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'Valentine's Day' tops Valentine's Day weekend box office "Valentine's Day," a tale of break-ups and make-ups in Los Angeles opened with record-setting Valentine's Day weekend box office takings in North America, pulling in 52.4 million dollars, estimated figures showed Sunday. The romantic collage starring Jessica Alba, Patrick Dempsey and Ashton Kutcher, among others, beat the 52-million-dollar box office record set by "Ghost Rider" in 2007. Mythological adventure-fantasy picture "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," based on Rick Riordan's book, starring Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman, opened in second place with 31.1 million dollars, said box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Another newcomer, "The Wolfman," a remake of the lycanthrope legend with Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Geraldine Chaplin took a 30.6-million-dollar bite at the box office for third place. In fourth place was science-fiction epic "Avatar," the highest-grossing film of all time with more than two billion dollars worldwide. In its ninth week on the North American film circuit, James Cameron's film made 22 million dollars. Romantic tearjerker "Dear John" fell from the top to fifth spot in its second week. The film, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a soldier who falls in love with a college student, raked in 15.3 million dollars for a two-week total of 53.2 million. The Dwayne Johnson comedy "The Tooth Fairy," was in sixth place in its fourth week of showing, with 5.6 million dollars in box office receipts, with 41.5 million dollars in total. Action film "From Paris With Love," starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, fell from third to seventh spot in its second week with 4.7 million dollars. In eighth place was revenge thriller, "Edge of Darkness," featuring Mel Gibson in his first major screen role since 2002. The film about a hard-bitten Boston cop hunting his daughter's killers earned 4.6 million dollars for a three-week total of 36 million. Ninth position went to "Crazy Heart," a low-budget drama about a washed-up country singer struggling to rebuild his career starring Jeff Bridges in the Oscar-nominated lead role. Bridges is seen as odds-on favorite to scoop his first Academy Award for the performance. "Crazy Heart" earned 4.0 million dollars for a nine-week total of 16.5 million. Bringing up the rear, in tenth place was romantic comedy "When in Rome," starring Kristen Bell as a New Yorker seeking love in the Eternal City. It made 3.4 million dollars for a three-week total of 26 million.
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Retailers protest at display ban A ban on displaying tobacco products in stores is putting money from tills straight into the pockets of criminals, shopkeepers claim. Retailers Against Smuggling (RAS) said cigarettes sales have fallen dramatically in recent months with the black market fuelling job losses and costing the industry and hundreds of millions of euros. It maintained cigarette sales can be as high as 40% of a retailer's annual turnover. Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2009, All Rights Reserved.
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Tunisia mourns the "jasmine" dead Tunisia observes three days of national mourning for those that lost their lives during protests to oust former president Ben Ali. As normality slowly returns the interim government has announced that schools and universities will reopen after the weekend and sporting events will resume "very soon." "When more than 80 people were killed in Tunisia. I think it's the least we can do for those who went out onto the streets, who spoke up, who gave everything for Tunisia," said one resident of Tunis while another said: "The situation is still unclear, we don't know if we will go forwards or backwards. We don't who will represent or serve our country." Protests look set to continue until the government is free of all ties to the deposed president. Copyright © 2011 euronews Tags: Society, Tunisia, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali JavaScript is required in order to view this article's accompanying video
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Mortgage delinquencies predicted to drop CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The percentage of troubled U.S. home mortgages is likely to fall modestly by the end of 2012, researchers at TransUnion said Wednesday. At the end of December, the percentage of homeowners 60 days or more past due on their mortgage payments will be "just under 6 percent," TransUnion said in a statement. By the end of 2012, that figure should fall "to about 5 percent," the firm said. "Although house prices and unemployment will likely face continued pressure next year, this forecast calls for gradual improvements in the second half of 2012 to other key variables," said Tim Martin, group vice president of U.S. housing in TransUnion's financial services business unit. "If things go as expected, there are no additional negative shocks to the U.S. economy and the average borrower's situation, mortgage delinquencies could fall as much as 16 percent in 2012 compared to 2011," Martin said. Delinquencies, which can be assumed to predict foreclosures, fell 7 percent from 2009 to 2010 and 7 percent from 2010 to 2011. While the improved numbers may be modest, they follow a 50 percent increase from 2006 to 2009, TransUnion said. In addition, in quarter-to-quarter comparisons, after six consecutive quarterly declines, delinquencies have risen since the second quarter of 2011. The return to declines is expected to start with the new year, TransUnion said.
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Thome Hits 600th Home Run DETROIT (AP) - Minnesota slugger Jim Thome become the eighth player to hit 600 home runs, connecting twice against the Detroit Tigers on Monday night. The 40-year-old Thome hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning for No. 599, then added a three-run shot in the seventh. The milestone came on a 2-1 pitch from Daniel Schlereth. Both homers were hit to the opposite field. When No. 600 cleared the fence in left, Thome raised his right fist as he went around first base, and the crowd in Detroit came to its feet to applaud him. Thome became the second-fastest hitter to reach the milestone, hitting his 600th homer in at-bat No. 8,137. Babe Ruth needed only 6,921 at-bats. His 65 home runs against Detroit are his most against any team. The Tigers posted a congratulatory message on the scoreboard after Thome's homer, and the Twins came out to greet him at home plate. Fighting injuries during a frustrating season in Minnesota, Thome hasn't received nearly the amount of national publicity that his predecessors who reached the milestone did. Even Derek Jeter's accomplishment of 3,000 hits earlier this season dwarfed the attention Thome has been getting for a chase that's far more rare. Only seven hitters have hit more home runs than the bulky Thome: Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr., Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa. Rodriguez joined the 600-homer club last August. It was perhaps fitting that Thome reached No. 600 in a matchup of AL Central rivals. He hit 334 home runs with Cleveland and 134 with the Chicago White Sox. Thome is the oldest person to hit his 600th homer. Sosa previously held that mark at 38 years, 220 days. He reached the milestone in 2007. Since signing with the Twins before last season, Thome has been a popular figure at Target Field - both in the clubhouse and for the paying customers in the seats. He hit 25 home runs last season in just 276 at-bats, many of them moon shots that sailed high into the Minneapolis air and caused players, coaches, fans and everyone else to shake their head in amusement and astonishment. This season has been more of a struggle. He's been bothered by injuries to his toe, oblique and quadriceps. His milestone homer was only his 11th of the year in his 185th at-bat. But when healthy, he's still as capable as anyone of putting a powerful swing on the ball. Rodriguez needed two weeks to hit No. 600 after reaching 599 last year. Thome waited one inning. After a lineout and a single in his first two at-bats, Thome lifted a drive to left-center off Rick Porcello in the sixth, breaking a 3-all tie. That homer went an estimated 412 feet. His 600th was shorter. For a moment, it appeared Detroit left fielder Delmon Young might have a chance to make a play on the ball, but Young - who was traded from the Twins to the Tigers earlier in the day - could only watch as his former teammate's hit sailed into the Detroit bullpen. Before Monday's game, Thome hadn't homered since Aug. 4. Thome has hit at least 20 homers in 17 of his last 18 seasons - the only exception was 2005 when he hit seven in only 59 games for the Philadelphia Phillies. He revived his career with the White Sox after that, homering 42 times in 2006.
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Go Hands-Free, or Risk Points on Your License February 16, 2011, 11:55 am
Drivers, put down your phones, for the good of your licenses. Starting today, a ticket in New York State for talking on a cellphone while driving will cost you two points, in addition to the $100 it has cost since 2001, way back when New York became the first state in the nation to ban hand-held phone use while driving. Using a hands-free device remains legal. The new rule brings the talking law in line with the texting-while-driving law, which since 2009 has imposed a two-point penalty and a fine of $150. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, driver distraction is a factor in at least 20 percent of crashes in New York. Each year, more than 300,000 tickets are issued statewide for violations involving cellphone use. You have been warned.
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==Hospitals in shahkot==
Bansal Homoeo Hospital,Civil Hospital Road.9878693890
Patanjali Chikatsalya Main Bazar 9815188103
Dr. Dalip Singh Clinic Civil Hospital Road Shahkot
Bhandal Hospital Moga Road
Jain Hospital Moga Road
Civil hospital
Tagore Hospital Slaichan Road
Pannu homoeopathic clinic Near Civil Hosp. Chandigarh Dental Saidpur Road
Shahkot Mission hospital
Surindra hospital
Sadana cardic hospital
Chopra Hospital Saidpur Road
Bhagwati Hospital and Nursing Home Slaichan road
Bawa Hospital
Thind Hospital
Sukhmani Bone Hospital
Harjai Dental Hospital Main Bazzar
Naresh Hospital Civil Hospital Road
Arora Hospital Moga Road
Kanwal Dental Clinic
==Social Organizations==
Helpline Group Shahkot (Regd) President Mr. Sita Ram Thakur
Citizen Welfare Club (Regd.) Shahkot. Chairman Azad Singh Sachdeva, President Dr. Surinderpal Singh Kalra
International Human Right Org. (Regd.) Block Shahkot. President Azad Singh Sachdeva
Youth welfare club (R) Shahkot, President Mr. Davinder Singh Ahluwalia
Sikh Students Federation, President Mr. Amandeep Singh Ahluwalia
Niskam welfare club shalapur shahkot President Mr.Rajwinder singh dhanju
Shri Satya Sai Baba Social & Welfare Society, Malsian (Shahkot),Rajan Trehan
All India human rights committee (kamaljit bhatti. Gen sec. punjab)
RTI SENA
ALL INDIA CONSUMER PROTECTION ORGANISATION (Vice president, Punjab)
==Petrol pump==
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The number of people with at least one refugee ancestor then grows faster than 3%, since it takes on average less than 2 existing refugee descendants to make each extra refugee descendant. That is, the number of descendants of a subset of a population grows faster than that of the whole population. Clearer than mud, I hope. Clear but troubling, in that we now have people classed as refugees who descend from non-refugee parents as well, and may well have grown up in the ancestral homes of those non-refugee parents. This is a problem with the unique definition of refugee in the case of Palestinians. Jayjg (talk)
It isn't so simple, because the UNRWA definition only covers descendants in the male line. Whether that is always adhered to in practice, I don't know. It means that the number of refugees and descendants is a different statistic from the number of UNRWA-eligible persons. Another contribution to the difference is those people who move to a country (eg USA) not covered by UNRWA. I haven't researched numbers, but can imagine there being a million or two people difference between the two counts. :As Zero has asked before, where did the 6 million figure come from? Is it widely accepted? Who's claiming it and how do they substantiate it? ::The UNWRA claims there are over 4 million Palestinian refugees. Palestinians claim as many as 8 million Palestinians. They don't substantiate it in any meaningful way that I can see. Jayjg (talk)
:::Then I don't see the point in discussing them (except for the fun of it). :::According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it appears that the total number of Palestinians world-wide is 9.7 million, which corresponds to a growth rate of 3.6% per year from 1.3 million in 1948. Dunno what this means. Also note that "refugees" may also refer to those internally displaced within Israel, those living in refugee-camps in the occupied territories, those displaced in 1967, and as Zero has pointed out, the descendants of at least one refugee ancestor. ::::Wow, 1.3 million in 1948. That's almost twice the official estimate made by the U.N.'s statistician in 1950, which would indicate a much, much higher growth rate than 3.6%. One wonders why they didn't just round it up to 1.5 million for "simplicity". Jayjg (talk)
:::::No, Jayjg, this refers to the total number of Palestinians world-wide, i.e., those that are descendants of the original non-Jewish population of Palestine, which numbered 1.3 million in 1948.
::::::Ah, I see. Sorry for the confusion. Jayjg (talk)
Part of the reason for this is the very broad definition the UN has specifically for Palestinian refugees, as opposed to other types of refugee. Palestinians were counted as refugees even if they had only lived in Palestine for 2 years before 1948, even if they only moved from one part of Palestine to another, and regardless of their reason for leaving (normally the reason has to be a "well-founded fear of being persecuted"). == POV Tag ==
In light of the vigorous consensus-building and dispute resolution attempts in Talk sections of articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, I am removing the POV tags. If someone has a any further problems not already covered in Talk then by all means restore the tag but please start a new section and bring forth your concerns for consensus building. These perpetual NPOV tags are unreasonable. palestenians have lots of children. It is not unusual to find 15 or 16 children in one family. I added a POV tag for the following reasons:
Only one historian's work (Benny Morris) is referenced for much of the article's body. There exists much controversy over the accuracy of Morris' work. Only one school of thought (New Historians) is represented for most of the body. Other historian
Other viewpoints on the set of events listed in the article are neither given space nor is their existance mentioned. Loaded terminology is repeatedly used. Many of the quotes are not listed in the reference area, nor is cross-referencing provided for their sources. While this is not technically a POV issue, I feel that this exacerbates the underlying POV issue by not allowing the reader to read the source firsthand, and to see if the writer read the material firsthand or was relying on its reference elsewhere for information. I missed this section, so I just removed it. Apologies. | 997 | null | null | 413,569,423 | "2011-02-12T22:19:38" | 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight/Archive 1 | 2,011 |
How previous Government housing schemes have failed to help buyers and home owners One of the main criticisms of such schemes is that they don't provide a lift for the rest of the housing market. If first-time buyers are only able to use this funding to buy newbuilds this doesn't help on the next run of the ladder who can't sell because first-time buyers can't raise the necessary finances. First Buy grew out of the Home Buy scheme, launched by the last Government with similar fanfare. This scheme was designed primarily to encourage developers to build affordable housing for key workers. But while it has helped some with new build properties, affordable housing still remains a significant problem, particularly in urban areas and the South East. It isn't just first time buyers that the Government has been keen to help. It's also targeted taxpayers money at home owners who are struggling with monthly repayments - again with mixed results. In 2008 the Labour Government announced its flagship "mortgage rescue scheme." This £240 million scheme was designed to stop borrowers being evicted from their homes. Latest figures published earlier this year suggest that just 2,600 households have been helped by this scheme - significantly less than the 6,000 families the Government said it would help when the scheme was launched. New figures are expected to be announced this week. Under this scheme, families were able to either get an equity loan to reduce their mortgage, or sell their home and remain as tenants. The Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme (HMS) has been even less effective. This allowed home owners to reduce their monthly mortgage repayment for up to two years, if they had lost their income, because they had been made redundant or faced reduced hours, for example. It closed in April and just 63 home owners had made use of the support scheme. Latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show the number of homes taken into possession to be largely unchanged, increasing by one per cent on the previous quarter to 9,200. Historically low interest rates have helped many families struggling with mortgage repayment, but there are fears that when rates do go up, this picture could change dramatically, particularly if unemployment is still climbing. Earlier this month, Grant Shapps, the housing minister said that over the next two years the Government was investing £200 million into the Mortgage Rescue scheme, which is designed to offer "a last resort to the most vulnerable families to avoid repossession." He added: "Owning a home is an aspiration for many people. But just as we are helping people to get onto the property ladder we are also committed to ensuring advice, information and real practical support is available to help ensure that even in tough times people are helped to stay on the property ladder and that repossession remains the last resort."
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U.S. Warns Egypt as Military Stalls Transition Moises Saman for The New York Times The ruling military council in Egypt, whose members include Maj. Gen. Mohsen el-Fangary, center, has not acted on its pledges to yield quickly to civilian control. CAIRO - Brazen attempts by Egypt's interim military rulers to hold on to power long after elections have elicited a sharp reaction domestically and for the first time have prompted Washington to warn about the potential for new unrest. After months of mixing gentle pressure with broad support for the ruling military council, the Obama administration has sharpened its tone, senior administration officials say, expressing concern that the failure to move to civilian control could undermine the defining revolt of the Arab Spring. The shift in tone is part of a difficult balancing act for Washington, which is keen to preserve its ties to the military and its interests in the region, chiefly Egypt's role in maintaining peace with Israel. But Washington also hopes to win favor with Egypt's newly empowered political opposition while avoiding the appearance of endorsing the military's stalled transition to democracy. All things considered, some here have suggested, the change in tone may be intended to placate Egyptian public opinion rather than actually press the military to give up power. "I think they are working for their own interests, particularly regarding the slow transition of power," said Shady el-Ghazaly Harb, a prominent liberal activist who was among the leaders of the Egyptian revolution. "The U.S. wants to guarantee that the coming government will be on good terms - I won't say loyal, but friendly - and the support for SCAF is related to that." SCAF is the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt's ruling military council. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underscored the shift in a speech last week that her aides later said was a deliberate warning to the military council, which assumed power after President Hosni Mubarak's ouster. The military had initially pledged to hand over control to civilians by September, but it now says that a presidential election will not occur before 2013. And last week it laid out a blueprint for the next constitution, giving the military special political powers and protection from civilian oversight into perpetuity. "If, over time, the most powerful political force in Egypt remains a roomful of unelected officials, they will have planted the seeds for future unrest, and Egyptians will have missed a historic opportunity," Mrs. Clinton warned. "When unelected authorities say they want to be out of the business of governing," the United States expects them "to lay out a clear road map" and "abide by it," she added. Given Washington's long support for Mr. Mubarak, and Mrs. Clinton's comment last month approving of the military's extended timetable for electing a civilian president, there was suspicion over Washington's intentions. The shift occurred at the same time as a broader effort by the Obama administration to counter anti-American sentiment and reach out to opposition leaders across the political spectrum. The United States "wants to have the cake and eat it, too," said Nabil Fahmy, a former Egyptian ambassador to Washington, arguing that the United States wants to promote democracy without dealing with the pressure it would put on American interests in region. The military's attempts to protect its power and privileges indefinitely have created an awkward situation for Washington. The United States, through the Pentagon in particular, has long nurtured close ties with the Egyptian military, which still receives $1.3 billion in American aid each year. American officials hope that whatever government emerges will continue to support American policy, including maintaining ties with Israel and distance from Iran. At the same time, the United States" standing in public opinion in Egypt and around the region continues to suffer because of decades of support for undemocratic governments like the military-backed system that controlled Egypt under Mr. Mubarak. Remaining aloof from the debate over the military's future role here risks reinforcing those criticisms at a time when democratic changes are giving public opinion new weight. As part of its broader outreach, the Obama administration has also met with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group whose political party is poised to win a major role in the country's new Parliament and remains the biggest political counterweight to the military council. Jacob Walles, a deputy assistant secretary of state, met for the first time this week with the leaders of the Brotherhood's newly formed Freedom and Justice Party at its new headquarters in Cairo. While American diplomats have had intermittent contacts for years with Brotherhood lawmakers in the Egyptian Parliament, officials here said Mr. Walles's meeting appeared to underscore Mrs. Clinton's pledges to cooperate with Islamist parties that respect democracy. Others said it might instead have been a sign that Washington simply realized that the Brotherhood was certain to play a crucial role in Egypt's future and was likely to win a large bloc of seats in the parliamentary elections that begin this month. | 1,008 | -492,003,017,848,575,300 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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Marseille will do all they can to land Drogba Marseille president Pape Diouf insists he will do everything he can to bring Didier Drogba back to the Stade Velodrome. Chelsea bought Drogba from OM in the summer of 2004 for around £24m. But the Ivory Coast international holds the Mediterranean club dear to his heart and spoke recently about the possibility of "finishing his adventure" with OM. Diouf has not given up hope of witnessing the return of the 30-year-old, whose form in his season at Marseille in both Ligue 1 and Europe earned him the French player of the year award. "We must talk to our supporters in adult language," Diouf told 10 Sport. "They know we do what we say, and vice-versa. To say to them, 'We are going to win the Champions League' or 'Drogba is going to return', I will not allow myself to do it - that would be showing them a lack of respect. "On the other hand, to say to them, 'Like you, I really want Drogba to come back and if there is a possibility of doing it, I will do it', that I can guarantee them. "Each time I see him, I say to him, 'Now Didier, get your bags together and come back here!"' Marseille last month dismissed talk of a move for Drogba, labelling him "inaccessible" at the moment. Diouf appreciates Marseille cannot match the wages the striker earns at Chelsea but believes there could be ways around it. "Even if the possibility is thin, it still exists," Diouf added. "When you look at the economic reality square in the face, it isn't reasonable for a French club. "However, you can't exclude thinking of other scenarios, like the boy accepting a pay cut, efforts on our part..."
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Ryd is a locality situated in Tingsryd Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 1,446 inhabitants in 2005. == References ==
Populated places in Kronoberg County
Ryd (Tingsryd)
Ryd
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FT.com / Middle East - US wants Israel settlement freeze for year Jerusalem, Aug 6 - The United States has asked Israel to freeze West Bank settlement for a year to prod Arab countries to take steps towards normalising relations with the Jewish state, an Israeli newspaper said on Thursday. Defence Minister Ehud Barak, in interviews with two Israeli radio stations, made no comment on the report in the Haaretz newspaper. But he said "an attempt to reach understandings" with Washington over a suspension of construction in settlements was being held in tandem with US President Barack Obama's efforts to persuade Arab countries to make overtures to Israel and revive peace talks. "All this is in the context of a broad plan for a comprehensive regional agreement that is apparently shaping up as a possible initiative by President Obama with the main focus on the Palestinians and a door kept open, after a certain delay, for Syria and Lebanon," Mr Barak told Israel Radio. The Haaretz newspaper said a proposal for a one-year settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank was raised by Mr Obama's special envoy, George Mitchell, during talks inJerusalem last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel prefers a six-month freeze, the newspaper said. Mr Mitchell and Mr Netanyahu said last week they had made progress in their talks. The issue has opened the widest rift in US-Israeli relations in a decade and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said peace negotiations with Israel, suspended since December, cannot resume until settlement activity ceases. Mr Barak, who also met Mr Mitchell last week, said on Tuesday Washington would present a Middle East plan within weeks and Israel should accept it. He has publicly raised the possibility of a deal under which Israel would halt construction in settlements but complete projects under way in return for peace overtures by Arab states. Arab moves towards commercial or diplomatic ties with Israel could help Mr Netanyahu persuade partners in his right-leaning coalition to accept a compromise on settlements. But there has been little indication Arab countries in the region would make such gestures without a settlement freeze. Kuwait and Jordan said last week in Washington that Israel should fulfil its obligations before peace talks can resume. Saudi Arabia accused the Jewish state of not being serious about peace with the Palestinians. Israeli media have speculated the Obama administration would put forward new peace proposals to try to break the stalemate reached in talks Israel and the Palestinians launched at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland in November 2007. A US State Department spokesman said last week that Mr Mitchell would announce a peace plan "in a matter of weeks."
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Nukes: Iran Flunks IAEA Report Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. Do Iran's leaders want to be punished? Do they want China and Russia to fall in with the United States, France, Britain and Germany to impose tougher sanctions? Do they want to see the leaders of the Arab world united against them? Do they want to mix it up with Israel and the United States? Of course Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his gang don't say that, but the juvenile games they're playing with the international community make them look more like dangerous delinquents every day. The report on Iran's nuclear program released by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday afternoon offers the most recent case in point. If it were a report card, it would give three grades, and two of them would be F's. As for what used to be called comportment? Most unsatisfactory. Here's the breakdown and background: Nuclear History 101: Iran gets a passing grade, but barely. In late August, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei agreed with Ali Larijani, who was then Iran's top negotiator, on a "work plan" to try to cool off the increasingly tense confrontation between Tehran and the international community. The aim was to resolve critical questions about a part of Iran's nuclear program that it had kept secret for at least 15 years, from 1987 to 2002, while using designs and equipment facilitated by "the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb," the infamous AQ Khan. Were the Iranians making a bomb, too? That was the real question. But in the face of flat denials, the details of the program had to be picked apart. (Remember, Iran insists its nuclear program was always entirely peaceful. But remember, too, that when the secret program began, the Iranian regime was in the midst of its long, savage, no-holds-barred war with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had already used chemical weapons against Iranian troops and was well on his way to developing his own atomic weapons.) Repeated IAEA inspections since 2003 have turned up traces of nuclear fuel and important isotopes in places the Iranians couldn't or wouldn't explain. There were indications some of the equipment used for enriching uranium might have gone to the Iranian military. It wasn't clear where all the equipment and designs came from, or how they were used. A suspicious document was found that seemed closely related to the manufacture of nuclear bombs.
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Crying Calif mom arraigned on murder, rape charges STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - A woman kidnapped, raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl and stuffed her body in a suitcase that was dumped in a pond just a few miles from home, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Melissa Huckaby, 28, was charged with murdering her daughter's playmate, Sandra Cantu, in a gruesome crime that has shocked and terrified residents of Tracy, a Northern California city of about 78,000, 60 miles east of San Francisco. Huckaby, who volunteered as a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather's Clover Road Baptist Church in Tracy, appeared in a San Joaquin County courtroom for her arraignment in a red jumpsuit and shackles. She trembled and cried as a judge read the charge: one count of murder with the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd or lascivious conduct with a child under 14 and murder in the course of a kidnapping. The special circumstances mean Huckaby, if convicted, could face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. District Attorney James Willett said Tuesday he has not decided whether to seek the death penalty. During Tuesday's hearing, which lasted several minutes, public defender Ellen Schwarzenberg asked Judge Richard A. Vlavianos for a gag order in the case. Vlavianos said that question would be answered by his colleague, Judge Terrence Van Oss, who would be presiding over future hearings. Vlavianos ordered Huckaby to return to court April 24, when she's expected to enter a plea. Family members of the defendant and victim filed quietly into and out of the courtroom Tuesday, declining to speak with reporters. Many cried softly during the hearing and became especially emotional when the rape allegation was read. Sandra disappeared March 27, last seen on surveillance camera video skipping outside the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where she lived just five doors from Huckaby. A 10-day search by law enforcement and the community ended April 6, when farmworkers draining an irrigation pond a few miles away from the mobile home complex found the suitcase containing Sandra's body. Police have said Sandra was found wearing the same clothes she had on when she was last seen: a pink "Hello Kitty" T-shirt and black leggings. They have not said how, why or where she was killed, and the coroner's office has said autopsy results are pending. A criminal complaint said the murder occurred "on or about" March 27 but gave no other details. Huckaby was arrested Friday, hours after she told a Tracy Press reporter that the suitcase was hers but it had been stolen the day Sandra went missing. In the days after Sandra's body was found, police searched Clover Road Baptist Church, interviewed Huckaby's grandfather, Pastor Clifford Lawless, and took items from the family's home. Huckaby lived with her grandparents. She grew up in Southern California and bounced back and forth between Tracy and Orange County after high school, said her family, who described her as a loving mother with a strong religious background. Relatives visited Huckaby late Monday at the San Joaquin County Jail, where she was being held without bail. "We're in shock," said Brian Lawless, Huckaby's father. "The young lady I see on film, that's not my daughter," he said, referring to images of her broadcast on television. Lawless said the family cried and prayed together during the visit. The little girl's family broke down in tears when they were told of the sexual assault allegations. "I'm in shock. The whole thing is unimaginable," Sandra's aunt, Angie Chavez, said Monday. The slaying had already aroused fear among parents in Tracy and particularly in the mobile home complex. Josie Orozco, who lives in the complex and attends the same church as Sandra's family, emerged from the courtroom crying after the arraignment. She said that while Huckaby may have appeared remorseful during the hearing, she didn't believe the emotion was genuine. "She knew what she was doing. She could have asked for help. She could have gone to a doctor if she was sick this way," Orozco said.
Associated Press writers Marcus Wohlsen and Evelyn Nieves contributed to this report.
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Overseas deal making rebounded slightly from Q2 but still trails 2010 levels. Similar to Canada, activity levels have increased but large deals have been few and far between. There were only six deals greater than $500 million during the quarter, with only the United Kingdom having more than one. Also, only six countries saw more than $500 million in total value, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Iraq, Norway and United Kingdom. Even with a fairly slow 2011, expectations are that international activity will rebound in the near term. Of the $90 billion of deals in play, $50 billion are overseas. According to Anders Witteman, Norway-based partner of Derrick, "North Sea activity saw a marked change with GDF SUEZ sale to China Investment Corp. bringing Chinese investors closer to the North Sea than ever before; ExxonMobil's sale of the mature Mobil legacy portfolio to Apache for a repeat of the 2003 BP Forties deal; and Premier's acquisition of EnCore is evidence of value creation from exploration in the North Sea." PLS, Inc. and Derrick Petroleum Services are partners in providing U.S., Canadian and International clients leading Global and U.S. M&A databases and services. These databases are maintained 24/7 by a team of analysts and are accessible via the web. To access the full report, please visit www.plsx.com/ma. Media Contact:
Reid Strand, M&A Analyst, PLS, Inc. 713-650-1212, rstrand@plsx.com
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But how is a guy named "John Van Busack" qualified to write authentically about Asian-American stereotypes? Also, of all the African-American themed films out there that deal with racial isses, a huge majority of them have white villains. I'm white, but I'm okay with that; it's pretty much how history turned out. Nobody else gives a darn, either. So why all the uproar when there's an Asian character used as the antagonist? He's not even a "villain" in the usual sense; his portrayal is actually considerably more sympathetic than the critics are claiming. At the end of the film, even his father is "won over" by Akeelah's grace and kindness. His father is hardly portrayed as a "Nazi" (I still can't believe those critics dropped the n-bomb! ), any more than Akeelah's own mother is. She gets quite domineering at times, too, but she also softens up toward the end. I know what I'm talking about, too. I go to a largely white, high school but at least 40% of my friends (could be more, even) are black, Hispanic, or Asian. It's always been that way; I'm something of a Maniac Magee by nature. So I have a good understanding about race relations here in America. And I highly doubt that even one of my Asian classmates would be offended by this film. It seems like the highfalutin whites who write those kind of reviews are more offended by (real or imagined) stereotypes of minorities in the media than the minorities themselves are! Why do Asians need some white, liberal movie critic to tell them what they should and should not be offended by? They are smart enough to decide that themselves. These ultra-politically-correct movie reviewers are probably more motivated by assuaging their own white guilt then by genuine racial sensitivity; they're insincere! That's what ticks me off about political correctness; I'm all for racial sensitivity, but we should listen to people who are actually qualified to talk about racial issues. Rather than deleting the criticism section, maybe give a shorter and more nuanced view. Unless the criticism is completely unnotable. Nothing inherently wrong with having a minority play the anti-hero. kwami
(from above)"One of the critical reviews even violates Godwin's Law and has no place in an objective encyclopedia!" No, it doesn't "violate" Godwin's law. The only way you could "violate" that law is to have an infinitely long forum thread that never did mention Nazis or fascism, contrary to Godwin's assertion that a forum thread is increasingly likely to mention it. People are always misstating Godwin's law and making false statements about its intent and its annoying. signed: unregged user —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.1.7 (talk)
OK, so what would the correct term be? Should I have said that it verifies Godwin's Law instead? Honestly, the things that make some people annoyed...sheesh. Anyway, I just returned to this page after several months (sorry I haven't edited it in a while; I just "forgot" about it for a few months and decided to come back out to finish the job I started). It looks as if the most blatant "criticisms" have been deleted, which is good. I did have to clarify something, though; the article said (matter-of-factly, not as part of a review quote) that Dylan's dad was given "the only overtly racist line in the whole movie". That is not true, there are at least three (two of which are spoken by Akeelah's own brother). These other examples include:
Terrence (Akeelah's brother): "I can't stand that Korean kid." Terrence's friend: "He's Chinese." Terrence: "Yeah, whatever." Also, when Akeelah is given a particularly hard word (it's been a while since I last watched the movie; I can't remember which one it was exactly, Terrence says: "Now that's a white word if I ever saw one". So I deleted the "only racist line" reference. If anyone disagrees with me, just feel free to speak up. Other than that, it looks as if Kwami (or whoever it was) has done a pretty good job of cleaning up this article. I'm going to remove the POV tag, although I'll probably come back once in a while, just out of curiosity. It's also worth noting that Akeelah and Dylan are tied at the end of the movie (sorry for the spoiler). | 1,015 | null | null | 414,118,165 | "2011-02-15T20:10:41" | Akeelah and the Bee | 2,011 |
guns, guns and more guns
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Trainer Bill Mott's Patient Approach Paid Off With a Big November Marc Serota for The New York Times Bill Mott won six graded stakes races in November. "What started out as a very slow year has ended up good," he said. Bill Mott has had a very good month - the kind that he patiently spent a year working toward. It is a month that should earn him his third Eclipse Award as the nation's outstanding horse trainer. When To Honor and Serve ran away with the Cigar Mile on Saturday at Aqueduct, it was Mott's sixth graded stakes victory in November and third in a prestigious Grade I race. "What started out as a very slow year has ended up good," Mott, 58, said in the laconic monotone he has kept from his native South Dakota. It's impossible to overlook Mott's November, not only because it vaulted him into fourth place in the national trainer standings with $10,357,428 in purse earnings, but also because he won the races that have mattered most. By winning the $2 million Breeders" Cup Ladies Classic on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs, Mott sealed the 3-year-old filly title for Royal Delta along with demonstrating once more that there may not be a better trainer of fillies and mares in the nation. He has won the Ladies" Classic four times, including the 2010 race with Unrivaled Belle. The next day, Mott shocked many by sending out an underachieving colt named Drosselmeyer in the $5 million Breeders" Cup Classic and winning at odds of 14-1. Mott has earned his reputation as half horse by letting his athletes tell him how they are doing. He never rushes a horse or falls in love with a plan. Mott makes it up as he goes. That is perhaps a reason many horseplayers still overlook Mott, despite the fact that he was the youngest trainer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at 45 and was the manager of the career of the great Cigar. Since winning last year's Belmont Stakes, Drosselmeyer - on paper, at least - looked like a plodder better suited for the Breeders" Cup Marathon than the Classic. He had won only once, in a minor stakes race, in his previous six starts. Each November to April, Mott's horses go to Payson Park, a European-styled training center in South Florida where they are encouraged to simply be horses. They are turned out in paddocks and given turns rolling in the sand of a circular pen. By adhering to this schedule, Mott's stable doesn't really get geared up until the summer, which has a lot to do with why Mott has entered only seven horses in the Kentucky Derby. Mott lets his horses play their way into shape - something that took Drosselmeyer until autumn to do. "We gave him a lot of time," Mott said. "He had a couple of easy months off, didn't do anything. We brought him back in the beginning of the year. He was fat and really kind of didn't get in the rhythm the first two or three races." Drosselmeyer won his fourth start at Belmont, then finished second in the Grade II Brooklyn Handicap there in June. He was tried on turf in the Grade I Sword Dancer at Saratoga in August. Although that experiment looked like a failure when the colt finished seventh, Drosselmeyer emerged from it as a different horse. He finished second in the Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup in October at Belmont and continued to look like an improving horse in the mornings. So Mott reached out to another Hall of Famer, Mike Smith, who rode the colt in the Belmont Stakes and who has earned a reputation as a muscled rider for horses that need to be ridden every step of the way. It was the final piece of the puzzle. "You keep working with them, and the horses keep improving," Mott said of his philosophy. "If they stay sound and they're healthy - you know they've got good pedigrees - a lot of times, they climb that ladder." This past week, two more of Mott's runners demonstrated that the trainer's approach indeed works. On Thanksgiving Day, Arena Elvira won the Grade II Falls City Handicap for fillies and mares by a neck at Churchill Downs, where Mott is the career leader with 656 wins. Even though she had won seven of her last nine starts, Arena Elvira didn't compete in graded stakes company until her last start, the Grade III Turnback the Alarm at Aqueduct on Nov. 4. | 992 | -5,031,933,771,616,737,000 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
== The'requested' photo ==
Does anyone have any ideas for what should be in the'main' photo of Mountshannon? The maze is the most recognisable feature I can think of, but it's in a park, so photos of it will make Mountshannon look like a random field. Dark-Fire | 70 | null | null | 328,674,751 | "2009-11-29T22:30:23" | Mountshannon | 2,011 |
Economist.com Economist.com World trade and commercial aircraft A dogfight no one can win From The Economist print edition Negotiation, not litigation, is the best way to limit the subsidies to Airbus and Boeing - and stop a trade war AFTER five years of litigation and almost 100 bound volumes of evidence, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is about to deliver its preliminary ruling on America's (for which read Boeing's) complaint against the provision of prohibited subsidies to Europe's commercial aircraft industry (for which read Airbus). The United States alleges that this support was worth $200 billion over 20 years. Whatever the outcome - and Boeing is confident of victory - this will be only the first stage of a lengthy process (see article). In a few months the WTO will rule on a counter-claim by the European Union that Boeing received about $24 billion in subsidies over the past two decades as well as large, non-repayable benefits from military and space contracts. Both rulings are subject to appeal. Peter Mandelson, Europe's trade commissioner before becoming Gordon Brown's minister for everything, described the dispute as the biggest, most difficult and most expensive in WTO history. This first ruling is a potential thunderbolt that could ignite a damaging trade dispute between America and Europe at a time when both economies need to present a united front on trade, to prevent a slide towards protectionism. The origins of the dispute lie in America's decision, at Boeing's prompting, to withdraw in 2004 from a 12-year-old bilateral agreement with Europe governing trade in large civil aircraft. The agreement banned direct production and sales subsidies, but let governments continue to funnel money into new aircraft projects. It permitted both repayable direct state aid (the European approach) covering up to a third of all development costs, known as launch aid, and indirect state aid (the American approach) if limited to 3% of the domestic industry's sales volume. Boeing, however, says it expected the deal to lead to a gradual reduction in subsidies to Airbus. When this failed to materialise, it withdrew. What caused its patience to run out? Two things: the success of Airbus in achieving rough market-share parity at the end of the 1990s, and resentment over launch aid for the A380, the superjumbo designed to bring to an end the long reign of the 747. Boeing also wanted to shield its 777 and new 787 from "unfair" competition in the form of Airbus's launch-aid-supported A350. Boeing is right to argue that all subsidies distort competition. But although the subsidies that Airbus receives are different from Boeing's, they are not necessarily much worse. At least they are transparent - and Europe claims that by 2007 Airbus had repaid 40% more than it had been given. Nor has the effect of the subsidies received by both firms been anti-competitive. Boeing and Airbus fight like rats in a sack for every sale, with the consequence that airlines have been able to buy cheaper and better aircraft than if one firm had been dominant. Two other points should be borne in mind. The first is that it is out of date to see either firm as a national champion. The size and riskiness of large commercial-aircraft projects has forced even Boeing to create extended international supply chains. Second, the aircraft-makers" subsidies pale by comparison with those doled out by governments on both sides of the Atlantic in the past year. Leaving aside the trillions of dollars spent on preventing financial collapse, industrial subsidies of a kind almost certainly illegal under WTO rules have mushroomed. General Motors alone has been propped up to the tune of $55 billion. If America and Europe were to go to war over subsidies now they would find what military planners call a "target-rich environment." Both sides should therefore hold their fire until the WTO rules on Europe's complaint. Then, putting further litigation to one side, they should head for the negotiating table. The aim should be to secure a new deal along the lines of the old agreement, but this time with an explicit goal of phasing out the most egregious subsidies within a reasonable period. The alternative of an escalating tit-for-tat trade dispute between Europe and America does not bear thinking about.
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== March 2009 ==
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to United States Army, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: United States Army was changed by 67.96.186.113 (u) (t) blanking the page on 2009-03-27T21:16:44+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot (talk) | 203 | null | null | 280,085,008 | "2009-03-27T21:16:52" | 67.96.186.113 | 2,011 |
To answer your question, though, the ten edits can be to anything at all - even your post here counts towards the total. == changing picture? ==
How do you change the picture on the wiki page? 98.149.35.240 (talk)
If you have a picture that you think would improve a Wikipedia page, there are four steps to think about:
# Copyright - is this a picture that you took yourself? If not, things get complicated very quickly, as the copyright-holder would need to provide evidence that they were willing to release their copyright (see Donating copyright materials for this). But if it is a picture you took yourself, we can go on to step two. # Create an account - only logged-in users can upload images. See this page. # Upload the file to Wikimedia Commons using this link. Choose a good descriptive name for the file, and try to fill in as many of the other fields as you can. For "licensing", either choose the "recommended" option from the list, or place the image entirely in the public domain. # Edit the article to use your image instead of the old one. Click the "Edit" label at the top of the article, and look for something like or (And if not, any ideas where I should post such a bio, instead of Wikipedia?) Thanks in advance for your help! Lwhiteman (talk)
Unless it's been published then it would be original research. Without contacting the family - who are not independent, and may exaggerate or embellish the account, or ignore anything of a critical nature - how can the information be verified? Wikipedia needs information to be verifiable at independent reliable sources
Incidentally, Alternate outlets might have some useful ideas for you, also if you told us who it is, we might be able to help find sources
== Nomination for Deletion of "MichaelMullen.org" ==
Hi,
I created a page for my web-site, michaelmullen.org, but I got a message saying it will be deleted. I want to know what I did wrong in creating this page and how I can fix it. Thanks,
AbbleFan (talk)
You have created the same page three different timestwice, each one totally promotional and without value. "MichaelMullen.org displays his latest works and has great articles of anything and everything..." is an advertisement, and has no place here. Could the notices on your talk page not be any more clear? – ukexpat (talk)
= December 11 =
== what do u guys called vandalism ==
i got a message from DVdm telling me he was going to block me ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Leghacy_of_444&diff=401772267&oldid=401771475 ) because of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Soldati?diff=401772191 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leghacy of 444 (talk • contribs)
You wouldn't be blocked for that edit in isolation, but for the overall collection of your edits. For the particular edit, the original problem was that you hadn't given a reference, but subsequently you have been edit-warring by repeatedly reverting, and hence you are close to being blocked for 3RR. In other cases you have been adding inappropriate information to other users' talk pages, and you were warned at your own talk page. - David Biddulph (talk)
I think your edit shouldn't really be called vandalism. It was probably an overreaction by DVdm when he saw your edit, something that is all too easy to do when patrolling recent changes. However, I think the tone of your contribution wasn't really suitable for an encyclopedia - you were implying that most people in that particular area of Buenos Aires are "poor", which they might not be too happy about. Much better to stick to the facts, for example saying "the average wage in Villa Soldati is X amount of dollars" - and of course this has to be backed up by a source that can verify it. See VERIFY and NPOV for more details. There is also the fact that some of your other edits were adding external links to other users' talk pages which is against Wikipedia policy. Just like David Biddulph said above, it is the combined effect of all your edits that ended up with the blocking threat. | 990 | null | null | 410,530,949 | "2011-01-28T09:03:31" | New contributors' help page/Archive/2010/December | 2,011 |
Clive Lyle is a fictional character in the three important and last novels by Peter Niesewand, the South African journalist who spent 73 days in solitary confinement for his coverage of the last years of Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He features as a United States agent, working variously for the CIA and DIA. He uses his ambiguous sexuality ("Is that true about you, Clive?" "Not necessarily") to advantage in | 95 | null | null | 445,374,568 | "2011-08-17T18:24:21" | Clive Lyle | 2,011 |
Ogilvy extends lead as Woods falls five behind By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - Australia's Geoff Ogilvy produced two more birdies to finish the rain-affected third round at the WGC-CA Championship 16 under-par overall but world number one Tiger Woods slipped down the leaderboard. Ogilvy has a lead of four shots over a quintet of players while Woods, who has not lost since September, is tied in seventh place, five shots off the lead. Organizers are hoping to complete the competition with the entire fourth round on Sunday. Ogilvy's round had been halted as he approached the 12th tee on Saturday but he picked up where he had left off with birdies on the 14th, 16th as he posted a four under par 68. Fiji's Vijay Singh and England's Graeme Storm both posted outstanding nine-under par rounds of 63 to move ahead of Woods and into contention at 12 under -- four behind Ogilvy. South African Retief Goosen, who birdied three of the last four holes, and American Jim Furyk were also tied in second place along with Australian Adam Scott, who fell back after bogeying the 17th. Woods posted an even-par 72 and now has a mammoth task if he is to maintain his winning streak. The 32-year-old American has won his last seven tournaments worldwide and nine of his last 10. (Editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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Tables is a free software spreadsheet application that is part of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite by KDE. Among Tables's features are multiple sheets per document, assorted formatting possibilities, support for more than 300 built-in functions, templates, chart, spell-check, hyperlinks, data sorting and scripting with Python, Ruby and JavaScript. Tables's native file format has been OpenDocument since version two and previously used its own XML format, compressed with ZIP. Tables also has the ability to import several spreadsheet formats, including XLS (Microsoft Excel), Applix Spreadsheet, Quattro Pro, CSV, dBase, Gnumeric, SXC (OpenOffice.org XML), Kexi and TXT. It supports export of OpenDocument Spreadsheet, SXC, Tables document, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, TeX and TXT. Tables does not support export of XLS (as of version 1.6.3). == KChart ==
KChart is the charting tool of Calligra Suite. The plug-in is relatively simple compared to other office applications such as OpenOffice.org, being designed for small datasets, and using only the most common 5-6 types of chart ( | 263 | null | null | 451,142,597 | "2011-09-18T13:36:20" | Calligra Sheets | 2,011 |
Edu learns to be patient in comeback bid The Rangers midfielder Maurice Edu will not rush himself back into action, despite being desperate to play his part in what could be the biggest season of his career. The 23-year-old has been sidelined by a knee injury since helping the Ibrox club regain the SPL on the final day of last season. The American confidently predicted he would return to action at the beginning of September and although he has declared he is close to returning, he will not make the same mistake again. That is because he is taking no chances on missing out on the second half of Rangers' first Champions League group campaign for two years and a first World Cup after the United States sealed their place in South Africa on Saturday. "This could be a big year for me, probably the biggest of my career," Edu said. "I'm looking to make the most of it and it all starts here at the club. First of all, I need to get back in the Rangers team. "I'm obviously anxious to get back playing again but, at the same time, I've got to be a little bit patient. Even though I know I'm very close to being fit again, I don't want to rush myself and try to come back too early and end up back on the treatment table. "It's certainly exciting to be doing more things now - I'm out of the gym at last and I'm getting outside to do a bit of jogging. I'm just trying to stay level-headed and I'm not getting carried away. It was maybe a little naive to say I was looking to be back again in the second week of September. "On reflection, I should just have taken things day by day. I would have loved to have been back playing earlier than this but it hasn't worked out. "With that said, I still feel like I'm making progress and doing the right things I need to do to come back and be a stronger player," he said. "As simple as it sounds, I just want to kick a ball around again. I want to take a shot, chase somebody down, make a tackle and play a pass. "I don't want to be feeling any niggles - I want to come back at a level where I'm not going to shy away from tackles because I'm scared of what might happen. I have good days and bad ones, too. As much as it's a physical battle with my body to get fit again, it's a mental one as well. "As much as this game requires you to have a certain amount of ability, you also need to be a strong person and that's definitely the key to succeeding. Seeing the boys out on the training ground every day, playing in the SPL and Champions League is hard when you're restricted to working in the gym. It's difficult to miss out on them but it also makes you so much hungrier to get back out there and play beside them." Edu's mood has been buoyed by his recuperating alongside Rangers team-mate Kirk Broadfoot, who has also yet to feature this term. "We like to wind each other up and the guys in the dressing room call us Ebony and Ivory because we spend so much time together!" Edu joked. "It's always good to have someone beside you when you're going through your rehab. As much as it sucks that he's injured too, it means we have each other to lean on. Kirk is one of my good friends in the team and we've got a good relationship. We've just clicked really well and have similar interests."
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President Mahinda Rajapakse did declare a two-day suspension of offensive operations between April 13 and 14, to coincide with the traditional New Year holiday. During the truce, only about 700 civilians managed to escape the fighting. The latest bout of heavy fighting commenced soon after, with the government rejecting calls by the U.N. and several western countries - including the U.S. - to extend the truce. "The process of the complete defeat of the LTTE has just begun," President Rajapakse told AFP news agency on Monday morning, as he watched footage of the exodus obtained by UAVs showing long lines of civilians crossing over to army-held areas. "It is now all over for the Tigers." The Defense Ministry later termed the latest flood of civilian escapees "the world's largest hostage rescue mission." The coming days are likely to see more civilians trying to escape the fighting as the military intensifies its advances to corner the Tigers, who are now left with only two options - surrender or die fighting. See pictures of areas previously controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
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Printer Friendly A rising star of classical music performed for taxi drivers at an airport in New York yesterday to thank a driver for returning his $4 million Stradivarius violin. Philippe Quint, a Grammy award-nominated violinist, played Paganini from the film The Red Violin, an arrangement of Gershwin and one of his own compositions to a lunchtime crowd of 200 drivers at Newark Liberty international airport. "The atmosphere is very interesting, to say the least" Mr Quint told The Times. "Right now, it really feels I am among my friends." Mr Quint, 34, promised to give the unusual performance after Mohamed Khalil, a taxi driver, returned the 1723 Antonio Stradivari "ex-Kiesewetter" - on loan from a wealthy philanthropist - when the musician left it behind in his taxi. The violinist and his girlfriend climbed into the car driven by Mr Khalil at Newark airport shortly after midnight on April 21. Mr Khalil took them to Mr Quint's flat in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan but drove off without realising they had left the violin behind. Mr Quint called the police and the airport authority and went to the offices of the Newark Taxi Commission to try to find the instrument. The next morning Mr Khalil, 57, unwittingly took the violin with him as he took passengers to New Jersey and New York and went to a car inspection. When he learnt of the hunt he arranged to return the violin. Mr Quint, who was born in Russia, is not the first classical musician to leave his instrument behind. A violinist in Toronto forgot his $77,000 (£39,000) violin as he climbed aboard a bus. It was returned when it was spotted in the shopping trolley of a homeless woman. In 2004 Gidon Kremer left his $3 million Guarneri del Gesù violin on a train in Baltimore. It was retrieved by porters at the next stop. Perhaps the most famous incident occurred when Yo-Yo Ma left his $2 million cello in a taxi after performing at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1999. It was also returned to him. When Mr Quint was reunited with his violin he dropped to his knees in joy. "He hugged me, he cried, he said he couldn't believe it. I didn't even know what was in the bag," Mr Khalil said. "He said, 'This violin is my life and it belongs to someone else'." Mr Quint gave Mr Khalil the $100 he had in his wallet but promised to thank him by performing for taxi drivers at Newark airport. Mr Khalil, who emigrated from Egypt in 1980, received a medal from Newark's Mayor for his honesty.
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Chinese dairy knew milk fault weeks before recall BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese dairy that sold milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants knew it contained a banned chemical weeks before ordering a recall, the health minister said Saturday. One child has died and an official said the number of children sickened had risen to 432. Investigators have detained 19 people and are questioning 78 to find out how melamine was added to milk supplied to Sanlu Group Co., China's biggest milk powder producer, officials said at a news conference. They said some tainted powder was exported to Taiwan but none was sent to other foreign markets. In Taiwan, authorities seized thousands of bags of Chinese milk powder. There was no word on whether any was consumed in Taiwan. Chinese officials defended the speed of their response to the country's latest product safety disaster. They said authorities were only told of the contamination Monday, even though Sanlu received complaints as early as March and its tests found melamine in August. "For a comparatively long time, the Sanlu Group failed to report this incident to the government," said Health Minister Gao Qiang. "The Sanlu Group should shoulder major responsibility for this." Gao gave no indication what penalties Sanlu might face but said those to blame would "be dealt with severely." Officials are investigating whether word of the contamination was suppressed, said Vice Gov. Yang Chongyong of Hebei province, where Sanlu Group is located. "We will look into whether government at any level was negligent or whether any officials tried to withhold information," Yang said. "If we find anyone did this, they will be held accountable." Yang said he did not know the identities of the people detained but said investigators were looking into whether dairy farmers added the chemical. Gao said it might have been done to fool quality tests after water was added to fraudulently increase the milk's volume. Melamine is rich in nitrogen, and standard tests for protein in food ingredients measure nitrogen levels. The number of cases of kidney stones in babies who were fed Sanlu milk has risen to 432 in areas scattered around China, Gao said. He said Beijing was sending experts to treat them and will pay for their care. "We are confident that with timely diagnosis and treatment, these infant patients will recover soon," he said. The incident reflects China's enduring problems with product safety despite a shake-up of its regulatory system after a spate of warnings and recalls about tainted toothpaste, faulty tires and other goods. The biggest group of victims is in China itself, where shoddy or counterfeit products are common. Infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or injured by tainted or fake milk, medicines, liquor and other products. Authorities have seized 2,176 tons of Sanlu formula and ordered a recall totaling 8,218 tons, Yang said. That was far more than the 700 tons in Sanlu's initial recall announcement on Thursday. Yang gave no indication whether the recall might increase. Beijing has launched an emergency inspection of all 175 companies in China that produce infant formula, Gao said. In Taiwan, Liu Fang-ming of the Taoyuan county government said the Chinese shipment of milk powder, which arrived in June, was 55,115 pounds. Liu said only 21,660 pounds had been recovered. Taiwan and China split in 1949 amid civil war and have no formal relations, but indirect trade is booming. Gao said Beijing informed Taiwan through the agencies that maintain informal contact between the two governments. Xinhua cited a Gansu provincial health department spokesman as saying he received reports on July 16 that 16 infants under a year old, all of whom drank Sanlu milk, were suffering a rare kidney ailment. He said the Health Ministry launched an epidemic survey. "However, there seemed no food and safety survey had been done. Otherwise, the health, and even lives, of many infants could have been saved," Xinhua said. A Sanlu manager quoted by the newspaper Beijing News said the dairy received complaints in March and June but could not track down the problem. "We finally imported foreign equipment in August and finally found the milk powder contained melamine," said the manager, identified only by the surname Wang. Sanlu buys milk from a nationwide network of suppliers that includes 60,000 family farms, according to its Web site. This is China's second high-profile case in four years involving harmful baby formula. In 2004, more than 200 infants suffered malnutrition and at least 12 died after being fed phony formula with no nutrients. Some 40 companies were found to be making phony formula and 47 people were arrested.
On the Net: Sanlu Group: http://www.sanlu.com
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The former Royal Air Force Station Dale, commonly known as RAF Dale, was a World War II Royal Air Force airfield, located close to Dale, Pembrokeshire. Construction of the airfield began between the villages of Dale and Marloes in 1941. It became operational in June 1942. Initially it was to be named RAF Marloes, planned as a satellite to nearby RAF Talbenny. Following cessation of activities in World War II, RAF Dale was decommissioned, and the site became occupied by the Fleet Air Arm as RNAS Dale (aka HMS Goldcrest). Now owned privately by a local farmer, in May 2010, an illegal rave was held on the site, attracting 2,500 people. Dyfed-Powys Police were forced eventually to create road blocks to stop further attendees joining, and release an announcement on local media. After the rave ended on Monday 31 May, six men aged between 23 and 52 were charged with offences under Section 136 of the Licensing Act for carrying out unlicensed licensable activity. ==References==
Royal Air Force stations in Wales | 233 | null | null | 422,181,929 | "2011-04-03T18:38:01" | RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest) | 2,011 |
Property Values - What You Get for... $250,000 - NYTimes.com Centerville, Mass. WHAT: A two-bedroom one-bath cottage on Cape Cod SETTING: Craigville Beach (which is public) and the adjacent Covell's Beach (which is not) are a mile's walk from the house. The Wompanoag Indians called Centerville "Chequaquet" - "pleasant harbor," or "village by the sea." The Barnstable Municipal Airport is about 10 minutes away, and Boston an hour and a half. COMMON SPACES: The first floor progresses through living, kitchen and dining areas, with a bathroom at the back. There is nautically themed carpeting in the stairwell. PERSONAL SPACES: Two bedrooms are on the second floor. A small deck juts off the master; bunkbeds in the other are built into the wall. Both rooms have skylights. OUTDOOR SPACE: The house has an outdoor shower, a wooden deck through French doors off the master bedroom, and a driveway made from crushed shells. TAXES: $2,328.94 a year (estimated for the next owner) CONTACT: Tiffany Swan, Sotheby's International Realty (508) 957-5577; www.sothebysrealty.com Hot Springs, Ark. WHAT: A three-bedroom two-bath house on Lake Hamilton SETTING: The house is steps from Lake Hamilton, about 15 minutes from downtown Hot Springs. Swimmers, boaters and water skiers abound. The Little Rock airport is an hour away; Memphis International Airport is about three hours away. Hot Springs is built around a geological fault on the western face of a mountain, which Native Americans used as a source of healing waters for years before entrepreneurs, recognizing resort potential, propped up makeshift cabins for visitors. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson made it the country's first federally protected park. Among historic Hot Springs" attractions is Bathhouse Row, eight pre-Depression bathhouses lining Central Avenue. Only one, the Buckstaff Bath House, works today; another, the Fordyce Bathhouse, was renovated to near-original condition and operates as a museum glorifying bygone forms of pampering. COMMON SPACES: A living room beyond the front door leads to a kitchen. On a slightly lower level to the right of the kitchen is a tiled dining area that opens onto a deck through French doors. The current owner, an electrician, rewired the house recently. PERSONAL SPACES: A downstairs bedroom has a door leading out to the backyard. The master bedroom, one of two upstairs, overlooks Lake Hamilton. OUTDOOR SPACE: A fenced-in yard slopes down to a boat deck on 50 feet of lake frontage. TAXES: $491.02 a year CONTACT: Bobbie Rushing, ERA Rushing McAdams Polychron Realtors (501) 609-6999; www.erahotsprings.com Carson, N.M. WHAT: A one-bedroom one-bath house neighboring Carson National Forest SETTING: Carson is an unincorporated community anchored by a post office and a mom-and-pop store. Carson's eastern end disappears into the Rio Grande Gorge and a 1.5-million acre national forest, which separates it from Taos. Trails in the forest are used for hiking and biking during summer months, and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter. The Taos Ski Valley is a 75-minute drive away. Taos, population 5,000, is home to a longstanding arts community. A regional airport is 30 minutes away; the international airport in Albuquerque is two and a half hours. COMMON SPACES: The main house has an L shape. Its entryway leads to a living room with a wood-burning stove (to supplement the roof and kitchen's solar panels); around the corner is a bedroom area, a dining area and a kitchen. The one-car garage has two adjoining rooms, one currently used for making art, the other for meditation - though storage is also an option. Passive solar power collects in broad, slanted windows on the southwestern face of the house, and active solar panels on the roof provide energy to a bank of batteries. PERSONAL SPACES: The floor plan is open, with a bedroom area between the living and dining areas. OUTDOOR SPACE: The house is surrounded by 12 acres of juniper and piñon. TAXES: $702 a year CONTACT: Dawn Grainger, Prudential Taos Real Estate (575) 758-1924; www.prudentialtaosrealestate.com/
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Smith scores 25, Mercer routs Stetson 91-57 MACON, Ga. (AP) - Jeff Smith scored a career-high 25 points, going 7-for-8 from 3-point range, as Mercer routed Stetson 91-57 on Saturday to end a three-game skid. The Bears avenged a 76-69 loss at Stetson on Jan. 22, which started the losing streak. Smith was 8-for-11 from the field for Mercer, while Daniel Emerson added 18 points and 12 rebounds, E.J. Kusnyer had 15 points and James Florence and Brandon Moore scored 11 each. Brian Mills grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds, including 12 defensive boards. Mercer (10-11, 6-5 Atlantic Sun Conference) led 33-15 in the first half before taking a 41-32 advantage into halftime. After Florence hit a 3-pointer to open the second half, Stetson (5-15, 3-9) could get no closer than 10 points. A.J. Smith led the Hatters with 15 points and six boards as Mercer outrebounded Stetson 47-25. Tyshawn Patterson added 10 points for the Hatters. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Ifanirea is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ikongo, which is a part of Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 19,000 in 2001 commune census. Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. The majority 95% of the population of the commune are farmers. The most important crops are coffee and rice, while other important agricultural products are bananas and cassava. Services provide employment for 5% of the population. == References and notes ==
Populated places in Vatovavy-Fitovinany
Ifanirea
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Royal Caribbean Floats Out Independence of the Seas MIAMI, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In less than a year, Royal
Caribbean International's Independence of the Seas will make her debut in
Southampton, England where she will be the largest ship ever to be home-ported
in Europe. With her hull now complete, Independence of the Seas, under
construction at Aker Yards in Turku, Finland, reached an important maritime
milestone today when she was "floated out" -- moved from dry dock to wet dock
-- for the final months of finishing work leading up to her May 2008 debut. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070914/CLF090) At official ceremonies held at the shipyard, Royal Caribbean executives,
Harri Kulovaara, executive vice president, Maritime; Lisa Bauer, senior vice
president, Sales, and Captain Hernan Zini were joined by Juha Heikinheimo,
president, Aker Yards Cruise and Ferries, and Jykri Heinamaa, Turku Yard
Director, Aker Yards, as well as an exclusive group of Royal Caribbean's
travel partners, to turn the valve releasing 87 million gallons of water into
the wet dock area. Independence of the Seas will share the title of worlds largest cruise
ship with her sister-ships, Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas,
weighing in at 160,000 GRT and holding 3,634 guests, double-occupancy. In
addition to new programs and onboard embellishments yet to be announced,
amenities on Independence will include the popular innovations already found
on her sister-ships, including the FlowRider surf simulator; the wet and wild
H20 Zone aqua park; cantilevered whirlpools suspended 112 feet above the
ocean; an ice-skating rink; a boxing ring; and the 1,215-square-foot
Presidential Family Suite, which sleeps up to 14. Royal Caribbean International is a global cruise brand with 21 ships
currently in service and three under construction. The line also offers
unique land-tour vacations in Alaska, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, South
America and New Zealand through its cruisetour division. For additional
information or to make reservations, call your travel agent, visit
www.royalcaribbean.com or call (800) Royal-Caribbean. For travel
professionals, go to www.cruisingpower.com or call (800) 327-2056. SOURCE Royal Caribbean International Copyright 2006 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.
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Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam (شاهرخ مشکین قلم, Šârukh Muškîn Qalam) is an Iranian modern dancer trained and based in Paris. A graduate in History of Art and Theatre from the University of Paris 8, he is choreographer, actor, and director. In addition, he is the founder and former artistic director of Nakissa Art Company. ==Style==
He was born and spent his very early youth in Iran, but spent his early teens in Paris trained in various styles of dance. His choreography style is usually based on Persian classical music that brings Persian myths, poetry, and dance together to create an atmosphere of magical quality. He has danced in Seven Pavilions of Love, Sohrab and Gordafarid, and Khosrow and Shirin. In his Dance-Mythologic (a collection of Dances based on Persian mythology) piece, Shahrokh is a story teller translating the lines from thousands of years ago into movements familiar to today's audience all over the world. In Moshkin Ghalam’s view, movement is to convey a message; he does not believe in using movement for the sake of movement. His extensive training in world dances, along with his open-mindedness, allows him to take all that he feels necessary from other cultures, add to it, or sometimes re-invent it each time in a new context for a different purpose. "I came to realize the importance of my roots, my heritage, my being Iranian after I left Iran. It happened over the course of my six-year collaboration with Ariane Mnouchkine, who reminded us that every single one of us, who came from all over the world, had something to contribute to this magical world of theatre." "I turned to our myths, our legends, our great epic Shahnameh and tried to learn as much as I could." Shahrokh draws inspiration from diverse Eastern traditions to create a unique style of dance. Persian, Kurdish, Sufi and Indian influences blend with a contemporary training in both dance and theatre. ==Performed Works==
In 2002 the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden invited him to perform Seven Pavilion Ballet based on the works of great Persian poet Nezami. Dance Variations on Persian themes created in 2007 is his last work which is a collection of his best choreographies performed with Karine Gonzalesthe major dancer of his company. His Omar Khayyam Ballet inspired by the Quatrains of 12 century Persian poet | 556 | null | null | 421,434,711 | "2011-03-30T04:35:54" | Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam | 2,011 |
Researchers confirm safety of kidney donations People who donate a kidney to a sick friend or relative live at least as long as others in the general population and may, in fact, live somewhat longer because they tend to take better care of themselves after the procedure, researchers reported Tuesday. "We have intuitively... felt this way, and hoped that this operation is safe, but this is the first time that we have been able to demonstrate it in a national representation of live donors," said Dr. Dorry L. Segev of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, lead author of the report appearing in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Live-donor kidney transplants have become increasingly common in recent years because of the large number of people who need kidneys and the limited availability of cadaver organs. Currently, there are 83,754 Americans waiting for a kidney transplant, 80% of the number of people waiting for any organ, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which helps allocate organs. In 2008, there were 5,968 living-donor kidney transplants. Several small studies have suggested that donation is safe, but the low rate of risk has made accurate estimates difficult. To surmount that problem, Segev and his colleagues studied the 80,347 Americans who donated kidneys between April 1, 1994, and March 31, 2009. The team compared them to 9,364 participants in a large government survey -- the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey -- who met the criteria for kidney donation. There were 25 deaths in the first 90 days after surgery among the donors, for a rate of 3.1 deaths per 10,000 subjects, compared to a rate of 0.4 per 10,000 in the control group. That suggests the procedure "has always been profoundly safe," Segev said. The risk of dying during a gallbladder removal, in comparison, is six times higher. Death rates in the first 90 days were slightly higher for men than for women and for blacks than for whites. The highest risk, 36.7 deaths per 10,000 donors, occurred among donors who had high blood pressure. From the survey forms used in the study, it is not clear if the hypertension was controlled or uncontrolled, Segev said. But it "would probably be wise for hypertensive patients considering donation to be treated through a carefully maintained protocol," he added. The results "confirm that this is a safe operation," he said. "But it also gives us more specific numbers that we can give patients who are considering doing this. This is a very personal decision with no medical benefit for the donor, so it requires very careful consideration of what the risks are."
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Sutlepa sea is a lake of Estonia. ==See also==
List of lakes of Estonia
Lakes of Estonia
Noarootsi Parish | 34 | null | null | 429,966,739 | "2011-05-19T23:57:06" | Sutlepa Sea | 2,011 |
Baghlani Jadid (surface: 1,613 km²) is a district of Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan. It has a population of about 119,607. ==Geography==
The district is situated in the northernmost part of the province. It borders Kunduz Province to the north and Samangan Province to the west. Most of the population live in the valley of the Kunduz River. The majority of its territory is uninhabited mountain ranges. An all-weather Kunduz-Kabul highway passes through the district from north to south. The main city is Baghlani Jadid. In 2005, Baghlani Jadid absorbed the district of Baghlan, also in Baghlan Province, to create a new and bigger Baghlani Jadid district. ==Demographics==
According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, the population of the district was estimated to be around 119,607 in 2004. Ethnically, Pashtuns are around 50% of the population and make up the majority in the district, followed by Tajiks at 40% and Uzbeks make up the remaining 10%. ==References==
Districts of Baghlan Province
Daerah Baghlani Jadid
ضلع بغلان جدید
Baglani Cedid ilçesi | 308 | null | null | 432,690,053 | "2011-06-05T15:01:18" | Baghlani Jadid District | 2,011 |
Hezbollah: Israel planning to kill leader BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 22 (UPI) -- A Hezbollah official in Lebanon says Israel is planning to assassinate the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and is running drills to prepare for the fallout. Nawaf al-Mussawi, head of Hezbollah's office of international relations and a candidate for the Lebanese elections, told London's Arabic newspaper Al Sharq al-Awsat that Israel's upcoming home front exercise, the third since the war in Lebanon in 2006, is aimed at preparing Israelis for the repercussions of assassinating the secretary-general of Hezbollah, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The June 2 Israeli drill, dubbed Turning Point 3, will involve the sounding of sirens and civilians will be encouraged to enter bomb shelters or other secure locations. In a televised address Monday Nasrallah himself said the drill could be an indication of "a new and unexpected war" to be waged by Israel. He said there was no current evidence of an impending attack but "it is a possibility that cannot be ignored." "This gives the impression that Israel is preparing for a security or military attack on something, and assume that this aggression will lead to sudden and unpredictable reactions," the Hezbollah leader said. Israeli diplomatic officials brushed off Nasrallah's suggestions as internal political posturing.
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Albert Neil Cleary (16 June 1919 – 20 March 1945) was an Australian soldier during the Second World War. Part of the 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, he became a prisoner of war to the Japanese following the Battle of Singapore. He died following an escape attempt in 1945. In 2001, the Australian Labor Party introduced a bill to have Cleary and two others awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, however this was defeated by the Federal Liberal Government. In 2011, Cleary was awarded a posthumous Commendation for Gallantry. ==Notes==
1919 births
1945 deaths
Australian prisoners of war
Australian military personnel killed in World War II
People from Geelong
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Ireland's PM under pressure to quit Sources say backbenchers want Brian Cowen to resign as PM after the country's cost-cutting budget on 7 December. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Pressure is mounting on Brian Cowen to step down as Ireland's prime minister after one of the governing coalition's partners called for a general election and backbenchers in his own Fianna Fáil party moved against him. Party sources have told the Guardian that backbenchers want Cowen to resign as taoiseach shortly after the country's cost-cutting budget on 7 December, saying his credibility was "shattered" after Ireland agreed to seek an international rescue package worth an estimated €90bn (£77bn). Meanwhile, the Green party today said the electorate felt "misled and betrayed" by recent events and they now needed "political certainty." The moves by the Greens and the pressure from within Fianna Fáil increase the likelihood of a general election in the new year. The Greens pledged to support Cowen's administration until the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union are concluded, but said it wanted the country to go the polls in the second half of January. "Leaving the country without a government while these matters are unresolved would be very damaging and would breach our duty of care," the party said in a statement. "But we have now reached a point where the Irish people need political certainty to take them beyond the coming two months." John Gormley, leader of the Greens, said he had discussed the issue with Cowen, who had expressed disappointment about their decision. Gormley said the party had always said it would only continue in the administration as long as it would benefit the people, but leaving the country without a government would be damaging and breach is duty of care. He said the decision was made last Saturday after a long series of meetings. At a specially convened press conference in Dublin today, he said the last three weeks had been traumatic for Irish people. "Since entering government in June 2007, we in the Green party have worked to fix and reform the economy. It has been difficult. We have taken tough decisions and put the national interest first," he said. Gormley said there had been significant communication problems within government in recent days, and that the Greens had not been able to receive clear answers to their questions. Pressure on Cowen to resign had mounted today with two backbenchers breaking ranks. Cork TD Noel O'Flynn called on Cowen to step down after the budget. Fianna Fail veteran Mary O'Rourke, a former minister, fanned the flames of dissent further by calling for a party summit in January to discuss the questions of the leadership and an election. "I would support the Taoiseach until the budget and the finality of that, after that I think the Fianna Fail should meet in the first week in January and as a party we should decide on our future together," she said. O'Rourke is part of one of Ireland's oldest political dynasties - her nephew Brian Lenihan is the finance minister and her late brother Brian Lenihan Snr was one of the most prominent politicians in Ireland in the 80s and 90s. Party sources have told the Guardian that support for Cowen is slipping after he repeatedly denied that Ireland needed a bailout. "We cannot go into a general election with Brian as leader after the events of last week. His credibility is shattered," one senior Fianna Fáil source said. Britain is expected to contribute around £7bn to the Irish rescue package, and may offer a bilateral loan to Ireland. George Osborne, the chancellor, moved to reassure Tory eurosceptics by insisting that a planned loan would not set a precedent for British help to other troubled eurozone countries. As eurosceptic Conservatives prepared to raise their concerns with the chancellor in the Commons this afternoon, Osborne said that Britain was simply preparing to help its closest neighbour in its hour of need. "Ireland is a friend in need and we are here to help," the chancellor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of a Commons statement this afternoon. However, the prospect of Britain supporting the Irish rescue package has alarmed some eurosceptic politicians. "We shouldn't be paying to help keep Ireland in the euro. If we are going to pay to solve this crisis we should be helping to pay Ireland to quit the euro," the Conservative MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell, told the BBC.
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What is congestive heart failure? Elizabeth Taylor's death reminds us of deadly condition Elizabeth Taylor posing in an old film still. (Credit: Getty) (CBS) American film icon Elizabeth Taylor has died at 79 of congestive heart failure. What is it and can it happen to you? Congestive heart failure is a condition where your heart is no longer strong enough to pump blood throughout your body. It can be caused by many things, including persistent high blood pressure, clogging of the arteries that lead to the heart, and even diabetes. It's not the same as a heart attack, which is when your heart suddenly stops. Congestive heart failure can cause tiredness and shortness of breath, buildup of fluid in the legs and feet, and most distinctively, a buildup of fluid and blood in the lungs. The lungs become congested, hence the name. About five million Americans have congestive heart failure, according to the government, and 300,000 die from it each year. If you experience the following symptoms, the National Institutes of Health recommends you get medical attention.? Sudden weight gain (2 pounds in 1 day or 5 pounds in 5 days)
? Worsening shortness of breath
? Increased swelling of your feet, legs or abdomen
? Needing more pillows or sleeping in a recliner
? Waking from sleep to catch your breath
? New or worsening dizziness
? A cough that does not go away
? New or increased irregularities in your heart rate
? Any problem with heart failure medications If you experience these symptoms, call 911 or go to the emergency room immediately.? Severe shortness of breath
? Coughing up pink, frothy spetum
? Chest discomfort, pain or pressure not relieved by rest an/or nitroglycerin pills That's the scary news. The good news is that for many people, there are tons of things to do that can help prevent the condition - everything from regular exercise to a healthy diet that is watchful of fats and salt. There are also medications that can help such as diuretics, beta blockers and ACE inhibitors. For more information, check out this congestive heart failure guide (PDF) from the National Institutes of Health.
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Mossad: the elite women who work for 'the family" By Gordon Thomas
Published: 7:30PM GMT 20 Feb 2010
From the moment Mahmoud al-Mabhouh checked into his suite at the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel, he became Gail Folliard's target. Mabhouh was in Dubai to buy missiles from Iran which would then be smuggled to Gaza and launched on Israel. Gail Folliard was on business, too. The hotel's security cameras silently observed her as she walked through the ballroom-sized lobby, around the pool area and past the eight restaurants. Ms Folliard paid for her room in cash. It was the first step in ensuring she left no trail. The passport in Ms Folliard's shoulder bag was an Irish one, giving her age as 26. We now know that passport was a fake - and that her lipsticked smile (right) concealed that she was a member of kidon, the department of Mossad responsible for assassination and kidnapping. She is one of six women in the unit of 48. Meir Amit, the director-general of Mossad in the 1960s, laid down the rules for kidon women in a document that remains in force today. It contains the following passage: "A woman has skills a man simply does not have. She knows how to listen. Pillow talk is not a problem for her. The history of modern intelligence is filled with accounts of women who have used their sex for the good of their country... It is not just sleeping with someone if required. It is to lead a man to believe you will do so in return for what he has to tell you." These skills are honed during the two-year course all Mossad recruits undergo at the training school, a dun-coloured building outside Tel Aviv. The women are taught how to shadow a target; how to create a dead-letter box; how to break into a hotel room. "Gail Folliard" would have been shown how to pack a gun inside her knickers; stealing passports and disguise are also on the curriculum. The failure rate is high. Those who pass work either at Mossad's headquarters in Tel Aviv or at one of its many overseas stations. A few are then considered for further training as kidon. The unit is based in the Negev desert, the pay £2,000 a month. Ms Folliard would have been told that joining the kidon was like joining a family and she would be protected and nurtured. In return she would serve the family in any way it asked. Arguably the most famous female kidon was Cheryl Ben-Tov, code-named Cindy. Born in Orlando, Florida, Cheryl moved to Israel to study Hebrew and Jewish history. At 18 she fell in love with an Israeli who worked for the Internal Security Service, Shin Beth. A year after they married, Cheryl volunteered to join Mossad. Her motivation, she later told me, was "the thrill of its mystery." Her training taught her, among other skills, how to construct a waterproof strip of microfilm that could be left buried in the side of a river bank. She also learnt how to change her facial appearance by inserting cotton wadding in her cheeks. She became adept at posing as a drunk and chatting up men in nightclubs, then disengaging herself outside their hotel. With an IQ of 140, and her ideal psychological profile, Cheryl was invited to join the kidon. On the day she was trucked out to its base in the Negev, she was questioned about her sexual experience. Would she sleep with a stranger if her mission demanded it? She answered truthfully: there had been no one before her husband, but if she was convinced the success of the mission depended on it, then she would. "It would purely be sex, not love," she explained to me. In 2004, Cheryl joined a team of nine katsas - field intelligence officers - in London. Their task was to entrap Mordechai Vanunu, who had worked at Israeli's top-secret nuclear facility in the Negev desert, but had fled to London to try to sell his story. Mossad had to stop him from doing so, and Cheryl was chosen as the bait to trap him. Using her seduction skills, she "came alongside" Vanunu in Leicester Square. Their relationship quickly developed, and Vanunu suggested they spend the night together. Cheryl agreed, saying they should go to Rome and "enjoy a few romantic days in the city of love," as she put it to me. | 965 | -1,860,184,989,146,769,000 | 2010-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Iceland, Thailand, London best-value destinations: guide Iceland and London are among the world's best-value destinations thanks to the economic crisis, travel guide firm Lonely Planet said Tuesday, while Thailand remains tough to beat. South Africa, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Bulgaria, Kenya and Las Vegas in Nevada rounded out the top 10, said the British-based company in its "Best In Travel 2010" guide. The annual snapshot book captures "the world's hottest travel trends, destinations, journeys and experiences for the year ahead," Lonely Planet said. The economic collapse in Iceland meant the island was no longer punitively expensive, said the guide, putting the beleaguered country at the top of its best-value list. "Have you always wanted to discover this magical, mysterious country? To explore ice caps and volcanoes, and wallow in hot springs? Been put off because of the prohibitive prices? Well, 2010 is your year." Thailand, at number two, remained "perennially good value," said the book. "It's one of the cheapest long-haul holidays for European holidaymakers... visitors are always spoilt for choice regarding accommodation." Meanwhile London's days as a costly destination were now over, Lonely Planet said. "Long ludicrously expensive, London has become much more affordable for visitors from abroad, if not for its residents," said the guide. "The favourable exchange rate means that travellers will often find hotels and meals up to half the price they were a few years ago." Elsewhere in the top 10, Malaysia "is a clever choice for travellers on the lookout for a bargain," while in India "your money stretches almost as far as the infamous Indian'stretchable' time." "South Africa is not only about an amazing climate, vast unspoilt scenery, balmy sandy beaches, extraordinary wildlife and adventure activities, but the cost of living is low, so it's also excellent value for money." The top 10 countries overall for travellers were El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Suriname and the United States. The top 10 cities were Abu Dhabi, Charleston (South Carolina), Cork (Ireland), Cuenca (Ecuador), Istanbul, Kyoto (Japan), Lecce (Italy), Sarajevo, Singapore and Vancouver (Canada). Bali (Indonesia), Goa (India), Koh Kong (Cambodia), Southern Africa and southwest Western Australia featured among the top 10 regions. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of March 26, 2010 LOS ANGELES, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of March 26 through March 28, 2010 according to the company's Box Office Essentials™ theatrical box office data collection and analytical service. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 28, 2010 include: Weekend
Rank Title Distributor Gross Cume Locations
1 How To Train Your Paramount $43,300,000 $43,300,000 4055
Dragon
2 Alice In Wonderland Disney $17,284,000 $293,111,077 3384
Machine
4 Bounty Hunter, The Sony $12,400,000 $38,811,702 3074
5 Diary Of A Wimpy 20th Century $10,000,000 $35,776,429 3083
Kid Fox
6 She's Out Of My Paramount $3,526,000 $25,600,342 2432
League
7 Green Zone Universal $3,349,670 $30,440,195 2564
8 Shutter Island Paramount $3,175,000 $120,600,065 2123
10 Our Family Wedding Fox $2,220,000 $16,805,923 1139
Searchlight
Fox
12 Remember Me Entertainment $1,900,000 $17,001,142 1935
Summit
Weekend of 3/26/10 to 3/28/10 © Rentrak Corporation 2010 -Content in Rentrak Theatrical box office updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Box Office Essentials® theatrical box office data collection and analytical service, and is covered by provisions of the Copyright Act. The material presented herein is intended to be available for public use. You may reproduce the content of the box office updates in any format or medium without first obtaining permission, subject to the following requirements: (1) the material must be reproduced accurately; and (2) any publication or issuance of any part of the material to others must acknowledge Rentrak Corporation as the source of the material. About Box Office Essentials Box Office Essentials provides each studio with password-protected, real-time, web browser-based and 24/7 access to data pertaining specifically to their movie release titles. A sophisticated toolset allows studio distribution executives to view and analyze the information at different levels of detail and across a multitude of attributes (by theatre circuit, DMA, time zone, etc.), enhancing their ability to make faster, and better informed decisions. Additional features include online school calendars (K-12 and college), interactive release schedule and 24-hour subscriber support. About Rentrak Corporation Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With reach across numerous platforms including box office, home entertainment, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit www.rentrak.com. SOURCE Rentrak Corporation
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Holly Willoughby 'expecting a baby girl' Published Date: 06 January 2011 Television presenter Holly Willoughby has revealed she is to have a baby girl. The This Morning host told viewers during the show yesterday following a 20-week scan. Willoughby, 29, is expecting the new arrival in May. Last Updated: 05 January 2011 11:20 PM Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh
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Peasiella tantilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. ==Description==
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Tibor Kállay de Nagykálló (6 January 1881 - 24 May 1964) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 1921 and 1924. He studied in the University of Budapest (now: Eötvös Loránd University). On autumn of 1919 he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as chairman of the Liquidating Office, which made the financial separation and the economic rehabilitation of Austria, Hungary and the succession states (for example Romania and Czechoslovakia) after the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy's disintegration. Kállay was appointed Minister of Finance in 1921. His major task was the keeping of state budget's balance. In 1922 he became member of the Diet of Hungary. From May 1923 he was the leader of the League of Nations' financial negotiations. On 20 February 1924 he asked an authority of the parliament onto the uptake of aforced loan. The Parliament voted it down, and Kállay resigned. In 1926 he organized the Civil Unit Club. He campaigned for the secrecy of the franchise in the next year. He left the Unity Party in 1928, later represented his constituency as independent representative until 1935. ==References==
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Football League Nathan: "Even after Chesterfield's home defeat by Morecambe on Saturday, the Spireites are streets ahead at the top of League Two. But tonight they host second-place Wycombe who can halve the gap to three points with an away win. The bottom two (Stockport and Burton Albion) are in action, also, and should one slip up, the other has the chance to move out of the drop zone." Football League Nathan: "Brighton's gap at the top of the League One table is down to one point now following their defeat at the weekend but the have the chance to extend it to four against Yeovil. Fellow promotion chasers Huddersfield and Southampton will be looking to stay in touch with the Seagulls when they meet Hartlepool and Walsall, respectively. Bristol Rovers are one place and one point behind the Saddlers and can move above them and Swindon and also out of the relegation spots with a win at home to Colchester." 1926: And the others... Football League Nathan: "Nottingham Forest's game in hand against the promotion pack comes with an away trip to Middlesbrough. Boro were torn apart by QPR on Saturday and Swansea put four past them the week before and if Forest can get a 2-0 win tonight they'll move up two places into third spot. Derby and Doncaster are 18th and 19th in the table and level on 39 points. A win for either side would surely make them safe. Scunthorpe though need a fair few wins yet to guarantee their Championship safety, the Iron are at mid-table Portsmouth tonight." 1924: On to more important things, however... Man United boss Sir Alex Ferguson: "Mark Clattenburg dealt with it [the Rooney incident] at the time and he's the only person who comes out of this incident with any credit at all. Wayne Rooney is a bit fortunate - it was a clash and it was a silly thing to do, but it's finished now. As for the game, we have to win tonight. We're four points clear but it's not a commanding lead." 1919: I must point you in the direction of a couple of things Chelsea-Man United-related. First up is featuring The King, Georgie Best and Gordon 'Jukebox' Durie, among others. Next is about the Welshman's 20 years as a United player. Sample Giggs quote? "You're talking about a player coming into a successful team at the age of 17 and staying there for 20 years. It's not impossible, but it's tough to think it will happen again." Tonight, Giggs, who made his United debut on 2 March, 1991, will make his 606th league appearance, equalling Sir Bobby Charlton's club record. One of the great role models of his or any generation. "RIP Peter Osgood, King of the Bridge, died five years ago today. Let's hope one of our current strikers can play like Ossie tonight." "Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti may be signposting the future here by again using Fernando Torres and Nicolas Anelka as his main attacking forces and leaving Didier Drogba on the bench. Wayne Rooney, who escaped further punishment for his elbow on Wigan's James McCarthy, will be hoping to make headlines of a different kind tonight as they seek the result that will keep them on course for a record 19th title. Sir Alex Ferguson's faith in Javier Hernandez is confirmed by his selection ahead of Dimitar Berbatov. Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Terry, Cole, Essien, Lampard, Ramires, Anelka, Torres, Malouda. Subs: Turnbull, Drogba, Mikel, Bosingwa, Zhirkov, Kalou, McEachran. Man Utd: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Smalling, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher, Carrick, Scholes, Nani, Hernandez, Rooney. Subs: Kuszczak, Brown, Berbatov, Giggs, Fabio Da Silva, Rafael Da Silva, Gibson. Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire) From James, Salford, on text: "Stevo, I think you've lost it mate. Chelsea don't stand a chance! 1-0 United. Absolutely chuffed Hernandez gets a start in a big game. He will get the winner. C'mon you Reds!" | 942 | -9,189,641,072,507,385,000 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Kirsty Dillon is an English actress who works in film, television and theatre. She is perhaps best known for her role as WPC Gail Stephens in the British television drama Midsomer Murders
Kirsty Dillon was born and brought up in Portsmouth. She later studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths University and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her roles include the BBC drama ‘The Man That Broke Britain’, Spellbound for Peter Greenaway, Rosalind in ‘As You Like it’ as well as numerous TV credits including Holby City, Casualty,The Bill, Doctors,and CH4 film ‘Rockabye’. She is probably best recognised for her regular role as DC Gail Stephens in the renowned drama Midsomer Murders. Kirsty is an ambassador of the White Ribbon campaign which is the international campaign to ‘End Male Violence Against Women’. She works closely with survivors of domestic violence through organisations such as Early Intervention Project and Women's Aid and campaigns to raise awareness which includes handing in petition at Downing St and gaining support from John Nettles and David James to raise Awareness amongst men. ==References==
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kris9966 (talk • contribs)
:I agree, this person obviously didn't have enough information to even make a section on them in the first place. -_- it would've been smart for them to let people & true fans contribute, add in history, etc. I was going to add a picture of them and add more info but a person blocked it and obviously the person doesn't work on it because if he or she did it would have wayyyyyyy more stuff like pics and more info and talking about their album and tours so the person should unlock it. :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Princessyarylil (talk • contribs)
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Shouldn't the article at least state the group members' names? Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? == Neutrality ==
I don't support your point of view, also, I see there's no neutrality on this article. It seems like if you were helping or supporting them. Wikipedia shows neutrallity and is one of the principal rules, if not, the page can be re-written, or deleted. Could you be more specific, please? You're correct that Wikipedia articles are supposed to adhere to NPOV. But in what way is the article non-neutral? Thanks. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs)
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s is an amazing group and it's already hard enough for them to get a single do do well on the charts (not saying there not good but promotion). We can't even edit to help the guys out. I was about to make them a discography but saw some idiot blocked there page. I was going to add that they were on tour with Backstreet brothers and The BET Closer To My Dreams tour, plus the upcoming scream tour when I see that it can't be edited. With the little information that they provided they should at least allow us to expand the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kris9966 (talk • contribs)
:I agree, this person obviously didn't have enough information to even make a section on them in the first place. -_- it would've been smart for them to let people & true fans contribute, add in history, etc. I was going to add a picture of them and add more info but a person blocked it and obviously the person doesn't work on it because if he or she did it would have wayyyyyyy more stuff like pics and more info and talking about their album and tours so the person should unlock it. :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Princessyarylil (talk • contribs)
==Question...==
Shouldn't the article at least state the group members' names? Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? == Neutrality ==
I don't support your point of view, also, I see there's no neutrality on this article. It seems like if you were helping or supporting them. Wikipedia shows neutrallity and is one of the principal rules, if not, the page can be re-written, or deleted. Could you be more specific, please? You're correct that Wikipedia articles are supposed to adhere to NPOV. But in what way is the article non-neutral? Thanks. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs)
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is an amazing group and it's already hard enough for them to get a single do do well on the charts (not saying there not good but promotion). We can't even edit to help the guys out. I was about to make them a discography but saw some idiot blocked there page. I was going to add that they were on tour with Backstreet brothers and The BET Closer To My Dreams tour, plus the upcoming scream tour when I see that it can't be edited. | 1,014 | null | null | 464,849,274 | "2011-12-08T22:28:46" | Mindless Behavior | 2,011 |
The LG Electronics Air Conditioning and Energy Solution Company is a complete heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), and energy solution company providing Residential Air Conditioning (RAC), Commercial Air Conditioning (CAC), Solar Energy and Lighting around the world. Bringing technology leadership from the worldwide HVAC market and incorporating technologies from throughout LG, LG AE is increasingly expanding into specialized B2B solutions as an integrated energy solutions company. Through its innovative technology, heavy investments in R&D and effective marketing strategies, LG AE has broken its own sales records every year since 2000.
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2 Marines die in Iraqi checkpoint blast 2 Marines die in Iraqi checkpoint blast Three wounded in Ramadi attack; unmanned drone kills two insurgents The Associated Press updated 12:42 p.m. ET April 22, 2008 BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car at an entry control point to the western town of Ramadi on Tuesday, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding three others, the military said. One civilian was killed and two dozen other residents were wounded in the blast. Ramadi is the capital of the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, and has been relatively peaceful since local tribal leaders joined forces with the U.S. military against al-Qaida in Iraq. In Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district, an unmanned drone killed two gunmen, while another remote-controlled aircraft crashed south of the capital, the U.S. military said Tuesday. U.S. Apache attack helicopters and armed Predator drones have been launching daily strikes against militiamen clashing with Iraqi and U.S. troops in Sadr City, a sprawling district of 2.5 million people. There has been a sharp increase in violence in the country since Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra nearly a month ago. The fighting quickly spread to Sadr City, one of the strongholds of the Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, to which U.S. and Iraqi forces have laid siege. Militiamen also have responded by repeatedly shelling Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and offices of the Iraqi government. Last weekend, al-Sadr, who is believed to be in Iran, threatened to declare full-scale war on the U.S.-backed government if attacks on his followers continue. And on Monday, top Sadrists warned that open warfare was a "strong possibility" if the government did not ease the pressure on the Mahdi militia. A military statement said that a drone spotted two gunmen with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher late Monday and engaged them with a Hellfire missile. Both men were killed. Roadside bomb
In another firefight in Sadr City, U.S. troops were hit by a roadside bomb and then attacked with small-arms fire. Troops returned fire and killed three attackers, a statement said. But near Iskandariyah, a town 30 miles south of Baghdad, a Shadow reconnaissance drone crashed early Tuesday, local police said. The U.S. military said it was investigating the cause of the crash. Unlike the much larger Predator, the Shadow is an unarmed lightweight craft equipped with a camera capable of producing color video in daylight and thermal images at night, which it conveys back to controllers on the ground. Assassination
April has been a bad month for the drones, which are routinely used to monitor strife-torn areas of the country. Earlier in the month, two Predators crashed in different parts of Iraq and one was lost in Afghanistan. All are believed to have suffered mechanical failure, since insurgents in both countries lack even rudimentary anti-aircraft weapons. In Basra, a senior aide to Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani died on Tuesday, a week after being seriously injured in an assassination attempt. Two other al-Sistani representatives were injured in separate ambushes. The attacks came just days after a top aide of al-Sadr was killed in Najaf, suggesting the violence could be part of an internal Shiite power struggle. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Inmate gets £4.7m for brain damage in Brixton Prison Mr Justice Mackay approved an agreed settlement of £4.7m - including a lump sum and periodic payments - to pay for his 24-hour care. 'Scene chaotic' Mr St George had told authorities at the time of his admission that he was an intravenous heroin user, a heavy drinker and had been having epileptic fits. The judge said: "The ambulance was not called for 39 minutes after the event, despite the common sense view being formed within a minute or so that he would have to go to hospital. "When the ambulance crew arrived, they were unable to drive the ambulance though the gates. "One of the gates was said to be stuck for some reason which has never been explained and there was a commercial vehicle blocking the entrance." He added: "When they (paramedics) arrived, they found Mr St George, as they put it, in as bad a state as a person can be without being dead. The scene was chaotic. 'Devastating injuries' "The only information the ambulance crew got was from the other inmates surrounding him." In 2007 the High Court ruled that negligence on the part of the prison staff meant the Home Office was 85% to blame for the injuries, and 15% was contributory negligence due to the "lifestyle choices" of the inmate which triggered off the first fit which caused him to fall. A year later the Court of Appeal allowed his appeal against the contributory negligence ruling. St George's 77-year-old aunt Margaret was praised by the court for caring for him in a flat in Camden, north London, since the incident. Solicitor Jacqui Hayat for Mr St George, said: "This is at last justice for Ryan who can now, after a very long haul, receive proper compensation for his devastating injuries."
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Concern for missing patient, 44 Police have carried out searches of the hospital grounds and the nearby area and spoken to friends and family but have found nothing. " We'd like to emphasise that he is not in any trouble, we just need to know he is OK "
Det Insp Tony Butt "Mr Price has no car but it is possible that he has left the area and gone to the Honiton area of Devon where he has visited in the past," said Det Insp Tony Butt of Pontypridd CID. "He also has links to the Blackmill and Llantrisant areas. "We are concerned for his well-being as he has suffered from depression. We would urge him, anyone who has seen him since 1 March, or anyone who knows where he is to contact us right away and let us know he is safe. "We'd like to emphasise that he is not in any trouble, we just need to know he is OK." His family said: "All we want to know is that he is safe." Police are also checking with bus, rail and taxi firms in the area to see if they have information about Mr Price's movements. Anyone with information is asked to call Pontypridd CID on 01443 743642 or 01656 655555.
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"What people talk about in the locker room is. 'How does he putt so well every week?'" 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy of Australia said. "Week in and week out, he seems to make bombs all over the place, which is not easy to do. That's the bit people can't work out. How does he hole that many putts?" Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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6-months from the setting dates), since the 'east-west' street grid points to the southeast. The sun does not rise in the southeast during May and July. I don't have the exact dates, but a cursory calculation for the said setting dates seems accurate. I will remove the word sunrise from the article, but it would be nice if someone with the proper calculation software could add the correct rise dates. J. Crocker
Okay, it's taken me a year, but here's what I've got. According to this page, the approximate deviation of Manhattan avenues from true north is +28.9. By the foregoing discussion, that gives us a sunrise azimuth of 118.9, and a sunset azimuth of 298.9. Using a little trial-and-error here to determine when the sun's altitude is zero when its azimuth equals these values, I get dates for 2006 of Jan 11 and Dec 2 for the sunrise, and May 25 and Jul 17 for the sunset. That should be accurate to within one minute and 1/10 of a degree. uFu
Article should mention that the island was bought from a neighboring tribe, and not the ones Manhattan belonged to (The Choctaws). == Photo arrangement ==
Anyone like the new photo arrangement? I myself was looking at getting the Times Square one full right, but server was acting up, so I gave up. Now I see somebody put all photos at top. I hope everyone likes what I did - there are no more large gaps in the text caused by the photos, and I made them all the same width for a more professional look. I like the fact that there are a lot of great photos in the article, but this can cause weird layout issues. Paradiso
On my screen (1600x1200), ALL the photos are up top and the first paragraph is squeezed into 8% of the screen width on the left. After that there are no more photos. Maybe try putting them all in one table no wider than the widest jpg
I fixed it for me - photos were NOT inside table before
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== Demographics ==
I've heard that although Manhattan has 1M people residential, it has 30M employees working there. Does anyone have the facts to back that up, as I think it would be nice in the article. Additionally, Brooklyn is described as "it would be the 4th largest city," and I'd like to see a comparison like that
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== Uptown/downtown ==
In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south
Not quite. Manhattan has a concept of "north on the grid" (of streets), which is different from due north (or magnetic north, for that matter). As the map shows, Manhattan is a long, narrow island; most streets are laid out parallel or perpendicular to the long sides of the island. | 1,003 | null | null | 440,289,451 | "2011-07-19T11:04:03" | Manhattan/Archive 1 | 2,011 |
Mergers and acquisitions in United Kingdom law refers to a body of law that covers companies, labour, and competition, which is engaged when firms restructure their affairs in the course of business. ==Company law==
In company law there are three main areas that regulate mergers and acquisitions (also, reconstructions or takeovers). There are three main areas of law, those to do with schemes of arrangement overseen by a court, those for general reconstructions, demergers, amalgamations and so on that are not overseen by a court, and takeovers, which concern acquisitions of public companies. ===Scheme of arrangement===
Insolvency Act 1986, ss.110-111, on schemes of arrangement or reconstructions
Bisgood v. Henerson's Transvaal Estates Ltd 1 Ch 743
Griffith v. Paget (1877) 5 Ch D 894, per Jessel MR
Re Anglo-Continental Supply Co Ltd 2 Ch 723, per Astbury J
===Reconstructions===
Companies Act 2006, Parts 26 (ss.895-901) and Part 27 (special rules for public companies), on arrangements, reconstructions, mergers (or amalgamations) or divisions (demerger or "scission"). The rules here implement the Third and Sixth EC Company law directives. Re Alabama, New Orleans, Texas and Pacific Junction Railway Co. 1 CH 213, per Lindley LJ
Re Hellenic & General Trust Ltd 1 WLR 123, per Templeman J
Re BTR plc 2 BCLC 675, per Jonathan Parker J
Re Hawk Insurance Co Ltd 2 BCLC 675; BCC 300, per Chadwick LJ
Re Equitable Life Assurance Society BCC 319
===Takeovers===
Takeovers refers to acquisitions of one company by another. In the City of London, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, established in 1968, oversees Companies Act duties, including those laid down in the European Directive on Takeover Bids (2004/25/EC) for public companies. Under the Companies Act 2006 s.979 gives a takeover bidder who has already acquired 90% of a company's shares the right to compulsorily buy out the remaining shareholders (squeeze out). Conversely s.983 allows minority shareholders to insist their stakes are bought out. The rules come under Part 28 of the Act. More generally, the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers(also called "City Code" or "Takeover Code") lays down rules for a takeover, found in the so called Blue Book. The Code used to be a non-statutory set of rules that was controlled by City institutions on a theoretically voluntary basis. However, as a breach of the Code brought such reputational damage and the possibility of exclusion from City services run by those institutions, it was regarded as binding. In 2006 the Code was put onto a statutory footing as part of the UK's compliance with the European Directive on Takeovers. The Code requires that all shareholders in a company should be treated equally, regulates when and what information companies must and cannot release publicly in relation to the bid, sets timetables for certain aspects of the bid, and sets minimum bid levels following a previous purchase of shares. In particular:
a shareholder must make an offer when its shareholding, including that of parties acting in concert (a "concert party"), reaches 30% of the target ("mandatory bid rule");
information relating to the bid must not be released except by announcements regulated by the Code;
the bidder must make an announcement if rumour or speculation have affected a company's share price;
the level of the offer must not be less than any price paid by the bidder in the three months before the announcement of a firm intention to make an offer;
if shares are bought during the offer period at a price higher than the offer price, the offer must be increased to that price;
The Rules Governing the Substantial Acquisition of Shares, which used to accompany the Code and which regulated the announcement of certain levels of shareholdings, have now been abolished, because it was viewed to be unnecessarily restrictive of shares between 15% and 29.9% of a company's voting rights. ==Labour law==
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations came into force in 1981 and implement a European Directive on takeovers. ==Competition law==
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Printer Friendly I know it will be hard for those of you hooked on modern sport - brutal, hysterical, venal modern sport - to understand what I am about to tell you, but I would nonetheless like to try and explain, on this sunny Spring Bank Holiday, why it doesn't matter in the least whether England win the Ashes or not. For while England were sitting around in glorious sunshine at Headingley on Thursday, playing no cricket at all because, scandal of scandals, the new drainage system wasn't working properly and it was a bit soft underfoot, I was in London, playing in another, quieter cricket match, and having a bit of an epiphany. The match was at the Westminster School cricket ground in Vincent Square, SW1, probably the prettiest sports field in London. At stake was the Jim Cogan Cup, which was being contested for the first time in honour of my former cricket master, deputy headmaster and English teacher, who died in 2007. Contesting it were the school 1st XI and an old boys' team, rather older than is right and decent for the playing of sport, being made up mostly of the legendary 1st XI that went unbeaten for three seasons between 1985 and 1987. Very few of us had played more than half a dozen games in the twenty-odd years since then, and so, stiff and bruised at my laptop the morning after, I would like first of all to ask if you have any idea - as you lament simultaneously the abject non-competitiveness of the West Indies and the likelihood of our imminent annihilation by Australia - how difficult cricket is? Have you any idea how small the wicket is? Or how far away it looks when you are trotting in to bowl a ball at it? How tricky it is to work out, as your arm comes over in an arc from arse to earhole, exactly when to let go of the ball? I am no mug at cricket. I once, at 11, had trials with Middlesex - a boast I have used to strike fear into opposition hearts on many occasions. Although the great county did not, on that occasion, choose to avail itself of my services. And, when you think about it, there is no reason why the "I once had trials" boast - which one hears from all sorts of men about all sorts of sports - should be any more impressive than a grown man with no driving licence saying: "I once had a driving test." On top of that, I played twice with a young Saurav Ganguly, later captain of India, but only because my local club was a man short and I lived round the corner. Ganguly fielded at silly mid-off to my nervous left-arm loopers, and after he had twice been struck on the shins by cover drives, and once brained by a misdirected full toss straight from my hand, I was removed from the attack for fear that one more loose one from me might kill the young superstar and bring upon the small North London club the wrath of the world's largest democracy. Another time, I played against a team that contained Sachin Tendulkar, the greatest Test batsman still playing the game. But we batted first, it rained, I never even got padded up, and we all went home about three o'clock. I began on Thursday by bowling two decent straight balls. Everyone was saying, "Nice one, Giley, the old magic's still there!" and I got so excited that I hurled the next one straight into my own knee. The one after that bounced three times, the fifth went back behind me in the direction of Pimlico, and then the sixth was, for some reason, bang on target again, and so surprised the excellent young batsman that he played down the wrong line and it flew off his knee and went straight to slip, where it was held by a chap of ours who once had trials with almost everybody. Not absolutely certain that the poor fellow had nicked it, I appealed anyway, very loudly and rudely, and up went the finger, at which surprising and excellent news I set off on a lap of honour, screaming and shouting and tearing at my shirt like Monty Panesar fleeing a swarm of hornets. So, as well as being rubbish, I had now cheated and then celebrated ill-won success in a vulgar and over-demonstrative manner. Everything I abhor about the modern game. So I calmed down after that. | 924 | -2,299,259,049,395,384,800 | 2009-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Nuke, bioterror attack called likely Published: Dec. 1, 2008 at 7:39 AM People who read this also read... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The United States and other nations need to act urgently to prevent a nuclear or biological terrorism attack in the near future, a bipartisan panel says. A report to be released Monday by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism says urgent security measures need to be taken soon or the world is likely to undergo an incident of terrorism using weapons of mass destruction within the next five years, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported. "Unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013," the report states in the opening sentence of the executive summary. The panel was created by Congress as part of the recommendations of 9/11 Commission, and its nine members include several Democrats who are active in U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. It cited Pakistan as a trouble spot where extremism, terrorism and nuclear capabilities intersect and urged that Iran and North Korea's nuclear programs be contained, even if it means taking military action, the Times reported.
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Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess". Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II, and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre. ==Early life==
Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her estate identifies vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson as her natural father. A biography written by her foster son Jean-Claude Baker stated:
Her mother, Carrie, was adopted in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1886 by Richard and Elvira McDonald, both of whom were former slaves of African and Native American descent. When Baker was eight she was sent to work for a white woman who abused her, burning Baker's hands when she put too much soap in the laundry. She later went to work for another woman. Baker dropped out of school at the age of 12 and lived as a street child in the slums of St. Louis, sleeping in cardboard shelters and scavenging for food in garbage cans. Her street-corner dancing attracted attention and she was recruited for the St. Louis Chorus vaudeville show at 15. She then headed to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, performing at the Plantation Club and in the chorus of the popular Broadway revues Shuffle Along (1921) with Adelaide Hall and The Chocolate Dandies (1924). She performed as the last dancer in a chorus line, a position in which the dancer traditionally performed in a comic manner, as if she was unable to remember the dance, until the encore, at which point she would not only perform it correctly, but with additional complexity. Baker was then billed as "the highest-paid chorus girl in vaudeville". On October 2, 1925, she opened in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where she became an instant success for her erotic dancing and for appearing practically nude on stage. After a successful tour of Europe, she reneged on her contract and returned to France to star at the Folies Bergères, setting the standard for her future acts. She performed the Danse sauvage, wearing a costume consisting of a skirt made of a string of artificial bananas. Her success coincided (1925) with the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, which gave birth to the term "Art Deco", and also with a renewal of interest in ethnic forms of art, including African. Baker represented one aspect of this fashion. In later shows in Paris she was often accompanied on stage by her pet cheetah, Chiquita, who was adorned with a diamond collar. The cheetah frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding another element of excitement to the show. ==Rise to fame==
After a short while she was the most successful American entertainer working in France. Ernest Hemingway called her "… the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in three films which found success only in Europe: the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), Zouzou (1934) and Princesse Tam Tam (1935). She also starred in Fausse Alerte (English title: The French Way) in 1940. At this time she also scored her most successful song, "J'ai deux amours" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary authors, painters, designers, and sculptors including Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. Under the management of Giuseppe Pepito Abatino — a Sicilian former stonemason who passed himself off as a count — Baker's stage and public persona, as well as her singing voice, were transformed. In 1934 she took the lead in a revival of Jacques Offenbach's 1875 opera La créole at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées of Paris, which premiered in December of that year for a six month run. | 1,016 | null | null | 467,309,390 | "2011-12-23T07:45:17" | Josephine Baker | 2,011 |
The dangers of space debris Lottie Williams was struck on the shoulder by a piece of the Delta II rocket that weighed the same as a drinks can in Oklahoma in 1997. She was unharmed. Nasa claims the chances of any person's being hit by the UARS satellite as it falls to Earth today is just 1 in 3,200. Mathematically, that means the chances of you specifically being hit are less than 1 in 21 trillion. In comparison, the chance of you being struck by lightning is 1 in 60,000. Debris does fall to our planet from space all the time - nearly every day, in fact. Most of it ends up in the oceans that cover 75 per cent of the planet's surface. But the UARS is the biggest Nasa craft to tumble out of control to Earth in 32 years. In 1979 burned pieces of Skylab were predicted to land in South Africa. Instead, they fell into the Indian Ocean and western Australia. No one was recorded as being hurt. But as it turns out, UARS may just be a dress rehearsal. In November, German satellite telescope Rosat is expected to plummet to Earth with in far bigger chunks - including a massive lens.
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"Last year in the World Cup, Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo appeared on the front cover of a magazine together wearing just their pants and showing off their sexiness." Less sexy but more interesting are Paula and her kin. Eight octopi at aquariums around Germany are having their prognosticating skills tested during the tournament to see if any can match Paul, the Oberhausen seer who was eight for eight on predictions in 2010. Sad to say, Paula picked Canada to beat Germany. It didn't work out that way.
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During the BBC series, her father was diagnosed with cancer, but Hope refused to allow any poignant back story to be aired in a bid for sympathy. "My mum and dad used to come to the show on alternate weeks. Then my dad didn't show up, and I discovered he had bowel cancer," she says. "That's the sort of thing reality TV shows typically use in order to get the public to feel sorry for a contestant, but there's no way I would ever do that. He had surgery and is recovering well, and I see him as much as possible." Meanwhile, there are eight shows a week to perform - Over the Rainbow runner-up, Sophie Evans, acts as her understudy on Tuesdays. "My Dorothy is extremely optimistic and kind; she has to have brains and a heart and a lot of nerve in order to help scarecrow, tin man and lion find what they're looking for," she says. Brains, a heart and nerve; in art as in life. Crawford agrees: "Danielle has never thrown a tantrum or baulked at the workload. She always gives her best." "Michael has so many amazing insights," she responds. And they're both off gushing until curtain-up. 'The Wizard of Oz" is playing at the London Palladium. There will be a special gala performance in support of Comic Relief on Thursday 21 April. To book tickets, visit www.wizardofozthe musical.com or call 0844 412 2957
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After seven years, it appears the aura of "The Room" is still growing. When cast member Kyle Vogt went to a screening, Bobcat Goldthwait came out of the audience and asked to take a picture with him. Wiseau has since made appearances on Adult Swim and Comedy Central. But the self-made star is not forgetting the movie that fans will forever remember him for. "Next year we put 'The Room' on 3-D, and I have great support. We will do 'The Room' musical eventually." There is a lot of mystery about Wiseau, who won't answer questions about his heritage or where he got his money. Fans gather at Q and A sessions trying to get every bit of information so often that Sestero decided to publish a tell-all book about meeting Wiseau and the making of the film. Amid the confusion, there are plenty of fans who don't need an explanation. "I'm not confused about 'The Room' at all, I think it's beautiful," says Johnny McGowan. "The more that people allow 'The Room' to be what it is... I think the more enjoyment they'll get." Johnny Padgett agrees, "'The Room' is probably the greatest movie I've seen in my lifetime." Wiseau says he is pleased with the way things have turned out, and he has few regrets. "Everything turned out the way I wanted it. When you look at the content, I wouldn't do differently. If you look at technical, yes, maybe 20% differently."
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Bon Jovi performs for thousands in Central Park NEW YORK (AP) - Bon Jovi rocked Central Park on Saturday. The rock group gave a free concert on the park's Great Lawn, delighting tens of thousands of fans who sang along with the lyrics on a glorious summer evening. The New Jersey rockers' opened with "Livin' on a Prayer" and belted out songs including "Born to be my Baby," "Lost Highway," and "Runaway." New York City officials gave away 60,000 tickets for the concert. Some 50,000 people were expected to attend. The free tickets were reportedly being hawked by scalpers on eBay for as much as $1,500 a pair. Hundreds of fans lined up early - in some cases as many as six hours before the show's 8 p.m. start. For some, it was a family affair. Josephine Ribaudo-McGrane, 34, of Queens, arrived at 1 p.m. wearing a well-worn Bon Jovi concert T-shirt she bought in 2006. She came with her mother, 12-year-old son, 8-year-old daughter, an adult sister and her best friend. "They've gotten me through a lot of rough times," she said, adding that her iPod is stocked with 200 Bon Jovi songs. "I don't think there's a song that I don't like." The show was billed as a prelude to the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. The game on Tuesday will mark the final season at the Bronx ballpark. A new stadium is being built. The band joins other greats who have performed on the Great Lawn, including Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand and Pope John Paul II. Garth Brooks also played the park's North Meadow. Bon Jovi performs at Madison Square Garden on Monday and Tuesday as part of its "Lost Highway" tour. Those shows require paid admission. The quartet has been rocking for more than two decades and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
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Sarat Chandra Bose (September 6, 1889 - February 20, 1950) was a barrister and Indian freedom fighter. He was the elder brother of Subhash Chandra Bose. ==Early life==
His forefathers had served the Afghan rulers of pre-Mughal Bengal with great distinction. Born to FatherJanakinath Bose and MotherBibhabati Bose (née Dey) in Calcutta on 6 September 1889, Sarat Bose studied in Presidency College, Calcutta and then went to England in 1911 to become a barrister. He began a successful legal practice upon his return to India, but later abandoned it to join the Indian independence movement. Bose was one of the best Bengali Hindu barristers but lost to the Bihari Shia barrister Sir Sultan Ahmed in one of his most high profile cases despite being aided by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Motilal Nehru. Sarat regarded Syed Hasan Imam a relative of Syed Sultan Ahmed as the best barrister in British India. He later joined the Indian National Congress and participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement. He was strongly influenced by the leadership of Chittaranjan Das, a leading Bengali nationalist. ==Political career==
In 1936, Bose became the president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, and served as a member of the All India Congress Committee from 1936 to 1947. From 1946 to 1947, Bose would lead the Congress delegation to the Central Legislative Assembly. He strongly supported the formation of the Indian National Army by Subhash Bose, and actively participated in the Quit India movement. Following his brother's death in 1945, Bose would lead efforts to provide relief and aid to the families of INA soldiers through the INA Defence and Relief Committee. In 1946, he was appointed Member of the Interim Government for Works, Mines and Powers - the position of a minister in a national executive council led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and presided over by the Viceroy of India. Sarat Bose's mother was Prabhabati Bose (née Dutta). ==Bengal partition and later life==
However, Bose resigned from the AICC in disagreement over the Cabinet Mission Plan's call to partition Bengal between Hindu-majority and Muslim-majority regions. He attempt to construct a bid for a united but independent Bengal with Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Bengali Muslim League leader, but this received no support from the Congress or the League, nor the common public. After India's independence, Bose would lead his brother's Forward Bloc and form the Socialist Republican Party, advocating a socialist system for Bengal and India. He died in 1950, in Calcutta. Prabhabati Bose was born to the famous Dutta family of Hatkhola in north Kolkata. She mothered fourteen children,six daughters and eight sons among them were nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and distinguished cardiologist Dr. Sunil Chandra Bose. ==Family==
The Bose family has remained prominent in public life in Bengal. Sarat Bose married Bivabati Dey in 1910, who hailed from a prominent aristocratic family of North Kolkata. She was the grandniece of Shyama Charan Dey, a well known public figure of early 19th Century Bengal. Their marriage was attended by luminaries of the day, including Rabindranath Tagore, who also sang few songs on that occasion. They had a large family of eight children, including four sons and four daughters. Among his sons were Ashoke Nath Bose, who was a chemical engineer, Amiya Nath Bose, who was a barrister, Dr. Sisir Kumar Bose, who was a well-known pediatrician and Member of Parliament, and Subrata Bose, who was an electrical engineer and is presently a Member of Parliament. All four brothers were actively involved in the national movement in the 1940s. Among his daughters are Mira Roy, Gita Biswas, Roma Roy Choudhury and Dr. Chitra Ghosh, a political scientist, academician and social worker, who is married to Subimal Ghosh, owner of a leading firm of builders and contractors. Dr. Sisir Bose was a leading doctor and a freedom fighter, who is said to have driven his youngest uncle, Subhas Bose out of their house on Elgin Road and then out of the city in the family's Wanderer, which still stands as an exhibit at the Netaji Research Bureau. | 993 | null | null | 465,854,638 | "2011-12-14T18:04:27" | Sarat Chandra Bose | 2,011 |
Other CIO affiliates made progress during these years in organizing workers in mass transit, packinghouses, tire factories, shipyards and electrical manufacturers while the UAW successfully organized aircraft workers. In addition, after the west coast longshoremen organized in the strike led by Harry Bridges in 1934 split from the International Longshoremen's Association in 1937 to form the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the ILWU joined the CIO. Bridges became the most powerful force within the CIO in California and the west. The Transport Workers Union of America, originally representing the subway workers in New York, also joined, as did the National Maritime Union, made up of sailors based on the east coast, and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, which represented workers in a range of electrical manufacturing facilities. The AFL continued to fight the CIO, forcing the NLRB to allow skilled trades employees in large industrial facilities the option to choose, in what came to be called "Globe elections," between representation by the CIO or separate representation by AFL craft unions. The CIO now also faced competition, moreover, from a number of AFL affiliates who now sought to organize industrial workers. The competition was particularly sharp in the aircraft industry, where the UAW went head-to-head against the International Association of Machinists, originally a craft union of railroad workers and skilled trade employees. The AFL organizing drives proved even more successful, and they gained new members as fast or faster than the CIO. In some instances bloody confrontations took place between the rival federations, each supported by their political allies. The Dies Committee determined in 1938 that 280 salaried CIO organizers, were members of the CPUSA. ==Growth during the Second World War==
to prevent labor meetings in public places and stop the distribution of literature pertaining to the CIO's cause. District and circuit courts ruled in favor of the CIO. Hague appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which held in 1939 that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly. ==Early setbacks and successes==
The UAW was able to capitalize on its stunning victory over GM by winning recognition at Chrysler and smaller manufacturers. It then focused its organizing efforts on Ford, sometimes battling company security forces as at the Battle of the Overpass on May 26, 1937; but there were no concrete organizing successes. At the same time, the UAW was in danger of being torn apart by internal political rivalries. Homer Martin, the first president of the UAW, expelled a number of the union organizers who had led the Flint sit-down strike and other early drives on charges that they were communists. In some cases, such as Wyndham Mortimer, Bob Travis and Henry Kraus, those charges may have been true; in other cases, such as Victor Reuther and Roy Reuther, they were probably not. Those expulsions were reversed at the next convention of the UAW in 1939, which expelled Martin instead. He took approximately 20,000 UAW members with him to form a rival union, known for a time as the UAW-AFL, later renamed the Allied Industrial Workers of America. The SWOC encountered equally serious problems: after winning union recognition after a strike against Jones & Laughlin Steel, SWOC's strikes against the rest of "Little Steel," i.e., Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, National Steel, Inland Steel American Rolling Mills and Republic Steel failed, in spite of support from organizations like the Catholic Radical Alliance. The steelmakers offered workers the same wage increases that U.S. Steel had offered, In the Memorial Day Massacre on May 30, 1937, Chicago police opened fire on a group of strikers who had attempted to picket at Republic Steel, killing ten and seriously wounding dozens. A month and a half later police in Massillon, Ohio fired on a crowd of unionists, resulting in three deaths, when one union supporter failed to dim his headlights. The strike collapsed shortly thereafter. The CIO found organizing textile workers in the South even harder. As in steel, these workers had abundant recent first-hand experience of failed organizing drives and defeated strikes, which resulted in unionists being blacklisted or worse. In addition, the intense antagonism of white workers toward black workers and the conservative political and religious milieu made organizing even harder. On the other hand, some independent left-wing unions, such as Mine, Mill and the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America, that aggressively organized both black and white workers had more success than the more cautious Textile Workers Organizing Committee founded by the CIO. Adding to the uncertainties for the CIO was its own internal disarray. | 997 | null | null | 463,332,535 | "2011-11-30T18:18:55" | Congress of Industrial Organizations | 2,011 |
More using term 'Northern Irish' The author of the report, Professor Orla Muldoon, from the University of Limerick, said some things had remained the same. "As you might expect, Catholics in Northern Ireland are more likely to describe themselves as being Irish, while Protestants are more likely to describe themselves as British," she said. Almost two-thirds of those who responded to the survey identified themselves as either British Protestants or Irish Catholics, she said. "There was, however, an increase in the number of people who identified themselves as being Northern Irish, with around one in four opting for this label, compared to around one fifth in previous surveys," she added. Within the Northern Irish group, about a third described themselves as being equally British and Irish. "They did not see Britishness or Irishness as being mutually exclusive and rejected the notion that these identities are opposites. "That indicates a shift away from the traditional national and religious identities that underpinned the Troubles," she said. Researchers also presented the 1,179 people who took part in the research with emblems or historical images that might be viewed differently by those with differing identities. Prof Muldoon said emotional responses to images such as flags and emblems were stronger among those who stuck to traditional identities. Those who identified themselves as Irish Catholic were more likely to feel uneasy or annoyed when presented with the image of a Union flag or a photograph of a news presenter wearing a poppy, she said. Conversely, those sticking with the British Protestant identity were uneasy or annoyed by an Irish Tricolour or Irish language letterhead. The findings were based on information from the 2007 Life and Times Survey conducted by Ark, a research initiative by Queen's and the University of Ulster.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was Keep. Eluchil404 (talk)
===Micah M. White===
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Non-notable person. Germinal1848 (talk)
Comment - White is a senior editor at the magazine Adbusters and an early organizer of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Northamerica1000(talk)
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Keep Meeting GNG per: [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shira-lazar/micah-white-adbusters-_b_996931.html. Northamerica1000(talk)
Comment. Seems notable if this is true: "He has appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and his innovative activism has been featured in the AP, the Chronicle for Higher Education, the New York Times and Teen People. A Contributing Editor at Adbusters, Micah's writings reach an international audience of over 100,000." (from -- | 303 | null | null | 461,390,867 | "2011-11-19T05:51:09" | Articles for deletion/Micah M. White | 2,011 |
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County to get London train route Journeys to Marylebone are expected to take about three-and-a-half hours from Shrewsbury and three hours and eight minutes from Telford. Shropshire is currently the only county in England without a direct line to London. People in the county have previously had to change in Wolverhampton or Birmingham to catch a train to the capital.
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"They do not want an open-ended presence of U.S. combat forces. The prime minister said that now is an appropriate time to start to plan for the reorganization of our troops in Iraq - including their numbers and missions. He stated his hope that U.S. combat forces could be out of Iraq in 2010," Obama said in a joint statement with Hagel and Reed. The senators said that while there has been some "forward movement" on political progress, reconciliation and economic development, there has not been "nearly enough to bring lasting stability to Iraq."
Associated Press Writer Brian Murphy contributed to this report from Iraq.
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London panel to probe wind energy costs LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- London said a new panel tasked with examining offshore wind would work toward reducing the cost of the renewable energy resource for the country. British Energy Minister Charles Hendry announced Andrew Jamieson, chairman of green energy association Renewable U.K., will lead a panel of experts from the energy sector to find ways to cut the cost of offshore wind during the next decade. "Offshore wind not only makes sense for our energy security and the environment but the economy too, bringing jobs and economic growth," Hendry said in a statement. "I am pleased to be able to announce the members that will spearhead this vital work to drive down the costs of delivering our offshore wind ambitions." His announcement follows plans by RWE Innogy to build a 576 megawatts wind farm off the Liverpool coast. The facility, dubbed Gwynt y Mor, the Welsh phrase for "sea wind," will go online by 2014. Last month, Scottish and Southern Energy said it decided to focus investments on wind rather than nuclear power. Though London said nuclear power would play a role in its energy mix, the International Energy Agency said Japan's disaster meant nuclear energy growth would slow. Hendry's new wind energy panel is to have its first meeting Tuesday.
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Archbishop of Westminster to speak of royal wedding joy
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I don't claim to be 100% sure, but if anyone wants to put it back, please state which characters they are. Stratford490 (talk)
Sorry for not answering earlier - one character that is referred to as being alive is Colonel Bantry. Dolly Bantry is a widow in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. Thanks for your reply, which I have slightly edited, just to make the wikilink work. Funnily, though I don't doubt what you say, I have no recollection of Colonel Bantry being mentioned in Sleeping Murder, and I can't find my copy right now. Anyway, he's only one character, and seems to be just referred to rather than being a major character, so it's probably not important enough to be in the article about Miss Marple. If necessary, I think it could go in the article on Sleeping Murder. Cheers. Stratford490 (talk)
== Joan Hickson ==
This page makes no reference to the BBC series 1984-1992 featuring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. The Wikipedia entry for Joan Hickson refers to this part of her career. A link between the Joan Hickson page and an update of this page to include Joan Hickson's T.V. portrayal of Miss Marple would be very helpful. I don't wish to rush in to do this if someone else is planning to do so. Proxxt (talk)
The third paragraph under the "Television" heading seems to discuss this material. Accounting4Taste:talk
==Incorrect Murder She Wrote claim==
The article previously stated when referring to the American TV series Murder, She Wrote: "The character was based in part on Miss Marple and in part on another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver." There is no attribution for this statement and, as a matter of law, it cannot be correct. Even the Murder, She Wrote article here at Wikipedia notes that the rights were refused: "Murder, She Wrote was originally pitched as an American version of the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple, but the owners of the rights to that character refused to allow it." If the copyright holder refused to grant permission for a subsidiary right, as a matter of copyright law, it is not based on Miss Marple. I replaced the sentence with the somewhat less dubious one from the MSW article which nonetheless needs attribution: "The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries." 71.175.4.207 (talk)
== Julia McKenzie ==
I just removed a badly formed template link that should have worked as a picture of Julia McKenzie in the role. The removed text was:
rb of Death (from 13 problems)
Motive v. Opportunity (from 13 problems)
Sanctuary (from Double Sin - US - and Miss M's Final Cases - UK)
Strange Jest (from 3 Blind Mice - US - and Miss M's Final Cases - UK)
The Tape Measure Murder (from 3 Blind Mice - US - and Miss M's Final Cases - UK)
The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter (from 13 problems)
Hope this helps
== Age ==
Deleted attempt to rationalise her age as late 50s in the first book. Text was
"About thirty years pass between her first and last mysteries.... It would be safe to assume that Miss Marple was only about fifty or sixty in A Murder at the Vicarage, which would not be old by modern standards but would have been considered elderly in the 1930's. This would make Miss Marple about eighty or ninety in her final mysteries." Actually it's 38 years from the first story in a magazine to At Bertram's Hotel, even discounting Sleeping Murder. And Christie wrote that she made a mistake making her so old, so I think it's safe to assume she was (genuinely) elderly at the start, at the youngest mid 60s (standards of age have not changed that much.) In any case, barring citation I don't think this text is reasonable and anyway it seems like original research. Hold the phone. It's 44 years from the first story to Nemesis. If she was 56 in 1927 she would be 100 in 1971 and neither is really plausible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.209.181 (talk)
== Sleeping Murder ==
The article says that characters who had previously been killed off by Christie appear alive in this book. Which characters are these? I don't recall noticing it. | 1,012 | null | null | 412,330,373 | "2011-02-06T12:07:34" | Miss Marple | 2,011 |
Deslandes' murder: family denied information on killer
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The following dataset is constructed using entirely historical data up to the cutoff date "31-12-2011". The data comes from the WMT News dataset (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl/en/) and Wikipedia. This dataset is the training dataset for a GPT-2-small-based model, and is available on Huggingface at the following location: "TiMa/TiMaGPT2-2011".
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Please refer to and cite the following paper when using this dataset in any downstream applications:
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