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Exelon Generation's LaSalle County Generating Station reenergized power to the switchyard and terminated the "unusual event" at 8:14 a.m. CT today.
MARSEILLES, Ill. - Exelon Generation's LaSalle County Generating Station reenergized power to the switchyard and terminated the "unusual event" at 8:14 a.m. CT today.
The unusual event was declared at 3:11 p.m. CT, Wednesday when power from a switchyard to the station was interrupted. Station technical experts believe the power interruption was a result of a lightning strike within the station's switchyard. A switchyard is a large substation that carries electricity to and from the plant.
The plant responded as expected, safely and without incident. The station's multiple layers of safety and protection systems are designed to ensure safe shutdown of the plant in cases of electrical disturbances. The station's locomotive-sized backup diesel generators immediately started up and provided electricity to the site until the power was restored.
Both Unit 1 and Unit 2 remain offline. Station operators will perform multiple safety checks and follow detailed procedures to return both units to service.
An unusual event is the lowest of the four emergency classifications as established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
LaSalle Generating Station is located about 75 miles southwest of Chicago near Marseilles, Ill. At full power, the facility's two generating units produce more than 2,200 megawatts around the clock, enough electricity for 2.3 million typical homes.


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Jimi Hendrix's Estate Looking To Make Authorized Biopic
Snapping at the heels of the forthcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic, 'Jimi: All Is By My Side,' the estate of Hendrix has signed a deal with the ICM Partners agency with the intention of creating a fully authorized film based on his life.
"We're delighted to be associated with ICM Partners on this project that's been a long time coming," Janie Hendrix, president and CEO of Experience Hendrix, LLC said on their website. "Our concern has always been that any biography of Jimi that employs his music be held to the very highest standard of cinematic excellence. His musical legacy deserves no less. Our partners at ICM are ideal insofar as they completely understand that the use of his music in such a film is a monumental responsibility that will resonate through generations to come as Jimi's artistry has since the 1960s."
The family-run company controls the rights to all the music made by the late guitar legend. While 'JImi: All Is By My Side,' directed by Oscar winner John Ridley, features no actual Hendrix music in the film, this proposed new project with ICM Partners will have access to the Hendrix catalog.
Plans for a Hendrix biopic have been making the rounds for years with everyone from Lenny Kravitz to Will Smith and Anthony Mackie tagged to play Hendrix. Andre 3000, of course, stars in 'Jimi: All Is By My Side,' which is currently making the rounds at SXSW.

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Later in Pots and Pans I discovered that Robin Tunney was interviewed by Ellen on that very same day.
Crowned by the sun as she enters.
Framed by the 11 11 of two e11ens.
It so happens that this evening 2/11/2010 sees a Mentalist episode premier called Blood In, Blood Out, very interesting. Maybe I can get Jim to watch it with me before we do the Ayahuasca ceremony tonight.
2010: The Year We Make Contact sees Jupiter, the Second Sun, associated to the birthing baby. We find two stars, Jupiter and the star/sun between baby and Jupiter, on the image.
The poster for End Of Days sees the Twins represented by the Towers with the Baby/Robin Tunney/Consciousness below.
Both films were directed by Peter Hyams
"These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." Revelations 11:4
Keep these themes in mind when viewing this recent clip with Radio8Ball.
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We are referring to this video that Jim Sanders made at the start of the above Radio8Ball clip.
We'll meet you on the other side.


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Castro regime would fall if Cuba had access to Internet, Rubio says
WASHINGTON -- The Cuban regime as led by the Castro brothers would fall -- and fall fast -- if ordinary people on the island had access to the Internet, a U.S. senator said Wednesday.
The regime would quickly go the way of those in the Middle East that fell in the Arab Spring, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told a panel looking at the role of Internet access in Cuba.
"Cubans are extremely innovative people," Rubio said.
"Anyone who can figure out how to keep a 1957 Chevy running is going to figure out how to organize online," Rubio said. "I think you would be shocked at how quickly things would begin to unravel for the regime if the people of Cuba had unfiltered access to the Internet and social media."
The event at which he spoke, which was co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation and Google Ideas, focused on what Internet access could do to empower the Cuban people. The discussion was one of many about the island in Washington recently, timed just days before a papal visit to Cuba by Pope Benedict XVI.
"I think Raul Castro clearly understands that his regime cannot survive a Cuban reality where individual Cubans can communicate with each other in an unfettered manner," Rubio said. "If Cubans are able to communicate with each other ... if these groups are able to link up with one another, and coordinate efforts and conversation, the Cuban government wouldn't last very long under the weight of that reality. I think these guys know that."
A report issued earlier this month by Reporters Without Borders named Cuba among the nations that combine "often drastic content filtering with access restrictions, tracking of cyber-dissidents and online propaganda."
Other nations cited in the report with restrictive Internet policies include Bahrain, Belarus, Burma, China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Rubio called the potential of wide Internet access "50 times more powerful" than the television and radio broadcasts beamed from the United States to Cuba for the past several decades. He said the next foreign policy goal for the United States should be to build Cuba's technological capacity.
"Provide them access to the Internet, and the Internet will take care of everything else," he said.
Rubio defended the U.S. embargo of Cuba and said it is a "powerful leverage point" to negotiate democracy with a successor government to the Castros.
It's also a "perverse incentive" to keep foreign companies -- including American ones -- from engaging with the Castro regime and advocating for the status quo in exchange for economic access. Corporations are interested in making money, not necessarily in regime change, Rubio said.
"I want political liberties in Cuba," Rubio said. "The Cuban people, in a free and open society, have a right to choose any economic model they want. But ultimately the Cuban people in a free and open Cuba will have the choice of whatever economic model they want. So my interests in Cuba are political liberties."
Rubio said he's also concerned about one of the few existing non-governmental institutions in Cuba, the Roman Catholic Church. He said he is troubled by the church's role in negotiating the exile of some dissidents to Spain after their release from prison.
"I'm deeply concerned that the Cuban church has negotiated political space for themselves in exchange for their moral imperative," he said. "And I hope the pope's visit doesn't reinforce that."
Rubio said that Cuba's recent move to develop its offshore oil resources is also worrisome, because it's a source of revenue for the current regime that "doesn't in any way diminish their grip on power."
Cuba's leadership remains uninterested in change because the privileged and elite few there see the island as a "13 million-person plantation called Cuba," Rubio said. "They own this plantation, this island, they have it pretty good."


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A host of stars stepped out in Berlin, Germany on Thursday night for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards, but two in particular made major splashes – Beyonce and Katy Perry.
Beyonce picked up awards for Best Song for "Halo," Best Female and Best Video for "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)." According to MTV U.K., Beyonce thanked her husband, Jay-Z, who also performed at the event, while accepting the statue.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards
"There is only one person I want to thank and that is Jay for putting a ring on it," she said.
But beyond her wins, Beyonce wowed the crowd in a sexy red corset and black eye mask, which she wore as she stepped on stage to perform "Sweet Dreams." The dramatic performance featured the chanteuse emerging from a red heart carried by masked men, before she made her way down to the front of the stage to dance seductively with her female backup dancers in red corsets with hoodies and lacy stockings.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood's Hottest Couples!
And Katy Perry, host of the MTV Europe Music Awards for the second time in a row (she hosted last year's gig in Liverpool), was present again for the ceremony, which took place this time in Berlin, Germany.
Katy rocked a host of outlandish outfits throughout the show, just as she did the year before.
She first hit the stage in an "Alice in Wonderland" style corset and top hat, with knee high boots. She donned one princess-like gown that had holes cut out of it while another corset that had "Rusty" written on the bottom (perhaps an homage to her boyfriend, MTV U.S. Video Music Awards host Russell Brand whose nickname is "Rusty Rockets"). Another time, she entered the stage while coasting on a glittering moon, and at one point she swung in on a swing.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: See Hot Shots Of Katy Perry
U2, which won Best Live Act, also performed at the event, playing "Sunday Bloody Sunday," with Jay-Z in front of the Brandeburg Gate.
Jay-Z picked up a gong award too for Best Urban act.
Other stars at the event included The Jonas Brothers, Green Day, Foo Fighters, "Hills" star Brody Jenner, Jesse Metcalfe, Tokio Hotel, Shakira and Juliette Lewis.
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Some of the best, most thought-provoking art and design is best viewed from a variety of angles. In fact, the work of Brooklyn-based artist Michael Murphy relies on varying vantage points. Murphy's large-scale, complex structures are profoundly awe-inspiring (these photos surely don't do them justice, they are best viewed in person). His multi-layered, multi-dimensional sculptures consist of suspended objects that, when viewed from different perspectives, reveal something more. Murphy explains, "[my] large-scale works seek to dominate the viewer's physical and mental space, captivating the critical thought process as one circles around the various entities that form a cohesive whole. Pieces initially experienced on a visually flat plane resonate with meaning upon closer inspection, opening up cerebral capacities to perpetual reconsideration. The mesmerizing effect of the varied angles and ingredients of [my] sculptures provoke thought, using aesthetic titillation as their gateway." Murphy's conceptual approach, paired with his calculated orchestration of these phenomenal installations, is a true marvel on a many levels. Wow.
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Google Health launched last February, but the service has been curiously quiet since.
Has Google been quietly racking up new partners to help feed Google Health-which lets users securely access their personal health records online-more health information?
Perhaps, but it's also become clear that Google is finding other ways to improve the service. The company Oct. 15 enhanced Google Health to help visually impaired people access the service from their computers using self-voicing browsers or screen reader applications.
T.V. Raman, a research scientist who is blind and focuses on accessibility technology for Google, wrote in a blog post that Google has improved the usability of Google Health for screen reader users by enhancing the built-in support available in GWT 1.5 through JavaScript.
Now screen reader and/or self-voicing browser users can easily navigate the Google Health interface to obtain auditory information. These enhancements, which include widgets, were implemented using the World Wide Web Consortium's ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications), a set of Web standards that allow AJAX applications to work with assistive technologies. Raman wrote:
"With these enhancements, I can now easily navigate Google Health to not only manage my own health records; Google Health enables me to quickly research various relevant health conditions, track medications and do a myriad health-related tasks."
Raman said accessibility support in Google Health requires support from both the browser and the adaptive technology in use. Raman recommends using Firefox 3.0 with screen readers that support ARIA, or Fire Vox, the self-voicing extension to Firefox 3.0.
To sign in, first-time users should use this ARIA-enabled Google Health link to turn on the accessibility enhancements.
Raman provides a number of instructions in this blog post; users will use navigation keys to go to categories with information, including height and weight, which will be spoken to them.
The integration of W3C ARIA with the Google Web Toolkit to make Google Health work for visually impaired users is quite a coup for Google and for assistive technology overall.
It's unclear how many users have signed in and are actively using Google Health, but the move is one step of many Google will have to take to effectively compete with Microsoft's more established HealthVault service.
ReadWriteWeb calls Google Health versus Microsoft HealthVault a kind of Coke versus Pepsi battle, but if users aren't signing up at a prodigious rate, then they're fighting over nothing.
I've asked Google and Microsoft how many consumers are using their respective health platforms and will update if possible.


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(CNN) – Campaigning in the battleground state of Ohio at same time as President Barack Obama, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney held a business discussion starring a man who has made a name for himself taking the jobs others don't want.
"Mike Rowe as you know is, well he is a guy that has made a name for himself by doing things other people don't want to do – really ugly, dirty jobs," Romney said. "Like standing with a politician, alright?"
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Rowe's website describes him as the "brave host and apprentice" of the Discovery Network television show "Dirty Jobs." (You may have also seen him in those Ford commercials.)
Romney and Rowe sat onstage alongside a half dozen Ohio business owners and leaders in Bedford Heights talking jobs and manufacturing.
"He's non partisan, he's not here to endorse me, he's not here to add support to one campaign or another," Romney said of his guest. "He's here to talk about his ideas about how to help America create more jobs."
Rowe described the importance of "the men and women who do the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us," and said he attended the event at the invitation of Romney.
In the face of unemployment, Rowe said, "we can't just talk about opportunity and we can't just talk about training."
"The conversation needs to start in the kitchen, around the table with moms and dads and kids, and when these kids start to think about what's possible, mothers and fathers can't immediately push options off of the table because they've bought into the idea that some jobs are better than other jobs," he said. "This gets right to a really, really, really, really big point that the things we used to consider to be inspirational - jobs that we used to consider aspirational, education that we used to consider aspirational - we now look at as alternative. I don't even know what alternative education means, alternative to what?"
Suggesting he was speaking of the costs of higher education, Rowe continued, "There's got to be a better way to be happy and successful in your career than simply assuming a massive amount of debt and exiting an educational program that gives you a degree without training."
Romney took questions and feedback from the business leaders joining him onstage and the audience.
He promised he would take a hard line against China over its currency manipulation. He said his response to the United States' losing its share of manufacturing jobs to other countries would be to adopt policies favorable to both manufacturing and as well as engineering and development.
"Some people say, that's fine, we'll just do the engineering and the high end things," Romney said. "But let me tell you, ultimately the engineering and high end things go where the manufacturing is because ideas and engineering are associated with manufacturing. We have to have manufacturing here and my policy will be to bring it back."
Meanwhile, Obama was 130 miles away in Bowling Green, Ohio, and said Romney's rhetoric on China was disingenuous.
"He says he's gonna take the fight to them, he's going to go after these cheaters, and ive got to admit, that message is better than what he has actually done about this thing," Obama said. "It sounds better than talking about all the years he spent profiting from companies that sent our jobs to China.
"So when you hear this new-found outrage, when you see these ads he's running promising to get tough on china, it feels a lot like that fox saying we need more secure chicken coops," he continued.
Romney was campaigning in Cuyahoga County, also home to Cleveland, a county which went by a wide margin – 39 points in 2008, 34 points in 2004 – for the Democratic presidential candidate over the Republican.
At one point, a supporter in the audience said "we're going to deliver Cuyahoga County to you," and Romney replied, "I need it in a big way."
With only 41 days remaining before the election, and Ohio early voting beginning next week, Romney can be expected to campaign in Ohio again.
The GOP presidential candidate has so far made 19 previous trips to the Buckeye State. Rowe has made at least one, and that previous trip stuck in his mind.
On a job for his show, he spent "a very long day in the middle of July with the guys over at the Department of Transportation – specifically in their roadkill cleanup division," the host explained.
"The roadkill," in Ohio, he said, "is second to none, both in volume and variety."
- CNN's Rachel Streitfeld and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report
Mike Rowe is a TV Show host , and does dirty jobs for maybe 1 or 2 hours a day when filming to be edited into a TV show . This isnt the same as doing a dirty job as your full time job . I admire people who do all these jobs and enjoy the work , but not all people can handle that sort of work. Can imagine that in Romneys next interview he will say -he once made and served someone a cup of coffee so he knows how hard it to be a waiter
Dear God.
Please tell me they aren't trying to float Joe the Plumber again. Really?
Glad Mike's too smart to endorse RMoney. i was scared there for a moment. Mike would make ten times the president RMoney would.
Rowe should have been giving the speech for the the President because everyone he mentioned In his little gig with the twit are the same people then President was trying to pass the job's bill for. The plumbers, the electrician, the engineers, the construction guys.
And regardless of what sanatorium says about going to college being snobbish you still have to have training in these jobs. Are they snobs also according to him?
Obama is a disgrace to all the hardworking people in this country! He is out of ideas and that is that! How did hope and change work for us! The only change is going into OBAMAS pockets and we are all left to fend for ourselves thank God I still am working my 70 hours a week cause most other folks wont do my job!
Ford Motor company MAYBE shouldn't use Mike as a spokesperson since he's sharing the stage with a man who wanted the Auto industry to go bankrupt. Loser........
What I think is funny is that several of the 'dirty jobs' Mike Rowe spoke of, are government workers doing the things to keep the civilized world moving. Aren't they the very people the GOP wants to get rid of?
It was expected that Obama would be fighting for survival with a slim chance of winning before Mitt Romney displayed his weakness as a candidate, before people realized that in fact we are better off than we were 4 years ago when the job loss rate rose to 700,000/month, before Mitt Romney made it clear that he has no plan to create jobs beyond the failed polices of GW Bush, and even larger tax cuts for the rich, before he brought on Ryan and the plan to destroy Medicare. Yes, you can blame the pollsters, the media, the GOP internal critics like Gingrich, Noonan, Brooks, and Kristol, but can it possibly be that Mitt just doesn't know how to run for President or act presidential?
A true statesman shows greatness by example, by being truthful, nobility of character, having a vision, intelligence, strength of diplomacy,and not by endless complaining or criticizing his opponent. So far Romney has shown little greatness, he has not presented a detailed plan on HOW to improve the economy, on HOW to create jobs.\, simply because he has NO idea HOW. His plan does not improve the economy, it adds trillions to the deficit.
Romney is extremely shallow, and telling lies is way too natural for him. He really doesn't doesn't care about the people, and him saying now that he can relate to the hurt people feel is extremely phony. He is absolutely unqualified to be president, and his running mate? Ditto, unqualified for the job.
Obama 2012!
Lmao, I bet Mike Rowes contract doesn't pay him based on the amounts that the actual people who's dirty jobs he does in every episode of the TV series makes.
Well, Mike is used to doing dirty jobs. This is just another one for him.
Romney has no clue about what a dirty job is.
I do not know how ever one thinks about Mike Rowe but I am not watching him again, he is really a sad case when you know how Romeny feel about the working class and Unions that help workers get better wages.
Truth Hurts, well I think you have no idea what you are talking about. If there is an empty suit is Romney.. wake up I suppose you think the auto companys in the US should have closed like Romney wanted to do..
Mike Rowe is doing Romney's dirty job
Oh puhlease! "Down and dirty" for Willard Romney is when he has to use a spork for his caviar.
Attention Mike Rowe
I have watched your show from the beginning and have enjoyed many Dirty Jobs episodes, but as of today since you choose to aligned yourself with Mitt Romney I intend to align myself with my remote and change the channel when your show is on. I guess your appearance with Mitt Romney was just another one of your Dirty Jobs.
We're no longer using jobs, girlie. We are adding jobs.
The company I work for just laid off 100 people yesterday. No we're not.


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I'm happy to announce that selected work from the Wonderland series will be exhibited at three venues in the near future!! For those of you who have been following the series, created by my dear friend and photographer/designer/magic-maker Kirsty Mitchell, and me doing the hair and make-up, this is an opportunity for you to view the images in limited edition size!
I do have to stress that this is not the final Wonderland exhibition, and that as soon as we've finished with the entire series, it will be exhibited as a whole.
Two of the exhibitions will be in London, the other in Korea. The details are as follows:
SW1 GALLERY – September 11th – 15th
This will be Kirsty's first solo exhibition, and selected Wonderland pieces will be on show. Please view SW1's website for more details.
QUAGLINO'S – September 19th – November 13th
Wonderland will take over Quaglino's restaurant in Mayfair for about two months!!!
ULSAN INTERNATIONAL – 30th August – 6th September, Korea
Kirsty have been selected as 1 of 16 international artists to be showcased at the Ulsan International Photography Festival in Korea. The following Wonderland prints will be exhibited: "The Queen's Armada", "Gammelyn's Daughter" and "The Lavender Princess". Other artists include Oleg Dou, Gao Brothers and Thomas Devaux.
For more up-to-date news, please follow Kirsty's Facebook page.
I would definitely urge you to see the works in print, that way you could appreciate the true detail that has gone into each and every picture. When I saw some of the big sized prints at the Karen Millen installation a couple of months ago, it was as if I've seen the images for the first time, they really come alive in print!!
I'm hoping to see some of you there!!


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Kyrgyzstan: Mass arrests of Tolekan Ismailova and other human rights defenders at peaceful protests
When I asked that [the prison] doctor provide me with assistance, I was told that there was no doctor... Then I asked to call emergency, and it showed up an hour later. My blood pressure was 150 over 90 by then, so they had to give me an injection of magnesium.
All night I felt that my blood pressure had not dropped. I was scared that I could have a crisis condition and I could have a stroke. I tried to calm myself. But the lack of a lawyer and denial of access to communication with the outside world made me feel anxious again. I was concerned with regard to obtaining assistance from public bodies, as emergency workers could well be in collusion with the police. During my experience as a human rights lawyer I witnessed several times how doctors of emergency services refused to provide assistance to the injured during political events (March 2005 events).
[Fellow activists] Nazgul Turdubekova, Aigul Kyzalakova, and Aichurok Mamatkadyrova [members of the Youth Human Rights Group, engaged in monitoring observance of human rights in penitentiary institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic since 1995] saw my condition and knocked at the door for 3 hours to have the policeman on duty come up. When he showed up, we demanded that he take us downstairs for fresh air. We were suffocating from the stink [in the cells] and we were very cold... We said that if something happened to us, he would be responsible. I had high blood pressure, Aichurok had a sore throat and bumps on her head, Aigul Kyzalakova had a pain in her joints, and Nazgul had a headache, pain in the heart and kidneys... We demanded that he allow us to sleep in better conditions. Then he said that there was a room where policemen change, and that we could sit on one bed till morning, until the head comes, and that nobody should see us, otherwise he would be punished.
That is how we spent the second night from about 2 to 7 in the morning.
In the morning I felt bad again, so I asked to call up emergency, this time it came after an hour and a half. The doctor and the nurse came in very aggressively... The nurse started shouting at me, and said that we were all faking our illnesses.
The nurse asked everybody to leave, but I asked them to stay, because I was frightened of her help. The nurse started pushing everybody and turning everybody out. I stated aloud that I refused to receive their assistance. In reply the doctor started beating me in the breast with her finger saying that I was faking my sickness. She grabbed my hand, put on her phonendoscope and without measuring blood pressure shouted: 'She has no blood pressure! She is faking!' She came out to the head officer and said that I was healthy, that I was not really sick and I could be sent to the cell again.
The head of police stated that we could be kept in the cell and ordered policemen to close us in the cell. We were dragged and locked in the cell.
Nazgul started having strong pain in her stomach. She demanded medical assistance, but nobody came and provided help."
26 December 2007
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) strongly condemns the arrest of our colleague, Tolekan Ismailova, director of our Kyrgyzstan partner organization, Human Rights Center/Citizens Against Corruption and 20 young activists and civil society leaders. They were arrested outside the parliament on December 18th while peacefully protesting irregularities of the December 16th parliamentary elections. The activists were taken to the Pervomay District Militia Office. Following the arrests, lawyers and other protesters went to the militia office but militia members did not permit the lawyers to see or speak to the arrested individuals, who were required to make written statements without the presence of lawyers.
The activists were charged with violation of established order and holding assemblies, meetings, street processions, and demonstrations (under Article 392 of the Code of Administrative Responsibility). They were released and a second wave of arrests took place on December 20th when 31 activists from youth and opposition movements continued their protests. Ms. Ismailova is one of the activists re-arrested and she remains detained.
Our colleagues informed us this morning that a trial took place last night December 20th, behind closed doors, that lasted until midnight. Ms. Ismailova was sentenced to 7 days and 7 nights. Most activists received sentences ranging from 5 to 7 days and some were fined. An appeal was submitted after which, according to the law, detainees should be released until a decision is made on the appeal. However, authorities refused to release the activists.
December 21, 2007
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October (first week) - international jazz festival in Istanbul July (1st to 6 th) - international regatta in Marmaris. Attractions Interesting sights for pilgrims from Lachin to see in Istanbul: Topkapi Palace, the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, Blue mosque, Basilica Cistern, square Ahmadie, Dolmabahce Palace, the famous Bosphorus bridge. Cappadocia, Nevsehir, Chad, Goreme, Church Ortamahalle, the Gorge of Ihlara, Derinkuyu and Kaymakli (underground city). the Background information for tourists. A more detailed detailed instruction will be provided by the guide. Trips to Turkey in June. You need to know at least some rules and regulations in Turkey: calling code: 90; Monetary unit: Turkish Lira (TRY) 1 TRY = 100 Kurus, 1 USD ? THE 1.6 A TRY, 1 EUR ? TRY 2,3; Visa: an entry from Lachin up to 30 days; Cost "model" dinner: about 4 USD, the restaurant — from 6 USD Gratuities: 10 % of the total order; the rental per night: from 40 USD per day; Stores are open from 9:00 to 21:00. How to buy the ticket? Here on the site you can buy a ticket in the city of Lachin on a trip abroad. Will be able to travel to the nearest convenient date. For you to choose from different tourist destinations in Turkey. Turkey last minute all inclusive. The tourism Manager will call you back to confirm the order. Select and book your tours online in Lachin, then please click on the button to place your order. 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The second season of the Real Housewives of New Jersey does not premiere until May 3rd, but the back and forth between the cast and slandering each other in the press has officially began.
HollywoodLife caught up with Dina Manzo and asked her about fellow castmate, Danielle Staub. "Danielle loves drama. She loves every second of it and being the center of attention whether it's positive or negative," said Dina.
The site then caught up with Danielle a few days later, informing her of Dina's comments. Here's what Danielle had to say, "I'm not going to put stock in her opinion. I think it's really easy for Dina to judge — she's never really left home. She's the youngest of 11 children. She went from mom and daddy to husband number one and her sister found her husband number two. People are figuring out I'm not the person that [the wives] make me out to be."
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When asked what we can expect from the upcoming 2nd season, Dina reveals, "It's a lot of crazy." She continues, "We're Jersey so we keep it real and we're a little bit more street than the other housewife series. We're not afraid to show everything – the good, the bad, the ugly. And you don't mess with us either!"
In other Jersey news, Danielle also revealed that her 12 year-old daughter, Jillian Staub, is the "new Miley Cyrus." Apparently Jillian is a great singer and has just recorded her first sing, "Whatcha Saying."
"Any age group will be interested in listening to Jillian's music," says Danielle. "It's clean, fresh, fun and entertaining. I call it pop with a little twist of soul. She has a great pop voice and it's not like lollipops and bubble gum but yet you could eat some pizza and have some fun. You have a journey with her music. I think she's relateable and she'll touch a wide group of people."
Good to see nice things happening for Danielle's daughters, her other daughter, Christine Staub, 16, is also a model with IMG.


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Anyone find the Mike & Sulley 2 pack yet? Im looking for that and Hamm (of course). I was able to get the Buzz & Woody two pack a few weeks ago.
I am looking for the fan version of Luigi and Guido, anyone seen those?
This oneI'll be checking out a couple of stores this afternoon and I'll let you know if I find it. If not, we'll work out the cost from the ML I'm sending you.
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I have a hard time understanding the use of でわかる. I'm guessing that it doesn't just simply mean that "something is understood". Instead I wonder if it means that "something was realized"? I read the following sentence:
Would it be correct to say that "this situation was realized due to the person's story"?


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Soya Chunks Kurma
Coming to this kurma recipe... I have to talk about soya chunks - i love these chewy little, protein packed fellas - always have and I can't believe that this is the first kurma recipe that i'm posting that involves them. This gravy is creamy with coconut milk and you can even add peanuts but I went with almonds instead and pressure cooked it so that made the soya chunks kind of melt in the mouth and they absorbed the flavour of the gravy beautifully.
SOYA CHUNKS KURMA Ingredients: Soya chunks - about 25 pieces Peas - half cup or so (I used frozen) Onion - 1 medium (if big, use 3/4) - chopped Tomato paste - 1 to 2 tbsp diluted in water (substitute with 1 pureed tomato) Coconut milk - 1/3 cup (you can also use coconut milk powder mixed with warm water) Salt - to taste Garam masala - 1/4 tsp Coriander leaves - for garnish Oil - 3 tsp (divided) To Fry & Grind: Garlic - 5 cloves Ginger - 1 inch piece Green Chillies - 5 to 6 Poppy seeds - 1 tsp Almonds / Cashews - 12 Coriander seeds - 2 tsp Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Chilli powder - half to 1 tsp (to taste) Curry Powder / Kitchen king masala - half tsp Method: 1) Boil water in a wide mouthed bowl with a bit of salt and add the dry soya chunks (Nutrela). Switch off the stove, cover and allow to cook for 15 min. This makes them soft and they also become quite big. If too, big you can halve them after squeezing out all the water from them (once cooled). Set them aside. 2) Meanwhile, fry the ingredients to grind in a tsp of oil for a few mins. Allow to cool and grind to a fine paste with some water.
3) In a cooker, heat the remaining oil and fry the chopped onions till soft and translucent. Now add the diluted tomato paste (or tomato puree) followed by the ground paste. Fry till the paste is almost dry.
4) Add the frozen peas at this stage and salt as required, along with the well drained soya chunks & garam masala. Add sufficient water and coconut milk to form gravy of desired thickness.
5) Cover and pressure cook this for about 7 minutes or 2 whistles.
6) Once the pressure is released, transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle coriander leaves as a garnish. This pairs well with chapathis/rotis. Note: This can be just cooked in a pan but I think pressure cooking makes the soya chunks taste even better.


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Moroccan tagine
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal393
- fat18g
- saturates2g
- carbs52g
- sugars2g
- fibre10g
- protein8g
- salt0.12g
For the chermoula paste
- 2 red onions, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- small knob fresh root ginger, peeled
- 100ml/3½ fl oz lemon juice (about 3 lemons)
- 100ml/3½ fl oz olive oil
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- 1 tbsp each honey, cumin, paprika, turmeric
Turmeric is a fragrant, bright golden-yellow root that is most commonly seen and used dried and…
- 1 tsp hot chilli powder
- handful coriander, chopped
For the tagine
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
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- 3 carrots, cut into chunks
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 3 large parsnips, cut into chunks
The fact that the parsnip is a member of the carrot family comes as no surprise – it looks…
- 3 red onions, cut into chunks
- 2 large potatoes, cut into chunks
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- 4 leeks, ends trimmed and cut into chunks
Like garlic and onion, leeks are a member of the allium family, but have their own distinct…
- 12 dried prunes, dates or figs
- 2 sprigs mint, leaves only, finely chopped
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To make the chermoula, whizz paste ingredients in a blender. Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Tip the oil and vegetables into a heatproof casserole and cook on the hob until lightly browned, about 7 mins. You may have to do this in two batches.
Add the chermoula paste to the casserole, along with the dried fruit. Pour in 400ml water, cover with a lid and cook in the oven for 45 mins. Reduce heat to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and cook for another 45 mins. Sprinkle with the mint. Serve on its own or with couscous or crusty bread.


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Annual Charles River Report Card Shows Water Quality Remaining Good and Improving
Release Date: 04/21/2012
Contact Information: Kate Renahan, 617-918-1491
(Boston, Mass. – April 21, 2012) 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Signed in 1972, the Clean Water Act set as one of its basic goals the restoration of rivers so that they were safe for fishing and swimming. Since 1995, EPA has measured the cleanup of the Charles River against those fundamental objectives of the Clean Water Act.
The Annual Charles River Earth Day cleanup and EPA Report card event is an example of coordinated efforts by government and local groups which have had continued their success in restoring one of New England's most polluted urban waterways.
EPA water quality monitoring data show that during 2011, the Charles River continued to have acceptable water quality for boating and swimming. EPA's grade for the lower Charles River this year is a "B." The grade reflects that the River met bacteria based water quality standards for boating 82% of the time and for swimming 54% of the time.
While this is an apparent drop in water quality from the last several years, when the river has earned a B+, EPA believes that the drop is attributable to the fact that several dates on which water quality sampling occurred in 2011 followed shortly upon heavy rainfall. From the inception of the Charles River Report Card event in 1995 EPA has based its grade on data that is collected by the Charles River Watershed Association at ten set sampling locations from the Watertown Dam to Boston Harbor. The data varies slightly from year to year depending on whether it is "wet year" or a "dry year."
Water Quality data collected by Northeastern University on a daily basis from June 14 through September 2 during 2011 indicated that the River was meeting swimming standards between 80% of the time (as measured at MIT's Sailing Pavilion and 91% of the time at the Esplanade Dock. These measurements taken daily through the entire summer at the locations in the Charles Basin most heavily used for recreation reflect continued success in restoring the Charles to swimmable condition.
"The Charles River is an example of a Clean Water Act success," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "This grade reflects the excellent partnership work around the restoration of this river."
The Charles has improved dramatically from the launch of EPA's Charles River Initiative in 1995, when the river received a D for meeting boating standards only 39 percent of the time and swimming standards just 19 percent of the time. As collaborative efforts between EPA, state and local government, private organizations and environmental advocates continue, the goal of a consistently healthy river becomes closer to an everyday reality.
In September of 2011, the International RiverFoundation in Brisbane Australia, recognized the Charles River with the Theiss International Riverprize, considered the most prestigious international environmental award. The RiverFoundation helps fund and support restoration and management of river basins worldwide. The Charles was recognized for its use of forward thinking and sustainable river management programs. That it was awarded to the Charles River this year is a tribute to the hard work of the many parties who joined together to restore the Charles.
More information: EPA's Clean Charles River Initiative (https://www.epa.gov/region1/charles/index.html)
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This is the first year I owe the government and I hate it. It's a couple thousand dollars, and it hurts! I have plenty of money to cover it, but cutting a big check to them is terrible!
While I hate the idea of giving the government a loan, I think I hate giving them a bunch of money all at once, too. Kind of a lose-lose scenario.


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Complaints data publication report
Firm Name: Leeds Building Society
Period Covered in this return: 1 July – 31 December 2013
Brands/trading names covered: Leeds Building Society
|Number of complaints opened
|Number of complaints closed
|Complaints closed within 8 weeks
|Closed complaints upheld by firm
|Home Finance
|General insurance and pure protection
|Decumulation, life and pensions
For Banking, the 248 complaints equates to 0.32 complaints per 1,000 accounts.
For Home Finance, the 384 complaints equates to 3.88 complaints per 1,000 accounts.
The Society received 474 complaints about General Insurance (GI) and Pure Protection (PP), which equates to 8.13 complaints per 1,000 policies. Of these, 440 (93%) were in relation to the alleged mis-sale of Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance (MPPI) or Payment Protection Insurance (PPI), of which only 51 (12%) were upheld. Of the 440 MPPI/PPI complaints received, 184 (42%) were referred via Claims Management Companies, of which only 22 (12%) were upheld.
The 10 complaints under Decumulation, Life and Pensions relate to historic endowment policies, the investigation for which takes longer than other complaints, due to information being required from external third parties. As the Society stopped selling endowments in March, 1988, it does not have a relevant metric for comparison.
Please note: The above table reflects the standard format prescribed by the Financial Conduct Authority for reporting complaints performance in the various product areas.
Which products fall into the above categories?
This includes:
- Current accounts;
- Credit cards;
- Unregulated loans
- Savings (including ISAs); and
- Other banking.
Home Finance
This includes:
- Mortgages, including buy-to-let, equity release and loans to people with impaired credit histories; and
- Other regulated home finance products
General Insurance and Pure Protection
This includes:
- Payment Protection Insurance;
- General insurance (such as household and buildings and contents);
- Critical illness; and
- Other pure protection
Decumulation, Life and Pensions
This includes:
- Personal pensions and FSAVCs;
- Investment linked annuities;
- Income drawdown products;
- Endowments; and
- Other decumulation, life and pensions
This includes:
- Investment bonds;
- PEPs/ISAs (excluding cash ISAs);
- Investment trusts;
- Unit trusts/OEICs;
- Structured products; and
- Other investment products/funds
Customer Service Commitment
The Society's commitment to our customers is enshrined in our mission statement, which is "To be a successful independent building society, providing excellent value through quality customer service, efficiency and competitive products".
As an independent mutual, our members are also our customers and we work hard to ensure they receive the products and service that meet their needs. In the latest independent customer survey, 93%* of our members said that they were satisfied with the service received. However, should a customer feel that their interaction with the Society has fallen short of their expectations, we will always investigate and resolve any issue as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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In light of the now decade-long war in Afghanistan, and the rapid-fire political and societal changes sweeping through the world, it helps to understand how we got here… what forces played a part in setting it up – and continue to exert their influence to this day.
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald have been writing and researching the subject for over 30 years. Their valuable insight – not just with regard to the situation on the ground, but the political machinations and power players behind the scenes – sheds a sorely-needed light on these subjects.
Tonight, Mike and Mark talk with them about this, propaganda, the media and more.
About the guests:
Gould & Fitzgerald have been involved in the Afghan debate for over thirty years. Their books, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story (2009) and Crossing Zero – The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2011) have been praised internationally by numerous news, foreign policy and military experts.
Their involvement in Afghanistan began in 1981 when they were the first journalists to gain access through diplomatic channels at the United Nations following the expulsion of 1135 western journalists one month after the Soviet invasion. Contracted to CBS news, they found a stark contrast to the picture that was playing on the evening news. In 1983 they invited Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project to return with them to assess the chances of getting the Soviets to leave Afghanistan. Contracted to ABC Nightline, Roger was told by the Soviets that they wanted to go home. Nightline skewed the story away from negotiation. Over the years they saw efforts to negotiate a resolution in Afghanistan consistently overruled by forces who always managed to undermine peaceful solutions. Cold War journalism still haunts the Afghan story to this day.
You can read a whole bunch of their brilliant work at their website – http://invisiblehistory.com/


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Latest Skin News
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Disease-causing strains of the fungus Fusarium are present in bathroom sink drains, which may be a common source of infection in humans, according to a new study.
Fusarium is well known for causing diseases in agricultural crops, but some species of the fungus can cause potentially dangerous and even fatal infections in humans.
For example, Fusarium was the cause of an outbreak of fungal keratitis (infection of the cornea) among contact lens wearers in the United States in 2005-2006.
Fusarium infections can be difficult to treat because Fusarium is resistant to many antifungal drugs, explained Penn State researchers.
They tested samples taken from nearly 500 sink drains in 131 businesses, homes, university dormitories and public facilities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and California.
At least one Fusarium isolate was found in 66 percent of the drains and in 82 percent of the buildings. About 70 percent of those isolates were from species most frequently associated with human infections.
"With about two-thirds of sinks found to harbor Fusarium, it's clear that those buildings' inhabitants are exposed to these fungi on a regular basis," lead investigator Dylan Short, of the College of Agricultural Sciences, said in a university news release. "This strongly supports the hypothesis that plumbing-surface biofilms serve as reservoirs for human pathogenic fusaria."
The study is in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
-- Robert Preidt
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LONDON—British researchers have come up with a new body scanning device that gives accurate measurements and could boost online clothes shopping.
Shoppers are still nervous about ordering clothes online because they often do not fit and, some say, there will never be a substitute for trying something on—one reason why the boom in online retail has not had the same impact on clothing as on music, books and electronics retailing.
In the U.S., ComScore estimates that only 14 per cent of online spending from January until June 2012 was for clothing and accessories.
The new scanner is being developed by the London College of Fashion, video imaging researchers at the University of Surrey and the company Bodymetrics.
The company already has in-store scanners that use the motion sensors from Microsoft Corp's Kinect gaming device in Bloomingdale's (part of Macy's Inc) in the United States, Selfridges and New Look in Britain, and Karstadt in Germany.
Some firms, including Berlin-based Upcloud, are already offering home scanners that use a webcam, but the British developers say their system is able to measure in unprecedented detail.
Philip Delamore from the London College of Fashion estimates that 30 to 60 per cent of clothes bought online are returned.
"It's common for online shoppers to order two or three different sizes of the same item of clothing at the same time as they're unsure which one will fit best," he said.
With the new system, a shopper inputs his or her height as a reference and can then take a single full-length picture with a webcam or smartphone from which all their other measurements are calculated.
It uses the measurements combined with a person's overall proportions to build a 3D image.
Combining this with sizing information from retailers, the system would also overcome the problem of variable sizing, which can mean a shopper is a "medium" in one store but a "large" in another.
The technology builds on previous work by the University of Surrey that was used to create animated characters in games like The Sims.
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Adrian Hilton, who is working on the technology at the university, told Reuters that while some shoppers may still enjoy the experience of browsing in stores and trying on clothes, for others an improvement in the reliability of shopping online will be welcome.
"For the male market, I think we're there," he said.


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The Big Society in Practice
With further reductions in Youth Services I continue to be intrigued by the concept of Big Society and how this is portrayed by some as the panacea to all the financial reductions. Now – don't get me wrong, I'm all for contributing and volunteering in your local community and believe voluntary youth services are particularly strong. It's just that basing policy and services on the assumption that people who volunteer will want to do more, with little to no funding and do what we would like them to do has the potential to be either the most amazing idea ever or one that is fundamentally flawed. I tend to err towards the later.
As we move to Targeted Services due to funding reductions we are withdrawing from the universal delivery of generic youth clubs in the more affluent areas of the county. This affects many of our rural villages. With this in mind I am one of probably many who is working with volunteers within local villages to see how they can take on the running of the local youth club. The meeting the other evening was a great example of what individuals are prepared and not prepared to do. The group are really keen to ensure that the club in their village remains open. They want to do as much as they can to do this and want us to work with them to find youth workers. However they are also really clear that they can't do this without support and involvement from 'professionals' who know about systems, policies and how to work with young people. We are able (at the moment) to offer advice, guidance and support and have also pointed them in the direction of voluntary organisations working in this field. However whilst they are happy to volunteer they don't want to have to take on responsibility for employing staff, health and safety both on and off site….and the list goes on. Members however are equally clear that we can no longer employ staff to undertake youth work in these areas and that all the work is the responsibility of the volunteer groups. Impasse!
In some of the areas under discussion there are small groups of young people who have quite challenging behaviors. The group are aware of their limitations and can't understand why we are looking to them as volunteers to deliver what they believe is an essential service for young people that should be delivered by those qualified to do so. This resonates for me with what Nick Wilkie wrote last September:-
"Nobody has suggested that our banks, for example, should be led into recovery by armies of well-intentioned volunteers. So surely we don't think that equally complex social ills can be remedied entirely without professional expertise and full-time commitment?" (See full post here)
Local communities know this, volunteers know this, we know this and yet still we march towards the dismantling of universal services regardless of the potential damage this may cause. In the meantime the local communities and I are still meeting to see what we can create in spite of policy, the Big Society, and other good (?) intentions because we all know that at the end of the day the ones who are going to miss out are those most in need of support, encouragement and opportunities – young people!


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Our close proximity to institutions such as West Chester University, the Chester County Historical Society, the Chester County Hospital, and the Chester County Library provides ample opportunity for continued community service as well as cultural and educational stimulation.
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Friends abroad have emailed me in the past few days horrified that India could be such a cruel and unsafe place for women. They have been reacting to international news of the gang rape, and subsequent death, of a 23-year old paramedical student in Delhi, that led on to a flood of other rape reports. Similar international reactions were to be heard from two years ago when there were widespread reports of massive corruption, and mass demonstrations called for the system to be cleaned up.
To many people abroad, these events have come as a revelation that charming, culturally fascinating, apparently friendly and even saintly, though often chaotic, India could instead be a cruel, male-dominated, often selfish and heavily corrupt dishonest society, where the strong bully, assault and exploit the weak – a country that is struggling with the tensions and clashes of rapid economic and social change, but where governments find it hard to keep up and rarely achieve major reforms, and where people habitually tolerate their lot, hoping maybe for a better life next time.
The good news is that largely peaceful country-wide demonstrations over the past two weeks have frightened the government into action because the appalling rape – in a curtained bus driven round Delhi courtesy of a corrupt police force and inefficient state government. This atrocity released anger and frustration not just over assaults on women but also against the police, politicians and an ineffective legal system.
The government's fright at what Palaniappan Chidambaram, a top government minister, unkindly described as the "new phenomenon" of "flash mobs" was evident when the police turned water cannon and tear gas on demonstrators in central Delhi just before Christmas. That cleared away violent rabble-rousers, but the demand for justice and change continued peacefully across the country and turned into mourning and candlelight vigils and protests when the 23-year old died of multiple organ failure on December 29. She died in Singapore where she had been controversially flown by a government that was advised by intelligence agencies of a public backlash if her death were to happen in India after Delhi's doctors had failed to save her.
This protest movement was genuinely spontaneous, unlike the earlier corruption demonstrations which had campaigning leaders and even more unlike most demonstrations and riots that are usually organised by political parties or other vested interests for short term gains. This time women suddenly found they could come out openly and talk and protest about assaults that they had largely kept quiet about in the past. An astonishing number of women have stories of being seriously harassed and attacked, often on buses.
There was no central single leader, so the government could not negotiate and talk its way out of trouble and into somnolence, as it has usually managed to do with crises for decades. Instead, it resorted to gesture politics, with a flood of sympathetic statements from hitherto silent or contemptuous politicians and the Delhi police chief, plus a security clampdown in the centre of the capital that closed many roads to curb unrest.
The government's leaders, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, even went to the airport around 3.30am last Sunday morning to meet the girl's body with her family when she was flown in from Singapore. Two other political leaders went to the heavily guarded private cremation – one was Sheila Dikshit, the Delhi chief minister who, with assembly elections due this year, had been playing politics over the issue and was booed when she had visited the protestors.
Over the past ten days Sonia Gandhi, who rarely appears in public apart from election campaigns, has gradually led from the front (seen here on tv) reflecting the nation's horror and grief, despite her own apparent poor health. Rahul Gandhi, her 42-year old son and political heir, has failed to make any significant appearance, which has been widely noted, negatively.
The 23-year old's gang rape on December 16, and other cases involving strangers, are dominating the headlines, but statistics show that victims' relatives and neighbours are often themselves the rapists, or connive in the crime. Police records show that out of 662 cases reported in Delhi during 2012, 189 involved friends or relatives, while 202 were neighbours. Among the victims, 286 were aged 12 to 18. Incest is widespread – "an uncle rapes a young girl but her father, the man's brother, lets it happen," says a friend. The police rarely help.
A 17-year old girl in Punjab committed suicide recently because she was being harassed after it had taken her 14 days to persuade police to accept her gang rape accusation. Another report says a policeman and his nephew raped a young woman who wanted to be recruited into the force.
A friend wrote yesterday on Facebook about how he and a woman lawyer living in west Delhi took an eight-year old girl to the police with her semi-literate frightened dhobi (laundryman) father, who lived nearby The father kept repeating "Iski beti kay saath kuch ladkay nein bura kiya" (some boys have done something bad to my daughter). The police at first were sympathetic, but after a day or two said: "When both her parents are at work, she crosses two roads and the train tracks to move around with boys of another locality. She is a very bad character, and if any boy does anything to her, she totally deserves it". The girl was only eight!
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India is a patriarchal society where women are now becoming economically equal with men, showing new independence in their careers and more liberated private lives, especially in urban areas. The social changes and tensions have turned what has for decades been known as eve teasing – men touching women provocatively in locations such as crowded buses – into something more aggressive. In addition, Bollywood films increasingly show women film stars virtually offering themselves on the screen, provocatively glorifying the prospect of instant sex rather than relationships.
In traditional male-dominated rural societies, and in recently urbanised areas of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh close to Delhi, local village community councils called khap panchyats rarely side with rape victims. Women are blamed for being provocative, or the intercourse is dubbed consensual – a line often taken by the police across India. Women can also be subjected to a humiliating "fingers test", which defence lawyers use to deny rape citing frequent and consensual sexual activity.
When a spate of rapes happened in Haryana, a khap panchayat (like the picture, left) said the solution was for the young to get married, without any minimum age limit, so that their "sexual desires find safe outlets".
Often young girls who belong to the Dalit ("untouchable" in the caste system) are raped in a form of lower caste oppression – prompting a local Congress politician to allege the rape reports were a "political conspiracy" by the state's dalit-based party. In October, Sonia Gandhi visited a family in the area whose 16-year old daughter was gang raped and committed suicide. Mrs Gandhi promised action, but nothing has changed and rapes in the area have continued.
Rape of course is prevalent across the world. In Britain, according to a government action plan on violence against women and girls, 80,000 women are raped a year. That puts India's 24,000 reported rape cases in 2011 in some sort of perspective, though the basis for statistics varies in different countries and India's real total is almost certainly enormously higher because the fear of police and social harassment and indifference means many incidents go unreported. The real worry in India is that it reflects long standing social patriarchal attitudes and caste hierarchies that not only persist but have been exacerbated by social and economic changes.
There is therefore a huge need for a change of attitudes across society starting, with how families regard and protect their women and how old traditional societies can be weaned away from male domination. That will take a long time.
Meanwhile there is an urgent need to speed up the lengthy judicial system – fast track courts have just been set up for rape cases. The under-trained and under-supported police force needs reforming with a focus on caring for the public instead of pleasing local politicians and VIPs, but that will take a long time to happen, if it ever does. The government has appointed a panel headed by a retired judge to look at the laws, and a task force to advise on the safety of women and on police operations. The FICCI and CII business federations are considering how treatment of women at work can be improved.
New penalties for rape suggested to the government in recent days include execution and chemical castration, though these seem unlikely to be adopted. Five men accused of the 23-year old's rape and vicious assault with an iron bar have been charged today with murder, rape and kidnapping, and charges against a sixth younger accused will follow.
Life in India will never be quite the same again because the young and newly aspirational middle class have discovered the power of mass street protests. Corruption has not stopped and new rapes are being reported daily, but the power of protest has been established, not by orqanised campaigners but by ordinary people of varied classes who want India to change, and will demonstrate again until it happens.
As someone said in one of the seemingly non-stop television discussion programmes of the past two weeks, "the days when gradualism was acceptable are over" or, to put it another way, the old attitudes of jugaad (quick fix) and chalta hai (don't worry, it will work ok) can no longer be relied on by the government to avoid social protest and unrest.


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Two of Wisconsin's best-known pro athletes are joining forces in the restaurant business. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun have signed licensing agreements with SURG restaurant group for a restaurant in Brookfield.
It will be called 8*twelve MVP Bar & Grill, serving American classics such as steak and seafood prepared on a wood-fire grill, according to SURG partner Omar Shaikh. It's expected to open in late June.
The name, of course, refers to the players' jersey numbers; Rodgers' is No. 12, Braun's is No. 8. Braun was voted major-league baseball's most valuable player in the National League after the 2011 season, and Rodgers is the reigning National Football League MVP.
Both players are expected to make appearances at 8*twelve, which takes the place of the former Charro in Brookfield, at 17800 W. Blue Mound Road. Charro, a pan-Latin restaurant owned by SURG, closed in August.
Shaikh declined to say whether the players have ownership stakes in the restaurant.
SURG partner Mike Polaski said the group will explore whether to open other 8*twelve restaurants, possibly in Madison and in the Fox Valley.
Aaron Patin, who joined the restaurant group last year after working in Nashville and Chicago, will be head chef at 8*twelve.
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Braun initially was affiliated with a restaurant at the Third Ward location that opened in spring 2010 under different ownership. That restaurant, Ryan Braun's Waterfront, closed in November 2010 and reopened in spring 2011 as Graffito under SURG ownership. Braun is in a licensing agreement with SURG for Graffito but isn't an owner.
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I know right? That was my reaction, too.
Having a slash is important these days—being just an actor isn't enough anymore—and Chris Evans has decided to tack "slash-director" onto his resume with a movie called 1:30 Train. It's about a couple that meets in New York and spends a magical night together, exploring the city and each other (I added that last part, but it does sound like that kind of movie). It seems like exactly the sort of trite romantic drivel he supposedly wanted to get away from after the Horrible Movie Hall of Famer What's Your Number? And now he's going to not only star in it, but produce and direct it, as well.
Apparently this is a passion project for Evans, who does have a history of hitching his wagon to various indie projects and doing whatever he can to give them a leg up, which is nice. It's just that his taste kind of sucks. I like Chris Evans, but I would never accredit him with an overabundance of good taste. So it does make me wonder—is he directing this because he really wants to be a director, or does he feel like it's the only way the movie will get made? The latter is actually understandable. Possibly misguided, but understandable. The former, though, makes me want to sit him down and give the "know your limits" speech my parents gave me when I was a kid.
I'm probably being too hard on him. He'll be fine, especially if he hires a good director of photography and editor to smooth out the first-time director bumps. Besides, if Ben Affleck can reinvent himself as a respected filmmaker, then why not Chris Evans, too?


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Architectural as well as fashion destinations.
Visit the Ginza area on Sundays when the main street is closed to cars. All the big labels, Mikimoto, Louis Vuitton, Apple, Sony, and many more, have opened mega stores designed by starchitects.
The latest addition is Mikimoto's pink Ginza 2 store, with its irregularly shaped windows, designed by Toyo Ito.
The facade of the Dior building, designed by Kumiko Inui, is illuminated by fiber optics at night. The outer skin, made of punctuated steel, reveals the illuminated inner skin.
The Hermes glass-brick mini skyscraper, by Renzo Piano, has a horse-and-rider statue on top of the building. The next door Sony Tower was designed by Yoshinobo Ashihara in 1966.
Providing a balanced mixture of traditional culture and new technology Ricardo Bofill's Ginza Shiseido Building uses color, a red stucco facade and red lighting, to highlight important details and stand out from the competition.
The Chanel building, with its massive black glass and steel exterior, was designed by Peter Marino. The facade, symbolizing the iconic quilting, lights up at night to become a giant ever-changing billboard.
The renovation of the facade of an existing office building, by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects, uses bead-blasted stainless steel panels on the first three levels. The Apple brand is expressed both in the architecture and in the graphics.
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Among others you will find the Louis Vuitton store by Jun Aoki, a monumental pixelized facade of parallel glass tubes in honeycomb formation that is both reflective and transparent. Also the "Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa" store designed by SANAA.
Do not miss a visit to Daikanyama, a short ride on the Toyoko Line, where Fumihilo Maki has been adding to his Hillside Terrace development for more than three decades. Today it is one of Tokyo's hippest neighborhoods with lots of boutiques and cafes.
"Over the years many of Maki's design intentions have remained constant from phase to phase. Public functions fill lower levels and private apartments upper ones. Building fronts line up with the street. Vegetation is preserved wherever possible. And courtyards, plazas and other outdoor spaces are designed with as much care as the buildings themselves."
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And finally, going back to the Ginza area, do catch at least one act in the Kabuki-za Theater. Originated in the 17th century it is one of Japan's traditional entertainments.
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Months before riffing on early voting, Biden secretly engaged in some early comedy: taping a guest spot on "Parks and Recreation" that would run after the election, win or lose.
The episode, set for Thursday, comes with Biden guaranteed four more years of job security, giving his cameo the de facto air of a last-laugh victory lap. But for fans of "Parks and Recreation," his appearance takes on the added significance of solidifying Amy Poehler's maturing sitcom as TV's most political wonk friendly comedy.
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"what I'm talking about is the Scottish Parliament having the right to propose a second referendum if it becomes clear that a majority of people in Scotland want independence, it would have to be a majority of people that want it"
The response from the SNP would of course be that what technically matters is the Manifesto that the SNP stood on.
So I took a look at the "Easy Read" copy. It is indeed an easy read and makes only one reference to another referendum (my highlighting):
"We believe that the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if it is clear that more than half of the people in Scotland want independence."
Needless to say a quick visit to What Scotland Thinks confirms what any fule kno: the "clear majority support for independence" condition isn't close to being met:
So how do the SNP justify attempting to drag us into an inydref2 against our will? By falling back on the fine print. In the SNP's long-form manifesto you will find - not in the Summary, not in the Vision, not in the Next Steps, but on the left-hand side of page 23 - that an additional clause has been added (highlighting mine)
"We believe that the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there is clear and sustained evidence that independence has become the preferred option of a majority of the Scottish people – or if there is a significant and material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will."Given we're into fine detail here, it seems fair to be picky about these words. Stating that you believe something should be the case is not making a manifesto commitment to do it or indeed asking for a mandate to call for it - it's simply a statement of belief.
Semantics aside, this is akin to Amazon pointing out that they can do pretty much whatever they like with your personal data because you ticked their Terms & Conditions box1. The SNP may be able to argue that technically their manifesto gives them a mandate to ask for indyref2, but - given their pre-election rhetoric and summary messaging - morally they're on distinctly dodgy ground.
1. I wonder how many people who shop with Amazon realise they've accepted "Terms & Conditions" that state Amazon "reserve the right to make changes to any Amazon Services, policies, terms and conditions including these Conditions of Use, and Service Terms at any time."?