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    BBC News

  • First Lady tackles child obesity

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    First Lady Michelle Obama launches a nationwide campaign to tackle child obesity, which she says threatens America's future.

  • Obama steps up pressure on Iran

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:37 am
    US President Barack Obama says the US and allies are developing "significant sanctions" against Iran over its nuclear programme.

  • UK soldiers killed in blast named

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:35 am
    Two British soldiers killed by an explosion in Afghanistan on Sunday are named by the Ministry of Defence.

  • Season shifts 'alter food chains'

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:32 am
    The earlier arrival of spring in the UK appears to be throwing food chains out of synchronisation, a study suggests.

  • Tribute to killed British soldier

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:19 am
    Tribute has been paid to the first UK soldier killed in the build up to a major offensive in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
 
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    CNN

  • Sri Lankan opposition leader arrested on conspiracy charge

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:46 pm
    A former Sri Lankan general who ran against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January has been arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the country's government, authorities announced Monday night.

  • UN supports Olympic Truce

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:48 pm
    The United Nations declared its support Monday for the traditional Olympic Truce ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, which begin Friday.

  • Mexico flooding kills at least 33, government says

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:31 pm
    Heavy flooding in central Mexico in the past week has killed at least 33 people and left thousands homeless, the government said Monday.

  • Americans jailed in Haiti had Dominican OK, lawyer says

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:05 pm
    A group of Americans accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children had authorization from neighboring Dominican Republic to bring the kids across the border, a lawyer for the group said Monday.

  • Climate scientist says he considered suicide

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:15 pm
    The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.
 
 
 
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    The Economist

  • With friends like Hank

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am
    Hank Paulson's book revives worries about GEIT IS supposed to be a cosy chat between friends, but the onstage conversation scheduled for February 18th between Hank Paulson and Jeffrey Immelt could turn into a fight to preserve the reputation of at least one of these corporate titans. Until a few days ago this event, to be held at a cultural centre in New York, looked like a classic example of the old pals’ act—Mr Paulson, a former treasury secretary and boss of Goldman Sachs, having insisted on being interviewed about his new book by his friend, Mr Immelt, the boss of General…

  • Arrest the opposition

    9 Feb 2010 | 3:49 am
    Sri Lanka’s president cracks down on opponents once moreNOT content with trouncing his main opponent, General Sarath Fonseka, in Sri Lanka’s presidential election last month, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has had him arrested. General Fonseka was nabbed—brutishly, by over 100 soldiers, according to his supporters—on Monday February 8th. Officials say he will be charged in a court martial with conspiring to topple the government.He was accused shortly after he lost an acrimonious election on January 26th of plotting to assassinate Mr Rajapaksa and seize power. That…

  • Armchair supporters

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:23 am
    Is the Super Bowl the most popular sports event in the world?THIS year's Super Bowl XLIV set a record for the largest ever American television audience, with 106.5m football fans tuning in to see the New Orleans Saints triumph over the Indianapolis Colts. Globally around 121m viewers are estimated to have watched the game, 15m more than the year before, according to Futures Sport + Entertainment, a media consultancy that tracks audience data in 55 countries. In 2009, according to their data, only the Champions League football final in Europe attracted a larger audience. Other events (and…

  • It's not stopping...

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:36 am
    More recalls deliver further blows to Toyota’s battered reputationANNOUNCING the latest recall of Toyota vehicles, Akio Toyoda, the company's chief executive, invoked the principle of genchi genbutsu, an integral part of the car company’s production system. It urges managers to experience problems for themselves rather than relying on reports and then attempting a fix one or two steps removed. On Tuesday February 9th Toyota said that it would recall over 400,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to address problems with their brakes. Later Mr Toyoda promised that he will…

  • Conflict conservation

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:27 am
    Biodiversity down the barrel of a gunTHERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for similar set-ups around the world, was based on the idea of limiting human presence to passing visits, rather than permanent habitation. In recent years this way of doing things has come under suspicion. To fence off large areas of parkland is often impractical and can also be immoral—in that it leads to local people being booted out. These days, the consensus among conservationists is to try to manage nature with humans in…
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    The Big Picture

  • Dogs and sleds

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:21 am
    Dogsleds are in the news lately, as several races have recently taken place around the Northern Hemisphere, and as transportation choices for both a meeting of the G-7 and the start of the 2010 U.S. census. Mushers brought representatives to Iqaluit, a small village in Nunavut Territory, chosen to host a recent G-7 meeting, in part so Canada could assert sovereignty over its part of the Arctic. The 2010 U.S. Census, as per tradition, kicked off its count on January 25th in a rural part of Alaska in the small village of Noorvik, as census takers arrived by dogsled. And recent dogsled races…

  • Colorful India

    5 Feb 2010 | 7:37 am
    January 26th, 2010 marked the 60th anniversary of India's adoption of the Constitution of India, and the 80th anniversary of its original 1930 Declaration of Independence from British rule. The annual holiday is celebrated as Republic Day, with a grand parade held in the capital, New Delhi, and many other celebrations across the diverse nation. Collected here are a number of photographs from the Republic Day celebrations and many more colorful glimpses of daily life from all around India. (40 photos total)Indian soldiers march during the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26,…

  • Tough Guy Challenge 2010

    3 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am
    The 24th annual Tough Guy Challenge took place last weekend, on Sunday, January 31st, on South Perton Farm, near Wolverhampton, England. Despite being billed as "the safest most dangerous taste of physical and mental endurance pain in the world", this year's race still attracted over 5,000 men and women - all of them signing a disclaimer saying "It's my own bloody fault for being here". About 600 racers did not complete the course this year - the winner being Paul Jones of Oswestry, England, completing the course in one hour 18 minutes. The Challenge is annual event to raise cash for charity…

  • Haiti three weeks later

    1 Feb 2010 | 7:26 am
    Tomorrow will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being addressed. The World Food Program has begun a new system of delivering rice to 10,000 Haitians per day at each of 16 women-only distribution points around the city - restricted to women, since young men often muscle their way to the front of distribution lines, and the women are viewed as more likely to…

  • Afghanistan, January, 2010

    29 Jan 2010 | 7:31 am
    As the surge of 30,000 U.S. troops continues to pour into Afghanistan, the Obama administration is now considering the possibility of reconciling with some of the Taliban, reintegrating the soldiers into society, as a way to find an end to this long conflict. The plan is supported by Afghan president Hamid Karzai, although discussions are still in the very early stages. A recent United Nations report found that violence in Afghanistan claimed the lives of more than 2,400 Afghan civilians in the year 2009. While this is the largest annual death toll for noncombatants since the U.S. led…
 
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    FRONTLINE Editors' Notes

  • Report From Haiti

    25 Jan 2010 | 3:45 am
    The courtyard is swarming with Scientologists, flown in by John Travolta... An excerpt from FRONTLINE's team in Port-au-Prince.

  • Long a Safe Haven

    4 Jan 2010 | 10:40 am
    Yemen suddenly has become a so-called 'new front' in the war against Islamic extremists. But this is old news to Western intelligence officials. View this clip--

  • FRONTLINE's Top Ten

    29 Dec 2009 | 10:33 am
    Check out the most viewed segments and most watched FRONTLINE reports in 2009. Are any of them ones that you missed?

  • Hunting Bin Laden

    27 Dec 2009 | 8:55 am
    Ten years ago, on the eve of a new decade, FBI/CIA knew they were headed for some major event between Christmas and New Year's--

  • The Mind Reels...

    14 Dec 2009 | 10:47 am
    Amazing footage of what it takes for us to be able to click on a switch and light up a room, a factory, a city...
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    Slate

  • When did we start describing comatose patients as "vegetative"?

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:35 pm
    A study published last Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that British and Belgian scientists were able to communicate with a patient in a "persistent vegetative state" using high-tech brain scans. When did we start describing comatose patients as "vegetative"?[more ...] Persistent vegetative state - New England Journal of Medicine - Belgium - Brain - United States

  • The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, an intellectual history.

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:55 pm
    Model Brooklyn Decker is on the cover of the latest edition of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue. The magazine also features "Olympic Stars" in various stages of undress. In a 2005 column, Bryan Curtis argued that "Sports Illustrated helped create the sex-sports nexus, by bringing the supermodels directly to the fans." The entire column is reprinted below.[more ...] Brooklyn Decker - Sport - Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - Sport Illustrated - Andy Roddick

  • Washington Post transportation reporter Howard Kurtz muffs the media "bypass" story.

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    The Obama White House has built a "bypass" to reroute the president's message around the pesky White House press corps, Washington Post transportation beat reporter Howard Kurtz reported yesterday.[more ...] Howard Kurtz - Washington Post - White House - United States - White House press corps

  • Dana's Home Theater: Bright Star

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:10 pm
    A daily video from Slate V.[more ...] Home cinema - Home Theater - Business - Electronics - Consumer Goods and Services

  • Reports of the Iranian regime's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:29 pm
    TEHRAN, Iran—I've begun to wonder about all the so-called "Iran experts" in the West. As Feb. 11, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic republic's founding, approaches, many of the reports about the imminent demise of the Iranian regime read like wishful thinking. On the flip side, those who claim the theocracy will survive as is also seem off the mark. Here in Tehran, things are much murkier.[more ...] Iran - Tehran - Middle East - Government - Embassies and Consulates
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    PRI'S The World

  • Entire program - February 8, 2010

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    Today on The World: US and NATO troops prepare for a major operation against a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan; Also, clandestine dining in Spain that requires a password... or a fingerscan; And a Scottish balladeer with a new take on an old tradition.

  • NATO prepares big offensive against Taliban

    Public Radio International
    Hundreds of villagers living in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan are leaving before a major NATO-led offensive gets under way. It is expected to be one of the largest counter-insurgency operations since the Afghan conflict began in 2001. The operation to clear insurgents from the southern town of Marjah, in Helmand province, is expected to begin soon. The BBC’s Frank Gardner is 90 miles east of Marjah in Kandahar.

  • Training the Afghan police force

    Public Radio International
    US led forces in Afghanistan are increasing their efforts to train a professional Afghan national police force. But as the CBC's Derek Stoffel reports from Kandahar, that force is plagued by corruption and low pay.

  • Parsing the Ukrainian presidential election results

    Public Radio International
    Viktor Yanukovich won yesterday's presidential runoff in Ukraine. He was the loser in Ukraine's Orange Revolution back in 2004. But times have changed. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Mykola Riabchuk of the Uraine Center for Cultural Studies in Kiev about yesterday's election results.

  • Silver scribblers

    Public Radio International
    Anchor Marco Werman tells us about a Ukrainian writer who lives in England. Marina Lewycka was nearly 60 when her first book was published. And now she's backing a British campaign to encourage older people to join book clubs and even write their own novels.
 
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    New Yorker

  • Andrea Thompson: The Breslin, in Chelsea.

    Andrea Thompson
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    paragraph class="noindent">After the Spotted Pig débuted, in the West Village, with its crowded bar scene, ambitious menu, and coveted burger, a fever for its formula seemed to infect restaurateurs. Every neighborhood suddenly needed a gastropub, and every gastropub was chockablock with porcine iconography. That the Breslin . . .

  • Claire Keegan: “Foster.”

    Claire Keegan
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Early on a Sunday, after first Mass in Clonegal, my father, instead of taking me home, drives deep into Wexford toward the coast, where my mother’s people came from. It is a hot August day, bright, with patches of shade and greenish sudden light along the road. We . . .

  • Sasha Frere-Jones: Massive Attack slinks back into view.

    Sasha Frere-Jones
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    The members of the British trio Massive Attack first came together in the Wild Bunch, a d.j. collective that sprang up in Bristol in the mid-eighties. The crew included the future Björk producer Nellee Hooper, the vocalist Tricky, and the d.j.s Milo and Willie Wee. The social . . .

  • Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond

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    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    goatTitle-->ONE FOR ALL D’Artagnan, the local game purveyor that takes its name from Charles de Batz de Castelmore, the Comte d’Artagnan and the basis for Alexandre Dumas’s character, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with a series of tasty and amusing events. Gascon . . .

  • Richard Brody: Jia Zhangke’s “24 City” and the Dardennes’s “Lorna’s Silence.”

    Richard Brody
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    paragraph class="noindent">There’s a crisis of naturalism in the contemporary cinema, resulting from the presumptively objective, quasi-documentary style with which politically engaged filmmakers have been getting their messages out. The Chinese director Jia Zhangke—as seen in his latest film, “24 City” (Cinema . . .
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    ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

  • New Gas Drilling Rules, More Staff for Pennsylvania’s Environmental Agency

    ProPublica
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:44 am
    by Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - For months, the gas drilling industry and environmentalists alike have been fixated on New York, waiting for its environmental agency to hash out final drilling regulations so companies can take advantage of the vast gas reserves buried there. But now some of those expectations can shift to New York’s neighbor to the south, Pennsylvania, where Gov. Edward Rendell has announced that the Department of Environmental Protection will nearly double its enforcement staff, open a new office closer to the drilling action and release new drilling regulations of…

  • TARP Watchdog Launches Audit of Bailout Contracts

    ProPublica
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:32 am
    by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - February 9, 2010 12:32 pm EST The Treasury Department has spent more than $159 million paying financial companies and legal firms to help the government dole out TARP funds. We at ProPublica have learned that the special inspector general for the TARP (SIGTARP), Neil Barofsky, has started an audit of how Treasury chose the companies and whether the government is being billed fairly for the work. The audit was launched at the request of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Coburn’s spokesman, John Hart, said a particular concern was that Treasury has redacted the labor…

  • Stimulus Spending Hits $272 Billion—34 Percent of Total

    ProPublica
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am
    by Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica - February 9, 2010 11:13 am EST The Obama administration has spent $179 billion in stimulus funds, according to the latest numbers from Recovery.gov. Combined with an estimated $93 billion in stimulus tax cuts, that means the government has now moved at least $272 billion into the economy, or 34 percent of the total amount approved by Congress last February. You can find those numbers and more on our Stimulus Progress Bar. Particularly attentive readers will note that we’ve been using the $93 billion figure for tax cuts since December, when…

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  • Police Lose Track of Sex Offenders in Chicago Area

    ProPublica
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:12 am
    by Alexandra Andrews, ProPublica - This is one of our editors' picks from our ongoing roundup of Investigations Elsewhere. In Chicago and its surrounding counties, sex offenders are flouting a law that requires them to register both their home and work addresses with local authorities – and getting away with it, reports the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune found that as of mid-January, nearly 800 sex offenders had been missing for a month or more. But warrants had been issued for just 135 of them. Police still search for missing offenders without warrants, but the Tribune calls those…
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    CNN iReport - Latest

  • Richard Chavez working with Academy Award Winner Margaret O'Brien and Director Ed Faulkner

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:33 pm
    RIchard Chavez working on SiFi and Christmas Cartoons!  He is working on Special Red Dress a Beth Roose FIlm.   The cast is: Rob Schneider, Catherine Hicks, John de Lancie,Academy Award Winner, Margaret O"Brien,  Rance Howard (Ron Howard's Dad), Richard Chavez, Ed Faulkner, Frank Bielec (Trading Speces) Jon Provost Angela Cartwright, Jon Walmsly, and others.

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    8 Feb 2010 | 6:28 pm
    they call her manou she is 11 and she is from rue st gerard 45 port au prince 

  • winter storm of 2010

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:21 pm
    My niece Brittany Bradley starting her day after the big storm

  • Fattest Snowman

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:20 pm
    My wife Kamrun build this. He is 6' 1'' and very fat. He is die hard Cowboys fan as well.

  • Infidelity Impact on America

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:14 pm
    Has the influx of marriage infidelities created a cultural convergence enhanced a growing similarity of attitudes and behaviors across cultures in America? Consequently, can Americans have moral values in business as well as politics – if they don’t manifest it at home?
 
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    Wall Street Journal

  • Google Adds 'Buzz' to Gmail

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:35 am
    Google unveiled a new Buzz service that brings social updates such as photos and links that a user's friends have shared into Gmail and some Google mobile products.

  • Stocks Gain on Hopes for Greece

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am
    Hopes for a financial rescue of Greece sent U.S. stocks soaring, putting the market on track for its best gain in three months.

  • EU Summit to Focus on Greek Triage

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am
    An EU summit originally called to ponder the long-term path of the bloc's economy is instead becoming a crisis-management session for Greece, the euro zone's weakest member.

  • FSA Chief Sants to Step Down

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am
    Hector Sants submitted his resignation as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, the U.K. financial regulator that he led through the credit crisis but which faces an uncertain political future.

  • UBS Swings Back to Profit

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:41 am
    UBS reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year, but its private-banking business continued to hemorrhage wealthy clients spooked by assaults on Swiss bank secrecy.
 
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    C-Span

  • First Lady Michelle Obama Childhood Obesity Event

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am
    First Lady Michelle Obama hosted an event at the White House officialy starting a nationwide campaign to prevent childhood obesity. The First Lady has been meeting with Cabinet officials, health experts and state officials in recent weeks to discuss the issue. Length: 1 hr. 3 min.Published: Today at 12pm (ET)

  • Pennsylvania State of the Commonwealth Address

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) delivered the State of the Commonwealth Address from the State House in Harrisburg.Length: 58 min.Published: Today at 10:30am (ET)

  • White House Meeting with Congressional Leaders

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am
    President Obama, just before a meeting with Congressional Republicans and Democrats made remarks on a jobs bill and the federal deficit. Following the meeting, Republican leaders made remarks to reporters outside the White House about what was discussed.Length: 3 min.Published: Today at 10:15am (ET)

  • Richard Norton Smith, GMU, Presidential Historian

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am
    Richard Norton Smith talks about the updated version of the book ""Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites," which he contributed to. The book is a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. Length: 46 min.Published: Today at 9:15am (ET)

  • Pres. Obama Signs Childhood Obesity Memorandum

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    President Obama was joined by First Lady Michelle Obama, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others in the Oval Office as he signed a memorandum on childhood obesity.Length: 2 min.Published: Today at 9am (ET)
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  • But will Google Buzz, the "Twitter-Killer", broadcast death?

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:47 am
    News of Google's plan to announce the release of a new set of tools that will make Gmail more social permeated the blogosphere yesterday. The company held a press conference this morning to go over the new release of Google Buzz, and well before the name of the product was even announced Nicholas Carlson over at Silicon Alley Insider had already jumped on crowning it a "Twitter-Killer."       The result of the frenzy is the top seat on Techmeme, and prior to this morning's announcement of Google Buzz discussions ranged from the…

  • DVDo's and DVDon'ts for Feb 2nd

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:36 am
    Once again, you're petrified when it comes to purchasing media in disc format. Thankfully, we've got you covered along with some help from our friends at Rotten Tomatoes. Without further ado, let's get down into this week's DVDo's and DVDo'nts.   Special Why The Fu** Is This On Blu-Ray: The Running Man is now avaliable in crisp and clear high definition. Awesome, right? Except the extras are complete head scratchers that range from a terse one-sided political discussion and something involving reality show "stars." Ugh. At least you get a good…

  • Toyota announces massive recall

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:01 am
    "Toyota’s president today announced plans for a global recall of more than 430,000 of its flagship Prius hybrid cars and a production suspension of a high-end Lexus model in a move that plunges the Japanese automaker into a new quality-control debacle." added by: Philip_Robibero   3 comments

  • G.W. Bush 'Miss Me Yet?' billboard appears along I-35

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:53 pm
    A billboard along Interstate 35 in MN depicts Former President G. W. Bush with the caption, "Miss Me Yet." NO added by: lucasives   109 comments

  • Audi's anti environment SuperBowl ad: Thanks for nothing.

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:13 pm
    And so the green movement is being marketed to men. Or so Audi pretends in their Superbowl ad for their TDI Diesel (which can be converted to a biodiesel if you have a station in your home town). Ya know, I like that Audi makes TDI’s. I do. I hate this ad. While on the surface it almost looks like a PSA that educates about the basic environmental practices in re: to plastics, battery recycling, composting, styrofoam and water usage; after viewing it I walked away with the odd association of feeling constricted and constrained by doing all of those small daily practices for the…
 
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    Associated Press

  • Democrats unveil jobs package

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats circulated a jobs bill Tuesday that's light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobby groups like doctors and the satellite broadcasting industry....

  • Obama meets with GOP, says can spur job growth

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Appealing for bipartisanship in a town where it's hard to find, President Barack Obama sat down with Democrats and Republicans Tuesday to spur cooperation on job creation, deficit reduction and health care overhaul. He promised to do his part - but warned he would take Republicans to task if they don't do the same....

  • White House mocks Sarah Palin from podium

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her palm during a speech to "tea party" activists....

  • Cribs recalled after 3 deaths

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government safety officials are recalling drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants....

  • White House hastens concert to beat snow

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing another wintry wallop, the White House decided to move a concert celebrating civil rights music from Wednesday to Tuesday to beat what could be a second crippling storm in a week....
 
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    NPR

  • Obama Prods Congress To Unite On Job Creation

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am
    The president met with House and Senate leaders to push for consensus on legislation that creates jobs, citing public frustration with the lack of progress on key issues. Afterward, the Senate's top Republican said GOP lawmakers could support some pieces of the jobs package.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • As Focus Shifts To Jobs, The Uninsured Seek Solutions

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:22 am
    The national debate over health care appears to be taking a back seat to jobs creation — but the problem persists for people who have jobs but no health insurance. A recently developed health alliance in New Orleans aims to be at least part of the solution to this problem.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Can Toyota Recover Its Reputation For Quality?

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am
    The Japanese automaker has stumbled badly in managing its current recall crisis. It's been accused of withholding information, changing its story and being less than aggressive in dealing with the various problems. Assuming the automaker can solve its problems, regaining public trust could take years.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Mid-Atlantic Braces For More Of 'Snowmageddon'

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    The second major snowstorm in less than a week was bearing down toward the region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power, and shovels were in short supply. The storm could dump more than a foot of snow on top of the nearly 3 feet already on the ground in many areas.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Deep Grief: Creating Meaning From Mourning

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am
    After parents lose a child, they are caught in a tug-of-war between the grief they have and the gift they had. And, when possible, they redirect some of their grief into positive energy.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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    Los Angeles Times

  • Over 60 feared dead, 400 hurt in Afghan avalanches

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:45 am
    More than 2,000 people have been rescued. Hundreds of soldiers and other emergency workers toil to free them. A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday.

  • Obama kicks off first bipartisan leaders meeting

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:17 am
    President Obama kicked off his latest bipartisan push on Tuesday morning as he met with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to discuss jobs and the economy.

  • Drivers of recalled Toyota Prius and Lexus hybrids advised to monitor brakes

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am
    Take care with potholes and bumps and leave extra room to stop, U.S. transportation officials say. If there's a noticeable change in the brake performance, contact a dealer immediately. Reacting to Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to recall 2010 Prius and Lexus hybrids, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday advised owners of the affected vehicles to contact a dealer immediately if they noticed a change in the performance of their brakes.

  • Iran begins plan to produce higher-grade uranium, official says

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:53 am
    The exact status of the plan is unclear, but Western diplomats fear it represents a provocative escalation in the controversy over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said that his country began a plan Tuesday to produce higher-grade uranium at its fuel production plant near the central town of Natanz.

  • FDA aims to rein in radiation-based medical scans

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:52 am
    The announcement comes five months after the FDA began looking into reports of problems with CT scanning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a problem that has been growing for decades.
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    MSNBC

  • Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles southern Mexico

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:20 pm
    A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.

  • Seats at premium on planes, trains out of D.C.

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:17 pm
    Forecasters predict more snow for the Mid-Atlantic, starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing into Wednesday as airlines warn travelers more flights would be canceled.

  • Delay on Prius decision another Toyota gaffe

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:47 pm
    A week after brake problems surfaced with its Prius, Toyota still has yet to say whether it will recall the popular hybrid.

  • Hoarse Who Dat Nation savors Saints’ victory

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:40 pm
    People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s Times-Picayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it.

  • Doritos’ ‘House Rules’ ad is tops with users

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:39 pm
    For a second straight year Doritos let the public create its Super Bowl ads. And evidently the public knows what the public wants.
 
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    GroundReport.com

  • Chitral miners seek end to injustices

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am
    By Zar Alam Khan   ISLAMABAD: The Frontier Miners Association’s Chitral chapter has warned of a strong resistance against bids to lease the valley’s natural resources to outsiders and the alleged injustices and discrimination continuing against the local miners. It called upon Chief Minister NWFP Ameer Haider Khan Hoti to put an end to the injustices with the small miners of Chitral. The chairman of the association’s Chitral chapter, Col (retired) Sardar Mohammad, said that for the last over 15 years officials of the survey and drawing section of the Directorate of…

  • Promote Kashmiri language in J&K,languages best medium to forge unity among the people

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am
               Jammu, February 09(Scoop News) – Indian Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare,  Ghulam Nabi Azad today observed that languages are the best medium to forge unity among the people belonging to various religions.           Speaking at a day-long Kashmiri Conference held here today,  Azad said, “we must endeavour for promoting Kashmiri language, alongside other languages, in a big way.           The Conference was…

  • Indian Army appreciated the role of J&K civil administration in rescue operation Gulmarg

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:38 am
                   Gulmarg-Kashmir, February 09(Scoop News) – Indian army Colonels appreciated the role of Jammu and Kashmir civil administration for extending all possible assistance during the rescue operation in Gulmarg..   J&K Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today visited High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) in Gulmarg and expressed his deep sorrow and grief over the loss of precious lives in the avalanche incident in Gujar Hut area yesterday. As many as 70 army men were buried under the avalanche, out of which,…

  • Fresh avalanche in Kashmir,18 armymen killed in avalanches, Tourists safe

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:41 am
        Srinagar/Jammu, February 9(Scoop News) – An Indian army Jawan killed in a fresh snow avalanche in Kupwara district of Kashmir Valley on Tuesday, a day after 17 armymen met a similar fate during a winter warfare training exercise on steep slopes of a ski resort Gulmarg on Monday. According to defence spokesman,the avalanche hit Tangdhar on Tuesday trapping fourteen army personnel but all the 14 army personnel were rescued from the deep snow. one of them died later.   Meanwhile the rescue operation of avalanche mishap is over. The bodies of 17 army personnel killed…

  • Confusion over Hakeemullah's death

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:11 am
     Hakeemullah Mahsud is dead, Now it’s been confirmed by Taliban. According to media reports on Different channel, Aurak Zai Taliban have confirmed that Hakeemullah Mahsud who got seriously injured in the head in US drone strike on Jan 14th 2010 on his safe House in Shaktoi region bordering South Waziristan Agency is dead. According to reports on Dunya TV and DAWN tv and Samaa TV Taliban have accepted that he got seriously injured in drone strike in January and was being transported to Karachi for treatment when he died near Multan en route to Karachi.    Geo News…
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    Nobosh

  • Davos - And thats a wrap

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am
    Does the substance of the World Economic Forum outweigh the windbaggery? My unequivocal answer Yes.Source: Fortune Magazine

  • No Verizon iPhone Until 2011?

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am
    Apples recent reiteration of support for AT&#38T and its decision to debut the iPad on the carriers network are fueling speculation that AT&#38T may hold on to its iPhone exclusive far longer than anyone is expecting. Indeed in a note to clients today Barclays Capital analyst Vijay Jayant suggests that the arrangement will last through the summer perhaps to years end.Source: AllThingsD

  • Toyota faces a Capitol grilling

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:01 am
    As Toyotas troubles mount the automaker is gearing up for a new front in the battle to salvage its once-sterling image and credibility Capitol Hill.Source: CNNMoney

  • Breaking up with the Nexus One

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:02 am
    Was I fickle? Or was my relationship with the Google phone doomed from the start?Source: Fortune Magazine

  • IAC Writes Down Search Business Takes $1 Billion Loss For Q4

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:02 am
    IAC NSDQ IACI bit an accounting bullet in Q4 taking a $991 million impairment charge for its search &amp media business&#8212including Ask and excluding Citysearch. Without that after-tax charge and an unrelated write down for $12.2 million IAC would have turned in earnings per share of $.20 an 88 percent drop from the same quarter last year but still beating estimates.Q408 net last year was affected by a one-time pre-tax gain. With those IAC lost just over $1 billion or $7.94 per share. Not to worry it still has that $1.7 billion of cash waiting for just the right occasion. Those are…
 
 
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    United Press International

  • Mehsud death claims muddied

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:52 am
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Taliban sources claimed Tuesday their leader Hakimullah Mehsud was dead, though the details and a lack of official statements muddy the narrative.

  • Shaky Somali government talks big push

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:50 am
    MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The shaky Western-backed Transitional Federal Government, barely able to control a few blocks of the capital, appears to be bracing for a three-pronged military offensive against Islamist militants aligned with al-Qaida.

  • Suspect Canadian colonel's past probed

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am
    TRENTON, Ontario, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The past of a Canadian air force colonel charged with two homicides and sex attacks in Ontario was being probed internationally Tuesday, police said.

  • Hezbollah arms for protection -- lawmaker

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:47 am
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Statements criticizing the right of Hezbollah to maintain an armed resistance against Israel are dangerous sentiments, a Shiite leader said in Beirut.

  • Rights group opposes Afghan immunity law

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The Afghan government should suspend legislation that offers immunity from war crimes in exchange for pledges of support, Amnesty International said.
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  • Arts & Letters Daily (09 Feb 2010)

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Lady Jane Grey, the "nine-day queen," was virginal, sweet, and beheaded at the age of 16, a notorious victim of the Tudors, or so it is thought... more Orson Welles's funeral was a tawdry and chaotic affair, reminding his daughter of dumping Mozart's body into a pauper's grave... more Tens of thousands of years of human mating norms are evaporating as Cro-Magnon males drag women into their caves, and the women love every minute of it... more

  • Arts & Letters Daily (08 Feb 2010)

    7 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Humor is a far more complex process than primeval pleasures like sex or food, but just as much tied to the inner complexity of the brain... more Cesare Borgia: ruthless, power-hungry and peacock-vain. But he was also brilliant, charismatic, and educated in the classics, a true Renaissance man... more Alice Waters's Chez Panisse is much more than a restaurant. It is a standard-bearer for correct moral values, and now it will dictate our kids' education. Do we really want this?... more

  • Arts & Letters Daily (07 Feb 2010)

    6 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Casanova made prodigious use of English frock coats, the "little preventive bag invented by the English to save the fair sex from anxiety"... more Yalta: Stalin, Churchill, and FDR blithely pushing pet ideas or haggling over details that would affect millions of people for generations to come... more Constantly updating your "friends" on Facebook, like joining a room full of chattering people, is no substitute for an actual conversation... more

  • Arts & Letters Daily (06 Feb 2010)

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Casanova made prodigious use of English frock coats, the "little preventive bag invented by the English to save the fair sex from anxiety"... more Yalta: Stalin, Churchill, and FDR blithely pushing pet ideas or haggling over details that would affect millions of people for generations to come... more Constantly updating your "friends" on Facebook, like joining a room full of chattering people, is no substitute for an actual conversation... more

  • Arts & Letters Daily (05 Feb 2010)

    4 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Should a room that Langston Hughes lived in for a couple of years be turned into a museum, a tourist destination? Will this save the neighborhood?... more North Korea has created a sort of new species. Starving, ignorant, stunted dwarves, living in the dark, brainwashed into the hatred... more Robert Lipsyte is a Super Bowl ad fan. He'd rather go to the bathroom during a third-down play than miss a commercial. And he is always ready to share his all-time favorites... more
 
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  • Sri Lankan parliament dissolved

    Jason Burke
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:40 am
    Decision comes day after arrest of opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka, whom he defeated in last month's electionTensions in Sri Lanka rose tonight after the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, dissolved parliament in a move aimed at further consolidating his power as the opposition called for nationwide protests over the arrest of the former army chief, Sarath Fonseka.Rajapaksa's decision to call for early parliamentary elections came the day after the arrest of Fonseka, the opposition leader he defeated by a broad margin in last month's presidential poll. The stage is now set for elections…

  • British soldiers killed in Afghanistan named

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:27 am
    Corporal Johnathan Moore and Private Sean McDonald died in an explosion near Sangin in Helmand provinceTwo British soldiers killed by an explosion in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Sunday were named tonight by the Ministry of Defence as Corporal Johnathan Moore and Private Sean McDonald, from the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.The soldiers died in an explosion near Sangin on Sunday evening.Another soldier has since been killed in Afghanistan. He was from 36 Engineer regiment, part of the counter-IED taskforce, and he died on Monday morning in an…

  • Michelle Obama takes on obesity

    Ewen MacAskill
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am
    • One in three American children overweight or obese• Schools and food industry enlisted in driveThe Obama administration today embarked on a programme to eliminate childhood obesity, one of the biggest health problems in the US, "within a generation".Launching the initiative at the White House, Michelle Obama spoke about an "epidemic of childhood obesity", saying that over the last three decades childhood obesity rates had tripled, with one in three children now overweight or obese.Describing it as a moment of truth for America, she announced measures that included the food industry and…

  • Six soldiers in custody over Lanzarote brawl

    Giles Tremlett
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am
    • Soldiers allegedly kicked and punched diners as families looked on• Police seek two soldiers as victims complain to Gordon BrownSix British soldiers were today being held in custody after allegedly assaulting diners in a restaurant on the holiday island of Lanzarote in an attack that has provoked an outpouring of rage against drunken British tourists.Three people were seriously injured and several more were treated at hospital after the crowd of soldiers, reportedly from the Welsh Guards, wrecked the La Vaca Loca restaurant in the Costa Teguise resort.Diners said they were held by up to…

  • Olympics budget hit by land values

    Matthew Taylor
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am
    Matthew TaylorThe cost of the London 2012 Olympics could rise by up to £180m because of a slump in property values and a previously undisclosed bill for maintaining the Olympic park after its completion in 2011.Quarterly accounts released by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) hasreveal that officials expect to make £150m less from the sale of land after the games because of the credit crunch. The ODA also unveiled proposals to spend an extra £110m-£160m on security and maintenance at the Olympic park between 2011 and 2013.Despite the extra costs, officials said the £9.3bn project…
 
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    The Independent

  • Sky drops ITV court fight as it cuts stake

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:19 pm
    BSkyB, the pay TV group, yesterday dropped the protracted legal battle over its 17.9 per cent stake in ITV and agreed to sell down to less than 7.5 per cent. Related StoriesMore than 3,700 jobs at risk after Ethel Austin hits the buffers againBusiness Diary: British Airways brings down the wallXstrata reinstates dividend as China supports metal pricesTreasury is failing to force banks to lend, warn MPsBoost in half-term bookings leaves Butlins on a hi-de-hi

  • The ten best Valentine's gifts

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Chosen by Miranda Porter

  • Adventures in micro-business: 'Where can I get support to expand my business?'

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Q My small business has been successful over the past five years, but now needs to expand its product range and target new markets. As our products are quite technical, where might I find appropriate support? Related StoriesTop of the fair trade fashion treeSix of the best: Conference HotelsThe shape of things to sit onAgile, smaller enterprises are leading a revival in the industryJargon Buster

  • Virtual solution to a data dilemma

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Many businesses find that, as they grow, the IT system fails to grow with them. They begin with a couple of PCs networked together by the director who’s always fiddling with these things at home, they grow unmanaged and then it’s time to get the whole thing under control. Or it’s done professionally, in an organised fashion – and then it turns out you’ve grown to a larger size than your existing systems were designed to support. Related StoriesTop of the fair trade fashion treeSix of the best: Conference HotelsThe shape of things to sit onAgile, smaller enterprises are leading a…

  • Soapbox: ‘Look to collaborate with those who can do what you can’t’

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    The Inuit have a saying: “The storm is the time to fish.” That’s a pretty apt metaphor, given the economic storm that’s been swirling over our collective heads for a while now. The situation may be easing, but it has certainly given us pause to think – if you will, a chance to poke our heads outside our igloos and fish for some new ideas. Here are a few. Related StoriesTop of the fair trade fashion treeSix of the best: Conference HotelsThe shape of things to sit onAgile, smaller enterprises are leading a revival in the industryJargon Buster
 
 
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    Livemint

  • Import duty on power equipment may increase

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:38 am
    Currently, no duty is levied on import of foreign equipment for mega power projects; a 5% duty is levied on imports for smaller projects

  • Quick Edit | Aubergine moussaka

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am
    In a country where the public discourse on science is controlled by the Left, the decision that Ramesh has taken is sure to be construed as a political victory and not some cautious search for scientific data

  • Who’s afraid of Barack Obama? Not Indian IT

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am
    India has a 12% share in the outsourcing market and a 51% market share in the offshored services market

  • Delhi HC turns down Bayer’s patent claims

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:32 am
    The court’s action is significant as it involves the rejection of Bayer’s request for a link between the patent status of a drug and regulatory clearance, a link not enforced in most countries

  • Govt puts Bt brinjal in limbo

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:31 am
    Announces moratorium for as long as it is needed to establish public trust, confidence; scientists disappointed
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    Global Voices Online » Weblog

  • France: International Students in Paris Blog on Cité Babel

    Laura Vidal
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:14 am
    The International City of Paris [Fr] is a complex that houses a community of international students living and learning at French universities. The Cité was created at a time in between the two World Wars in a pacific spirit that grew during that time in France. Their founders, based on an humanist ideal, envisioned a place that could bring together students from all over the world who would be studying in Paris and give them a home in which they could interact and learn from each other. As it is stated on their website, La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris is a “school of human…

  • China: Let Feng Zhenghu come home, to jail time

    John Kennedy
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:56 am
    Feng Zhenghu's 92-day protest in Narita airport has ended and he now has a flight back to Shanghai booked for this Friday, just in time for Chinese New Year, but updates [zh] to his Twitter account over the past weekend suggest that Feng remains unsure over whether he'll be let back into China. This Friday at noon will be his ninth consecutive attempt to return home. Why hasn't Feng, with his valid passport, been allowed to return to China, a right supposedly afforded to all Chinese citizens? In the absence of an explanation from Beijing, many have looked to Shanghai and see…

  • China: #Tanzuoren - to be human

    Oiwan Lam
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:01 am
    Chinese activist Tan Zuoren was sentenced to 5 year imprisonment and 3 year deprivation of political rights this morning (Feb 9) under the charge of inciting subversion of state power. Tan was involved in the investigation of the relation between bean dregs school buildings and the death of school children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake by interviewing the parents and compiling a victim list. He was arrested last year and the investigation was stopped accordingly. In his first trial, the evident that the prosecutor presented was mainly about his interviews with overseas media about the…

  • Arab World: Should the New York Times Reassign Ethan Bronner?

    Jillian C. York
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:09 pm
    Over the past couple of weeks, a much-discussed topic in the broader Arab blogosphere has been a news story that broken by a member of the blogosphere itself.  On January 25, the Electronic Intifada (EI) reported that the son of Ethan Bronner, New York Times‘ Jerusalem bureau chief, had recently been inducted into the Israeli Defense Forces.  Citing the NYT's company policy, EI argued that the paper had a responsibility to disclose the information to readers; the NYT's foreign editor, Susan Chira, responded by email, stating (and effectively disclosing): Ethan Bronner referred…

  • [Podcast] Interview with Fabiano Angelico of Transparência Brasil

    David Sasaki
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:58 pm
    Fabiano Angélico is projects coordinator at Transparência Brasil. His post-graduate research includes “Transparency, Accountability and Fight against Corruption” at the University of Chile. He is currently completing a master's degree in public administration at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. In this podcast he explains why transparency and accountability projects tend to focus on federal rather than state and local governments and points us to one innovative project in Brazil in which bloggers ‘adopt' local…
 
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    Border Reporter – News That Crossed The Line

  • El Paso Votes Against El Viceroy

    Michel Marizco
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:29 pm
    THE BORDER REPORT Well here’s a city council meeting that may be worth attending tomorrow – for the public comment period if nothing else. Three El Paso city councilmembers are trying to pass a resolution condemning the violence in Juarez. I’m not even sure what to make of this yet. In some ways, it’s absolutely worthless, almost [...]

  • Crutches Cayo

    Michel Marizco
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    THE BORDER REPORT Okay, so El Muletas, Raydel López Uriarte goes down. The top figure of the Sinaloa-backed crime family in Baja California was arrested this morning in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Last Thursday, his sister, Diana Lopez Uriarte, was kidnapped as she left a supermarket in Tijuana. News reports from the area observed that it [...]

  • Chapo Guzmán Captured

    Michel Marizco
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am
    THE BORDER REPORT And now that I have your attention; let’s have a brief dialogue on this fine Sunday morning. This is what I’d like to see: “Hi Michel, did you have a nice Saturday?” “Why yes, I did. I spent the morning writing, then I went on a mountainbike ride then I cleaned my house and went out. [...]

  • ¿Que Pedo Con La Polaka?

    Michel Marizco
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm
    THE BORDER REPORT One of our readers, El Teo, just asked the question and it’s getting to be a relevant question. What happened to La Polaka? The site’s publisher, Jorge Luis Aguirre, is a great newsman who has turned that Web site into a focal point for on-the-spot crime news with a fantastic black humor. I don’t recall [...]

  • So? Who Did It?

    Michel Marizco
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am
    THE BORDER REPORT Maybe. And, being Mexico, maybe not. The interview looks clean, blaming El Viceroy, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes for the massacre of 16 youth in Juárez last Saturday. As many of you already noticed, this transciption from juarezpress.com lays the blame solely at the feet of Joaquín Chapo Guzmán. And, as many of you have also [...]
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    Environmental News Network

  • Beans climb to new heights in Rwanda

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:55 am
    Climbing beans suited to rainy high-altitude areas are being distributed in Rwanda after a decade of research. The fifteen varieties, developed by the Rwandan Agricultural Research Institute (ISAR) in collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), could benefit smallholder farmers in similar areas across Central and East Africa. Unlike the more commonly-planted 'bush beans', the beans are resistant to legume diseases such as anthracnose, root rot and ascochyta, which are found in damp, higher altitude areas.

  • Wild tigers in China declining - habitat destruction, poaching to blame

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:17 am
    China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. Tigers once roamed huge swathes of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due to habitat destruction on the back of rapid economic development and poaching for tiger products to use in traditional medicine. About 10 still live in the southwestern province of Yunnan, some 15 in Tibet, and 20 or so in northwestern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, said Xie Yan, China…

  • Sea Level Rises and Falls

    7 Feb 2010 | 4:50 am
    The sea level in Israel has been rising and falling over the past 2,500 years, with a one-meter difference between the highest and lowest levels, most of the time below the present-day level. This has been shown in a new study supervised by Dr. Dorit Sivan, Head of the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. "Rises and falls in sea level over relatively short periods do not testify to a long-term trend. It is early yet to conclude from the short-term increases in sea level that this is a set course that will not take a change in direction," explains Dr. Sivan.

  • Arctic climate changing fast

    7 Feb 2010 | 4:15 am
    Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north. The research project involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries who collectively spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above the Arctic Circle. It marked the first time a ship has stayed mobile in Canada's high Arctic for an entire winter.

  • Alternative Energy Grows in Europe

    6 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am
    Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell More wind capacity was installed in Europe during 2009 than any other electricity-generating technology, according to statistics released today by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). Wind accounted for 39 per cent of increased European energy capacity, ahead of gas (26 per cent) and solar (16 per cent). In contrast, the nuclear and coal power sectors decommissioned more megawatts of capacity than they installed in 2009, with a…
 
 
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    ITN Headlines

  • Katie Price: Peter Andre interview was unfair

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am
    Katie Price has defended Peter Andre after his tearful TV interview.Related StoriesPeter Andre breaks down in TV interviewKatie Price and Alex Reid's honeymoon in VegasPeter Andre backs modern working dadsKatie Price: 'Divorce claims are absolute rubbish'

  • Wyclef, Whoopi & Mary J Blige support Haiti

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:26 am
    Mary J Blige, Wyclef Jean and Whoopi Goldberg have been getting behind Haiti fundraising efforts in New York.Related StoriesHaiti charity single goes on saleBritain to help rebuild prisons in HaitiAnne-Marie Duff honoured at London film awardsKatie Price: 'Divorce claims are absolute rubbish'Cameron & Bullock are honoured in Santa Barbara

  • Terror suspect freed on appeal

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 am
    A student branded a "wannabe suicide bomber" has walked free from court after judges overturned his terror conviction.

  • Kraft to close Cadbury factory

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:56 am
    Kraft Foods have confirmed plans to close Cadbury's Somerdale factory near Bristol by 2011.Related StoriesEthel Austin in administration againGraduates to face pay freeze and more tuition feesVauxhall announce UK job cuts

  • GB skeleton team aim for gold

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:45 am
    Team GB's best hope for a medal in Vancouver, Shelley Rudman is planning to end Canadian favourite Mellisa Hollingsworth's dream of gold.
 
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  • Obama Prods Congress To Unite On Job Creation

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am
    The president met with House and Senate leaders to push for consensus on legislation that creates jobs, citing public frustration with the lack of progress on key issues. Afterward, the Senate's top Republican said GOP lawmakers could support some pieces of the jobs package.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • As Focus Shifts To Jobs, The Uninsured Seek Solutions

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:22 am
    The national debate over health care appears to be taking a back seat to jobs creation — but the problem persists for people who have jobs but no health insurance. A recently developed health alliance in New Orleans aims to be at least part of the solution to this problem.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Can Toyota Recover Its Reputation For Quality?

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am
    The Japanese automaker has stumbled badly in managing its current recall crisis. It's been accused of withholding information, changing its story and being less than aggressive in dealing with the various problems. Assuming the automaker can solve its problems, regaining public trust could take years.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Mid-Atlantic Braces For More Of 'Snowmageddon'

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    The second major snowstorm in less than a week was bearing down toward the region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power, and shovels were in short supply. The storm could dump more than a foot of snow on top of the nearly 3 feet already on the ground in many areas.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Deep Grief: Creating Meaning From Mourning

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am
    After parents lose a child, they are caught in a tug-of-war between the grief they have and the gift they had. And, when possible, they redirect some of their grief into positive energy.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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  • kurd channel - baranamakani roji doshama o hawalakani bashi kurdi

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:57 pm
    kurd channel - baranamakani roji doshama o hawalakani bashi kurdiAuthor: Kurd-channelKeywords: kurdi Added: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:57:48 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

  • P&G's Allgood (CSDW) in Haiti

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:39 pm
    The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) support for the relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti now totals over $2 million. P&G product donations total more than $1.2 million with cash and donations from P&G, its employees and retirees, taking the total over $2 million. Product donations include bar soaps, batteries, bleach, diapers, dish detergents, feminine hygiene products, flashlights, laundry detergents, paper towels, shampoos, toilet tissue, tooth brushes, toothpaste, and wipes. Additionally, P&G has committed to providing six million packets of PUR, a technology that…

  • Danica Patrick Stars in New DRIVE4COPD campaign

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:17 pm
    A powerful group of entertainment, sports and healthcare organizations and celebrities have joined forces to screen millions of people who may be at risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the nation's fourth leading cause of death. The American Lung Association, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., COPD Foundation and NASCAR® today kicked off DRIVE4COPD, a multi-year public health initiative aiming to reach millions of Americans about the need for early detection of COPD. To view Multimedia News Release go to,…

  • kurd channel - persi roj miwanan kak samali sharafi o kak mostafa mahrofi bashi 3

    7 Feb 2010 | 3:59 pm
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    7 Feb 2010 | 3:59 pm
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  • Epstein and Taylor: Are We All Keynesians Now?

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:49 pm
    Epstein and Taylor: Are We All Keynesians Now? Richard Epstein and John Taylor reflect on the global economic crisis of 2008 and discuss why the Keynesian narrative of events fails to identify and explain the causes at the root of the crisis. Epstein and Taylor evaluate the government responses to the crisis, assessing the effectiveness of TARP and President Obama's stimulus legislation.Finally, Epstein and Taylor lay out the future steps that government must take to ensure recovery and growth. Key among them: "Don't raise taxes." Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Stanford, CA,…

  • Meeting the Millennium Development Goals

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:27 pm
    Meeting the Millennium Development Goals The combination of food and financial crises trapped an estimated 50 to 90 million people in extreme poverty in 2009.How can the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 be met in the wake of the economic crisis? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Davos, 2010 World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/01/29/Meeting_the_Millennium_Development_Goals

  • Rebuilding Peace and Stability in Afghanistan

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:37 pm
    Rebuilding Peace and Stability in Afghanistan More than eight years after the UN authorized military action in Afghanistan, the 43-nation coalition intends to increase troop levels to provide fresh impetus to efforts to bring peace and stability to the country.What is needed from Afghanistan, the region and the international community to achieve success? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Davos, 2010 World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/01/29/Rebuilding_Peace_and_Stability_in_Afghanistan

  • After the Financial Crisis: Consequences & Lessons

    5 Feb 2010 | 5:33 pm
    After the Financial Crisis: Consequences & Lessons The financial crisis has caused an economic crisis around the world.Drastic state measures have prevented the collapse of the economic system: governments have established rescue funds for failing banks or nationalized banks for relaunching economic growth. At the same time, central banks have intervened with important injections of liquidity and have lowered interest rates. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Davos, 2010 World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum Program and discussion:…

  • The US Economic Outlook with Lawrence Summers

    5 Feb 2010 | 4:41 pm
    The US Economic Outlook with Lawrence Summers The economic outlook for the world's largest economy remains uncertain with unemployment levels reaching 10 percent and budget deficits increasing at the national and state levels. How will the Obama Administration address these and other economic challenges in 2010?Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council talks with journalist Charlie Rose about these and other pressing economic questions. Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Davos, 2010 World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum Program and discussion:…
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    THE WEEK - Online

  • Could Sarah Palin win in 2012?

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Palin has all but thrown her hat in the ring for the White House race. But is she too polarizing for a national election?

  • GOP: Party of 'conspiracy mongers'?

    2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    A new poll of Republicans shows a party rife with extremist beliefs. But does it reflect reality?

  • Scott Brown for president?

    31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    As the GOP searches for a plausible 2012 frontrunner, eyes are turning towards the JFK-esque senator-elect Scott Brown

  • Tea Party ‘scam’: Is Palin in?

    28 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Just days away, the first national Tea Party Convention is collapsing under a cloud of scandal. Will star speaker, Sarah Palin, jump ship?

  • SOTU: Obama vs. Alito

    27 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    After Justice Alito's shocking 'You lie!' moment, pundits are debating whether Alito—or Obama—crossed a line
 
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    The Daily Beast - Cheat Sheet

  • Stimulus Foes Seeks Handouts

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:47 am
    So much for a principled opposition: More than a dozen Republican lawmakers sent private letters to federal government agencies seeking stimulus money for pork projects even as they publicly criticized the stimulus. Missouri Senator Kip Bond, for...

  • GOP Likely to Attend Health Summit

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:18 am
    House Minority Leader John Boehner and Whip Eric Cantor may be threatening to pull out of President Obama's health-care summit, but apparently it's a bluff: Greg Sargent says that, after talking to senior Republican aides and advisers, "the chatter in...

  • More Trouble for Toyota

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:06 am
    It didn't seem possible, but this week may actually get worse for Toyota, as federal officials announced plans to investigate complaints of faulty steering on 2009 and 2010 Toyota Corollas. The company has so far recalled 8.5 million cars, including,...

  • Inside The Grateful Dead Archive

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    Deadheads rejoice! The meticulous archive for the Grateful Dead will open up at the University of California Santa Cruz this spring. Sure, the collection should be a boon to musicologists and historians, but could the '60s rock band also teach...

  • Paperwork Slows Airlifts of Haitian Children

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    After 10 Americans were arrested for trying to take children out of Haiti last month, fear of kidnapping accusations has largely stopped private medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian children to the United States. Before the arrests, the...
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    AtlanticCommunity.org

  • Supporting Better Governance

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:58 am
    Memo 22: Atlantic-community.org has developed several policy recommendations regarding the international mission in Afghanistan. Members agree that improving the functioning of the state is necessary and that better governance, empowering local institutions must be one of ISAF's primary goals.

  • Social Media Challenges International Organizations

    5 Feb 2010 | 5:16 am
    Interview with Jeff Jarvis: The internet is putting power in the hands of global citizens. Large international organizations are missing opportunities to harness that power to improve relations with their constituents. Citizens need to continue to use this technology to create new "social assets".

  • Europe is More than the EU

    5 Feb 2010 | 12:21 am
    Heinrich Bonnenberg: A broader definition of ‘Europe’ needs to be developed if it is to be competitive against other dynamic regions. For Europe to come together, a new identity based on past, present, and future values needs to be developed. In so doing, Europe will not only overcome divisions and prejudices, but it will also establish itself as a strong international competitor.

  • Political Pipelines as Diplomatic Fault Lines

    4 Feb 2010 | 6:37 am
    Joshua Posaner: Europe should strengthen infrastructure across the former Soviet space as opposed to directly competing with Russia on gas pipelines. The White Stream project currently in development by Ukraine provides a possible counterweight to Moscow's increasing energy dominance and an antidote to Eastern Europe's increasing isolation.

  • The Underestimated Terror Threat: Insecure Chemical Facilities

    2 Feb 2010 | 12:47 am
    Isaac Guillermo Lara: Insecure chemical plants pose one of the gravest threats to national security within the United States. Congress needs to do more to address this issue, particularly by establishing national security standards for chemical facilities. It is critical for the government to acknowledge potential terrorist threats from within the US as much as those in the Middle East.
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    Khaleej Times : Top Stories

  • Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

    TEHRAN, Iran - Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.

  • Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq

    BAGHDAD - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.

  • US hands over Iranian officials detained in Iraq

    BAGHDAD - Five Iranian officials detained by the U.S. military in Iraq for up to two years were released on Thursday and handed over to Iranian embassy staff by Iraqi authorities, Iranian state television said.

  • Cyber attacks on South Korea came from 16 countries

    SEOUL - This week's cyber attacks on South Korea are believed to have been mounted from 16 different countries but North Korea was not among them, Seoul's spy agency was quoted as saying Friday.

  • Blast outside school in Afghanistan kills 25

    KABUL - An explosion outside a school south of the Afghan capital on Thursday killed at least 25 people, including 15 students, officials said, and Taliban fighters overran a district near the Pakistan border after heavy fighting.
 
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    Moreintelligentlife.com

  • THE FEED: FEB 9TH

    The Editors
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am
    Today's links: In defence of Elizabeth Gilbert (Smart Set) Leon Wieseltier on Andrew Sullivan's "condescension toward the Jews" (New Republic) Producers still ponying up on Broadway (Variety) Eli Broad's impact on LA culture (New York Times) Today's quote: "Graduate school in the humanities is a trap. It is designed that way. It is structurally based on limiting the options of students and socializing them into believing that it is shameful to abandon "the life of the mind." ~ Thomas H. Benton, "The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'" (Chronicle of Higher Education) (Via The Economist)…

  • HOW TO CRIPPLE THE CAPITAL

    Corbin Hiar
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:38 am
    Just add snow—the more, the messier. A few wet, white flakes in the Washington metro area are all it takes to wash away the veneer of efficiency local politicians try to maintain. When faced with nearly 30 inches of snow, as it was last weekend, America's seat of government freezes up. As the virulent debate over health care has made clear, America's legislative process already moves at a glacial pace. The near record-setting snowstorm has not only suspended the city's semi-reliable buses and commuter trains, but has halted all congressional momentum (such as it was) for two days straight.

  • MEXICO'S HIDDEN BLACKS

    Alexis Okeowo
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm
    The black descendants of slaves in Mexico struggle against entrenched racism. Alexis Okeowo explores the so-called first free slave town in the Americas ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE The first time I felt deeply uncomfortable being black was when I was a kid. My family had just moved to Alabama, and I was in a car with my father and my brother. A white woman with a harshly lined face and brown frizzy hair yelled out a racial slur as we drove by. Dad immediately put the car in reverse and drove over to her as she pumped gas at a filling station. "What did you say?" he demanded. She…

  • TINA MODOTTI, VIEWER AND VIEWED

    Yael Friedman
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:44 pm
    Devotees of communism evoke a grim picture of stern and ascetic men and women in sparsely furnished rooms, free of bourgeois luxuries. And then there is the glamorous Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer and political revolutionary. An exhibition of 35 of her photographs now on at New York's Throckmorton Fine Art gallery, "Tina Modotti: Under the Mexican Sky", recalls the life and talent of this rare seductress. Modotti was 16 when she left Italy for California, where she began her transformation from factory worker to bohemian ingénue. In Los Angeles, she met and modelled for Edward…

  • THE FEED: FEB 8TH

    The Editors
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:25 pm
    Today's links: An infuriating case for Mr Good Enough (Salon) The Stonehenge saga (Guardian) George Packer v Twitter (New Yorker) The e-book price experiment (Wired) Today's quote: "I’m starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don’t have the broader trends like you used to." ~ Douglas Coupland, interviewed by Deborah Solomon (New York Times Magazine) (Via The Economist) Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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    The Best Defense

  • Kilcullen (II): How to tell the effect of your operations on the population

    Thomas E. Ricks
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:57 am
    Back to David Kilcullen's essay on what works in counterinsurgency, what doesn't, and how to tell the difference. But first, a couple of points in response to yesterday's rasher of comments. First, to my knowledge, the paper hasn't been published anywhere -- but I'll skate as close to the copyright laws as I can and give you a good overview. Second, Kilcullen isn't out to attack all metrics, just bad metrics. Which leads us to the point of today's post. Yesterday, he told you why he dismisses certain metrics as unhelpful. Today, he discusses how to tell what effect your operations are …

  • Time to talk: It takes a tough soldier to go public about the urge to kill himself

    Thomas E. Ricks
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:51 am
    Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Samuel Rhodes is the subject of a good article about how two tours in Iraq stripped him of his marriage and peace of mind, and nearly his life by his own hand. At one point in Iraq he tied himself to his own bunk. He has gone public to help other soldiers. "It's not about me. ... Every one of us can tell our own story. Start telling it. Change the culture of silence." He emphasizes how important a few kind words can be at the right time. Keep that in mind, little grasshoppers.

  • Pirate Watch: Tumbling dice

    Thomas E. Ricks
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:50 am
    By Cmdr. Herb Carmen Best Defense piracy czar Are some ship masters rolling the dice as they pass through pirate infested waters to save operating costs? Are ship masters intentionally taking the path of least resistance and ignoring Best Management Practices to Deter Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Coast of Somalia? It's something we've been looking at when combing through data of successful pirate attacks. So, too, have the folks at Strategy Page. In a recent post, Strategy Page points out that about a quarter of the ships passing through these waters are gambling with the safety and…

  • Kilcullen (I): Here’s what not to measure in a COIN campaign

    Thomas E. Ricks
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am
    When David Kilcullen is at his best, he is unexcelled at discussing how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political anthropologist/COIN guru is at his best when he gathers field observations, boils them down to distilled principles, and then describes those rules in a clear, practical manner.  So I want to take some time to go through a paper he wrote recently in Afghanistan. (I didn't get it from him, by the way.) While it ostensibly is about metrics in COIN campaigning, it amounts to a thorough discussion of what works in such warfare,…

  • Wife of deployed ‘Air Force Guy’: Here’s a day in my life on auto-pilot

    Thomas E. Ricks
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:53 am
    I was looking through Doonesbury's Sandbox the other day and saw this interesting post from an Air Force wife, married to "AFG," about her life while he is deployed. I'm often just putting one foot in front of the other. A big part of my day is trying to appear "normal". Whatever is going on inside my head or wherever my husband is deployed to, I have to take the kids to Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Gymnastics, Swimming, and Boxing lessons. And I've got to figure out how to group everything around the times AFG might possibly call (because I will not miss those). I've gotten…
 
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    Global Crisis News

  • 1.3 million lost jobs during the UK recession

    A recent report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) reveals that 1.3 million people have lost their jobs during the recession in the UK, more than double the official figure quoted by the Office for National Statistics. The difference in figures are due to the official figures not taking into account the 700,000 [...]

  • Ericsson profits drop 92 per cent, 1500 jobs to be cut

    Ericsson unveiled plans Monday, to cut 500 jobs as the telecommunications giant announced a huge 92 per cent drop in profits in the final quarter of 2009. The global financial crisis has resulted in a strong drop in demand for their products, forcing the telecommunications company to slash 5,000 jobs in 2009. The Swedish company reported a [...]

  • Soccer Instead of Unsafe Sex

    About 20 men sat on chairs at the HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Katuna, Uganda, intently watching a match between Manchester United and Chelsea on a small television. Along with the pool table, board games, and additional television downstairs, soccer games provide a much needed distraction for the long-distance truckers who have to wait for their [...]

  • UN urges calm amid clashes along Egypt-Gaza border

    The United Nations urged calm by all sides amid recent violence along the border between Egypt and Gaza, including the killing of an Egyptian security officer today, as protests continue over a delayed aid convoy headed for the Gaza Strip. “We are troubled by the violence along the Egypt-Gaza border,” Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]

  • Scotland Yard warns of Mumbai-style terror attacks in London

    Scotland Yard has warned that London is facing a threat of a Mumbai-style terror attack in key locations through London. Senior detective from the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command warned that “Mumbai is coming to London”. The Sunday Times reported earlier this Monday that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on London early in 2010. In November [...]
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    ToTheCenter - News

  • Costa Rica Elects First Female President

    Step aside, America, you no longer are the only state breaking down political vestiges. While Costa Rica’s election of Laura Chinchilla may not be as politically demonstrative – nor as sensationalized – the feat still stands as a large step forward, not only for Central American state, but for women across the world. The National Liberation Party candidate secured her victory after Otton Solis conceded defeat. Chinchilla plans to follow in the footsteps of the current president, and her protégé, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias. She plans to continue the same economic policies,…

  • New study discovers new facts about amygdala

    Californian scientists think that patients with amygdala injury causes people to be not afraid of gambling. The study reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at patients who had damaged their amygdala, a deep part of the brain. These patients were compared to normal people and it was discovered that the people with the amygdala injury were unafraid to loos money or gamble. According to BBC, this is the part of brain that creates in people the fear of losing money and if this part of the brain is damaged than they loose the fear of gambling. “ It may be that the…

  • Abortions increases in older women

    Experts believe that older women are stopping the use of contraception in a mistaken belief that they would not get pregnant. However, the Family Planning Association (FPA) believes the message on infertility and age has been taken too seriously by women of a certain age. According to BBC, although it is true that after a certain age the probability of getting pregnant decreases if far from disappearing completely. Women can still fall pregnant well into their thirties, forties and fifties. Rates show that in this group age has increased in the past year. Chief executive of the FPA Julie…

  • Obama Administration Addresses Childhood Obesity

    President Barack Obama signed a childhood obesity memorandum on Tuesday in front of First Lady Michelle Obama and several members of the Cabinet. CNN.com is reporting that the memorandum has been signed in order to implement a federal task force, which will have the assignment of developing a 90 day plan to encourage ideal coordination between private sectors, non-private sectors and the federal government. The federal task force will help to correlate with the public relations efforts that have been made by First Lady Michelle Obama to raise awareness about the childhood obesity issue. The…

  • Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania Dead at Age 77

    According to CNN.com, Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania passed away at Virginia Hospital Center on Monday as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery. Murtha, who was 77 years old at the time of his passing, was held in high regard by Democratic politicians as well as by some Republican politicians. He was considered to be one of the most powerful lawmakers in the entire country. Murtha was a trusted adviser of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and according to the Washington Post, many political experts credit him with her rise through the ranks to her current position. The…
 
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    Net News Daily

  • Da Vinci Code church captured in 3D

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:30 pm
    A Scottish church that featured in a bestseller novel has been captured in 3D using cutting-edge technology. A 3D image of Rosslyn Chapel Rosslyn Chapel, a  building dating back to the 1400s, gained international fame from Dan Brown’s book, the Da Vinci Code. A team from Historic Scotland and Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art scanned the building using three 3D terrestrial laser scanners. Each scanner is capable of capturing 50,000 dimension points per second. Fiona Hyslop, Minister for Cultural and External Affairs said: “This leading edge technology will help…

  • Dog owners to face tougher penalties

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:29 am
    A government committee has supported the introduction of  tougher penalties for dog owners who do not keep their pets under control. A silhouetted man and dog. (photorant/Flickr) Under the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Bill, introduced by Christine Grahame MSP, local authorities could force owners to keep dogs on leads in public places and attend dog control training classes. Failure to comply with the regulations would land owners with a fine of up to £1,000. Local Government and Communities Committee Convener Duncan McNeil MSP said: “We welcome this Bill that will ensure owners who…

  • Gallery: 1100 sleep rough for homeless charity

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    23 Jan 2010 | 5:20 pm
    A homeless charity held their annual Sleepout event on Friday night, attracting over 1100 people. Participants spent the night sleeping rough inside the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre or its car park to raise money for the Aberdeen Cyrenians. The event is expected to have raised £30,000 for the charity.

  • 10,000 families to save hundreds on energy bills

    KYLE THORNTON
    13 Jan 2010 | 2:18 pm
    Thousands of low-income families will receive help from the Scottish Government to reduce their energy bill costs. Wind Turbines: Clean, green energy machines. (416style/Flickr) The Scottish Government today expanded their Energy Assistance Package initiative, which helps families to get new central heating systems, home insulation and green energy devices. It is open to low-income families who have children under 16, and also to those who receive a range of benefits, including tax credits. Families participating in the scheme have saved an average of £860 yearly on electricity bills. John…

  • Police hand out Polish posters as hopes fade for missing angler

    NATHAN ADAM
    12 Jan 2010 | 3:09 pm
    Grampian Police has renewed an appeal for witnesses as hopes fade for missing angler Adam Kryszpin. Police have issued a poster in Polish in a bid to find Mr Krzyszpin Mr Krzyszpin is believed to have been swept off cliffs in Cove while fishing on Sunday. The Coastguard conducted coastline searches, while police officers re-visited potential witnesses. Detective Sergeant Stuart Gray said: “We know Adam headed off towards the area known as the Red Rock to go fishing, early on Sunday morning. He was driving an old style blue Volkswagen Polo, which was found parked near this area and I am…
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    YouTube: News

  • Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

    PrivateCustard
    27 Jan 2010 | 4:10 pm
    Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News Newswipe, Tuesdays on BBC 4 at 10.30pm Charlie Brooker for PM!! #1 - Top Rated (This Month) #1 - Top Rated (This Month) - Global #1 - Top Rated (This Month) - Comedy #1 - Top Rated (This Month) - Comedy - Global #1 - Top Rated (All Time) #1 - Top Rated (All Time) - Global #1 - Top Rated (All Time) - Comedy #1 - Top Rated (All Time) - Comedy - Global Wow, cheers everyone!! Now I feel I must add the obligitory copyright notices in the hope that the BBC don't make me take it down (pleeeease BBC, let it stay, Mr Brooker would want it to!) Copyright BBC…

  • The world's most generic news report - Charlie Brooker's Newswipe

    eightySeventh
    27 Jan 2010 | 10:18 am
    The world's most generic news report - Charlie Brooker's Newswipe A hilarious parody of lazily edited news reports from Series 2, Episode 2 of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe. Watch the latest episode of Newswipe on the BBC iplayer, here- www.bbc.co.uk From: eightySeventh Views: 91820 1065 ratings Time: 02:04 More in Comedy

  • Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations.

    schmoyoho
    15 Oct 2009 | 7:53 am
    Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations. From: schmoyoho Views: 1147877 8108 ratings Time: 02:56 More in Shows

  • Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)

    schmoyoho
    2 Sep 2009 | 4:17 am
    Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain) From: schmoyoho Views: 1167137 8025 ratings Time: 03:33 More in Shows

  • Auto-Tune the News #7: texting. rhyming. pat buchanan fail.

    schmoyoho
    3 Aug 2009 | 11:25 am
    Auto-Tune the News #7: texting. rhyming. pat buchanan fail. From: schmoyoho Views: 839788 5351 ratings Time: 03:16 More in Shows
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    CBS News: 60 Minutes Podcast

  • 60 Minutes: 01-31-10

    31 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm
    In a rare chance to show America's elite Special Forces up close, 60 MINUTES spent over two months with a Green Beret unit as they trained a group of Afghan soldiers and then went into battle with them against the Taliban. Lara Logan reports. Also in the show, U.S. snowboarder Shaun White tells Bob Simon how he's still the one to beat, and Steve Kroft profiles superstar Beyonce on the road.

  • 60 Minutes: 01/24/10

    24 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am
    60 MINUTES will be pre-empted this week for a special edition of "60 MINUTES Presents: a Tribute to Don Hewitt." This hour pays tribute to the news magazine's creator and former executive producer, Don Hewitt, who passed away last August at the age of 86.

  • 60 Minutes: Haiti

    18 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am
    Byron Pitts reports from Haiti on recovery efforts in the country following the devastating earthquake. Scott Pelley travels to American Samoa to find out how such a small territory produces more NFL players than any place in America. And finally Charlie Rose interviews the Spanish-born actress Penelope Cruz.

  • Border Control

    10 Jan 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Steve Kroft reports on the status of the multi-billion-dollar "virtual fence" being built at the U.S.-Mexican border. Later in the show, Authors of a new book, "Game Change," and John McCain's former top campaign strategist reveal behind-the-scenes issues from the Republican and Democratic camps during the presidential campaign. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

  • Swiss banks, elephants

    3 Jan 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Steve Kroft speaks with Swiss banker Bradley Birkenfeld who reveals how he helped uncover thousands of untaxed Swiss accounts. Byron Pitts reports on the increasing claims handled by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. And finally Bob Simon travels to Central Africa to learn how researchers there are decoding elephant sounds and behavior to compile an elephant dictionary.
 
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    Face the Nation

  • Face the Nation on the Radio: 02/07/10

    7 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm
    Today on Face the Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer talks to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell from the Sun Life Stadium in Miami. He also talks to Shannon Sharpe, Phil Simms and Jim Nantz of CBS Sports.

  • Face The Nation on the Radio: 01/31/10

    31 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm
    Today on Face The Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer hosts as both sides admit disagreements need to be addressed cordially to make politics work - and debate who's being more uncivil...

  • Face the Nation on the Radio: 01/24/10

    24 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm
    Today on Face the Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer interviews Senator John McCain(R) and Senator Richard Durbin(D) from Illinois. Later on the show, a roundtable discussion on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling with CBS News Correspondents Nancy Cordes and Jan Crawford.

  • Face the Nation: 01/17/10

    17 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am
    Today on Face the Nation as the dimensions of the Haitian disaster grow even wider and the death toll rises, former Presidents Clinton and Bush say it is time to put politics aside and help Haiti. We'll talk to both of them. And from our correspondents and U.S. officials on the scene, we'll get the latest on this tragedy. Face the Nation with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, and now from Washington, Bob Schieffer.

  • Face the Nation on the Radio: 01/10/10

    10 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am
    Today on Face the Nation, are we on the right track in the war on terrorism and can the Senate majority leader survive an insensitive remark about Barack Obama's race?A new book suggests that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thought Barack Obama's candidacy would be helped because he was, quote, "light-skinned and had no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." At a time when Democrats are already having their problems, what will be the impact of that? And the President tells the intelligence bureaucracy to shape up after the near catastrophe on the flight to Detroit. Where does the war…
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    chidi opara reports

  • Photonews: Anambra State Governorship Election; The Top Contenders

    Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am
                                         [Peter obi]                                                 [Chukuwma Soludo]                                             [Chris Ngige]

  • Editorial: The Dora Akunyili Hoopla

    Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:03 am
    The Nigerian Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili recently wrote a memo to the Executive Council of the Federation, also known as the Federal Executive Council(FEC). In the said memo, Professor Akunyili asked her colleagues to pass a resolution advising the ailing President, who have been out of the country since november, 2009 for medical reasons, to forward the

  • A Communiqué From The “Save Nigeria Group"

    Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:53 am
    On Power Hijack: Meeting deplores the fact that Nigeria has entered 73rd day of offshore presidency with the cabal that has hijacked power still holding to the jugular of the nation and resolved as follows: Commends the Senate for standing by its resolution that the president should respect the Constitution by transmitting power to his Vice. Condemns the House of Representatives for working

  • Open Letter To Nigeria's Parliament: Impeach President Yar’Adua

    Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:03 am
                                                [President Yar'Adua] Attention: The Senate President/ Mr. Speaker Your Excellency Sir, Having watched with a mixture of disbelief, disgust and disappointment the unfolding events that have beset our Beloved Nation these past days, we wish to bring to your attention the need for the National Assembly to act promptly and decisively to stave off

  • News Release: Afenifere’s Resolutions On The Yoruba Legacy Forum And President Yar’Adua

    Public Information Project Management(PIPROM)
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am
                                                [Obafemi Awolowo] The Afenifere at its caucus meeting of Tuesday February 2, 2010 at the National Secretariat, Jibowu Street, Yaba, Lagos, presided over by its Leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti: 1. Noted the formation of the Yoruba Legacy Forum at Ikenne on January 14, 2010 and 2. Is delighted that the Forum does not seek to substitute for Afenifere or in
 
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    Zuma Times

  • IMMEDIATE PAYPAL DONATION IS NEEDED THIS SUNDAY MORNING! TRUST ME! Do I have to scream EMERGENCY!

    31 Jan 2010 | 9:06 am
    IMMEDIATE PAYPAL DONATION IS NEEDED THIS SUNDAY MORNING! TRUST ME! Do I have to scream EMERGENCY!

  • Zuma Dogg's L.A. Daily Blog WEEK IN REVIEW: Video, Audio & Blog Posts (for Week ending 1.30.10)

    30 Jan 2010 | 11:50 am
    NEW: Zuma Dogg LIVE webs tream at http://LADailyBlog.com from VENICE BEACH video studio.HERE ARE THE VIDEOS FROM THIS WEEK (Click link).LA DAILY BLOG - WEEK IN REVIEW (Most Recent Posts)Council Theif Richard alarCON Reduced To COMEDY FO...VIDEO & AUDIO: Zuma Dogg on Kevin James (KRLA 870)...Zuma Dogg's LA Daily Blog TWITTER Update for Frida...NEW VIDEO: Zuma Dogg City Council Meeting Re-Cap f...BUDGET CRISIS DRAMA: Will L.A. City Attorney Carme...A Message From Bong Water Kim of un-EMPOWER L.A. -...VIDEO: L.A. City CAO Miguel Santana's BUDGET REPOR...LA Daily Blog Mid Day Twitter Update…

  • Zuma Music Radio Playlists (1-15) Rockin' Oldies, Disco, Lite Rock, Modern Rock, Top 40, Old Skool Hip Hop (Zuma Dogg's online iPod)

    13 Dec 2009 | 7:18 pm
    Create an account at http://LaLa.com (don't worry, you'll want one anyway, it's my favorite site ever, since YouTube) -- and you can listen to ALL of these Zuma MusicRadio playlists. An online iPod...at least ZUMA DOGG's online iPod. Rockin' Oldies, Disco, Modern Rock, Lite Rock, Old Skool Rap, Top 40...it's all here, y'all...hope there's something you like. My gifts are my songs, and...these ones, for you!Zuma MusicRadio Playlists(Your online iPod) Zuma MusicRadio 04 - 80's Adult Contempory HitsZuma MusicRadio 05 - Rockin' Dance Party (All Ages) Zuma MusicRadio 06 - Random Hits (1)Zuma…

  • Zuma Dogg - LA Daily Blog "Week In Review" (All the Los Angeles News You Need To Know In This Time of Municipal Crisis of a Lack of Leadership)

    11 Dec 2009 | 9:26 am
    If you click on each of these links, you will be as caught up and informed as to what Zuma Dogg believes to be the BIG issues confronting the people of Los Angeles as we wrap up the year, and start a new decade (2010). This is going to be the "Decade of Decline" in Los Angeles. HERE'S THE EVIDENCE. And my site http://ZumaDogg.org has been revamped to monitor ALL Zuma Dogg/LA Daily Blog content on ONE PAGE. (Twitter News Updates, Music & Talk Radio Shows, Blog Posts, and everything else on this page. If it's an important news item regarding City operations and it's future, it's in the Twitter…

  • A Message From L.A. Voters: Please Vote for Christine Essel in Tuesday (Dec 8th) Valley City Council Election (See Endorsements Here!)

    7 Dec 2009 | 7:09 pm
    CITIZEN'S ALERT - PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE!!! City Council Election THIS TUESDAY Dec 8th! Carmen Trutanich, Bill Rosendahl, Dennis Zine, Zuma Dogg JOEL WACHS. Police Protective League, David Hernardez & Many Community Leaders Endorse CHRISTINE ESSEL for L.A. City Council and ask you to VOTE for her THIS TUESDAY December 8th. KEVIN JAMES & DAVID BERGER ANNOUNCE ESSEL SUPPORT!: BOTH Talk Show Host KEVIN JAMES and respected community member (and L.A. City Deputy City Attorney) DAVID BERGER both publicly stated, this week, that they want CHRISTINE ESSEL to be the next Councilmember for the…
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    KSMU Radio

  • New Sport Events and Programs Announced

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:33 am
    The Springfield-Greene County Park Board has announced the addition of nearly forty new programs and events. KSMU's Justin Lux has more.

  • American Heart Association Stresses Prevention During Heart Month

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:16 am
    February is heart month, and Michele Skalicky caught up with Stephen Hall, spokesman for the local chapter of the American Heart Association to talk about the organization's new strategic goal and about an upcoming casting call to find women to be part of the Go Red for Women 2010-2011 campaignandhellip;

  • Carrie Underwood to Give Concert in Springfield

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:47 am
    Grammy-award winning singer Carrie Underwood will give a concert in June at JQH Arena. Just this morning, concert organizers announced plans for her concert in Springfield. KSMU's Missy Shelton has more.

  • Snow is in the Forecast Today

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:10 am
    At least a little bit of snow will fall today in the Ozarks. KSMU's Michele Skalicky has more...

  • Applicants Announced for the Missouri Court of Appeals

    5 Feb 2010 | 3:09 pm
    Missourians got their first look at the finalists for the opening on the Court of Appeals, Southern District. KSMU's Adam Murphy takes a look at the selection process for the new Appellate Judge.
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    The Next Women

  • Entrepreneurial Technology Women in Italy

    At the end of 2009 more than 1500 people attended and viewed online, the second ‘Women and Technologies 2008-2015′ conference, hosted by the Milano Chamber of Commerce.  Men and women, all who work and live with a focus on skills, merit and diversity, came together as ‘bringers of a vision’ to make original contributions to [...]

  • What are Guys Doing to Get More Girls into Tech?

    Many tech fields have a low percentage of women. If you are a guy do you wonder what you can do about it? At the upcoming SXSW event in the US, a panel of predominantly men will discuss the lack of women in IT from a male prespective. The aim of the panel: “To learn [...]

  • There are 100 Sexy Roles a Woman Can Take in Tech: Eileen Brown of Amastrada

    This is a guest post by Rebecca Thomson, Reporter at Computer Weekly and WITsend. The NextWomen are running a series of stories on women in tech, explaining what inspired them to work in the industry. The baton has been passed to Eileen Brown, CEO of Amastra Ltd and a former Microsoft Evangelist, who started the ‘Connecting [...]

  • Report: Women-owned or Led Firms are Becoming a Leading Entrepreneurial force in Technology

    “New research shows what many have long suspected:  women entrepreneurs are poised to lead the next wave of growth in global technology ventures.” This is conclusion from the very thorough research on entrepreneurial women in tech, performed by a team led by founder and CEO Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures, a venture fund that focuses on [...]

  • The USA Debate a Visa For Start-up Entrepreneurs

    The BBC last month announced that officials in the US would welcome in the new year by looking at an overhaul of their immigration system with a particular focus on the retention of foreign entrepreneurs within the country. According to the article and statistics from Duke University research, almost half of all people founding tech companies [...]
 
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    NetNewsDaily

  • Da Vinci Code church captured in 3D

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:30 pm
    A Scottish church that featured in a bestseller novel has been captured in 3D using cutting-edge technology. A 3D image of Rosslyn Chapel Rosslyn Chapel, a  building dating back to the 1400s, gained international fame from Dan Brown’s book, the Da Vinci Code. A team from Historic Scotland and Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art scanned the building using three 3D terrestrial laser scanners. Each scanner is capable of capturing 50,000 dimension points per second. Fiona Hyslop, Minister for Cultural and External Affairs said: “This leading edge technology will help…

  • Dog owners to face tougher penalties

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:29 am
    A government committee has supported the introduction of  tougher penalties for dog owners who do not keep their pets under control. A silhouetted man and dog. (photorant/Flickr) Under the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Bill, introduced by Christine Grahame MSP, local authorities could force owners to keep dogs on leads in public places and attend dog control training classes. Failure to comply with the regulations would land owners with a fine of up to £1,000. Local Government and Communities Committee Convener Duncan McNeil MSP said: “We welcome this Bill that will ensure owners who…

  • Gallery: 1100 sleep rough for homeless charity

    SCOTT CAMPBELL
    23 Jan 2010 | 5:20 pm
    A homeless charity held their annual Sleepout event on Friday night, attracting over 1100 people. Participants spent the night sleeping rough inside the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre or its car park to raise money for the Aberdeen Cyrenians. The event is expected to have raised £30,000 for the charity.

  • 10,000 families to save hundreds on energy bills

    KYLE THORNTON
    13 Jan 2010 | 2:18 pm
    Thousands of low-income families will receive help from the Scottish Government to reduce their energy bill costs. Wind Turbines: Clean, green energy machines. (416style/Flickr) The Scottish Government today expanded their Energy Assistance Package initiative, which helps families to get new central heating systems, home insulation and green energy devices. It is open to low-income families who have children under 16, and also to those who receive a range of benefits, including tax credits. Families participating in the scheme have saved an average of £860 yearly on electricity bills. John…

  • Police hand out Polish posters as hopes fade for missing angler

    NATHAN ADAM
    12 Jan 2010 | 3:09 pm
    Grampian Police has renewed an appeal for witnesses as hopes fade for missing angler Adam Kryszpin. Police have issued a poster in Polish in a bid to find Mr Krzyszpin Mr Krzyszpin is believed to have been swept off cliffs in Cove while fishing on Sunday. The Coastguard conducted coastline searches, while police officers re-visited potential witnesses. Detective Sergeant Stuart Gray said: “We know Adam headed off towards the area known as the Red Rock to go fishing, early on Sunday morning. He was driving an old style blue Volkswagen Polo, which was found parked near this area and I am…
 
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    The Demotix Blog

  • February’s Viewfinder

    Wais
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:57 am
    FEBRUARY: ODD

  • We Won! British Airways we love you!

    Turi
    29 Jan 2010 | 9:55 am
    British Airways - mother of all carriers, and our all time favourite airline even before this latest development - has just been in touch to tell us that we've won 12 free flights on BA for a year, anywhere in the world! And they're in Club class, which I've only ever looked at from afar! So here we come! March - Latin America (Turi)

  • New upload methods

    andyheath
    27 Jan 2010 | 9:31 am
    We are pleased to announce that we have three brand new upload systems on Demotix! You have all been heroically patient - we hope you won't be disappointed. A huge thank you to our Beta testers who have helped ensure the systems are bullet proof, and our help sections make sense (any suggestions for improvements, please be in touch!) We now have: A fully re-designed FTP system. No more token system. Now, you can login directly with your username and upload code. Learn more about the new FTP system. A simple Email/Mobile upload system. When the going gets tough - urgent stories, network…

  • Viewfinder: Environment - the winners

    andyheath
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:17 am
    The results of the Viewfinder competition for Environment are in - and we have winners from Malaysia, Indonesia and Mongolia. Your entries were judged by Melanie Grant who is picture editor for Intelligent Life, the Economist's quarterly magazine. Mel is an experienced and respected picture editor with experience of working on major daily and international publications. December's outright winner was Heaven for Scavengers by Wahyu Kurniawan. Melanie said, "This beautifully shot black and white feature on rubbish scavengers in Indonesia was a pleasure to find. I would be happy to feature a…

  • Demotix Widget added to Al-Masry Al-Youm

    andyheath
    12 Jan 2010 | 5:52 am
    Al-Masry Al-Youm is widely regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt. Its English-language website, recently launched, promises to take its brand of fearless and independent journalism around the world. So we're thrilled that the Demotix widget is to feature on its homepage, displaying the best of your content to its visitors.
 
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    The Faster Times

  • Time for Obama and Dems to Start Looking for a Shovel

    T.R. Donoghue
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:45 pm
    We’re exactly 9 months out from November’s midterm elections, it’s time to survey the field of play and take an accounting of the state of the Democrat’s domestic agenda. On Monday the stock market continued it’s month long slide, with the DOW closing the day under 10,00 for the first time since early November. What’s causing the slide? In short, EU deficits. Specifically, the ballooning deficits in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy. It’s not just the Dow Jones  and European markets that are skittish, the markets across Asia are at or near…

  • Fantasy Baseball First Basemen: Albert Pujols in a League of His Own

    Jon Lewin
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:27 pm
    Fantasy Baseball: First base is so deep that Carlos Pena, who shared the American League home run lead with Mark Teixeira, does not even make our top 12. But it can still be worth your while to pick up a first baseman early. Seven of the top eight home run hitters in 2009 were first basemen, and the eighth, Mark Reynolds, has first-base eligibility. But if you want a first baseman with both power and a good batting average, you need someone from the top tiers. TIER 1 (2009 stats; age on Opening Day 2010) Age AB Runs HR RBI SB .AVG Albert Pujols 30 568 124 47 135 16 .327 Albert Pujols‘…

  • Tim Tebow, Violence Against Women, and How Politics Can Ruin Sports

    Mason Lerner
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:19 pm
    Aside from the premature canonization of Peyton Manning and the more deserved immortalizing of Kim Kardashian’s ass, the big story during Super Bowl week was the specter of Tim Tebow and his mother starring in a pro-life propaganda commercial sponsored by the Colorado-based evangelical organization Focus on the Family. The content of the commercial turned out to be a lot less controversial than expected. As long as you were able to watch Timmy-T get all gooey with his mom without up-chucking your pre-game buffalo wings, the actual content of the commercial couldn’t possibly have…

  • Rihanna, Jason Mraz, Owl City: The Music Report from Kid Land

    Katharine Whittemore
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    So lately I’ve been driving in our messy van with my kids and their buddies, first graders to fourth, and they’ve been browbeating me into punching the radio until we land on a song they like. It’s all very loud. Loud, funny, and kind of unsettling. At each station, with each blaze of notes, they blast the back of my head with group yells of “No!” or “Yes!” and an occasional wintry mix of “No/Yes!” This experience is very Margaret-Mead-in-Samoa for me; the tribe has its ethno-ways, sky-blue obvious to them, but cloud cover to a scorned…

  • Super Bowl Commercials: Oprah, Dave and Jay Make it Easier to Take a Leak

    Mason Lerner
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:27 am
    Was SportsChat the only one who felt like last night’s Super Bowl commercials were yet another sign of our lagging economy? Overall, it seemed like production costs were down, showing people not wearing pants was mistaken for cutting edge comedy often enough to make SportsChat wonder if there is another writers’ strike and you still don’t get to actually see boobs when you hit up Godaddy.com. The last gripe isn’t economy related, but it is very aggravating. Not to mention, Pepsi didn’t run a Super Bowl commercial for the first time in 25 years. Ostensibly, this…
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    LA Weekly | News

  • Sending Trutanich to His Corner

    10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Carmen Trutanich, the bulky and bullheaded city attorney, has been in office for seven months, and has wasted little of that time making friends.He has declared war on billboards, feuded with the Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center, and taken aim at the...
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    Keefe Editorial Cartoons from InToon.com

  • - Snow Storm in DC

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    TITLE: Snow Storm in DC PUBLICATION DATE: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 KEYWORDS: dc, snow, paralyze, washington, storm Editorial cartoon by Mike Keefe of the Denver Post

  • - Superbowl Ad

    7 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    TITLE: Superbowl Ad PUBLICATION DATE: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 KEYWORDS: superbowl, footbad, ad, tebow, abortion, pro, life, choice Editorial cartoon by Mike Keefe of the Denver Post

  • - Streetcar Proposal

    6 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    TITLE: Streetcar Proposal PUBLICATION DATE: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 KEYWORDS: streetcar, romer, colfax, denver, colorado, economy Editorial cartoon by Mike Keefe of the Denver Post

  • - Gays in the Military Study

    5 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    TITLE: Gays in the Military Study PUBLICATION DATE: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 KEYWORDS: gay, military, study, don't, ask, tell Editorial cartoon by Mike Keefe of the Denver Post

  • - Do Nothing Congress

    4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    TITLE: Do Nothing Congress PUBLICATION DATE: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 KEYWORDS: congress, nothing, democrats, republicans, senate, filibuster, house, majority, minority, supermajority Editorial cartoon by Mike Keefe of the Denver Post
 
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    LA Weekly

  • Sending Trutanich to His Corner

    10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Carmen Trutanich, the bulky and bullheaded city attorney, has been in office for seven months, and has wasted little of that time making friends.He has declared war on billboards, feuded with the Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center, and taken aim at the...

  • A Paranoid in Reverse: Revisiting J.D. Salinger

    10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    If originality is, as Vladimir Nabokov suggests, the true measure of greatness in an artist, then the argument can be made that J.D. Salinger towers over most American writers of the past half-century. Few writers anywhere have ever been more widely or more passionately read. Few...

  • Stage Door

    10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    In 1936, when Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s comedy and homage to The Theater (that would be Broadway) showed the divide between the legit stage and the vulgar movie biz in Hollywood (an industry where “You only have to learn a line at a time and they just keep taking it until you get...
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    Wildfire Today News

  • Follow-up on David Monington, forger of fire training certificates

    Bill
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:26 am
    More details have emerged about David Monington, who on February 1 was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for sending through the mail 14 forged certificates of fire training, fire position task books, and employee performance ratings issued in his name. Monington was trying to become qualified as a fire instructor, and for the positions of Air Tactical Group Supervisor, Strike Team Leader, and Helibase Manager. In putting together this information, we talked with a Special Agent with the Bureau of Land Management (now with the the Bureau of Reclamation), representatives of the U.S.

  • Firefighting aircraft down under

    Bill
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:03 am
    Erickson photo Flightglobal has a lengthy article about the fleet of firefighting aircraft currently being used in Australia during their wildland fire season, including the DC-10 super tanker, smaller air tankers, and an Erickson Air-Crane, which has been used there for the last 12 years.

  • CO, WY, and SD to receive $40 million to deal with beetle-killed forests

    Bill
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:02 am
    The U. S. Forest Service is making $40 million available in three states where the mountain pine beetle has infested more than 2.5 million acres. The USFS announced that $30 would go to Colorado, $8 million to Wyoming, and $2 million to South Dakota where about 30 percent of the Black Hills National Forest is affected. The dollars will come from left over stimulus funds and reallocations within the Forest Service. About $5 million will come from funding that the Forest Service has been using to reduce the threat of wildfires. The $40 million will be used for hazardous fuel reduction, on road…

  • Radiant heat, embers, and the ignitability of structures

    Bill
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 am
    Here are a couple of interesting videos featuring Jack Cohen, a researcher at the Missoula Fire Science Lab. The videos explain radiant heat and how difficult it is for fine fuels and structures to ignite from that alone, and the role of embers in spreading fire and burning structures. via @FireInfoGirl

  • California governor to appoint blue ribbon commission to look into Station fire

    Bill
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:21 am
    While touring areas below the Station fire in the Los Angeles area that were affected by mud and debris flows, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would appoint a blue ribbon commission to look into the accusations by at least two politicians that mismanagement of the fire by the U.S. Forest Service caused the fire to become very large, which later resulted in mud slides. In December, the Los Angeles Times reported that there were significant delays in getting aircraft assigned to the fire on the morning of the second day. There was criticism that more aggressive tactics that…
 
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    CharlotteObserver.com: Breaking News

  • Time for bonus round at banks

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am
    (By Christina Rexrode and Rick Rothacker, crexrode@charlotteobserver.com and rrothacker@charlotteobserver.com) Bank bonuses are bouncing back, at least to some extent.To be sure, they're not climbing to the heady levels of three or four years ago. And for many bankers, a bigger portion of their bonus pay will be tied to company stock and isn't immediately spendable, a nod to populist anger about perceived fat cats on Wall Street. Still, there is some cause for celebration inside the Charlotte towers of Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

  • Grant will boost colleg&squo;s IT network

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:34 am
    (By Joe Marusak) The Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation has received a $400,000 grant from The Cannon Foundation Inc. to improve and update the colleg&squo;s information technology network, the college announced this afternoon.

  • Alto&squo;s to open in Cornelius

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:49 am
    (By Joe Marusak) Alto&squo;s Kitchen and Cocktails is scheduled to open this month in the former Charleston Chops and Mia Famiglia space in the Jetton Village III retail center.

  • Commissioner: CIAA tourney is thriving

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
    (By Eric Frazier, efrazier@charlotteobserver.com)

  • Overnight fire causes heavy damage to southeast Charlotte business

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:23 am
    (By Steve Lyttle, slyttle@charlotteobserver.com) Investigators are working to determine the cause of a two-alarm fire that caused significant damage overnight to a business in southeast Charlotte.An overnight property manager spotted the fire shortly after 2 a.m. in a building in the 500 block of South Sharon Amity Road, near Providence Road.
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    Radio Quintana Roo

  • Broma con hamster

    Agencias
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am
    No cabe duda que con este del internet y los telefonos celulares las bromas son cada mez mas creativas y sobre todo , solo por buscar 5 minutos de fama , ahora la vistima fue esta maestra que recibio un susto de sus agradables alumnos

  • Crean Gm y la NASA robot que supliria a humanos

    Agencias
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    Ingenieros y científicos de la NASA y de GM han estado trabajando juntos en un nuevo robot humanoide, el Robonaut 2. Usando controles de vanguardia, censores y tecnología de visión, estos robots podrían ayudar a los astronautas en sus misiones espaciales así como a GM en la construcción de automóviles.

  • Crean perros zombies

    Agencias
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am
    Intentando desarrollar la animación suspendida para humanos, los científicos han creado espeluznantes perros zombies, reanimando a los cáninos después de varias horas de muerte clínica Científicos estadounidenses han logrado revivir a perros tras tres horas de muerte clínica, allanando el camino para ensayos con humanos dentro de unos años. El Centro Safar para la Investigación en Resucitación [...]

  • Rio de ineptitudes

    Moises Valadez
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Moisés Valadez Luna ¿El rio de los Remedios o de las ineptitudes políticas? parece tan lejano el problema, que me permitiré expresar que mi nacimiento se dio en una especie de triángulo, en el que se unen dos ríos, el de Guadalupe y los remedios. De niño padecí dos inundaciones, de la primera no me acuerdo, su [...]

  • Utiliza Sarah Palin “acordeón” en la mano para discurso

    Agencias
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am
    “Estados Unidos está listo para otra revolución”, declaró la ex candidata republicana a vicepresidente Sarah Palin al atacar al presidente demócrata Barack Obama en un discurso ante activistas de una nueva coalición conservadora que serían su base natural si decide buscar la presidencia El discurso de Palin, poblado de sus conocidas bromas y su estilo coloquial, [...]
 
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    FRONTLINE - Reports | PBS

  • Next on FRONTLINE: The Warning

    16 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pm
    Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings). Long before the economic meltdown, one woman tried to warn about the threat to the financial system...

  • Digital Nation

    2 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pm
    Available for viewing online. Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we're only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to…

  • The Card Game

    24 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Available for viewing online. As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over new regulation and the possible creation of a consumer finance protection agency. How are the credit, debit and pre-paid card…

  • A Death in Tehran

    17 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Available for viewing online. At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death -- filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol…

  • Close to Home

    27 Oct 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Available for viewing online. Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon--from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they're getting by in these turbulent times.
 
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    Greenplanet.net - organic food natural lifestyle

  • We have the new EU organic logo

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    The European Commission officially announced on Monday the winner of the EU organic logo competition, that from 1 July 2010 will be compulsory on all packaged organic products produced in a EU member state that meet the necessary standards.

  • Worldwide organic grapes yield increased 21% in 2008

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:44 am
    At least 150'000 hectares of organic grapes were grown globally in 2008, thus recording a 21 percent increase compared with the 2007 data.

  • Organic wine. Upcoming proposal from the EU Commission's

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    The proposed EC regulation on the production of organic wine in Europe is expected by the end of March or early April, after European and national experts have been discussing the document for months now.

  • In Brussels we need the champions of organics

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:57 am
    Bayer CropScience was sentenced on Friday by a U.S. court to pay 1.5 million dollars to Arkansas and Mississippi farmers for selling rice seed with unauthorized GMOs. A similar case, involving a compensation of 2 million dollars, occurred in Missouri in December, while three other cases are under examination in Louisiana and Texas.

  • US organic farms don't reach 1%, USDA says

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:40 am
    New figures processed by the U.S. Agriculture Department revealed that organic farms are still a niche business in the U.S. agricultural industry, although organic products are one of the hottest growing areas in the supermarket.
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    Scott & White Healthcare News

  • Scott & White Healthcare looking for new partner in hospital land development

    Scott Clark
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:58 am
    Scott & White Healthcare announced today the start of a renewed search for property to build the Lake of the Hills Regional Medical Center after negotiations with Crossroads property owner/developer ended last Friday and terminated a contract offer to acquire 22 acres located south of Marble Falls near the intersection of U.S. 281 and TX 71. The Crossroads developers have not completed any of the improvements that were required in the original agreement. “We are moving forward with the plan and commitment to build a regional medical campus with a hospital and physician building,” said…

  • Scott & White part of snake antivenom study

    Scott Clark
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am
    Scott & White Healthcare emergency medicine researchers are participating in a multi-center trial of an investigational antivenom for victims of pit viper snake bites. The common pit viper snakes in the United States are the rattlesnake, copperhead, and the cottonmouth – called water moccasins in Texas. Currently there is only one available FDA-approved snake bite antivenom in the U.S.  The purpose of this study is to establish if a relatively new antivenom named Anavip is safe and effective in preventing delayed side-effects as compared to the safety and efficacy of the current…

  • Scott & White Healthcare offers new fellowship with multi-disciplinary approach to spine and pain medicine

    Katherine Voss
    3 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am
    Scott & White Healthcare has received approval from the Texas Medical Board for a neurosurgical fellowship program in spine and pain.  The fellowship is one of only a few in the country that includes both spine and pain medicine. “This comprehensive fellowship program will provide a unique educational opportunity for physicians in the field of neurosurgery and underlines our commitment to a multi-disciplinary approach, providing fellows with exposure to two fields beyond neurosurgery:  orthopedics and pain management,” said Vasilios Zerris, M.D., vice chairman of neurosurgery and…

  • Scott & White Healthcare researchers studying ‘Deep Brain Stimulation’ for Parkinson’s disease

    Katherine Voss
    26 Jan 2010 | 9:04 am
    At Scott & White Memorial Hospital, a multi-disciplinary team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, neurophysiologist, neuropsychologists and a movement disorders specialist are offering hope to some Parkinson’s patients with a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).  DBS involves placing a thin wire that carries electrical currents deep within the brain on Parkinson’s patients who are no longer benefitting from medications, and have significant uncontrollable body movements called dyskinesia.  Scott & White is also performing research into the effects of DBS on the non-motor…

  • Scott & White Healthcare – Round Rock welcomes new chief medical officer

    Katherine Voss
    22 Jan 2010 | 11:38 am
    C.M. (Bud) Chumbley, M.D., MBA, has been named chief medical officer of the Scott & White Healthcare – Round Rock region.  The current chief medical officer, Dudley Baker, M.D., who has been with Scott & White for over 39 years, will be retiring from this chief medical officer position.  Dr. Chumbley will join Scott & White – Round Rock on April 1 from ProHealth Care Medical Associates clinics in southeastern Wisconsin where he has served as president and CEO since January 2008. “Dr. Chumbley brings with him a very rich and diverse background with integrated healthcare…
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  • Tymoshenko has gone into hiding

    Simon Shuster
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:16 am
    After election night Yulya disappeared Since Sunday night, when exit polls predicted she would lose the Ukrainian presidency to a man who can’t spell, Yulya Tymoshenko has been in hiding. To be honest, I would have sooner expected her to pick up a tambourine and hop on a tour bus with Lynyrd Skynyrd. She has always loved the cameras, and no one thrives as she does on political combat and confrontation.  But on Monday, she canceled two press conferences. A couple of hours ago, her adviser said that Tuesday’s appearance before the media had also been cancelled. And I just…

  • My advice to journalists: Smoke crack, Twitter occasionally

    Michael Hastings
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am
    A friend on Twitter–aptly screen named Newsjunkie365–asked me for my thoughts on the weeklong blog frenzy sparked by two writers from The New Yorker who aren’t enthralled by Twitter. One is Steve Coll, the other George Packer(who I discussed, in a brief yet negative fashion, a couple of months back.) Already, I’m coming unconscionably late to the smack down–very un-Twitter like of me. It started a whole seven days ago. However, The Atlantic blogged about it yesterday, which gives me an excuse. The discussion follows the typical parameters we’ve come…

  • Does The Movie Valentine's Day Make You Want To Vomit?

    Harmon Leon
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am
    So we’ve all seen the commercials for Hollywood’s latest blockbuster romantic comedy, Valentine’s Day. It stars the likes of Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, and Jennifer Garner; all acting like they can’t get dates for Valentine’s Day. Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day. Funny that these characters can’t get dates; they all look like supermodels. Does the idea of the movie Valentine’s Day make you sick? Watch my new video and decide:

  • World's tallest skyscraper suddenly closes

    Neal Ungerleider
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:50 am
    Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife The world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, opened amid heavy hype a month ago. But all is not well at the Burj. The skyscraper’s owners, Emaar Properties, just announced that they are indefinitely closing the property. The sudden news is a shock. Why was the most well-known construction project of 2010 shut down, less than 60 days into the new year? It turns out that tourists visiting the Burj’s observation deck had their worst fears come true. The elevators to the observation deck suddenly started spewing smoke and tourists were…

  • A Tale of Two Twitters: Why I Started Rocking Multiple Accounts

    Mark Drapeau
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:44 am
    Most people who use Twitter have just one personal account. And that’s fine. But over the almost two years I’ve used Twitter, I have seen some creative uses of more than one personal account. For example, Chris Cillizza from the Washington Post tweets at The Fix and speaks authentically as himself. But when there’s a press conference or something like the State of the Union address, he rapidly live-tweets everything at a second, supplementary account: The Hyper Fix.  No less authentic, just a different way of conveying a different kind of information. Another example is former Apple…
 
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  • "When the 'War on Terror' Becomes Genocide"

    Mike Rivero
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:27 am
    The heavy media campaign and foreign policy agenda targeting Muslim fundamentalism opened with the 1988 publication of Salmon Rushdie's Satanic Verses. The book became a global event as a bestseller. It teased portions of Islam with enough disrespect to provoke extreme reactions. Used tactically, it enlisted the West's entire intellectual media establishments in defense of Rushdie's freedom of expression and his life. It was as though social engineers had found a flaw line to sever the common ground of reason which allowed populations of religious difference to coexist. "Western…

  • The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe

    Mike Rivero
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:24 am
    They are called the PIGS—Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. WRH permalink

  • Obama Administration: Critics Are Aiding Al Qaeda

    Mike Rivero
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am
    You’re either with Obama, or you’re with the terrorists. WRH permalink

  • A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad

    Mike Rivero
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 am
    It is perhaps the last frontier in advertising — getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text, on behalf of paying advertisers, to their friends and admirers. The idea, according to the entrepreneurs who are developing such services for Twitter and other Web networks, is that people trust recommendations from those they know and respect, while they increasingly ignore nearly ever other kind of ad message in print, on television and online. WRH permalink

  • Iran to stop enrichment if given nuclear fuel

    Mike Rivero
    9 Feb 2010 | 11:02 am
    The head of Iran's atomic agency said the Islamic Republic would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor. WRH permalink
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  • sites

    Untreatableonline
    29 Jan 2010 | 1:30 am
    I ran into a number of problems with the new sites I created in the last few days. Now the addresses will redirect automatically to the new sites. I am not pleased that this happened and have taken the legal steps to deal with the person responsible. Anyway here are the new sites:All About FarmVille: http://www.allaboutfarmville.com/Contains a number of articles dealing with FarmVille strategy and FarmVille strategy guides that I have written for a number of sites.Flight Simulators Software: http://www.flightsimulatorssoftware.com/A new hobby of mine is flight simulators and flight simulation…

  • Lose Weight For Your Wedding

    Untreatableonline
    21 Jan 2010 | 8:55 pm
    With a quick look over at the calender it dawns on you that your wedding date is just around the corner and in order to fit into that dress you need to lose weight. The good news is that there are ways to drop a few pounds over the next couple of weeks that will not become a major pain in the butt. During this article we will explore the lose weight quick strategy so you will be ready for your big day.Right off the bat the first thing that you need to do is take a hard look at your diet and make a list of items that have to go. Substituting water with soda does not sound like much on paper…

  • Create A Diet Plan That Works

    Untreatableonline
    10 Jan 2010 | 6:30 pm
    Create A Diet Plan For Fat LossAuthor: Terry ConnorThe best way to create a diet plan that will work is to start off with a certain goal in mind. The goal can range from reaching enough weight loss to fit in those jeans again or focus on fat loss where the target is to turn your keg into a six pack. Once that the goal is defined we can begin to work on the actual diet plan but there are a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration first such as the diet plan being realistic, reasonable and flexible.Realistic - Creating a diet plan that is both out of this world and not…

  • Lose Weight Fast

    Untreatableonline
    10 Jan 2010 | 6:29 pm
    Lose Weight Fast For That Special DayAuthor: Terry ConnorThe big day is fast approaching and you want to lose weight to fit in that special dress or that tailored suit so the time to get started is right now. Throughout this article I will go through a number of ideas that your weight loss diet plan needs to have in order for your diet to be successful and to lose weight for your special day. Take A Long Hard Look At Your Diet - It is a time for a reality check and due to lack of time we need to make some drastic changes to your diet today in order to pull off the makeover. Let's look at the…

  • Quit Smoking With E-Cigarettes

    Untreatableonline
    8 Jan 2010 | 5:33 pm
    Quit Smoking With Electronic CigarettesAuthor: Terry ConnorTrying to quit smoking is a difficult task that millions of people try each and every year with the majority of people returning to the cigarettes but for all of those people who really wish to quit the electronic cigarette may be their key to quitting smoking once and for all. Through out this particular article we will explore what exactly is a electronic cigarette, the benefits of this quit smoking product and of course how to quit smoking with the help of a e-cigarette. An electronic cigarette or e-cigarette looks exactly like a…
 
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  • Domestic Violence Often Starts With Pet Abuse

    Eric G. Young
    24 Jan 2010 | 7:39 am
    As I was writing this morning, I came across an article on Mixx.com that made my blood boil.  The article was reprinted in The Washington Post on January 22, 2010 from an original article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Its title – “Police Say Georgia Mom Forced Son To Kill Hamster.”  You can link to the [...]

  • Mortgage Crisis Continues; Bankruptcies Soar in 2009

    Eric G. Young
    24 Jan 2010 | 6:32 am
    According to the Mortgage Law Network, 2.8 million properties were foreclosed in 2009.  Furthermore, as of January 14, 2010, a record 13% of homeowners were behind on their mortgage payments, signaling that the mortgage crisis in the U.S. is far from over. And that’s not all.  Each year, many interest-only mortgages convert to amortized mortgages, meaning [...]

  • Polanski Must Appear In U.S. Court

    Eric G. Young
    24 Jan 2010 | 2:44 am
    Thirty-two years ago, acclaimed director, Roman Polanski (43 at the time), was convicted of unlawful sex with a minor girl (13 at the time).  The conviction resulted from a plea bargain by the director.  The original charges included rape and sodomy of the girl. Before he could be sentenced, however, Polanski fled U.S. jurisdiction to Europe [...]

  • Is “Sexting” Child Porn Or Protected Free Speech?

    Eric G. Young
    23 Jan 2010 | 11:38 pm
    That’s the question the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will soon answer in a case of first impression, calling into question the controversial practice of “sexting.”  For those of you unfamiliar with the lingo, “sexting” is the practice of using cell phones to send sexually provocative photos of oneself to another. According to a [...]

  • Hawaii Senate Passes Civil Union Law; D.C. Judge Bars Same Sex Marriage Referendum

    Eric G. Young
    23 Jan 2010 | 9:33 pm
    This past week saw two significant victories for the gay and lesbian community.  First, on Friday, the Hawaii State Senate passed a bill allowing civil unions in that state.  The vote in the Hawaii Senate was 18-7.  The matter must still be considered by the Hawaii State House of Representatives, which is widely expected to [...]
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