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Too much PlayStation can cause painful lumps: study LONDON (Reuters) - Gamers beware: Keeping too tight a grip on the console and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, Swiss scientists said on Tuesday. Called "PlayStation palmar hidradentitis" by the scientists, the skin disorder can cause painful lesions on the palms similar to patches found on the soles of children's feet after taking part in heavy physical activity, they said. "The tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produce minor but continuous trauma to the (palm) surfaces," Vincent Piguet and colleagues at University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva reported in the British Journal of Dermatology. A spokesman for Sony Corp, which makes the PlayStation, noted the study involved one person and said the company had sold hundreds of millions of the consoles since the product was introduced in 1995. "As with any leisure pursuit there are possible consequences of not following common sense, health advice and guidelines, as can be found within our instruction manuals," Sony spokesman David Wilson said. "We would not wish to belittle this research and we will study the findings with interest, but this is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature." Excessive gaming is already seen as a public health issue, sparking addictive behavior that can lead to a range of psychological problems, the researchers said. Other researchers have identified acute tendonitis from playing too much of Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, and now a disorder related to the PlayStation can be added to the list, the team said. Their study described the case of a 12-year-old girl who attended the Geneva hospital with intensely painful lesions on her hands, which she had developed four weeks earlier. She had no other lesions anywhere else on her body. After questioning, the doctors discovered that several days prior to the appearance of the lesions the girl had started to play a game on her PlayStation for several hours each day. The researchers suspected that grasping the console's hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produced minor but prolonged injury to the palm of the girl's hands, which can be made worse by sweating during a tense game. The doctors recommended the girl stop playing and she recovered fully after 10 days, the researchers said. "If you're worried about soreness on your hands when playing a games console, it might be sensible to give your hands a break from time to time, and don't play excessively if your hands are prone to sweating," Nina Goad of the British Association of Dermatologists said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Kahn, Editing by Will Dunham)
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Société de transport du Saguenay (STS) is the public transport company in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, formerly the Corporation intermunicipale de transport du Saguenay (CITS). They operate from three main terminals located in the boroughs of Chicoutimi, Jonquière and La Baie. The network covers a large part of the city including industrial, commercial and residential areas, with interurban links between the former municipalities and to the townships of Laterrière in the south and Shipshaw and Tremblay in the north. ==Services==
A variety of services is provided including: regular public transit; specialized transport for people with disabilities; school bus services; charter coach services; special events transportation. To use the paratransit service, you must complete an eligibility form and be approved by a committee composed of health care professionals, people representing persons with disabilities and a member of the company. ==Fares==
Single fare is $2.90, with a book of 5 tickets costing $14.50 and 12 tickets $34.80. Monthly passes are available at $60.00 for adults, $41.00 for children aged 17 and under and $34.00 for seniors. ==Routes==
===Regular Routes===
4 - Centre d'achat via Université
10 - Notre Dame du Saguenay
11 - St. Paul
11C - Chicoutimi via St. Paul
11J - Jonquière via St. Paul
12 - Riviere-du-Moulin
14 - Coopérative
15N - Centre-ville via Talbot/centres d'achats
15S - Boulevard du Royaume via centres d'achats/Talbot
16 - Côte de la Réserve
18/18J - Des Écrivains
20 - Sainte-Claire
21 - Boulevard Sainte-Geneviève
22 - Vanier/Constantin
23 - Aréna du Plateau via Côte Verdun
24 - Saint-Luc
30 - Les Galeries
31 - Saint-Raphaël
32 - Saint-Georges
33 - Saint-André
34 - Kénogami
35 - Des Oiseaux/Petite-France
36 - Cépal
37 - Terminus Jonquière via Ste-Émilie/Faubourg Sagamie via Cégep
38 - Saint-Jacques/Plateau Deschênes
39 - Carré Davis/Saint-Philippe
43 - Faubourg vers Rond-Point
50 - Des Érables
51 - Polyvalente La Baie
52 - Boulevard de la Grande-Baie
54 - Chemin St-Louis
60 - Secteur de Laterrière/St-Pierre - St-Paul
62 - Secteur de Laterrière/St-Isidore - de l'Église
===Long Distance Routes===
2 - Chicoutimi/Jonquière via Boulevard de Royaume
3 - Chicoutimi/Jonquière via Boulevard du Saguenay
5 - La Baie/Chicoutimi via Boulevard St-Jean-Baptiste
6 - La Baie/Chicoutimi via Aéroport
65 - Chicoutimi à Canton Tremblay/Shipshaw/St-Ambroise
67 - Jonquière à Shipshaw/St-Ambroise
==References==
Transit agencies in Quebec
Transport in Saguenay, Quebec
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A small chink of light has been BBC Scotland's Politics Show moves to increase female guests, which has made the past few weeks" programmes more enlightened and representative television. There is also the pragmatic issue. About women focusing on matters of importance to their lives, rather than political ideologies. The challenge for the pro-indy campaign is to go one step further and articulate what independence will mean directly for women under independence. The polls show it's not so much a matter of women being against independence, it's a matter of them being undecided. A recent Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times and Real Radio Scotland showed 43 per cent of males to 31 per cent females support independence but the ratio of undecideds is much higher for women at 26 per cent compared to 14 per cent for men. This means it is all to play for. Mums, I hope you are listening. lJennifer Dempsie is a communications adviser to the SNP and former special adviser to First Minister Alex Salmond.
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Bafta award winning show The Choir is back Musician Gareth Malone is once again in charge. In the first series of the television documentary he worked with a school choir and trained them for a performance at the 2006 World Choir Games. Series two of the challenge was to help a group of teenage boys and get them ready for a show at The Royal Albert Hall. This time he's on a mission to get a whole town singing. The Choir: Unsung Town sees Gareth based in South Oxley encouraging the whole community to sing. Bookmark with: Stumbled Upon Newsvine Reddit Del.icio.us Digg Twitter Facebook © Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved.
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British men arrested in Kenya trying to cross border into Somalia The pair, who are believed to be from Cardiff and are understood to be of south Asian and Somali origin, were stopped by officials in Kiunga, the northernmost town on the Kenyan coast. "There was reason to believe that the two men, who had British passports, had ulterior motives to be in northern Kenya and to go to Somalia," said Frederick Mwangagi, the chief of police in Kiunga town. "They were taken for questioning and although I was not present at the interrogation, I know that their answers were not satisfactory and we have arrested them and sent them to Mombasa [the main city on Kenya's coast]." He gave no further details. The men were with a Kenyan national. It is unclear why they were trying to reach Somalia, but there are regular reports of jihadist sympathisers wanting to join al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamist rebels. A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London said that they were "investigating reports of two British nationals being arrested in Kenya." A spokesman for South Wales Police said: "South Wales Police are currently in liaison with the Kenyan authorities in respect of two British nationals who have been detained near to the border with Somalia. "The identities of these persons have yet to be formally confirmed, both are believed to be from the Cardiff area. The families of these persons have been notified." Police were also in contact with the Foreign Office and British embassy in Nairobi.
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Pookkottur is a village in Eranad taluk, and a suburb of Malappuram, Kerala, India. It is on National Highway 213, and there is a state road from the town to Manjeri. It was the centre of the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 that shook the British administration in the erstwhile Malabar district of Madras Province. Mr. P.A. Salam is President of Pookkottur Grama Panchayath. He is the member of Executive Committee and General council (the chief executive authority and the supreme authority respectively) of Kerala Agricultural University. He is also the Chairman, Works Committee of Kerala Agricultural University. Malabar Karshikotsavam & Krishi Mela (from 18th to 30th May 2013) was an initiative by Mr. P.A. Salam by collaborating Kerala Agricultural University, Youth Clubs & Pookkottur Grama Panchayath to transform Pookkottur as a model Sustainable Green Village of Kerala. == External links ==
http://wikimapia.org/2610009/
http://kau.edu/ec_2013.htm
http://kau.edu/gc_2013.htm
http://www.lsg.kerala.gov.in/pages/lb_general_info.php?intID=5&ID=934&ln=en
Villages in Malappuram district
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The Canton of Chaulnes is a canton situated in the department of the Somme and in the Picardie region of northern France. == Geography ==
The canton is organised around the commune of Chaulnes in the arrondissement of Péronne. The altitude varies from 32m (Proyart) to 112m (Lihons) for an average of 87m. == Composition ==
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States ready for gay marriage battles A new report says legal hurdles can be cleared in Tasmania's bid to introduce same-sex marriage. Source: AAP THE Commonwealth is throwing down the gauntlet to the ACT on gay marriage as legal experts in Tasmania say there's no reason states shouldn't be able to make their own laws on the issue. Commonwealth Attorney-General George Brandis has confirmed the federal government will challenge the ACT's same-sex marriage law in the High Court once it passes, which could happen within the next four weeks. "Irrespective of anyone's views on the desirability or otherwise of same-sex marriage, it is clearly in Australia's interests that there be nationally consistent marriage laws," Senator Brandis said. The Commonwealth Marriage Act provided that consistency but the ACT's law would be "a threat to that well-established position," he said. ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell said he and Senator Brandis had a "polite but forthright" discussion about the matter during a meeting of the standing committee on law and justice in Sydney on Thursday. "We will be robustly defending our law and asserting that our law is capable of concurrent operation with the Commonwealth law and that it is not inconsistent," he told AAP. A Tasmania Law Reform Institute report released on Thursday has found no legal reason for states not to make laws on marriage. But its authors do say there is no way to predict how the High Court would rule on a challenge. The island state made a bid to go it alone on gay marriage last year when its lower house became the first in the country to pass legislation on the issue. It was narrowly defeated in the upper house because of concerns about its legitimacy under the constitution and whether it left Tasmania open to a costly High Court challenge. In the ACT, the first same-sex weddings could happen as early as December. Marriage Equality chair and independent NSW MP Alex Greenwich said the fact the federal government was intervening would encourage same-sex couples to get married sooner rather than later. "The more people we have expressing their love and commitment will make it harder for any laws to be overturned," he told AAP. But Senator Brandis warned it might be distressing for same-sex couples who marry under the new law, only to have their union later invalidated by a High Court challenge. "It would be better for all concerned if the ACT government waited for a short time until the validity of the proposed law was determined by the High Court," he said. But Mr Corbell said the territory had "declined to do that" because there's strong support for the law, which could pass within the next four weeks. "We are disappointed that the Commonwealth professes concern for same-sex couples entering into marriage in case the law is struck down when it is they themselves who are seeking to have it struck down," he told AAP.
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Been there, done that! ALSO...my mention of the scrapheap is how I feel that most editors treat anything "Flemish"...they discard it as trash and substitute Dutch or Belgian Dutch or some other alteration. It is Flemish. From their viewpoint it's like litter. From my viewpoint it should not be allowed to wither and die. It should be allowed to stand alone. I wish more people had that attitude towards languages. We've lost a hundred incredible languages in the US because they were tossed on the trash heap. My sole reason for moving this page was that it had a ridiculous title. I moved it to a title that I hoped would be neutral. That required a disambiguation between Flemish the language and Flemish the Flemings. If "Belgian Dutch" is not apropos, I'm open to suggestions. "Language" will offend some people. "Dialect" will offend others. That was the reason for the silly "linguistics" tag in the first place—as if Flemish didn't exist outside the field of linguistics. Or we could simply say "See also Flemish people", and sidestep the whole issue. But I don't see what difference it makes as long as Flemish is called "Belgian Dutch" in the body of the article. (That's where I got the wording from.) kwami (talk)
Thanks for your understanding reply. An example of the difference might be if some editor started to descibe what you and I speak as "British". We would argue till the cows came home. Same thing for us Flemish-speaking Belgians. When we speak our "taals" (dialects) we are not speaking Dutch. We are speaking Flemish (meaning one of the many 100's of dialects). To get an idea of the challenge read the talk above (from the beginning(?)). It's like you say: the scholars and linguists won't allow it and then there are the Dutch that revert and don't understand why we don't want what is Flemish to be called Dutch. You bring up a good point. What is needed is a seperate article or series of articles. Something like.... Thanks for the push. I may call on you to assist...LOL...someday! (((BTW...where in the US are you?))) :I seriously doubt you're going to convince the community to accept two articles on the same subject in order to reflect two POVs. It's been tried before, and AFAIK universally rejected or reverted. (I mean, if we don't have pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian articles on the history of Palestine, how can you make the argument for Flemish?) No, what we need to do is explain the different attitudes people have. The basic linguistic definition of a language is mutual intelligibility. By that definition, German and Arabic are language families, not languages (and both Dutch and Flemish are German lects, while Maltese is an Arabic lect), while many national "languages" are dialects (Croatian, Norwegian, Moldavian, Portuguese,...). But there are also sociolinguistic considerations: what the people themselves think of their language. Any decent article needs to cover both. And of course there are many borderline cases to mutual intelligibility, while few language communities agree completely on the status of their lect. ("Lect", BTW, is jargon that does not prejudge whether a form of speech is a separate language or a dialect.) kwami (talk)
::About mutual intellegibility: people with Dutch & Flemish as native language can understand each other relatively well, while second-language speakers (I'm talking about spoken language, not written, that's the case about the whole of Flemish, btw) have much difficulties to understand what's spoken in the other country. Some more clarification: "Belgian Dutch" reflects the Dutch standard, officially used. "Flemish" reflects what the people speaks. Well, now I'm explaining that... Flemish people originally speak a lot of dialects. None had a standard, that's why Dutch was taken. The most recent developments show that a "tussentaal" is developing - Flemish people (primarily children) are more and more using Brabantian (it's called "Flemish" but it's actually Brabantian) so it's more and more "Standard Flemish" although that doesn't exist officially. I think I'm talking too much now... Summarized, it's very complicated.
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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. Carlossuarez46
===A-league 2nd division===
– (View AfD)(View log)
This football competition is not even at the official proposal stage and is merely a discussion point for the media. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. In addition, the lack of citations for claims made and sentences such as "It is expected a side from the Gold Coast and possibly Geelong may be given a go, while a Northern Queensland bid and a Western Sydney/Wollongong bid are likely to be given access straight to the A-League 1st Division" make it look suspiciously like original research. Mattinbgn\ talk
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. Delete per Mattingbn. Come back when it's gotten past consideration. Mandsford
Delete. In no way it deserve to be a WP article. Non-notable, uncategorized and also requires huge copy-edit. So, overall decision from my side will be delete. Niaz(Talk • Contribs)
I'm not quite sold on some of your rationale, there, Niaz. The article claims (although in a less than clear way) that it would be the second division of a national-level football tournament, so if it ever gets off the ground I think it'll be notable. Lack of a category isn't a reason to delete, and neither is the fact that the article's in need of a copy-edit. BigHaz - Schreit mich an
Delete. I'm willing to concede that something like this is being discussed, but if there are sources providing the information that this article claims (not all of which is entirely clearly written anyway), an independent article isn't the right place for the moment. When something concrete exists, in proposal form at least, then a new article could be written on the topic. BigHaz - Schreit mich an
Delete per nom. John Vandenberg
Delete per WP:CRYSTAL. Keb25
This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude
Delete per CRYSTAL. Number 57
Comment, I feel there would be much better grounds for keeping this article if some reliable sources could be provided as references, the Australian football association for example. If there are real verifiable plans to set this league up, rather than just pure speculation the article should be kept. King of the North East (T/C)
What little I've heard about it offline suggests that there are verifiable plans to set something up, but the detail that this article contains is more than anyone's actually declared publicly yet. BigHaz - Schreit mich an
Delete Is this some sort of sick joke. Twenty Years
Keep, as it seems legitimate, but definitely add more sources. Sincerely,
''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.
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Bahraini opposition widening reform protests
MANAMA (Reuters) - Protests in Bahrain are starting to make forays away from the central square in Manama and into different parts of the city, pressing the Sunni-led government for swift democratic reform. Since thousands of protesters took to the streets two weeks ago there has been no formal dialogue between the government and the opposition, mainly majority Muslim Shi'ites, who say they are shut out of good jobs, decent healthcare and housing. The king has pardoned political prisoners, reshuffled the cabinet, increased housing allowances and appointed the crown prince to lead a national dialogue to resolve a crisis that in its early days claimed the lives of seven and wounded hundreds in protests. Tens of thousands of mainly Shi'ite protesters waving Bahraini flags marched on Tuesday from a hospital in Manama to Pearl Square, the focal point of the protests. "No dialogue - the people want the fall of the regime," many banners read, echoing the calls heard in Egypt and Tunisia that brought down the leaders of those countries. Late on Tuesday, a group of about 100 protesters started to erect tents outside the Bahrain Financial Harbor, one of Bahrain's largest business towers and home to international banks and businesses. But a Shi'ite cleric asked them to return to Pearl Square, which they did at around midnight. Tens of thousands of pro-government supporters have also taken to the streets in recent days, saying that reforms launched by Bahrain's king a decade ago have resulted in freedoms and democracy unique in the Gulf Arab region. The groups who called for Tuesday's march are more moderate and draw substantially larger numbers than the more radical youth movement that occupies Pearl Square and has launched its own, smaller marches to government buildings in recent days. The youth movement plans to march to the Interior Ministry on Wednesday, while another pro-government rally is planned for the evening. "There's one family ruling the country, in sports, politics and economics, everything is controlled by the royal family," said Ali Ibrahim, a protester. "The government needs to be elected," he said. Students at Bahraini schools were also protesting against the government on Wednesday. Bahrain's Minister of Social Development Fatima al-Balooshi said that the government was interested in dialogue but that a small minority in Bahrain prevented talks. "The king is really afraid of seeing the country split. There is a very fine line between having peace and having conflict in Bahrain," she told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. (Reporting by Frederik Richter in Manama and Bob Evans in Geneva; Editing by Ralph Boulton)
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In Kentucky, where three companies are selling insurance through the state exchange, six hospitals have lodged complaints with the insurance department regarding the network issue. In Maine, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's proposal to exclude six hospitals in the southern part of the state has been heavily criticized. The state partially approved the proposal. In Chicago, Rush University Medical Center used to be covered "in network" by all the health plans offered in Cook County, Illinois' largest county. Now, of the 71 plans serving the county on the state's exchange, Rush is covered by only 38 plans. In New York, one of the world's foremost cancer hospitals, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is not "in network" for any of the insurance plans on the state's exchange. Insurers have used limits on choice to control costs for years. Avalere analyst Eyles said the health care law's narrow networks may gain acceptance if they are able to deliver timely, high-quality care at lower cost. If that's the case, bet on employers to experiment with them. For now, it can even get tricky trying to find out if your doctor or nearby hospital participates in one of the new plans. The federal marketplace serving 36 states does not have a central online provider directory, said Robert Krughoff, president of Consumers' Checkbook, a ratings group. Instead it offers links to directories of individual plans. The gold standard is to be able to type in the name of your doctor, and see what plans he or she participates in. That feature is offered by some, though not all, of the state-run exchanges. "Unless an exchange has put up an all-provider directory, it's going to be a fair amount of work to go through and check each plan," Krughoff said. Obama's promise, to a meeting of the AMA in 2009, evoked a simpler vision: "No matter how we reform health care," the president said, "we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period."
Ramer reported from Rochester, N.H. Associated Press writers Carla K. Johnson in Chicago, Roger Alford in Frankfort, Ky., and Alanna Durkin in Augusta, Maine, and David Caruso in New York contributed to this report. Associated Press
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A policy dispute occurs when an agreement cannot be reached regarding a policy or guideline. An accepted or operational policy or guideline can not be declared "in dispute" unilaterally, compare: Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point:
If you wish to change an existing procedure or guideline...
do set up a discussion page and try to establish consensus
don't push the existing rule to its limits in an attempt to prove it wrong, or nominate the existing rule for deletion
Which means declaring a policy or guideline to be in dispute can only be effectuated
if it can be demonstrated that there has been a reasonable effort to establish consensus;
if it can be established that there is a consensus that the best option forward is to declare the policy in dispute. This means broad consensus, for policy even very broad consensus. All other attempts to declare a policy or guideline in dispute after it became accepted or operational will be considered vandalism or "highly disruptive egregious disruption". Policy dispute
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Japanese Grand Prix 2013: Sebastian Vettel edges closer to fourth world title as Red Bull complete Suzuka one-two If he does, when he does, no one can say he does not deserve it. Vettel's consistency is extraordinary, but as the 26 year-old proved again on Sunday, his battling qualities are not half bad either. In fighting back to win this race, Vettel became only the sixth driver in history to win five consecutive races, following in the footsteps of Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher, Jack Brabham, Nigel Mansell and Jim Clark. It was a tense scrap as the strategies came into play, and it could have included Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton had he not sustained a puncture in the opening seconds. Lining up on the grid, Hamilton pointed his car at such an angle it was apparent the 28 year-old was aiming to arrow between the front-row Red Bull lock-out. When the five red lights disappeared Hamilton did exactly that, and managed to pull alongside Vettel on the run down to the first corner. But with the merest of touches, Hamilton punctured his right-rear tyre in making contact with the front left on Vettel's Red Bull. It caused an instant deflation, dropping Hamilton to the back of the pack and an immediate pit stop at the end of the first lap for fresh rubber. But in limping back to the pits, it was eventually apparent Hamilton also sustained damage to the floor of his car, resulting in him retiring for the first time this season after eight laps. Hamilton said: "I had a great start, one of my best all year, if not the best. I went for the gap, I felt I had a clear gap, but then going into turn one the rear tyre was down. I cannot believe my luck, but that's life." Asked whether he could have continued, Hamilton replied: "Nah! The floor was destroyed. I was a second and a half, two seconds down per lap. I couldn't have made it to the end." What then followed was the strategy battle between the two Red Bulls and the Lotus, with Webber running a three-stop plan compared to the two of Vettel and Grosjean. The Frenchman, who had made a blistering start to take the lead from fourth on the grid heading into turn one, led for the opening 12 laps before his first stop. Through the first round of stops Grosjean managed to recapture the lead, yet all the while Vettel was calmly working to his strategy. The German played a patient game, and despite a number of rare lock-ups, it proved enough to again see him take the chequered flag. "Ichiban!" Vettel screamed as he crossed the line, the Japanese word for 'first'. "You're the best team in the world, thanks a lot for bringing the car home, thanks boys. I love you." Behind him, the key moment came a few laps from the end, with Webber failing to get by Grosjean on fresh medium-compound tyres, thus losing any chance he had of reeling in Vettel. It was not until lap 52 of the 53 that Webber finally made his move to clinch the runner-up spot. Behind the leading trio, Alonso finished 45 seconds adrift of Vettel, with Raikkonen fifth ahead of Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg. McLaren's Jenson Button was ninth, Paul Di Resta 11th in his Force India, while Marussia's Max Chilton was 19th and is now the only driver to finish every race this season. "I'm blown away by today's race," Vettel said. "I had a very poor start, I clipped my front wing and Lewis had a puncture, but after that I looked after the tyres and had incredible pace, so overall fantastic. I'm so overwhelmed. I've won here four times now, which is incredible. "As for the championship we have a good gap, so we'll still keep pushing. It looks good at this stage, but it's not over until it's over." Webber, who quits Formula One for sports cars next year, said he was disappointed not to have claimed victory in his final Japanese Grand Prix. "The race was pretty good, although I'd like one more step on the podium," Webber said. "Seb went longer in his first stint, and that made the difference, but I'm pretty happy with second. I got the best out of what I could." Webber added that he had been a bit "surprised" that his strategy was changed by his team from a two-stop to a three-stop midway through the race but put it down to being "a piggy in the middle," trying to catch Grosjean while at the same time fending off Vettel.
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Blanchflower blocks Sentance in Twitter bust-up Well, a relationship. The two men, who sat on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee together, have been tweeting today following the release of the ONS figures, which revised growth upwards in 2012. It would appear Blanchflower didn't like what Sentance had to say. Not at all, Blanchflower hit back. "Not big Ed just busy." Why don't we all sign out and get some fresh air, Diary suggests. At least the Governor is notable by him absence. "Mervyn would not be on Twitter in the first place," says Sentance. "He's still coming to terms with radio and TV!"
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The former Northern Iowa product won two MVP Awards and played in three Super Bowls. He started 15 games this season, passing for 4,583 yards, 30 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. "It's been 12 unbelievable years, 12 of the best years of my life," Warner said at a news conference. "I'm excited about what's in front of me, and spending more time with my family." The four-time Pro Bowl selection was sidelined by a concussion in the regular season and absorbed a hard hit from New Orleans' end Bobby McCray in a 45-14 loss to the Saints during the NFC Divisional Playoff game. He retired with two years and $23 million left on his contract. In his career, Warner completed 66.1 percent of his passes with 208 touchdowns, and 128 interceptions.
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America's drone war is out of control What is worse? Locking somebody up for years, without trial, while you try to find proof he is a terrorist? Or killing somebody whose name you don't even know because his pattern of behaviour suggests to you that he is a terrorist? The first strategy, internment without trial at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, was a signature policy of the George W. Bush administration. The use of drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists has become a trademark of the Obama administration. Yet while Guantánamo attracted worldwide condemnation, the use of drones is much less discussed. It is hard to avoid the impression that Barack Obama is forgiven for a remarkably ruthless antiterrorism policy simply because his public image is so positive. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for goodness sake! More On this story Gideon Rachman Yet President Obama's free pass on drones may be running out. America's expansion of this secretive programme is finally attracting legitimate criticism and concern - and not just from the usual civil-liberties types. Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to Nato for George W. Bush, asked recently in The Washington Post: "What do we want to be as a nation? A country with a permanent kill list?... A country that instructs workers in some high-tech operations centre to kill human beings on the far side of the planet because some government agency determined that those individuals are terrorists?" Mr Volker's diatribe reflects the moral uneasiness that many feel at the remote, computer-game-like quality of drone warfare. But, while drone strikes may make killing too easy and tempting, the remoteness of the method is probably the least coherent objection to the campaign. Most countries would be delighted to find a way of minimising casualties among their own troops. And civilian deaths or mass casualties are just as likely to be caused by the methods of conventional warfare - such as a piloted aircraft or an artillery shell. The more serious objection to drones is that they have blurred the line between war and assassination. Somebody suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on the soil of the US or the UK would be subject to arrest and prosecution. But if the suspects are in the tribal areas of Pakistan, they can simply be blown away. While most strikes have been undertaken by the US military in recognised theatres of war, such as Afghanistan or Iraq, there is also a large covert programme of drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia run by the CIA. Some are aimed at known terrorist suspects, such as Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Islamist with a US passport, who was killed in Yemen. Others are so-called "signature strikes," in which unnamed suspects are targeted, based on their pattern of behaviour. America argues that even signature strikes are precisely targeted and that civilian casualties are minimal. But that is disputed. A recent study by Stanford and New York University law schools endorsed the claim that between 474 and 881 civilians, including almost 200 children, have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan. One case - in which a meeting of tribal elders called to discuss a mining dispute was hit, killing 42 people - is now the subject of legal action in Pakistan and Britain. (The British are accused of providing intelligence to the US.) The Obama administration's legal justification for these strikes depends on a literal reading of the phrase "war on terror." In a war, it is routine to attack concentrations of enemy forces. Thus, it is argued, is legitimate to attack al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan. Yet many lawyers regard this argument as something of a stretch. No war has been declared in Pakistan and the campaign is being conducted covertly, by an intelligence agency - not by the US military. The legal basis for drone strikes looks even more tenuous when they are conducted in Somalia, thousands of miles away from the battlefields of Afghanistan. The niceties of international law are probably of little concern to many citizens, who are happy to be protected from terrorism and to zap "bad guys." But the precedents set could come back to haunt the US and its allies. During the presidential election campaign, this thought began to worry some members of the Obama foreign policy team. One recalls that "we realised that if we lost, we would be handing over an industrial strength killing machine to Mitt Romney." Yet efforts led by the state department to introduce more rules and transparency to the drones campaign were effectively pushed back by the CIA and the Pentagon. Now that Mr Obama has been re-elected, it seems more likely that the drones campaign will be expanded rather than reined in. But the precedents set should still worry the US. Many countries - from Turkey to Russia and China - claim to be waging a war on terrorism. What if some of them follow the example set by America and decide to start eliminating enemies on foreign soil through the use of drone strikes? The technology involved is not hugely expensive or hard to master.
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Mick Jagger uses Twitter to plan the Rolling Stones set list It was announced in March they will headline Glastonbury, playing for the first time in the festival's 43-year history. After the news Jagger, who has almost 450,000 followers, tweeted: "Thanks for all your tweets about Glastonbury. I was thinking about the set list...Any ideas on that?" The comment received some tongue-in-cheek suggestions, including from David Walliams who replied: "Anything by Vengaboys please." When they were confirmed Emily Eavis, 33, described it as a "coup" and said the organisers had "tried or talked about getting the Rolling Stones" to play for her entire life. But in this month's Q magazine Jagger claimed: "You know we've never been asked before." The 69-year-old is planning to camp in yurts with his daughters Jade and Elizabeth, and thinks whether he is "hassled" will depend on where he goes. "I've got nothing else to do, and I want to spend some time with my family" he said. Despite the sucess of The Rolling Stones, Jagger said that it is still a struggle. "It never gets easier. You've always got to prove yourself. You can't rely on anything you've done in the past," "Every time you play live, it feels like you're finding your way again. Then you look at Keith or Charlie and think, "Oh it's OK.""
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- Mo Farah of Britain beat a talented field in the 5,000, including training partner Galen Rupp, who wound up third. - Sanya Richards-Ross edged world champion Amantle Montsho in the 400. - Wallace Spearmon captured the 200 in convincing fashion. - Justin Gatlin held off Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade in the 100. "Everything is on the right track," Gatlin said. "Right now, it's all about putting together a great, sound race." © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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London Irish set to announce takeover London Irish are set to announce a takeover of the club by a group of Irish businessmen on Thursday. The club have called a news conference at their training ground in Sunbury for 10:30 GMT, where they will announce further details of the takeover. Three members of the consortium will be present at the news conference, along with director of rugby Brian Smith. The Premiership side have been owned by hundreds of individual shareholders for several years. Currently, there are a total of 840 shareholders, then a group of 35-40 large shareholders who control the club. One of the big issues for the new owners will be whether to move away from their home at the Madejski Stadium in Reading. The Exiles have been playing at Reading FC's ground since 2000 but have struggled to fill the 24,161 capacity, registering an average attendance of just over 9,000 last term. Irish have failed to finish in the top six in each of the previous two seasons and currently sit 11th in the Premiership, but pulled off a major coup recently in signing Australian back James O'Connor. However, key players such as Jonathan Joseph, Alex Corbisiero and Matt Garvey have all left the club and they are currently fighting hard to keep hold of England wing Marland Yarde. Also related to this story
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In addition, Aaron "Bubble" Patrick rejoined the band to replace former bassist Chris Cain, although his absence on the Over the Limit Tour with Evergreen Terrace and For the Fallen Dreams has yet to be explained. Sean Chamilian of Betrayal filled in for him. The band posted new songs on the official Mediaskare YouTube channel, entitled "Slaughterhouse 5", "Bluebeard" and "Deadeye Dick" prior to the release of Mosh N' Roll on August 2, 2011. In early 2013, it was announced that guitarist Chris Towning officially joined Devildriver as their permanent bassist. No indication has been made in regards to his current or future associations with Bury Your Dead. ==Band members==
Current members
Brendan "Slim" MacDonald – guitars (2001–present)
Mat Bruso – lead vocals (2003–2007, 2011–present)
Chris Towning – guitars (2008–present)
Sean Chamilian – bass (2011–present)
Dustin Schoenhofer – drums (2011–present)
Former members
Steve Kent – bass (2001)
Rich Casey – bass (2001, 2003–2006)
Jesse Viens – guitars (2001–2002)
Mark Castillo – drums (2001–2002, 2004–2011)
Joe Krewko – lead vocals (2001–2003)
Jay Crowe – guitars (2002)
Rich Gaccione – guitars (2002–2003)
Matt Lacasse – bass (2002–2003)
Mike Nunez – lead vocals (2003)
Dan O'Connor – guitars (2003)
Chris Sansone – drums (2003)
Eric Ellis – guitars (2004–2008)
Aaron "Bubble" Patrick – bass (2006–2009, 2011)
Michael Crafter – lead vocals (2007)
Myke Terry – lead vocals (2007–2011)
Chris Cain – bass (2009–2011)
Live members
Carl Schwartz – bass (2013)
Navid Naghdi – drums (2013)
==Discography==
===Studio albums===
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! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album details
! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions
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! style="width:3em;font-size:75%;"| US
! style="width:3em;font-size:75%;"| USHeat.! style="width:3em;font-size:75%;"| USInd. |-
| align="center"| 2003
| You Had Me at Hello
Released: February 25, 2003
Label: Alveran
| align="center"| —
| align="center"| —
| align="center"| —
|-
| align="center"| 2004
| Cover Your Tracks
Released: October 19, 2004
Label: Victory
| align="center"| —
| align="center"| —
| align="center"| —
|-
| align="center"| 2006
| Beauty and the Breakdown
Released: July 11, 2006
Label: Victory
| align="center"| 129
| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 8
|-
| align="center"| 2008
| Bury Your Dead
Released: March 18, 2008
Label: Victory
| align="center"| 176
| align="center"| 6
| align="center"| 22
|-
| align="center"| 2009
| It's Nothing Personal
Released: May 26, 2009
Label: Victory
| align="center"| 142
| align="center"| 2
| align="center"| 20
|-
| align="center"| 2011
| Mosh n' Roll
Released: August 2, 2011
Label: Mediaskare
| align="center"| 141
| align="center"| 3
| align="center"| 24
|-
|align="center" colspan="6" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart.
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Rwanda has fiercely denied the accusations, but several countries including the United States and Britain cut off aid to Congo's smaller, but more developed neighbor as a result. Ntaganda became more vulnerable last month when the M23 split into two camps over the decision to bow to international pressure and withdraw from Goma late last year. Ntaganda and another rebel leader, Jean-Marie Runiga, had opposed any pullout, but a rebel general, Sultani Makenga, ordered a retreat and initiated peace talks with the Congo government. After entering Rwanda in the pre-dawn hours Saturday, Ntaganda tried to reach out to his backers in the Rwandan army, said Stanislas Baleke, a political official in the M23 movement who has links to Ntaganda. "But once he was in Rwanda they told him they could not guarantee his security," Baleke said. Ntaganda was then told by his Rwandan contacts to go to the U.S. Embassy, he said, noting that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court and has no obligation to hand Ntaganda over to the court. Nuland said the U.S. had no prior contact with Ntaganda or advance notice that he would turn up at the embassy. "It was a walk-in in the truest sense of the word," she said. She declined to say why he chose the U.S. Embassy or whether he may have feared for his safety. "I'm going to let him speak to his motives," she said. "He has now asked to go The Hague. That's a good thing we're trying to facilitate."
Gouby reported from Goma, Congo. Associated Press writers Rukmini Callimachi in Dakar, Michelle Faul in Johannesburg and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report. Associated Press
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Really Old, Like Forty Five: National Theatre, review Really Old, Like Forty Five National Theatre As someone who's really old, like 55 next month, I approached Tamsin Oglesby's new play with intimations of mortality and something approaching dread. It is a dystopian comedy, set in this country about 40 years from now when the problem of an ageing population, with many in the grip of dementia, has become even more pressing than it is at present. Oglesby wrote in this newspaper that fear prompted her to write the piece after visiting her mother-in-law in a nursing home. "The sheer loneliness, redundancy and inactivity that I witnessed sent chills down my spine," she confessed. Her play imagines an even worse future where life is nasty, brutish - and long. Officials are drawing up drastic plans. The elderly who aren't afflicted by Alzheimer's will be forced to become honorary grandparents to children whose parents are either absent or too busy or feckless, to look after them properly. Meanwhile, those with dementia will be sent to sinister state hospitals called Arks to be guinea pigs for drug trials that just might offer a cure for the condition - but there turn out to be some dreadful side effects. And for those that turn down this dangerous option? Well, a sinister government official has the answer to that conundrum: "There will be, on request, highly qualified staff to assist in the increasingly popular option of Home Deaths." The play has something of the satirical bite and demented logic of Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal" and the bad-taste zaniness of Joe Orton. But Oglesby also makes it both moving and upsetting by depicting three generations of a family, including two sisters and a brother, facing up to the realities of age, a daughter whose mother is sliding inexorably into dementia and a couple of grandchildren, bemusedly observing the trials and tribulations of their elders. The transition between satire and passages of deeper feeling make for some awkward dramatic gear changes, but Anna Mackmin's superbly acted, niftily designed production never loses its grip. Somehow you keep laughing even as you find yourself engulfed in depression about the horrors of old age and the perniciousness of government. The star turn comes from Paul Ritter as a government policy official, who outlines his brutal plans for dealing with the elderly with a mixture of cold inhumanity and unseemly relish that encapsulates this play's bold mixture of the comic and the downright terrifying. His come-uppance proves richly satisfying. Judy Parfitt is, at times, almost too harrowing to watch as an intelligent woman ravaged by Alzheimer's; Marcia Warren brings a lovely sweetness to her role as the younger sister, who remains almost insanely upbeat in even the direst circumstances; while Gawn Grainger is both funny and disturbing as an old man who goes to extraordinary lengths to disguise his age. Look out, too, for a brilliant comic performance from Michela Meazza as a robot nurse. The idea may have been cheekily pinched from Ayckbourn, but it certainly helps the play's bitter medicine go down.
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Anwar Khan may refer to:
Anwar Khan (cricketer) (born 1955), former Pakistani cricketer
Anwar Khan (field hockey) (born 1933), Pakistani field hockey player
Anwar Khan (Guantanamo detainee 948) (born 1967), citizen of Afghanistan
Anwar Saifullah Khan, Pakistan politician
Anwar Kamal Khan, Pakistani politician
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An Education - and a steep learning curve The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, Monday, February 15, 2010 It's the climax of the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, the annual star-studded shindig that acts as a warm-up for next month's Academy Awards. Among the 120 Hollywood heavyweights at the lunch, such as Meryl Streep and George Clooney, sits the British novelist Nick Hornby, 52, a Best Adapted Screenplay nominee for transforming the teenage memoir of the journalist Lynn Barber into a work of humour and compassion called An Education. The movie is already the front runner at the Baftas, where it boasts eight nominations, but Hornby never imagined that it would make it this far. He listens intently to the instructions from the Academy bosses, who ask the winning nominees to avoid endless thank yous and instead to prepare speeches on "what the Oscar means" to them. The lunch ends with the presentation of the "certificates of nomination." Hornby strides up to the podium to receive his, and he notices that George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock are all clapping. He stops and thinks: "This isn't bad at all!" He flashes back seven years, to spring 2003, when he first reads Barber's memoir, a 12-page story published in the literary magazine Granta. In it, she describes her curiously unsavory schoolgirl relationship with a much older man, called Simon. The latter was a conman and friend of the infamous London landlord Peter Rachman, yet remarkably he convinced Barber's parents that he should be allowed to date their daughter, then only 16 years old. Hornby reads the story in the bath. Nick Hornby: I normally read in the bath. I can't say it's always Granta. But I went for that piece because I'd never seen Lynn write about herself. I read it, and I found it really interesting - the inappropriate relationship, the 1960s setting and the bohemian underclass that she was knocking around with. There were lots of characters that seemed to leap out of the essay. Amanda Posey (producer, and Hornby's wife): At that point he called out from the bathroom and said, "This is our Oscar- winning film!" [She chuckles wryly.] No, he said that it was a very complete story, and that I and my producing partner Finola Dwyer should option it, which we did. Lynn Barber (journalist): I didn't take Amanda seriously for one second. I thought I was humouring her, this nice young woman who wanted to make films. At the time David, my husband, was in hospital. And all this film talk was going on while he was, ultimately, dying. And that seemed to give everything a complete air of unreality. I thought it would fizzle out. But it just went on and on and on. Hornby, who says that he felt "possessive" over the story, eventually writes a first draft of the script, describing the romantic misadventures of "Jenny" who falls for "David" (who is considerably less sleazy than he is in Barber's work), and who puts her education in jeopardy because of it. The BBC is convinced, and in 2004 it comes on board as co-producer. The development process is fitful, and as the movie's modest £4.5 million budget slowly comes together Hornby works with the film's high-profile director Beeban Kidron (Bridget Jones 2) on further drafts, and with Barber on key period details. All-important casting sessions, meanwhile, including those with the film's possible star, the 22-year-old Carey Mulligan, have begun. Hornby: Lynn helped to explain the French obsession of the characters, how they were listening to French music, and going to see Nouvelle Vague movies, instead of listening to pop, which was, for them, for oiks. Barber: There were other tiny things, like he described my parents having "dinner," whereas I said, "No, we always called it tea." And he warned me too that my characters would have to be much nicer in the film, especially the male lead, who couldn't be sleazy and ugly and all those things he'd been in [my version]. Finola Dwyer (producer): We cast [the American actor] Peter Sarsgaard as David first. We saw quite a few British guys, but Peter brought something unexpected to the role. Then we got our shortlist of girls for Jenny, and Carey Mulligan was in that five.
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Manufacturing sector recovery loses momentum By Angela Monaghan
Published: 9:35PM BST 01 Oct 2009 The closely watched manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 49.5 from 49.7 in August. Anything below 50 is a contraction and anything above is an expansion. It represents a relapse in the sector, after the PMI came in at 50.4 in July indicating a return to growth for the sector for the first time since March 2008. September's figure was also worse than the 50.2 expected by economists. "The latest manufacturing data suggested that the industrial recovery is losing steam," said Vicky Redwood, UK economist at Capital Economics. EEF, the manufacturing organisation, said the UK manufacturing sector was starting to lag that of France of Germany, where the PMIs continued to show improvement in September. It cited the earlier timing and larger scale of the car scrappage schemes in other countries as a source of greater support to overseas manufacturing sectors compared with the UK. "While manufacturing in Germany and France appears to be rebounding from the recession, we're still moving sideways," said Lee Hopley, EEF's head of economic policy. "Activity still remains at levels far below pre-recession peaks and should wipe away any complacency about the timing or strength of the domestic recovery." Among the various measures which combine to give the headline PMI reading, the output index fell markedly to 50.8 from 54.7 in August, although this still indicated an increase. New orders fell to 51.8 from 52.3. Manufacturing employment falls slowed for the seventh month in a row to 44 in September from 43.5 in August. It was the slowest since June 2008 but the pace of improvement has slowed considerably over recent months. On a brighter note new export orders grew for the second month in a row, hitting 51.5 in September. Ernst & Young ITEM Club said the shift was indicative of the relative weakness of sterling continuing to feed through to UK trade, making British goods cheaper and therefore more competitive. Overall, Barclays Capital economists said the PMI put its forecast for 0.3pc gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the third quarter at "a slight downside risk." However, they said in a note that, given the British manufacturing sector accounted for "just around" 13pc of GDP, the PMI for the dominant services sector to be published on Monday would provide a clearer picture of how strong September had been overall.
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Marriages: Sir Edward Burgh (1529-d.1533); John Neville (1534-d.1543); Henry VIII (1543-d.1547); Thomas Seymour (1547-1549) Children: Mary Seymour (1548-1550, Catherine died six days after her birth) Stepchildren: King Edward VI (b1337, d1553): Son of Henry and his third wife Jane Seymour (who died two weeks after his birth), Edward succeeded his father to the throne in 1547, aged 10, but died in 1553, aged 15 Queen Mary I (b1516, d1558): Daughter of Henry and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary was crowned in 1953 after the 1544 Act of Succession was restored with the help of Katherine Parr Queen Elizabeth I (b1533, d1603): Daughter of Henry and his second, beheaded wife Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was exiled after mother's death. But she was crowned following the deaths of Edward and Mary since Henry had no other children Mentored: Credited with campaigning for the restoration of the line of succession in the new Act of Succession of 1544, that allowed Mary, then Elizabeth, to take the throne after their brother Edward died The Duchess of Cornwall at the wedding of her daughter Laura with her husband Prince Charles and, behind her, her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles Camilla with her ex-husband Andrew and their children Tom and Laura
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Both sides in the debate over vaccines and autism/ADD may assign different significance and meaning to the Poling case and the much older TS case. But it's likely that they might agree on one thing: vaccines may aggravate pre-existing conditions in some babies and children. (In fact, some vaccines already come with recommendations not to vaccinate children with certain issues and conditions). One public health official recently told me that common ground on both sides might be a goal of finding out if there's a way to identify the conditions at play, screen children to identify those apt to suffer, and figure out how to continue a robust vaccination program that protects the nation but is also safe for potentially susceptible children. *After a rash of DPT-related injuries, a new formulation that is believed to be safer was introduced and is currently in use: DTaP.
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center" Total:
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Conference regular season champion
Conference tournament champion
Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
|- align="center"
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Jbiasi/sandbox
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"As a trained criminologist and a Ph.D., I find it nerve-racking that the justice system would rely on the ability of a dog to predict someone's guilt or innocence," del Carmen said. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I added a pic in the Washington & Lee University article, but it's not showing and I can't see what I did wrong.Lvklock (talk)
I don't know about the red dots, but I fixed the pic display in the Washington & Lee University article. Apparently the university infobox requires redundant/weird formatting of "image=8-04-__|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}}
Note this needs to be done for NHL#3, Bacon's Castle and lots more. HABS_LINKS: go through any/all existing pages, locate and add external links to HABS. External link format is as follows (replace 0000 by actual site number visible in HABS, other edits should be fairly obvious):
__: __ photos, __drawings, __data pages and supplemental material, at Historic American Building Survey
HABS_GET: actually upload HABS pics to commons, and include in the article. I prefer it when an editor edits the HABS pic to remove the borders, then indicates in the description that the uploader cropped the pic in 2008. OTHER_PICS: look for other pics that are available to upload
I went through the list and checked articles and wikimedia for pics and added what I found. I have a couple questions. Cedar Creek Battefiled and Belle Grove Plantation. I moved a pic in the article into the infobox, but the red dot pointer still shows and I'm not sure why. Same thing in Green Springs Historic district. I added a pic in the Washington & Lee University article, but it's not showing and I can't see what I did wrong.Lvklock (talk)
I don't know about the red dots, but I fixed the pic display in the Washington & Lee University article. Apparently the university infobox requires redundant/weird formatting of "image=-04-__|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}}
Note this needs to be done for NHL#3, Bacon's Castle and lots more. HABS_LINKS: go through any/all existing pages, locate and add external links to HABS. External link format is as follows (replace 0000 by actual site number visible in HABS, other edits should be fairly obvious):
__: __ photos, __drawings, __data pages and supplemental material, at Historic American Building Survey
HABS_GET: actually upload HABS pics to commons, and include in the article. I prefer it when an editor edits the HABS pic to remove the borders, then indicates in the description that the uploader cropped the pic in 2008. OTHER_PICS: look for other pics that are available to upload
I went through the list and checked articles and wikimedia for pics and added what I found. I have a couple questions. Cedar Creek Battefiled and Belle Grove Plantation. I moved a pic in the article into the infobox, but the red dot pointer still shows and I'm not sure why. Same thing in Green Springs Historic district. I added a pic in the Washington & Lee University article, but it's not showing and I can't see what I did wrong.Lvklock (talk)
I don't know about the red dots, but I fixed the pic display in the Washington & Lee University article. Apparently the university infobox requires redundant/weird formatting of "image=04-__|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}}
Note this needs to be done for NHL#3, Bacon's Castle and lots more. HABS_LINKS: go through any/all existing pages, locate and add external links to HABS. External link format is as follows (replace 0000 by actual site number visible in HABS, other edits should be fairly obvious):
__: __ photos, __drawings, __data pages and supplemental material, at Historic American Building Survey
HABS_GET: actually upload HABS pics to commons, and include in the article. I prefer it when an editor edits the HABS pic to remove the borders, then indicates in the description that the uploader cropped the pic in 2008. OTHER_PICS: look for other pics that are available to upload
I went through the list and checked articles and wikimedia for pics and added what I found. I have a couple questions. Cedar Creek Battefiled and Belle Grove Plantation. I moved a pic in the article into the infobox, but the red dot pointer still shows and I'm not sure why. Same thing in Green Springs Historic district.
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Wales make Harry Wilson their youngest ever player and prevent England pinching him Harry Wilson became the youngest player to win a senior Wales cap and at the same time brought an end to any speculation over England pinching one of Welsh football's most precocious young talents. The 16-year-old Liverpool striker, who could have qualified for England through a grandparent, was introduced in the closing stages of Wales's final World Cup qualifying game against Belgium in Brussels. He broke Gareth Bale's age record. Within 60 seconds of Wrexham-born Wilson's arrival, Aaron Ramsey cancelled out Kevin de Bruyne's 65th-minute goal to provide not only a fairytale start for Wilson, but the perfect send-off for 34-year-old Craig Bellamy on his 78th and final cap. Wales made an encouraging start against the Group A winners, who were missing Marouane Fellaini and Vincent Kompany. However, once Belgium settled, they played with poise and patience and might have taken the lead on half a dozen occasions before half-time. Romelu Lukaku came close on three occasions, with Kevin Mirallas, De Bruyne and full-back Toby Alderweireld all denied by the heroics of Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and centre-half James Collins. Not until the 64th minute did Belgium take a long overdue lead. Lukaku released De Bruyne and the Chelsea midfielder finished with a fierce shot across goal. Then, two minutes from the end, Bellamy took centre stage for one final time and set up Ramsey for his equaliser. Whether it will keep manager Chris Coleman in a job remains to be seen. Northern Ireland wound up their campaign with a draw away to Israel. Ben Basat opened the scoring two minutes for the hosts before half-time, but Jamie Ward set up Steven Davis for an equaliser in the 72nd minute. The Irish avoided the ignominy of finishing bottom of Group F. Luxembourg suffered that fate, finishing a point behind the Irish after a 3-0 defeat in Portugal. In Group C, Dmitriy Shomko gave Kazakhstan a surprise 13th minute lead in Dublin, but John O'Shea's equaliser, a penalty from Robbie Keane and an own goal by Shomko, earned the Republic of Ireland a deserved 3-1 victory. Darron Gibson was carried off injured on stretcher with suspected knee-ligament damage.
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Serena Williams breezes, Sloane Stevens bounced at Family Circle Cup CHARLESTON, S.C., April 2 (UPI) -- Top-ranked Serena Williams breezed to victory but fourth-seeded Sloane Stevens was bounced Tuesday in second-round play at the Family Circle Cup event. Williams continued her hot streak after winning last week's title in Miami, dispatching Italian Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-3 in 1 hour, 22 minutes, firing nine aces en route to the triumph at Charleston. The defending South Carolina champ defeated the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova in last year's final. The news wasn't as good for Stevens, however, who was dominated by fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-2, 6-0 in a match that took less than an hour. Also logging a surprise wins Tuesday were Switzerland's Stefanie Voegele, who bested seventh-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 6-4, and American qualifier Jessica Pegula, who upended eighth-seeded German Mona Barthel 7-6 (7-4), 6-1. Other Day 2 winners included 11th-seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea, who won in a walkover, former Charleston champion Jelena Jankovic, No. 10 Julia Goerges of Germany, No. 12 American Varvara Lepchenko and American qualifier Vania King. Fifteenth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany and No. 16 Laura Robson also netted second-round victories. Tuesday's first-round victors included New Zealand's Marina Erakovic, Croat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and American Madison Keys.
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Clippers' Jamal Crawford remains active during time away CLEVELAND - When Jamal Crawford wasn't at the hospital this week for the birth of his daughter on Monday, he made sure to get a workout in just to keep his rhythm. Crawford missed one of the Clippers' games when London was born, but he hasn't missed a beat since coming back to play. In the last two games, Crawford has averaged 23.5 points on 51% shooting, 57.1% (four for seven) on three-pointers. "I think it's a credit to my teammates and my coaching staff obviously for putting me in a great position," Crawford said. "I try to take advantage of it." Crawford got to Seattle on Sunday and went to the hospital with his wife later that night. While the baby slept Monday after being born, Crawford said he went to a health club for a workout. He missed the game against Charlotte at Staples Center on Tuesday night, but got in another workout earlier in the day. Then he flew to Indianapolis on Wednesday to meet the Clippers for Thursday night's game against the Pacers. "I actually played two days to stay sharp and I actually made all the guys play with an NBA ball," Crawford said. Crawford had a team-high 24 points on eight-for-14 shooting against the Cavaliers on Friday night. He was three for five from three-point range, including a three-pointer he made while being fouled by Marreese Speights. Crawford made the free throw to complete the four-point play. "The hardest part about that is making the free throw," Crawford said. "There is so much pressure on the free throws." Paul to have college jersey retired Chris Paul left after the game Friday night and flew to North Carolina to have his No. 3 jersey retired at Wake Forest. The ceremony will take place Saturday when Wake Forest plays Maryland. Paul will then take a private jet back to Los Angeles on Saturday night and get ready to play Oklahoma City at Staples Center on Sunday afternoon. "It's a blessing," Paul said. "This is a really big honor for me and my family." Playing time hard to come by The problem with having such a deep team is trying to find playing time for all the players. The Clippers are 11-deep, but that doesn't mean Coach Vinny Del Negro can play them all. It has meant that Del Negro has to juggle the minutes among Ronny Turiaf, Ryan Hollins and Grant Hill. Del Negro said it's often based on matchups, health and the game plan. "We'll try to get a consistent rotation," Del Negro said. "It might change from time to time with the last few guys there. But I've been pleased with all of their efforts."
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Nigel Lowthorp knows first hand the transformative effects of nature. At Hill Holt Wood, near Norton Disney, Lincolnshire, Lowthorp has founded a centre for up to 20 boys, aged mainly between 14 to 16, who have been excluded from mainstream education, many of whom have been involved in crime, are illiterate and come from troubled homes. After two years of coppicing overgrown trees, clearing dead undergrowth and chopping logs in the 34-acre wood, the vast majority go on to higher education or employment, an achievement few schools can rival. "Most will have never been in a rural environment before and it absolutely calms them. When they have their mad moments we send them off into a clearing to sit under a tree and listen to the birds and just think, and the rage vanishes." Louv believes that children who are not allowed to take risks with nature are more likely to lack creativity and confidence and to court danger in other ways. Lowthorp agrees. "We give 14-year-olds a bill hook, saw and slasher to cut down rhododendrons and show them the basic idea, but a lot of it is about having a go. Sometimes the knife slips and they cut themselves. We have boys who've been carrying around knives in gangs, who faint when they see their own blood. It's how they learn a knife can cause serious damage and to use it responsibly." The advantages are felt much younger too. A representative from Louv's Children's and Nature Network recently visited the Farley Outdoor Nursery in Salisbury, Wilshire, where children spend virtually all day outside, whatever the weather. Even the six-month-old babies spend much of the day in the sandpit or napping in prams with a view of the sky. Tracy Frick, whose son, Rafe, four, has attended the nursery for two years, is evangelical about the children's bravery. "They know that nettles sting, that ponds can be dangerous, but they are not frightened. So many parents put the fear of God into their children and wrap them in cotton wool but these children know the consequences of their actions, they know that nature can be dangerous but in a very level-headed sort of way. They pick blackberries from the hedge but my son tells me: 'I can't eat too many or they'll make me ill and I can't eat some berries at all.' " While such stories are inspiring, I can't help wondering if Louv will only encourage earnest parents to add "building campfires" to their children's activity list, alongside Mandarin and flute. Hodgkinson, for one, has found it challenging to convert his eldest son to wholesome activities. "I have to physically pull Arthur away from his computer to play in the tree house I built - in fact I've seriously thought of installing a broadband connection to lure him in. He'd far rather look at an ornithology website than go outside and see a real bird. Humans have striven for the past 500 years to better nature with technology so it's hardly surprising our children are seduced by it." Nor is it just children. Back at the Wetlands, Clemmie and Sasha are blissfully collecting wild flowers and clamouring to play Pooh sticks. Meanwhile - despite my free-range childhood - I am wondering how I can sneak off for a coffee and to read the papers. "My children are always telling me off for spending too much time on the computer," Hodgkinson sympathises.
"I'm a fireside lurker at heart, not an outdoorsman. The trick is to start them building a log cabin and, once they've got going, you can rush inside and check your emails." * 'Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder' by Richard Louv is published on July 1
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Sue Rangell
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===Other categories===
See also Auto racing by type
==Use of flags==
In many types of auto races, particularly those held on closed courses, flags are displayed to indicate the general status of the track and to communicate instructions to competitors. While individual series have different rules, and the flags have changed from the first years (e.g., red used to start a race), these are generally accepted. ==Accidents==
For the worst accident in racing history see 1955 Le Mans disaster. (See also Deaths in motorsports'')
==Racing-car setup==
In auto racing, the racing setup or car setup is the set of adjustments made to the vehicle to optimize its behaviour (performance, handling, reliability, etc.). Adjustments can occur in suspensions, brakes, transmissions, engines, tires, and many others. ==Racing driver==
Racing drivers at the highest levels are usually paid by the team, or by sponsors, and can command very substantial salaries. Contrary to what may be popularly assumed, racing drivers as a group do not have unusually good reflexes. During countless physiological (and psychological) evaluations of professional racing drivers, the two characteristics that stand out are racers' near-obsessive need to control their surroundings (the psychological aspect), and an unusual ability to process fast-moving information (physiological). In this, researchers have noted a strong correlation between racers' psychological profiles and those of fighter pilots. In tests comparing racers to members of the general public, the greater the complexity of the information processing matrix, the greater the speed gap between racers and the public. Due partly to the performance capabilities of modern racing cars, racing drivers require a high level of fitness, focus and the ability to concentrate at high levels for long periods in an inherently difficult environment. In particular, racing cars such as formula cars and sports prototypes that generate a substantial amount of downforce are able to corner at speeds that impose extremely large g-forces on drivers. Formula 1 drivers routinely experience g-loadings in excess of 4.5 g. In addition the races can last several hours, with heartrates commonly above 140 bpm, and so drivers need to be supremely fit. For more normal cars, fitness is not nearly as much an issue. ==See also==
List of auto racing tracks
Motorcycle racing
Race track
Racing video game
==References==
==External links==
Sanctioning bodies
Motor Sports Association (MSA UK)
American Le Mans Series (ALMS)
Indy Racing League (IRL)
World Rally Championship (WRC)
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
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Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)
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==Plagiarism==
Is there any particular reason for the plagiarism? Also, why is this article written in the form of a public relations release? Stevenmitchell (talk)
If you could explain what you mean by plagiarism, that might be of help in forming an answer. Plagiarism would be the literal copying (word-for-word) of text in the article from articles posted on the internet - also the reference documents in the article itself, would be a good start... Stevenmitchell (talk)
Specify the article you think is being plagiarised. --FF
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A Trip Abroad That's Unlikely to Inspire the Mayor A good thing about a mayor who believes he already knows pretty much all he needs to know is that he's not likely to acquire really bad habits as he floats around the world. The Day Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. This trait should serve Michael R. Bloomberg well on his arrival Tuesday in Southeast Asia for visits to two authoritarian countries, Singapore and Vietnam, where he will give a talk on urban sustainability and hand out awards in the name of his philanthropic foundation. While any American ought to be humble in discussing Vietnam, given our country's wretched history there, the fact is that it doesn't have much to teach a democrat. The most recent human rights report from the State Department, issued last April, described a Communist state where "citizens could not change their government and political opposition movements were prohibited," and where "the government increased its suppression of dissent." The greater interest here is Singapore, a tiny republic admired by many for its strong economy and high standard of living. Singapore is the sort of orderly place where you may think you can learn a trick or two - at least if order matters a lot more to you than free expression does. Mr. Bloomberg is scheduled to speak at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, named for the founder of modern Singapore, an autocrat of the first order. A public policy school bearing his name sounds as if it could be a cousin of the Vladimir V. Putin Open Society Institute, should such an enterprise come into being. You never know, though, when a New York mayor may fall victim to a phenomenon known in clinical circles as E.K.S., short for Ed Koch Syndrome. Three decades ago, Mayor Edward I. Koch traveled to China, and was fascinated by all those people getting around on bicycles. That was well before China became an economic behemoth. Once back home, Mr. Koch ordered up concrete-and-asphalt bike lanes for New York. But they didn't work out, and soon enough he had the lanes removed. (In those days, mayors were more willing to acknowledge a measure of fallibility.) Mr. Bloomberg has shown himself to be receptive on occasion to ideas tested elsewhere. His unsuccessful attempt to impose "congestion pricing" for cars in Manhattan had London as a model. Paris has the sort of bike-sharing program that is planned for New York. But the mayor should be able to resist some undesirable ideas that will fall his way in rigid Singapore, where it doesn't take much to step out of line. Lee Kuan Yew hated gum-chewing. So sales of gum are banned there except for brands claiming to have "medicinal" or "dental" value. As tempting as a similar ban here would be to control the plague of sidewalk splotches caused by people spitting out their gum, it's probably a nonstarter in New York. Caning is another Singapore practice that Mr. Bloomberg should be able to pass on. That punishment is imposed for serious crimes but also for certain nonviolent offenses familiar to New Yorkers, like vandalism and immigration-law violation. In 2010, Singapore courts ordered 3,170 people to be caned, according to the State Department's human rights report for that country. The report provided intriguing details. Did you know that the cane is made of rattan, and is four feet long and half an inch in diameter? It is also soaked in water and treated with antiseptic. Apparently, it's O.K. to hurt people like the dickens, but not risk infecting them. But Singapore has a lighter side. Every now and then, it organizes a campaign to get its people to smile more. Two years ago, mirrors were even installed at some bus stops so that Singaporeans could see if they were at their beaming best. Do you think this could be a program worth imitating in New York? Didn't think so. Oh, but here is something to watch out for: Singapore's constitution guarantees the right to peaceful assembly. But that's more on paper than in reality. Police permission is required, and the definition of "public assembly" is, shall we say, quite narrow. It may "include events staged by as few as one person," the State Department report said, adding that "spontaneous public gatherings or demonstrations were virtually unknown." You can see, in this age of Occupy Wall Street, where Mr. Bloomberg might find restrictions like that awfully enticing. We'll just have to hope he doesn't succumb too readily to E.K.S. on that score.
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Canadian company holds steel needed for WTC antenna 'hostage,' lawsuit alleges A Canadian company is holding the steel needed to build the new World Trade Center's antenna "hostage" for millions of dollars - jeopardizing the completion date for the tower and at least 100 iron-worker jobs, court papers charge. The building reached 104 stories in August, but is expected to reach 1,776 feet when the antenna is done. "When it is complete, the building known as 1 World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and a symbol of the recovery of New York City, New York state and the United States from the terrorist attacks of 9/11," the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says. But, the Port Authority's WTC Tower 1 LLC says in court papers that it can't happen unless ADF Steel stops trying to shake them down and ships the rest of the metal they desperately need to finish the project. The "only remaining steel to be erected is the steel comprising the antenna structure for the top of 1 WTC Tower," the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says. The "unique custom pieces of steel," including the antenna mast, antenna ring steel and roof nodes," were supposed to begin shipping on Sept. 24, the suit says. "ADF refuses to ship this antenna steel unless and until it receives approximately $6 million allegedly owed under another contract for another project as ransom," the suit says. Click for more from the New York Post.
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Czarne (Hammerstein) is a town in Człuchów County of Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Population: 6,053 (2000). ==Demographics==
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==History==
The town was founded on the territories that were formerly part of the Kingdom of Poland. They were acquired by the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order in 1308. Konrad von Jungingen granted the settlement town privileges in 1395. It lay on the bank of the Czarna river, hence its modern name. It was an important trade and military point due to the nearby Teutonic Order and Pomeranian frontier. After the Thirteen Years' War, according to the Second Peace of Thorn (1466), the town became part of Poland's province of Royal Prussia. After the partitions of Poland the town became a part of the Prussian Province of West Prussia in 1772. In 1885 the Prussian Army built a large training ground (Übungsplatz) there. In World War I the German Army used it for a large prisoner-of-war camp for Russian prisoners. In World War II it was the site of the notorious Stalag II-B in which tens of thousands, mainly Soviet prisoners, died from disease, mistreatment and malnutrition. In 1945 the town was ceded to Poland according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement and became part of the so-called Recovered Territories. Germans remaining in the town were expelled and replaced with Poles. ==Notable residents==
Alexander Beer (1873–1944), architect
==See also==
Stalag II-B
Stalag IIB French informations
Cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Człuchów County
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Kris1284x (talk)
I agree that it needs some work, and some more recent citations. But the statements about LINERs are correct. Whether or not all LINERs are AGN is still a major point of contention (we should cite Sarzi et al. 2010), and neither Chandra-detected X-rays nor deep radio detections are a guarantee that there's an accreting SMBH at low energy levels (say, L_x ~< 10^40 erg/s), as central star cluster SN remnants and X-ray binaries can produce that. I agree that Ho's LINERs probably host accreting SMBHs, but if they are placed at higher redshifts, like a typical SDSS main sample galaxy (z ~ 0.1), distinguishing an AGN-driven LINER from a shock or XRB-driven LINER becomes much harder, if not impossible. As to your comments on radio, I agree that the table could be more quantitative, but I think it's broadly correct. Only ~10% or quasars are radio loud, and not all have jets (not even most, e.g. work by Best or Filho). Starbursts are not variable on human timescales (we could make a footnote labeling that column as such). Few Seyferts have strong radio emission (I agree saying None do is incorrect, but it's few). I think the article should have some sort of table like this, as there is a very wide range of terms that all describe galaxies with accreting supermassive black holes, and most of these labels were applied to observed objects long before AGN unification, or even before the SMBH hypothesis. This table is trying to describe properties across a broad range of observations. Maybe a separate table that shows the empirical classifications for each object, although that's sort of what the current table does. We should probably mention the optical transition/composite class, though what exactly those objects are is a really big question. It is, after all, a purely empirical classification. Some are pure starformers, some are weak Seyferts with current star formation, some are LINERs with recent star formation. etc. I recommend you be BOLD, and then we can talk about your changes. - Parejkoj (talk)
First of all, your comment about the person who wrote the article and your addressing them as 'you' betrays some ignorance about the way Wikipedia works. No one person wrote the article, and the idea that nobody with a graduate degree in the field has looked at it since it's existed is laughable. As it happens, the article's current form is based on a complete rewrite that I did in late 2006, though I'm not responsible either for the text on LINERs or the table. If you look me up on ADS (it's not hard) you should see that I have some qualifications to do this (i.e. a PhD and 18 years' experience). So have many of the other contributors. I'd recommend that you don't wrap your comments up in gratuitous abuse
Secondly, and most importantly, the way to fix a Wikipedia article is not to rant and rave in the comments but to edit. I fully support what Parejkoj has said above. Edit what you think is wrong, and if it's an improvement, it'll be fixed. The article has always needed more references and more detail (though not infinite amounts more: think of the target audience: this is why there are not detailed numerical descriptions of every criterion used) and if you have the time to provide them, that will be great. On specific science points:
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In the Japanese military, 1st Division may refer to:
Infantry
1st Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
1st Division (Japan)
Armoured
1st Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Artillery
1st Antiaircraft Artillery Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Aviation
1st Flying Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
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Schalke v Manchester United: Bundesliga defeat to Kaiserslautern will leave Wayne Rooney licking his lips That much is evident around the Veltins Arena, the club's ultra-modern home on the outskirts of town. Roughly one of every two replica shirts bears the four letters of his name. It is as if Schalke's fans require constant affirmation that the man once described by Ferguson as the world's best player is actually present in the Ruhr's unlovely, unloved industrial heartland. It is easy to see why. Gelsenkirchen is not the sort of place where a Champions League institution should find himself, and Schalke not the sort of team. The latter stages of European competition are reserved for football's aristocracy. Schalke are resolutely proletarian. From the gleaming balconies of the Veltins, it is just possible to make out beyond a balustrade of strategically-positioned trees the rotting hulks of the Ruhr's heavy industry. There is a faint, acrid smell of sulphur from the eternal flame burning from Germany's tallest chimney, attached to a nearby coal-fired power station. This is a club wedded to its community. When financial problems threatened their existence last year, the collectively-owned energy supplier GEW bailed Schalke out by buying £20 million of shares in the stadium. There was no outcry over misuse of public funds. Schalke are club and totem. "Nobody has heard of Gelsenkirchen," says one official. "People have heard of Schalke." Their fame, though, is not necessarily positive. This team are summed up by the joke that they are not even Germany's most successful losers. That honour goes to Bayer Leverkusen. "We are even second in that," smirks a fan. No wonder they can scarcely believe that Raúl is here. No wonder their players are at a loss to explain how they find themselves alongside Barcelona, Real Madrid and, most immediately, Manchester United in the Champions League semi-finals. And no wonder they are preparing for this game wonderfully devoid of pressure. Not even their own fans expect them to succeed. Schalke are all to well aware of their limits. They passed them weeks ago.
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Six arrested in immigration raids At the restaurant in Bedford, two men from India, aged 25 and 27, were arrested. In Corby, officers arrested another two Indian men, aged 22 and 28. In Northampton, a 27-year-old Indian man was arrested.
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Invasion of the Phillies Fans Nationals Chief Operating Officer Andrew Feffer did not like what he saw, or heard, when his team hosted the Philadelphia Phillies last August. Attendance totals may have been the highest of the season, but it was hardly a home crowd. "Phillies fans literally invaded our stadium," Feffer said. "The crowd was at least 80 percent Phillies fans." Feffer decided to do something about it. This weekend's Take Back the Park campaign was developed, Feffer said flatly, "to bring Nationals fans in and keep Phillies fans out." Nationals fans were able to take advantage of a pre-sale and a two-games-for-the-price-of-one offer as the team tries to ensure that young stars like Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg (on the mound Friday night) are greeted with cheers in their home park. The invading hordes from Philadelphia, not surprisingly, have picked up the gauntlet. "Everyone's a little riled up," said Kyle Scott, founder of the Crossing Broad blog. "They kicked the hornet's nest." Scott and a local tour bus company were already planning a trip to Sunday night's game when the Nationals announced the Take Back the Park campaign. Once Scott and his readers learned that Phillies fans were less than welcome, the size of his contingent doubled to nearly 200 fans. "Now we have incentive to really stick it to them," Scott said, noting that his group will be sporting "Occupy" tee shirts in the right field deck.
Scott's tour group was one of the last to be approved by the Nationals. In an effort to encourage local fans, the team held a pre-sale for tickets to this series from Feb. 1 to March 8. Only patrons with both a Maryland-Virginia-D.C. address and credit card could purchase tickets during that window. Additionally, group sales were strictly limited; Feffer said that this is "standard policy" for any in-demand event. For extra incentive, Washington fans could participate in a two-for-one offer: if they purchased two or more tickets to a game in this series, they received tickets for selected future games as well. Tickets became available in the Philadelphia region in early March, the same time individual tickets became available for the rest of the Nationals schedule. Still, Take Back the Park took on urban legend status in Philly: rumors spread that credit cards were being denied and fans were being relegated to deep left field. When the Nationals returned the deposit on one company's effort to buy group tickets in February, the story made regional headlines. Despite some tall tales, Feffer said that "the notion that we limited sales is simply not the case." Tour groups received refunds on their deposits. Efforts by The Times to purchase good tickets from a southern New Jersey address in mid-March encountered no resistance. And there are other holes in the Nationals" firewall: on Saturday, they will host Washington-area alumni of La Salle University, a Philadelphia college. Attempts to limit direct tickets sales in the Internet age have limited impact, anyway. "Everybody knows that you can go to Stub Hub," Scott said. Still, some Philadelphians see Take Back the Park as a challenge, including notorious sports-talk host Angelo Cataldi. "They operate like small-minded people," Cataldi said of the Nationals organization. Cataldi assembled a 40-fan contingent ("the hardest of the hardcore fans," in his words), for a bus trip to Nationals Park on Saturday.
Cataldi's traveling sideshow earned national headlines for booing when the Eagles selected Donovan McNabb in the N.F.L. draft in 1999. Cataldi has been banned from bringing groups to the draft ever since. While Cataldi admits he "would prefer to maintain the original Philly fan reputation," he says that his group will show some restraint. "We will be marching tandem to show Nationals fans how you are supposed to act when you have a good team," he said. Feffer enjoys the talk radio and blogosphere jousting. "The fans have taken it to another level," he said. While he chuckled at the suggestion that Take Back the Park was a clever act of reverse psychology to work Phillies fans into a ticket-buying lather, the campaign succeeded in getting the attention of both fan bases. "We needed to energize our fans and ignite a natural rivalry." It helps that the Nationals are in first place, generating an on-field buzz that should have a greater long-term effect on ticket sales than any fan-versus-fan gimmicks. "Who would have thought the Nationals would be in first place and the Phillies in fourth place for this series?" Feffer asked. "That was unthinkable back in February."
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The Aspern Papers is a 1987 opera in two acts with music and libretto by Dominick Argento was commissioned by The Dallas Opera. It is based on the novella The Aspern Papers by Henry James. The opera premiered on November 19, 1988, in Dallas with a cast including Elisabeth Söderström, Frederica von Stade, and Richard Stilwell, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. The premiere was telecast in the United States on Great Performances on PBS. == Roles ==
==Synopsis==
Argento's opera makes numerous changes in the characters, plot and setting of Henry James' novella. For instance: Aspern is a composer, not a poet; Juliana, is an opera singer; the locale is changed from Venice to Lake Como. Juliana Bordereau, a former prima donna and the mistress of the deceased composer Jeffrey Aspern, is living with her spinster niece Tina in a villa on the edge of Lake Como. A stranger appears, requesting that the women rent him rooms. The Lodger is a scholar and biographer of Aspern, and believes that Juliana may possess papers and memorabilia of the composer, including possibly the score of an operatic masterpiece based on Medea that Aspern wrote for Juliana shortly before his death fifty years earlier (and believed to be lost). The action alternates between two time periods: 1885, when the Lodger is attempting to discover whether the papers exist at the villa, and 1835, where the audience sees the young Juliana and Aspern, learns about the relationship between Aspern and a younger soprano, Sonia, and the death of Aspern. Returning to 1885, the Lodger has learned that the Juliana still possesses Aspern’s papers. Juliana dies, and Tina suggests that the Lodger may have the Medea score if he will marry her. He rejects her offer and plans to leave the next day. In the morning, he tells Tina that he has changed his mind and must have the score. She tells him it is too late, and he departs. Later, alone in her music room, Tina drops the score of the opera – page by page – into a fire. ==Subsequent productions==
The Aspern Papers was performed by the Washington Opera (1990), in which Katherine Ciesinski, who had portrayed Sonia in the 1988 premiere assumed the role of Tina, with Robert Orth (The Lodger), David Kuebler (Aspern), Pamela South (Juliana), Eric Halfvarson (reprising his premiere performance as Barellia) and Susan Graham (Sonia). Following a similar pattern, when The Dallas Opera mounted a 25th anniversary production in April 2013, Ms. Graham transitioned from the role of Sonia to Tina, alongside Nathan Gunn (The Lodger), Alexandra Deshorties (Juliana), Joseph Kaiser (Aspern), and Sasha Cooke (Sonia). Other productions include: June 1990, Staatstheater Kassel, Germany; January 1991 The Minnesota Opera; February 1992, Royal Opera Stockholm; July 1996 by the Adler Fellows of the San Francisco Opera Center; June 1998 at the Barbican Centre in London. ==References==
Operas by Dominick Argento
English-language operas
Operas
Operas based on novels
1988 operas
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The AN/PVS-14 Monocular Night Vision Device (MNVD) is in widespread use by the United States Armed Forces as well as NATO allies around the world. It uses a third generation image intensifier tube, and is manufactured by Litton Industries (Now L-3 Warrior Systems) as well as the ITT Corporation (Now ITT Exelis). It is often used 'hands free' using a head harness or attached to a combat [such as the
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Bushes, Ryan to deliver first pitches ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Texas baseball and presidential royalty will throw out ceremonial first pitches as the World Series moves to the Lone Star State. Tossing the ceremonial first pitch in Game 3 between the Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants Saturday will be pitching great Nolan Ryan, team president and an owner of the Rangers, Major League Baseball said in a release. In Game 4, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush will share ceremonial first-pitch duties, league officials said. George W. Bush was the Rangers' managing general partner from 1989 through 1992 and maintained partial club ownership until 1998. Friday was a travel day. Games 3, 4 and 5 (if necessary) are played in Texas. If necessary, Games 6 and 7 will be played in San Francisco. San Francisco leads the best-of-seven series 2-0.
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GM's first quarter earnings fall on losses in Europe. General Motors Co. posted lower profits in the first quarter, but still did better than Wall Street expected based on the strength of U.S. auto sales. The automaker said it earned $1 billion, or 60 cents a share, in the first quarter. That was a 69% drop from the $3.2 billion, or $1.77, GM earned in the same period a year earlier. Revenue grew a little more than 4% to $37.8 billion. Excluding one-time charges, GM earned 93 cents a share in the quarter ended March 31, which beat the average 85 cents a share predicted by Wall Street analysts. "The U.S. economic recovery, record demand for GM vehicles in China and the global growth of the Chevrolet brand helped deliver solid earnings for General Motors," said Dan Akerson, GM's chief executive. In North America, GM posted an operating profit of $1.7 billion, a 35% gain from the same period a year ago. It also made money in China, but operating profit dipped to about $529 million from $586 million. Like Ford Motor Co. and other automakers, GM's problem area is Europe, which suffers from a debt crisis and recession in some nations. GM lost $256 million in the region. It broke even there a year ago. Although the European loss was more than $100 million less than what Barclays Capital analyst Brian Johnson expected, restructuring its operations in the region to become profitable remains a difficult task for GM. "The complexity of the situation and involvement of the unions and politicians will make this a drawn-out process over the next few months," Johnson said. In the U.S. GM is selling fewer cars but is getting on average about $1,700 more per sale, according to auto price information company TrueCar.com. The automaker's share of the U.S. market slipped to 17.5% in the first quarter of 2012 compared with 19.4% in the same quarter a year earlier, according to Autodata Corp. "Despite hitting its lowest U.S. market share in decades earlier this year, GM's first-quarter earnings are buoyed by a relatively solid performance in North America and continued strong results from China, which help to offset European losses," said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with auto information company Edmunds.com. The company faces challenges grabbing back those sales. Toyota Motor Co. in April gained ground on GM and other automakers, its sales climbing as it recovered from the assembly-line disruptions caused by last year's Japanese earthquake. Additionally, GM is facing tougher competition from "brands like Volkswagen and Hyundai who are pursuing - and meeting - aggressive sales targets," Krebs said. GM, which is recovering from its 2009 bankruptcy reorganization and government bailout, was the last of the domestic automakers to report financial results for the quarter. Last week Chrysler Group posted net income of $473 million for the first quarter of 2012, up more than 300% from $116 million a year earlier. The company said the gains were driven primarily by a 40% rise in U.S. retail sales. It was the company's highest quarterly profit since it emerged from bankruptcy in 2009. Ford earned $1.4 billion in the quarter, down 45% from a year earlier. The federal government still owns about 32% of GM. The automaker's shares fell 52 cents, or 2%, to $22.41 in morning trading Thursday.
Zipcar CEO likes the shared economy War veterans more likely to crash cars Female drivers more likely to hit wrong pedal twitter.com/LATimesJerry
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A modern Basil Fawlty: takeaway owner kills rat as horrified inspectors watch Local authority inspectors also found evidence of a serious rodent infestation, including rat and mouse droppings and gnawed chicken bones, in kitchen and "food preparation areas" of the New Chutney Express in Tooting, South London. The court also heard that Wandsworth council took legal action against him in 2007 for selling counterfeit champagne. A Wandsworth Council spokesman said last night: "This was a shocking catalogue of hygiene and food safety breaches. "These premises were in a truly appalling state and posed an unacceptable danger to public health. "The judge was quite right when he told Mr Rajalingam that he should be ashamed of himself." He added: "This should of course act as a warning to other food retailers who are prepared to play fast and loose with food safety laws." The shop owner has not commented outside court.
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==Untitled==
"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished." N Molesworth
== Molesworth, spelling, and reverts ==
Please don't revert edits for poor spelling or bad grammar unless you're familiar with the Molesworth books and can tell the difference between verbatim quotes and actual bad spelling. Thanks! Just a quick note to would-be cleaner-uppers: please do not capitalise nigel's name! Loganberry
Oh, all right. I was a young and callow Wikipedian back then! Loganberry (Talk)
== Whizz/Wizz ==
I've checked my copy of the 2000 Penguin reprint, and the title of the third Molesworth book is written as "Whizz for Atomms", both in the contents, and in the reproduction of the original title page (p207 in the reprint). Nmg
==Molesworth 2==
What is the warrant for the assertion that he may be called George, please? Paul Magnussen (talk)
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New Statue of Liberty Stamp Features Her Las Vegas Replica Courtesy USPS The huddled masses would be sorely disappointed - the Ellis Island greeter depicted on a new U.S. stamp is actually her Las Vegas replica. The green lady proudly gazes into the distance on the USPS's newest stamp. But upon closer inspection: she's a faker. Even the Post Office didn't pick up on the printing error: a popular stamp magazine, Linn's Stamp News, brought the issue to light. (More on TIME.com: See the top 10 ridiculously large statues) The New York icon shown on the stamp is actually located 2,500 miles away - at the New York-New York Casino in Vegas. Sin City's statue bears a number of differences to the original, not the least of which is her size: she stands at only half of the original's 151 feet. Though the full statue isn't visible on the stamp, the small visage printed on the postage features different hair and better-defined eyes than her New York sister. The Postal Service reportedly chose the image from a photography service, unaware that it wasn't the real deal. But they're standing by their choice. "We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway," said USPS spokesman Roy Betts. New Yorkers may feel slighted by the mix-up, but Vegas is counting their winnings. A spokesman for MGM Resorts in Las Vegas said they were "honored" by the choice. Though perhaps the original message of the stamp has been lost in the misprint. After all, the only "tired" and "poor" folks this statue presides over are the money-drained gamblers of Sin City. (More on TIME.com: See 10 things to do in 24 hours in Las Vegas)
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Severe weather warnings issued on 'wettest day of the year' The UK is expected to receive a month's worth of rain in just 24 hours today, making it almost certain to be the wettest day of the year so far. Four severe weather warnings have been issued as high winds and heavy rain swept across the UK, with forecasters predicting the bad weather will continue well into tomorrow, possibly into the weekend and beyond that into May. Southern England and eastern Scotland are expected to be worst hit, with localised flooding and dangerous driving conditions likely. The rain is expected to be accompanied by strong winds and, on mountains and high hills, significant snow fall will occur. Netweather forecaster Paul Michaelwhite was quoted as saying: "It's an April washout rather than April showers as unusually-deep, autumnal-type Atlantic low pushes across the south. "This is an unusually active depression for the time of year, as the Atlantic is traditionally at its quietest during mid-to-late spring." The Environment Agency issued a flood alert for a 35-mile stretch of the south Devon coast either side of Torbay as a 50cm-plus tidal surge boosted this morning's high tide. And police warned drivers to take care because of 'hazardous' conditions as rain lashed other mains roads in the Thames Valley including the A4. The Met Office website stated: "A band of heavy rain will move north across southern parts of England and Wales during Tuesday night, followed by heavy and locally thundery downpours for Wednesday. The rain will be accompanied by strong and gusty southeasterly winds. The public should be aware that heavy rain may lead to localised surface water flooding and poor driving conditions." It added: "Outbreaks of rain will become persistent and at times heavy during Wednesday afternoon and evening across Angus and Aberdeenshire, especially over higher ground. Accumulations of 15-25 mm are expected with hilly areas inland perhaps receiving local accumulations of 35 mm by midnight. On higher hills and mountains, significant falls of snow will occur."
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Joan Smith: Farming out forensic science is criminal Sherlock Holmes used a magnifying glass, while Hercule Poirot relied on his little grey cells. Fortunately, modern detectives are able to solve crimes using forensic techniques that weren't even dreamt of in the golden age of crime fiction; thanks to TV drama series such as CSI, we're all aware of how the latest methods are being used to track down rapists and murderers. If you were unfortunate enough to become the victim of a serious crime in Britain today, you would assume that evidence which could identify the perpetrator would be collected and sent to a state-of-the-art forensic lab. At present there's a good chance of that. The UK has a world-class Forensic Science Service (FSS), which handles 60 per cent of cases. The FSS pioneered the use of DNA in complex cases, invented the chemical that enables DNA profiling, and set up the world's first DNA database in 1995. It handles between 40,000 and 50,000 mouth swabs each month and can provide DNA matches from blood or mouth swabs in 10 hours. Politicians know how much the public cares about crime, so you might think that the Government is proud that the country's police forces have access to this superb service. But you would be wrong: it's hell-bent on closing it down, a decision that's been condemned first by scientists and now by an influential committee of MPs. In a report published two days ago, they say bluntly that the proposed closure of the FSS in March next year poses a risk to ongoing criminal cases, cold-case reviews and "to justice in general." The Metropolitan Police need labs and technicians who can do complex forensic work on 300 suspicious death investigations, 1,500 rapes and sexual assaults, and another 1,500 crimes of serious violence. From next spring, a similar search for experts will be going on at police HQs up and down the country, leading to a risk of having to use "largely unaccredited labs," according to the MPs. "We were shocked when conducting this inquiry at how little consideration the Government had given to the wider impacts of the FSS closure before making its decision," observes the damning report from the Commons Science and Technology Committee. New Scientist branded the closure plan "a shambles." It certainly appears short-sighted. The FSS is "losing" £2m a month, but even in these cash-strapped times I'd have thought that's a price worth paying. I don't expect every publicly funded body to show a profit, and I suspect most people would be more interested in catching violent criminals than saving £24m a year. One eminent scientist, Sir Alec Jeffreys - the man who pioneered DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester - told MPs that closing the FSS was "potentially disastrous" for the future of forensic science in the UK. It's not at all clear that there are sufficient commercial labs to take over the work of the FSS, and the financial imperatives of the private sector mean they're less likely to carry out research. The MPs' report calls for the closure to be delayed for at least six months, but the Government responded in typically high-handed fashion last week, claiming that ministers are confident of their ability to provide "continued high quality forensic services." Do I feel a U-turn coming on? Victims of crime deserve better than this jaw-dropping piece of scientific vandalism: it's elementary, my dear Watson.
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Stocks pare early losses, trade mixed NEW YORK (AP) - Mixed news from earnings reports has investors taking a pause after pushing stocks higher for four straight days. Stocks pared early losses and traded mixed by midafternoon Friday as investors tried not to lose the market's upward momentum. "We had a big run-up earlier in the week and I think people would just as soon go into the weekend without any major disruptions in their exposures," said Jeff Buetow, managing partner at Innealta Portfolio Advisors. "I think people want the market to go up." Going in to Friday's session, major market indicators were ahead about 7 percent for the week as solid results from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Intel Corp. spurred buying. Investors have been keenly focused on earnings reports this week, hoping to find more concrete signs of life in the economy and validation that a huge rally in stocks this spring was justified. So far, the results have been varied. On Friday, Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. became the latest banks to report big second-quarter profits but also weakness in their loan portfolios. General Electric Co. beat earnings forecasts, but its revenue came up short. In midafternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrials rose 18.82, or 0.2 percent, to 8,730.64. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 1.15, or 0.1 percent, at 939.59, while the Nasdaq composite index shed less than a point to 1,884.52. Advancing stocks were about even with declining ones on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 820.5 million shares compared with 609.3 million shares at the same time Thursday. Trading was heavy because of the expiration of options contracts, which can also increase the volatility.
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Bale veut rejoindre le Real Madrid Tottenham: Bale veut rejoindre le Real Madrid (AFP) - Il y a 7 heures Londres - Le Gallois Gareth Bale a fait son retour au centre d'entraînement de Tottenham mercredi où il a fait part selon les média britanniques de son envie de départ pour le Real Madrid, ce qui pourrait être le transfert le plus onéreux de l'histoire. Bale, 24 ans, a passé cinq heures au centre d'entraînement des Spurs, sans toutefois s'entraîner. Il a reçu des soins et selon la chaîne de télévision Sky Sports s'est entretenu avec son entraîneur Andre Villas-Boas. Il a indiqué au technicien portugais qu'il souhaitait quitter le club londonien alors que le Real Madrid le convoite activement et serait prêt à débourser plus de 100 millions de livres sterling (114 M EUR), soit plus que les 80 millions de livres (91,4 M EUR) déboursés en 2009 par le Real pour recruter le Portugais Cristiano Ronaldo, transfert le plus cher de l'histoire. Selon la presse espagnole, le président de Tottenham Daniel Levy qui devrait rencontrer son homologue du Real la semaine prochaine à Miami, aurait fixé le montant du transfert de son joueur vedette à 125 millions de livres (142,8 M EUR). Bale a inscrit 26 buts la saison dernière sous le maillot de Tottenham, son club depuis 2007. "Si Bale a envie de rejoindre le Real, son club doit lui donner la permission de discuter avec nous," a déclaré l'ancien international français Zinédine Zidane, entraîneur-adjoint du Real. "La chance de jouer pour le Real ne se présentera peut-être qu'une fois, c'est compréhensible que Gareth ne veuille pas la manquer," a reconnu Zidane. Tottenham doit affronter Monaco en match amical samedi, sans qu'on sache si Bale participera à cette rencontre. Copyright © AFP 2013. Tous droits réservés. Plus "
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The Reality of Women at War A Congressional study commission has recommended an end to the Pentagon's ban on women serving in ground combat - a policy that years of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown to be impractical. Female soldiers have become involved in de facto combat situations, suffering death and battle wounds. At the same time, their careers are crimped as leadership promotions flowed more to men with combat experience, according to the study. The case for women warriors was succinctly put by Senator Kay Hagan as a member of the Armed Services Committee. "Women are driving these Humvees and having their legs blown off," she told CQ Today. She urged the Pentagon to accept reality and officially integrate small armor and infantry units with women troops. A 1994 law allowed women to serve on combat surface ships and authorized the Pentagon to make additional changes, providing Congress is notified. Last year, female sailors were permitted to serve aboard submarines. The evolution to ground combat was recommended by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, which spent 18 months studying ethnic, gender and cultural problems hindering career advancement in the military. "Being ineligible for infantry may be perceived to make a female soldier "less Army," " the commission stressed, adding that research has not born out shibboleths that women are too weak for combat, can harm a unit's cohesion or are more prone to mental health disorders than men in combat. Considering the perils of war, the nation's female soldiers deserve a fair chance at advancement. Their lives are already on the line.
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He said he had no second thoughts about having opposed a planned strike against Osama bin Laden in 1998, a few months before the bombings of two U.S. embassies. The plan was not "well-grounded," he said, adding that other intelligence officials also recommended against proceeding. Brennan was at the CIA at the time. Brennan was questioned extensively about leaks to the media about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a new type of underwear bomb on a Western airline. He acknowledged trying to limit the damage to national security from the disclosures. On May 7 of last year, The Associated Press reported that the CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner, using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The next day, the Los Angeles Times reported that the would-be bomber was cooperating with U.S. authorities. During Thursday's hearing, Risch and Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana were among those who contended Brennan had inadvertently revealed that the U.S. had a spy inside Yemen's al-Qaida branch when, hours after the first AP report appeared, he told a group of media consultants that "there was no active threat during the bin Laden anniversary because... we had inside control of the plot." The hearing was interrupted repeatedly at its outset, including once before it had begun. Eventually, Feinstein briefly ordered the proceedings halted and the room cleared so those re-entering could be screened to block obvious protesters. Brennan is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work, and is currently serving as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser in the White House. Any thought he had of becoming CIA director four years ago vanished amid questions about the role he played at the CIA when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation" of suspected terrorists. On the question of waterboarding, Brennan said that while serving as a deputy manager at the CIA during the Bush administration, he was told such interrogation methods produced "valuable information." Now, after reading a 300-page summary of a 6,000-page report on CIA interrogation and detention policies, he said he does "not know what the truth is." The shouted protests centered on CIA drone strikes that have killed three American citizens and an unknown number of foreigners overseas. It was a topic very much on the mind of the committee members who eventually will vote on Brennan's confirmation. In the hours before the hearing began, Obama ordered that a classified paper outlining the legal rationale for striking at U.S. citizens abroad be made available for members of the House and Senate intelligence panels to read. It was an attempt to clear the way for Brennan's approval, given hints from some lawmakers that they might hold up confirmation unless they had access to the material. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he was encouraged when Obama called him on the telephone to inform him of his decision. But he said that when he went to read the material he became concerned the Department of Justice "is not following through" on the presidential commitment. Prodded to look into the matter, Brennan said he would. Wyden made the drone strikes the main focus of his time to question Brennan, asking at one point what could be done "so that the American people are brought into this debate and have a full understanding of what rules" are for their use. Brennan said the day's hearings were part of that effort, and he said he backs speeches by officials as a way to explain counter-terrorism programs. He said there is a "misimpression by the American people" who believe drone strikes are aimed at suspects in past attacks. Instead, he said, "we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives" when there is no other alternative in what officials believe is an imminent threat. Fewer than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration, while more than 360 strikes have been launched under Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks the operations.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Lara Jakes, Donna Cassata and David Espo contributed to this story Follow Dozier on Twitter: http://twitter.com/KimberlyDozier Associated Press
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Middleton family to join Jubilee river pageant "Michael and Carole's inclusion on the Elizabethan has only just emerged and has taken a lot of people by surprise, but the Queen is incredibly supportive of the Duchess and her family," a source told the Daily Mail. "Boats travelling in the Royal Squadron are solely reserved for special guests of the Queen, which demonstrates just how far the Middletons have come." The Elizabethan, a replica 1890s Mississippi paddle steamer, is part of the Royal Squadron and will sail behind the Queen's boat in the procession. Lord Coe, chairman of the Olympics organising committee, is also said to be a guest on the 235-seater vessel. Every senior member of the Royal family will be taking part in the Jubilee pageant, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry travelling with the Queen aboard the royal barge, Spirit of Chartwell. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the Queen was "very pleased" when the organisers told her she would be travelling to the royal barge by the tender of the former Royal Yacht Britannia and was "looking forward" to the nostalgic trip. She famously wiped a tear from her eye as she and other members of the Royal family attended a ceremony in Portsmouth to mark the end of the royal yacht's service in 1997. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will also be joined on the royal barge by The Prince of Wales, who is Patron of the Pageant, and the Duchess of Cornwall. The Duke of York, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent will be aboard Havengore, the passenger boat that carried Sir Winston Churchill's body along the Thames to his State funeral in 1965. The Princess Royal, who is Patron of Trinity House, and Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence will travel on Trinity House No.1 Boat, and the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra will be aboard RNLI Diamond Jubilee, a Tamar class lifeboat due to enter service at Eastbourne later in the year. After travelling more than three miles down the river, the Royal party will disembark and take their places aboard HMS President, a former Royal Navy corvette permanently moored near Blackfriars Bridge, to watch the rest of the seven mile-long flotilla making its way down the Thames. At the head of the flotilla will be the royal rowbarge, Gloriana, crewed by 18 oarsmen including Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent. The flotilla will take around 75 minutes to pass each point along the route, which is expected to be lined by up to a million people.
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Karine Polwart (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel, her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide. She has been most recognised for her solo career, winning three awards at the BBC Folk Awards in 2005, and was previously a member of Malinky and Battlefield Band. Polwart is currently a member of The Burns Unit, and collaborated with The Fruit Tree Foundation on its debut album, First Edition. ==Biography==
Polwart grew up in the small Stirlingshire town of Banknock and had an interest in music from an early age. She has described her whole family as being interested in music and one of her brothers, Steven, is also a professional musician who plays guitar in the Karine Polwart band, whilst her sister Kerry is developing her own musical career with the group The Poems. Despite an active musical career from a young age, including forming her own band KP and the Minichips at age 10, Polwart was discouraged from studying music at school and ended up studying politics and philosophy at the University of Dundee. After graduating with a First Class Degree in Philosophy Polwart moved to Glasgow to study for a Masters in Philosophical Inquiry. Her first job after her studies was as a philosophy tutor in a primary school, a job she describes as giving her a'massive buzz'. After this she spent six years working for the Scottish Women's Aid movement on issues such as domestic and child abuse and young people's rights and these experiences have influenced her songwriting. Polwart initially gained prominence as lead singer of the group Malinky. With the release of their debut album Last Leaves in January 2000, Polwart left her job to concentrate on her musical career. After successful stints with Malinky, macAlias and Battlefield Band, and contributions to three volumes (Volumes 7, 8 and 9) of Linn Records' The Complete Songs of Robert Burns project, she decided to embark on a solo career. In 2003 she released her first solo album, Faultlines. Written and recorded with assistance from the Scottish Arts Council, Faultlines won the Best Album award at the 2005 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. This award, along with 2 others at the same ceremony, increased Polwart's profile not just in the folk community but also in the wider musical arena. The songs on Faultlines cover a variety of topics, and although she has claimed at live performances that they are all quite depressing, many have an uplifting aspect. This is particularly notable in "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" (which won Best Original Song at the BBC Folk Awards 2005) which tells the story of woman who reacts to the death of her partner through a period of depression, drink and drugs, but has a more optimistic chorus, with the narrator foreseeing an end to this period. There are exceptions to this: "Waterlily" — the tale of a man whose lover is killed during the war in Yugoslavia, based on the book Cold Night Lullaby by Colin Mackay — offers no such comfort. "Only One Way", on the other hand, is an upbeat song with a strong political theme and some biting humour. In April 2006, Polwart released her second solo album Scribbled in Chalk. This album was heralded with much critical acclaim receiving impressive reviews from amongst others, The Scotsman, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, Time Out and BBC Music online. A UK wide tour followed as well as appearances on BBC 2's Culture Show, Simon Mayo's Album show on Radio 2, Mike Harding's folk show on Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland on the Janice Forsyth show and the Janice Long Late show on Radio 2. Polwart's music also reached a wider audience when her songs were used during the opening sequence of a Hollyoaks episode in July 2006 and for the final programme of The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook. Like Faultlines, Scribbled in Chalk often looks at the darker side of life with tales of sex trafficking ("Maybe there's a Road"), the holocaust ("Baleerie Baloo", which is about the missionary Jane Haining) and the uncertainties of life ("Hole in the Heart"). But these stories of despair are balanced by others that describe the joy of a slower life ("Take Its Own Time"), of hope triumphing over cynicism ("Where the Smoke Blows") and the wonder of the universe ("Terminal Star"). According to her official website, she believes that songs should stand up by themselves. However, for the sake of those interested in the backstory behind the songs, the website provides information about each of them on the basis that even if a song does work by itself, sometimes the story behind it can make it more meaningful.
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If the tax rates were extended only for individuals earning less than $200,000 and couples earnings less than $250,000, CBO said, growth would rise by 1.25 percent. Wall Street estimates show third-quarter GDP growth was 2.8 percent. Unemployment is currently at 7.9 percent. Eliminating the automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs would add back 0.75 percentage points of growth, as would extending an expiring payroll tax cut and long- term unemployment benefits that are expected to end next year, the CBO said. But the office also warned of the consequences of taking such actions without reducing deficits that have run at $1 trillion in each of the past four years. "CBO expects that even if all of the fiscal tightening was eliminated, the economy would remain below its potential and the unemployment rate would remain higher than usual for some time," the report said. (Additional reporting by Richard Cowan, Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason; Editing by Stacey Joyce, Eric Walsh and Fred Barbash)
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Classificatory kin terms subsume various biological kin types: specifically, the place lineal and collateral kin in the same category, while descriptive terms refer only to one specified biological kin type, and distinguish lineal from collateral relatives. Morgan argued that the most primitive kinship terminologies were classificatory and the more advanced ones descriptive by nature" (Seymour-Smith 1986:39-40) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruceanthro (talk • contribs)
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MORGAN, L.H (1877) Ancient Society. Henry Holt and Company. New York. "Lewis H. Henry (1877).. concentrated on the evolutionary stages of kinship.. attempted to demonstrate that different marriage practices determined the various kinship systems he had classified.. Although Morgan overly stressed the importance of kinship terminology for reconstructing social evolutionary stages, he laid a sound foundation through his own observation and in his collection of questionnaires about kin terminologies from around the world" (Schusky 1972: 1)
"Lewis Henry Morgan.. began collecting schedules of 'kinship terminologies' from all over the world and from the societies of classical antiquity. He noted that many nations, far seperated in time and in space, had similar types of.. nomenclatures. On the assumption that their words referred to biological relationships, he attempted to explain how the seemingly odd distribution came about .. he traced a series of stages comparable but different in detail from McLennans (above). This roused the ire of the.. Scot who accused Morgan of putting too much faith in terminology which did not in any case have anything to do with the biological relationship but was merely a 'code of courtesies showing 'degrees of respect. However the ship was launched and from then onwards anthropologists have been concerned with kinship terminologists.. For a time, indeed, the'study of kinship' was virtually the study of kinship terms and a debate about the explanation of them." (Fox 1967: 19)
" not only studied terminology but the structure of social groups. He found, for example, that the Iroquois were organzed into kinship groups based on descent in the female line. These groups were organized into larger groups which he called phratries. When he turned to the..town dwelling Aztecs, he found that they were organised into kinship groups based on descent in the male line, and again these were organised into larger units with the Spanish had called barrios.. he thought he had one of the clues to social evolution. It fitted very well with the theory derived from terminology studies. Out of promiscuity came 'kinship through females only' in the more primitive societies, then there was a change to 'kinship through males only' and the development of cities and civilisation" (Fox 1967: 20)
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argued that the original state of society was not patriarchy but primitive promiscuity, which was superceded first by matriliny and later by patrilny. (Seymour-Smith 1986: 169) Bruceanthro (talk)
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TYLOR, Edward (1889) "On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions; Applied to the Laws of Marriage and Descent" Journal ofthe Royal Anthropological Institute. Number 18. Pages 245-272. ====1914_RIVERS====
RIVERS, W. H. R. 1907. "On the origin of the classificatory system of relationships." in THOMAS, N.W (Ed) Anthropological Essays Presented to E. B. Tylor. Clarendon. Oxford. Pages 309- 25. RIVERS, W.H.R (1914) Kinship and Social Organization. Oxford University Press. London. "W.H.R Rivers improved ethnographic methodology by collecting lengthy genealogies, or actual kinship charts, from many individuals of a society. From his real genealogies Rivers constructed the ideal systems that Morgan has gathered, but in addition, Rivers saw practices not reflected in the ideal terminology alone." (Schusky 1972: 1) Bruceanthro (talk)
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LANG, A. (1908) "The origin of terms of relationship." Proc. Brit..4cad. 3:139-58
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KROEBER, Alfred (1909) "Classificatory Systems of Relationship" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Number 39. Pages 77-84.
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Satu Mare Airport is located in north west Romania, it is located south of Satu Mare municipality and county. The airport is located in a "high density" airports area, with many airports on an radius (BAY, OMR, CLJ). ==Airlines and destinations==
===Passenger scheduled flights===
==External links==
Location of Satu Mare Airport on Google Maps
==See also==
Aviation in Romania
Transport in Romania
==References==
==External links==
Airport's website
Airports in Romania
Transport in Satu Mare
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Prince under fire from architects The decision followed a direct intervention by the prince, who wrote to the chairman of Qatari Diar, urging him to consider alternatives to the modern design created by Lord Rogers's firm of architects. It is believed the prince wanted a more classical, traditional scheme. Labour MP Nick Raynsford said Prince Charles' behaviour had been "almost feudal." "I do believe there is a very dangerous precedent here when the heir to the throne intervenes in a decision which should be taken through normal democratic processes, " he told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "There is a very real constitutional issue when the heir to the throne becomes engaged in political controversy cutting across the normal democratic processes by which planning decisions should be taken in this country," he added. 'Disastrous' decision Mr Raynsford has been backed by the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Sunand Prasad, who said the Prince's intervention could deter investors from developing projects in London. "It is not a good day for confidence in the British way of doing things," he told Today. Lord Rogers, who has designed some of the most influential buildings in the world, said it was a "disastrous" decision. He said the project had already undergone two and a half years of consultation with local authorities and residents. The real estate investment company Qatari Diar is owned by the Qatari Investment Authority, which is headed by the country's prime minister. The Chelsea Barracks site was sold by the Ministry of Defence to Project Blue (Guernsey) Limited (PBGL) for £959 million in January 2008. PBGL is owned by Qatari Diar. A spokesman for PBGL said it was working with a range of stakeholders - including the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment - to find a new design. But Mr Prasad warned that the redesign process could result in a "pastiche." "We are really throwing in the towel if we think in the 21st Century that we can't make beautiful buildings that can face a site of magnificent buildings across the road, he said. "They can be beautiful without being neo-classical." Mr Raynsford said he was concerned the redesign would result in "an unsatisfactory outcome on the Chelsea Barracks site."
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Devetaci (Деветаци) is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ==References==
Populated places in Novi Grad
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Obama to honor Kennedy at funeral Mass Obama to honor Kennedy at funeral Mass Boston service will feature 3 former presidents, 7 priests, 40 pallbearers NBC News and news services updated 7:56 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2009 BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, oft-summoned to remember departed members of his famous political family, was himself the subject of a eulogy President Barack Obama was due to deliver at a funeral expected to draw mourners from across the political spectrum and stations of life. The Massachusetts Democrat, who died Tuesday at age 77 from brain cancer, was to be sent off in high fashion Saturday with a Roman Catholic Mass presided over by no fewer than seven priests, 11 pallbearers and 29 honorary pallbearers. Tenor Placido Domingo was to sing, accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Joining Obama and nearly 1,500 other invitees at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica were former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as 58 current members of the U.S. Senate, 21 former members and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, once an aide to Kennedy. NBC News reported that Obama met privately with Kennedy's widow, Victoria, on Saturday morning. White House aides were mum about the eulogy the president would offer, but Obama was expected to focus on the impact Kennedy had on American life since first being elected in 1962. His 47-year career spanned the assassinations of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy; the civil rights era and Apollo moon landings; and battles over health, education and immigration; as well as the country's election of Obama, its first black president, who was born roughly 18 months before Kennedy took office. On Friday, Kennedy was remembered at a bipartisan memorial service whose speakers included Sens. John McCain and John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK's daughter. "Now Teddy has become a part of history," Schlossberg said, "and we are the ones who will have to do all the things he would have done, for us, for each other and for our country." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said: "I miss fighting in public and joking with him in the background." McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, called Kennedy "the best ally you could have," while Kerry promised to deliver the health care overhaul his fellow Massachusetts Democrat so long sought. "He labored with all his might to make health care a right for all America, and we will do that in his honor," said Kerry, D-Mass., his party's 2004 presidential nominee. The invitation-only funeral audience of world leaders and commoners alike evoked the funerals for Kennedy's brothers. It was at RFK's rites in 1968 that the senator not only emerged as family patriarch, but also the person to deliver the final word on lives cut short. He memorialized Robert Kennedy by saying, "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." And in 1999, after his nephew John Jr.'s death, the senator declared: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years." Following the service, Kennedy's body was scheduled to be flown to Andrews Air Force Base, which also received JFK's body after his 1963 assassination, before being driven to the U.S. Capitol then along the National Mall and into Arlington Cemetery. There, as evening falls, he was to be buried on a hillside grave site near his two slain brothers. NBC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Plant turns rubbish into energy The plant will be able to deal with a large cross section of material - from municipal to industrial and commercial waste. The company claimed it was able to "meet and even surpass the most stringent standards" for emissions from the factory. Along with electricity, the residual ash produced by the plant will be suitable for re-use and recycling.
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Speakers With a Big Sound for Big Desks The British loudspeaker maker KEF, a name well known to audiophiles, has broken out both the high-tech and marketing razzle-dazzle for its desktop X300A speakers. For starters, it talks about the "Uni-Q driver array," which joins two speakers in one - a fancy version of a good old coaxial speaker, which puts a woofer for low tones and a tweeter for high tones in the same chassis. Then it boasts that each speaker has a class AB amplifier, a kind of dual circuit that is used in some higher quality amplifiers and car amps as well. It pumps up to 50 watts to the low frequency speaker and 20 watts to the high. Neither of these is quite the breakthrough it is made to appear, but you don't often find either in a speaker built for computers. The end result is a very solid set of speakers - 16.5 pounds of solid each. They aren't for people concerned about desk space. The size of typical bookshelf speakers, they are nearly a foot high, with a roughly 7-by-10-inch footprint. Nor are they for people concerned about running skeins of cables. Each speaker takes an industrial strength power cord, a USB cable to the computer or player and another cord between the speakers themselves. With gun-metal-colored cabinets and no grill to obscure (or protect) the speakers, the X300As have a utilitarian look, but alas, not a utilitarian price: They list for $800 a pair. The price could be excused if the sound were exceptional. Because the speakers can be customized to achieve different sounds, it's hard to make a blanket assessment. But I'll try. After fiddling with the bias and balance controls, the EQ setting and a set of foam stoppers to rein in the bass, I can say the speakers sound very, very good in some cases - "Honky Tonk Woman" was lively, and the cowbell (more cowbell!) was just perfect. In other cases, they were not as impressive - in the overture for "The Mikado," the oboes sounded like they had tin cans over them. But overall, they are a very good pair of speakers if money and desk space are no object.
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Rocker Bob Seger joins Tiger in pro-am GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MICH. (AP) - Rock star Bob Seger has played in front of thousands of people over his career but he was awfully nervous on Wednesday. Seger was paired up with Tiger Woods in the pro-am at the Buick Open, not far from Flint, Michigan. Seger grew up in Ann Arbor and thousands of fans came out to cheer him. Seger thrilled the crowed with a long birdie putt on the fourth hole. It helped make up for an ugly drive off the first tee. He also got help from a tree on 13, as his errant approach rebounded back into the fairway. Woods says Seger played well - especially on the greens.
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Senior Taleban officials captured in Pakistan Pakistani security forces have captured a senior Taleban commander and a close associate of the slain militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, dealing yet another blow to the Islamists who present the biggest threat to the country's security. Maulvi Omar, who worked as a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan was arrested on Monday night when driving with two associates in the Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources. He was apparently on his way to a secret meeting of top Taleban commanders, official sources claim. Mr Omar was one of the most high profile of Taleban officials, who frequently called journalists claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks in Pakistan. He had been keeping a low profile in recent months as Pakistani security forces launched offensives in the Mohamand region where he lived. Local officials said the arrest was made possible by the help of local anti-Taleban militia. On Monday police also arrested another close associate of Mr Mehsud after he arrived in Islamabad seeking medical treatment. Qari Saifullah, who was allegedly involved in several terrorist attacks in Pakistan had been injured during a US drone strike in South Waziristan police said. It was unclear whether it was the same US missile strike which killed Mr Mehsud on August 5. Analysts said the capture of such high profile officials would further weaken the militant organisation which was already in disarray following the death of Mr Mehsud. Senior Taleban commanders have been engaged in a fierce power struggle following their commander's death. There have been reports of violent clashes between the supporters of the two main contenders to his throne, Wali Ur Rehman and Hakimullah Mehsud. The Taleban shura (Council) has yet to choose betqween the two.
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Review - Westway Club in the West Village - NYTimes.com Christian Hansen for The New York Times CONTRARY to earlier reports, you won't find any stripper poles (or topless women) at Westway, the new club from Matt Kliegman and Carlos Quirarte, the masterminds behind the Smile and the Jane Ballroom parties. Opened in late June in the former Westside Gentleman's Club, the space retains much of its original décor and smutty flavor (an adult entertainment store is still operating next door). Pressure from community groups, however, led to a tamping down on nudity. For the moment, Westway is fairly under the radar. But come fall (especially during Fashion Week), it's expected to become a full-fledged hot spot. A gay night with the East Village Boys and Opening Ceremony is in the works. THE PLACE A squat building on an industrial stretch of the West Side Highway, just north of Houston Street. Inside is a warren of four windowless black rooms, sparsely furnished with mirrored walls, brass railings and stripper stages, one of which is illuminated from below, à la "Saturday Night Fever." A curtained-off back room seems to invite debauchery. THE CROWD Weeknights are an off-beat mélange of in-the-know scenesters and confused-looking suits seeking lap dances. ("We let them in sometimes," Mr. Kliegman said, shrugging.) Come weekends, though, it fills up with the downtown dwellers looking to avoid the out-of-town hordes at the Jane. Mary-Kate Olsen, Kirsten Dunst and other celebrities have been spotted of late. On a recent (and exceptionally hot) Friday, the D.J."s rolled in around midnight; the serious dancing began around 2 a.m. Semipreppy types and their Daisy Duke-clad girlfriends took to the catwalk, while Devendra Banhart doppelgängers chatted up statuesque models around the club's two bars. GETTING IN So far, so good. Thanks to the club's lower profile, the doorkeeper Lyz Olko (also a Jane transplant) is mainly checking ID's, but expect the door to tighten as word gets out. PLAYLIST A showgirl stage has been retrofitted as a D.J. booth. Music varies from Top 40 hits and danceable rap to the occasional classic from Phil Spector or New Order. "Nobody who comes here is trying to impress anyone with their sophisticated taste in music," said Roctakon, one of the resident Friday night D.J."s. DRINKS No specialty cocktails here, but the club's two bars are fully stocked, with well drinks at a reasonable $9. Westway, 75 Clarkson Street (West Street), (212) 620-0101; westwaynyc.com. Nightly, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
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'Trek' tunes: Where 'Star Trek' and pop music meet Eminem isn't one to miss an obvious cultural reference. When his video for "We Made You" was released earlier this spring, it captured the media's favorite shock-rapper dressing up as Spock behind Dr. Dre as Captain Kirk. In a clip that took cheap shots at Jessica Simpson and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Eminem's nod to the four-decade old sci-fi franchise was about the only thing that was relevant, as box office predictors are indicating that the current "Star Trek" reboot will have the biggest opening weekend in the brand's history. If only Eminem had made his return with a song that had a little bit more of the whimsical, optimistic reflections of the best "Trek" episodes, then he might have been onto something. Instead, he released a tune with a fart noise. No fear, as plenty of artists have taken inspiration from "Trek" and done more with it than wear a costume. There's the English version of Nena's '80s hit "99 Luftballons," with it's "everyone's a Captain Kirk" lyric arriving at a crucial moment, and becoming a symbol of war posturing. More lighthearted was Spizzenergi's novelty punk riff "Where's Captain Kirk?" -- a geek-rock cousin to the Shapes' " (I Saw) Batman (In the Launderette)." More recently, one famed Los Angeles act incorporated "Trek's" iconic opening into its lyrics, and used the hopefulness of "Trek" to contrast with a Hollywood wasteland. The Red Hot Chili Peppers also sneaked in a nod to "Star Wars" in its "Californication," where Anthony Kiedis sings, "Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement." Midwestern power-pop band Semisonic got a bit more specific. The band's piano-laced "Never You Mind" come complete with a spacey bridge and raps with nods to Dr. Leonard H. McCoy and Spock. The "Star Trek" wiki reminds us that the band is referencing the episode "Spock's Brain," but we all knew that. This Trekker's personal favorite Kirk and Co.-referencing song belongs to Screeching Weasel's "Phasers on Kill." In two and a half minutes, the Chicago pop-punk band imagines a scenario in which Kirk is ordered to exact revenge on an ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, the narrator looks through his records. Taking Back Sunday turned the weapon's setting down a level, but offered a more hardcore song in "Set Phasers to Stun," although there's no discernible "Trek" references beyond the Starfleet-sanctioned tool mentioned in the title. Melissa Etheridge was also smitten with the directed-energy weapon, putting a reference to a phaser in her "Secret Agent." In a rocker dedicated to a deadly femme fatale, Etheridge sings, "Get her phasers on stun / With her toys like the boys." Rapper Tay Dizm introduced himself to the world with lead-off single "Beam Me Up," where the transporter nod may or may not be about partaking in illicit substances. Master P went a little further, actually sampling the opening fanfare of the "Star Trek" theme in his "Captain Kirk." We can't link to it due to the lyrical content, but the rapper puts himself at the head of the "ghetto Enterprise," and it's safe to say that woman can't resist the man in charge. Spock fans shouldn't feel slighted. They had their Vulcan immortalized in the Beastie Boys hit "Intergalactic," where the line "like a pinch of the neck of Mr. Spock" brings the song's big robotic beats to a close. -- Todd Martens Photo: Screen shot of Eminem's "We Made You"
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'We will stay here until it is over': What do the Ukraine protesters want? Ivan Perchakov, 34, builder "Why am I here? Because I don't want to live in a country where they beat up children. So there isn't a government that sets police on kids - on my kids. I've been here since the beginning - about a week. I'll stay until victory. What does that mean? The departure of Yanukovich, at the very least. Ivan Perchakov, 34, builder "There's a group of us that came down from Novovolinsk - that's out in the Western part of the country near Lviv. We didn't organise anywhere to stay - some people come and others go. The point is there are always some people from our town here." Sofia Vlasova, 48, factory worker "The Ukrainians have never had their own country. We're here because we still don't have our own Ukraine. And it's already been, how long? How long can you wait for independence? Sofia Vlasova, 48, factory worker "Yanukovich? He is not our president. There were falsifications, even in 2010 [when Yanukovich was thought to have won a relatively clean election]. He just fixes everything. We will stay here until it is over." Oleg, 36, potter "These red and black colours I'm holding are those of [mid-20th century nationalist guerrilla movement] the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and right now they symbolise the struggle of the entire country. Look at the place. Everyone is in the fight. Oleg, 36, potter (right) and Ivan, 35, art teacher (centre) "Everyone's come here for their own reason. Some want to join Europe, some want to kick out the government, some want to grab their own bit of power. I drove down from the Poltava region, 200 kilometres from Kiev. Me, my brother, and two mates, we brought our car down. "We're here to help. We're against the way the government is running the country, and this nonsense about not joining the deal with Europe. We've been here since last week, got a place to stay till the fourth, then we'll see. "Victory means changing the political regime: the departure of both Yanukovich and of his ministers. And by the way, once we've got a new president I'm pretty sure the European agreement will be signed fairly quickly." Ivan, 35, art teacher "I'm here because it's a revolution today, as it was last week. Why? I'll say it very simply. I hate my government - it's not my government. I hate my president - he's not my president. I hate our situation where the police are beating people up and there are students in prison for expressing their democratic rights. The whole government must go. "We are Europe. We're in the centre of Europe here. But our government is just something else. "Our revolution, like the Orange revolution, has been accused of using blood - it's not true. I remember the Orange revolution. Back then people stayed on the streets for weeks. We'll be here as long as it takes." Sergey Fedorchuk, 22, student "I think to start with people didn't want such a revolution as such, but the authorities have changed that with the force they used against us. Everyone in our country wants change. That's what we're standing here for. Sergey Fedorchuk, 22, student "First of all, we don't want an ex-convict running our country. That's what the president is and everybody knows it. Personally, I only want trade links with Europe. I don't want to open the borders. People often talk about how Ukraine is stuck between Europe on one side and Russia on the other. But now we must decide ourselves. Every move at the moment is toward something better, and that's what the whole country wants. But our president doesn't want change. He wants to keep things as they are so he can rob the country. And where is he now? There is a revolution and no reaction. I haven't heard him say anything. "You know, when I first heard people were gathering on the square I frankly wasn't that interested. I didn't really care. But then I saw what they did yesterday, where you had riot police running in and beating up unarmed kids - just kicking people on the ground, can you imagine? These people are animals." Anatoly Rudechenko, 60, retired police officer
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For First Time, Poll Finds Most In U.S. Don't Like New Health-Care Law Published October 28, 2011
Public opinion has tipped against the new health-care law, the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly tracking poll found. Some 51% of respondents in the October survey now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the legislation passed by Democrats in March 2010, and just 34% of them feel favorably about it, the nonpartisan foundation found in a telephone survey of 1,223 people carried out in October. Earlier polls by the foundation showed public opinion was roughly split though the gap had begun to widen in recent months. In September, 41% of respondents had a favorable view of the law, compared with 46% who viewed it unfavorably. Every Republican presidential candidate has pledged to repeal the overhaul, and their campaigns are likely to use these numbers. Click here to read the full story.
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Collapsed firm hit by online competition TRAVEL chiefs have blamed competition from online tour firms for the collapse of Bathgate-based McCarthy Travel. The long-established family firm, which also traded as Bill McCarthy Travel and DMC Holidays Direct, ceased trading on Monday. The Scottish Passenger Agents Association, which represents travel agents, said traditional package holiday bookings had been the firm's main business. However, it said the company had been hit by more people booking their holidays online. It said some tour operators offered lower prices online than through agents, but claimed these were often a worse deal.
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U.S. Sprinter Debbie Dunn Withdraws After Positive Drug Test Debbie Dunn, a sprinter who recently qualified for the United States Olympic track team, had a positive drug test at the Olympic trials and has removed herself from the team. Her urine sample showed that she had a banned synthetic testosterone in her system, according to a statement by Travis T. Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency. A laboratory is testing a backup sample to see that it confirms the initial result. "As in all cases all athletes are innocent until and unless proven otherwise through the established full, fair legal process which was approved by athletes, the U.S. Olympic Committee and all Olympic sports organizations," Tygart said. Dunn finished fourth in the 400 meters at the trials in Eugene, Ore., last month. She was the national outdoor and indoor champion in 2010 and, at age 32, ran the fastest time that year. She was in the pool of runners for the United States" 4x400-meter relay team at the Summer Games in London, which begin on July 27. She would have been competing in her first Olympics. "I do not want any issue like this to distract from my teammates" focus for the biggest meet of their lives," Dunn said in a statement. "I wish Team USA best in London as I work toward resolving this matter." The Chicago Tribune first reported the news of Dunn's positive test Friday morning. It was unclear Friday morning whether USA Track & Field would be able to replace Dunn in the relay pool. The American women's team has won gold in the 4x400 meters in every Summer Games since the 1996 Games in Atlanta. "Debbie Dunn took the appropriate measures by proactively withdrawing from the Olympic team," Max Siegel, chief executive of USA Track & Field, said in a statement. "At this point, her case is being handled by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which will adjudicate the matter."
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1937), former Tsar of Bulgaria and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Ivo Siromahov (b. 1971), writer, humorist, journalist
Antoaneta Stefanova (b. 1979), chess player and Women's World Chess Champion
Tzvetan Todorov (b. 1939), philosopher and writer
Alexis Weissenberg (1929–2012), pianist
Lyudmila Zhivkova (1942–1981), art historian and politician
Eduard Zahariev (1938-1996), film director and screenwriter
==International relations==
===Twin towns — Sister cities===
Sofia is twinned with:
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Algiers, Algeria
Ankara, Turkey
Berlin, Germany
Bratislava, Slovakia
Brussels, Belgium
Bucharest, Romania
Budapest, Hungary
Bursa, Turkey
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Helsinki, Finland
Karlovac, Croatia
Kiev, Ukraine
London, United Kingdom
Madrid, Spain
Maraş, Turkey
Milan, Italy
Moscow, Russia
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Pittsburgh, USA
Prague, Czech Republic
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Salalah, Oman (since 2011)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tirana, Albania
Warsaw, Poland
Yerevan, Armenia
|}
===Cooperation agreements===
In addition Sofia has cooperation agreements with:
Paris, France
Lisbon, Portugal
==Honour==
Serdica Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Serdica. ==See also==
List of churches in Sofia
List of malls in Sofia
List of tallest buildings in Sofia
Sofia Province
==References==
==Further reading==
Gigova, Irina. "The City and the Nation: Sofia’s Trajectory from Glory to Rubble in WWII," Journal of Urban History, March 2011, Vol. 37 Issue 2, pp 155–175; the 110 footnotes provide a guide to the literature on the city
Sofia in Figures 2009, annual report of the National Statistical Institute
===In Bulgarian===
==External links==
Online guide to Sofia
Official Site of Sofia Public Transport
Archival images of Sofia
Virtual Guide to Ancient Serdica
More than 25 live webcams from Sofia
Pictures from Vitosha mountain
Populated places established in the 8th century BC
Capitals in Europe
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Meditation may reduce risk of dying from heart attack, strokes Transcendental Meditation may help black people with heart disease avoid an early death from heart attack or stroke, new research shows. 11 Photos 10 dangerous myths about meditation "It appears that Transcendental Meditation is a technique that turns on the body's own pharmacy -- to repair and maintain itself," study author Dr. Robert Schneider, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention in Fairfield, Iowa and dean of Maharishi College of Perfect Health, said in a press release. In Transcendental Meditation, people use a mantra -- a word, sound or phrase that's repeated silently -- to prevent distracting thoughts from reaching the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness, according to the government's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The new study involved 201 black men and women who already had heart disease. They had an average body mass index (BMI) of 32 -- which is considered obese -- and were an average age of 59 years old. About 38 percent of the meditation group and 43 percent of the health education group were smokers. Participants were randomly assigned to either a Transcendental Meditation program in which they'd meditate with their eyes closed for about 20 minutes twice each day, or to a 20-minute health education class where professional educators taught diet and exercise tips that can be used at home. The study lasted five years, and after an initial evaluation at three months, participants were tracked every six months to see how they were doing. The researchers found that people who meditated had a 5 mmHG drop in blood pressure and reported major decreases in the amount of anger they felt compared with those taking education classes. They were also more likely to stop smoking cigarettes and less likely to die a premature death than the control subjects. "The research on Transcendental Meditation and cardiovascular disease is established well enough that physicians may safely and routinely prescribe stress reduction for their patients with this easy to implement, standardized and practical program," Schneider said. He told Theheart.org that the protective benefits may be explained by both the blood pressure drops and improvements in anger, since the latter has been tied to an elevated risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in people with heart disease. Both groups showed benefits when it came to exercise and reducing their alcohol consumption, but statistically speaking, there were no significant differences between groups in weight, exercise or diet. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and rates are about 50 percent higher in black adults compared to whites. The researchers focused on black subjects because of such health disparities in America. The study was published in the Nov. 13 issue of the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Commenting on the study, Dr. Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, told HealthDay that while some research has suggested that Transcendental Meditation carries health benefits, the new study was too small and did not conclusively show cause and effect. "More studies and replication of these findings are needed," he said. WebMD has more information on Transcendental Meditation.
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in association with Please find a few excerpts in English from our interview with Albena Danailova, "concertmistress" of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Dr. Clemens Hellsberg, VPO President. She briefly outlines her successful career and discusses her appointment as the first woman at the head of such a prestigious orchestra. Dr. Hellsberg explains the fundamental role of the concertmaster, and comments on the so-called "Viennese sound." Copyright © 2011 euronews Tags: Austria, Music, Vienna JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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John "Jack" Robson (24 May 1860 in Durham – 11 January 1922 in Manchester) was an Englishman who was the full-time secretary manager of Middlesbrough, Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion, as well as manager of Manchester United. Robson started his managerial career with Middlesbrough, where he was paid £3 a week and declined to travel to away games as an economic measure. Despite his tight-fistedness he took the club from being an amateur outfit in the Northern League to a professional club in the First Division. He was also the first manager of Crystal Palace and coached the club to one of the greatest FA Cup shocks of all time when they defeated Newcastle United at St James' Park in 1907. He later managed Brighton & Hove Albion and started the concept of being a manager and not a secretary at Manchester United. He stepped down as United manager due to ill health in October 1921 and died of pneumonia on 11 January 1922. == Honours ==
=== As a manager ===
Brighton & Hove Albion
Southern League Division One (1): 1909–10
Charity Shield (1): 1910
==Managerial statistics==
==References==
==External links==
People from Durham, County Durham
English football managers
Middlesbrough F.C. managers
Crystal Palace F.C. managers
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. managers
Manchester United F.C. managers
1922 deaths
1860 births
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St. Paul's Street (Triq San Pawl) - the main road leading from Naxxar centre, Iklin and Gharghur to San Pawl tat-Targa, Birguma, T'All u Ommu Hill, and the northern part of Malta. T'Alla u Ommu Hill (Telgħa T'Alla u Ommu) - This road is also known as Salini Road. The road leading from Naxxar to Maghtab, Salini, San Pawl il-Bahar, Bugibba/Qawra, Burmarrad and the northern part of Malta. ==Paola, Malta==
28 April Avenue (Vjal it-28 ta' April) - This road known also as Il-Benniena. The road leading from Paola to Fgura. Corradino Road (Triq Kordin) - the main road of Corradino area, connecting Paola with Fgura and Marsa, Malta. Cospicua Road (Triq Bormla) - the road leading to Corradino Industrial Estate, MCAST, Ghajn Dwieli and Cottonera area. Ghajn Dwieli Road (Triq Għajn Dwieli) - the road leading from Paola to Bormla and Senglea. Paola Hill (Telgħat Raħal Ġdid) - the road leading from Paola centre to Corradino Industrial Estate and Harbor area. Paola Square (Pjazza Antoine de Paule) - the main road of Paola centre. Sir Paul Boffa Avenue (Vjal Sir Paul Boffa) - the road leading from Paola to Marsa, Malta. St. Lucia Avenue (Vjal Santa Luċija) - the road leading from Marsa, Malta to Santa Lucija, Tarxien and Tal-Barrani Road. Valletta Road (Triq il-Belt Valletta) - This road known also as Prison Street. The road leading from Paola centre to Ta' Lourdes area. ==Pembroke, Malta==
Profs. W. Ganado Street (Triq il-Profs. W. Ganado) - the road leading from Pembroke and St. Andrew's Road to Paceville and St. George's Bay. ==Pietà, Malta==
Marina Street (Triq ix-Xatt) - The main road that connects Valletta with the Marsamxett Harbour cities, like Sliema, Gzira, Ta' Xbiex and Msida. This street also connects Valletta with the University of Malta and Malta national hospital, Mater Dei Hospital. W. Bonnici Street (Triq W. Bonnici) - The road leading from Pieta', Sa Maison area, to Valletta, Blata l-Bajda and Hamrun. ==Qormi==
Guze' Duca Street (Triq Ġużè Duca) - This road form part of Mdina Road, Qormi. This road connects Qormi with Tal-Handaq Industrial Estate. Luqa Road (Triq Ħal Luqa) - the road leading from Qormi to Hal Farrug, Luqa, the Malta International Airport and the south of Malta. Manuel Dimech Street (Triq Manwel Dimech) - the road leading from Hamrun, Marsa Racecourse and Marsa Park and Ride to Qormi, St. Sebastian Parish, centre. Mdina Road (Triq l-Imdina) - the road leading from Marsa, Malta and Luqa to Zebbug, Malta, Siggiewi, Rabat, Malta and north of Malta. Mill Street (Triq il-Mitħna) - the road leading from Qormi, St. George Parish, to Santa Venera and Birkirkara. Mriehel Bypass (Dawret l-Imrieħel) - Part of this street is also known as Triq is-Sebh. The road leading from Marsa, Malta, Marsa-Hamrun Bypass, and Regional Road to Mriehel, Attard, Balzan and the centre of Malta. ==Qrendi==
Hagar Qim Road (Triq Ħaġar Qim) - the road leading from Qrendi centre to Hagar Qim and Blue Grotto area.
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A località, in Italy, is the name given to inhabited places that are not accorded a more significant distinction in administrative law such as a frazione, comune, municipio, circoscrizione, or quartiere. The word is cognate to English locality. ISTAT defines località abitata (inhabited locality) as an "area of more or less size, normally known by its own name, on which are situated either grouped or scattered houses." Three types of inhabited locality are distinguished: inhabited center (centro abitato), inhabited nucleus (nucleo abitato), and scattered houses (case sparse). Most comuni have several località, occasionally several dozens, while some have none. The subdivision is optional. In practice, most località are small habitations, hamlets, and occasionally a mere clump of houses. ==See also==
Frazione
Circoscrizione
Rione
Terziere
Quartiere
Sestiere
Contrade
Subdivisions of Italy
Types of country subdivisions
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Web address controversy deepens after U.S. warning LONDON (Reuters) - A controversial attempt to expand Internet addresses far beyond the likes of.com,.org or.net has provoked a rare threat from the U.S. government to withdraw a key license from the body that runs the Internet's core functions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) depends on its U.S. government contract to coordinate the unique addresses that tell computers where to find each other, without which the global Internet could not function. But this month the government warned that the non-profit body's rules against conflicts of interest were not strong enough and only temporarily extended ICANN's contract - which it has held since its formation in 1998 - instead of renewing it as many in the industry had expected. A failure to secure the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract would severely damage ICANN's ability to implement its address expansion program, the most radical move in the organization's history. The conflict of interest concerns arise from the fact that some past and present board members stand to benefit financially from the liberalization of Web addresses through ties to organizations that make money from registering new domain names or consulting on the expansion. Currently, organizations are restricted to a couple of dozen so-called top-level domains, such as.com,.org or.net, or country code domains such as.co.uk. ICANN wants to enable brands, cities or firms seeking to build new Internet businesses to apply to own and run their own domains, for example.apple,.nyc or.gay, giving them more control over their Web presence and a greater choice of names. "Not to award ICANN the IANA contract would be to completely knock it off its foundations," said Philip Corwin, who is legal counsel for the Internet Commerce Association, an organization for domain name investors and developers. "ICANN needs that contract to have the authority they need to really make this program work." The contract has been renewed until September. A whole industry has already sprung up to take advantage of ICANN's initiative. One of those is Top Level Domain Holdings, a London-listed firm set up to acquire and operate the new domains, whose chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, was chairman of ICANN when it approved the change. TLDH has already put in 40 applications and intends to submit more for domains including.miami and.music.
Many critics are skeptical as to whether ICANN will achieve its stated aim of boosting competition and innovation, pointing to previous experiments with the likes of.aero,.travel and.museum, which have gone largely unused. But convinced or not, hundreds of consumer brands feel forced to apply for their own domains - a costly and complex process that comes with obligations to actively operate the domain - fearing they will lose out to rivals if they do not. A three-month window will close on April 12, likely for years and possibly forever. A recent survey by Internet registry services company Afilias, which is applying for about 150 new domains on behalf of clients and already provides key infrastructure for.org,.info and.mobi, found considerable uncertainty about the process. Of 200 major consumer brands it surveyed in the United States and Britain, 53 percent were either not aware that they could participate in the process at all or did not know that the application window was open and when it would close. Of those who were aware, however, 54 percent of brands were in the process of applying, and only 6 percent said they definitely would not. "There's a buzz about this now," said non-executive Afilias director Jonathan Robinson. Others with less of a stake in the process call such behavior outright defensive. "Of the people that I'm talking to, the vast majority of those that are moving ahead to apply don't have a concrete business initiative in mind for how they will use the registry," said Jeff Ernst of technology analysis firm Forrester. "They're fearful of another organization getting their string, or they're fearful that another competitor will buy its own and get first-mover advantage in doing something strategic." Stuart Durham, European sales director of consultancy Melbourne IT, which is preparing about 100 applications for customers, says interest is rapidly increasing as the end of the window approaches.
Joshua S. Bourne, a managing partner and co-founder of FairWinds Partners, a consultancy that works with brands on their Internet strategy, said some of the world's biggest brands were refusing to apply. "I think we're going to be very surprised on May 1st when some of the world's biggest brands aren't included," he said. "They want to make a statement because they don't agree with the whole ICANN process, but in the end I think they'll regret it."
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S. Africa: Rwandan General Testifies Over Shooting An exiled Rwandan general shot in South Africa attempted to testify about his experience during a trial over the event, but was interrupted by a Rwandan government lawyer who objected that his testimony could be political. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, took the stand Wednesday as a witness in the attempted murder case, making his first public appearance since he was shot and wounded in Johannesburg in 2010. Rwandan authorities have repeatedly denied involvement, and hired South African lawyer Gerhard van der Merwe to monitor proceedings. After the prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams, told the court he wanted Nyamwasa to describe his background, van der Merwe interrupted to say that could lead to speculation about government involvement. Magistrate Stanley Mkhari advised van der Merwe to wait until he heard evidence before objecting. Then Mkhari called a recess.
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2012-12-31 00:00:00
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Gowns that stole all the scenes at Cannes Film Festival Nicole Kidman, who has dazzled her share of red carpets in the past, didn't disappoint at Cannes with a two-layer embroidered silk organza bustier dress. (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images / May 14, 2013) Booth Moore Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic
With film premieres and parties spanning 11 days, the Cannes Film Festival was the red carpet that just wouldn't end. When it came to the fashion stakes, no one could compete with Dior designer Raf Simons and his vision of modern 21st century couture. He dressed dozens of leading ladies in a range of spectacular looks that showcased his flair for bold strokes of neon color and womanly hourglass shapes contrasted with angular, asymmetrical hemlines. And he invited the glittery crowd up the coast to Monaco where he presented the Dior Cruise runway show under a white tent overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Among the best Dior looks: Marion Cotillard in a multi-colored silk bustier dress straight from the Dior Cruise runway at the premiere of "Blood Ties." Nicole Kidman in a two-layer embroidered silk organza bustier dress at the Cannes opening ceremony. PHOTOS: Cannes Film Festival Julianne Moore in a purple lame and black bustier dress at the opening ceremony. Zhang Ziyi in a fuchsia embroidered tulle cut-off ball gown and black cigarette pants at the opening ceremony. Jessica Biel in an embroidered bustier dress accented with a pink sash at the Dior Cruise show in Monaco. Cotillard in a belted white leather trench coat with a feminine high collar and and Dior neon cap toe pumps at the Dior Cruise show in Monaco.
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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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Pentagon, governors face off over military reserve WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is upsetting the nation's governors by pushing for authority to call up military reservists for natural disasters - and to control how the troops would be used in any state. "Control" is the key word. Largely considered a wartime resource, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine reserves can be tapped by the president for military deployments overseas and for national emergencies such as terrorist attacks. But the law is largely silent when mother nature is involved. Bandied about in the past, the issue emerged anew in recent days after defense officials floated a new proposal on Capitol Hill, sparking a sharp response from the governors. At the heart of the disagreement is who will exercise the muscle to command reserve troops when they are sent to a particular state to deal with a hurricane, wildfire or other disaster. The governors see the Pentagon move as a strike at state sovereignty, while the military justifies it as a natural extension of its use of federal forces. States do want the help sometimes. Just last year, California officials grew irate when they saw helicopters sitting idle at Camp Pendleton as fires raged through the countryside. But while the Pentagon was able to direct active duty Marine helicopter units to respond to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request for aid, it could not order the nearby Marine Corps Reserve units to do the same, said Paul Stockton, the assistant secretary for homeland defense. The Pentagon argues that a change in law is needed so the president, through his defense chief, would gain the ability to mobilize reservists when a state seeks aid in a catastrophic natural disaster such as a hurricane. States have the authority to call on and command their National Guard troops in emergencies, but those Guard units are also still being used heavily by the Pentagon in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. "The key here is that right now, we lack the authority to bring to bear the hundreds of thousands of trained reserve forces that in extreme circumstances might help governors deal with the disasters in their states," Stockton said in an interview with The Associated Press. "This provision would in no way impede or undermine or inadvertently reduce the authority that governors exercise under the United States Constitution." That's not how the governors see it. The National Governors Association opposes the plan, saying it would hinder state officials' ability to provide a coordinated emergency response. While governors want the assistance, they say they must have command and control over the reservists who respond. Without that control, "strong potential exists for confusion in mission execution and the dilution of governors' control over situations with which they are more familiar and better capable of handling than a federal military commander," said Vermont Gov. James H. Douglas and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, the chairman and vice chairman of the NGA, in a letter to Stockton. Giving the Pentagon control, governors say, would also set up two chains of command, inviting confusion and complicating response efforts. The military prefers that its commanders retain control of the forces, while working with the states through coordinating task forces and other regular channels. Unlike the National Guard, which is based in each state and commanded by the governors through the states' adjutant generals, the nation's 380,000 reservists come under the control of the federal government. Guard members can be activated for federal duty, as many have for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But most often - including in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina - they operate under the control of their home-state governors. After Katrina there were suggestions that President George W. Bush federalize the Guard for the massive government response, but state officials opposed the move and it was never carried out. Reservists currently are governed by a lengthy, complex deployment process. The proposed legislation, Stockton said, would streamline that and allow a faster military response. But when the military gets involved, questions arise about "who is in control and where the buck is going to stop. Governors take very seriously the responsibility of being in command and control of those responders," said David Quam, NGA's director of federal relations. Stockton, who is meeting with military leaders including reserve commanders on the matter this week, said he is taking the governors' concerns very seriously. The two sides, he said, need to find a solution that respects the authorities of the governors, the president and the defense secretary. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made it clear in the past that he does not favor ceding control of federal forces to state governors. In 2007, Gates rejected a proposal in an independent commission report that would to let governors command active duty troops responding to disasters. Stockton said that while defense officials intend to try and work with the governors on the reserve proposal, there is no indication that Gates would have a different view on the federal reservists.
On the Net: Defense Department: http://www.defenselink.mil
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2009-12-31 00:00:00
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Tompkins Township is a civil township of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,758 at the 2000 census. ==Geography==
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it (0.77%) is water. ==Demographics==
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,758 people, 985 households, and 781 families residing in the township. The population density was 76.4 per square mile (29.5/km²). There were 1,032 housing units at an average density of 28.6 per square mile (11.0/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 96.74% White, 0.51% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.80% from other races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.34% of the population. There were 985 households out of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.0% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.7% were non-families. 17.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.13. In the township the population was spread out with 28.9% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 98.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.0 males. The median income for a household in the township was $43,203, and the median income for a family was $46,893. Males had a median income of $38,477 versus $22,411 for females. The per capita income for the township was $17,094. About 5.0% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.9% of those under age 18 and 9.4% of those age 65 or over. ==References==
==External links==
Official Website of Tompkins Township
Townships in Jackson County, Michigan
Townships in Michigan
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Strongmen weep as they bid Chavez adios Video will begin in 5 seconds. Chavez' coffin paraded through streets Hugo Chavez's body is being brought from the military hospital where he died to a military academy where it will remain until the funeral Friday. Some of the world's most notorious strongmen have wept openly at the lavish state funeral of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leftist whose revolution won him friends and foes at home and abroad. Venezuelan conductor and Los Angeles Philharmonic maestro Gustavo Dudamel led a rendition of the national anthem to open the ceremony on Friday as Chavez lay in state in a flag-covered coffin after a 14-year reign. Chavez's political heir, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, placed a replica of the golden sword of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar on his mentor's wooden casket as more than 30 heads of state applauded. Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus sat next to each other, wiping away tears as a band played one of Chavez's favorite sentimental songs, typical from his native land. Advertisement Several Latin American leaders, including Cuban President Raul Castro, were invited to stand around the coffin, which was closed and covered in the yellow, blue and red colours of Venezuela, in an honour guard. As well as alliances with a motley crew of anti-Western autocrats, Chavez had also built friendships with some Hollywood stars, including Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, who attended the funeral. Chavez's body will lie in state for seven more days and officials said his body will be embalmed and preserved "like Lenin" to rest in a glass casket in the military barracks where he plotted a failed coup in 1992. Venezuela is giving Chavez a long farewell, with hundreds of thousands of people filing past his open casket nonstop since Wednesday. Though popular among the nation's poor, his policies alienated the upper-middle class. Maduro was due to be sworn-in as acting president later on Friday pending elections. But the opposition, which is gearing up to challenge Maduro in upcoming elections, said it would boycott the event. Deputy Angel Medina of the Democratic Union Roundtable, an umbrella grouping of opposition parties, branded the hasty inauguration "another electoral act and a violation of the Venezuelan constitutional order."
Some of the world's most notorious strongmen have wept openly at the lavish state funeral of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leftist whose revolution won him friends and foes at home and abroad.
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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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Gaming curfew for South Koreans It is asking the companies to monitor the national identity numbers of their players, which includes the age of the individual. Parents can also choose to be notified if their identity number is used online. "The policy provides a way for parents to supervise their children's game playing," Lee Young-ah from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism told Reuters. The Korea Herald reports that Barameui Nara, Maple Story and Mabinogi, three popular virtual worlds, will introduce the blackout later this year. Meanwhile role playing games "Dungeon and Fighter" and "Dragon Nest" will pilot the connection slowing scheme. A total of 19 role playing games will eventually be included - a huge proportion of the online gaming market in the country. South Korea has sophisticated high speed broadband connections and online gaming is enormously popular. But there has been growing concern over the amount of time its citizens spend in virtual worlds and playing online games. A couple whose baby daughter starved while they spent up to 12 hours a day in internet cafes raising a virtual child online have made headlines around the world. They were charged with negligent homicide and are due to be sentenced on 16 April.
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2010-12-31 00:00:00
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Rep. Pete King Calls for FBI Probe of Al Qaeda Leaks Rep. Pete King, the chairman of the House committee on Homeland Security, wrote FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today to formally request that the bureau launch a comprehensive investigation into leaks of detailed and highly classified information about an international anti-terror operation involving al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula earlier this month. In the letter to Mueller, King deduces that "the leak would have to have emanated from a small universe," considering "this intelligence matter was handled in the most restricted manner." In a breach of this magnitude, King demanded that the investigation "must encompass everyone who had access to this vital information." Last week, Mueller testified before Congress that the FBI is already investigating leaks to the news media about the recently disrupted plot by al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, also known as AQAP, to smuggle a bomb designed to be concealed in underwear onto a U.S. bound jet. Reached in a phone call Monday, King told ABC News that Congress was left in the dark about the operation, which he called "almost unprecedented," but he suggested that would help narrow the possibilities of who could have disclosed the classified information. "Nobody in Congress knew about it, so we start off with that," King, R-N.Y., told ABC News Monday morning. "Even the Speaker of the House [John Boehner] didn't know about it. It's almost unprecedented. Even with [Osama] bin Laden, my understanding is certain members of Congress were told about it months in advance, the killing of bin Laden, and I know the speaker is generally briefed on critical intelligence on a regular basis...but in this case no one was briefed." "I have no idea where it's coming from," he confessed. "It had to be somebody who knew the entire situation, and again it's a very small universe." The leaks, first disclosed by the Associated Press May 7, revealed that CIA, along with Britain's MI-6 secret intelligence service and Saudi Arabian intelligence assets, apparently used a double agent to disrupt the plot by infiltrating the organization, posing as a suicide bomber, and then delivering the bomb to intelligence agents instead of carrying the device onto a U.S.-bound plane. In his letter today, King also requests that the scope of the FBI's inquiry encompass "the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, federal law enforcement and the White House, including the National Security staff." He also asks the FBI to investigate whether the lives of "a unique intelligence source" and others may have been jeopardized, to examine whether the operation had to be aborted before its potential was maximized or whether critical intelligence relationships have been damaged as a result of the leaks. "This [mole] was such a really unprecedented penetration - a very rare penetration of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," King said. "This really was criminal, and I use the term criminal, but this really was. To put the source at risk, to force the aborting of the operation, to preventing us getting more information than we would have gotten, but also to create real distress with partners that we were involved with in this operation." "Ultimately there could have been a way found to get him out...to create a situation where he doesn't necessarily have to blow his cover," he added. "Certainly the allies using him and others had not decided at all to admit that they had a source in there. You could have had cover stories, you could have had something done...there could have been ways to have extricated that person without giving up his identity." The FBI's ongoing investigation is likely being run by the Justice Department's counterespionage section and agents from the FBI's Washington Field Office. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is also conducting a separate review with the DNI's general counsel to see if the leaks originated in any of the 16 agencies that DNI James Clapper oversees. King said he is unlikely to schedule his own hearings at the Homeland Security committee, but he also sits on the Intelligence committee, where he predicted the first hearings could occur. "[House Intelligence chairman Mike Rogers] is very concerned about this and because of the security level, because of the classifications, it's right now I think more appropriate that the intelligence committee do it," King said. "It's right now I think more appropriate that the intelligence committee do it. I don't want to be getting in their way, I don't want to be duplicating hearings for the sake of duplication here." ABC News" Jason Ryan contributed to this report
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2012-12-31 00:00:00
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Dirty or demure? The stars who can't decide Dirty or demure? The stars who can't decide - Fashion Galleries - Telegraph 25 January 2013 From Jennifer Lopez's penchant for knickerless gowns, to Miranda Kerr's guess-what-I'm-hiding-under-here floral frocks, see which stars love to flirt with their femininity.
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2013-12-31 00:00:00
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Man arrested in connection with phone hacking A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice. The Metropolitan police said the man was arrested at 7am at an address in London on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. The man becomes the 18th arrest in Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking. He is not a police officer. Police said the man was being held in custody at a south London police station shortly before 8am on Wednesday. The man becomes the first arrest since Bethany Usher, a former News of the World journalist and Teesside University lecturer, was held last week over conspiracy to intercept internet communications. Usher was released on bail and denies "in any way" involvement in the "interception of telecommunications." A police spokesman said: "At 7am officers arrested the man at an address in London on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 (1) Criminal Law Act 1977 and on suspicion of perverting the course of justice contrary to common law. The man is currently in custody at a south London police station. "It would be inappropriate to discuss any further details at this time." Scotland Yard's phone-hacking squad is working its way through 300m emails from News International. A total of 120 officers and staff are now working on the investigation after 1,800 people came forward to express fears that they may have been hacked. Detectives have arrested a series of high-profile figures, including the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson. The scandal has already led to the closure of the News of the World after 168 years, prompted a major public inquiry and forced the resignation of Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and assistant commissioner John Yates. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication." • To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook
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2011-12-31 00:00:00
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