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The prospect of a highly-anticipated clash of junior featherweights between Abner Mares and Nonito Donaire was among the many topics broached by Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in New York on Wednesday.
The prospect of a highly-anticipated clash of junior featherweights between Abner Mares and Nonito Donaire was among the many topics broached by Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in New York on Wednesday.
Juan Manuel Marquez: "As for the steroids, I'm willing to give myself to any anti-doping tests. Why don't Manny Pacquiao and I both do it? I don't care. To shut everybody up. And, of course, my exams have always been clear."
WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares calls a clash with RING, IBF and WBO champion Nonito Donaire "the only fight for me."
Nonito Donaire will face Jorge Arce on Dec. 15, with Guillermo Rigondeaux slated for the undercard at the Toyota Center in Houston.
"I'm very hungry for this fight, and that's what's going to carry me to victory," said once-beaten Anselmo Moreno, who will make his 122-pound debut on Nov. 10 against undefeated WBC tltleholder Abner Mares.
If Abner Mares could have chosen an opponent other than Anselmo Moreno, he said, "I would have taken, hands down, the Nonito Donaire fight."
Nonito Donaire, Guillermo Rigondeaux may defend belts on Dec. 15 in Houston
Nonito Donaire will face junior featherweight Toshiaki Nishioka after former lightweight beltholder Brandon Rios makes his junior welterweight debut in a clash of unbeatens with Mike Alvarado on Oct. 13.
WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire will defend his crown against former titleholder Toshiaki Nishioka on Oct. 13 at Home Depot Center. Brandon Rios makes his junior welterweight debut against Mike Alvarado on the undercard.
Vanes Martirosyan could face Erislandy Lara in a junior middleweight eliminator bout for the right to face WBC beltholder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
Ringtv.com asked a panel of boxing insiders what will happen when WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire faces his tallest opponent yet in IBF counterpart Jeffrey Mathebula on Saturday.
Abner Mares is not contractually bound to Showtime, said his promoter, Richard Schaefer.
Nonito Donaire's manager, Cameron Dunkin, calls the WBO junior featherweight titleholder "pound-for-pound, maybe the best fighter in the world."
WBO 122-pound titleholder Nonito Donaire says he wants to unify the junior featherweight division beginning with IBF beltholder Jeffrey Mathebula, who he faces on July 7 in Carson, Calif.
To follow-up his second stoppage of Juan Manuel Lopez, WBO featherweight titleholder Orlando Salido will face Oscar Bravo in a non-title junior lightweight bout on July 28.
Trainer Freddie Roach says he had a bad feeling as soon as he heard the first scorecard being read after Manny Pacquiao's fight against Tim Bradley.
Tim Bradley looks ripped and amped, said he's "ready to prove everybody wrong" on Saturday night against Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Nonito Donaire: "I wouldn't even mind finding somebody who tests positive and prove that my ability is better in a natural way — regardless if he's on it — and that I can still beat him."
Freddie Roach, Alex Ariza and Miguel Diaz have had a rocky relationship in the past, and one of the challenges of this Saturday night will be for the trio to set aside their differences and work together in Manny Pacquiao's corner.
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HOUMA — Friends of Gabrielle Hebert were invited to gather at the altar of St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Houma Thursday. Dozens of boys stood on the right hand side, girls on the left, surrounding her parents, Rachel and Todd Hebert.
Gabrielle was a girl who loved her friends, family said. And in a non-traditional moment at her funeral Mass, the Very Rev. Vincente DeLa Cruz invited them to stand as bridesmaids and groomsmen for the wedding the 17-year-old would never have.
"She was a beautiful little girl, full of life, and we were blessed to have her as a daughter," said Rachel Hebert. "She touched everyone, her family, cousins and friends. God, she loved her friends."
Gabrielle and fellow Vandebilt Catholic High School students James Cantrelle III, Ian Haydel and Megan Hitt were killed early Sunday morning when the pickup they were riding in crashed into St. Louis Canal.
Hundreds filled St. Francis de Sales Cathedral to say goodbye to Gabrielle. The church was decorated with pictures of her life, posterboards and photo albums that portrayed a brightly smiling girl full of joy and enthusiasm.
It was that "joy de vivre" that DeLa Cruz said family and friends of Gabrielle should take with them, a love of God and life that would help her to live on.
"Gabrielle would not want to be remembered as someone whose life ended in a bayou," DeLa Cruz said. "She would want to be remembered as someone who lived on in each of us."
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Canadian Psycho Cannibal Caught In Berlin Internet Cafe Looking up Stories about Himself!
Luka Magnotta, the Montreal Cannibal who butchered and ate his Chinese lover was caught in Berlin today after a global manhunt.
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- Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in Helin Tele and Internet Cafe on Karl-Marx-Strasse this morning.
- The café was raided shortly after 11.30am after he was recognised by Kadir Anlayisli
- Magnotta was pinned to the floor and handcuffed without offering any resistance.
- He was searching the internet for articles about his alleged crimes when caught.
The café was raided by armed police shortly after 11.30am after he was recognized .. Magnotta was pinned to the floor and handcuffed without offering any resistance. Eyewitnesses said armed officers asked the suspect 'Are you the wanted man?' and he responded 'Yes, that's me,' he said. A man at the internet cafe who described himself as the 'boss' but who would not give his name , confirmed Magnotta had been there.
'Then the cops came and it was all over for him,' he said.
As you might already know, Luka the Porn Star Cannibal killed and ate his lover. His his victim was his gay Chinese lover, Jun Lin. Cannibal Luka Magnotta killed and ate Jun Lin and then mailed his chinese leftovers to local politicians in Montreal.
Luka Magnotta The Canadian Cannibal not only made a snuff film of the Lin murder and feast, but he also made a "Pet" snuff film where he fed a baby kitten to a python snake. Jun Lin's torso was found in the apartment while parts of his body were mailed to politicians in Ottawa, including the prime minister's party headquarters.A ten minute videotape purporting to record the horrific crime was posted online, showing a man stabbing his naked and bound victim with an ice pick. The attacker then hacks him to pieces and eats part of his flesh. In the video snuff film, Luka Magnotta has sex with the dead Jun Lin. J
Jun Lin's missing foot and hand are believed to the human remains that were received by two schools in Vancouver. Police said they could not immediately confirm if the body parts in question were the missing extremities of Chinese student Jun Lin. Luka Magnotta mailed Jun Lin's other hand and foot last week when they were mailed to Canada's top political parties.
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ugh, he was not a lover, he was a foren exchange student, check your facts and confirm before spreding the news for other sources which will also mess up. The chinese student was straight and never even knew his killer.
Just because of one incident everyone is trying to make a scene to make us think there's gonna be a zombie apocalypse.
Actually there have been at least three cases reported in the national news over the last few weeks. Not just cases but extreme cases. The Miami Cannibal Zombie (ate victim's face), the Hackensack zombie (who threw his intestines at police after he cut them out), and the Maryland cannibal zombie that killed and ate his roommate. this is just over the last few weeks. If it is not a zombie apocalypse — it is certainly the summer of the zombie cannibal!
Wow I knew about the Florida thing, but that dude was jacked up on PCP or something I didn't know about the Hackensack or the Maryland… It is kinda creepy to think about, but Cannibalism is more common then people think it is.
why would any person want to do that?like what did jun lin do to luka to make him KILL HIM???i hope he rots in jail.
The mattresses are not the same in these photos. They have a different pattern.
The reason is because during the murder, there was a mattress cover on the bed. You can tell by how loose it is.
What was wrpng with him
poor guy!
Put that luka in jail for ever~
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In Richard Greenberg's elegant Broadway adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's Holly Golightly has morphed into Holly Godarkly. I refer not merely to the tresses of Emilia Clarke, who plays her, which have gone from the porn-star blonde of her Daenerys in Game of Thrones to a lush brunette here. The tone of Tiffany's has also darkened: the gamine charm of Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie version has evolved into good-time-girl desperation.
If the shift is truer to the spirit of Truman Capote's 1958 novella, it also makes for a rather dispiriting evening. So quickly apparent is Holly's phoniness – she started out as Lulamae Barnes, from Tulip, Texas, and assumed a more soigné identity by the time she reached New York – that the audience must strive mightily to develop much regard for her.
Our sympathy lies much more with the narrator Fred who, in this story of second-world-war New York, has escaped the army owing to asthma. In a line of gay or bisexual narrators chronicling the rise and fall of louche single-girl best friends in a metropolis – Sally Bowles in Cabaret is the prototype – Fred returns to Manhattan in 1957 wondering whatever happened to Holly. An escort to wealthy men, the sprite had reigned supreme during the previous decade, a time that the production's designers evoke with vintage projections and sliding panels.
Fred joins Joe Bell, a roly-poly bartender played by George Wendt, to conjure memories of the days when Holly gave raucous parties at her flat in an Upper East Side townhouse in which struggling writer Fred occupied a garret. Cory Michael Smith makes us feel the ache of Fred's ambition as he is forced to do almost anything to survive.
Clarke is affected but not affecting, and a Breakfast without a fetching Holly isn't much of a meal. Her strongest moment comes when she sings a plaintive ballad (no, not "Moon River"). She is wise not to channel Hepburn, of whom one could say what Hepburn once purred to Cary Grant: "Do you know what's wrong with you? Nothing."
The primary purrer in this Broadway production, directed by Sean Mathias, is a long-bodied feline called Cat. Portrayed by Vito Vincent, the animal at my performance hopped out of Holly's arms and padded world-wearily off the stage. In New York, even the cats are critics.
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The eastern U.S. from the Midwest to the Northeast may swelter next week as another round of temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit (30s Celsius) raises energy use by as much as 30 percent and dries crops.
Temperatures along the East Coast may be 5 degrees above normal while reaching 8 degrees higher in the Midwest, including Chicago, from July 16-20, according to Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland.
"The heat indexes can get up into the 100s" because the higher temperatures will be accompanied by higher humidity, CWG President Matt Rogers said in a telephone interview. "It's going to be a strong demand period, that's for sure."
More than 6,000 high temperature records have been broken or tied in the U.S. since June 1, the start of summer for meteorologists, while natural gas futures advanced 13 percent from June 1 through yesterday amid increased demand for fuel to run air conditioners. Natural gas is used to produce about 32 percent of U.S. power.
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Laser Induced Multiphoton Effects in Nano-Graphene Molecules
1 Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, andSchool of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China 2 Department of Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
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AbstractWe perform first-principles calculations to study the high-order harmonic generation induced in graphene nanostructures by the laser field. Three distinct signals are noticed: the integer higher-order harmonic generation (HHG), the shifted fractional order peaks from the integer order harmonics, and the intrinsic emissions. Due to the small gap between HOMO and LUMO of graphene molecule, the HHG can be generated for the infrared laser pulse with the photon energy ranging from 20 meV to 1 eV. The intrinsic emission corresponds to the electron excitation between eigenstates. Using a laser pulse with a photon energy of 0.042 eV and amplitude of 0.2 V/A° , HHGs up to 19th order are identified. Unsaturated graphene molecule is an excellent media for HHG. Moreover, the HHG signals are very sensitive to the hydrogen passivation. Our results also indicate that HHG can be a promising method for detecting the product in the fabrication of graphene molecules.
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|TOKYO, Japan, September 27, 2005–Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced production, Japanese domestic sales, and export results for the month of August. Honda achieved a new monthly record for production in North America, and coupled with increased production in Asia and Europe, led to August records for overseas and worldwide production.
Domestic production in August declined slightly by 2.6% compared to the same month a year ago as the result of a decline in exports and domestic sales. Overseas production in August increased 20.1% compared to the same month a year ago, achieving an all-time high for August, due to increased production in the North America, Europe and Asia regions. In North America, production increased 20.6%, led by a 28.2% rise in U.S. production, compared to the same month a year ago. In addition to the second line in the Alabama plant started 2 shift operation in January 2005, Honda also increased U.S. production of Civic and Accord. Production of 126,367 units in North America and 89,253 units in the U.S. represents Honda record highs for any month. Due to the major increase in overseas production, the worldwide total also set an all-time high for the month of August.
Total domestic sales in August declined 6.7% compared to the same month a year ago. Step WGN was Honda's best-selling car for the month and the industry's fourth best-selling model in August on sales of 8,130 units. The Life and Fit, with sales of 8,046 and 7,723 units, respectively, were Honda's second and third best-selling models. Sales of Honda's all-new Airwave compact station wagon, continues to be strong, ranking as Honda's fourth best selling model in August with 5,007 units. Despite strong sales of newly introduced models including the all-new Step WGN and Airwave, overall sales fell compared to the same month a year ago, due to stabilizing demand for models such as Fit, Edix, Life, and Odyssey.
Total exports in August declined 2.1% compared to the same month a year ago, the first decline since August of last year. Exports to Europe declined by 14.1% due primarily to the start-up of exports of Jazz (Fit in Japan) from a new Honda plant in China as well as to the upcoming model year change for the Accord series. Exports to Asia also declined due to the Civic series full model change.
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American mothers especially lower-income women experience a disturbing rate of pre-term births.
A premature or pre-term birth is one that occurs at least three weeks before a baby's due date ... less than 37 weeks full term is about 40 weeks.
More than 500,000 babies (one in eight births) are born prematurely every year, which is a 30 percent increase in preemies since 1981.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, key prevention tactics against premature birth include good maternal diets, avoiding cigarettes and alcohol, controlling blood pressure and diabetes, guarding against infections, and making regular doctor visits.
Recent findings suggest that babies deprived of healthy nutrition before birth are more likely to become overweight and develop diabetes even in childhood and to develop high blood pressure in adulthood.After birth, protective measures for babies include breastfeeding, immunizations, well baby doctor visits, safe sleeping positions, and frequently touching, holding, and talking to infants.
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Since last spring, more than 135,000 pregnant and new mothers have subscribed to text4baby a free text-messaging service created by the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, with support from corporate sponsors and cell phone carriers.
Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY (or BEBE in Spanish) to the number 511411 receive free text messages every week, timed to their due date or their babys date of birth.
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Omega-3s in fish may help your babys brain & eyes to develop. Up to 12 ounces of light canned tuna, shrimp, or salmon each week is safe to eat.
Get your baby off to a great start! You can help your babys development by taking a prenatal vitamin each day. It should have 600 mcg of folic acid.
Your baby needs calcium to build healthy teeth & bones. Good sources of calcium are low-fat or fat-free milk, yogurt & hard cheese (like cheddar).
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The program was formally announced a year ago by the White House, which has encouraged public and private agencies to promote it. Currently, there are more than 500 organizations involved.
The Department of Health and Human Services is championing the service through state health agencies and federally funded health centers, and the USDA, which oversees the WIC maternal-child nutrition program, disseminates information about text4baby through its offices across the country.
Many other government branches participate, including the Department of Defense, which is evaluating the programs impact on military families.
In some states, women learn about text4baby when they apply for Medicaid. In New York City, every birth certificate advertises the program.
Information reaches mothers in all 50 states in other ways, too: through libraries, churches, billboard ads, health care providers, employers, health fairs and networks like the American Academy of Pediatrics.
And text4baby was recently featured on the MTV reality TV show, 16 and Pregnant.
This program seems like one of the best outcomes of the texting age one we support and applaud!
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My name is Diego Rodriguez and this is one of the models of a series of portraits called Pure Breed Portraiture, in which the photograph explores the world of dog breeding in Colombia. The specimen, defined as "model" carefully breeded, has a pure genetic composition which is varied in sizes, shapes and colors. The importance of this work, on exhibition dogs is to show that the breading of these animals is complex. This is an extensive process of which there is no certainty of results. Breeding conditions may be the best, but this does not ensure that the dog can become a champion.
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Kate Carroll, the widow of police officer Stephen Paul Carroll, watched as his remains arrived in Banbridge, Ireland, Wednesday. An 18-year-old gunned down Mr. Carroll as the officer sat in his patrol car Monday. (Peter Morrison/Associated Press)
A woman mourned at the Pozarevac, Serbia, grave of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Wednesday. Loyal supporters paid their respects on the third anniversary of his death in custody in The Hague. He was being tried for war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. (Andrej Isakovic/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Children held toy guns and sang during a rally in support of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday. An international court has issued an arrest warrant for him for war crimes. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallh/Reuters)
A man looked at a monument to the victims of the deadly 2004 Madrid subway bombings Wednesday, on the fifth anniversary of the attack that killed 191 people and injured 1,800. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero led a minute of silence in parliament while relatives placed wreaths at three railway stations. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)
Polish troops patrolled the desert near Iriba, Chad, Wednesday. Poland will continue its United Nations peacekeeping mission there until November, reversing an earlier decision to pull troops out due to spending concerns. (Philippe Huguen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Job seekers filled out applications Wednesday at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Convention Center. South Carolina's unemployment rate hit 10.4% in January — the second highest in the nation. (Mary Ann Chastain/Associated Press)
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon listened to his introduction before delivering a keynote address on global banking and regulatory challenges at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington Wednesday. Mr. Dimon said he sees "modest signs" of an economic recovery. (Jim Young/Reuters)
A rider took a horse out at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans Wednesday as the sun rose. Saturday is the Louisiana Derby, which has a $600,000 purse. (Alexander Barkoff/Associated Press)
A boy with a smeared face participated in Holi celebrations in Kolkata, India, Wednesday. (Jayanta Shaw/Reuters)
A picture from the International Monetary Fund shows Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, center, and IMF advisor Gerry Rice, right, at a news conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Wednesday. They discussed the financial crisis and Africa. (Stephen Jaffe/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A female bear, Cocolina, reached out from her cage at a zoo in Tecuci, Romania, Wednesday. Cocolina and a deer are the only animals left as the zoo prepares for imminent closure due to a lack of funding. (Associated Press)
Children helped feed animals at London Zoo Wednesday. The Gower Primary students were given the opportunity to be zookeepers for a day. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Police officers stood on the roof of a Winnenden, Germany, high school Wednesday. Police say a 17-year-old former student fatally shot at least 16 people before fleeing the scene in a hijacked car. Police fatally shot the suspect. (Thomas Kienzle/Associated Press)
A sheriff stood guard outside a burnt Kinston, Ala., home Wednesday. Authorities believe Michael McLendon's deadly shooting spree began when he killed his mother and set fire to her Tuesday. Four other relatives were also among the 10 people he allegedly killed before taking his own life. (Dave Martin/Associated Press)
An Egyptian woman cried after Wednesday's court ruling over a 2006 ferry sinking in Safaga, Egypt. The court found the ferry owner guilty of manslaughter and negligence, and sentenced him to seven years in prison for the deaths of more than 1,000 passengers. (Amr Abdallah/Reuters)
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The 60th anniversary of the state of Israel prompted reviews of the post World War II declarations that resulted in the formation of a nation that had no name until David Ben Gurion proclaimed on May 14, 1948, the birth of the new state of Israel. Books, articles, documents, memoirs and letters from past generations have detailed how a miniscule group of insiders prevailed over recommendations from the experienced and famous U.S. State Department of "wise men." An embattled clique, surrounded by powerful detractors, struggled against all odds and succeeded in its endeavors. It is the story of the Zionist mission. It is the story of Israel.
The history is available, but the impact, legacy and relevance of the 1945-1948 events to today's occurrences have not been sufficiently explored. Under the surfaced stories are the hidden messages and obscure drives that shaped the past and extend into the future. A more complete analysis of the legacy from Truman's rapid recognition of the state of Israel explains the past and clarifies the present.
We have the initiation of a trend whereby the supporters of those who derailed State Department Near East policy were able to morph it into Middle East policy and subsequently shape global policies. We have turmoil from previous events provoking a continuous turmoil in the Middle East. We have the George W. Bush administration functioning much differently than the Harry S. Truman administration, and, despite the contrary operations, we have both administrations framing Middle East polices that favor a Zionist cause.
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The Truman State Department consisted of the most leading luminaries of any U.S. State Department. George C. Marshall, United States military chief of staff during World War II, first military leader to become Secretary of State and later a Nobel Prize recipient, had Loy Henderson, Robert A. Lovett, Dean Rusk, Warren Austin and other known figures in his department. They capably analyzed situations, separated U.S. interests from personal interests and formulated erudite presentations to enable foreign policy decisions. Although many of them were not entirely supportive of the UN partition plan, the State Department followed Truman's directives until sensing the partition plan could be counterproductive and cause more violence than it intended to resolve. The record indicates the State Department used obscure language and a covert approach to interpret Truman's words and then attempted to modify Truman policy that favored partition to seeking UN guidance for a temporary trusteeship.
President Truman postured himself as being motivated by a single conviction; the displaced Jews who had survived the World War II Holocaust needed and deserved an immediate home. Nevertheless, the president vacillated in his arguments and contradicted his statements. Although he railed vehemently against the steady stream of advocates for a Jewish state, he retained several presidential advisors who pursed one purpose; promoting a new Jewish state. A suspicion remains that his humanitarian motives had a political content; the Democratic Party craved the financial and voting support of Zionist organizations and their allies.
Clark Clifford, Truman's chief consul and a promoter for a Jewish state, quickly became one of the president's closest assistants. Although he was not Truman's principal assistant, a post held by John Roy Steelman, Clifford behaved as if he were titular chief of staff by acting unilaterally and somewhat dubious in actions that proved decisive. The evidence points to Clifford favoring election expediencies in developing policies that led to the creation of the state of Israel.
But, that's the end of the story. The shortened story begins at the end of World War II and with the refugees in the displaced persons camps.
Accepted numbers have about 8 million displaced persons (DP) wandering Europe at the end of World War II. This number quickly diminished to 1.2 million, of which 100,000 were Jews. In succeeding years Polish Jews who returned from their displacement in the Soviet Union and other Jews who left communist controlled areas, swelled the Jewish DP population to 250,000. By 1948, the displaced persons remaining in western European camps were estimated at 800,000 (dpcamps.org), of whom 140,000 were Jews. About 400,000 of the DP were Catholics from Poland, Ukraine and other Eastern Europe nations, who had worked in German labor camps and factories and did not consider a return to their original homes.
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Memorial Museum reports that eventually 170,000 of the 250,000 Jewish DP migrated to the then British Mandate, 65,000 to the U.S. and the remainder to other nations. Of the 170,000 Jews who migrated to the Mandate, many were not concentration camp survivors, others went there by default, and some left Israel in the succeeding years. Comparing the number of actual survivors of the Holocaust who eventually made Israel their home to the more than one million Jewish inhabitants of Israel in 1950 indicates that care for the survivors was not a major factor in the creation of the state that became known as Israel. Until 1948, the plight of the displaced persons could not be easily resolved. The United States was already involved in returning millions of its armed forces to their homes, in the repatriation of captured enemy soldiers, and in preventing mass starvation in Europe. A possibility of a post-war depression and mass unemployment guided America's political thinkers. In addition, the U.S. had no laws that permitted the immediate admittance of the displaced persons, nor could it show favoritism. Unable to legally bring them to America, Truman became most concerned with the Jewish displaced persons and petitioned Great Britain to allow them to immigrate to Palestine. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee cited the 1939 White Paper, which specified a definite number of applicants, as a limiting factor. He also suspected new immigrants would burden Britain's over-stressed mandate and cause added troubles to the existing emergency.
Truman could not prevail over Attlee, What to do? After presentations by an Anglo-American inquiry commission and a joint cabinet committee (Morrison-Grady) failed to achieve welcoming peace proposals, on April 26, 1947, a tired and irked British government requested the UN General Assembly to consider the Palestine problem. On May 15, the UN created the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). The committee outlined a partition plan with the city of Jerusalem under a UN trusteeship. Truman instructed his state department to support the partition plan. UN Ambassador Warren Austin and the state department's Near East Division, led by Loy Henderson, doubted that partition could resolve the situation. Austin favored a single state and the Near East Division favored not disturbing the Arabs.
During the months of UNSCOP's efforts, Truman complained of pressure by pro-Zionist groups. In Volume II of his Memoirs, p.158, the former president relates:
This harsh rhetoric was mild compared to other Truman's statements concerning the Zionists and its American leaders, especially Cleveland's Rabbi Silver. In a memorandum to advisor David K. Niles, the president wrote:
On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly gave its approval to the UNSCOP Partition plan. Approval only meant agreement in principle. No effective means for transferring the principle into an operational result had been determined. The lack of enforcement provoked more conflict in Palestine. Each side strived to gain territory and advantage. The uncontrolled mayhem steered the U.S. State Department to adopt the concept of a temporary trusteeship for the area. Believing it had President Truman's approval, the State Department instructed the U.S. delegation to the United States to petition for a special session of the General Assembly and reconsider the Palestinian issue. In his presentation, UN Ambassador Warren Austin proposed the establishment of a temporary trusteeship for Palestine.
Truman denied giving a green light for the presentation and wrote in his diary, which has been quoted in "The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman, P.127: "This morning I find that the State dept. has reversed my Palestine policy. The first I knew about it is what I see in the papers. Isn't that hell!" His infuriation arose from embarrassment of having assured Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, whom he highly regarded, that the U.S. would not depart from the Partition Plan and would not entertain a temporary trusteeship. Although correspondence wording is vague and subject to interpretation, from which the State Department took advantage, evidence of Truman's awareness and permission for the speech is given by White House staff member George McKee Elsey. In his memoir, An Unplanned Life, p.161, Elsey writes:
As the May 15 date for the British exit neared, and the Zionists prepared to declare their state and present their credentials for recognition, contradictions in U.S. Near East policy led to a policy that became completely confused.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, March 25, 1948, President Truman clarified his nation's temporary endorsement of a UN Trusteeship for Palestine that did not prejudice partition. The pleased State Department instructed Ambassador Austin to proceed with deliberations of the Trusteeship proposal. As if not cognizant of the UN trusteeship discussion, Truman prepared to recognize the soon to be formed state. On May 12, two days before an expected announcement by the Jewish Agency in Palestine, an angered George C. Marshall and his assistant Robert Lovett confronted Truman and demanded reasons for the haste in wanting to grant recognition. The president selected his counsel Clark Clifford, who was not involved in foreign policy, to clarify the reasons for the intended recognition.
Clifford's principal reasons for instant recognition: The UN Security Council could not obtain a truce in hostilities; partition would happen in fact; the U.S. would eventually have to recognize a new state, and it was preferable :to get the jump on the Soviet Union."
Clifford's arguments are easily rebutted. (1) More significant than whether or not the Security Council could obtain a truce was that the UN council was engaged in discussions hoping to achieve a truce. Recognition would close the discussions and prevent the truce. (2) If the Trusteeship was approved and implemented, an entity unilaterally invoking a partition scheme would violate the UN dictates. (3) Clifford's simple explanation that the U.S. must recognize the new state quickly because the U.S. must recognize the new state was a statement and not a clarification. (4) As for the Soviet Union, Clifford echoed the alarm of Phillip C. Jessup, a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN, who, according to Robert J. Donovan in his book Conflict and Crisis, The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, p.380, cabled UN affairs officer Dean Rusk that the Soviet Union wanted recognition to use Article 51 of the UN charter to protect the new state and thus gain a foothold in the Middle East. This view is obviously specious because Article 51 only pertains to defense of member states and the new nation did not become a UN member until one year later. Besides, wasn't it advantageous for the U.S. to have the Soviet Union recognize the new state before it did? The State Department could then claim it had no choice and would lose less favor with the Arab states.
Marshall questioned why a domestic affairs advisor was determining foreign policy. Truman replied that he had invited Clifford to make a presentation. Obviously, Truman did not want history to record his words and asked his campaign manager to speak for him. Sensing that politics and the forthcoming presidential election had become overriding factors in a significant foreign policy decision, the dedicated George C. Marshall uttered the most insulting words probably ever directed by a cabinet official to a president:: "If you follow Clifford's advice, and if I were to vote in the next election, I would vote against you." Clark Clifford's Memoir, Council to the President, P.13, mentions that the Secretaryalso insisted that these personal remarks be included in the official state department record of the meeting. Whew!
Fearing that the transfer of advice on Near East affairs from the state and defense departments to inexperienced advisors and non-professional lobbyists would continue, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Lovett determined to change Truman's intentions. For some unknown reason, rather than calling the president directly, he channeled his inquiries through Counselor Clark Clifford. The president's counselor didn't speak to the president about most of Lovett's urgencies, but assumed a new role whereby he spoke for the president. In response to Lovett's request to ask Truman to delay recognition, Clifford confesses in his memoir, P.22,
Within a few minutes, one of the most bizarre sequence of events that had ever occurred in U.S. diplomacy unfolded.
Clifford states he called Dean Rusk and asked the UN affairs officer to inform Warren Austin, chief of the U.S. delegation to the UN, that the president intended to recognize the new Near East state within fifteen minutes. His called bypassed protocol; usually the assistant secretary of state should be informed and that person has the obligation to inform other staff members of decisions. He then quotes a surprised Rusk as retaliating with the remark: "This cuts directly across what our delegation had been trying to accomplish in the General Assembly – and we have a large majority for it." Rusk supposedly called Warren Austin who went home without bothering to inform the U.S. delegation of the news.
Truman's rapid signing (within 11 minutes) of the document that recognized the 'new state of Israel' (after learning the new state would be called Israel, the words 'Jewish state' were crossed out and the words 'state of Israel' were inserted) angered members at a United Nations meeting on the Trusteeship. The entire U.S. delegation threatened to resign because they had not been properly informed of the announcement and felt ridiculed. Cuban Ambassador Belt, who had three hours earlier engineered the steering of the Trusteeship proposal through a UN committee, also threatened to leave the United Nations, due to what he perceived as U.S. duplicity.
May 14 was an enviable day for the new state of Israel, but an unpleasant day for the 160 year old American republic. The diplomatic solution to the Near East crisis had been settled, but the conflict had not been resolved.
What does history show?
U.S. State department officials erred in their concerns that, in the immediate years, the Jews in Palestine awaited an undesirable fate. History supports their conviction that the Partition Plan would not resolve the hostilities. Their concern for a rapid recognition of a new state without knowledge of the constitution or composition of the new state was diplomatically correct and prescient. A quick recognition of a state for the Jewish population prevented the UN from finishing a discussion of providing mechanisms to prevent more bloodshed and providing proper protection for the state's large Palestinian population. Right or wrong, George Marshall's State Department acted honestly, with knowledge, and with the conviction they were serving the interests of the United States President Harry S. Truman correctly perceived the tenacity of the Zionists. He erred in his judgment that the Partition Plan would resolve the conflict. The unusual rapid response for recognition of the new state, without awareness of its composition, signified a pardon of the excesses committed by Irgun and Haganah against civilian populations, and certified the exclusion of any Palestinian voice in the new government. Truman never asked what would happen to the 400,000 Palestinians who had no representation in the new state. Evidently, he didn't consider that that the placing of 100,000 displaced Jews into Palestine would also mean the placing of weapons in the hands of many of these persons and, together with instant recognition, would reinforce the eventual displacement of 900,000 Palestinians. Whereas, the European DP camps were temporary shelter for those who would undoubtedly find permanent homes and citizenship, the UNWRA refugee camps have become permanent homes for several million Palestinian displaced persons who languish with stateless identification.
Truman could claim that his support for partition won him the election and prevented Governor Dewey, who also supported partition, gain the White House. Nevertheless, the post-election provided him with an opportunity to show he was not captive to the Zionist enterprise. What did he do? He only half-heartedly pressured Israel in 1949 to resettle displaced Palestinians. This token maneuver is verified by George McGhee, the U.S. coordinator on Palestine Refugee Matters in an article published in: The Palestinian Refugees: Old Problems – New Solutions, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK, 2001, pp. 77-87, states:
True to his word, the Ambassador was able to nip McGhee's threat in the bud. That same afternoon, the White house phoned McGhee to say that the President would have nothing to do with withholding loans to Israel. Never again would a State Department official under President Truman attempt to intimidate Israel on the issue of refugees.
The intense lobbying that guided Truman's 1948 decisions and subdued the power and recommendations of government agencies repeated in control of later U.S. government Middle East policies. A humanitarian light brightened the parade of lobbyists for partition and this light managed to convince many of the validity of their cause. However, despite a perspective darkened by Israel's frightful oppression of the Palestinians, similar forces continue to maintain a U.S. foreign policy that favors their direction. Memory of Truman's electoral victory, that defied all predictions, continues to make prospective candidates for national office sense that winning national elections depends upon support from those who also support Israel.
Another unforeseen consequence.
The boldness of the few to use America's capitol to determine moments of history has encouraged the use of America's capital to extend interests. One example is the recent celebration of 60 years of the Israel nation on the Washington Mall. Almost all African nations, several European and Asian nations, and some of immense size such as India, were created or recreated in the aftermath of World War II. Their celebrations are mute compared to the continuous celebrations of Israel. Nations and its peoples have a right to celebrate, but why on America's most hallowed ground, where on July 4, the nation's Mall hosts the celebration of the American Republic? Is it considerate to incorporate a vast celebration of a foreign nation on the Washington Mall and thus diminish the uniqueness of the Washington Mall as America's expression of its heritage and destiny? Is it sensible to allow a psychological link of America's cultural, social and political identities to that of a foreign nation and entwine the destinies? But, this is how Israel came to be, continues today and likely will continue into the future.
The legacy of the 1945-1948 events is well described. Control of discussion pushed a previous U.S. administration to provide a legal frame for creation of the state of Israel. Control of discussions continued and impelled contemporary administrations to provide the support for that frame. Without that support, Israel's authentic moral, political, economic and military character would be exposed and its structure weakened. The structure could even collapse.
Dan Lieberman is the editor of Alternative Insight, a monthly web based newsletter. He can be reached at
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Pokemon games have broken most video game records in the past decade or so and have made Nintendo's handheld console sales rocket up and way above the rest. If you glance up the sales charts of Nintendo consoles like Gameboy and Gameboy Advance, you will find most of the top spots occupied by Pokemon games. Even the Nintendo DS series of consoles has got its share of Pokemon games, with the latest addition in the series being Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver versions. These two versions contain both Johto, and Kanto journeys. Do these versions introduce anything new or stick to the good old gameplay style? Read on to find out.
Firstly, for people who have already played the older versions, you will be able to see little or no change as far as gameplay is concerned.
There are minor changes in graphics and the sound of messages and dialogue boxes is still screeching, still a pain to the ear.
As in other Pokemon games, you start from home, then pick a Pokemon to start you journey with and go on a journey battling gym leaders and bad guys. The Pokemon first in your list follows you around as you travel to different cities and towns via different routes.
Battles take place in a turn-based manner, just like the older versions. You pick an attack, the enemy does the same and the attack with the higher precedence gets executed first, then the other one.
There are various other quests in the game like fixing problems at various places, most of which are caused by Team Rocket.
Various abilities and moves such as 'Fly', which lets you fly to any town or city you have visited before and 'Surf', which lets you travel in water are useful but most of them are also compulsory to implement. A Pokemon can learn only upto four moves and fitting in these abilities may sometimes have you compensate on other crucial attack or defense moves. You can catch many legendary Pokemon in both versions but the locations of most of them are non-obvious. Gym battles are fun and exciting but encounters with wild Pokemon on journeys, especially in water and inside caves may get irritating, with weak wild Pokemon popping up at every other step forward. These too can be, however prevented using suitable items (called Repels). Potions, berries, healing items, and many kinds of Pokeballs can be purchased from Pokemon stores and there are Pokemon Centers at all towns and cities for healing Pokemon and withdrawing/swapping your Pokemon with the ones not in your inventory, due to the six-Pokemon-on-journey limit.
HeartGold and SoulSilver have the same journey and gameplay but differ slightly in Pokemon types. Legendary Pokemon, too are at different levels in these two versions. But the overall experience remains the same – A simple, yet addictive game.
You can trade Pokemon and battle in multiplayer with users around the world using the Wifi connection. The most revolutionary feature of this game is the new PokeWalker. Along with the game cartridge, you get a PokeWalker accessory. Using it, you can walk, or jog around and accumulate points, or Watts and use it to get more Pokemon, buy items or even level up your Pokemon which walks with you.
Graphics was never a strong point of Pokemon games and there are only some minor changes in the same in these versions. But while playing, you somehow never get a feeling of compromise in this field. The game sucks you in so much that you would play it even in black and white.
The Johto journey comes first, and the levels of the enemies' Pokemon increase at appropriate rates as yours do along the journey( it is not proportional, but fairly smooth nonetheless).
The Kanto journey is shorter than the Johto one but Pokemon levels are higher and battles are more challenging at times.
Newcomers to the series may feel hooked to the game and find it very exciting but the gamers who have played many(or any, for that matter) of the older games may find this too similar for their liking. If you are new to the series, then these versions are undoubtedly your best pick but there is not too much improvement in any category for the earlier followers.
The sound of scrolling of dialogues could have been changed from the screeching sound, but otherwise, the sound effects, although not top notch are satisfactory. Talking to some lesser significant characters may sometimes reveal crucial pieces of information, making some quests easier to complete. Some dialogues may make you chuckle, while some sound plain and boring.
Moves used by Pokemon of different types are super-effective against particular types, like water against fire, so if there are similar level Pokemon battling against each other, the winner is decided by the type of Pokemon in the battle and how well you use the stronger type moves.
If you own a console in DS series and are a die-hard Pokemon fan, this game is a must-buy for you, even if only for the PokeWalker. If you used to watch Pokemon on Television but have not tried a Pokemon game yet, it is strongly recommend you pick up and try this one. But if you feel it is not worth spending some bucks only to get the PokeWalker extra and some other minor improvements, you can safely go ahead and give it a miss.
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Losing weight isn't just about looking good in tight fighting clothes or enhancing your confidence; weight loss also improves your health. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute excess body fat can increase your risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, gallstones, cancer, high blood pressure and breathing problems. When you develop a plan of attack to reduce your weight it's important to consider all types of exercise, their effects on the body and how to effectively reach your goal.
Weight loss depends on the number of calories you consume compared to the number of calories you lose with daily physical activity. A gain or loss of 3,500 calories is equal to 1-pound of body fat. The safest and most realistic way to hit the 3,500-calorie mark is to aim for a 500-calorie deficit each day.
Weightlifting exercises can be performed with your body weight, dumbbells, barbells, weighted machines and resistance bands. Some common examples of exercises include curls, tricep extensions and the bench press. The goal of lifting weights is to increase lean muscle mass; lean muscle promotes fat loss because it burns calories faster than fat tissue.
Cardio exercise includes activities like running, swimming, jumping rope, walking and basketball. The goal of cardio exercise is to engage your large muscle groups while also increasing your breathing and heart rate to burn calories. The amount of calories you burn per workout depends on the activity you choose, the duration and the intensity you work at. For example, a 140-pound person can burn 219 calories an hour bowling, 438 calories an hour hiking and 861 calories running at a pace of 8 mph. Having more muscle mass can help you to work at higher intensities and for longer durations.
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LAKE PLACID - Isabela Potter and Sophia Hicks dug their hands into the mud, pulling out bok choy plants with a lot of gusto. When the green leafy vegetable is all cleaned up, it�ll be chopped for soups or stir fry at the Lake Placid Montessori Academy. Almost every day, teacher aide Sereana McMillan brings her class to the school vegetable patch, which has become a model that local Master Gardeners hope to emulate for community gardens at schools and daycares. About two months ago, the fenced area at the back of the school was �barebones,� remembered Charlie Reynolds, who helps run the Master Gardener program at the Highlands County Extension Service.�Now, most of the Master Gardeners try to take notes,� he grinned. The school had been trying to incorporate gardening and other Earth-friendly activities into its curriculum, remembered Melissa Stockenberg, the assistant head of school. They tried hanging pots and other things until Stockenberg got a flier in the mail about a Florida School Garden Competition sponsored by the University of Florida, which also supports the extension service statewide. She called a number listed on it and got connected with Reynolds. �It all started from there,� she added. Today, almost 20 to 25 types of veggies grow in containers big and small. Isabela pointed out the carrot and the onion plants, which they also got a chance to eat when the last crop was harvested. Also planted are blueberries, strawberries, sweet peas, starfruit, bananas � and even cilantro, growing in a kid�s wagon. The school�s owner and director Jennifer Payne said the core of Montessori teaching is respecting yourself, others and the community; one way of doing that is by being Earth-friendly. �A garden encompasses all that,� she said. The students help in nurturing their little veggie patch, and they are proud of what it�s become. �This is the best garden of all,� Isabela declared. Growing their own veggies and fruits has also exposed the kids to foods they may not otherwise encounter or eat. It has also made science hands-on for the students and taught them that �food does not come from a grocery store,� said Stockenberg. Down the road, Payne hopes to plant some vine-like vegetables along the fence and get a butterfly garden and a melon patch going. Wednesday, she was also sporting a Montessori Mulch Monsters Garden Club shirt, the name of a 4-H club they plan to start. Reynolds, who is now helping the Sebring and Avon Park Boys & Girls Club with their veggie garden, said a lot of people made their first project involving kids possible. The Master Gardeners, Robbins Nursery and Archbold Biological Station donated some of the plants, the seeds and the containers. �It was a community thing,� he said.
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An Australian company that converts drugs for humans into treatments for cats, dogs and other pets is raising funds ahead of a possible initial public offering next year, according to an investor presentation seen by MoneyBeat.
Melbourne-based Nexvet is seeking investment to fund further research and development of potential products. Last year, it signed a licensing deal with Japan's Meiji Seika Pharma Co. Ltd. for a drug that treats inflammatory disorders like arthritis in dogs.
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Nexvet is seeking 6 million Australian dollars (US$6.2 million), and has hired Mandie Consulting as its financial advisor ahead of a potential exit in mid-2014 via a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
If Nexvet files for an initial public offering next year as planned, it will follow the footsteps of another animal drug developer, Aratana Therapeutics Inc., which is currently seeking to raise up to US$57.5 million in an IPO. Earlier this year, animal-medicine maker Zoetis raised about US$2.2 billion in an IPO, after the unit was carved out of drug maker Pfizer Inc.
Dr. Paul Wood, a former executive director of drug discovery at Pfizer Animal Health, now known as Zoetis, joined Nexvet's board as a director in February.
Nexvet's founder and CEO Mark Heffernan, who has a dog named Clover and a cat named Mittens, is the founder and former CEO of Opsona Therapeutics, which has raised more than US$50 million in from investors including Novartis Venture Fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Roche Venture Fund and Seroba Kernel Life Sciences. It has also signed licensing deals with the likes of Pfizer, Merck and CSL.


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Jan. 26, 2000 (Washington) -- Does stem cell research result in the destruction of life, or is it the harbinger of a lifesaving scientific tool? The argument threatens to undermine stem cell studies just at the moment when the promising technology is making rapid gains. Even though the Clinton administration allowed stem cell experiments to proceed under tight guidelines, it's not clear yet how George W. Bush will proceed.
The primitive cells, a kind of biologic putty, are obtained from bone marrow or an embryo and theoretically can be molded into other types of cells, which in turn can be used in treatments for many devastating conditions from heart disease to paralysis. The question for scientists now is, how do they crank the cells up? Diabetes is a prime target, because it's thought that stem cells could be readily converted to cells that produce insulin. Similarly, Parkinson's patients might benefit from stem cells turned into manufacturers of the brain chemical dopamine, which is lacking in these patients.
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For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes an erotic, emotionally charged romance between a powerful man who's never heard "no" and a fiery woman who says "yes" on her own terms.
He was the one man I couldn't avoid. And the one man I couldn't resist.
Damien Stark could have his way with any woman. He was sexy, confident, and commanding: Anything he wanted, he got. And what he wanted was me.
Our attraction was unmistakable, almost beyond control, but as much as I ached to be his, I feared the pressures of his demands. Submitting to Damien meant I had to bare the darkest truth about my past—and risk breaking us apart.
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