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Amid Greek debt crisis, Iceland still recovering from its own collapse
While Greece battles its debt crisis, Iceland – where major banks collapsed in the wake of the global financial meltdown – is gearing up for a referendum on whether its taxpayers will shoulder the burden of paying back billions of dollars of debt.
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Looking on as Greeks took to the streets in recent days in protest at an economic crisis often blamed on powerful individuals and forces beyond the control of ordinary citizens, many Icelanders must have felt a sense of déjà-vu.
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A little more than a year has passed since Iceland became the 2008 global financial meltdown's worst casualty when all three of its major banks collapsed and the government was toppled.
While the spotlight this week fell on Athens, where the rulers of debt-stricken Greece are braced for a public backlash against severe spending cuts and hundreds of finance and customs ministry workers took the streets on Wednesday to protest budget cuts, those behind Iceland's own citizen uprising against their country's banking and political elites insist that anger is still bubbling away here.
"We are not asking for people to be executed but we want them to face the consequences for what they did," says Hordur Torfason, a folk singer and key instigator of the "saucepan revolution" – so called because of the kitchen implements participants took along to bang outside Iceland's parliament.
Sipping coffee in a bustling cafe yards from where he led the protests, Torfason indicates that the next spark for a resurgence in popular anger may be just weeks away.
In what could be a perfect political storm, an eagerly-awaited official report into Iceland's "riches to rags" economic crisis will be published days before a referendum planned for March 6 on a hugely unpopular deal to pay billions of dollars to Britain and the Netherlands arising from the collapse of an Icelandic online bank.
The poll was initiated when Iceland's president refused to endorse the "Icesave" package, named after the bank which had offered high-yielding accounts to British and Dutch customers who were subsequently reimbursed by their own governments. Icelandic foot-dragging on paying that money back has caused a vital $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan to be frozen.
Dire warnings
Ahead of the vote, a battle for the nation's hearts and minds has been underway with Iceland's prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, warning Iceland would effectively be opting out of the international financial system if it were to say no to the deal.


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Sanuki udon (讃岐うどん) is a type of udon noodle most popular in the Shikoku region, but is now easily found throughout the neighboring Kansai region and much of Japan. It is characterized by its square shape and flat edges. Many udon shops now specialize solely in sanuki udon, and are usually identified by the text "sanuki" in hiragana (さぬき) appearing in the name of the shop or on the sign.
It is usually served as noodle soup, and was originally popularized in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. The broth is made from a type of dashi which varies in strength and flavor across Japan.
Sanuki udon are named after the previous name of the Kagawa Prefecture, Sanuki Province.
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Martial arts star Jet Li donned a black hat and mask to portray a comic book superhero in this pulp action tale that gets the full-blown Hong Kong treatment from choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who later designed the fight scenes for The Matrix (1999). Li stars as Tsui Chik, leader of Squad 701, an elite commando team of genetically-engineered super-soldiers. When the unit was deemed a failure because of mental instability in some of the test subjects, the project was disbanded. Tsui now lives quietly in Hong Kong, masquerading as a shy librarian whose only friend is a cop (Lau Ching Wan). When some drug lords begin turning up dead, Tsui dons a black mask and hat to investigate the slayings and learns that his former Squad 701 comrades, led by psychotic Commander Hung (Patrick Lung), are plotting to take over the drug kingpin's illegal trade. Among their number is Tsui's ex-girlfriend Kaelin (Francoise Yip).
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Action
- Run Time: 96min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 05/14/1999
- DVD Release Date: 11/17/1998
- Distributor(s): Artisan
- Director(s): Daniel Lee
- Starring: Jet Li
- Themes: Drug Trade,Heroic Mission
- Tone: Rousing,Tense,Flashy
- Keywords: bad-guy, commando, drug-lord, good-guy, killing, martial-arts, murder
- Country of Origin: USA (05-14-1999),Hong Kong (11-09-1996)
- Language: English
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An American Dream
(This piece was the featured story in Necessary Fiction the week of October 24, 2012.)
The 100th Floor
In all his days as a window washer, he had never once seen a door on the outside of the hundredth floor, until that day.
They'd started at the roof, as always, plunging their small platform over the edge and then riding it down, little by little. They enjoyed each other's company, but even more, they enjoyed the silence, the silence and the squeaking sounds as they worked over the glass. They enjoyed their own never-ending rhythm, fanning in graceful arcs, fanning and dunking and drying, complementing one other, filling in the limits of each other's reach.
They almost never looked inside the windows; they almost never cared to. The people inside were murky shadows, like ghosts, or underpaintings, or characters in an old, washed-out silent film. Their shapes distorted as the windows were doused, then wiped dry, doused, then wiped dry, and the men on the scaffold noticed the people inside only sometimes, the way one notices shells on the ocean floor, revealed after a passing wave, then hidden, then forgotten.
They loosened the ties on the pulleys and lowered themselves, and started again, window after window, floor after floor.
Outside, the Sun was an arm's reach away.
Outside, the wind was cruel.
Outside, they brought with them their own weather. On cloudy days, their scaffolding would sometimes seem to ascend above the clouds into a sunshine that no one on the ground could see. On sunny days, such as today, the window washers would sometimes disappear into a small cloud that hovered over their platform, perhaps fashioned from the water they were carrying and from the heat of their own breath.
It was from such a cloud, and dangling from a heaven-high roof, they wiped at the windows again and again and again; and in an otherwise unremarkable moment, their little cloud parted, and that was when he saw it—the door, high above him, high and to the right: a glossy black door with a brass knob that reflected the sunlight into his eyes, a heavy wooden door set into the vertical plane of steel and glass, an impossible door.
The other men were already unfurling the platform down the building and bringing the door farther out of reach, and he knew then that if he didn't reach for it, didn't at least try, then he'd never have a chance again, and never know what lay on its other side; and without a word to his colleagues and friends (for they preferred to work in silence), he stepped off the platform; and they never did understand why.
What a View
Yesterday a man jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, fell eighty stories to a sixth-floor landing, and died instantly. His name and motives are unknown. Police say he was about thirty years old, that he vaulted the ten-foot fence, and that the entire act was caught on the building's security cameras. The tragedy of the facts in this story are matched only by the tragedy of the facts that are not known.
"Why" is the question that casts the thickest shadow over suicide, followed perhaps by "how" — the head-scratching just barely precedes the rubber-necking. Why? Why why why why why? So many scenarios present themselves (a holiday weekend, for God's sake), but part of the chill it strikes in me comes from the fact that I'll never know. I'll never know whether it was planned and laborious (did he draw out the moment with a "walking meditation," up the 1860 stairs?), or an impulsive sprint? (How does one "vault" a 10-foot fence?, is one obvious question.) Did he give any consideration to the passersby on the street below; did he aim for the sixth-floor landing? Had he spoken to the tourists on the elevator, made eye contact with any children as he tipped over the top of the fence? Had he done research? Did he know that at least thirty others made the same jump before him? Did he plan a last meal? Had he taken out his trash, fed his pets, made any last phone calls? Was there an audience for his act, or an intended one? Did he want someone to feel very bad? Or was there no one?
The moment he let go of the fence, did he regret it? In the seconds that followed? How many seconds were there? How many thoughts does one have in those seconds?
Did he call anyone's name?
Was he crying?
It was a perfect, clear autumn day. From that height, he would have been able to see all ends of this enormous city, and still he decided there was nothing for him. He must have stopped to look, his last view of anything in this world. What did he see? God, what a view!
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While I'm going on about the morbid... I remember years ago reading a story in the Boston Globe: the body of a Harvard student was found one cold winter morning, dead from a single stab wound to the neck, on Revere Beach, miles from where he lived in Cambridge. No one was clear on what he'd been doing out there, or whether the death was a suicide or homicide.
The most striking detail about the story was buried a few paragraphs down: his parents learned of their son's death while eating breakfast in their Evanston, Illinois home — not from the police or the university, but from an agency asking if they would like to donate their son's organs. "He's a big boy," the father replied. "Why don't you ask him yourself?" The caller, realizing the parents hadn't been notified, hung up. The father spent the rest of the morning trying to reach his son on the phone , only reaching his answering machine, with an ever-longer beep.
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The 62nd World Health Assembly opened today in Geneva, as officials from 193 member countries began their annual review of the activities of the WHO and set new priorities for the future.
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Dr Chan noted that 85% of the burden of chronic diseases was concentrated in low-income and middle-income countries, which meant that the developing world had by far the largest pool of people at risk for severe and fatal H1N1 infections.
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Over the past three decades, the world has, on average, been growing richer. People have, on average, been enjoying longer and healthier lives.
But these encouraging trends hide a brutal reality. Today, differences in income levels, in opportunities, and in health status, within and between countries, are greater than at any time in recent history.
Our world is dangerously out of balance, and most especially so in matters of health. The current economic downturn will diminish wealth and health, but the impact will be greatest in the developing world.
Human society has always been characterized by inequities. History has long had its robber-barons and its Robin Hoods. The difference today is that these inequities, especially in access to health care, have become so deadly.
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Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12, 1927 - October 28, 2007) was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour.
In 1967, he introduced then-obscure singer Dolly Parton on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known vocal duo throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954-1983. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
Early life and career:
Wagoner was born in West Plains, Missouri, the son of Bertha May (née Bridges) and Charles E. Wagoner, a farmer. His first band, The Blue Ridge Boys, performed on radio station KWPM-AM from a butcher shop in his native West Plains, Missouri where Wagoner cut meat. In 1951, he was hired by Si Siman as a performer on KWTO in Springfield, Missouri. This led to a contract with RCA Victor.
With lagging sales, Wagoner and his trio played schoolhouses for the gate proceeds; but in 1953, his song "Trademark" became a hit for Carl Smith, followed by a few hits of his own on RCA. Starting in 1955, he was a featured performer on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri. He often appeared on the show as part of the Porter Wagoner Trio with Don Warden and Speedy Haworth. Warden, on steel guitar, became Wagoner's long-time business manager. In 1957, Wagoner and Warden moved to Nashville, Tennessee, joining the Grand Ole Opry.
Like many of his contemporaries in country music, Wagoner toured and performed outdoors for fans at American Legion houses in rural towns. Fans sat on wooden benches facing what was often a makeshift stage. Wagoner would mingle with the audience during performance breaks and usually remembered the names of the towns he visited.
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Wagoner's 81 charted records include "A Satisfied Mind" (No. 1, 1955), "Misery Loves Company" (No. 1, 1962), "I've Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand" (No. 7, 1962-1963), "Sorrow on the Rocks" (No. 5, 1964), "Green, Green Grass of Home" (No. 4, 1965), "Skid Row Joe" (No. 3, 1965-1966), "The Cold Hard Facts of Life" (No. 2, 1967), and "The Carroll County Accident" (No. 2, 1968-1969).
Among his hit duets with Dolly Parton were a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" (1967), "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (1968), "Just Someone I Used to Know" (1969), "Better Move it on Home" (1971), "The Right Combination" (1972), "Please Don't Stop Loving Me" (No. 1, 1974) and "Making Plans" (No. 2, 1980). He also won three Grammy Awards for gospel recordings.
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His syndicated television program, The Porter Wagoner Show, aired from 1960 to 1981. There were 686 30-minute episodes taped; the first 104 (1960-66) in black-and-white and the remainder (1966-81) in color. At its peak, his show was featured in over 100 markets, with an average viewership of over three million. Reruns of the program air on the rural cable network RFD-TV and its sister channel in the UK Rural TV.
The shows usually featured opening performances by Wagoner with performances by Norma Jean, or later Parton, and comedic interludes by Rhodes. During Parton's tenure, she and Wagoner usually sang a duet (Wagoner did not perform any duets with Norma Jean). Each episode also featured a guest who would usually perform one or two songs. A spiritual or gospel performance was almost always featured toward the end of the show; generally performed by either Wagoner or Parton, or the show's guest star, or occasionally the entire cast.
The shows had a friendly, informal feel, with Wagoner trading jokes with band members (frequently during songs) and exchanging banter with Parton and Howser. In Dolly Parton's 1974 song "I Will Always Love You", written about her professional break from Wagoner, went to number one on the country music charts.
Wagoner's stage alter ego was Skid Row Joe. The cast included:
Singer Norma Jean (1960-1965),
Singer Jeannie Seely (1965-1966),
Singer Dolly Parton (1966-1974),
Singer Barbara Lea (1974-1976),
Singer Linda Carol Moore (1976-1981),
Singer Colene Walters (1994-1995),
Singer Mel Tillis (regular guest),
Comedian/stand-up bass Curly Harris (1960-mid-60s),
Announcer Don Howser,
The Wagonmasters:
Don Warden on steel guitar
"Little" Jack Little on fiddle
Benny Williams on banjo and guitar (1961)
Speck Rhodes Comedian/stand-up bass
Mid 1960s:
Buck Trent on banjo and guitar
George McCormick on rhythm guitar
Mack Magaha on fiddle
Ray Downs on rhythm guitar and vocal
Michael Treadwell on bass guitar
After 1974:
Bruce Osbon - lead guitar
Fred Newell on banjo/guitar/mandolin
Dave Kirby on guitar
Stu Basor on steel guitar/dobro
Bobby Dyson on bass
Jerry Carrigan on drums
Mack Magaha on fiddle
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Wagoner brought James Brown to the Grand Ole Opry, produced a rhythm & blues album for Joe Simon, and appeared in the Clint Eastwood film Honkytonk Man. During the mid-1980s, Wagoner formed an all-girl group, The Right Combination, named after one of his hit records with Parton. He also hosted Opry Backstage during the 1990s on The Nashville Network. Though Parton's departure caused some animosity on both sides, the two reconciled in the late 1980s and appeared together a number of times in the following years; Parton inducted Wagoner into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wagoner made a guest appearance on the HBO comedy series Da Ali G Show in 2004, its second season, interviewed by Borat Sagdiyev.
On July 14, 2006, he underwent surgery for an abdominal aneurysm.
Wagoner was honored on May 19, 2007 at the Grand Ole Opry for both his 50 years of membership and his 80th birthday. It was telecast on GAC's Grand Ole Opry Live that day with artists including Parton, Stuart and Patty Loveless. Grand Ole Opry Live host Nan Kelley was part of the birthday celebration as well.
On June 5, 2007, Wagoner released his final album called Wagonmaster. The album was produced by Marty Stuart for the Anti- label. The album received the best reviews of Wagoner's career and briefly charted on the country charts. He also toured during the summer of 2007 to promote the album. One of these was to open for the rock group The White Stripes at a sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Wagoner was married twice, to Velma Johnson for less than a year in 1943; and then to Ruth Olive Williams from 1946 to 1986, though they separated 20 years before the divorce. He was survived by his three children, Richard, Denise and Debra.
Until his illness and death, Wagoner appeared regularly on the Grand Ole Opry and toured actively. He died from lung cancer in Nashville on October 28, 2007 with his family and Dolly Parton at his side. Wagoner's funeral was held November 1, 2007 at the Grand Ole Opry House. He is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville.
Dolly Parton performed a concert at her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, in his memory after his death.,
Porter Wagoner Boulevard in his native West Plains, Missouri is named in his honor.,
In 2013, the television show Drunk History presented a brief summary of Wagoner's relationship with Parton.
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Martin Supple at ringside: In the chief supporting contest to the Mathews v Woodhouse Commonwealth title fight at the Liverpool Olympia, Liam 'Beefy' Smith won the British light middleweight title with a unanimous decision over Erick 'The Eagle' Ochieng. In doing so, Liam completed a hat-trick of current British champions for the Smith family – a first in the esteemed 104-year history of the Lord Lonsdale Challenge Belt.
He joins older brothers Paul (super middleweight) and Stephen (super featherweight), and thoroughly deserved the win after a terrific twelve rounds against the tough Ochieng. Judges Mark Green and Victor Loughlin scored 117-112, with Steve Gray carding 116-113, identical to BoxRec News.
Referee Richie Davies was an untroubled spectator for the entire fight – both men willing to work inside with not a clinch or a call for break in sight. The opening round started as a jabbing contest although Ochieng found room to land with the right uppercut several times – a punch he would have success with throughout the fight. Smith was able to fire his left hook as his main weapon, landing to both body and head.
Smith was the tighter defensively and negated some of Ochieng's effort by catching shots on his gloves and arms, although in round four Ochieng smacked in a fast right hand which caused Liam to recalibrate his own defences – noticeably bringing up his left hand higher in response. Smith was responsible for initiating much of the fight – Ochieng comfortable with his back to the ropes, still able to find room to keep Smith from becoming too confident.
At the midway point it was still anyone's fight, but the quality punches were coming from Smith. Round seven was one of those rounds where it appeared Smith had been outworked by Ochieng, but from close up at ringside, much of Erick's work failed to land on target, and although Smith was slightly more economical, his shots were accurate. It wouldn't surprise me if the judges saw it as a clear Ochieng round, although I gave it to Smith for the reasons described. The eighth was much easier to score however, with Liam seemingly swaying Ochieng with a solid right hand and piling in straight shots after trapping him in a corner. It was Smith who was enjoying it more, smiling as he worked and gaining in confidence with each passing round.
In round eleven Smith and Ochieng occupied a position by Smith's corner for almost three minutes and punched away at each other. Erick's left hook was still finding the target but the body shots employed by Liam throughout the contest were beginning to take their toll his opponent. Smith wisely got behind his jab in the last, retreating for the first time in the fight, albeit briefly, before his pride kicked in to begin exchanging with Ochieng once more. Both men should be commended for their fitness in being able to maintain such a pace for 36 minutes. It was Smith who knew he had done enough at the bell to end the fight, completing a remarkable three months in which Paul, Stephen and now Liam have all captured British titles.
In another Commonwealth title fight on the undercard, this time in the super middleweight division, Liverpool's Rocky Fielding destroyed Ghana's Mohammed Akrong in 1:05 of the opening round. Fielding (11st 3lb 9oz) jumped all over Akrong (11st 10lb 11oz) after dropping him with a hard left hook. Akrong tried in vain to fire back, but Fielding was able to use his height and reach to whack away safe in the knowledge he was himself out of distance from Akrong's desperate swings. As the stricken Akrong took more accurate head shots with his back to the ropes, referee Steve Gray wisely stopped it. Azumah Nelson's plaque in the Ghanaian Boxing Hall of Fame isn't in danger of being usurped any time soon.
Earlier in the night, the youngest of the fighting brothers – Callum Smith (11st 13lb 11oz) – put in yet another seriously impressive performance by blowing away former Prizefighter champion Patrick Mendy (12 st) in the first round. It was Smith's sixth consecutive opening round win. In doing so, Callum picked up the vacant English super middleweight title. It was two right hands which backed Mendy to the ropes and a left hook which shook him to his boots before another chopping right sent Mendy to the canvas. His eyes were in orbit for the last minute of the round as Smith stalked his victim and bashed away until referee Victor Loughlin was left with no choice but to step in. Official time in round one was 2:53.
Callum looks to be ready for British titles already, with brother Paul talking of vacating if successful in his next defence to allow his younger brother the opportunity to keep the super middleweight belt in the family. Smith simply carries far too much power for anybody at domestic level, and fights with the likes of Kenny Anderson and now new Commonwealth champion Fielding don't seem unreasonable despite Smith still being in his first year as a professional.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian news website is reporting several suspects have been arrested over last week's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said the suspects are being interrogated, and the investigation is continuing.
He talked to Iran's state Arabic language TV channel Al-Alam, and his comments were carried on the Tabnak.ir site.
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an official in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, was killed in an explosion Wednesday after attackers attached a bomb to his car in Tehran.
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JPMorgan Chase makes their money skimming a percentage off financial transactions. And gambling (let's face it, that's what 'investing' in the modern stock market really is). And, all too often, rigging the gambling (high-frequency trading, anyone? Mortgage Backed Securities, which they sold KNOWING that the valuation was a flat-out lie?) What's the utility to society?
None. So we get kinda up-in-arms when we see people getting obscene amounts of scratch for such grifting.
The sooner a tech company can automate getting/paying loans (the one useful thing which JPMC does), the better. The sooner tech companies can create the kinds of financial networks which undercut Mastercard, Visa et al. with similar utility and lower rates (less "skim"), the better. At that point, the only thing keeping dinosaurs like JPMC in business will be regulations REQUIRING human interaction on certain transactions, put in place at the urging of JPMC-paid lobbyists (such regs already exist).
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Sacramento, CA -- The Secretary of State's Office reports that a proposed state ballot measure could halt the high speed rail project.
The measure would prohibit the future sale of high speed rail bonds, which were approved by voters in 2008. However, it would still allow for construction of the first phase through the Central Valley, as planning is already well underway. It would also authorize the state to acquire and dedicate right of way for pilot projects, similar to the high speed rail.
The Secretary of State reports that the proponent, listed as Nick Garzilli, has until July 24th to collect the needed 504,000 signatures, to qualify for the November ballot. The high speed rail bonds were approved by 52.7% of voters in 2008, but support has fallen over the past few years as the cost projections have soared. The latest estimate puts the total price tag at over $68 billion.
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As the current H1N1 outbreak underscores, an influenza pandemic remains a real threat to our nation. Over the past 3 years, GAO conducted a body of work, consisting of 12 reports and 4 testimonies, to help the nation better prepare for a possible pandemic. In February 2009, GAO synthesized the results of most of this work and, in June 2009, GAO issued an additional report on agency accountability for protecting the federal workforce in the event of a pandemic. GAO's work points out that while a number of actions have been taken to plan for a pandemic, including developing a national strategy and implementation plan, many gaps in pandemic planning and preparedness still remain. This statement covers six thematic areas: (1) leadership, authority, and coordination; (2) detecting threats and managing risks; (3) planning, training, and exercising; (4) capacity to respond and recover; (5) information sharing and communication; and (6) performance and accountability.
(1) Leadership roles and responsibilities for an influenza pandemic need to be clarified, tested, and exercised, and existing coordination mechanisms, such as critical infrastructure coordinating councils, could be better utilized to address challenges in coordination between the federal, state, and local governments and the private sector in preparing for a pandemic. (2)Efforts are underway to improve the surveillance and detection of pandemic-related threats, but targeting assistance to countries at the greatest risk has been based on incomplete information, particularly from developing countries. (3) Pandemic planning and exercising has occurred at the federal, state, and local government levels, but important planning gaps remain at all levels of government. At the federal level, agency planning to maintain essential operations and services while protecting their employees in the event of a pandemic is uneven. (4) Further actions are needed to address the capacity to respond to and recover from an influenza pandemic, which will require additional capacity in patient treatment space, and the acquisition and distribution of medical and other critical supplies, such as antivirals and vaccines. (5) Federal agencies have provided considerable guidance and pandemic-related information to state and local governments, but could augment their efforts with additional information on school closures, state border closures, and other topics. (6) Performance monitoring and accountability for pandemic preparedness needs strengthening. For example, the May 2006 National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan does not establish priorities among its 324 action items and does not provide information on the financial resources needed to implement them. Also, greater agency accountability is needed to protect federal workers in the event of a pandemic because there is no mechanism in place to monitor and report on agencies' progress in developing workforce pandemic plans. The current H1N1 pandemic should serve as a powerful reminder that the threat of a pandemic influenza, which seemed to fade from public awareness in recent years, never really disappeared. While federal agencies have taken action on 13 of GAO's 24 recommendations, 11 of the recommendations that GAO has made over the past 3 years have not been fully implemented. With the possibility that the H1N1 virus could become more virulent this fall or winter, the administration and federal agencies should use this time to turn their attention to filling in the planning and preparedness gaps GAO's work has pointed out.
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Chris Brown is backing off last week's proclamation that he is sole and rightful owner of Rihanna's lady parts ... telling TMZ, "It's a song ... it's a song ... that's all it is."
Brown was leaving Lure nightclub in L.A. this weekend when we brought up the statement he made at the Emerson Theater last week ... when he gave the crowd a quick lesson about how to talk to women.
"You GOTTA say that one thing to her," Brown said ... "Don't make me have to tell you again, that's my p***y baby! ... so you better not give it away!"
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WRONG! It is WORDS, Just like N_gr and other words that are hateful. You cant have it both ways.
Either way, it's: disrespectful, he's a giant doucherocket, and Rihanna's dumb ass probably thought it was a compliment.
Because it not legal to own someone,even a black person who is rich can't own a *****, right? Or can they?
This man is a pig and he makes his money being a pig. Any woman who puts up with such disrespect deserves exactly what she gets.
These two will be the next Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown lol ohhh I can see it happening all over again ...
Thank you TMZ for letting Chris Brown have the opportunity to explain that was just a song!
Song is disrespectful and so is he. He DID mean it all his actions show he means it. Guy is a douchebag extraordinaire.