispute, without first discussing the protection either with MZMcBride or other administrators.
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Last Russian ice hockey team member dies Lokomotiv hockey player Alexander Galimov, who survived the plane crash that killed all of his team-mates, has died in a hospital in Moscow. Head of the burn centre at Vishnevsky Institute, Andrei Alexeyev, said: "We did everything we could do to change the course of events and to save his life, but unfortunately what we were dealing with were deadly burns." The Soviet-designed Yak-42 passenger plane crashed into a river bank just outside Yaroslavl, 250 km north of Moscow on September 7, killing 44 people in total. The Russian President, Medvedev, mentioned the victims in a recent speech: "Our citizens were killed and citizens of seven other countries were also killed in the plane crash, the players and coaches were killed, and I ask you to honour their memory."
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MPs call for more support for local news media A parliamentary committee will today call for the Government to relax local media merger rules, in an effort to help the industry to fight off challenges from internet services such as Google News. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee also believes that council "freesheets," which compete with local newspapers, should be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading. John Whittingdale, the committee's chairman, said that local media was facing "unprecedented challenges" from the recession and the internet. "This has led to the closure of a large number of newspapers, many commercial radio stations becoming loss-making and the possible end of regional news on commercial television," Mr Whittingdale said. "This has serious implications for local democracy." The committee wants the Government to press ahead with changes to cross-media ownership recommended by Ofcom, the media regulator. These include relaxing the rule that no local newspaper publisher with more than 20 per cent of a market may also own a Channel 3 regional television licence. The MPs acknowledged that Google, and especially its news aggregation service, Google News, were "having a significant impact on traditional publishers" economic models." It recommended that newspaper groups be allowed to jointly devise a strategy to compete with online aggregation services without breaching competition law. But it said that the publishers" criticism of Google "lacked focus" and added that the search engine's success "has been achieved through innovation rather than aggression." The committee came down hard against local authority freesheets, saying it was "unacceptable" that they often "posed" as local newspapers and acted "as a vehicle for political propaganda." On the future of regional news, which ITV wants to stop making, the committee supported the Government's proposal to use part of the BBC licence fee to safeguard the plurality of regional TV news.
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St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular American children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873. The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1905. Dodge published work by the country's best writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris. Many famous writers were first published in St. Nicholas League, a department that offered awards and cash prizes to the best work submitted by its juvenile readers. Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, and Stephen Vincent Benet were all St. Nicholas League winners. St. Nicholas Magazine ceased publication in 1940. A revival was attempted in 1943, but only a few issues were published before St. Nicholas folded once more. ==Founding==
In 1870 Roswell Smith, cofounder of the magazine publishing company Scribner & Company, contacted Mary Mapes Dodge to inquire if she would be interested in working for a projected new children's magazine. At the time Dodge was an associate editor of the weekly periodical Hearth and Home, as well as the author of children's novels, including the best-seller Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates. Dodge had specific ideas about what a children's magazine should and shouldn't be. She felt it must not be "a milk-and-water variety of the periodicals for adults. In fact, it needs to be stronger, truer, bolder, more uncompromising than the other.... Most children...attend school. Their heads are strained and taxed with the day's lessons. They do not want to be bothered nor amused nor petted. They just want to have their own way over their own magazine." The first issue of St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys was dated November, 1873. It had 48 pages and a press run of 40,000 copies. Although St. Nicholas never reached the high circulation numbers of some other magazines (in the 1890s The Youth's Companion had 500,000 subscribers compared with St Nicholas's 100,000 in Christmas 1883 ), within a few years it had acquired numerous competing children's periodicals. Magazines that merged with St. Nicholas were Our Young Folks and The Children's Hour in 1874, The Schoolday Magazine and The Little Corporal in 1875, and Wide Awake in 1893. From the start, St. Nicholas was beautifully printed, with excellent illustrations from the same artists and wood engravers, such as Walter James Fenn, used by Scribner & Company's other magazine, Scribner's Monthly. ==St. Nicholas League==
In 1899 St. Nicholas League began. It was one of the magazine's most important departments, and had the motto of "Live to learn and learn to live." Each month contests were held for the best poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, and puzzles submitted by the magazine's young readers. Winners received gold badges, runners-up received silver badges, and "honor members", winners of both gold and silver badges, were sent cash prizes. Many St. Nicholas League winners went on to achieve prominence. The most prolific poetry contest winner was Edna St. Vincent Millay, who had seven poems published in the League. E.B. White and Bennett Cerf won essay contests. William Faulkner made the honor roll for his drawings, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was honored for a photograph. The tradition of publishing writing and art by children in a periodical was revived in 1973 by ''Stone Soup, the magazine by young writers and artists. ==Mary Mapes Dodge as editor==
From 1873 until 1881 Mary Mapes Dodge was involved with the day-to-day operations of all aspects of St. Nicholas. She created the magazine departments, wrote the monthly column Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and contributed many stories and poems. In the first issue she explained why she chose St. Nicholas for the name of the magazine:
Is he not the boys' and girls' own Saint, the especial friend of young Americans?... And what is more, isn't he the kindest, best, and jolliest old dear that ever was known?... He has attended so many heart-warmings in his long, long day that he glows without knowing it, and, coming as he does, at a holy time, casts a light upon the children's faces that lasts from year to year.... Never to dim this light, young friends, by word or token, to make it even brighter, when we can, in good, pleasant helpful ways, and to clear away clouds that sometimes shut it out, is our aim and prayer.
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How money secrets can wreck your relationship By Allison Linn Jillian Phillips and her fiancé had barely begun dating when they began talking about money. "We were very open about finances from the start," said Phillips, 29. "I would say within two months we were talking about school loans and checking accounts and where we wanted to be in the next 10 years." Yet despite that openness, Phillips admits that she often does not tell her partner the whole truth about her spending habits, and that puts her in good company. A detailed survey conducted by TODAY.com and SELF.com found that 37 percent of men and 56 percent of women acknowledge having lied to their partner about money. Phillips and her fiancé have never fought about money and have had a joint checking account for several years to pay for shared living expenses. It's one reason she thinks their relationship has worked so well. Still, Phillips admits that she's keeping money secrets. Those $150 boots? She's likely to fib and tell her husband-to-be she got them on sale for $100 - even though she bought them with her own money. "I feel guilty, for some reason, when I come home with a new pair of boots or a new bag," she said. "I always say that I got it on sale even though that's not true 98 percent of the time." More than 23,000 people responded to the TODAY.com/SELF.com survey, and about two-thirds told us that, in a relationship, honesty about money is as important as sexual fidelity. Yet many admit to keeping money secrets. The poll found that women are nearly twice as likely as men to hide purchases or receipts from their partner, with nearly one-third of women admitting to the practice. In addition, about one-fourth of women said they'd pretended something was old that was actually new ("What? This old thing?") or said they'd bought something on sale when it wasn't. Only about 8 percent of men had done those things. When asked why they keep money secrets, about one-third of women reasoned that they earn money, so they deserve to spend it. About one-third said they disagree with their partner about what to spend money on. Those were also the most common answers men offered for why they keep money secrets. Experts say that when it comes to marriage and serious partnerships, financial compatibility is important. "Since the 1970s, we've had this idea of marriage being about a soulmate," said Bradford Wilcox, director of The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, " (but) beneath that idea there's still this idea, for most people, that money matters in sort of guiding and sustaining a marriage." Still, Wilcox said, not all money secrets are equally problematic when it comes to marriage. For example, he said, fudging the truth on how much you spent at Banana Republic or Best Buy would not likely carry as much weight for most spouses as having a one-night fling. On the other hand, a long-term pattern of hiding money or having secret credit cards could signal deeper rifts, and perhaps even be a sign that the individual is preparing to leave the marriage or relationship. And that could be as damaging as a one-night stand. "Financial fidelity is a lot more gray, and sexual fidelity is a lot more black and white," Wilcox said. Sex and money do have something in common: They are two areas where one partner has the capacity to devastate the other. "Those are the two domains where they do fundamentally function based on trust, (and) those are the two domains where, once you're really hooked on somebody in life, they can completely ruin you," said Scott Stanley, a research professor at the University of Denver and co-author of the book "Fighting For Your Marriage." Stanley said financial issues are often a major cause of stress in relationships, and the economic woes of the past five years, including high unemployment and collapsing home prices, have certainly strained many marriages. Still, he said, couples may argue about money because money, like child-rearing, is something couples deal with day-to-day. "I think it gives the impression that money is the cause of divorce, but money comes up every day. Something about kids comes up every day," he said. He thinks the fact that couples may disagree about money is less important than how they fight and whether they are able to communicate openly despite their differences. People with very different philosophies about money may have a hard time making it. Stanley said couples who are planning together for a financial future, such as by sharing accounts or saving money together for retirement, tend to have a better chance of success than those who keep finances separate because they have fundamentally different views about money.
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UK channel to air Glee episode with Glitter hit
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Channel 4 said on Thursday it would air an upcoming episode of U.S. music comedy series "Glee" which featured a cover version of a song written by disgraced pop star Gary Glitter. The cast of Glee, including actress Gwyneth Paltrow, is credited with the rendition of "Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)," and the popularity of the series with U.S. audiences has seen the version reach no. 30 on the U.S. iTunes instant charts. Paltrow performed the 1973 song, also covered by Joan Jett in 1982, during the Glee episode entitled "Sexy," aired in the United States earlier this week. The song is included on the latest Glee album, and the British media has predicted that Glitter, who spent three years in a Vietnamese jail for child sex abuse, could earn significant royalty payments as a result of the record sales. "The scene is editorially justified within the program and we do not seek to censor material in the proper context," said a spokeswoman for Channel 4, which will air the episode on its E4 channel toward the end of April. Glitter, 66, enjoyed a string of hits in the 1970s and 80s including the songs "I Love You Love Me Love" and "I'm the Leader of the Gang." Following his release from prison in Vietnam he returned to Britain in 2008 having left the country after being convicted in 1999 of downloading thousands of images of child pornography onto his personal computer. His music is largely banished from the British airwaves. (Reporting by Mike Collett-White; editing by Patricia Reaney)
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Noch Velesova (Ночь Велесова - Night of Veles)'' is the second live album by the Russian pagan / folk metal band Arkona. It was released on February 11, 2009 through Sound Age Production in Russia and in May–June 2009 through Napalm Records worldwide. ==References==
Arkona (band) albums
2008 live albums
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COL BKB: Illinois 76, Stony Brook 66 STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 18 (UPI) -- Demetri McCamey narrowly missed a triple-double Wednesday in leading Illinois to a 76-66 NIT victory over Stony Brook. Illinois will take on Kent State in the tournament's second round. Stony Brook won the regular-season title in the America East Conference but fell to Boston University in the semifinals of the league tourney. The Seawolves (22-10) were given a chance to host the game because of a prior commitment for the home arena of the Illini. McCamey scored 16 points, dished out 11 assists and grabbed nine rebounds. Mike Davis added 17 points. Illinois (20-14) failed to receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament after finishing fifth in the Big Ten and then losing a double overtime game to eventual champion Ohio State in the conference semifinals. Stony Brook (22-10) was led by Bryan Dougher with 21 points.
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Jennifer Lawrence explains her 'I beat Meryl' line at the Globes Jennifer Lawrence would like folks to know, y'all just didn't get the joke. And by y'all, well, we're kinda looking at you, Lindsay Lohan. Lawrence, appearing on David Letterman's show Tuesday night, was referring to the acceptance speech she gave when she won the Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture comedy or musical on Sunday night. The one where the first thing out of her mouth was, "Look, it says, 'I beat Meryl.' " "Yeah, it was a quote from 'First Wives Club,'" J. Law told Letterman. "Bette Midler was talking about a Globe. I can't believe nobody's ever done it before, but she says, 'Looks what it says, it says "I beat Meryl."'" Golden Globes 2013: Highlights from the show Streep was in fact also nominated in the category that the "Silver Linings Playbook" actress won. "And it was so perfect and I had no idea Lindsay Lohan would take to the Twitterverse... is that what they call it, the Twitter...? I'm not on Twitter, but Twitter is very upset." Here's what Lilo wrote, in a tweet that also praised presenter Kristen Wiig: "no1 should ever mess with a legend, such as Meryl Streep." But Lawrence would argue that Streep can hold her own, it appears. "First of all, it's Meryl Streep. You can't offend Meryl Streep...," she maintained. "And then all of a sudden, 'I hate Meryl Streep.' As if, like, I've had my eyes on getting that girl forever, and I was like, 'Finally! I knew it would happen one day!' " In Lindsay's defense -- something Shawn Chapman Holley is quite familiar with -- she was only 10 years old when "The First Wives Club" opened. Then again, Lawrence was only 6. Guess she caught it on cable.
Lindsay Lohan: A not-guilty plea, but that's not all Was Jennifer Lawrence too well fed for 'The Hunger Games'? 'Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence: Time for an attitude adjustment? Follow Christie D'Zurilla on Twitter and Google+. Follow the Ministry of Gossip on Twitter @LATcelebs and on Facebook facebook.com/ministryofgossip.
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Ser was known for his Charlie Chaplin-inspired suits, which were presented at Malaysian Contemporary Designers' Shows in the 1990s, an event organised by the department store Parkson. Ser gained a foothold in Singapore in 1988. Carontique fashion house at Penang Plaza in Penang was one of Ser's earlier breakthroughs to other states in Malaysia. Carontique's decision to drape Penang women with the same hands and materials that dressed the TV3 broadcasters helped secure the franchise to distribute the Edmund Ser ready-to-wear line of clothing in the city. Ser is now known throughout the country for providing clothes to celebrity TV newscasters at television stations such as TV3 and Ntv7. Ser states, "I am more of a businessman than a designer". In 1992 Ser had boutiques at The Saga, in Park Mall, and at The Saga, in Metro Singapore. Ser's apparel was also sold in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. Ser was the first local designer to use crushed velvet in his collection, joining international fashion designers such as Prada and Ralph Lauren. In December 1995, Bobby R. Novenario Pte, Inc. supported the formal opening of Suitables by Edmund Ser at Ayala Center, Makati City, Philippines. In Manila, Ser was identified as one of the brightest names in the Asean fashion scenes of the 90s. Bobby Novenario, impressed with Ser's well-fitting suits for the Asian figure, brought Ser to Manila to design a fashion line for Filipino corporate ladies. In March 1996 Ser attended the 22nd Asian Roundtable by the Asian Club Foundation held in Kobe, Japan, as a guest speaker on the topic of Fashion in Asia. In 1998 Edmund Ser took its name to the newly opened Suria KLCC shopping centre in the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur City Centre. By 1999, Ser had 11 Edmund Ser boutiques, including three in Singapore. The outlets in Kuala Lumpur were in the Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur. ===Fashion shows===
Ser held various themed fashion shows in the 1990s, under his SER by Edmund Ser label. His venues were usually in Spices Restaurant and in the Concorde Ballroom. In July 1990, Ser held a fashion show in Oval, featuring the Edmund Ser Ready-To-Wear Collection. Parkson Corporation's Contemporary Designers Show (1990) featured Ser's trademark line. Ser was a representative of Malaysia in the Asean Designers' Scene, where he represented Malaysia for the Asean Designers' show in Singapore, the Philippines, and other states in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1996. In 1992 Ser was titled amongst Asean's best five, alongside Sira Kulsethsiri of Thailand, Arthur Yen of Singapore, Frederick Perlata of the Philippines, and Samuel Wattimena of Indonesia. Chung Khiaw Bank Visa presented Ser's "An Afternoon With Edmund Ser" in October 1993. The Transylvania Look and a preview of his 1994 Chinoire Collection were featured, as well as "An Evening with Edmund Ser" in conjunction with the bank's Gold Card launch. Ser was amongst 15 top Malaysian designers to participate in the Malaysia In style fashion extravaganza. In 1995 Ser showcased his Middlesex collection for three consecutive nights in the Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur. The'middle-sex' look, which was a sexually grey area that could be read as androgynous or bi-sexual, was a 1996 forecast for world fashion. Ser presented double-breasted jackets with six buttons and hugging the hips for 1996. Priority Plus, with the support of Cathay Pacific, BMG Malaysia, Nescafe, Sothys Paris, and Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, had their 'Thank You' party featuring Edmund Ser's 1996 Middlesex Collection. In 1996 Ser's fashion shows presented a different image through a more fashionable, as opposed to classic, line. The collection featured numerous coordinates in white, black, and checks. ===Expansion and corporate success (2000s–current)===
In 2002, Ser expanded into a large market of those earning RM2000 and over. Ser created the Spade label; its flagship store was situated on the concourse floor, alongside international designer brands such as Marc Jacobs and Paul Smith. Spade featured asymmetrical, anonymous, and funky young designs for young adults. In 2004 Edmund Ser opened in Hock Lee Centre Shopping Podium, Kuching, Malaysia. Ser has also ventured into the Sabahan market since 2007. Ser suffered financially due to overexpenditures to launch the Spade brand, overexpansion of retail boutiques, the recession, and high rents at shopping malls.
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Toymakers gear up for year of the AppCessory NEW YORK (Reuters) - Having found this holiday season that they cannot beat iPad, iPhone and iPod, toymakers have decided to join them, lining up a host of playthings that come to life when hooked up to the devices, gadgets that kids love to play with. Industry insiders call them "AppCessories," and expect a wide array of these items to be on display at the American Toy Fair, which officially kicks off in New York on Sunday. "The manufacturers have realized this is a hot area, and they are all jumping on it," said TimetoPlayMag.com Editor-in-Chief Jim Silver. "It is an opportunity to extend the ages you are selling to." The trend comes as companies, scarred by a holiday season when toy sales fell 3 percent in the United States, look beyond traditional toys to woo tech-savvy kids, many of whom have grown up playing on their parents' smartphones or their own gaming consoles. "Today's gamer is looking for experiences in games that include the marriage of digital and analog, face-to-face, and off the board gaming," Hasbro Chief Executive Brian Goldner said. For a graphic on 2011 toy industry sales, see: link.reuters.com/rer56s Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe toys and the Monopoly board game plans, to jump on the "AppCessory" bandwagon through its "zAPPed" gaming platform. When you play with Hasbro's "The Game of Life zAPPed," you will still move your car from space to space and select your path to retirement on a game board, but now you spin, get paid, sue other players and make important decisions on your iPad, after downloading a free app. The game will cost about $25. But Hasbro is not alone in this arena. Canada's Spin Master is betting big on an array of iPhone/iPod Touch and Android accessories under the "Appfinity" label. "When you talk about the holy grail of toys, manufacturers have been trying to find a way to marry the tech and the toy world," Spin Master spokesman Harold Chizick said, adding that appCessories might just be what they were looking for. Spin Master hopes its "AppDrive" will appeal to racing enthusiasts by allowing them to use a steering wheel that can hold an iPhone, and play racing games using an app on the iPhone, while "Appfishing" will enhance "virtual fishing" using a rod that can hold an iPhone. Priced at $20 each, they will hit stores in the fall. Industry goliath Mattel Inc will try to broaden the appeal of its classic brands such as Fisher-Price and Barbie as well as "Monster High" through its "Apptivity" line. One product in this line is Fisher Price's Laugh and Learn Apptivity Case, which is basically a $20 sturdy case that will protect parents' iPhones from "dribbles, drool, and unwanted call-making." The item, which features beads, a mirror and free learning apps, will help babies practice hand-eye coordination, Mattel says. Toymaker WowWee, known for its little robot toys, will unveil its "AppGear" line, which combines physical toys with iOS and Android apps. For example, in Alien Jailbreak, which is an augmented reality shooter game, the player looks through his or her smartphone and tries to stop aliens from escaping from prison. AppGear products will be sold at about $10 to $20. Companies such as Discovery Bay and Crayola also hope to offer compelling products in this category. Rising teen cell phone ownership, growing demand for mobile computing devices such as the iPad, and the explosive demand for mobile apps are other factors boosting the trend. As of September 2009, 75 percent of American teens age 12-17 had a cellphone, a number that has steadily increased from 45 percent in November 2004, a study by Pew Research Center showed. "Until now, traditional retailers or brick-and-mortars have been unable to tap into this huge growing market. They've been left out of the app party," said Mike Gonzales, creative director and digital brand manager for WowWee. Like many others, Gonzales now sees "an opportunity to take a bite out of the app pie." At an event earlier this week, Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch summed up the trend: "The combination of the physical world and virtual world is so powerful that it's almost unexplainable."
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This came naturally to Mr. Kendricks, who would write songs to amuse and educate his younger sisters while growing up on a farm in Alabama, the seventh of nine children. He and his siblings formed the Kendricks Gospel Singers and moved to Newark. Mr. Kendricks was soon invited to sing in Harlem churches and was hired at the Apollo. After some flashes of opportunity, he settled into church work in his 30s to make ends meet. "I guess I was overly suspicious a few times when someone would offer me a contract, and maybe that hurt my chances," he said. "Now I realize that the real money comes from taking a percentage of the profits. But back then, it seemed like such a small percentage." It certainly did not diminish his spirit at the Glendale Baptist event, which he wound down with one of his staples, a rollicking version of "Let the Church Roll On," as the women shouted in approval, "Sing it, Father." E-mail: [email protected]
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Suspected suicide bomber attacks Ankara university ANKARA (Reuters) - A woman pretending to be a student detonated a bomb at an Ankara university during a visit by a former justice minister on Wednesday but no one was wounded, state news agency Anatolian said. The woman, who was carrying explosives, approached former minister Hikmet Sami Turk as he visited the university, Anatolian said. The woman was detained and two separate explosives with fuses were found on her. Turk told NTV broadcaster the blast occurred about a meter from him. Turk was hated by left-wing organizations for his policies when he was in office. Turk also said he had received death threats. "There has been a bomb attack, but it's over now, we don't know the details of the attack.... We think it's a suicide bomber," a Bilkent University source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. Police have recently warned of an escalation in attacks by the outlawed, separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey. Separately, nine soldiers died in a bomb blast blamed on the PKK in southeast Turkey. (Reporting by Thomas Grove; writing by Paul de Bendern)
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Liverpool: Mark Lawrenson expects Kenny Dalglish to stay
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Algeria 1 - 0 Egypt: Algeria in first finals since 1986 - Scotsman.com ANTAR Yahia's spectacular goal earned Algeria the final African qualifying spot in next summer's World Cup finals in South Africa. The centre-half volleyed home five minutes before half-time and a solid rearguard effort in the second half kept out Egypt. Emad Meteab had the best chance for Egypt but was denied by impressive Algeria keeper Fawzi Chaouchi in front of a capacity crowd at the Khartoum Stadium in Sudan â where 5,000 fans were locked outside the ground, unable to get in. Chaouchi was forced to make a number of fine saves as Egypt gained the upper hand, but it was Algeria who took the lead when Ziani lofted a superb ball in and Yahia smashed a volley from a narrow angle in via the underside of the bar. Egypt coach Hassan Shehata introduced Mohamed Zidan and Hosni Abd Rabou for Zaki and Fathi at half-time, before a scrappy start to the second period saw Ziani mistakenly booked for a foul by Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra, a rare error by referee Eddy Maillet of the Seychelles. The half sprang into life, though, with chances at each end within a minute. First Hassan Yebda's cross was met by a fierce downward header from Abdelkader Ghezzal, only for Essam El Hadary to save, and then Chaouchi brilliantly denied Meteab after Zidan tricked his way into the box but failed to get a shot away. Rabah Saadane, in his fifth spell as Algeria coach, introduced defender Samir Zaoui in place of goalscorer Yahia as he sought to shore up the game. Meteab was left on the ground in pain after being superbly denied by Chaouchi, but it was a rare sight of goal for Egypt as their final ball too often let them down. Zidan was rightly denied a penalty claim, and Chaouchi survived a late scare after missing a long ball under pressure from Mohamed Aboutrika as Algeria held on to qualify for the first time since Mexico 1986.
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=== Sources ===
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http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200605190928.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=rivals-16277&prov=rivals&type=lgns
emorial Coliseum with be unimaginably deafening. He has put the National Guard on notice. 16. It is understood by his followers that Faye doesn't like Country and Western and he doesn't like dead people either. 17. Faye started this. And he will end it. 18. The fate of Kuzaar is a growing concern among the Yellow Jacket fan base. The concensus is that "he is 'toast!'" 19. Kuzaar "made his bed"...Muha will knock him into it. A "universal memory dump" will erase all of Kuzaar from all of time. 20. After being offered the Head BB coaching job at NC State Wednesday, Faye let out a huge roaring laugh, injuring four members of the press and knocking down powerlines throught Northeast Ga. Rolling Blackouts were reported as far away as West Virginia. After his laughter subsided, Faye remarked to the NC State athletic director that "Ha! You would do anything to not have to have the Wolfpack face me on the hardwood, wouldn't you?" He then b -slapped the NC official into unconciousness as a lesson to all who would insult him thusly. 21. People have noticed something strange about all those who have stated that they have actually seen Muha play. No ardent behind-the-scenes followers GT MBB have been able to frown or say anything bad of our "Mystery Man." It's been reported that a cousin of a friend of one fan who heard about someone who saw Muha play can now only talk about basketball. All other sports seem to be irrelevant to him, now. 22. Those who stare directly at him, while making a play, have their heads immediately explode due to the sheer talent. Medical reasearchers at the Emory Medical college are working on special glasses to prevent this messy side effect. As an incentive for increased giving, A-T is making available special glasses with a rapture filter to all A-T members with 500+ points. These fans can gaze on Faye's prowess without fear of cranial eruption. Members with 50 to 500 points will be given hand mirrors with which to observe Faye over their shoulders while sitting backwards in their seats. Under 50 point members and students will be given ear and nose plugs. 23. Aside from long arms, his primary talent is that he can create seams in the space time continuum. This allows him to warp, or translaocate himself from one end of the court to the other in the blink of an eye. Don't be surprised if the averages 40+ fast break points per game and 12-13 blocks. Warping the space time continuum makes the clock irrelevant to the game, thus giving the team the additional benefit of never worrying about running out the clock or running out of time as Faye can "back to the future" a last second shot as many times as necessary to let it go in. We control the time component in the game. This has been attempted once before with great success by a crack team of Behind the Iron Curtain Scientists. Hence the name: The :"Faye - 72 Russian Olympic Team Effect". 24. Its Muha's ability to control minds that amazes most people and will change the approach to the game. Dickie V. has already named him the only daiper dandy for '06/07, but after seeing Faye this year, he was unable to speak for the rest of the game. ESPN called it a throat problem, but we know the real reason. A cousin of the friend of a fan who once saw Faye said that he has found oil and prices will drop tomorrow. 25. It's been rumored that McDonald's High School All-American PG Jaravis Crittenton has said he is going to redshirt because of Faye's crazy good PG skills. Folks won't even remember who that guy "MJ" guy was. 26. The Carolina, Duke, Wake and Maryland internet boards show that thre is little, if any, realization of the impending Muha season around the ACC. Not one mention of his name at any of those sites. Of course, mentioning of his name can incite terrorist-like violence?
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MBA students ask 'what does the future hold?' With the population comprising more pensioners and fewer working-age adults to support them, conventional state pensions will become unsustainable, agrees Filippo Iarrera from Cranfield School of Management. "Public- sector pension schemes will only be available to reduce poverty traps among the elderly; affluent citizens will have obligatory, privately managed retirement plans." Healthcare
Having become more unsustainable, health care provision will mirror that of retirement, believes Iarrera. But at least medical improvements will have the potential to make our senior years more comfortable, predicts Sharath Nair from Warwick Business School: "With the legalisation of stem-cell treatment, no disability will be beyond repair, and life expectancy in some areas will be as high as 145." >> MBA applications: can you pass the GMAT quiz? Human body implants, "smart" drugs, computerised health checkpoints and artificial doctors are among the many health advances predicted by the MBA students surveyed. However, they also believe that previously unknown maladies will make an appearance. "People could find themselves admitted to hospital as a result of various new psychological disorders that will have become common during the decade leading up to 2050," says Armin Kia from Manchester Business School. "One such disorder may be the inability to distinguish between dreams, imagination and reality." Technology
By 2050 the distinction between physical and virtual experience will have become thoroughly blurred, according to some of the MBA students interviewed. They also make numerous mentions of 3D interaction overtaking 2D in advanced social media, and voice-activation being replaced by thought-activation. "Schools will teach children how to use the web effectively and the Internet will pervade every facet of life," says Nair. "Less importance will be accorded to knowledge itself, since it will be within easy reach at all times." Jaygopal Raghavan from Lancaster University expects there to be "earthlings living on a distant planet surrounded by nanobots." >> MBA programmes: A more thoughtful approach Closer to home, 3D printing will revolutionise the consumer goods industry. "The 3D printer in my garage will be capable of creating most man-made daily necessities," says Nair. "Equipped with 99 per cent of all known elements that can be safely stored, 3D printing promises to be so cost-effective that huge landfill sites will be required to carry obsolete products, and recycling or disposing of this refuse will be the state's largest public utility service." But will smarter technology really transform our lives for the better? Not according to many MBA students, who agree with Surmin Giri from Aston Business School: "Personal relationships will be conducted through social media, with diminishing human contact. As for marriages, these will be replaced by contract relationships." Energy
Fossil fuels will not necessarily be obsolete by 2050, many MBA students believe. But Reid Howard from Manchester Business School thinks that energy demand will drive more aggressive research into alternative, more sustainable sources of fuel. >> MBA applications: Join the classroom that never closes "Given the cost of developing such technologies, the majority of energy services will be provided by governments, as they are the only organisations that will be able to afford to run this type of operation while potentially losing money," he says. "Private companies will move in once technologies are perfected." Business
The survey asked the students which of today's global brands they believe will still be bankable in 2050. Just over three-quarters thought that Google would be in business, with McKinsey and Co scoring 60 per cent and Toyota 51 per cent. Facebook, however, polled a measly 25 per cent. "The world will still be a lovely place, but every time you search for something on Google, you'll have to pay a £1 charge," says Bharat Gupta from Cranfield School of Management. "In 2050 Facebook and Apple will have a similar status to Yahoo and Nokia today." The world
Many MBA students predict big changes in macro-politics and economics, with nations battling for land and resources, and nurture an overriding sense that China (and Asia more widely) will be the dominant region by 2050. >> How an MBA can boost your employability "India and China will be very influential," says Manish Kumar from Warwick Business School. "China and America will control the planet economically and militarily, while the influence of Europe will decline. India will be the most populous country, the Middle East will prosper, and Africa will become the shop floor of the world." Yet for some, differences will matter less than similarities. "The hot topic of the beginning of the 21st century - cultural differences - will become meaningless, as everything will be much more uniform," says Kia.
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Jim Marshall, Founder of Marshall Amps, Dies at 88 Ears still ringing from the 1960s? Jim Marshall might be to blame. Marshall was the man behind "The" amplifier, the weapon of choice for guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend of The Who, and Eric Clapton - "The Marshall." The sixties superstars' ear-shattering sounds, blasting first in small clubs and music halls and later in stadiums and arenas, relied on the basic Marshall amp for their frenzied, thunderous roar. That was no accident. Marshall, who died Thursday at the age of 88, was not looking for precision when he and his sound engineers came up with the early Marshall amps in 1960. He said in a 2000 interview that what he wanted was raw, fuzzy power. He said the rival Fender amp, tremendously popular at the time, produced an extremely clean sound that worked well with jazz and country and western but did not satisfy younger players searching for something different. He was looking for a rougher sound. Marshall was a larger than life figure with a taste for single malt Scotch whiskey and Cuban Montecristo cigars. Even in his 70s, when he was already suffering from some serious health problems, he thought nothing of hopping a plane to catch an Iron Maiden concert. He had suffered several strokes in recent years, and developed cancer at the end of 2011, his son Terry Marshall said Friday hours after his father's death.
This photo dated March 1, 2010 shows Jim Marshall of Marshall Amplifiers in Milton Keynes, England. Jim Marshall, who helped shape the sound of rock and roll with his groundbreaking amplifier designs, died Thursday April 5, 2012. He was 88. Marshall was known throughout the music world for founding Marshall Amplification, which produced the amplifiers that rocked music halls and arenas after their introduction in 1960. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUT Close He said the cancer led to an extended hospitalization followed by a brief hospice stay. "My wife and I were with him when he passed away at about 8:15," Terry Marshall said. "He got cancer toward the end of last year, and had surgery for that, and it came back. He was in a terrible state the last five or six weeks. He's in a much better place now." He said his dad had liked being known as "the father of loud." Marshall's death was announced on the company website with a statement honoring "the joy" his amplifiers brought to millions of music fans and vowed that the "world-famous, omnipresent script logo that proudly bears your name will always live on." The familiar amps bearing his name can be seen in thousands of rock 'n' roll performance photos dating back to the era when Townshend and the Who would smash their Marshall amps at the conclusion of their stage shows - Marshall said in 2000 that Townshend had actually been careful not to destroy the expensive speakers, damaging only the cloth exterior, which was easy (and cheap) to repair. Terry Marshall said the first amp was produced in 1960, a few years before the musical explosion that would give guitar-oriented rock its place in music history. The first Marshall amps didn't look like much - just a simple black box with a speaker inside and basic controls on top - but they packed a formidable punch. Aficionados credit him with developing the "amp stack" that allowed garage bands to make a powerful noise in small dance halls and gymnasiums. Jim Marshall turned his amplifiers into a successful business, keeping much of his production in England. The company is based in a small factory near Milton Keynes north of London. Marshall was proud that he resisted suggestions that he shift all production outside of England to save costs. In his later years, Marshall became involved with numerous charities and in 2003 was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his successful export of British-made goods and his various charitable deeds. He is survived by two children, two stepchildren and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Care for adults in Cornwall gets £11m boost Care for adults gets £11m boost Funding for adult care in Cornwall is going up by nearly £11m to about £90m, Cornwall Council has agreed. The budget rise comes after its services were rated among the worst in England and Wales by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC told the council to urgently improve adult social care in a report in December 2009. Cornwall Council agreed the rise despite having to make budget cuts of £100m over the next four years.
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Hans Adler
If I'm not mistaken, the text is being displayed at a much bigger font than what's wanted, thus it does not fit in the desired document dimensions. This happens when the font is not chosen or is inappropriate. Try using something like plain Arial. ZooFari
I don't have the time to find out how to do this, but it doesn't seem to be necessary anyway. See below. Thanks for the suggestion! Hans Adler
This works: Modular pair2.svg (the lower image on the right). I have simply reloaded the saved file (without the commas). Please nominate it for deletion from Commons when it's no longer useful. Perhaps uploading a new version of the original file with no change (or a trivial change) will fix the problem. Certes (talk)
OK, I think I am beginning to understand part of what happened. If I select "view page source" with your new file I don't get the commas. While I don't understand how the difference is even possible unless Firefox re-downloads the file when I save it, it indicates that the server is maintaining two versions of the file: The original, uploaded one, and a second version with the silly commas. Now if there are ungrammatical commas in the y coordinate, it makes sense that it is simply set to 0, and that seems to be exactly what happened: The letters have no descenders and appear with baseline y=0, so for some image dimensions they are completely invisible, and for some you can see the lowest line. The sizes and x positions seem to be fine. Thanks! So I will simply re-upload the images. But someone should seek out the server administrator who has run a faulty conversion script on the SVG files, and notify them. Otherwise they might use the same script again. And of course they should run another script to fix the problem. Unfortunately I don't know where to look for server admins. Hans Adler
For the benefit of anyone trying to debug this: This file should still be affected. I fixed the other by re-uploading. Hans Adler
OK, I think the mystery has been solved. It seems that I uploaded the file with the silly commas (I have no idea how that could happen), that Firefox tolerates them, that the server initially tolerated them, and that the server has become a bit more picky in the meantime. Thanks for your help. Hans Adler
== Freeware program for noise ==
I have recently submitted several images to be FP's and in almost every case they were opposed because of noise. Is there a good freeware program that can edit out image noise. I have downloaded GIMP and Inkscape but neither seems to quite do what I need it to do. I was thinking maybe there was an addin for one of these programs that would do the trick. == Wanna help, not sure how. ==
I've got a few images into better shape, but I am not sure how to put them on the pages. How do I replace the images that needed fixing with the fixed versions? Is there an easy way to simply upload it? B10Reaper (talk)
One way, you can upload over the original file by going to the description page on Wikimedia Commons (or simply here at Wikipedia if the file isn't at Commons) and click "Upload a new version". The more convenient way is by uploading the image as a separate file. ZooFari
Once you have the images uploaded, then just edit the page and replace the file name of the one image with the new one. You'll see something like ar_pair2.svg|thumb|180px|File:Modular_pair2.svg, an exact copy of the problem image]]
I believe there is a general problem with Wikimedia servers and some SVG files containing text. When I noticed it, someone had already started a thread at Eicosanoid synthesis.svg, but so far there has been no helpful response. If the problem still exists, you should not see the letters a and b on the thumbnails (only the two symbols \land and \lor, which are drawn), and the larger thumbnail should have 4 artefacts at the top edge. The image where the problem was first observed, Eicosanoid_synthesis.svg has been "fixed" today with a workaround, described by the uploader as "text to paths". I think it just means that the letters are now encoded as SVG graphics. This doesn't seem to be very efficient in general. Note that this picture was created with Inkscape.
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Among these stocks are: Applied Materials (AMAT), with a P/E of 11.5 based on earnings for the coming year; Corning (GLW, 7 P/E), Intel (INTC, 9.4), Juniper Networks (JNPR, 12.9) and Microsoft (MSFT, 8.6). For a more indirect approach, you might want to consider AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). They lack the strengths of the pure tech plays, but they stand to profit from the steady sale of cellphones, since they provide most of the service for smart phones. And they pay fat yields of more than 5% while you wait for the recovery. For most investors, though, it probably makes sense to buy shares in a portfolio of big, strong tech stocks through a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund. One ETF that I like is the SPDR Select Technology sector fund (XLK, 1.4% yield). It holds a broad assortment of the biggest tech names, with an average P/E of 14. A rebound in P/E multiples to the high teens, say, would mean a 30% profit, even before figuring in any earnings growth. Most investors may have given up on American technology, but to paraphrase Steve Jobs, perhaps you should think different.
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Video: Hugo Chavez dies: what happens next in Venezuela? Venezuela begins seven days of official mourning today after the announcement that President Hugo Chavez has died from cancer, aged 58. The country's vice-president, Nicolas Maduro, broke the news of Chavez's death in an emotional televised address. Mr Maduro will take charge until new presidential elections, which must be called within 30 days. "The big question is whether the sympathy that is being shown on the streets of Caracas for Chavez will transfer to Maduro and boost his chances in the election," says the Telegraph's chief foreign correspondent David Blair.
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Homeland nothing like real intelligence work, say CIA employees "Homeland takes the high-intensity, high-adrenalin moments and packages them into an hour," said Tara Maller, a former CIA military analyst who is now a fellow at the New America Foundation. But the reality is more prosaic. "The real job as an analyst was maybe 15-20 per cent awe-inspiring and dramatic moments," she said. "Other times, it's about writing reports. You wouldn't want to watch an analyst at a computer writing a President's Daily Brief." Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn in Homeland Photo: Showtime Officials would not be walking around merrily chatting on mobile phones, some former officials said, and bureaucratic concerns would ensure mid-ranking case officers such as Mathison did not glide in and out of the offices of agency bosses such as David Estes, played by the British actor David Harewood. More to the point, the CIA would not even be allowed to investigate the programme's central plot, which unfolds inside the US. "It is ridiculous," said Mr Peritz. "They wouldn't be involved. And if they tried, they would be caught immediately - immediately - by the FBI." All that said, however, the show has its place, according to the former officials - many of whom admitted to watching it keenly even as they grew increasingly infuriated by its factual blunders. "I know a lot of people in the national security and intelligence community are fans," said Ms Maller. "The fact there is a huge following probably shows there is a kernel of truth to it." And "at a time of significant debate over national security and intelligence issues in terms of public opinion," said Ms Maller, the moral quandaries of the characters "reflect the ambiguities of national security policy." It might also encourage a more diverse range of people to seek jobs in the CIA, she said. "Take it with a grain of salt and it's OK," said Mr Peritz. "Ultimately, it is entertainment."
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Papers focus on Jackson's legacy Papers focus on Jackson's legacy Many of the Sunday papers attempt to unravel Michael Jackson's final hours, his physical condition and his fortune. is the headline on the front page of the Sunday Mirror. The Mail on Sunday considers the a fortnight before he died. The Observer says he became to get him through the rigorous rehearsal schedule for his comeback concerts in London. 'Millions locked away' The Sunday Times reports that Michael Jackson for concert promoters but this left him in "pain." The Independent on Sunday says his former financial advisers suggest he may have left The Sunday Times reports that his are estimated to be £300m. But the Observer understands that although Jackson had money troubles, it is thought he died with claims to have seen a secret report by the Army which criticises what the paper calls the "botched occupation" of Iraq. According to the paper, Tony Blair "uncritically" accepted what it describes as flawed American plans. The Observer reports that the General Medical Council is drafting new guidelines for doctors. This is so that they show to parents whose babies are born critically ill. 'Formidable form' in action at Wimbledon appears on the front page of the Independent on Sunday, with the question: "What might the week bring?" Inside the paper's sport pages, Murray is described as "making extraordinary progress by any standards." The News of the World declares Murray is in puts it after his latest win: "No drama, no fuss, no problems. Murray's going places and he knows it."
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The former superpowers are playing out a miniature version of an oddly nostalgic game on the continent, reminiscent of Cold War proxy conflicts where each has their favoured partners. Russia, for example, is supplying a number of countries with arms on generous terms, while the US reactivated its naval Fourth Fleet in mid-2008 to patrol the waters of the south. Yet even here, explanations are relatively straightforward. Russia sees Venezuela as a key military market in the developing world, and in reality has little appetite for a genuine strategic alliance with the volatile Chavez. The US, meanwhile, has expressed concern about the recent arms purchases. The state department said Venezuelan policy posed "a serious challenge to stability" in the region. It knows that accepting Brazil's claim to regional leadership steals much of the thunder from Chavez in a part of the world it can no longer treat as its "backyard." So an arms race in Latin America? Not yet, not quite. As with much of the region's tempestuous politics, the rhetoric continues to outpace the reality. But even so, recent developments suggest that while the world is preoccupied with conflicts on other parts of the globe, the seeds are quietly being sown for the increased militarisation of a region that arguably should have its budgetary priorities elsewhere.
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Oil slides on demand worries Oil prices continued to remain low on Tuesday due to expectations of falling demand. That followed another round of poor economic data from the eurozone, with services and manufacturing output contracting in May. At the same time the International Energy Agency warned that the cost of crude - though well off its peak in March of more than $128 a barrel - is still high enough to be a threat to the global economy. The IEA's executive director Maria van der Hoeven complained the price is still not low enough to stimulate growth. Even though Brent crude on Monday dropped to a 16-month low below $96 a barrel before recovering to around $99, van der Hoeven said: "Let's be honest, we still confront a situation of near triple digit oil prices." She told reporters: "This is placing a huge burden on budgets and that's contributing to the risk of further economic slowdown." Increased supply from OPEC producers had helped ease the price and the fall was important, but producers and consumers could not yet claim victory in taming the oil price, van der Hoeven said. "I do hope the price will come down. The market is well supplied, producers are supplying more than demand," she added. Shelling out less Also striking a bearish note for investors, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser said oil prices were likely to keep falling well into the second half of the year due to a slowing global economy and easing geopolitical uncertainty. "Global demand is softening, we have got recessionary elements in Europe, a small slowdown in Asia Pacific," Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference on Tuesday. "At the same time, some of the geopolitical elements of price volatility over the past few months have kind of receded, and therefore we see a softening of prices which I expect to go well into the second half of this year." More about: Market results, Oil market Copyright © 2012 euronews JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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Florida man arrested for allegedly putting kittens in freezer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Three Florida trailer park residents are in jail: Two following an apparent love triangle shooting and one because he allegedly put four kittens in a freezer. Pinellas County sheriff's deputies were called to Sunshine Mobile Home Park in St. Petersburg Saturday to check out a report of two people being shot, and arrested Francis James Bahr, 55, and Damian William Blanchard, 25. Bahr allegedly had wanted a relationship with the female shooting victim but was rebuffed, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Bahr and Williams went to the woman's mobile home where Blanchard allegedly called the woman and another man outside then shot them each in the torso. The victims were listed in critical condition but were able to speak with detectives. Police say they're unsure Blanchard or Bahr knew their third roommate -- Blanchard's father, Rodney J. Blanchard, 49 -- was already in police custody for a bizarre incident that allegedly killed a kitten the day before. The elder Blanchard had been visited by a friend who he asked to retrieve a beer from the freezer. When the woman opened the freezer there was no beer -- but there were four kittens each in individual sandwich bags meowing. When the woman tried to remove the kittens from the freezer, allegedly Blanchard shoved her and threw her out of the trailer. She called Pinellas County sheriff's deputies. When they arrived, one of the four kittens, a 6-week-old female, had stopped breathing. Three males were shivering and one was having trouble breathing. All were covered in fleas. Asked what he was thinking, Blanchard told deputies he'd wanted to put the kittens in "timeout." Deputies arrested the elder Blanchard on four counts of animal cruelty and one count of battery. He was being held in lieu of $8,500 bail. The surviving kittens were unharmed and will be put up for adoption by Christmas, an animal protection group spokesman told the newspaper.
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Singapore Airlines launches $165 million upgrade to luxury cabins Customers travelling on select London-Singapore flights will be the first to experience the new product as it is launched initially on eight new Boeing 777-300ERs. Source: Supplied The new first-class seat has a fixed-back shell design with a 35-inch wide seat that coverts to a bed, an ergonomically sculpted cushion, an improved adjustable headrest, a padded headboard and an additional mattress layer. SINGAPORE Airlines is aiming to retake the airline industry benchmark in premium travel with a $US150 million ($165 million) upgrade to its aircraft cabins rolling out from September. Customers travelling on select London-Singapore flights will be the first to experience the new product as it is launched initially on eight new Boeing 777-300ERs. The new product will be extended to take in the airline's Airbus A350s as they are delivered but Singapore's PR firm was unable to say today when it would be seen on its key Australian routes. A reveal in Singapore today was the culmination of more than two years' work with design firms such as BMW Group, DesignworksUSA, James Park Associates and Massive Interactive. It includes a next-generation Panasonic in-flight entertainment system that features bigger screens and allows access to more than 1,000 on-demand entertainment options by swiping or scrolling through the touch-screen monitors. For those at the pointy end, the new first-class seat has a fixed-back shell design with a 35-inch (89cm) wide seat that coverts to a bed up to 82 inches long. Extensive research into enhancing the comfort of the seats led to additions such as a ergonomically sculpted cushion and an improved adjustable headrest as well as a padded headboard and an additional mattress layer. Other research extended to the design of the light, which has been designed to provide the optimal light colour, intensity and adjustability to provide the best environment from reading and working. A new state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment system with a 24-inch LCD screen, touch-screen video handsets and easily accessible data connections. Business class seats offer a greater recline of 132 degrees and improved ergonomic seat cushioning. The seats convert to the industry's widest fully-flat bed that is also 79 inches long and sports a padded headboard. The seats feature two new positions, "Lazy Z" and "Sundeck," aimed at giving passengers greater flexibility and choice. Customer feedback has also resulted in increased stowage pace with an amenity area on the side console and a laptop stowage area. Business class include an 18-inch LCD screen as well as a an all-in-one business panel with in-seat power and connections. Those travelling in economy class are promised a more comfortable seat with increased personal space and legroom. They feature a "refreshed contemporary fabric design," new backrest seat cushions with side bolsters for better back support, an ergonomically sculpted headrest cushion with an increased range of height adjustments. Economy customers also get a wider 11.1-inch monitor featuring the new intelligent tough-screen graphical user interface and a video touch-screen handset. SIA executive vice president commercial Mak Swee Wah said the airline's significant investment in its next generation of cabin products reaffirmed its commitment to product innovation and leadership and demonstrated its confidence in the future of premium full-service air travel. "Special attention has been given to ergonomics, comfort, convenience and design, as well as to our customers' interests and lifestyles," he said.
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Pensions 'paid to dead officers' Police pensions are among the most generous in the public sector, with previous deals allowing officers to stop work after 30 years service on two thirds of their final salary. 'Identified and stopped' The suspected "phantom" payments were discovered in a trawl of paperwork under the National Fraud Initiative, which is carried out by the Audit Commission. The initiative encourages public bodies to check electronically-held data about individuals to detect scams and overpayments. Internal investigators also found several officers were fraudulently claiming benefits, some of whom were disciplined while others resigned. Peter Tickner, the force's director of internal audit, said three "phantom" pensioners were uncovered in a similar review during the previous financial year. In a report to the Metropolitan Police Authority, Mr Tickner said: "[The review] has resulted in a number of pension payments, continuing after the death of the pensioner, being identified and stopped." The internal audit also found evidence five officers failed to notify police chiefs that they had second jobs. A further seven officers were subjected to benefit fraud investigations while 11 faced allegations of false claims for fees, expenses and overtime. Mr Tickner said the majority of investigations were launched into officers from the force's territorial police branch. Officers from the specialist and central operations wings, which deal with some of the most high-profile criminal and terrorist inquiries, were also investigated in the audit.
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I'm a Vietnam veteran and I've had some health problems, including cancer - Hodgkin's disease - that I was diagnosed with in the early '80s. I also have post-traumatic stress disorder... but everyone has emotional problems from over there. When the show crowds come, I go inside. I don't like the crowds. I was born in Casino, NSW, but I've travelled all my life. I've gone to school all over, wherever we were, up to 30-40 schools a year. The shortest time I ever spent at a school was two-and-a-half hours. It was my bad luck for the truck to break down in front of a school. Lynn and I have been married for 40 years and we've always done rides. We've had the Octopus, Horse-o-Plane, Chair-o-Plane, train rides, a kids' water boat ride. We have three kids, all in their thirties, and three grandkids. All the kids travel the show circuit with us and most of the time we camp adjacent to each other. We do 20-25 country shows a year in Queensland and NSW. My son Reece has rides. My daughter Kathryn has a food van, and my other son Curtis has games and a haunted house. Other interests I have are a treasure-hunting game called Geocaching, where you use a GPS to find caches hidden by other players. It's in most places we go. I like fishing, too, and reading. Science fiction is my favourite but my wife reckons I'd read toilet paper if it had print on it. For me to sit at home in a house and look out the window, that's not me. This life... I never get sick of it. I reckon it's pretty good.
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Google reveals its 'Evolution of Search' "My dream has always been to build a 'Star Trek' computer," Google Fellow Amit Singhai tells the camera in the company's latest promotional video, "The Evolution of Search." "In my ideal world, I would be able to walk up to a computer and say, 'Hey, what is the best time for me to sow seeds in India given that monsoon season was early this year?' " And what I'm thinking is, "Wait... what? Google can't do that now?" In the 14 years since it was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University, Google has grown so ubiquitous, so understanding of our search wants - if not our needs - that it's weird when someone points out something Google can't do. As Louis CK said of technology in 2009, "Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides, because everything's amazing now and nobody's happy." Certainly, for journalist types and hardcore info geeks in general, there are alternative info-seeking tools - Quora, Blogdigger and Omgili to name a very few - each tailored to the specific bit of info you need. For all manner of general info however - from checking our spelling to checking out the aerial view of a crush's place of residence - Google is the first place we go. How weird it is to hear Google's Singhai talk about a time when Google News didn't exist - and that it was Sept. 11, 2001 when he and other members of the Google team realized they weren't good enough. "When Sept. 11 happened, we as Google were failing our users," Singhai says. "Our users were searching for 'New York Twin Towers,' and our results had nothing relevant related to the sad events of the day because our index was crawled a month earlier and of course there was no news in that index." How weird it is to hear any tech giant admit it wasn't good enough? In the short run, Google placed links to news sites on its home page, and in the long run, Google News came to be. "The Evolution of Search" covers more of Google's growth, and by proxy, that of the Internet, in little more than six minutes that say a lot about how far Google's come, and how much we take for granted. More on the annoying way we live now: Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.
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Rare Rioting Shocks Orderly Singapore A rare riot broke out in Singapore's Little India neighborhood Sunday night, apparently after a Bangladeshi worker was hit and killed by a bus, a local television channel reported. Channel News Asia showed dramatic pictures of burning vehicles and people attacking the windshield of a bus with sticks and garbage bins. It was not clear if anyone was injured in the rioting that began late in the evening. Such violence is unheard of in Singapore, an orderly and modern city-state known for strict punishments and generally law-abiding citizens. In a statement, police confirmed that rioting took place but gave no details. It only said police were on the scene in Little India, an area popular among Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Nepali expatriates. It has scores of restaurants, grocery shops and a mall selling food and other items for people from those countries. On Sundays, the area is especially crowded with South Asian workers. A witness, Dharmendra Yadav, told Channel News Asia that at least two vehicles were on fire, and that rubbish and broken bottles were strewn on the streets. He said he and many others were in a nearby Hindu temple attending a wedding when temple officials received a call from the police asking that the gates be locked and the guests stay inside until given clearance by the police. He said a short while later he heard a commotion in the street and bottles being thrown. "We heard explosions. We also heard warnings from riot police," he said. The situation was eventually brought under control but the guests were still not allowed to leave the temple, he said. Channel News Asia said the riot apparently started after a Bangladeshi worker was hit by a bus and killed. This could not be independently confirmed. No other details were available.
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Companies seem to be getting the message. So far this year US dividends are up 8 per cent, JPMorgan calculates, and are expected to rise further. As well as Apple, another 27 companies in the S&P 500 have started paying dividends since the start of last year. This brings the total paying a dividend to 401, the most since January 2000, Howard Silverblatt at Standard & Poor's calculates. This is a double-edged sword. Investors like money in their pocket, no matter what academic theory says. But if companies cannot be persuaded to invest, the economy is likely to stagger along, at best. Mr Bernanke might want to keep quiet about this success. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012. You may share using our article tools.
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Doctor Who: women do not want to see a female Timelord, says show's writer Some had argued it was time to give a woman a go, but Moffat refused to make any promises. "When it's the right decision, maybe we'll do it," he said after the casting decision was announced. If the world was not ready for a female Doctor Who, it was undoubtedly ready for a middle-aged one, Moffat suggested. "I think it's good that we've got a different age, just because I cannot imagine what somebody in their twenties would do with the Doctor after Matt showed us all how to be a twenties Doctor," he said. "I don't know what you would do after that because he was so perfect. You'd have to be an alternative or deliberate contradiction. It wouldn't work, I don't think." Capaldi, 55, will first appear as the Doctor in a "very, very short scene" at Christmas, Moffat said, but will take over properly in 2014. The Time Lord's 12th incarnation was revealed in a special live programme broadcast by BBC One on Sunday night, which drew an average of 6.1 million viewers. The show, hosted by Zoe Ball, attracted 400,000 more viewers than the highest overnight audience figures for the most recent seven-show run of Doctor Who itself.
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Ducks defeat Senators in shootout, 2-1 Associated Press January 18, 2011, 7:23 p.m. la-sp-ducks-senators-20110119 OTTAWA -- Bobby Ryan scored in the shootout to give the Ducks a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night. Ryan shot past Brian Elliott on Anaheim's second attempt after Mike Fisher hit the right post on Ottawa's second shot. Jonas Hiller had already stopped Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson's backhand when he denied Erik Karlsson on Ottawa's final attempt to seal the win. He stopped 39 shots for the Ducks, who won their second in a row to begin a four-game road trip. Corey Perry gave Anaheim a 1-0 lead with a highlight-reel tally 14:30 in for his 24th goal and 50th point, both team highs. Fisher drew Ottawa even late in the second. Elliott made 26 saves, including a huge stop on Matt Beleskey's breakaway midway through the third.
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Workers evacuated after gas leak at factory in Jersey Rd, Bayswater UPDATE: WORKERS were evacuated after gas started to leak from chemical drums in a Bayswater factory this afternoon. CFA spokeswoman Leith Hillard said CFA and MFB crews were called to a factory in Jersey Rd, Bayswater, before 2pm and immediately evacuated staff from at least one surrounding factory. Gas was leaking from seven or eight 44-gallon drums believed to contain nitric acid, Ms Hillard said. It is unclear how many people have been evacuated. Ms Hillard said twenty trucks were now on the scene and four crews were in protective gear working to stop the leak. She said a scientific officer and the Environmental Protection Authority had been called in. The factory is in an industrial area, but the CFA has issued advice to residents to close windows and doors. "There is no threat to the community, but people are advised to avoid the area," the advice said.
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He exists, but I can't find the requisite level of RS coverage to confer notability for our purposes. Nor does this blp have any refs or ELs. Could perhaps be speedied, but to be safe I brought it here. Tagged for notability for nearly half a decade. Created by an SPA. Epeefleche (talk)
Delete - I cannot find significant coverage about him. I did find this press release which can be used to confirm existence, but not notability
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Andrei Dapkiunas (Андрэй Дапкюнас, born April 11, 1963, Minsk) is a Belarusian diplomat. From 2004 until 2011 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations. Vice-President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC (2008). President of the Executive Board of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF (2006). Before the posting to the United Nations in 2004, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, including as Director of the Americas Department. He holds a political science degree from the Belarusian State University (1991) and a degree in languages (English and French) from the Minsk State Institute for Foreign Languages (1985). Alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (Research Fee student, 1989–1990). He is fluent in English, French and Polish. He is married to Olga Dapkiunas (Lichač), with a daughter, Alena, and a son, Hleb. ==External links==
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Lempty is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. ==See also==
Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department
==References==
INSEE
Communes of Puy-de-Dôme
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'Horrific' New Mexico shooting leaves 5 dead; investigators arrest 15-year-old From Meridith Edwards and Rick Martin, CNN January 20, 2013 -- Updated 2250 GMT (0650 HKT)
NEW: "It was a very gruesome scene," one investigator says NEW: The 15-year-old suspect may be a family member, sheriff says The teen faces two counts of murder and three of child abuse resulting in death (CNN) -- Sheriff's investigators combed through what one called a "horrific" crime scene Sunday after the shooting deaths of five people, three of them children, outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. Each of victims had been shot multiple times, Bernalillo County sheriff's Lt. Sid Covington, and one of the weapons used was what he described as an assault rifle. Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said a 15-year-old boy, who "may be a family member," has been charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death. "Initially responding deputies entered the home and found the five deceased inside the residence, so obviously it was a very gruesome scene," Covington told reporters. There was no indication of a motive so far, he said. "I've never seen a scene quite like this," he added. Investigators did not released the names of the victims Sunday afternoon, saying the process of formally identifying the remains was still going on. But they said the dead included a man, a woman and three grade-school-age children -- two girls and a boy. Houston said deputies were dispatched to the home, in a semi-rural area on the southwestern edge of Albuquerque, around 9:15 p.m. Saturday. They were summoned by "a party that was called by the suspect," he said, but "I don't know what the dynamics of that relationship is." He said investigators are unaware of any criminal history by teen and were looking into whether any family members had a record. The boy is being charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors could bring charges against him as an adult, Covington said. January 18, 2013 -- Updated 2047 GMT (0447 HKT) The man behind the attack Algeria is a veteran jihadist, renowned for hostage-taking and smuggling anything from cigarettes to refugees. January 17, 2013 -- Updated 0257 GMT (1057 HKT) Video: CNN's Jim Clancy reports on why Africa, Europe and the U.S. are worried al Qaeda could soon control Mali completely. Amid financial crises stretching across the world, the globe's greatest economists meet in Davos next week. What is your economic mood? Tell CNN here. January 18, 2013 -- Updated 1843 GMT (0243 HKT) People cheat out of desires and incentives, experts say. Have you ever cheated? January 18, 2013 -- Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT) CNN's Ted Rowlands reports on mounting pressure for Manti Te'o to make a public statement. on the hoax mystery. January 18, 2013 -- Updated 1128 GMT (1928 HKT) Two decades after her kidnapping, Katie Beers says, "I've said my piece and now I feel I can finally rebury everything." January 18, 2013 -- Updated 1110 GMT (1910 HKT) Resting on the icy cool surface of the Baltic Sea, a rickety old boat of hardy sailors works long into the night January 18, 2013 -- Updated 1011 GMT (1811 HKT) CNN's Robyn Curnow reports South Africa's football team is gearing up for the African Cup of Nations tournament.
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Monte Líbano
|-
|20. |1982
| Buenos Aires, Montevideo
| Club Ferro Carril Oeste || CA Obras Sanitarias
|-
|19. |1981
| Asunción, Encarnación
| Club Ferro Carril Oeste || TC São José dos Campos
|-
|18. |1980
| Cúcuta
| Franca B.C. || E.C. Sírio
|-
|17. |1979
| Isla Margarita
| E.C. Sírio || Guaiqueríes de Margarita
|-
|16. |1978
| São Paulo
| E.C. Sírio || Franca B.C. |-
|15. |1977
| Corrientes, Buenos Aires
| Franca B.C. || S.E. Palmeiras
|-
|14. |1975
| La Paz
| Franca B.C. || CA Obras Sanitarias
|-
|13. |1974
| Mercedes, Salto, Montevideo
| Franca B.C. || CA Peñarol
|-
|12. |1972
| São Paulo
| E.C. Sírio || CA Olimpia
|-
|11. |1971
| Arequipa
| E.C. Sírio || Sportiva Italiana
|-
|10. |1970
| Punta Arenas
| E.C. Sírio || CA Atenas
|-
|9. |1969
| Quito
| S.C. Corinthians Paulista || LDU Quito
|-
|8. |1968
| Montevideo
| E.C. Sírio || CA Welcome
|-
|7. |1967
| Antofagasta
| CD Thomas Bata || CA Welcome
|-
|6. |1964
| São Paulo
| S.C. Corinthians Paulista || CA Tabaré
|-
|5. |1961
| Asunción
| E.C. Sírio || Club Olimpia
|-
|4. |1958
| Guayaquil
| Defensor Sporting Club || CA San Lorenzo de Almagro
|-
|3. |1956
| Montevideo
| Defensor Sporting Club || Ateneo de la Juventud
|-
|2. |1954
| Antofagasta
| Olimpia || Flamengo
|-
|1. |1946
| Buenos Aires
| CA Olimpia || Gimnasia y Esgrima Villa del Parque
|}
==Titles by team==
{|
|- style=background:#efefef;font-weight:bold
|| Titles || Club || Years
|-
| style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top |8 || Esporte Clube Sírio (São Paulo) || 1961, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1984. |-
|style=text-align:center|6
|| Franca Basquetebol Clube (Franca, SP)
||1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1990, 1991. |-
| Rowspan=4 style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top |3
|| Club Ferro Carril Oeste (Buenos Aires) || 1981, 1982, 1987. |-
|| Trotamundos de Carabobo || 1988, 1989, 2000. |-
|| Delfines de Miranda || 2001, 2002, 2003. |-
|| Boca Juniors (Buenos Aires) || 2004, 2005, 2006. |-
| Rowspan=6 style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top |2
|| Defensor Sporting Club (Montevideo) || 1956, 1958. |-
|| Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (São Paulo) || 1964, 1969. |-
|| Club Atlético Monte Líbano || 1985, 1986.
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Sri Lanka fighting surges, 180 rebels die: army By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan soldiers killed at least 180 elite Tamil Tiger fighters carrying out waves of counterattacks, and the pace of refugees fleeing the tiny war zone picked up speed, the military said Monday. Heavy combat erupted over the weekend, suggesting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were mounting a desperate defense against a military onslaught that has confined them to 45 square km (17 sq mile) in the Indian Ocean island's northeast. Since Saturday, the LTTE's elite Charles Anthony Brigade and Radha Regiment have attempted to punch through the army's frontline, the military said. "Now they have not held back. Their elite fighters have been deployed to stop troops from entering those areas," military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. Nanayakkara said that a total of 180 bodies had been found since the weekend, including 80 Monday. The LTTE appears to have saved its best-trained fighters for the final battle, he said. The Radha Regiment is the personal protection unit for LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran, whose whereabouts are unknown. "There may be leaders confined in that area and they want to protect them. They are desperately fighting to prevent government troops from coming in," Nanayakkara said. Also over the weekend, at least 676 civilians escaped the war zone, some on foot but the vast majority by boat, Nanayakkara said. The Red Cross estimates 150,000 people are still trapped, but the government says the number is no more than 70,000. After 25 years of off-and-on civil war, Sri Lanka's military is racing toward a final battle to crush the separatist group as a conventional force. The only thing slowing its advance is the presence of tens of thousands of civilians, mostly being held by the LTTE at gunpoint and suffering in what aid agencies say are dire conditions in a narrow 12-km coastal strip the army has declared a no-fire zone. Also Monday, the military said the LTTE fired artillery toward a ship flying the flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that had landed food and aid supplies there. No one was injured and the boat was not damaged, but was forced to set sail, Nanayakkara said. An ICRC spokeswoman had no immediate comment. The Tigers could not be reached for comment but has repeatedly denied accusations from witnesses and aid agencies that they have attacked civilians or fired artillery from inside the no-fire zone. The pro-rebel website www.TamilNet.com, quoting an unnamed source, reported the LTTE had launched an artillery attack over the weekend that killed a "considerable number of soldiers." Nanayakkara acknowledged some soldiers had been killed: "We have suffered casualties, but we are not releasing the numbers." Both sides in the past have distorted battlefield figures to their advantage, and independent confirmation is difficult since the war zone is normally sealed off to outside observers. The LTTE since 1983 has fought a civil war to create a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, which complains of mistreatment by successive governments led by the Sinhalese ethnic majority since independence from Britain in 1948. (Additional reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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The series takes off when secondary characters fill in the blank spots. Mr. Guzman is poker-faced and quite funny as a small-time mobster in a Dominican neighborhood who buys into a franchise for an energy drink, Rasta Monsta. Ben finds a potential backer when he runs into a high school classmate, David (Eddie Kaye Thomas), a nerd who has reaped a hedge-fund fortune. David, who looks a little like the goofy heir played by Tommy Noonan in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," is worth millions, but he can't get past the bouncer at a hot downtown club, Avenue. Ben, who plays basketball with the bouncer, can, and that is a quid pro quo he can take to the bank. Rachel dumped Ben, but she still isn't completely over him, even though she has a handsome new boyfriend, Darren (Jason Pendergraft), a hotelier, and a promising job with an interior designer. Her boss, Edie (Martha Plimpton), perks Rachel up when Rachel returns morose and insecure from a lunch with a college friend who is combating the spread of AIDS in Africa. "Any ambitious do-gooder with airfare can feel like they are making a difference in Africa," Edie says airily, waving a joint. "It's Africa." She assures her protégée that the true heroes are the ones helping hard-working New Yorkers make the most out of tiny apartments. "I still want you to go to Africa and help out," she says. "Just do it on your Christmas break." When Ben shakes his hangdog complacency and gives the jeans project his full attention, "How to Make It in America" finds its stride - not the "Entourage" strut but a garment-district shuffle. Any movement is better than idleness. Hard work may not pay off anymore in real life, but it is still the stuff of fiction.
HBO, Sunday nights at 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 9, Central time. Created by Ian Edelman; directed by Julian Farino; Stephen Levinson, Rob Weiss, Mr. Edelman, Mr. Farino, Jada Miranda and Mark Wahlberg, executive producers; Jane Raab, producer. Produced by HBO Entertainment. WITH: Bryan Greenberg (Ben Epstein), Victor Rasuk (Cam Calderon), Luis Guzman (Rene), Scott Mescudi, known as Kid Cudi (Domingo), Lake Bell (Rachel), Martha Plimpton (Edie), Shannyn Sossamon (Gingy), Eddie Kaye Thomas (David Kaplan) and Jason Pendergraft (Darren).
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HMS Mohawk (L-31/F-31/G-31) was a destroyer laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company at Woolston, Hampshire on 16 July 1936, launched on 5 October 1937 and commissioned on 7 September 1938. Mohawk served on convoy duties in the North Sea, and with the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean where she participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940 and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Mohawk was struck by two torpedoes fired by the Italian as she attacked an Italian convoy and sank off the Kerkennah Islands in eastern Tunisia on 16 April 1941 with the loss of 43 of her crew. ==Notes==
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Pope Francis I's childhood sweetheart claims she turned down his marriage proposal... so he became a priest Tango-loving pontiff declared undying love... aged 12 Amalia Damonte turned him down. Now he's Pope It's possible he had a second lover after Amalia Damonte By Tom Leonard
The first Latin American Pope may have been a Latin Lover first it emerged last night after a childhood sweetheart claimed she may have driven him into the church. Amalia Damonte, 76, who grew up in the same Flores neighbourhood of Buenos Aires as Bergoglio said she was shocked when he became Pope. 'I froze in front of the television. I couldn't believe that Jorge was the Pope!' said his old girlfriend, now a white-hair pensioner with spectacles. Scroll down for video Amalia Damonte, who Pope Francis proposed to as a 12-year-old. They were childhood sweethearts in Buenos Aires It was either 1948 or 1949 when the future Pope wrote her a letter declaring he would like to marry her. 'We were 12, 13 years old. No more than that,' she said. 'He was wonderful. He was a proper guy.' 'There was only one letter and it cost me a smack in the face from my father,' she said. Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass with cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican yesterday The Pope used to play on the streets with Amalia and proposed marriage in letter at 12 Bergoglio decided to take religious orders in 1958 when he was 21 but he wasn't ordained until 1969
Today at 11:00am in the Clementine Hall he will meet with the full College of Cardinals, electors and non-electors, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. On Saturday at 11:00am in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope will hold an audience with accredited journalists (permanent and temporary) and those who work in the media. On Sunday, 17 March at 12:00pm, he will recite the first Angelus of his papacy from the papal apartments overlooking St. Peter's Square, as is customary. 'It said we were going to get married and I am going to buy you a white house. So the two of us could live together.' 'He said that if I didn't say yes, he would have to become a priest. Luckily for him, I said no!' said Ms Damonte, who stills lives four doors up from Bergoglio's childhood home. 'He had a crush on me, you know. We used to play on the streets here. It was a quiet neighbourhood then, and, well, he was very nice.' She said she the he 'is a good man, the son of a working-class family,' she said. 'I hope he can achieve all the good that he holds in his heart.' It is quite possible that Ms Damonte wasn't the only love in his life, despite what the future Pope told her. VIDEO 'It's good for him I turned him down!': Francis I's sweetheart In a 2010 interview, he admitted he had a girlfriend with whom he loved to dance the tango - probably not a pastime for a 12-year-old. He said: "She was one of a group of friends with whom I used to go dancing with. "Then I discovered my religious vocation." Bergoglio decided to take religious orders in 1958 when he was 21 but he wasn't ordained until 1969. Youth: Jorge Mario Bergoglio (right) posing with two school teammates at the Technical School in Buenos Aires, Argentina In this undated picture Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, second from left in back row, poses for a picture with his famil This early 1950s picture released by journalist Sergio Rubin shows Jorge Mario Bergoglio posing with unidentified schoolmates of a preparatory school in Buenos Aires He was born into a middle-class family of seven in 1936, his father a railway worker and his mother a housewife. He became a priest at 32, nearly a decade after losing a lung due to respiratory illness and quitting his chemistry studies. Despite his late start, he was leading the local Jesuit community within four years, holding the post from 1973 to 1979. The new Pope is an ardent fan of an Argentinian football team nicknamed the 'Saints.' Just in case their rivals were in any doubt, the club, San Lorenzo de Almagro, tweeted a photo of Pope Francis with the team's colours yesterday. The Buenos Aires club - one of the country's top sides - owes its name to a Catholic priest who played a key role in helping the 104-year-old team find a place to play in its early days.
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Scottish hospitals still beset by bed-blocking problems THE Scottish Government today came under opposition attack after figures showed hospitals continuing to be hit by bed-blocking. More than 50 patients were still in hospital in July six weeks after becoming ready for discharge, the figures showed. Labour said this was despite a Scottish Government pledge to take the figure down to zero. Bed-blocking, technically "delayed discharges," occurs when patients â usually elderly â are ready to leave hospital but cannot do so for various reasons, such as having no care home place. Six weeks are allowed for planning and to make arrangements but today's figures show that in July, 55 patients waited longer than this. The figure compares with none in April and 44 in July last year. In total 634 people had their discharge delayed in July, compared with 468 in April and 601 in July last year. The average delay was 21 days, compared with 22 days in April and 20 last July. The problem also exists in short-stay "specialities," where 55 people had their discharged delayed in July, compared with 33 in April. Labour health spokeswoman Cathy Jamieson said: "This is a direct consequence of the SNP's decision to remove £29 million of ring-fenced funding from the health budget." Bed-blocking increased the risk of patients catching infections during unnecessary stays in hospital, she said. "This failure represents another broken promise for the SNP and the increasing number of blocked beds will put more pressure on hospitals who may soon have to cope with a second wave of flu cases."
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Lastly, because behavior is perceived so subjectively, it’s possible that different observers notice different things, or draw different conclusions from their observations. ===Observation With Intervention===
Most psychological research uses observation with some component of intervention. Reasons for intervening include:to precipitate or cause an event that normally occurs infrequently in nature or is difficult to observe; to systematically vary the qualities of a stimulus event so as to investigate the limits of an organism’s response; to gain access to a situation or event that is generally closed to scientific observation; to arrange conditions so that important antecedent events are controlled and consequent behaviors can be readily observed; and to establish a comparison by manipulating independent variables to determine their effects on behavior. There are three different methods of direction observation with intervention: participant observation, structured observation, and field experiments. ====Participant Observation====
Participate observation is characterized as either undisguised or disguised. In undisguised observation, the observed individuals know the that observer is present for the purpose of collecting info about their behavior. This technique is often used to understand the culture and behavior of groups or individuals. In contrast, in disguised observation, the observed individuals do not know that they are being observed. This technique is often used when researchers believe that the individuals under observation may change their behavior as a result of knowing that they were being recorded. For a great example of undisguised research, see the Rosenhan experiment in which several researchers seek admission to twelve different mental hospitals to observe patient-staff interactions and patient diagnosing and releasing procedures. There are several benefits to doing participant observation. Firstly, participant research allows researchers to observe behaviors and situations that are not usually open to scientific observation. Furthermore, participant research allows the observer to have the same experiences as the people under study, which may provide important insights and understandings of individuals or groups. However, there are also several drawbacks to doing participant observation. Firstly, participant observers may sometimes lose their objectivity as a result of participating in the study. This usually happens when observers begin to identify with the individuals under study, and this threat generally increases as the degree of observer participation increases. Secondly, participant observers may unduly influence the individuals whose behavior they are recording. This effect is not easily assessed, however, it generally more prominent when the group being observed is small, or if the activities of the participant observer are prominent. Lastly, disguised observation raises some ethical issues regarding obtaining information without respondents' knowledge. For example, the observations collected by an observer participating in an internet chat room discussing how racists advocate racial violence may be seen as incriminating evidence collected without the respondents’ knowledge. The dilemma here is of course that if informed consent were obtained from participants, respondents would likely choose not to cooperate. ====Structured Observation====
Structured observation represents a compromise between the passive nonintervention of naturalistic observation, and the systematic manipulation of independent variables and precise control characterized by lab experiments. Structured observation may occur in a natural or laboratory setting. Within structured observation, often the observer intervenes in order to cause an event to occur, or to “set up” a situation so that events can be more easily recorded than they would be without intervention. Such a situation often makes use of a confederate who creates a situation for observing behavior. Structured observation is frequently employed by clinical and developmental psychologists, or for studying animals in the wild. One benefit to structured observation is that it allows researchers to record behaviors that may be difficult to observe using naturalistic observation, but that are more natural than the artificial conditions imposed in a lab. However, problems in interpreting structured observations can occur when the same observation procedures are not followed across observations or observers, or when important variables are not controlled across observations. ====Field Experiments====
In field experiments, researchers manipulate one or more independent variables in a natural setting to determine the effect on behavior. This method represents the most extreme form of intervention in observational methods, and researchers are able to exert more control over the study and its participants. Conducting field experiments allows researchers to make causal inferences from their results, and therefore increases external validity. However, confounding may decrease internal validity of a study, and ethical issues may arise in studies involving high-risk. For a great example of a field experiment study, see this study by Milgram, Liberty, Toledo, and Wackenhut exploring the relation between the unique spatial configuration of the queue and the means by which its integrity is defended. ==Indirect Observational Methods==
Indirect observation can be used if one wishes to be entirely unobtrusive in their observation method. This can often be useful if a researcher is approaching a particularly sensitive topic that would be likely to elicit reactivity in the subject. There are also potential ethical concerns that are avoided by using the indirect observational method.
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==Untitled==
I cannot believe that CN was named AFTER the pub. Surely after the CN estate. Thortful
Some of these geo pages are listing important businesses in the area (Winning Appliances, for example). Do you think they some should be added here? 125.255.85.74 (talk)
That article is a poor one, and I don't think adding similar businesses to this article will enhance it. --Inas66 (talk)
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Rio police go on strike a week before Carnival
RIO DE JANEIRO - The streets of this Olympic city were calm Friday, just hours after police officers went on strike and a week before glittering Carnival celebrations that typically draw 800,000 tourists were due to start. Authorities said 14,000 army soldiers stood at the ready to patrol Rio's streets, but as yet their patrols were not needed. How the city handles the crisis this week could have international repercussions, as Rio prepares to host the championship matches of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. "The situation is normal, we've been monitoring all the units all morning," police spokesman Frederico Caldas told the Globo TV network. Brazil police strike a danger for Carnival Caldas said as yet there were no major problems or clashes with the striking police and that "we will not accept any sort of action against discipline." It wasn't immediate clear how many of the 58,000 police and firefighters in Rio were adhering to the strike. Union officials expected anywhere from 50 percent to 70 percent to join the strike. The officers decided during a midnight rally to start the work stoppage, not content with legislative approval of a 39 percent raise to be staggered over this year and the next, along with a promise of more in 2014. The increase was just half of what officers sought. They said their salaries have fallen far behind rising prices over the decades, and called their vote to strike a protest against an insufficient raise. "We didn't want to strike," said Paulo Nascimento, a search and rescue firefighter. "We're putting this on Gov. Sergio Cabral's conscience." The decision to strike was made by thousands of officers and firefighters who massed in downtown Rio for a six-hour assembly that included fireworks, chants and speeches denouncing Rio's government. Some longtime officers were proud of bringing together Rio's security forces in a joint strike for the first time. "I feel like a citizen," said Joao Morais da Silva, a retired police officer who was shot on the job, losing an eye and damaging his shoulder. "I feel like we're standing here asking for what's our right." Current base pay for police starts at $964 in Rio state, which despite being Brazil's second-wealthiest state has long paid its officers far less than the salaries earned by their colleagues in many parts of the country. Rio state police suffer high fatality rates as they battle powerful drug gangs and street crime. In 2010, 19 police officers were killed on the job, and 31 were killed in 2009, the latest police data show. By comparison, Florida, which has a larger population than Rio state, led the U.S. in peace officer fatalities last year at 14 killed, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. A walkout by security forces could be disastrous for Brazil's Carnival celebration, the world's largest. It draws about 800,000 tourists every year and is slated to begin Feb. 17. Police already were on strike in Salvador, Brazil's third largest city, and the 10-day-old walkout has brought a spike in violence and homicides. That city's Carnival is Brazil's second largest, and while officials vow it will go on, many visitors have canceled their trips to the city. Work stoppages of police are also threatening to spread to seven more of Brazil's 26 states as well as the federal district are considering strikes. Rio's festivities pump more than $500 million into the city's economy annually, and some street parades can attract nearly 2 million drunken revelers at a time. Rio Gov. Cabral had urged officers to stay on the job, appealing to their sense of duty and responsibility. "You cannot have a strike in essential services like public safety," Cabral said at a news conference. "Rio de Janeiro doesn't deserve this." Sergio Simoes, head of Rio's Civil Defense department, said the army was prepared to free up 14,000 soldiers to patrol Rio state. Dissatisfaction among officers and firefighters in Rio has been brewing for months, with protest marches growing. Last month, 20,000 officers marched along Copacabana beach demanding a wage increase, fewer hours on the job and a bonus for difficult working conditions. Rio's police are among the lowest paid in Brazil, and as Brazil's economy has boomed in recent years, so has the cost of living. Rio de Janeiro now ranks among the most expensive cities in the Western Hemisphere. Police in Brazil, and in Rio in particular, have deep problems with corruption. Many officers say their low pay makes it difficult to root out bribery and other illegal revenue. In addition, officers are often accused of participating in paramilitary militias. In Rio alone, such bands control nearly half of the city's 1,000 slums and extort money from the population in various schemes.
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American Crossroads attacks Obama for negative ads in $9.3 million campaign American Crossroads, the super PAC advised by former Bush administration strategist Karl Rove, is going on the air with a $9.3 million campaign attacking President Obama for his negative campaign against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. "What happened to Barack Obama?" a female narrator asks. "The press and even Democrats say his attacks on Mitt Romney's business record are misleading, unfair and untrue." The president is going negative, she says, because of high debt and unemployment - "Obama can't run on that record." Romney has repeatedly called attention to Obama's negativity, airing his own ads suggesting the president is a hypocrite and a liar. Conventional wisdom has it that responding to negative campaigning is a waste of time. Voters say they don't like negative ads, but in the end, they don't vote on that dislike. Byron York, a conservative columnist at the Washington Examiner, suggested Romney was "whining" by complaining about the ads, which focus on the former Massachusetts governor's career at Bain Capital. But clearly, both Romney and his allies think there's something to be gained by hammering on Obama's Bain Capital attacks, which may be having an effect in swing states. The Crossroads ad will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
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Thus this is the way u would wear "three" warfare pins.-HM3 Jones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.1.24.249 (talk)
==They are NOT Navy Blue==
Navy dress uniforms are NOT blue in any way shape or form. They are black. I've seen old WWII era uniforms on display that are navy in color, but the current ones are not. == Tropical Dinner Dress Gone ==
Tropical uniforms, including tropical dinner dress, are no longer authorized for wear. I'd hate to just remove the discussion of it, however; someone needs to make a section for obsolete uniforms. 75.142.83.176 (talk)
and good riddance! go to navy uniform regs and look at tropical dinner dress. what a goofy looking get-up! almost (but not quite) as bad as the enlisted tropical short uniform.you know, white shorts with black anklet socks and black shoes. ugh!Toyokuni3 (talk)
==Saber vs. sword==
the unregistered user who changed sword to saber was probably looking at one of various commercial websites, who also get it wrong. if you go to http:://www-nmcp.med.navy.mil/EduRes/AcademicAffairs/Contacts/chapter3.pdf, pages 3-24 & 3-25, Full Dress White, under Prescribable Items you find 'Sword (LCDR and above) 3501.84". as i said, various commercial websites, including marlow and white, call it a saber. they probably think this looks better for marketing, but they are wrong. a saber is by definition a curved 'backsword,' used primarily by cavalry. very few horses aboard ship and the naval officer's dress sword is straight.Toyokuni3 (talk)
== Warfare pins ==
I was told there was one way a navy member could wear three warfare pins on there uniform. Which way is that? There isn't, according to US Navy Uniform Regulations.—Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk • contribs)
This is true. You cannot wear three warfare pins; you only get to wear two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FloydianHate (talk • contribs)
==New dress whites==
Recruits coming out of boot camp in February are receiving the "fancy crackerjack" dress white uniforms that were proposed in 2007 along with the throwback khakis. How should this be handled? It's not really a new uniform, just an update on an existing uniform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lady Arwyn (talk • contribs)
==Service Khaki Headgear==
In the Service Khaki section, it mentions 3 types of authorized headgear, but mentions only two. The regs only state 2, which is about as credible of source as you can get: http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/MaleChief/MC_Service/Pages/ServiceKhaki.aspx
== any salty old CPOs out there who have a better understanding of the uniform regs? The chokers are the equivalent of the dress blues in summertime. The reason they usually aren't worn is that they are uncomfortable, thus the choker nickname. Im confused. Is the new khaki service dress also replacing crackerjacks? Or are those still there? Arpadkorossy (talk)
== Three warfare pins ==
technically there is "no way" but you can have the two and wear the third on a belt buckle. Thus this is the way u would wear "three" warfare pins.-HM3 Jones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.1.24.249 (talk)
==They are NOT Navy Blue==
Navy dress uniforms are NOT blue in any way shape or form. They are black. I've seen old WWII era uniforms on display that are navy in color, but the current ones are not. == Tropical Dinner Dress Gone ==
Tropical uniforms, including tropical dinner dress, are no longer authorized for wear. I'd hate to just remove the discussion of it, however; someone needs to make a section for obsolete uniforms. 75.142.83.176 (talk)
and good riddance! go to navy uniform regs and look at tropical dinner dress. what a goofy looking get-up!
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====Vuelta a Mendoza====
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===Los Angeles - World Cup Classics===
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Gagne signs with independent baseball club QUEBEC (AP) - Pitcher Eric Gagne is coming back to pitch in his home province. The former NL Cy Young Award winner has accepted a deal with the Quebec Capitales of the independent Can-Am League. A reliever throughout most of his major league career, Gagne will pitch as a starter for the independent league team, the club said Wednesday. The 33-year-old native of Mascouche has a 33-26 major league record with 187 saves, winning the Cy Young in 2003. He made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1999 and has also pitched for Texas, Boston and Milwaukee, which released him from a minor league contract on March 8.
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For more than a century beginning in the late 1800s, mechanical slot machine reels employed limited themes: card suits, horseshoes, bells and stars, varieties of fruit, black bars and the Liberty Bell. WMS's 1996 video slot machine Reel ‘em In, introduced multi-line and multi-coin secondary bonus pay-outs. Later, the company's licensed themes, beginning with Monopoly, helped to greatly expand its sales and profits. Some of WMS Gaming's product designs reflect the changing demographics of its industry. Younger players raised on video games often seek more challenging experiences, both physical and mental, than do women age 55 to 65 – the traditional audience for slot machines. Accordingly, some of the company's machines incorporate surround sound, flat-panel display screens and animated, full-color images. The company also manufactures the G+ series of video reel slots, the Community Gaming family of interconnected slots, as well as mechanical reels, poker games, and video lottery terminals. WMS began to offer online gaming in 2010 to persons over 18 years old in the UK and in 2011 in the US at www.jackpotparty.com. In 2012, WMS partnered with Large Animal Games to incorporate several of WMS's slot machine games into a cruise ship-themed Facebook game application titled "Lucky Cruise". By playing games and enlisting Facebook friends' help, players can accumulate "lucky charms" (instead of money). The game play is similar to playing a slot machine but includes a "light strategy component". In 2012, after experiencing a decline in revenues from the contracting casino market, the company introduced gaming on mobile devices and focused its efforts on expanding its online game offerings. For casinos, it introduced My Poker video poker games. WMS Gaming technologies include:
Transmissive Reels gaming platform, which employs video animation that is displayed around, over and seemingly interactively with mechanical reels. The technology is based on the CPU-NXT2 operating platform. Operating platforms. CPU-NXT2 operating platform, which incorporates an Intel Pentium IV class processor, up to 2 gigabytes of random access memory, an ATI 3-D graphics chip-set, and a 40 gigabyte, is used in most of the games. The CPU-NXT3 operating platform was introduced in 2012 for participation games and new cabinets. Cabinets: The Bluebird2 gaming cabinet, which includes a dual 22-inch wide screen,, Bose speakers, and an illuminated printer and bill acceptor, was introduced in 2008. The Blade and Gamefield xD cabinets were introduced in 2013. Approximately 70% of WMS's revenues are derived from U.S. customers. Its corporate office and manufacturing facilities are in Waukegan, Illinois. It has other development, sales and field services offices across the United States and international development and distribution facilities located in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom and an online gaming center in Belgium. ==References==
==External links==
WMS official site
WMS BLUEBIRD 2 official site
Slot machine manufacturers
Companies based in Lake County, Illinois
Waukegan, Illinois
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Asura hilaris is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka and on Java. ==References==
Arctiidae
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Please respond to my request for clarification. Yechiel (Shalom)
Please also tell me on the sockpuppet page which other account you are using. It's unfair to accuse someone of being a sockpuppet while yourself using a single-purpose account. You have no meaningful contributions outside the sockpuppet case, and you have edited only in the last day or so. If you feel that you are at risk of retaliation if you reveal your main account on-wiki, send me an email (Emailuser/Shalom Yechiel) and I will keep it private, but I need to know if you want to continue to pursue this case. Yechiel (Shalom)
I do not deny that I sometimes edit from that IP address instead of logging in, but I do not do that for bad purposes. Usually I either just forget to log in, or I have several different browsers open and I'm logged in on 1 browser and just don't remember to log into the other 1. I have looked at the talk page for the IP address and I do see the negitive stuff you are referring to. But none of the vandalism from this IP address was done by me. I did not even start editing wikipedia articles at all until January of this year, and the vandalism I saw was all from before that. I'm also not familiar with how IP addresses work, but it might be possible that more than 1 person shares this IP address. Again, I have never intentionally vandalised any wikipedia page, and none of the edits from this IP address could have been done by me before January 2008. If you have any questions about this for me please feel free to ask. Rreagan007 (talk)
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I can't find any mention that LSD is in Category X in Australia, so I have removed this until someone can provide a citation.Tova Hella (talk)
== Isomers ==
I changed the sentence saying that there are 4 isomers of LSD to say stereoisomers. If the general term isomers were used LSD would have many thousands of isomers, especially structural isomers.Fireemblem555 (talk)
== Notable users section? ==
The notable users section is a section that basically says famous people have used the drug, yet it fails to mention any of these users... Famous people have used every drug in existence, this section seems pointless unless it names some of the well-known people who have discussed using it like Steve Jobs, James D. Watson, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Phil Jackson, and others. Wikipediarules2221
== Topeka, Kansas, 2000 ==
That William Leonard Pickard 2000 bust should be added to the timeline, it was supposed to have caused a 90% reduction in the amount of LSD availiable worldwide. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.101.235 (talk)
Agreed - it was a very important event. Go ahead and add it, and why not sign up with an account? Your IP address isn't private and reveals exactly where you are. -Chumchum7 (talk)
== Timeline ==
There is an identical copy of the timeline on History of LSD. The history page is the best place for such a long, detailed timeline. I'm removing the timeline from the LSD main page. Tova Hella (talk)
== Doctor who did the original, flawed chromosome studies ==
Here's a little factoid. I'm wondering whether it belongs in this page's Dangers/Genetic section, Jacobson's page, some other page, or nowhere at all. One of the doctors involved in the original research that indicated LSD was dangerous to chromosomes was Cecil Byran Jacobson, later convicted of numerous counts of fraud for selling his own sperm to his patients and other unethical practices. He's part of "Cohen et. al." in this page's Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#cite_note-dishotsky-52. Suggestions? Thundermaker (talk)
Interesting. The "chromosome damage" panic started in 1967 with a Science article by Maimon M. Cohen, et al. MM Cohen was apparently the main scientist promoting this idea, he went on to became a prominent geneticist. I can't find any MM Cohen articles with Jacobson as a co-author, can you be more specific? I can't find what I was looking at before that made me think Jacobson was on Cohen's team. Cohen was at SUNY from 1965-72 and then moved to Israel, and I can't find anything linking Jacobson to SUNY. So what I said above is probably wrong. Jacobson wasn't on the original team, more of a bandwagon-jumper. Thundermaker (talk)
Jacobson reported on birth defects in fetuses and babies of women who had taken LSD in a 1972 article in JAMA. This finding has not been confirmed, and as you mention Jacobson is not trustworthy. It would be worthwhile to discuss more about the Genetic/Birth Defect issue, maybe on the History of LSD page. "Chromosome damage" got an enormous amount of media attention at the height of the LSD "moral panic". It was discussed in the most prominent US scientific and medical journals even though it was clear from the beginning that caffeine, aspirin, etc. gave the same results (raising questions about the integrity of the researchers and journal editors). The factoid about Jacobson could be mentioned in this context. Tova Hella (talk)
Good suggestion, thanks! Thundermaker (talk)
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There is a reference here that indicates a half life of roughly 175 minutes which is ~3 hours (http://www.erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?A=ShowDocPartFrame&ID=2224&DocPartID=2063), while this reference states 5 hours to be the half life and 3 hours to be the peak plasma levels (http://www.erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=6265), I am going to go with 5 hours.
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Ben Fogle accused of fronting propaganda ignoring Sarawak 'environmental destruction and exploitation' The television presenter Ben Fogle has been accused of taking part in an environmental propaganda campaign for a regime with one of the world's worst records in deforestation. Fogle, known to millions of BBC viewers as a face of travel documentaries, has become the poster boy for tourism to the controversial state of Sarawak in Borneo, where vast amounts of industrial logging have left only five per cent of forests that have not been either logged or converted to palm oil plantations. The presenter has made a series of films for the Sarawak Tourism Board under the title "Ben Fogle's Sarawak Adventures" in which he is pictured playing with orang-utans and swimming in waterfalls. Fogle wrote about his trip to Sarawak, which is part of Malaysia, in his "Ben Fogle, The Adventurer" column for the Daily Telegraph and in a large article in Hello! Fogle's material has been widely promoted to a network of "mummy bloggers" encouraged to share the films and invited to meet the presenter at a champagne reception this week in London. Some believed they would be offered the chance to join a "Sarawak Blogger Ambassador Club" and go on a trip to Borneo. Sarawak has the fastest rate of deforestation in Asia and exports more tropical logs than Africa and Latin America combined. It has only 0.5 per cent of the world's tropical forest but accounted for 25 per cent of tropical log exports in 2010. Fogle's involvement in the PR campaign has shocked critics of the Sarawak government and its appalling record on conservation. "It seems Ben Fogle may have been made a pawn," said Clare Rewcastle, founder of the Sarawak Report blog. "Anyone with the slightest knowledge of environmental matters should know the issues around Malaysian oil palm destruction and the culpability of the Sarawak state government. "He should not be promoting them for responsible eco-tourism or pretending that they are protecting the jungle habitat of the orang-utan. The only place you can find orang-utan in Sarawak is in caged enclosures or in a few remaining patches of jungle where the state government is at loggerheads with the local tribes because it has issued licences to cut it down." Fogle told The Independent he has "postponed" the champagne event after being "horrified" by recent revelations. He said he would not be making any more films for the Sarawak Tourism Board until he received answers to "many questions" that he now had. In his travel piece in the Telegraph in February, Fogle talked of his adventure "deep in the primary rainforest of Malaysian Borneo" where he "came face to face with a "man of the forest" - as the name orang-utan means in the local language." He later explained that the orang-utans at the Matang Wildlife Centre, outside state capital Kuching, had been "uprooted by deforestation or poaching." But the impression of a heavily forested region was reinforced by the description of a later journey in search of a rare flower. Another article appeared in Hello! Both pieces were proudly featured on the Sarawak Tourism Board's website. In the opening words to one of his films for the Sarawak Tourism Board, Fogle says: "This is one of the most beautiful rainforest regions on the planet... This is the future of conservation here in Sarawak... looking after this pristine environment and the riches this country has." The impression given is of a state that cares deeply about forest preservation. "Whoever advised Ben Fogle that doing PR for the Sarawak government on environmental issues was a good idea has let him down badly," said Tom Picken of Global Witness. "Promoting tourism in Sarawak is positive in itself, but it must not gloss over the environmental destruction and exploitation that is devastating the region." The images of the handsome presenter and the orang-utans have proved irresistible to a community of "mummy bloggers" who were encouraged to share the video by publicists, British travel PR firm Hills Balfour. "Ben Fogle in Sarawak with orphaned orang-utans - Ben compares them to his children! They're so cute," the PR firm tweeted. Fogle revealed he would not be hosting any Sarawak event "until I have investigated further" and gave a lengthy response on his Sarawak "adventures." He said he carried out "due diligence" on Sarawak and information from the International Tropical Timber Organisation suggested there had been "an improvement in forest management," adding: "I visited Sarawak on the understanding that the environmental situation has been improving."
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"The most excited I have ever been on a golf course," Ballesteros explained to Golf Digest in 2000. And after his worst golf nightmare, a four-iron foray into the water on No. 15 that wrecked a two-shot lead during Nicklaus' golden 1986 Masters, he won the 1988 British Open, again at the Royal Lytham and St. Annes, where his all-grown-up 65 included only three missed fairways and won praise from Faldo as "the greatest round of golf I've ever seen." Even at the promising golfing age of 31, Ballesteros had climbed his last major peak as a player. But he was still to build his Ryder Cup legacy by feverishly captaining Europe to triumph in 1997 at Valderrama, Spain. It was jokingly said he had the only Formula One golf cart, seemingly managing to get to every crucial shot his players faced, offering advice, criticism and encouragement. Spanish player Ignacio Garrido said: "Seve wasn't just a captain. He was a father for us. Our hands held the clubs, but he played the shots." Ballesteros' last major top-10 finish came at the 1991 British Open (ninth), the last time he made the cut in a major was at the 1996 Masters (43rd), and he stopped gracing the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, where his best finishes had been third and fifth, respectively. As the century turned, arthritis had assailed his long-troublesome back, and his game had declined such that he chronically sought diagnosis, with some opining that all the searching had blurred his natural and self-made ingenuity. In 2004, he told the Observer Sport Magazine of London, "I will continue to play golf for as long as I can walk, but I've been bad for so long now that I don't remember how it feels to be good." Ballesteros reached 50 and tried one senior event but halted there, retiring at the 2007 British Open, where Tiger Woods called him "a genius" and "probably the most creative player who's ever played the game." Childhood inspiration Gary Player labeled him "the Arnold Palmer, charisma-wise, of Europe." Colin Montgomerie said, "The club just looked right in his hands, always." Faldo went for "Cirque du Soleil," citing the "passion, artistry, skill, drama." Spanish golfers Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez --good friends of Ballesteros' -- were in tears as they came off the El Prat golf course upon learning of Ballesteros' deteriorating state hours before his death during second round play at the Spanish Open on Friday. Olazabal and Ballesteros combined to form one of the greatest Ryder Cup pairs in history. After he retired from playing, Ballesteros proceeded with various business ventures, including course design. In his last year, his few appearances or public statements were usually in connection through work with his Seve Ballesteros Foundation to fight cancer. In 2007, a girlfriend died in a car accident. Ballesteros and his ex-wife, Carmen Botin, had two sons and a daughter. Culpepper is a freelance writer. Associated Press contributed to this report.
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AIDS is the 'forgotten epidemic' WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling it the "forgotten epidemic," former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop urged Americans to end what he called complacency about AIDS and put the deadly disease back on the radar screen. Koop, the bearded doctor who sounded the alarm against AIDS nearly three decades ago, joined other doctors Wednesday at a panel discussion on the epidemic, as scientists and medical professionals prepared to open a national summit on the disease. While the annual number of new HIV infections has remained relatively stable, Koop says it is still far too high. An estimated 56,300 Americans become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. "This is not the time to declare victory," said Koop. "The war against HIV/AIDS is far from over." The growing sense of complacency, Koop said, is "as dangerous as the irrational fear in the early days of the AIDS controversy." During the panel discussion, Koop talked about sending pamphlets to more than 100 million American households in 1988 to educate people about how the disease was spread, who was at risk and what people could do to protect themselves. "It is vital," he said, "to give Americans the facts and do it in plain English." Koop was a leading advocate for the use of condoms as the AIDS epidemic erupted in the 1980s. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1 million people are living with HIV in the United States. One in five of those with HIV is unaware of his or her infection. And more than 18,000 people with AIDS die each year. Of particular concern, said the CDC's Kevin Fenton, are higher infection rates among gay and bisexual men, African Americans, and Hispanics. Fenton and John Bartlett of Johns Hopkins University both urged better education efforts and routine HIV screening for adults and adolescents. Routine HIV testing would go a long way toward combatting the epidemic by leading to earlier access to treatment and limiting the spread of the virus, they said. More doctors need to be offering routine screening, said Bartlett. And more patients, said Fenton, need to be demanding a test. Koop will address the 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care this week in Maryland. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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The Reid case comes just two weeks after taxi driver John Worboys was convicted of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women in London. Police had failed to apprehend Worboys for six years, despite receiving numerous complaints from female passengers. They had even arrested him in July 2007, after a 19-year-old student told officers in Plumstead, south-east London, that she believed she had been sexually assaulted in a black cab and the police identified Worboys through CCTV footage. But they believed his denials and released him on bail. A few months later the case was dropped. In the next seven months Worboys went on to attack another 29 women, and police now believe that he could have drugged and attacked more than 100 female passengers over a 13-year period. The police response in both the Worboys and Reid cases is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The failure of the Sapphire units in all three of these cases is shocking. Set up in 2000 as part of a comprehensive reform of police rape investigations, London's 32 Sapphire units are supposed to be centres of excellence, and were designed to improve the conviction rate for rape. The 24-hour investigation teams include specially trained sexual offences investigation officers who arrange medical and forensic examinations and take the victim's initial statement. And it is true that the conviction rate for rape in London has improved since Sapphire was implemented: in 2006 it was 6.4%, compared to 3.6% in 2002. But the Reid and Worboys cases, and Rebecca's experience, show that serious problems persist. Representatives of Women Against Rape, which worked alongside Rebecca and her mother on their complaint against the police (Sally is now a campaigner for the group) believe that one way to change this is for heads to roll when specific failures are identified. "They won't solve anything until people are held to account," says the group's Ruth Hall. "It's not enough to say lessons have been learned - they've been telling us that for 30 years." The group also suggests that there needs to be a distinct change in police priorities. "The problem really starts at the top and this report proves that," says Lisa Longstaff. "The priorities for downgrading rape and under-resourcing rape in relation to other crimes are set by the very highest in the police. It's about orders from the top that make it clear this is a priority crime to be investigated... In many cases the police just aren't doing the job once someone reports a rape to them. They're not interviewing witnesses, they're not taking forensic samples, they're not visiting the crime scenes. They're dismissing a lot of reports because of who the woman is and the circumstances in which the rape took place - if she's been drinking, or she's young, or has a history of mental health problems, or is an immigrant." After the trial in summer 2006, Rebecca sank into a depression. Now 19 and belatedly finishing her A-levels, she has flashbacks not just of the alleged attack but also of being cross-examined by the defence barrister. She is scared of being alone with men, panics when she hears someone walking behind her, and is having counselling after having self-harmed following the trial. The report into her case is quite a coup, given the detail it provides of a unit in crisis and its recommendation that four officers be disciplined. But for Rebecca, the truth about what went wrong has not made for easy reading. "Rape's supposed to be the second worst crime to murder," she says. "It's not like petty crime, it's crime that ruins people's lives. For the Sapphire unit to have been in that state shows that it's really not prioritised and the government must not care that much about it. And the people that are getting away with it are just laughing." • All names have been changed
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Żarczyce Duże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Małogoszcz, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Małogoszcz, north of Jędrzejów, and west of the regional capital Kielce. The village has a population of 540. ==References==
Villages in Jędrzejów County
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Man charged with attempted murder after tourist attack
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 78-year-old tourist was attacked near York Minster. The South African was hit repeatedly over the head with a rock or cobble after a stranger struck up conversation with him at around 8.30pm on Friday. Witnesses dialled 999 and the pair were found in the Deans Park area. The victim was taken to York District Hospital for treatment to a serious head injury and damage to his hand. He has since been released from hospital and his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. North Yorkshire Police said officers arrested a 43-year-old man from Tadcaster at the scene. He was charged with attempted murder last night and was remanded in custody to appear before York Magistrates' Court tomorrow.
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Pace of Mergers Takes a Midyear Pause The revival in mergers this year has taken some time to catch its breath. After a blistering start to the year, deal volume slowed down in the second quarter as uncertainty again weighed on the markets. While many deal makers say that the number of transactions will continue to rise, the pace of that activity remains uncertain. Deals totaling about $1.4 trillion were announced in the first half of the year, according to Thomson Reuters data, a 35 percent increase over the same time last year. That is the strongest start to deal-making since the financial crisis, as corporate boards, armed with cash and cheap financing, felt comfortable enough to seek out growth by acquisitions. But the confidence of executives appears to have been shaken by fears of a slowing economic recovery and persistent worry over Greece's fiscal troubles. About $631.4 billion worth of deals were announced in the second quarter, down 20 percent from the first quarter. The biggest question is whether management teams can be persuaded to pursue acquisitions they have already been weighing. "Is this a real slowdown, or is this temporary?" asked Mark Shafir, the global head of mergers and acquisitions at Citigroup. "We think that unless there is a major slowing of world economy, there's some room to grow." Bankers and lawyers say that over the first half of the year, the majority of deals struck have been by strategic buyers looking to augment existing businesses. As some companies have struggled to find ways to grow organically, buying new business has gained favor in some corporate suites. Johnson & Johnson's $20.8 billion acquisition of Synthes reflected the American health giant's desire to expand its presence in the increasingly lucrative medical devices sector. With low debt, $28 billion in cash on hand and enormous free cash flow, Johnson & Johnson was long seen by analysts as ready to make a big purchase. It's unusual, but many deals announced this year have yielded rises in the stock of the acquirer. While many times the buyer's shares go down amid fears that the deal may be overvalued, advisers say that the phenomenon highlights shareholder approval in the right cases. "Investors are being supportive and sometimes highly supportive of ideas that make sense," said Michael Boublik, Morgan Stanley's chairman of mergers and acquisitions for the Americas. One of the consequences of the mostly stable economic conditions from the first half of the year is that potential buyers and sellers are finding it easier to come to an agreement over the valuation of a particular deal. The average premium for an American target company to its stock price four weeks before a deal announcement shrank to 30.7 percent, from 37.6 percent. Takeovers by private equity firms in the first half also rose over the same time last year, to about $114 billion. But that is a decline from the latter half of last year, when the largest takeovers since the financial crisis, like the $5.3 billion buyout of Del Monte Foods, were announced. Deal experts say that while buyout firms are still poised to benefit from the positive mergers environment, they face more constraints than they did in the credit boom. The resurgence of determined corporate buyers has made many auctions costlier. And while debt financing remains cheap and plentiful, private equity firms are more hard-pressed to write big equity checks. And club deals - when several buyout firms band together to buy a target they could not afford on their own - have become less common, amid pressure by institutional investors. "Our sense is that private equity activity levels are continuing to be more important to the M.& A. market than they were two years ago," said Stephen Arcano, the leader of the mergers practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. "But I don't think we're poised for a surge in private equity activity." Yet private equity firms have been busy selling companies to generate returns for their investors. In perhaps the most extreme instance, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts sold Primedia for $525 million, closing out a 22-year investment in the media company.
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Hanger Lane is a major road in the Ealing and Park Royal areas of London. It forms the westernmost part of the A406 North Circular as it runs north from Gunnersbury Avenue as it crosses the A4020 Uxbridge Road at Ealing Common to meet the A40 Western Avenue at the Hanger Lane Gyratory System. This complex and busy junction incorporates the Hanger Lane tube station on the London Underground. There is a short stretch of Hanger Lane north of the Gyratory System which is not part of the North Circular, becoming the A4005 to Alperton. It takes its name from Hanger Hill, the hill it travels over. The name comes from the Old English word hangra, meaning a wooded slope. ==References==
Streets in Ealing
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Japan PM lags in polls despite Cabinet reshuffle TOKYO (AP) - Newspaper polls show Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet reshuffle has failed to lift public support. Polls published Sunday showed support for Noda and his new Cabinet was flat to slightly down from before Friday's reshuffle. The approval rating in the Nikkei business daily poll was 37 percent, up one-tenth a percentage point from December, with disapproval unchanged. The Yomiuri and the Asahi said approvals dipped - 5 points to 37 percent and 2 points to 29 percent respectively. Noda's numbers have declined since he took office in September. The majority of respondents opposed his tax hike plan. Each poll telephoned about 1,000 eligible voters Jan. 13-14. Polls that size would have a 5 percentage point margin of error. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Ahmed Ibragimov (Ахмед Ибрагимов) was a Chechen mass murderer who killed at least 34 Russian inhabitants of the Chechen village of Mikenskaya on October 8, 1999. The 43-year-old then escaped, but was captured two days later by Chechen rebels and handed over to relatives of his victims, who then handcuffed him to a pole and clubbed him to death with metal rods. ==Personal life==
Ibragimov was a native of Mikenskaya, a village about 30 miles northwest of Grozny. He had a brother who was killed in the First Chechen War. During the privatization in the early 90s, he acquired some farm machinery and worked as a driver, and later on ran a small shop. At one time, he was also the local postman. At the time of the shooting, he was living in Chernokozovo. ==The shooting==
Ibragimov, who reportedly had already killed several members of a family named Allenov in the village Alpatovo a few days prior, started his rampage after a battle between Chechen rebels and the Russian army in the area had ceased and people came out of their hiding places. He first approached a group of people sitting on a bench, and after a little chat with them, he took out his gun and killed four of them. Drunken, he then went through the village and shot those whom he recognized as being Russians, leaving his victims lying in the streets, in yards, and in their homes, while sparing those who were Chechens. After taking a bike from one of his victims, he methodically drove to houses occupied by Russians, called out their inhabitants, and shot them. Whenever he wounded his victims, he would kill them by shooting them again in the head. In less than an hour, Ibragimov had killed at least 34 Russian inhabitants of the village, aged from 10 to 89 years. He fled when he ran out of ammunition, though two days later, he was captured by Chechen rebels and handed over to the village elders. Without going through a trial, he was handcuffed to a pole at the village square and beaten to death with iron rods by two brothers whose parents he had killed. Ibragimov's body was then left lying in the street, since the local mullahs forbade to bury him. The reason for the shooting apparently was the villagers' refusal to dig trenches, and the killing of Chechens by the Russians. Ibragimov, according to one villager, stated that "Russians are killing Chechens, so now I am going to kill Russians." Various higher death tolls have been reported, ranging from 35 (34 Russians and a Meskhetian Turk), and 39, to up to 41. It was also reported that he had shot 42 Russians and five Chechens. ===Victims===
Among those killed were up to four members of the following families:
Drobilov (Дробилов)
Radchenko (Радченко)
Fedosov (Федосов)
Pletnev (Плетнев)
Furthermore, the following persons were killed:
Peter Atarshikov (Петр Атарщиков)
Zoya Filippovna Andriyenko (Зоя Филипповна Андриенко), teacher
Victor Kakezov (Виктор Какезов)
Mariya Ivanovna Maslova (Мария Ивановна Маслова)
Ekaterina Ivanovna Pyltsina (Екатерина Ивановна Пыльцина), village council secretary
Dmitri Radchenko (Дмитрий Радченко)
Mrs. Tatarenko
Mr. Tatarenko, son of Mrs. Tatarenko, older brother of Kolya
Kolya Tatarenko (Коля Татаренко), 10, son of Mrs. Tatarenko
==Aftermath==
On December 21, 1999 Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov was summoned by the North Caucasus branch of the General Prosecutor's Office to be questioned about the shooting and other atrocities that have occurred in Chechnya since 1991.
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Miami Heat: This time the trophy goes to the Dallas Mavericks Don't apologize. That was Heat coach Erik Spoelstra's two-word message to his team before Sunday's Game 6. It was supposed to be about not apologizing "for being confident," as Spoelstra put it afterwards, for believing this thing would go the distance and turn out the way the Heat always believed it would. Instead, the way this season ended, with a 105-95 loss on the Heat's home floor to a gritty group of Dallas Mavericks, "Don't apologize" came to mean something far different. Just as there would be no excuses from the Heat, no talk of how things might have been different if only Dwyane Wade's hip hadn't been injured in Game 5 or that 15-point lead hadn't been blown at the end of Game 2, there could be no apologies in the wake of this stunning disappointment either. Or at least there should be none. No apologies from LeBron James for failing to silence his critics and win the first championship of his otherwise-charmed career. No apologies from Wade for being unable to put this team on his back the way he did against the Mavericks five years ago and lift the Heat to another championship. No apologies from Chris Bosh, the final member of the Superfriends, for failing to keep Dirk Nowitzki from scoring the winning basket at the end of Game 2. And lastly, no apologies from Spoelstra, the man charged with the impossible task of coaching a team that began the year with only one acceptable outcome: an NBA championship. "There's no excuses, no blame," Spoelstra said. "Sometimes you simply come up short." At the start of this series, Spoelstra had talked about how the winner would be the team that did what it typically does the most consistently. There would be no "reinventing the wheel," Spoelstra liked to say. And then, facing a 3-2 series deficit after two straight losses in Dallas, the young coach came home and changed some things around. Maybe too many things, as it turned out. He benched Mike Bibby, his starting point guard throughout these playoffs and for most of the Heat's late-season surge, in favor of young Mario Chalmers. Bibby, who had played as many as 35 minutes in these Finals, played zero minutes Sunday. Chalmers did have 18 points, but the Heat offense turned the ball over 16 times. Spoelstra left Eddie House on the court for 21 long minutes, defensive issues and all. House did hit a trio of triples in the first half, helping the Heat climb out of a 12-point hole, but House also had ample time to remind everyone why he'd only played a combined five minutes in the previous 11 games. Lastly, Spoelstra sat the world's most talented player for the first two and a half minutes of the fourth quarter.
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Lions v Australia, third Test: live 13.17 Lions coach Warren Gatland with some words: The last three or four days have been very hard. We had to make a really tough call. You always doubt decisions but you've gotta make those hard calls sometimes. We went through it as coaching team and taken a bit of flack. I don't want to gloat or feel vindicated. It was about the boys today. It was an outstanding performance. We came under pressure but we bounced back. 13.15 This is now the soundtrack. Chant it in a beery manner: 13.14 Lions centre Jamie Roberts is a lovely man, a doctor, a fine rugby player. But he just said "bull----" on television. At 1.14pm on a Saturday!! 13.11 This is now the soundtrack. Sing it: 13.09 The skippers raise the series trophy: 13.07 Lions captains Sam Warburton and Alun Wyn Jones are up to get the trophy. Warburton thanks the Aussies players and also pays tribute to the Lions fans who made the (very expensive) trip over. 13.06 Australia skipper James Horwill called upon to deliver another speech. He thanks the Lions players and supporters for contributing to the series. I think I saw a few smirks from the men in red. 13.05 Leigh Halfpenny receives his player of the series award. He receives $3,000 which he can pass on to the charity of his choice. 13.04 Amazing scenes at the ANZ. The Lion supporters are going absolutely barmy as the players and coaches go on their lap of honour. LIONS! LIONS! LIONS! is the soundtrack now as the Fratellis CD is put away. 13.03 The country has gone sport mad. Bring it home, Andy: 13.01 Wallabies skipper James Horwill introduced to boos from the Lions supporters. 13.00 Lions captain Alun Wyn Jones: There was a lot said about selection during the week. Thanks to the fans, I think we proved that the northern hemisphere is doing well. On Tuesday and Wednesday we had two of the worst training days of the tour. But today we fronted up and represented the four countries with pride. 12.58 The whole Lions touring party (and it will be a party) are out on the ANZ turf. Gatland struts around congratulating his players and soaks it all in. He's the man with the largest dose of vindication on the whole planet right now. 12.56 An historic moment. A memory the players and fans will have for the rest of their lives. And what's the soundtrack? The flippin' Fratellis. 'Chelsea Dagger' being pumped out full-blast at the ANZ Stadium. I suppose that's the major Scottish contribution for the series then:
80 min The Lions have an attacking line-out in the Wallaby 22. And they've got about 10 men in the line-out. Party trick time! The Wallabies poop the party, though, by bringing the maul down. 79 min Lions full-back Leigh Halfpenny announced as the man of the series. And the Lions win a scrum penalty (crtl+v, I love you). 77 min The man who was fly-half the last time the Lions won a series, Gregor Townsend, approves: 76 min The Wallabies win clean line-out ball but the subsequent attack is sloppy, careless and disjointed. O'Connor forced to knock (an actually very good) touch-finder into the corner. 75 min Line-out to Australia on their 10-metre line. Can they finish with a flourish? 73 min A very impressive 83,702 attendance at the ANZ tonight. I guess the Lions matter, don't they. 72 min Ex-Wallaby wing Lote Tiquiri with an observation on the future of Australia coach Robbie Deans: 70 min Roberts replaced by Manu Tuilagi. 69 min TRY! AUSTRALIA 16 - LIONS 41 (Roberts + Farrell con) Australia look like they've given up. That's the only reason to explain why Roberts was able to cut (an admittedly very good) angle off Murray, before steaming through the would-be tacklers and over for a pretty simple run-in from the 22. This is a thrashing now! Farrell converts. 68 min The Lions win a penalty at the scrum. (I have that on my clipboard for easy cut-and-paste). Richie Gray is on for Parling and Mako Vunipola replaces Corbisiero.
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