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San Jose, Calif. Avago Technologies has introduced a high-brightness green auto focus auxiliary flash light emitting diode (LED) to assist the auto focusing function in digital still cameras when used in low ambient light conditions. The ASMT-FG10 flash LED offers a small footprint, measuring 4.8 x 4.8 x 5.33 mm.
Touted as a low-cost alternative to conventional infrared (IR) auxiliary auto focus solutions, the ASMT-FG10 compact green LED lamp is said to provide the highest brightness and smallest package in the industry. The narrow angle SMT lamp package is suitable for digital cameras that require long distance illumination and a narrow beam pattern. Digital still cameras have twice the sensitivity when responding to the color green than other colors, due to the availability of more photo diodes allocated for green in each pixel, said the company.
The ASMT-FG10 green (530nm) Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) dome LED lamp uses an un-tinted, non-diffused lens to provide high luminous intensity within a narrow radiation pattern. It incorporates an encapsulated LED chip on an axial leadframe to form a molded epoxy lamp package with six bended leads for surface mounting. The InGaN material has a very high luminous efficiency and is capable of producing high light output over a wide range of drive currents, said the company.
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GULF OF MEXICO — The Coast Guard says a series of "sheen sightings" have been reported in the area where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, but BP's capped well isn't the suspected source of the substance.
A statement issued yesterday by the Coast Guard says the sheens could have come from the sunken rig's riser pipe or from other underwater debris. The Coast Guard says recent video footage shows no evidence of a leak from the blown-out well that was capped last year.
Authorities haven't determined whether the sheens could be from oil, diesel or another substance.
The Coast Guard has notified rig owner Transocean, Ltd. that the company may be financially responsible for any cleanup costs if the sheens are coming from the rig's wreckage.


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Fans go crazy for Felix in King's Court
Fans go crazy for Felix in King's Court
Embedded in the now-rowdy left-field sections of 149 and 150, you will find jesters juggling, a juicy turkey leg, and high school kids sporting gold crowns with red robes. Among the inhabitants are newborn babies, a 63-year-old Larry Bernandez, and season-ticket holders who have abandoned their seats elsewhere to join in on the fun.
Welcome to King's Court.
"We have a Cy Young Award winner pitching for us this year," says Gregg Greene, Seattle's director of marketing. "We wanted to look for ways to make Felix's starts an event."
An event? This is more like a revolution. For Hernandez's past five starts at home, this energetic Felix fan club has made more noise than the entire stadium combined, and has established itself as the latest Seattle sports craze.
"I've been to Wrigley Field, Nationals Park, PETCO Park, Dodger Stadium, and I haven't seen anything like this," said lifelong fan Baldwin Poolio, who rocks a Burger King mask in King's Court. "This is the best."
My view from the press box could do no justice. I had to embed myself within the sea of yellow and find out what this new phenomenon was really all about. On Wednesday, for the fifth installment of King's Court, I finally got my chance.
So slip on your bright-yellow T-shirts, hold up your K signs, put on your crowns and get ready for some fun.
This is the King's Court experience.
12:10 p.m. -- Gear up
The buzz is building just 30 minutes before King Felix takes the mound. Members line up at the top of the Court to pick up their yellow "KING" T-shirts and "K" strikeout posters, both free with the $30 ticket. Several fans curiously pass by, wondering how they can get the T-shirt and be a part of the action.
I run into Roy, a vendor who has been working at Safeco since its opening in 1999. He has seen hundreds of different promotions at the park, but King's Court is something else.
"Tops them all, no doubt," he says. "Number one."
12:50 p.m. -- You're in the K Zone
King's Court is sold out and packed at first pitch. Felix is on fire early, and they rise to their feet almost immediately.
Perhaps the most noticeable aspect of the section is when Hernandez has two strikes on a batter. The fans stand together, raise their yellow "K" posters high into the air and together, like an army, chant, "K!K!K!K!K!"
Hernandez begins the game with two straight strikeouts and the decibel levels increase in left field. It's tough to not notice King's Court rising up as one whenever Felix has two strikes on a potential strikeout victim.
"Every time somebody gets two strikes, they go absolutely crazy," said Mariners outfielder Greg Halman. "Even the guys on the other team, you see them smiling, looking over."
1:00 p.m. -- Turkey time
Carrie Kingston, wife of Seattle assistant general manager Jeff Kingston, knew King Arthur's Court involved turkey legs, so why not include them at Safeco?
Good idea.
David Dekker is the executive chef at Safeco and now preorders turkey legs just for King's Court. The Mariners select what they think is the craziest fan for every Felix start, and Dekker hand-delivers a hot turkey leg on a silver platter during the middle of the first inning.
"Royalty always gets the bigger drumstick, you know what I mean?" Dekker says.
Today's lucky winner is 63-year-old Bill Tildwell of Everett, Wash. He's decked out -- jersey, pants, hat, fake facial hair from Display and Costume -- as Larry Bernandez, the fictional character born in a Mariners commercial earlier this year.
Dekker serves up the turkey leg. Tildwell holds it high into the air and proceeds to take a massive bite, while his fellow King's Court members chant, "Lar-ry, Lar-ry, Lar-ry."
I pinch myself. This is way too much fun for a baseball game.
3:15 p.m. -- King goes down, fans still happy
Two hours pass, as I meet a jester, two more Larry Bernandez look-alikes, and four guys with white horseshoe mustaches that call themselves the "Wedgies." No joke.
The King's Court was loud and in full support all afternoon, but Hernandez couldn't get it done on this afternoon, giving up five runs in 7 2/3 innings of work.
Yet it seemed nearly everyone still had a blast. With the yellow foam King's Court crown still wrapped around his head, 12-year old Jonathon put it best.
"It really had a lot more spirit about the Mariners," he said. "The other areas, they weren't as excited. We were yelling and cheering and trying to start a wave and everything."
3:30 p.m. -- Supreme Court next?
As fans leave of King's Court, I wondered what the future holds for this unique fan experience.
"You are just seeing the fans take this and make it something that we could never even dream it could become," said Greene, who thought of the idea while on a run. "I'm excited to see how it develops over the year."
Will it keep growing? Reliever Shawn Kelley sure hopes so.
"Just look at how crazy King's Court goes in just two sections -- imagine the whole stadium like that in a game for Felix," said Kelley, who refers to it as the "Supreme Court." "Freakin' yellow everywhere, 46,000 fans in yellow. Whew! That would be fun to be involved with."
Hard to imagine something even better and more fun than what's going on now, but the way this has been catching on, anything seems possible with King's Court.
Taylor Soper is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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GOLF; Minor Figures Lead, but Major Winners Lurk
By DAMON HACK
Published: August 19, 2006
While Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson dodged oak trees and raindrops, the unheralded at Medinah Country Club moved more quietly in the grass.
There was a Swede named Henrik Stenson, who had lost and found his golf swing, and there were Americans fighting for space on the Ryder Cup team.
There was Geoff Ogilvy of Australia earning his place among the elite, and there was Davis Love III looking for the path to a second major championship.
But as a rainy Friday afternoon bled into a gray dusk, there was Woods standing 25 feet from the cup on the 18th green, rolling in a birdie that placed him one shot out of the lead of the 88th P.G.A. Championship.
''I'm in good shape,'' said Woods, whose second-round 68 put him one stroke behind the lead of Stenson (68), Billy Andrade (69), Luke Donald of England (68) and Tim Herron (67), all at eight-under-par 136.
Love (69) and Ogilvy (68) also trailed the lead by one shot. David Toms (67), Billy Mayfair (69), Fred Funk (69) and Chris Riley (72) were two shots back.
A group of six golfers, including Sergio Garc?of Spain (70), trailed the leaders by three strokes, and Mickelson (71) headlined a group of seven golfers that stood four shots back.
Woods, whose last two starts were victories at the British Open and the Buick Open, made no bogeys in his round alongside Mickelson and Ogilvy, the featured grouping that continued to fuel the storyline of the P.G.A. Championship. Woods has gone 35 consecutive holes without a bogey.
His biggest break of the day might have come on the opening hole. Woods drove so far to the left of the fairway that his ball was headed toward a village of white corporate tents. A spectator batted it back down into the rough, Woods chipped back onto the fairway and then made par after he hit a short-iron to 6 feet and made the putt.
''I knew I got a weird hop,'' Woods said of the fan's assist. ''Hey, I appreciate it. It's nice to have Shaq out there knocking them back.''
Woods did most of the difficult work on his own, though, hitting into trouble, scrambling back out, and making the tough shot look routine.
Woods, Mickelson and Ogilvy will not play in the same group Saturday, which may not be a bad development for Mickelson. He flirted with tree stumps and gallery members for most of his round, hitting wild shots with his driver and loose shots with his irons.
On the 191-yard, par-3 17th hole, Mickelson flew his tee shot into the crowd. It landed behind some spectators sitting behind the green. From there, Mickelson chipped onto the surface and missed a 6-foot putt for par. He is four over par on Medinah's par-3 holes through two rounds.
On the 18th hole, Mickelson drove into the left trees, an almost identical shot to the one that hastened his demise on his final tee shot at the United States Open in June, but he received a kinder kick back into the rough by the fairway this time.
After Woods curled in his birdie putt, Mickelson responded with an 18-foot birdie of his own, minimizing the damage of an uneven day. Mickelson said he would spend the night watching film of his swing with his coach, Rick Smith.
''My ball-striking has not been very good,'' Mickelson said. ''I'm only four back. I haven't been able to get it going, but I'm fighting. I just have to get it turned around.''
Ogilvy hit crisper, cleaner shots than both Woods and Mickelson and appeared unfazed by the electricity in the gallery. When Woods and Mickelson hit crooked shots, Ogilvy was often left alone by his ball in the fairway.
''I'm pretty fortunate that I got to play with those guys,'' said Ogilvy, calling the grouping a learning experience. ''Their world is a bit different from my world. They can keep their world, but it's fun for a few days.''
Woods said of Ogilvy: ''There is a reason why he's the U.S. Open champion. Geoff is an extremely talented player, understands how to play major championship golf, and he's getting the job done.''
Stenson and Donald will represent Europe in the Ryder Cup next month, but they are bidding to win the continent's first major championship since 1999. Andrade and Herron, two Ryder Cup hopefuls for the United States, could stamp their careers with a first major title.
But most eyes will again will be on Woods, who will play Saturday with Riley, a childhood friend from their days in junior golf.
After Woods finished his round and stood in the drizzle while conducting a television interview, Mickelson sidled up and held an umbrella over his head. The rivals laughed as Mickelson then pulled the umbrella away and tried to block the television camera.
When Mickelson disappeared, Woods was in clear view again.
Photos: Tiger Woods, left, made a birdie at No. 18 to pull within one shot of the lead. Phil Mickelson trails the leaders by four. (Photo by Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)(pg. D1); Geoff Ogilvy, the United States Open champion, was one stroke behind the leaders after he shot a four-under-par 68 in the second round. (Photo by Tony Dejak/Associated Press); Billy Andrade, left, Luke Donald, center, and Tim Herron are tied with Henrik Stenson for the lead. All are seeking their first major championship. (Photographs by Frank Polich/Reuters, left; John Sommers II/Reuters, center; Stephen J. Carrera/European Pressphoto Agency)(pg. D5)


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BEDCO braces itself for its Stakeholder's Forum
BEDCO will hold its first-ever Stakeholders' Forum on 01 August 2014. The Forum is expected to be a watershed event that will grant the Corporation's stakeholders a golden opportunity to under and appreciate the Corporation (identity) and its programmatic work that it is doing. The Forum, will culminate in the presentation of an Annual Report, which will highlight the major events, activities, functions and achievement of the Corporation in the last year (2013/2014). It will also highlight the milestones and challenges that the Corporation registered in the previous year.
BEDCO holds this event against the backdrop of growing, but staggering business enterprise in Lesotho. As a result, the event is expected to serve as a grand platform for all those that come into contact with BEDCO and share a common ground regarding the mission and vision of the organisation, above all in achievement of the organisation's mandate to confer on the organizational programmatic content and what the Corporation is doing. The envisaged Forum has to be a watershed activity that is intended to break the ice and bring all stakeholders together for mutual and long-term benefit that has to trickle down to those on the receiving end of the Corporation's services.
Like any other organisation, BEDCO has to some extent been operating in isolation from its stakeholders – entrepreneurs at the micro, small and medium scales, the government, private sector in general, board, management and the staff. These varied publics, both internal and external have a direct influence on how the organisation operates and also make demands from the organisation. The changes, both in structure and operation of the organisation (organisational programme content) have to be cascaded down to all these publics in order to create a symmetrical relationship.
The challenges confronting parastatals like BEDCO are three-fold – namely, gaining the stakeholders' support in the consolidation of the change process, which is intended to yield positive results in the short and long-term, promoting internal efficiency and guiding external accountability with intent to creating long-term value for change and also managing its varied stakeholder base.
First, BEDCO is currently consolidating its recovery from near demise, which was exacerbated mainly by lack of vision, weak internal operations, creating and sustaining a reputation among its peers and funding sources that have been threatened. The organisation has therefore been pressured to find ways to restore its image and refurbish its brand. This demands not only practical experience in change leadership but also the requisite integrity to generate a more spruced up reputation in the organisation's environment.
Secondly, the current political, economic and social environments within which the Corporation operates - change of government, change of leadership – ministers and principal secretaries, resignation of key staff members and the coming of new ones as well as the new shape that the organisation envisions to take and the repositioning its wants to engage in both internally and externally, demand tighter performance leadership protocols and an organisational culture that fits well in the new dispensation. As BEDCO's senior management implement stricter performance management systems internally, so must be the junior levels of the organisation's need to respond by entrenching the requisite performance linkages at the lower levels. This also goes to the board (a mix of competent individuals with relevant expertise) which need not only hold the organisation accountable, but also to add value by supporting its growth and development path.
Thirdly, BEDCO's stakeholders, that encompasses its staff, management, board, entrepreneurs (MSMEs), government and other public bodies such as Lesotho National development Corporation (LNDC) must also support the change process that BEDCO envisages, otherwise it will all, but a naught. The support cannot just come by, but it is triggered in the main, by efforts made by BEDCO to ensure that all its publics are at par and at the same wavelength with the pace with which this change process is planned to take. If it is fast, stakeholders must not go at a snail's pace because they will render it a failure. If it is moderate in speed, the stakeholders must not go too fast because they will then demand too much from the Corporation, which it might fail to meet and if it is slow, they must also not be too ahead of it. The pace of the change process must correspond with the demands of the stakeholders and how they view it is very important. How they view the change, positively or negatively such as that it is intended to render them redundant and lead to job losses or that the organisation is heading towards a demise.
Therefore, the envisaged Forum is intended to be a platform for all those with whom BEDCO comes into contact – staff members, management, board, ministry of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives & Marketing, Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC), government of Lesotho, entrepreneurs (MSMEs), oversight bodies on trade-related issues (Lesotho Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Private Sector Foundation, Private Sector Competitiveness etc. This platform will serve as an important junction-point where these stakeholders, for the first time, confer on trade related issues and get a glimpse of what BEDCO does and does not do.
Creation of this understanding should in the long-term, have a positive multiplier effect on how the organisation is perceived by its stakeholders. This will in turn, create a mutual cooperation as well as mutual support for the Corporation's envisaged future outlook, especially at this critical but delicate time when the organisation is going through a reincarnation of its own. BEDCO is going through a change process, which started a year ago, but which has not been finely communicated or cascaded down to its publics. Therefore, this Forum must serve in one way or the other, as a platform for BEDCO to unveil its intentions regarding its envisaged reincarnation process.
The Forum will draw on the stakeholders' experiences and wealth of expertise to shape the nature and scope of the rejuvenation that the organisation intends to take. It must serve as a grand opportunity for all stakeholders to take advantage of their coming together to know each other and better understand the Corporation's renewed vision and mission, without deviating from its primary mandate.
The Forum is expected to achieve the following objectives:
- Identify with BEDCO as their Corporation of first choice,
- Interpret BEDCO's renewed vision and mission,
- Support BEDCO's change process,
- Act as ambassadors of the Corporation wherever they are,
- Demand their due space within BEDCO
- See and view BEDCO in a positive light (reputation-building)
The event will be characterized by presentation of official speeches made around a common theme of the Forum. There will also be wide-ranging discussions on national topics aligned to the work of the Corporation. The themes must be succinctly selected in order to elicit the required response from the stakeholders. Finally, there will be a dinner at the end of the seminar. The Forum is intended to take the format of a come-together where all stakeholders participate in the events of the day. As indicated earlier, the following activities will shape the character and form that the forum will take. There will also be plenary sessions for discussions and deliberations on national business and trade-related issues, which will trigger exchanges of views on a number of issues that BEDCO works with.
The event will be preceded by exhibitions of entrepreneurs products and services, which will take place a week or two earlier.
At the end of the event, a comprehensive report on the function will be produced and will be published. In addition, an Occasional paper covering the presentations made by various experts at the function.


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Say what you will about this year's Oscar race, but the lack of a legitimate frontrunner has injected some mystery into what normally is a forgone conclusion, and that uncertainty in the Best Picture race has led to "one of the most expensive Oscar races ever."
That's what Oscar columnist Steve Pond of The Wrap claims as he writes of this year's contest, which concludes on Sunday with the telecast of the Academy Awards. Pond repeats what others have realized – that the absence of Ben Affleck in the Best Director category suggests that Argo is not a lock to win the Best Picture Oscar, leaving the door slightly ajar for other films that think they have a shot at stealing the BP prize at the end of the evening. At the moment, it seems like Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty and even Life of Pi have very good chances of upsetting Argo, which feels like the frontrunner at the moment. And studios are spending what Pond calls "big expenditures" to try and make a lasting impact in the final minutes of the lengthy Oscar race.
"You get TV ads that are clearly aimed at Oscar voters, not moviegoers, with filmmakers and cast members trotting out talking points in between film clips. And making-of specials, and press releases … [and] constant ads in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Hollywood trades (including TheWrap). On Saturday, for instance, one Silver Linings Playbook ad in the Los Angeles Times featured a quote from Roger Ebert not about the film's quality, but it's awards chances: "For Best Picture, more and more, from many different quarters, I hear affection for 'Silver Linings Playbook' … I sense a groundswell."
Pond quotes Oscar ad campaign veterans as estimating that studios in the race are spending "more than $10 million" on this year's competition. He goes on to break down the unofficial slogans of each campaign, but the bigger questions I'd like answered are, "Do these ads work?" and "Are they worth the money?" Does a film like Silver Linings generate that much more in tickets or DVD revenue if it wins an Oscar as opposed to just getting the nomination? Are you inspired to see a movie based on its Oscar performances? Or would you rather see studios spend that money on the development of additional films, instead of throwing money at a statue honoring a film that's already in theaters? It's an interesting conversation. Continue it below.
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Dining alone is scarier than intensive psychotherapy all your worst fears are forced to the surface. Am I conspicuous? Are people staring? Am I hogging more than my fair share of space? Does my waiter resent me? Do I look like a loser? What should I do with my hands? And most metaphysical of all, in this yawning absence, this silent hour, do I really know who I am?
Women particularly, in our post-feminist age, still rarely go out to eat alone. Even when traveling for business, we mostly order room service, subsisting on tepid burgers and soft-boiled eggs. As for me, I've dined on my own at very posh restaurants precisely twice in my life, and both times, the experience was surreal and dreamlike. And ultimately wonderful. At 19, in San Francisco, I once got gussied up and took myself out for an expensive, leisurely meal at a well-known Polynesian-themed restaurant. The odd thing is, I remember every bite I ate (crab Rangoon, pepper steak), exactly what I was wearing (a cream-colored silk skirt), and even what chair I sat in (the great, balloon-shaped butterfly chair in the corner). The waiters looked after me, bemused and solicitous, not sure if I was a whore, a crazy heiress, or just another lost soul.
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There's a strange sense of "last meal"-ness to the experience of dining alone, an intensity and focus, as if at the end of it, you're going to quietly fold your napkin and go throw yourself off the nearest bridge. But in that void of white tablecloth and empty chairs, you have no choice but to pay attention to your food (which may be why the Guide Michelin surveyors famously work solo). You note the feel of table linen, the sheen of flatware. You study the four furled pink rosebuds in the glass vase; absorb the murmur of waiters and wine stewards as they pad around behind you; notice the precise, measured way your wine glass is refilled. The light from high windows turns your pinot noir the color of a liquid blush. Eating alone slows time. It almost, but not quite, conquers it.
Sitting with me, myself, and I on a recent evening at the Restaurant at the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach feeling a little bit smug and not at all lonesome I wondered why I don't do this more often. For one thing, your final bill is half what it would be if you were eating with somebody else. You can hie over to the snootiest places with the best chefs, get waited on hand and foot, and nibble the most delectable morsels. When you dine alone, that glass of good champagne is within reach, and nobody is going to judge you for ordering it. You can say "yes" to the half ounce of osetra (at the Restaurant, it's $75); you can OK the seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings. You consult with no one but your own conscience and maybe the wine steward. My friends, it is bliss. I'm strongly urging you to give it a whirl.
The Restaurant at the Four Seasons is a fine place to take your first solo flight. Chef Hubert des Marais is one of our great celebrity chefs; at the tender age of 31, a little over a decade ago, he was fingered by Food & Wine as one of 10 Best New Chefs in America. During his long stint at the Four Seasons, des Marais has put in a splendid garden at the resort, where he plucks fresh herbs and tropical fruits for his "Southeastern Regional" menu; he's been known to purchase fruit too from local residents' backyards. Des Marais frequently goes sea fishing with resort guests and cooks up their haul, and he seemingly has more southeasterly regional ideas than he can shake a stick at. The seven-course tasting menu, for instance, changes daily. The night I was there, my waiter said he'd worked at the Restaurant for ten years and couldn't remember seeing any dish repeated more than once or twice.
The à la carte menu is laden with tropical touches: avocado and sunchoke, banana blossoms, basil pesto sorbet, alligator pears, hearts of palm. You'll find guava and passion fruit reductions, boniato fries, and Old South standards like red-eye gravy polished to a new gloss with heirloom tomatoes. The best representation of Chef Hubert's whimsy, though, is in his tasting menus. You can choose three-, five- or seven-course tastings ($65, $85, $105, respectively), with or without wine pairings ($85, $115, $150 for a three-ounce pour with each course). Go with the pairings if you dare (my waiter, probably worried about my blood alcohol level and the ever-industrious South Palm Beach cops, advised me to drive home along AIA and advised me, please, not to go over 35 miles per hour).
After settling in at a window-side table overlooking the sea, nestled in softest linens, my brocade back-pillow adjusted, my handbag perched on its very own padded stool at my feet, I decided on five selections. The meal would begin with a crab and leek fritter amuse bouche. There was chilled grilled summer tomato soup with a morel mushroom dumpling to follow. Then a piece of annatto-basted Florida mahi mahi with yucca frita and fresh passion fruit reduction. A pan-seared Peking duck breast with caramelized peach and red curry vinaigrette came next. Then tenderloin of bison with braised beluga lentils and roasted figs in truffle jus. The evening would conclude with a chocolate and orange parfait on cocoa nougatine and a scoop of coconut ice cream. I planned on espresso afterward, to accompany the little tray of sweetmeats.
The service at the Restaurant is beyond courtly. It's in fact so pitch-perfect that it made me glow with pleasure. Every server, from the bread man to the wine steward, uses your name (your last name, that is, as in: "Welcome to Restaurant, Ms. Shepherd." Or "May I pour you more water, Ms. Shepherd?" Or "Pardon my reach, Ms. Shepherd."). I was offered newspapers and magazines (the solo diner's first resort, which I refused). My napkin was placed in my lap. My chair adjusted just so. I was visited by a headwaiter, a waiter, a wine steward, a food runner, a bread server, and a table busser, all of whom cared deeply. My flatware and service plates were changed and updated with great precision. It was a terrific performance.
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As for my five courses, one was ho-hum; the rest were stellar. The tomato soup was mysterious and smoky, topped with a petite, warm morel dumpling and mined with emerald-green herbal infusions. It was flecked here and there with the most delicate little basil and oregano sprouts, dusky, peppery, and sweet. A 2002 Echelon chardonnay was served with it. But the second course, mahi mahi, fell completely flat. The fish had purportedly been basted in annatto, a subtle flavor that I certainly couldn't detect, and the fillets were perched on mealy, dry yucca fries. The wine, a sauvignon blanc from Robert Pecota, was the one pairing I didn't find convincing. Even so, when the mahi was followed by rare duck breast with a grilled peach, all was forgiven. Here was a dish I'll remember forever: the duck breast pink and moist and fatty, set against a perfumed, warm peach flecked with lots of cracked pepper and coriander seeds, topped with a tiny sprig of flowering mint and surrounded by a moat of red curry vinaigrette. It was the perfect iteration of summertime. The Alderbrook pinot noir served with the duck had unfortunately gone off, but when I pointed this out, a new bottle was opened with great bustle and profuse apologies. And the new pour was delicious with what I had left of the bird light-bodied and exuding warm cherry and spices.
The most tender, dreamy, and luscious tenderloin of bison was brought out next, on a bed of tiny dark "caviar" lentils alongside melting roasted figs in a bottomless, velvety truffle jus. What a superb bite this was the textures of the meaty bison and sweet figs set against the fragrantly earthy lentils. Along with it came my favorite wine of the evening, a smooth, rich, round and very drinkable 2002 Italian Campofiorin Masi that made an ideal accompaniment for this aromatic dish.
Dessert was lovely to look at, better to dig into an expensive-looking square of rich chocolate that seemed to emanate light, perched on a buttery nougat and festooned with tall, dark chocolate squiggles like a lady's hat. A strip of orange marmalade flecked with fresh mint separated dark from light: a tiny round of refreshing coconut ice cream to take the edge off the chocolate. The Quady Essencia orange muscat served with it ("Orange and chocolate always compliment each other so well," the steward confided as he poured) was delightful.
By the time the tropical fruit gum drop, the butter cookie, and the chocolate candy arrived, I'd lost any trace of self-consciousness. I was in exactly the right place at exactly the right moment. Clearly, I belonged here, sipping my cup of bitter espresso, savoring the deep and luxurious easiness of my own company. I was someone I could do this with again, sometime.


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The cable TV industry has enjoyed a good 2011 overall, but new research from Strategy Analytics is warning that despite its perceived inherent advantages the cable platform's edges are being eroded by rivals.
In its report, 'Europe's TV Platforms: Advanced Features, Performance and Customer Satisfaction', authored by VP & Principal Analyst of Digital Consumer Practice David Mercer and fielded in Q3 2011, the analyst suggests that when examining the current European cable TV subscriber base, the cable platform has some performance advantages over satellite, its key pay television competitor, in overall value for money and customer service.
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Melissa Haslam (JBC International)
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TIME: 10 a.m.
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Senator Evan Bayh (IN), Chair, Democratic Leadership Council
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Al From, Founder and CEO, Democratic Leadership Council
Bruce Reed, President, Democratic Leadership Council
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LOCATION: 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
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LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: PEW CENTER ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE holds a news conference to release two reports examining Options for a Mandatory GHG Reduction Program
-- Emissions Trading in the U.S.: Experience, Lessons, and Considerations for Greenhouse Gases by: A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, and David Harrison, Jr.
-- Designing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program
for the U.S. by: Robert R. Nordhaus and Kyle W. Danish
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Danielle Tupper, 703-516-0630
WEB ADDRESS: pewclimatechange.org
TIME: 1p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on City Development Strategies: Opportunities for Poverty Reduction. The seminar will focus on four case studies (Kigali, Rwanda; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Recife, Brazil; and Tetouan, Morocco) and will highlight the difficulties of developing the CDS and the obstacles to effective implementation of each City Development Strategies.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joseph Bahenda, Head of Finance, City of Kigali, Rwanda
Ricardo Lima, Deputy Director, Regional and Urban Studies Department, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brazil
Sok Visal, Manager, Urban Poor Development Fund, Phnom Penh City, Cambodia
Abdelaziz Filali, Executive Director, Moroccan Slum Upgrading Agency.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Beyond Terrorism: The Future Of U.S. Relations With Pakistan featuring Khurshid M. Kasuri, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times, and Milt Bearden, former CIA station chief in Pakistan, will discuss their recently published book entitled The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB on the last days of the clandestine war between the CIA and KGB.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a book forum on Asia Pacific Security and Economic policy entitled America's Big Asia Muddle:
Comments On The Implications Of A Post-Stagnant Japan And Post-Sars China.
WHO: The speakers are:
Edith Terry, Author, How Asia Got Rich: Japan, China and the Asian Miracle Opinion Page Editor, South China Morning Post
Steven C. Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: ASIA SOCIETY AND THE PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION hold a lecture on "SARS: What is it? What Is Its Impact?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Marlo Libel of the Pan American Health Organization, the local office of the World Health Organization, will discuss the epidemiology of SARS and provide a perspective on the potential for controlling and conquering the disease.
Murray Hiebert, Washington bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, which has covered the crisis intensively, will give an overview of its economic and political impact.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: asiasociety.org
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The Pew International Journalism Program holds a conference entitled "New Eyes, New Voices: A New Generation Looks at War, Peace and International News."
AGENDA: Highlights:
4:30 p.m. - Opening of "Eyes on the World," an exhibit of photographs by Pew Fellows in International Journalism 1998 – 2003
5:30 p.m. - Welcoming Remarks
Jessica Einhorn, Dean, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS
John Schidlovsky, Director, Pew International Journalism Program
Louise Lief, Deputy Director, Pew International Journalism Program
"New Eyes, New Voices: Young Video Journalists Look at the World"
Screenings of three video stories by former Pew Fellows, with commentary by the journalists and Tom Bettag, executive producer, ABC News "Nightline"
Sharon Tiller, executive in charge, "FRONTLINE/World"
Video: "Living With Terror: Sri Lanka's Civil War"
Joe Rubin, video journalist
\How Sri Lankans have coped with civil war. Broadcast on PBS's "FRONTLINE/World"
Video: "Why the Children?"
Jamila Paksima, video journalist
Child rape in South Africa. Aired on PBS's "NOW Wient of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Azizah al-Hibri, professor at the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a discussion and presentation on The Future of Russian Business in Global Markets featuring Vladimir Potanin, president, of Interros, one Russia's largest privately held companies.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Georgia's Forthcoming Elections: Free or Fixed?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Kenneth Yalowitz and William Courtney, former U.S. ambassadors to Georgia
Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) at SAIS
Charles Fairbanks, director of CACI
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features JazzSabrosón includes Miriam Sullivan (bass), Jainardo Bastisa Sterling (conga drums), Steve bloom (guitar), and Antonio De Vivo (drums).
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC'S 10th Annual Gala featuring Exclusive dinner performances by "New York Divas" Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, Rita Moreno and Diane Schuur.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: wwc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Roger Angell discussing and signing copies of Game Time: A Baseball Companion. The great New Yorker writer has collected some of his favorite pieces written over forty-plus years. The book is organized around the seasons of the game-from spring training in 1962 to the 2002 World Series-and includes profiles of stars from Bob Gibson to Barry Bonds.
DATE: May 15, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com


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Storms will dump heavier rain and snow around the world as Earth's climate warms over the coming century, according to several leading computer models.
Now a study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) explains how and where warmer oceans and atmosphere will produce more intense precipitation. The findings recently appeared in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
The greatest increases will occur over land in the tropics, according to the study. Heavier rain or snow will also fall in northwestern and northeastern North America, northern Europe, northern Asia, the east coast of Asia, southwestern Australia, and parts of south-central South America during the 21st century.
"The models show most areas around the world will experience more intense precipitation for a given storm during this century," says lead author Gerald Meehl. "Information on which areas will be most affected could help communities to better manage water resources and anticipate possible flooding."
NCAR authors Meehl, Julie Arblaster, and Claudia Tebaldi analyzed the results of nine atmosphere-ocean global climate models to explain the physical mechanisms involved as intensity increased. Precipitation intensity refers to the amount of rain or snow that falls on a single stormy day.
Both the oceans and the atmosphere are warming as greenhouse gases build in the atmosphere. Warmer sea surfaces boost evaporation, while warmer air holds more moisture. As this soggy air moves from the oceans to the land, it dumps extra rain per storm.
Though water vapor increases the most in the tropics, it also plays a role in the midlatitudes, according to the study. Combined with changes in sea-level pressure and winds, the extra moisture produces heavier rain or snow in areas where moist air converges.
In the Mediterranean and the U.S. Southwest, even though intensity increases, average precipitation decreases. The authors attribute the decrease to longer periods of dry days between wet ones. The heavier rain and snow will most likely fall in late autumn, winter, and early spring, while warmer months may still bring a greater risk of drought.
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The Naked City
São Paulo: the city that said no to advertising. Photographs: Tony de Marco
A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.
It sounds like an Adbusters editorial: an activist's dream. But in São Paulo, Brazil, the dream has become a reality.
In September last year, the city's populist right-wing mayor, Gilberto Kassab, passed the so-called Clean City laws. Fed up with the "visual pollution" caused by the city's 8,000 billboard sites, many of them erected illegally, Kassab proposed a law banning all outdoor advertising. The skyscraper-sized hoardings that lined the city's streets would be wiped away at a stroke. And it was not just billboards that attracted his wrath: all forms of outdoor advertising were to be prohibited, including ads on taxis, on buses – even shopfronts were to be restricted, their signs limited to 1.5 metres for every 10 metres of frontage. "It is hard in a city of 11 million people to find enough equipment and personnel to determine what is and isn't legal," reasoned Kassab, "so we have decided to go all the way."
The law was hailed by writer Roberto Pompeu de Toledo as "a rare victory of the public interest over private, of order over disorder, aesthetics over ugliness, of cleanliness over trash… For once, all that is accustomed to coming out on top in Brazil has lost."
Border, the Brazilian Association of Advertisers, was up in arms over the move. In a statement released on 2 October, the date on which law PL 379/06 was formally approved by the city council, Border called the new laws "unreal, ineffective and fascist". It pointed to the tens of thousands of small businesses that would have to bear the burden of altering their shopfronts under regulations "unknown in their virulence in any other city in the world". A prediction of US$133 million in lost advertising revenue for the city surfaced in the press, while the São Paulo outdoor media owners' association, Sepex, warned that 20,000 people would lose their jobs.
Others predicted that the city would look even worse with the ads removed, a bland concrete jungle replacing the chaos of the present. North Korea and communist Eastern Europe were cited as indicative of what was to come. "I think this city will become a sadder, duller place," Dalton Silvano, the only city councillor to vote against the laws and (not entirely coincidentally) an ad executive, was quoted as saying in the International Herald Tribune. "Advertising is both an art form and, when you're in your car, or alone on foot, a form of entertainment that helps relieve solitude and boredom," he claimed.
There was also much questioning of whether there weren't, in fact, far greater eyesores in the city – such as the thousands of homeless people, the poor condition of the roads and the notorious favelas: wouldn't Kassab's time be better spent removing these problems than persecuting taxi drivers and shop owners? Legal challenges followed while, in an almost comical scenario, advertising executives followed marches by the city's students and its bin men by driving their cars up and down in front of city hall in protest.
Nevertheless, the council pressed ahead. "What we are aiming for is a complete change of culture," its president Roberto Tripoli said. "Yes, some people are going to have to pay a price but things were out of hand and the population has made it clear that it wants this."
Originally, the law was to be introduced last autumn with immediate effect but it was first delayed until December and then finally introduced in January 2007 with a 90-day compliance period, supposedly giving everyone time to take down any posters or signs that did not meet the new regulations or face a fine of up to US$4,500 per day. Throughout that period, the city's workmen were busy dismantling around 100 sites per day, occasionally supervised personally by Kassab, a man with an obvious eye for a photo opportunity.
In theory, 1 April was the first day of São Paulo's re-birth as a Clean City. So what does it feel like?
"I can't tell you what it's like to live in a city without ads yet," says Gustavo Piqueira, who runs the studio Rex Design in São Paulo, "because in a lot of places they still haven't been removed. In Brazil, every time that some new law comes in, everybody waits a little to see if it will really be applied and seriously controlled, or if it's just something to fill the newspapers for a week or two."
In a lot of places, Piqueira says, this has led to the removal of posters but not the structures on which they were displayed. "It's a kind of 'billboard cemetery'. I guess they're waiting to see if the law will really last. If the mayor keeps the law for a year or so, people will start to remove them and the city will, finally, start to look better."
Photographer and typographer Tony de Marco has been out documenting this strange hiatus in a sequence of images published on Flickr and used to illustrate this piece. The city, he says, is starting to feel more "serene".
Already the law has led to some strange discoveries. Because the siteing of billboards was unregulated, many poor people readily accepted cash to have a poster site in their gardens or even in front of their homes. With their removal, a new city is emerging: "Last week, on my way to work, I 'discovered' a house," says Piqueira. "It had been covered by a big billboard for years so I never even knew what it looked like." The removal of the posters has "revealed an architecture that we must learn to be proud of, instead of hiding," says de Marco.
But there are downsides – Piqueira worries that much of the "vernacular" lettering and signage from small businesses – "an important part of the city's history and culture" – will be lost. The organisers of the São Paulo carnival have also expressed concerns about the long-term future of their event now that sponsors will not be allowed to advertise along the route. The city authorities for their part have made it clear that certain public information and cultural works will be exempted from the rules.
After a period of zero tolerance, Piqueira believes that advertising, albeit in a far more regulated form, will start to creep back into the city, either as a result of legal challenges, a change in administration, or compromises between media owners and the city. Already, the council has stated that it would like to see the introduction of approved street furniture such as bus stops, which may well carry ads. As these will no doubt be for the major brands that can afford such lucrative positions, a more sterile, bland visual environment may replace the vibrant, if chaotic streets of the past. Flyposters, hand-lettered signs and club flyers will remain banned while international ad campaigns for global brands on city-approved poster sites will return.
For de Marco, though, "the low quality of the letters and the images on those immense pieces of propaganda" were always a concern, as was "the misuse and occupation of public space. In the weeks before my birthday," he says, "my visual enemies begin to disappear like the happy end of a motion picture. To see my city clean was my best birthday present and my photos were the record of the feast."
Meanwhile, according to Augusto Moya, creative director of ad agency DDB Brasil, the ban is forcing agencies to be more inventive. "As a creative, I think that there is one good thing the ban has brought: we must now use more traditional outdoor media (like bus stops and all kinds of urban fittings) in a more creative way," he says. "People at all the agencies are thinking about how to develop outdoor media that do not interfere so much in the physical structure of the city."
Moya takes an enlightened view of the law. "As a citizen, I think that future generations will thank the current city administration for this ban," he says. "There's still a lot to be done in terms of pollution – air pollution, river pollution, street pollution and so on. São Paulo is still one of the most polluted cities in the world. But I believe this law is the first step for a better future."
And even if some Paulistanos remain unconvinced, there is at least one group who are certainly not complaining – the city's scrap dealers, who are set to make a killing from recovering all the old signs and structures.
For more photographs see his flickr set at www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco


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A new trek to Machu Picchu in Peru is for the first time offering overnight stays in four new stylish lodges along the route instead of under canvas. Rather than searching for kindling and rolling out their sleep mats, tired hikers will relax in ensuite rooms and outdoor hot tubs while looking up at some of the world's most breathtaking scenery.
South American Experience is one of a handful of companies offering the route, and has a six-night package from £1,495pp including accommodation, food, guiding with mules, horses and porters, entrance fees but not flights, from April-December 2008.
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Our Celeb Crush Rose Byrne's Motto is 'Whatever Happens, Happens'
Rose Byrne's life motto might be "whatever happens, happens," but it doesn't have any sexual innuendo -- it's her fatalist outlook on the life of a Hollywood actress.
Rose Byrne's life motto might be "whatever happens, happens," but it doesn't have any sexual innuendo -- it's her fatalist outlook on the life of a Hollywood actress.
You know Jill Wagner from ABC reality competition show 'Wipeout' — the game show that features contestants going splat on really large balls, among other obstacles. Any woman who can handle being around balls that large, that often is most certainly crush-worthy.
This week it was announced that Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam were cast in the lead roles for the movie adaptation of the popular sex manual 50 Shades of Grey. The internet acting as it does to these announces and LOST THEIR DAMN MIND.
Diana Madison is like the female Ryan Seacrest. It's a compliment.
'The Roast of James Franco' on Comedy Central might have been the coming-out party for Natasha Leggero. The funny and foxy female comic roasted not only Franco, but the other comedians on the dais.
Anna Sophia Berglund is a Playboy model, adult model, actress and reality TV star.
Lucy Hale is a pretty little liar. It's cool, it's a compliment, and really is that the worst thing we could call a person?
This is the great thing about entertainment today -- if someone doesn't want to take a chance on you, you can take a chance on yourself. Kacey Musgraves is proof.
Rebecca Blumhagen is an actor, writer and filmmaker. She's currently starring as Sam in the HBO/Cinemax breakout series 'The Girl's Guide To Depravity', based on Heather Rutman's cult blog of the same name.
Our celeb crush of the day Syd Wilder has two big things going for her -- her superb acting talents and comedic sensibilities. Why, what did you think we were alluding to?
It seems like most novelists are nebbishy hermits who'd rather talk about how the English language is "dead as we know it" as opposed to basking in the glory of being a professional writer.
Even if high schoolers breaking out into over dramatic covers of 1980s songs isn't your thing, watching Dianna Agron do it on 'Glee' almost makes it okay.


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The spread of emotion from one person to another was once thought to be a function of subconscious cues that required people to be able to see each other. New research has shown that emotional contagion is a phenomenon that is and has been a part of social media interactions between people. The study was conducted by Adam D. I. Kramer with the Core Data Science Team at Facebook, Inc. and colleagues from the University of California and Cornell University. The research was reported in the May 2, 2013, edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Emotional contagion has been determined to be a reality in over 20 years of documented research where people were able to see each other. The researchers presumed that similar unconscious emotional transfer was active in social media. This is the first proof that emotional contagion is a function of social media.
To test the theory, the researchers observed the Facebook activity of 689,003 people for one week in January of 2012. The scientists monitored the participant's reaction to positive and negative content appearing in the "News Feed" feature of Facebook. The results indicate a direct correlation between the emotional content of posts read and the emotional content of posts produced by the participants.
The experiment was designed so that some participants saw a majority of positive emotional content while some saw a majority of news items that were negative. The participants that saw more negative content produced 0.04 percent more negative content. Those participants that saw more positive content produced 0.06 percent more positive content. The study indicates that emotional contagion does exist in social media and has a small but significant effect on the subsequent posts of social media users.
One extreme example of the emotional contagion that social media possesses is the worldwide response to the capture of 276 Nigerian girls by Boko Haram on April 15, 2014. The emotional appeal and evident emotional contagion of the #BringBackOurGirls thread on Twitter has produced a continued outpouring of emotion laden tweets since the thread was begun. The influence of social media and the emotions involved as well as the number of people that felt a need to contribute their voice to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign produced international government cooperation in efforts to free the enslaved girls.


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China clears Microchip's SMSC acquisition
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SAN FRANCISCOChina's antitrust regulatory body rubber stamped Microchip Technology Inc.'s $939 million acquisition of Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC), clearing the way for the deal to close this week, Microchip said Tuesday (July 31).
Microchip (Chandler, Ariz.) said China's Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce notified the company that the acquisition had cleared review. Microchip said it expects the deal to close Thursday.
Microchip previously said in June that the acquisition was cleared by the U.S. The company also got clearance for the acquisition from Germany, South Korea and Turkey.
"We are pleased that receiving the confirmation from MOFCOM completes all of the regulatory approvals for the transaction to acquire SMSC," said Steve Sanghi, Microchip's president and CEO, in a statement. "We anticipate the closing of the transaction to take place on August 2, 2012, and moving forward in achieving business goals of the combined companies."


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Friday, July 9, 1999 Published at 09:23 GMT 10:23 UK
World: South Asia
Taleban 'guarding' bin Laden
Mr bin Laden has many supporters in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Afghanistan's Taleban have acknowledged that the militant Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden is in the country, and that it is looking after his security.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC Pashto Service, the Taleban's chief spokesman, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, said a Taleban intelligence unit was overseeing Mr bin Laden's movements and activities.
He said Mr bin Laden was not able to carry out any terrorist attacks from Afghan soil.
Last August, the US launched cruise missile attacks on targets in Afghanistan suspected of being connected to the Saudi dissident.
He was recently added to the FBI's "10 most wanted" list, with a $5m reward.
Mr Mutawakil's statement suggests that the Taleban had been in contact with the unit guarding Mr bin Laden when they announced in February that he had "disappeared" and his whereabouts were not known.
Ready for talks
On Tuesday, the US imposed sanctions on the Taleban for offering Mr bin Laden a safe haven.
"We want to resolve the issue, but nobody is willing to listen to us," the agency quoted Mr Mutawakil as saying.
Mr Mutawakil said Afghans would survive the sanctions, but the international community was looking for excuses to use against the Taleban.
He said if nobody was ready to talk and if they used force instead, then that was their problem.
Mr Mutawakil argued that the US has never provided any proof of Mr bin Laden's involvement in any terrorist attacks, despite requests for such proof.
He added that when Mr bin Laden was given sanctuary by the previous authorities in Afghanistan, before the Taleban came to power, the US did not react.
The Taleban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has condemned the sanctions as unjust and malicious.