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HTC Announces the HTC One (M8) for Windowsby Brandon Chester on 8/19/2014 10:45 AM EST
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jimbo2779 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkIf only the camera had OIS this would be the perfect WP8 phone for what looks to be the rest of this year. Reply
Marc007 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkEven without optical image stabilization, the camera is still very good. The dual lens camera on the HTC M8 is unique. In my opinion, HTC One M8 is overall better than the Lumia 930, which is one of the best Windows phones: http://versus.com/en/htc-one-m8-for-windows-vs-nok... Reply
testbug00 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkOh man, that versus has so many problems, I want to cry.
1. battery life != battery size.
2. CPU clock is meaningless on WP8 in the majority of cases, .1Ghz certainly isn't a case that changes anything.
3. having memory slot (yay! a real, meaningful point!) +1
4. Better FFC (yay! meaningful point) +1
5. Stereo speakers (yay! meaningful point) +1
6. weight is 100% user opinion, I like heavier phones, others don't.
7. same for thinkness, but, thinner is typically better. +.5
8. IPS screen... The 930 has an AMOLED screen. They have different advantages, why does that link talk about TN???
9. apature being smaller does have some advantages also, if the basic research I did is correct.
10. Every WP8 device has a power saving mode.. Given that you can now set a black background, and the 930 has a AMOLED screen, it likely has better power saving. -1
11. Has a dual lens Camera? Well, let me zoom, er, well, how about in daylight, er, what about refocusing... oh, Nokia has a refocus application? Complete and utter BS. -1 for worse camera overall.
12. slo-mo video capture.. Er, might be useful to very few people. +.5
13. USB 3 v. USB 2.... +1
14. "lots longer maximum focal length" of 28mm versus 26mm? In what world is that a lot longer? +.1
Well, next time you have a link, make sure to check it makes sense. Reply
maximumGPU - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkAgree that VS is useless Reply
althaz - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThe screen on the 930 blows the HTC screen out of the water in terms of contrast (aka the most noticeable aspect of a display). The 930 also feels nicer in hand and is overall just better quality hardware - including the camera (though both are acceptable).
The HTC One is the higher performing phone, but the screen is the real turn-off for me (like most people who aren't phone reviewers, I vastly prefer the perfect blacks of AMOLED over LCD). Reply
Alexvrb - Thursday, August 21, 2014 - linkI just checked Verizon's pricing... the M8 WP is indeed $99 with 2 year agreement, just as the article states. But the Icon is free with the same 2 year contract. If you need the SD card slot, get the M8. Otherwise, if the 32GB built-in is enough for you, the Icon is a great deal and probably the way to go. Either way it's good to see more competition in WP devices. Reply
craighamilton - Saturday, December 06, 2014 - linkThis is truly an amazing phone. Highly reviewed at http://www.topreport.org/phones/ Reply
blckgrffn - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThe lack of a dedicated camera button is a bummer, but I would guess we'll see this a lot if Android handsets start getting ported over aggressively... The camera button is super handy at this point... Reply
hughlle - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkDefine a dedicated button. Because i can use the volume buttons on the M7 for the camera without an issue. Nothing a dedicated button does that they can't. Reply
Brandon Chester - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkMy gripe with volume buttons as camera shutter buttons is they're not two stage. I miss being able to press down on my old Samsung Focus to focus and then press a bit more to click down and take the photo. Reply
hughlle - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkI've never even been aware of this kind of thing other than on standalone cameras. Never really felt like a requirement due to touch to focus. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkIt was a requirement in the Windows Phone 7 spec. It's a shame they didn't keep it. Reply
blckgrffn - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkSince I take more photos on my phone (925) than phone calls, I love the two stage button. It is just like a point and shoot in that regard...
And yes, I was referring to all of the reports of the 630 and 635 having a hard time launching the camera app. 8.1 as it stands doesn't have a great way to launch the camera nearly so quickly as just holding down the camera button. Locked, etc.
I didn't see this mentioned, but does this phone have Glance? A killer feature, IMHO. Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkGlance (as it's known) is a Nokia feature. Reply
HangFire - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkNokia is now Microsoft. They can license Glance to anyone they please. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThere is no glance like Lumia phones but you get HTC Dot View case which serves the same function but implemented in a different way. Reply
althaz - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkIt doesn't have glance - but neither does Nokia's newest flagship (the 930, which is what I own). Reply
uhuznaa - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkWell, they can't launch the camera app to begin with. Reply
hughlle - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThat is a pretty small reason to have a dedicated button. I have a button on the lock screen that takes me straight to the camera. It doesn't take a second.
There may be arguments for a dedicated button, but on the whole, people do not need them, and manufacturers normally deisgn things for the largest audience, not a niche audience. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkA dedicated button is handy for 2 reasons. One, two stage makes it much more like a "real" camera. Two, you can launch into the camera from the lock screen with minimal fuss. I can pull the phone from my pocket and hit the button on the way and have the camera launched quickly. Seems trivial on the surface, but consider that Lumias usually have good cameras, so they start becoming your only camera. I own a 1020 mainly for the camera, but I also happen to like WP8.1, too. Reply
Sushisamurai - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkYeah, I'd have to say the #1 thing I miss from these smart phones is a dedicated 2 stage camera button. It's not to activate the camera app that's important, it's the 2 stage button part that's useful.
With 2 stage, u can lock in a specific focal distance (and exposure), and then pan to a different scene and capture crazy pictures. To do the exact same thing on a touch to focus, you have to touch the screen, and hope it doesn't lose focus when u move/pan to a different scene. That or try holding ur finger on the screen when panning (which never seems to work) Reply
flutberf - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThe best feature IMO is that if you hold it down it will wake the device directly into the camera. It's one of my favorite features on my Z1s. Reply
althaz - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkYou mean except be a genuine 2-stage camera button that's in the correct place for a right-handed person to use? Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkYes Microsoft needs to add a swipe to go to camera feature to WP much like they have on Windows 8.1. One of my biggest issues with the Lumia 630 trying to use it as a daily phone was that Windows Phone wasn't set up for this no camera button on the software side. Yes you can add it to the action center, and yes you can add it to the start screen, but being able to access the camera from the lock screen on devices without a camera button would be much better and faster.
Hopefully it's going to come with Threshold I can't see why it wouldn't. Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkFirst Windows Phone with Snapdragon 801. This is what Windows Phone needed more than anything - to be on hardware parity with Android in a reasonable timeframe. Reply
inighthawki - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkWhat is with this strange fascination of people to judge the quality of a phone by whether or not it has the highest end processor in it? Almost nobody needs that kind of high end chip in their phone. Such a spec is completely useless to 98% of the population. Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkFirst off, it's not useless. If that was the case, the Lumia 630 would be all you ever needed but that's certainly not the case. The UI on Windows Phone has always been excellent even with low end hardware but everything is improved with a more powerful CPU.
Web browsing is faster, opening apps is faster, navigating apps is faster, opening the camera is faster, getting focus is faster, taking pictures is faster.
Plus, with Windows Phone marketshare, they can't afford to always be way behind on features. It's a big win for Microsoft that HTC was able to use the EXACT same hardware and just put their OS on it - that wasn't always the case.
You can't expect to gain ground on the competition when you are always behind. My point regardless wasn't that this is instantly a better phone than any Nokia because of the SoC, but that Windows Phone has hardware parity with Android in a short time frame. It's a big win whether you discount it personally or not.
As someone who uses a Lumia 1020 every single day, I can say unequivocally that yes I need a faster SoC. Reply
inighthawki - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkNo, you're misinterpreting me. I don't mean that faster hardware cannot b a great selling point. What I mean is there are people who place far too much weight on whether or not it's literally *THE* top of the line, even if the next best thing is, for all intents and purposes, a negligible performance difference. I've literally seen people say a phone was bad because it *only* had a snapdragon 800, and it was midrange trash compared to an 801 or 805. Yet the difference between them is pretty much unnoticeable to all but the absolute most hardcore users who run benchmarks and actually generate numbers to prove their point.
There seems to be some sort of cult around phones where this is ay too important. I've seen people build gaming computers where "an i5 is perfectly fine" over the choice of an i7, but suddenly in the mobile space with phones, a Snapdragon 800 is completely unacceptable, despite the only difference is that your webpages take 1.2ms longer to load. Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkAh ok I see what you mean. My point was it's exciting to see a Windows Phone that's on the current top hardware in the same quarter as Android :) Hopefully it continues going forward. Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkYep. It will definitely be nice too see them competing on all fronts. Reply
andrejg - Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - linkI have 920 WP81cyan and 1520 with 81/cyan. For most stuff I'd say, that SoC doesn't matter at all, but when I work with camer, launch camera etc..., 1520 is just faster and better.
But fact is, as I read today's media, most judge by numbers an have no clue, what else to compare. And it is kind of crazy, as I was installing servers in 1995, that had much less computing power and storage, than my today's phone.
Anyway, can someone put up a comparison table of 90's PC or server cpu's against today's phone cpu's? Reply
Da W - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkCause its been that way in computers forever. Reply
bleh0 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThis being a Verizon exclusive really kills this for me. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkAn International version should be launched soon, so i don't care and carriers in USA are way too powerful for allowing an HTC WP8 device on all carriers, they can demand exclusives or refuse to carry such device, such tactics should have been banned and Anti-trust should focus on these but i doubt the fucked up state of USA telecom operators/ carriers can be salvaged now and returned anywhere near to the telecom markets of "Rest of the world". Reply
Da W - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkBring it to Canada plz. Gonna sell my HTC one (M7) and my HTC 8X for this one! Reply
Devilstar - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkFor me as we'll, if it was on AT&T or even better sprint (which I am already on) it would be a n brainer for me to drop my m7 (and give to he wife haha ) Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkGood news for you, AT&T have confirmed that they will be carrying this phone soon :) I guess maybe 3 months max exclusive for Verizon as AT&T won't confirm unless the launch was near. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkMicro SD card implementation is the best in WP8.1 as stated by Anandtech :) As WP8.1 allows you to install apps and games to Micro SD, the 8.1 update 1 added the capability to even store OS updates on SD card, so that you can update the OS even if you have low phone storage. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - link@Brandon: Can you recheck your camera app information as wpcentral is reporting quite the opposite to what you have posted, here is the camera app info from wpcentral:
"There are still a few surprises on the software side from HTC, but they come in the form of apps. You can use the stock Windows Phone camera app if you want, or you can use the camera app from HTC. The UI and controls of this camera app are carried over from the one found on the Android version of the HTC One M8. With it you get control over ISO levels, white balance, exposure value and more. You can switch between various modes like HDR, panorama, anti-shake, landscape, portrait and more. You can also use UFocus to change the focus point of your photos after you've taken them." Reply
Brandon Chester - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkI'll have to check with Josh. He was the one who ended up doing the hands on with the phone itself. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkEven Engadget is reporting about HTC camera app with all the features carried over from Android version, so either Josh has missed it or maybe he is not used to windows phone OS. Reply
JoshHo - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkIn my hands on time I noticed the lack of manual mode in the camera controls immediately. The auto max ISO feature is still present but full manual control is gone for now. Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkIs the coming a test One vs One. It would be interesting to see same hardware, different os. Reply
pt2501 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThat is an excellent point. Since the hardware is exactly the same, it would be a great test to see which OS is more efficient. Anandtech could test identical browser load times, battery life while performing identical tasks, and ever application load and multitasking efficiency. I have been waiting for this phone to make the jump cross platform and would love to know if windows phone has become a full fledged alternative to android. Reply
sr1030nx - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkI would really like to see this. Reply
kspirit - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkYes! +1 for this. Please make this happen, AT! :) Reply
Morawka - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkI really wish Verizon wouldn't plaster their logo on the back of this phone. It looks like a piece of art otherwise.
Wonder if it will come to ATT Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkAssuming the hardware truly is identical, is it possible to flash between Android and Windows Phone on the same device? If HTC offered the ability to change the OS as desired with an official firmware replacement, I'd buy one in an instant. Reply
danbob999 - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - linkThe problem with Windows Phones is that they lag behind Android phones by about 6-12 months. Here is another example of this. They could have released both at the same time if they wanted to. Heck, they could even release a single phone and allow to choose the OS. Just like we can choose Linux or Windows on a PC. Reply
Laxaa - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkIf this phone becomes a success, I think there will be a fair chance that next years model will launch with both OS'es out of the gate. Reply
danbob999 - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkThey have been releasing Windows Phones similar to Androids 6-12 months late for quite a few years already. And with Windows Phone having lost market share, I don't see how this is going to change. Reply
Laxaa - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkBut this is the exact same phone, and HTC needs all the marketshare it can get. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkIt takes time and effort to integrate the software with the hardware, and since HTC is struggling compared to other OEMs it's understandable that they prioritise their resources. Reply
acccddccc - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkDarn Verizon only.... Reply
Laxaa - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkFear not, because the AT&T version has been announced as well. Reply
theNiZer - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkGreat development for the WP8 eco system with the addition of the HTC One. I will be looking in to this device. Reply
dsraa - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkOk, here you go reclaimer......here's your bleeding edge Top of the line Flagship Windows Phone that you were whining about that didn't exist. And its damn sexy. Now what do you have to say???? Reply
Prod1702 - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkI hope there is away to get this to run on a android M8 that would make this a lot nicer. Reply
HangFire - Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - linkStill nothing from AT on BlueTooth compatibility with major auto manufacturers and auto A/V mfg equipment. I guess everyone at AT takes the bus and taxis and is oblivious to this huge part of the market. Reply
ritwik - Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - linkI will still go with Huawei's Honor 6 in comparison to this device, as I feel I can get the same features at much better price http://goo.gl/4wojuW Reply


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(Five great stats to get you ready for the college football weekend.)
1. The Alabama Crimson Tide are one win away from playing for another national championship and keeping a streak alive for the state of Alabama. If the Tide can win another BCS title, it will be the fourth straight for the state. In the four major sports plus college football and men's college basketball, only twice has a state/province won four consecutive championships with multiple teams. From 1949-56, New York won eight straight World Series titles with the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers. And from 1987-90, the province of Alberta won four straight Stanley Cup championships with Edmonton and Calgary (since 1927 when NHL assumed control of Stanley Cup).
2. The UCLA Bruins and Stanford Cardinal meet Friday for the Pac-12 championship just six days after the Cardinal beat the Bruins by 18 points, and that could spell trouble for UCLA. In the history of conference championship game rematches, teams that won the regular season meeting by double digits are 10-2 in the championship game. The only two teams to buck the trend were Colorado in 2001 (lost to Texas by 34 in regular season) and Marshall in 2000 (lost to Western Michigan by 20 in regular season). And history says not to expect a close game. The average margin of victory in the championship games for the other 10 teams is 21.8.
3. With UCLA and Stanford playing twice within a week, this will be the first time in FBS that two teams are playing consecutive games against the same opponent since the NCAA started classification in 1937, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. It nearly happened in 1994 and 1996 with Florida and Florida State, but the Gators played Alabama in the SEC Championship Game both years sandwiched between regular season and bowl matchups with the Seminoles. It also nearly happened this season as well with Tulsa meeting UCF this weekend for the second time in three weeks.
4. With a loss to the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday, the Texas Longhorns will finish 5-4 in Big 12 play, leaving them with an 11-15 mark in conference play the last three seasons. The last - and only - time the Longhorns had a stretch of three consecutive seasons in which they lost at least four conference games was from 1935-1938 when they went 1-5 in the Southwest Conference in each of those four years.
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For it seems certain that the return of sapor across the Euphrates was not effected without considerable loss and difficulty.
The vast empire with which sapor had almost made up his mind to contend was partitioned out into three moderate-sized kingdoms.
It appears that sapor took offence at the tone of the communication, which was not sufficiently humble to please him.
He was succeeded by his son, Shahpuhri, or sapor, the first Sassanian prince of that name.
Mani, who had fled from sapor, ventured to return to Persia on the accession of his son, and was received with respect and favor.
Then sapor attacked their rear, and cut off their stragglers.
sapor, after a while, became convinced of the folly of his proceedings, and resolved on the adoption of a wholly new policy.
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U.N. condemns attack on Afghan civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials released harrowing new details on Thursday about an attack in a western province where assailants shot everyone in their path, sending terrified people jumping from windows trying to escape the assailants who killed at least 46 civilians and security forces.
Civilians have frequently been caught up in the fighting between militants and Afghan and U.S.-led combat forces, but the U.N. condemned the attack on Wednesday, saying civilians were deliberately targeted at the courthouse and other government offices in Farah province. Two judges, six prosecutors, administration officers and cleaners working at the site were among the dead, the U.N. said.
Meanwhile, NATO reported that an American F-16 fighter jet had crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing the U.S. pilot. The U.S.-led military coalition did not release further details about the crash.
"While the cause of the crash is under investigation, initial reporting indicates there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time of the crash," the coalition said in a statement.
Illustrating other dangers, an airstrike by U.S.-led forces mistakenly killed four policemen and two brothers as their car was being searched at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.
The strike occurred in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, according to district chief Fazel Ahmad Toolwak. He said NATO troops were fighting Taliban militants about six miles away, but those killed in the strike were not involved in that battle.
A NATO spokesman, U.S. Army Maj. Adam Wojack, said the international military coalition was looking into the report, adding it "takes all allegations of this type seriously."
According to a recent U.N. report, 2,754 Afghan civilians were killed last year — down 12 percent from 3,131 killed in 2011.
But the number killed in the second half of last year rose, suggesting that Afghanistan is likely to face continued violence as the Taliban and other militants fight for control of the country as foreign forces continue their withdrawal.
The U.N. said the Taliban and other insurgents were responsible for 81 percent of the civilian deaths and injuries last year, while 8 percent were attributed to pro-government forces. The remaining civilian deaths and injuries could not be attributed to either side.
The number of casualties blamed on U.S. and allied forces decreased by 46 percent, with 316 killed and 271 wounded last year. Most were killed in U.S. and NATO airstrikes, although that number, too, dropped by nearly half last year to 126, including 51 children.


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We absolutely loved the cover to FANTASTIC FOUR #4. The perspective of the image is great, featuring Sue Storm at the very center. Mark Bagley's pencils are beautiful, and the colors are vibrant and absolutely stunning.== TEASER ==
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California 115
This California 115 reassurance shield is posted in Calipatria after the intersection with California 111 and Imperial County S-30. Photo taken 06/07/08.
California 115 begins at Interstate 8 near the Holtville Hot Springs, follows Historic U.S. 80 west through Holtville, then turns north parallel to California 111. Briefly merging with California 78, California 115 serves the assorted farms of the eastern Imperial Valley. California 115 turns west at Wirt Road, and it ends at its junction with California 111 and Imperial County S-30 in Calipatria.
|Northbound California 115 meets California 111 in Calipatria. Imperial County S-30 continues as Eddins Road west of Calipatria. First photo taken 08/99; second photo taken 11/00.
|At the Alamo River crossing, California 115 and U.S. 80 enter the city of Holtville. Incorporated in 1908, Holtville was named after its founder, W.F. Holt and is located about 16 feet below sea level, much like other Imperial Valley cities. Home to about 6,000 people, Holtville sees itself on the verge of an economic upswing due to its proximity to the Interstate 8 and California 7 interchange north of the international border crossing. Photos taken 10/14/06 and 03/26/06.
|Like its companion the New River, the Alamo River flows northward from Mexico into the Salton Sea. The Alamo River also carries a significant share of pollutants as it travels north, mostly due to agricultural and urban runoff that constitutes the majority of its year-round flow. Such a year-round flow would otherwise not occur in the desert absent some other perpetual source of water. This bridge carries California 115 and U.S. 80 east over the Alamo River. Photo taken 03/26/06.
|After downtown Holtville, no motorist services are available on either California 115 or Interstate 8 until Felicity, on the eastern side of the Algodones Sand Dunes. Fuel is available in Holtville, as is food and lodging. Photo taken 03/26/06.
|California 115 south, Palm Avenue north, and Historic U.S. 80/Evan Hewes Highway east
|Old U.S. 80 and California 115 (Evan Hewes Highway) make a turn to the north in order to enter downtown Holtville via Palm Avenue. A right turn here connects to eastbound Fourth Street. Photos taken 10/14/06 and 08/27/04.
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Gao Ming
Black Cannon Incident
When translator Zhao (Liu Zifeng) signs off on a letter than contains the phrase "black cannon" -- a term that's mistaken to mean a lethal weapon when it in fact refers to a common chess piece -- he's demoted and forced to watch an inept worker take his place. Can he wade through a system of imposing checks and balances to prove that he wasn't in the wrong? Huang Jianxin directs this foreign-language drama.


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Six NGOs present recommendations for Moscow WHO forum on non-communicable diseasesSubmitted by KEI Staff on 22. April 2011 - 10:31
Six NGOs, including Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Oxfam, Third World Network (TWN), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), and Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN), recently submitted recommendations to Member States to control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries in advance of the Moscow Ministerial conference.
A PDF of the joint statement with logos of the groups is available here:
KEI presentation to the WHO Consultive Expert Working Group on R&DSubmitted by James Love on 6. April 2011 - 6:48
Attached below are two PDF files that were used in my presentation today at the 1st meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO). I did not following the text that closely. The WHO is making a video of all of the presentations, which will be made available later.
April 2011: WHO to tackle pandemic influenza, de-linkage, prizes, R&D financing and non-communicable diseasesSubmitted by thiru on 18. March 2011 - 4:16
April 2011 ushers in a busy period for the World Health Organization.
Response of WHO to KEI letter regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interestsSubmitted by thiru on 2. March 2011 - 4:33
On 20 February 2011, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General - Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, responded to KEI's letter (16 February 2011) regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interests. Here is the response in full (email contacts have been redacted).
From: "Fukuda, Keiji"
Date: February 20, 2011 4:14:05 PM GMT+01:00
To: "Thiru Balasubramaniam"
KEI letter to WHO regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interestsSubmitted by thiru on 15. February 2011 - 12:37
On 15 February 2011, the Co-Chairs of the WHO Open-Ended Working Group of Member States on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits (OEWG) held a consultation with civil society. The Co-chairs of the OEWG are Ambassador J. Gomez-Camacho, Mexico and Ambassador B. Angell-Hansen, Norway.
Noncommunicable diseases in the 2011 global public health agendaSubmitted by thiru on 1. February 2011 - 12:24
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) enjoy a place of prominence on the global public health agenda in 2011. At the 128th WHO EB, the assembly was abuzz with news of a joint Russian and WHO initiative, the "First global ministerial conference on healthy lifestyles and noncommunicable disease control" to be held in Moscow on 28-29 April 2011 and the UN High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on Non-Communicable Diseases in September 2011.
Le Monde: L'OMS face à un nouveau conflit d'intérêtsSubmitted by thiru on 25. January 2011 - 7:59
The following is an article by Agathe Duparc which appeared on page four of the Sunday/Monday edition (23 January-24 January 2011) of Le Monde with a reference on the cover page. Below the article are two paragraphs providing readers with more background information on the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board. The third paragraph is the main quote highlighted in the print version. What is missing in this copy below is a cartoon accompanying the piece which shows a bespectacled man with a body of an octopus holding two syringes in a field of dollar signs.
Response to Mary Moran on managing conflicts of interest at the WHO CEWGSubmitted by thiru on 24. January 2011 - 9:31
This is a response to an email message posted to a2k and ip-health by Dr. Mary Moran. Among other things, the missive raises the issue of what constitutes a conflict of interest, and also how such conflicts should be managed. Dr. Moran has asked for a response, and this is it.
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WHO Executive Board accepts appointment of Herrling to Consultative Expert Working Group on R&DSubmitted by James Love on 21. January 2011 - 3:00
After several days of negotiations, the 128th WHO Executive Board has accepted the nomination of Paul Herrling to the new WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on R&D Financing, despite the fact that Herrling is an executive of Novartis, and is the author of the IFPMA/Novartis/FRIND proposal and the co-author of the PDP Plus proposal, which will be considered by the CEWG.
Nine civil society groups write WHO Executive Board about conflict of interest on WHO R&D Financing groupSubmitted by KEI Staff on 20. January 2011 - 10:33
On January 20, 2011, 9 civil society organizations sent a letter to the WHO Executive Board registering an objection to the selection of Dr. Paul Herrling of Novartis to the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination. The groups signing the letter were:
- Déclaration de Berne - Berne Declaration
- HAI Europe
- HAI Global
- Health GAP (Global Access Project)


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Pericopes is the blog of Justin Parsler, who is a game design teacher at Brunel University and who has had a very long relationship with games of all kinds. At present, this blog is work in progress and I will update this bio information if I ever take the matter more seriously – at present, the blog mostly exists so I can upload thoughts/pictures/comments from GDC in March.
There is a blog post that lists the commercial games I have worked on under the 'Its all about me! Me I tell you!" blog category. You can jump straight there here.


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The front page of the Times Sunday Business section is dominated by reporter Landon Thomas Jr.'s profile of conspiracy-mongering author John Perkins ("Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)."
In "Confessing to the Converted -- How a Book Tries to Tap Into Fears of 'Corporatocracy," Thomas begins:
"It is standing room only in Transitions, a New Age bookstore in Chicago, and John M. Perkins, the author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,' is describing to his audience the quandary that faces Evo Morales, the recently elected president of Bolivia. Leaning low into the microphone, Mr. Perkins affects a deep conspiratorial whisper as he sets the scene for the imagined encounter between the new president and the representative of the multinational corporate interests Mr. Morales had vilified during his campaign."
It's revealing just what sort of folks find Perkins' book credible:
"As the rapt crowd clucks and murmurs as if let in on an unspeakable confidence, Mr. Perkins cautions that he is speaking metaphorically. But for an audience already punch drunk on Mr. Perkins's very own tales of corporate skullduggery, his allegory -- overripe though it may be -- carries not only a ring of truth but also clues to a long history of unexplained endings.
"'And what about those crashes of J.F.K. Jr. and Paul Wellstone?' a woman in the audience asks. 'They were awfully suspicious.'
"Yes, Mr. Perkins says with a nod, and reels off the deaths of others in airplane crashes: Gen. Omar Torrijos, the former president of Panama, in 1981; Jaime Roldos Aguilera, the president of Ecuador, also in 1981; and even Senator John G. Tower, the Republican from Texas, who perished with 22 others on a commercial flight in 1991. 'We have had a lot of plane crashes,' Mr. Perkins says ominously."
A paranoid left-wing audience may indeed find a "ring of truth" to the suggestion that the corporate-government complex murdered Sen. Paul Wellstone and JFK Jr., but does that mean the Times has to relay it without critical comment?
Thomas takes a liberal line to defend Perkin's sub-Michael Moore appeal:
"The idea that corporate interests have undue influence over White House administrations has long been a staple of anti-establishment politics. But during the Bush administration, some recent events have dragged this notion further into the mainstream. United States soldiers and businesses are firmly entrenched in Iraq and now the federal government plans to give $7 billion in royalty concessions to an oil industry already enjoying record profits. According to a recent Gallup poll, 70 percent of those questioned said they believed that big business had too much influence over Bush administration decisions."
The Times finally raises doubts deeper into the story, and asks a question that should have been asked many, many paragraphs beforehand:
"But in the wake of the controversy over James Frey, who embellished aspects of his own best-selling tale of personal redemption, 'A Million Little Pieces,' one feels obliged to ask: Is it all true?"
The State Department, for one, seriously http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Feb/02-767147.html doubts Perkins' story:
"Perkins revealed his fondness for conspiracy theories during a January 10 presentation at a bookstore in Washington. At one point, he claimed, falsely, that the U.S. government had been involved in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., former Beatle John Lennon, and several unnamed U.S. senators who had died in plane crashes.
"In response to a question about the September 11, 2001, attacks, he cautioned that although he did not know much about this subject he thought that if a bank had been robbed, the police would investigate the possibility that it had been an 'inside job,' implying that the U.S. government may have been involved in the 9/11 attacks. He also recommended a Web site that puts forward the false claim that no plane hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001."
For more examples of New York Times bias, visit TimesWatch.


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Murrysville girl's spirit lives on through fundraiser to benefit park
Not many 12-year-olds leave behind a signature pose.
With her head tilted and arms extended in the air, Holly Alm's favorite stance is immortalized in pictures lining the walls of her parents' Murrysville home.
"She was quite an entertainer," said Holly's mother, Diane Alm.
It's that spirit and Holly's love of dogs that her friends are preserving through an annual pancake breakfast to benefit Murrysville's dog park. Holly's friends meet regularly at her parents' house to plan the event and share stories.
"It's helped with our healing," Diane Alm said. "We always felt close to these girls. We love that they still want to come here."
Holly Alm, 12, died in an accident along Harrison City Road in May 2011 when the brakes failed on the sport utility vehicle her mother was driving, police said. Holly was a sixth-grader at Franklin Regional Middle School.
The second annual Hotcakes for Holly will be held Saturday — on what would have been Holly's 14th birthday — at Laird Hall of First Presbyterian Church in Murrysville.
The idea developed from eighth-grader Anna Stephens' interest in celebrating her friend's life.
"We wanted to honor Holly because Holly just touched so many people in so many ways," said Kim Stephens, Anna's mother. "We wanted to find a way to come together annually to celebrate her life."
Fundraising efforts began last year with a community sale of holly bushes. Part of the proceeds went toward the first free Hotcakes for Holly. As a result of donations, a set of three hoops for dogs to jump through and two dogwood trees have been installed at the dog park in Murrysville Community Park.
The group will decide what to purchase next for the park based on the amount raised at Saturday's event.
Eighth-grader Maddy Campbell said Holly's love for dogs led the group to focus on the dog park.
"We want to get more equipment for the dogs to play on," Maddy said.
Kim Stephens hopes that Holly's friends will one day be able to take their children to the dog park and share memories of their friend.
Preparing for the event has been "a very healthy healing process" for the girls and their parents, Kim Stephens said. "I feel like Holly's my friend, too."
Renatta Signorini is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-837-5374 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The new man in the job, Malcolm Wicks MP, has just found out why.
As he rose to speak at the 11th annual National Pensioners Convention Parliament, he opened with valiant efforts to win over the crowd.
"Our attitude on all this isn't really different to yours" he ventured.
The crowd sat silently giving nothing away
Forearmed by civil servants with details of government initiatives, Mr Wicks pointed out that state pensions had gone up since 1997 by much more than inflation.
Again the silence from the crowd was deafening.
Poor profit
Undeterred Mr Wicks said that the government had guaranteed everyone an income of at least £102 a week, targeting help to the poorest.
He added it was spending £9bn extra on pensioners in real terms than in 1997.
That was more than if government back in 1997 had caved into demands from pensioner pressure groups to restore the link between rises in the state pension and average earnings.
The crowd glowered back at him.
And if you took all form of income into account pensioners were now better off in real terms by 50% since Labour took office.
Jeers of disbelief filled the hall
Home help charge
Then it was the pensioners turn.
"The government boasted in the last green paper but one that the amount it spent on pensions as a share of GDP would go down from 5.4% to 4.5% and that was condemned by the OECD," said Harry Dean from the pensioners association in Bristol.
"You sir are a liar," another delegate fulminated.
Other delegates demanded to know if the government was planning to introduce charging for home help.
Mr Wicks refused to rule out such a step.
Birthday wish
By now Mr Wicks was realising just how brave he had been in giving his first ministerial public speech to this audience.
A few questions more and he made to leave.
"Well you have disagreed with almost everything I said and you have been in good voice," he said.
"Can I just say how I can't think of a better way to have spent my birthday than with the National Pensioners Convention."


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Orchard-picked, fresh apples topped with crunchy bakery streusel.
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"Take Back The Night" is in its 19th year at UNLV. "Take Back The Night" is an empowering event meant to honor victims of domestic violence, sexual, dating, and gender violence. The unifying theme throughout these diverse topics is the assertion that all human beings have the right to be free from violence, the right to be heard, and the right to reclaim those rights if they are violated. "Take Back The Night" provides an opportunity to speak out against violence, remember victims, support survivors, celebrate recovery, and make the UNLV campus and Las Vegas community a safer place.
Volunteers are needed and invited to participate in the planning of "Take Back The Night." The planning committee has several meetings leading up to the scheduled event on Oct. 17.
Please join us in room 1502 at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center at 5 p.m. on scheduled meeting days.
Thank you for your support!


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Eli Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who founded and served as the chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, has died.
Zborowski, who founded the society in 1981 and served as its chairman until his death, died Sept. 10 in New York at age 87.
The deceased was born in Zarki, Poland. He was able to leave the town's ghetto after the outbreak of World War II, and he served as its liaison with the non-Jewish underground. His father was murdered by local Poles, but he, his mother, brother and sister survived the war. The families that hid them, the Placzeks and Kolaczs, were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
Following the war, Zborowski was active in the Aliyah Bet organization, which smuggled Jews into British Mandate Palestine until the founding of the State of Israel.
Zborowski and his wife, Diana, immigrated to the United States in 1952. In 1963 he organized the first U.S. Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration and, in 1970, he founded the first umbrella organization for all survivors.
The Zborowskis in 1974 endowed the first academic chair in the United States in Holocaust Studies, at Yeshiva University in New York. He was appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter and reappointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Zborowski was a longtime member of the Yad Vashem Directorate and served on the boards of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. — jta


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
the free parking inside the yard. It could be ok for people who do not have money to stay somewhere else. It's not a nightmare ! it's clean (not prefect) but enough. too much noise of drunk people ! scream during the night ! Do not speak english at all ! I didn't eat the breakfast it was so disgusting ! I asked a double room they gave me twin room ! matress of 10 cm upper a plank of wood !
Excellent breakfast! Hotel staff don't understand english nor russian :(
Good location near Via Baltica. We had a restless night, some guests were ironing clothes in front of our room at 11.00 PM! Had to change TV and shower hose.
The staff are very nice and the boss was helpful and thoughtful considering my particular situation not so many people speak english


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Ask Jill BlogJill Kaufman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is a dynamic speaker, educator and therapist who has lead workshops and seminars at schools, religious institutions, corporations and community organizations. Ms. Kaufman received her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and her Masters of Social Work at Rutgers University. Ms. Kaufman is a Certified Parent Educator and looks forward to blogging about topics such as discipline, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, power struggles, consequences, communication skills and limit setting for toddlers through teens.
Most recent posting below. See other blog postings in the column to the right.
1. A couple in my class were in a power struggle with their six year old son over going to a birthday party of a child that was in his class. The parents really wanted him to go but he did not. They decided to brainstorm on a solution and the mother suggested the boy go for half the party and if he wanted to leave he could signal her by rubbing his nose. If he wanted to stay, he could pull on his ear. He liked the idea and the parents and child both felt like they won! Great job demonstrating win/win negotiating and thank you for sharing your story!!
2. One great suggestion from my last class was to get your children into the bath. Instead of getting into a power struggle, tell them that you are going to make bath soup! Then get spoons, ladels and various items to throw into the bath with your child. Try it - it has already worked for me!!
3. I was at my five-year-old son's friend's house and it was time to leave. He did not want to go home and was starting to give me a hard time. I said, "We really have to leave now and I don't know how to get you to leave without getting angry. What do you think I should do?" He thought about it for a minute and then said, "Carry me to the car and pretend that you are angry." I carried him to the car and said some funny "mean" things and we both laughed.
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1. How high can the Cardinals fly?
Louisville started the 2010 men's soccer season ranked No. 20 in the country. The thought at this time a year ago was that the Cardinals were a very good team on the rise, if not necessarily one that would be heavily in contention for the NCAA title.
However, it didn't take long for that perception to change, as Louisville progressed up the rankings to eventually take the No. 1 spot. The Cardinals advanced to the College Cup in Santa Barbara, Calif., having lost just one match all season.
That they came so close to a title but didn't get it -- falling 1-0 to Akron in the NCAA final -- could have been a deep wound for Louisville coach Ken Lolla.
After all, Akron was the program he'd overseen for 13 years before being lured away by Louisville in 2005. If Lolla had a different kind of personality or perspective, he might have looked at the loss to the Zips as exceedingly painful -- losing a championship to the program he'd worked so hard to build to that very goal.
But Lolla instead appreciated how much it meant to the Akron players and the soccer community there, and he praised the Zips and coach Caleb Porter.
"I will always feel a part of Akron's program," Lolla said. "But at the same time, what Caleb has done there has been tremendous. I have to give him credit for the success that they've had. He has done a great job with the program. What I did there is separate from what he's doing now."
But what Lolla did in Akron helped prepare him to establish what he has in Louisville.
"We took a program that hadn't had much success and developed it," Lolla said of his Cardinals staff. "Change can make you uncomfortable, but that's not bad. I feel like in my job I've grown tremendously since I came here."
Now can he and the Cardinals take the last step and finish 2011 with an NCAA title? Louisville starts this season as the top-ranked team in the nation, with seniors Colin Rolfe and Austin Berry on the Hermann Trophy watch list.
Rolfe is one of the premier forwards in the country, with nine goals and seven assists last year. Berry is one of the anchors defensively, along with another senior, goalkeeper Andre Boudreaux. He allowed just 19 goals in 24 matches last year.
"It's great to have the experience at all the spots that we do, but having it in goal is particularly helpful," Lolla said."Just because of how much guidance and direction comes out of your center backs and your keeper. Andre is very composed and experienced; because of that, he's a wonderful leader for us."
Lolla does not think about 2010 and dwell on it being a shame that Louisville came close to winning it all but fell short.
"When you reflect on the whole season and how much growth and progress we made, it was a very positive journey," he said.
"Certainly, we wanted the outcome to be different at the end. But there was so much to look back on and feel good about. We made progress and moved it along. The journey in itself was a wonderful experience just the same."
2. Another title for Zips?
The last school to repeat as men's soccer champion was Indiana in 2003-04. The Hoosiers also won back-to-back titles in 1998 and '99. So can Zips coach Porter do at Akron what his alma mater, Indiana, did twice? That's a high bar to set, but Porter has done just that since taking over the Akron program.
In 2009, Porter led the Zips to the NCAA title match, which they lost to Virginia on penalty kicks. Last season, they had just one defeat -- to Cleveland State -- going into the College Cup.
They fell behind 1-0 to Michigan in the semifinals, but came back confidently for a 2-1 victory. Against Louisville in the final, Scott Caldwell's unassisted goal on a rebound of his shot stood up for a 1-0 victory.
The junior Caldwell returns, as does sophomore Darren Mattocks, who led Akron with 18 goals last season. But several key players from the 2010 team have moved on to play professionally -- including forward Darlington Nagbe, the Hermann Trophy winner last season, and defender Kofie Sarkodie, Soccer America's 2010 Player of the Year.
The Zips have an outstanding recruiting class coming in, though, to help right away. Before taking over at Akron, Porter was an assistant at Indiana, first for his former coach there, the legendary Jerry Yeagley, then for ex-Hoosiers mentor Mike Freitag. The reputation Porter built for recruiting success at Indiana has continued in his head-coaching role with the Zips.
Porter could have parlayed his triumphs in Akron into another job, but he has stated repeatedly he's happy there. Last December after winning the NCAA title, he signed a contract extension to stay with the school through 2020.
3. Away they go?
Nagbe, Sarkodie and fellow 2010 senior Michael Nanchoff, as well as sophomore Zarek Valentin and freshman Perry Kitchen decided to forgo their remaining eligibility after winning the NCAA title with Akron last year and entered the MLS SuperDraft; all were taken among the first eight selections.
Meanwhile, Louisville's Aaron Horton -- whose late-game heroics in the NCAA tournament helped propel the Cardinals into the 2010 final -- decided to leave college after his freshman season. The Ohio native signed with the Columbus Crew as part of the "Home Grown Player" system that allows MLS teams to sign players from their region to pro contracts without exposing them to the draft, provided they've trained at least one year with the club's development program.
Certainly, it's a positive thing for college programs to be able to help their players advance to professional careers. But is early entry into the pro ranks, which has increased in the last decade, having an adverse effect on men's college soccer?
Not necessarily. Many coaches say it's likely one of the factors that has contributed to greater parity and more teams having a legitimate shot at making it to the College Cup. But whether it is always best for the players to leave college early that's a different question.
"Is it good?" Lolla said. "What it will depend on is how productive the development systems are in the MLS. We'll see how much someone like Aaron Horton will benefit from it and how effective it is for his development. I think time will tell."
4. How will Bolowich do with a new shade of blue?
If Hurricane Irene had been chugging up the Atlantic Coast at this time a year ago, Elmar Bolowich would have been as concerned as anyone else in North Carolina. But he's far from hurricane country now.
Bolowich, after 22 seasons and an NCAA title as head coach at North Carolina, opted for something completely different. He relocated from Chapel Hill to Omaha, Neb., where he has taken over at Creighton. His son, Alex, is a redshirt freshman goalkeeper for the Bluejays.
Creighton has put a lot of resources into the program and taken advantage of recruiting regional talent, as the Big 12 conference does not sponsor men's soccer. Hiring a top coach like Bolowich was further proof of how hard the Bluejays are working to win their first NCAA title.
Creighton has made it the NCAA title game once, falling to Connecticut in 2000, and to the national semifinal two other times (1996, 2002).
Forward Ethan Finlay and defender Tyler Polak are preseason All-Americans for Creighton, ranked No. 10 in the NSCAA poll.
5. Who are other contenders?
• Bolowich is gone, but expectations stay the same for the Tar Heels, who've advanced to the College Cup the last three seasons. Longtime UNC assistant Carlos Somoano has taken over as head coach, and the team is ranked No. 3.
Among the Tar Heels' standouts are explosive scorer Enzo Martinez, Butler transfer Matt Hedges and Billy Schuler, who redshirted last season with an injury.
• As always, it will be a battle in the ACC. Maryland is right behind UNC in the preseason rankings, at No. 4. They are followed by No. 22 Virginia, No. 23 Duke and No. 25 Boston College.
• Four-time NCAA champion UCLA is looking to win the Pac-12's first national championship in men's soccer since the Bruins did so in 2002. But so is Cal. The Bruins start the season ranked No. 6, and the Bears are No. 7.
• Michigan was a somewhat dark horse entry into the College Cup last year, advancing to the national semifinals as the No. 10 seed. The Wolverines beat No. 7 seed South Carolina and No. 2 Maryland to get there. Outstanding Wolverines freshman Soony Saad moved on to pro soccer, but Michigan is still talented and ranked No. 9.
• Connecticut won its last NCAA men's soccer title in 2000. Senior midfielder Tony Cascio would like to help the No. 8 Huskies to their third national championship overall this year.
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Working America Members Say It Loud and Clear: No Bad Deals
As negotiations in Washington continue over tax rates and spending levels, Working America members aren't sitting out. In the past few days, our members have written and called their legislators and held events around the country to tell their Senators and members of Congress to oppose bad deals and look out for working people.
Yesterday, two groups of Working America members visited the offices of Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Kay Hagan of North Carolina to make their voices heard. A protest was also held Tuesday in Washington.
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That we're even talking about cuts to Social Security or Medicare is silly, since the actual problem the negotiations should be solving is the expiration of current tax rates and credits for middle-class families, the expiration of extended unemployment benefits and a set of spending cuts that resulted from the (manufactured) 2011 debt-ceiling crisis.
In Pittsburgh, members presented Casey's staff with a Christmas wish list, asking that Casey be a leader in protecting benefits.
Florence Price-Harrell, a Working America member from North Carolina, spoke about the importance of fighting against benefit cuts at an event outside of Sen. Hagan's office:
If Medicare was cut, it would be devastating to many seniors. They would have to pay out-of pocket for doctor's visit and medications, which would be catastrophic. Many seniors would have to decide between getting gas and food or their medication…If anything, we should expand Medicare rather than discuss cutting it.
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A vicious five-on-one attack that saw a suspected rapist beaten, scarred and burned with a searing-hot butter knife in a melee at a Winnipeg party was filmed and recovered as evidence by police.
Wednesday, the shaky and scream-filled video footage was played in provincial court as one of the attackers admitted to aggravated assault for her role in what Judge Lynn Stannard called an event that was "sad, terrifying and difficult to watch."
The accused, 18, was with several people partying inside a Balmoral Avenue suite on March 13 when she found her friend asleep in a room with her pants off and a male guest on top of her.
She yelled for others to intervene and the room filled with partygoers, who pulled the man off the woman, held him down and began kicking and punching him. During the assault, one suspect went to the kitchen and retrieved a barbecue fork to stab the victim with.
Another kitchen fork was produced and used to stab the victim until it broke. A plate was then retrieved and smashed over his head. The accused then went to the kitchen, heated a butter knife on the stove till it was red hot and burned him with it.
"I think she was pretty surprised at what she did," defence lawyer Wendy Martin-White said. The cognitively-challenged young woman was sexually and physically abused in her traumatic childhood.
It appears witnessing her friend possibly being raped triggered something, Martin-White suggested.
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By David Wilson, Professor Of Criminology At Birmingham University - I pull up outside a house in the Durham mining village of West Auckland to find an anonymous-looking place: a slim, three-storey family home distinguished from its neighbours only by its pretty, blue-grey paint. There are no clues as to its gruesome past. Even its original house number has been changed, perhaps from fear that the evil that was perpetrated here could pass down through successive generations of residents. This is the home in which Britain's first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, claimed her final victim. It is the house in which she was arrested and then taken away to be incarcerated, before eventually being executed at Durham Jail in March 1873.
Few have heard of the so-called 'Black Widow' killer who posed as a wife, widow, mother, friend and nurse to murder perhaps as many as 21 victims, living off her husbands before eventually claiming their estates. Two decades before Jack the Ripper would terrorise the streets of Whitechapel in London, Mary Ann Cotton had already become a killing machine, perhaps murdering as many as eight of her own children, seven stepchildren, her mother, three husbands, a lover – and an inconvenient friend.
Even crime aficionados, those familiar with such names as Shipman, Nilsen, Sutcliffe and West, know little or nothing of her. She has been largely erased from history and remains today only a half-remembered local curiosity even in her native North East.
There is certainly no walking tour retracing her murderous progress through County Durham, nor sad monuments erected to honour the memories of her victims. A woman who should have been a criminal icon has been reduced to little more than a chilling bedtime story and a Northern nursery rhyme: 'Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing? Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string. Where, where? Up in the air, sellin' black puddens a penny a pair.'
A single book marked the centenary of her execution. As one of Britain's leading criminologists and a former prison governor, I would like to know why. I have worked on police investigations and with many serial killers. Yet even to me, the life and terrible work of Mary Ann Cotton were largely a mystery.
And so throughout the spring and summer last year, I spent time in the North East researching a new book on this woman who travelled from one pit village* to another leaving only gravestones behind her and who, in doing so, gained real, if loathsome, historical importance.
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Though the 2012-13 academic year has only recently ended, it won't be long before Meredith welcomes a new class of first year students.
To help new students have a strong start to their Meredith experience, the Office of Admissions asked a group of recent graduates and returning students to share some advice that they believe would benefit an incoming freshman.
Here are the tips offered to the Class of 2017:
• "Simply dive in! College is all about growing and learning and this is the time to really give it your all in the classroom and in the community. Be the first person to answer a question that a professor asks the class; be the first person to step up for a leadership position, be the first person to sign up to be part of a volunteer program, be the first person to say during class 'I don't understand that, could you please explain that again,' and most importantly, believe in yourself." — Pooja Ghai, '13
• "Try to enjoy every class. Really appreciate what the professors are teaching." — Nellie Wilson, '13
• "Get involved! With over 90 clubs and organizations, there is definitely something for everyone. Attend the Student Activities Fair to learn more about all of the opportunities Meredith has to offer. You will meet new friends and be able to make your mark on Meredith's campus." —Alexis Trell, '15
• "Keep a collection of your experiences here at Meredith. I have a small box that I keep programs, trinkets, and photos of different events I participated in here at Meredith. As a senior it was great to look back on the keepsakes and remember the special moments I had here." —Hannah Hill, '13
• "Put yourself out there – that's one great thing about Meredith; you will gain so much confidence in yourself through your experiences." —Katie Riggs, '14
• "Make connections with faculty members … you never know how your conversations with faculty and staff members can change your path in college and beyond." –Zeenat Ravzi, '13
• "A lot of changes are happening at once, things will fall into place and you'll be just fine." —Mary Rawls, '14
• "Don't pack too much. You will never use all of it. Also, it's okay to be nervous but you are about to embark on a new life-changing journey; so if you can, be excited!" —Jordan Cone, '14
• "Try new things. Take a leadership position. Time moves really quickly, so enjoy it." —Sarah Beno, '13
• "My advice is to participate in as many things as possible, and really get to know your professors. Those two things are vital in making the most of your time at Meredith." —Anna Barefoot, '13
• "Get involved in numerous clubs, organizations and traditions. These things will allow you to meet people who will later network you with other opportunities. While family time at home is important, staying at school is also important because this is how you will meet and make friends, become familiar with Raleigh, and ultimately make Meredith your home." —Jordan Capps, '16
• "Stay on campus for the first three-four weekends, at least, of freshmen year - those weekends are the times that you will meet and bond with your future best friends." —Ashley Matthews, '13
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