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Last year Athens Academy had a knack of winning close ball games in the end. In the first half of this season, the Spartans appear to have reversed that trend, much to head coach Cooper Dyer's dismay.
The Academy dropped its second close game in as many tries as Social Circle slipped past the Spartans 39-37 on a buzzer beater with two-tenths of a second left.
''Last year we won all those close ones, and now it seems that we're losing all of them,'' Dyer said. ''We played hard and maybe the ball bounced their way in the end, but it's a tough loss nonetheless.''
With the score tied 37-all with 15 seconds to play, the Spartans forced Social Circle into a poorly taken shot that was badly missed. The Redskins grabbed the loose ball in the corner with just under five seconds left and heaved up a desperation shot from the far corner. Meccus Lumpkin, who led Social Circle with 15 points, snagged the rebound and recorded the put back to give the Redskins the win.
Vital to the win for Social Circle was containing the Academy's Russ Warden. Warden, who leads the Spartans in scoring, only got two points.
''They played him tight,'' Dyer said. ''But we're not a good job in getting him the ball and likewise, he's not doing what he needs to do when he does get it.''
It's a tough loss for the Academy to swallow, especially after such a stellar defensive performance, one in which they held Social Circle star Brian Barrett to 14 points.
''You can't fault our defense, they played a great game tonight,'' Dyer said.
Chad Kimbrough lead the Spartans (6-4) with 13 points, while Joe Tereshinski added 10 for the Academy.
Oconee County 68, Central Gwinnett 60
All five starters for Oconee County scored in double figures as the Warriors knocked off No. 13 Central Gwinnett. Alan Harrison scored 13 points to lead the way, while Chip Moore added 12. Tony Taylor recorded a double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds, J.T. Cape scored 11 points and Tyson Browning added 10.
Oconee (5-6, 2-0) will travel to face Newton for first place in Region 8-AAA.
Franklin County 67, Morgan County 40
Fred Heard scored 25 points as Franklin County rolled to a shockingly easy win over Morgan County. Jeff Vaughn added 24 points for the Lions (10-4), while Barry Elder scored 11 to lead Morgan (11-3).
Elbert County 81, Monroe Area 52
Ron Hood scored 23 points as Elbert County demolished Monroe Area. O'Brian Ruth added 18 points for the Blue Devils (8-5). The Purple Hurricanes were led by Brian Little's 22 points.
Athens Christian 68, Monroe Academy 54
Mike Baron scored 21 points as Athens Christian rolled over Monroe Academy. Jorg Lehman added 19 points for the Eagles (12-3), while Ryan Crawford chipped in 12 points.
ACS will host Atlanta Braves' badboy John Rocker's alma mater First Presbyterian Day on Friday.
Tattnall Square 68, George Walton 67
The Tattnall Square jinx lingers into basketball season as George Walton dropped a heartbreaker. The Bulldogs were led by Jake Davis' 24 points, including seven 3-pointers.
George Walton (1-8) travels to Monroe Academy in Forsyth on Friday.
Social Circle 52, Athens Academy 49
Elizabeth Guess celebrated her birthday in a big way as she scored 19 points and dished out six assists, it wasn't enough however as Social Circle slipped past Athens Academy. The Lady Spartans had their chances late, but coughed the ball up at key times and Guess was forced to the bench with foul trouble giving Social Circle its break.
Leann Boerma and Cynthia Whitehead each added nine points for the Academy (5-6, 2-1).
Jefferson 63, Paideia 51
Jefferson picked up a big win by knocking off ninth-ranked Paideia. Lee DuBose scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Lady Dragons (11-4) who are ranked 13th in the state. Anna Goza added 10 points for Jefferson.
The Lady Dragons will face Wesleyan Friday.
Monroe Academy 52, Athens Christian 28
Eight players scored for the Lady Eagles, but they were overwhelmed by Monroe Academy Tuesday night. The loss makes ACS 11-4 overall and 1-2 in GISA Region 2-AAA.
The Lady Eagles Host First Presbyterian Day Friday.
Monroe Area 53, Elbert County 47
Candace Jackson's 11 points led Monroe Area past Elbert County. Chari Hood led the Lady Blue Devils (7-6) with 17 points.
Monroe (7-6) hosts Morgan County Friday, while Elbert will host Hart County on Friday.
Hart County 45, East Hall 25
Maya Fouch scored 13 points to lead Hart County over East Hall. Leann Seagers added 11 points for Hart County (8-2, 4-0).
The Lady Bulldogs travel to Elbert County Friday.
Franklin County 58, Morgan County 32
Rachel Maxwell's 14 points helped Franklin County past Morgan County.
Candace Barret scored 12 points for the Lady Lions (7-7), while Morgan was led by Taketa Wyatt's 9 points.
Central Gwinnett 60, Oconee County 49
Joy Ashley finished with 12 points for Oconee County, but it wasn't enough as the Lady Warriors fell to Central Gwinnett.
Oconee (7-4, 1-1) will travel to Newton Friday.
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Libya wanted to exchange the helicopter crew captured during an illegal evacuation operation on Libyan soil for two fighter planes.
According to CNN reports based on sources within the Maltese authorities, the two Libyan planes landed on Malta when the pilots deserted. Last week Tripoli sent a diplomat to Malta to negotiate the exchange with Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi. "During the meeting, the two discussed whether the two Mirages could be given back in exchange for the Dutch prisoners," spokesperson Melvyn Mangion of the Maltese Foreign Ministry told US news station CNN.
No Mirage Prime Minister Gonzi told local media that he rejected the idea and demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the three Dutch soldiers. Eventually the Libyans agreed to the release of the Dutch soldiers without getting the Mirages back. The Libyan pilots flew to Malta on 21 February. They say they deserted after refusing to bomb Libyan demonstrators. The pilots have now applied for political asylum in Malta.
Last month, Libyans began a revolt, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is trying to crush the uprising using military force against his own people.
Helicopter left behind The Dutch helicopter crew, which was comprised of two men and one woman, were captured on 27 February near Syrte by troops loyal to Gaddafi. The crew were tying to evacuate two civilians a Dutchman and a Swede.
The Lynx helicopter they were flying in was based on the HNLMS Tromp. The three were released last week and returned to the Netherlands on Saturday. The helicopter was left behind.
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In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.
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Bre.ad, the new link shortener
promoted used by Lady Gaga, is a bad idea. If you haven't seen it yet, the quick recap of bre.ad is as follows:
- Shorten links by simply navigating to http://bre.ad/{your URL}. It's a little easier and simpler than visiting the bit.ly or ow.ly site.
- When visitors click on your bre.ad link, a "toast" created by you is shown for 5 seconds before the link it refers to is shown. You can create an inventory of toasts that promote your own favorite sites or URLs, and each time you share a link, you advertise another site.
Try it by clicking this bre.ad generated short link. It will show you a toast I created from my about.me profile, and then link you to back to the home page for this site: http://bre.ad/082tnk
So why don't I like it?
Bre.ad will likely sell part of the inventory of "toasts" that they maintain to third parties. Their privacy policy explicitly says "Bread may use some of the information collected in order to customize the advertisements to your interests and preferences." They also have a liberal cookie policy, collecting information about who clicks on each and every link (not just toasts) generated by their system. Their terms of service require you to register for the site, and give them the demographic info they need to target you.
Bre.ad haven't said what they intend to do with this information. However, the information they're collecting, when combined with their technology, enables a plague of interstitial ads to be generated during ordinary content navigation.
I'm not sure bre.ad is going to succeed in any case. Social sharing is now the norm. What web site doesn't have a "tweet this" or "share on facebook" button on each page already? URL shorteners are now so ubiquitous that it's actually more work to create a bre.ad link than other ways. In order to succeed, bre.ad needs to become embedded in those sites, rather than focus on consumers.
Bre.ad: a half-baked idea? burnt toast? (rim-shot, please!)
CLARIFICATION: I received a note from Alan Chan, Bre.ad founder and CEO, clarifying exactly the relationship that Lady Gaga has with Bre.ad. Alan's note read, in part "Both Lady Gaga and 50 Cent are early adopters who have been known to send out Bre.ad links, but neither individual is an investor, endorser, supporter or a backer of our company." Thanks for making that clear, Alan.
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And I'd got it all worked out ;) The weather would continue to be good and I could just fill the page with blue pencil! But it's cloudy and grey!
I get great skies in the morning when I look out of my kitchen window - but today wasn't one of the...................
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Every federal budget has an impact in Ottawa because of the city's standing as the nation's capital, and some Canada-wide measures — such as the creation of the Canada Job Grant fund — are sure to have an impact in the city and the region.
But here are three budget items we think deserve special mention for the people of Ottawa:
Infrastructure funds and the Ottawa River
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson had been calling on the federal governement to dedicate money to help the city clean up sewage from the Ottawa River. Federal officials said Ottawa had chosen to use its infrastructure money on the light-rail transit plan.
In response, Watson pushed for the indexing of the gas tax funds that go into municipal infrastructure, and the budget delivers.
Now, instead of offering cities $2 billion annually from the gas tax, the federal government will offer $2 billion the first year, then increase the amount at a rate of two per cent annually.
Watson said for a city like Ottawa, it means an additional $238 million over and above what they would have expected over the next 10 years.
Now cleaning the Ottawa River can again be a priority, Watson said.
"With today's budget, the dream of a clean Ottawa River is finally within reach," said Watson.
Heritage takes over from the NCC
With Ottawa getting ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017, the Department of Canadian Heritage has taken over events such as Canada Day and Winterlude from the National Capital Commission.
The government wants to ensure "a broad, national perspective is brought to these celebrations," according to the budget.
The NCC was given control of promotion of the region back in 1988, but with the move, some 60 to 80 workers will move to Canadian Heritage.
The NCC will still act as a landowner in the region.
Watson welcomed the move, and said he suggested it last year. But Ian Lee from Carleton University's Sprott School of Business said he was skeptical.
"The way I like to put it is the NCC has saved us repeatedly from the City of Ottawa, the machinations and the administrative failures from the City of Ottawa, over many, many years," said Lee.
Sick days targeted
Though it is short on specifics, the budget says it wants to put sick leave and disability benefits for public servants on the table, with an eye to reducing costs and getting sidelined employees back to work sooner.
The message to public sector unions also made an ominous reference to plans to examine employee compensation and pensioner benefits and propose "changes to the labour relations regime."
For the city's thousands of public servants, the message appears to be an opening salvo for labour negotiations set to begin in 2014.
Union leaders appeared more confused than concerned, however.
Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Robyn Benson said she believes the government is trying to get the public talking about sick days so they don't notice the decline in services.
"That's what they are up to, it's about smoke and mirrors and not being transparent," said Benson.


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*file photo* * JESSIE J PULLS OUT OF ALL SUMMER SHOWS AFTER SURGERY British pop sensation JESSIE J has been forced to pull out of all her summer festival appearances after undergoing emergency surgery on her broken foot. The star fell off a stage and broke a bone in her foot in two places earlier this month (Jun11), but managed to wow the crowds at Britain's Glastonbury festival last weekend (25Jun11) by perching herself on a throne throughout her set. But the performance will be the star's last for the remainder of the summer (11) after doctor's decided to operate. She has now scrapped 11 appearances at events like Paris: Orange Rock Corps, Scotland's T In The Park , Oxegen in Ireland and the i-Tunes Festival in London. In a statement, the star says, Sorry doesn't feel enough to say, I am devastated for my fans that I know have been waiting to see me and working hard for tickets. I was so excited about the summer and I'm as upset as you all are. But unfortunately these things happen. I have to remain positive and I promise I will make it up later in the year. (MJ/PR/KL) Jessie J The 2011 Glastonbury Music Festival held at Worthy Farm in Pilton - Day 2 - Performances Somerset, England - 25.06.11 (3 images)
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A tidy workplace should enable you to work faster, but some hide a secret: You may be wasting time, effort and resources on unproductive tasks. Don't let your drive for neatness and perfection derail your work. Check whether your office is simply organized or efficient, as well, with this list:
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Place the tabs in front, so you can pull them forward and drop in new information without back tracking.
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Can find any document.
|Keep only the necessary copies, and don't file a paper and electronic version of the same item.
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|Maintain only one calenda, and you don't waste copying information to mutiple locations.
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|Sort mail over the trash can for quick disposal.
Update mailing information, request to be removed from some lists and renew publications early (even for multiple years) to eliminate repeated notices.
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Sophocles. Oedipus Cycle. Sophocles 496-405 BCE. The most successful dramatist to present plays at the theater of Dionyseus in Athens. Also a scholar, statesman, and general. Sophocles. Added the third actor to the stage. Before this there were never more than two people on stage.
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In this third volume, several months have passed, and Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who - in Roland's world - has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories.
Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.
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I enjoyed the characters and the way King just draws you into his story. This was a fantastic followup to the Drawing of The Three. I did not like the ending in that it did not feel like a good conclusion, with the conclusion really being with the beginning of Wizard and Glass.
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Next month's Australian Open will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Rod Laver's Grand Slam achievement when the Australian tennis great will be reunited with the four players he beat in the Grand Slam finals of 1969.
Laver's achievement of twice winning the Grand Slam of the French, Wimbledon, US and Australian crowns in one calendar year in 1962 and 1969 remains unmatched in men's tennis.
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My son brought me news today that he's planning to get skulljacked. I told him, not until you're eighteen, you don't get skulljacked, unless—and what I almost said was what my old man would have said, which was unless you want to take your skulljacked ass out and sleep on the street. But then I got suspicious, man, I thought what if that's what he's trying to get me to do? Kids are clever, man. Could be my boy doesn't give a shit about getting skulljacked, but he wants me to give him an ultimatum so he has an excuse not to come home at night. All of this, you ask me, is an argument for being childless. Ask the Bangladeshis, there's too damn many people in the world anyway. Speaking of Bangladesh, the Walt Dangerfield Square Mileage Reduction Index for Bangladesh is at 25, that's 25 percent of that swampy hellhole now underwater, with the thirty million people who used to live there causing riots and all kinds of unpleasantness in other places. What do we do about it? If we're the Indian Army, we seal the border. If we're the Burmese army, we let them come across and then shoot them because it's good practice for our soldiers. Here at home, southern Arizona is security-coded orange, people, that means you can't go there. People with orange clearances don't listen to Walt Dangerfield unless it's in super-secret government installations with teams of ninja assassins at the ready. But no one can find Walt Dangerfield! I orbit this culture and look down upon it from afar, beaming my brain into yours, wishing that none of you were listening.
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By now, you would've watched the Louis Vuitton Resort 16 show that was streamed LIVE from Palm Springs, California right here on the blog. The show opened with gongs that are usually rung at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The show began on time [thanks Marc Jacobs for setting that precedent!] but also perhaps a strategic move on Ghesquiere's part, so that the show venue would be bathed in that yellow glow just before sunset. We see the models coming out onto the balcony, and descending the stairs. We see the first model emerging from the glass doors where guests are seated, with headphones on, only to put them down and crank up the volum, signalling the start of the show as the soundtrack to the runway show began playing.
Thus began the onset of eyelet dresses, super micro shorts, oversized zip details, mesh, maxi skirts, and a criss-cross belted front that seemed to be his favourite for the Cruise 16 season. And to tie in with the whole Palm Springs location, Ghesquiere even used a palm leaf print for some of the looks and bags.
Ah, the bags. Also known as my favourite topic. Of course, the Petite Malle (which I LOVE!) came in more variations (there's a studded version now!!), and more of the mini trunk cases that we saw on Vuitton's Fall/Winter 15 runway. And then there was a structured tote bag which kinda looked like a cross between a Prada Galleria with the double zips and a Birkin, but that aside, there were also mini backpacks in the signature Vuitton monogram as well as bags with bulbous quilts with studded accents. In short, since Ghesquiere took over at the helm of Vuitton, his bags are making me want a Vuitton piece more and more these days. Oh, and that revamped LV logo? Such a GENIUS idea to have the "L" as a turnlock clasp so that it you can only see a "V" (because the "L" morphs into a "V") when the clasp is unfastened!
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I'm thinking about working in St. Petersburg for a while and am curious about the water situation. While I'm aware that the stories of people picking up giardia in the shower are quite inflated, I'm wondering how suspect water affects the daily life of a Chowhound.
Also, how is the fruit/vegetable supply these days? When I lived in Irkutsk I suffered severe produce withdrawal and have since gorged myself at San Francisco farmers' markets. Might I find a somewhat happy medium in St. Petersburg?


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Fox News Brings National Exposure to the New Tea Party Community Social Media Site!
Wow! I made Fox News… I have been knee deep in the middle of the new Social Media site that is the Conservative version of Facebook. I had no idea that getting involved with the launch of the new site would lead to exposure on Fox News…
Many conservatives have been complaining for some time about issues we were having with Facebook that make many of us feel we were treated unfairly…. I felt bias against Conservatives was definitely the root of many of the issues and complained about it repeatedly to Facebook.
I found out yesterday, when in route to Florida to appear on a couple of shows about the launch of the new Tea Party Community site, that Fox was doing a story about the launch as well as a continuation of their investigation into the allegations of bias against Conservatives by Facebook.
I was called and interviewed by Todd Starnes of Fox about the new Tea Party site as well as my own issues with Facebook.
Read more about the new Tea Party Community Social Media Site as well as my interview here on the Fox Website.
It feels really strange to see my "armed and female" photo on the Fox Website and actually get coverage over the issues many Conservatives, (myself included) have experienced on Facebook.
I was actually contacted by phone yesterday by Facebook's Washington D.C. representatives who have promised me they are working to deal with some of these issues.
If they fix them, I will certainly be more than happy to acknowledge this and my faith in their company restored.
We shall see.
I am excited to be a part of the new social media Tea Party Community Network, the "facebook for Conservatives" which is officially celebrating its launch this weekend.
As I write this, I am in Boca Raton Florida to appear on two Television Programs with the founders of that network! Watch on Facebook for a link to those shows.
The the early part of next week I will be speaking in Alabama, at a Tea Party 2nd Amendment Rally on the steps of the state capitol! More on that, later….
I hope to meet many of you at these two events if you live in the area..


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Stocks and the euro slid Friday as investors fretted over a report suggesting Portugal's partners in the European Union were urging the country to seek aid to prevent a sustained attack from bond market speculators.
The report from FT Deutscheland, which cites unnamed European Central Bank officials, was denied by the European Commission, the ECB and the German government. It comes after indications the EU is willing to boost the size of its financial backstop facility and that officials in Dublin are considering forcing Irish bank bondholders to take a hit in the country's rescue plan.
Germany and France have meanwhile said they would like faster progress in solving the debt crisis.
With so much uncertainty surrounding Europe's response to its continuing debt crisis, sentiment in the markets took a turn for the worse.
"This confusing 'pea-soup' of indecision, vacillation and disunity by the EU is beginning to create unnecessarily seismic waves of fear in international bond and money markets," said David Buik, markets analyst at BGC Partners.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 89.54 points, or 1.6 percent, at 5,609.39 while Germany's DAX fell 92.10 points, or 1.3 percent, to 6,787.56. The CAC-40 in France was 64.69 points, or 1.7 percent, lower at 3,695.73.
Wall Street was poised to open lower on its return from the Thanksgiving break - Dow futures were down 90 points, or 0.8 percent, at 11,065 while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures fell 15.10 points, or 1.3 percent, to 1,184.30. U.S. markets will be open only for a half day.
Stocks weren't the only financial assets feeling the heat Friday. The euro was down another 0.8 percent on the day at $1.3241, just above its earlier fresh two-month low of $1.3199.
Meanwhile, the cost of borrowing for the countries at the epicenter of Europe's debt crisis ratcheted up again, in a fresh sign that Ireland's request for a massive bailout last weekend has done nothing to ease fears that another country, possibly Portugal, or more dangerously Spain, will be the next victim.
The prevailing view in the markets is that Europe may be able to support Portugal but that a bailout of Spain would test the limits of the existing bailout fund, putting the euro project itself in jeopardy if governments don't put up more cash. Spain accounts for around 10 percent of the eurozone economy, in contrast with the other three countries, which account for around 2 percent each.
Spain's yield on its ten-year bond yields rose 0.05 percentage point to 5.22 percent, while Portugal's remained elevated just above 7 percent.
Portugal was in focus Friday as its Parliament approved a plan to hike taxes and cut salaries and welfare benefits next year. The minority government insists it won't need financial rescue, saying the austerity measures will restore fiscal health.
Investors are clearly not so confident.
"There has been no respite this week for the eurozone as the financial markets remain unconvinced about the future viability of monetary union in its current format," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. "There is an uncomfortable brew of growth-deadening fiscal contraction that dents economic growth, which is actually worsening the ability of these economies to bring their government's debt dynamics back onto a sustainable basis."
As if Europe's debt crisis wasn't enough, tensions on the Korean peninsula ratcheted up again after fresh artillery fire was heard hours after North Korea warned it was on the brink of war.
The current bout of unease started on Tuesday when four South Koreans were killed after North Korea unleashed a brief hail of artillery against the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
With this geopolitical tension rising, the dollar garnered strength thanks to its perceived status as a safe haven asset - it was up 0.3 percent at 83.85 yen and 0.5 percent firmer against the British pound, at $1.5680.
Earlier in Asia, worries about an escalation between the Koreas weighed heavily on stocks, with Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closing down 0.4 percent to close at 10,039.56 and South Korea's Kospi 1.3 percent lower at 1,901.80.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.8 percent to 22,877.25 but Australia's S&P/ASX 200 bucked the trend, adding 0.1 percent to 4,598.30.
Chinese shares fell amid worries over tightening of monetary policy. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index declined 0.9 percent to 2,871.70, while the Shenzhen Composite Index for China's smaller, second exchange edged 0.4 percent lower to 1,332.90.
In the oil markets, benchmark oil for January delivery was down 85 cents to $83.01 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Associated Press writer Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.


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Syphilis is a notifiable disease in the entire region. In Norway and Sweden cases are reported anonymously using a non-unique identifier. Norway only report infectious (primary, secondary and early latent) syphilis, while in the other countries all syphilis stages or all positive serological tests are reported. All the countries report only laboratory confirmed cases. Due to an increase in private and informal health systems, the number of non-reported cases in Russia has probably increased during the last few years.
Figure 12. Number of cases of syphilis notified in 2003 per 100 000 population (1).
The incidence of syphilis in the Nordic countries was greatly reduced in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of these cases were heterosexuals who acquired their infection abroad. Since the late 1990s, the situation has worsened in Denmark, Norway and Sweden due to increased incidence among men who have sex with men. Syphilis seems now once again to be endemic in this group. A high proportion (20-30%) of the gay men acquiring syphilis during the last few years was HIV positive (14).
Figure 13. Number of cases of syphilis notified per 100 000 population 1999- 2003 by groups of countries or regions (1). Komi, Pskov, Novgorod and Vologda regions not included.
The situation has been very different in Northwest Russia and the Baltic countries. In the early 1990s, Northwest Russia and the Baltic countries experienced record high incidence rates for syphilis. The reason for this seems to be political and social changes, resulting in changing sexual behaviour and delays in treatment that caused patients to remain infectious for longer periods. The syphilis epidemic in the eastern part of the region reached its peak around 1995-96, and the incidence rates are still dropping (figure 13). The proportion of self presenting cases versus cases detected through screening has declined. Incidence rates are still much higher in the eastern part compared with the western part of the region. In Finland, an increasing number of cases have been reported among heterosexuals living close to the Russian border. The overwhelming majority of cases in the Baltic countries and Northwest Russia are among heterosexuals with a high number of cases among the young, the unemployed, substance abusers and sex workers. A study from 2000 where blood left inside syringes handed in at a syringe exchange programme in St. Petersburg were tested for treponemal antibodies, showed that 6.9% of the blood samples were positive (8). A prevalence study in 2002 among drug users in St. Petersburg showed that 12% had syphilis seromarkers, and that positive markers was nine times higher in females than in males, and strongly associated with sex work (15). In Russia, increasing numbers of infections occur among pregnant women, with resulting increase in reported congenital syphilis.
Condom availability, easy access to testing sites, contact tracing and risk information are important elements in the preventive strategy in all the countries in the region. NGOs have in the Nordic countries played an important role in the outreach activity and prevention among men who have sex with men. Different screening programmes have been developed for different risk groups in the region. While voluntary screening in the western part of the region is restricted to pregnant women and risk groups like men who have sex with men, much more extensive screening programmes remain in Northwest Russia, like screening of non high risk groups like health care workers and food handlers.


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British councils to blitz squalid beds-in-sheds that house illegal immigrants
TOWN hall bosses have sent special teams to stamp out illegal "beds in sheds" set up by unscrupulous landlords exploiting new Eastern European migrants.
As the first coach loads of Bulgarians and Romanians roll into Britain, the specially-trained workers will use thermal imaging equipment to locate squalid accommodation in outbuildings.
Rising rents and overcrowding means the problem has reached epidemic proportions in London, where most foreigners are expected to stay.
Last night the capital was put on red alert hours before packed coaches arrive at Victoria station later today.
Council officials in Harrow in north-west London, which is already home to 5,000 Romanians, have found evidence of hundreds of migrants living in appalling conditions.
The authority is investigating 100 cases where desperate families pay rogue landlords £50 each a week to share a grubby mattress in a freezing outbuilding.
Council bosses vowed to prosecute those exploiting the most vulnerable in a borough where more than 4,000 people are waiting for social housing.
Tory council leader Susan Hall said: "The rise in beds in sheds and overcrowding is now significant in parts of London and the likely influx [of eastern European migrants] is going to turn the pressure up on housing even further."
Harrow has had to draft in hundreds of extra Romanian and Bulgarian interpreters as it prepares to be bombarded for information about benefits, housing and schools.
Last month Prime Minister David Cameron visited a house raided by immigration officers in Southall, west London, and saw an outhouse strewn with bare mattresses.
The scourge of backyard sheds have been described as dragging London back to the 19th century Victorian slums.
Frustrated councils have found themselves hamstrung by the planning system as outbuildings rarely require permission.
Also, by law, inspectors must give 24-hours notice before making a visit, giving landlords plenty of time to hide evidence.
As reported by the Daily Express yesterday, the exodus from Romania and Bulgaria started in earnest on Thursday night as the first coaches left their homes and started their marathon 1,600-mile trip. Double-decker buses – emblazoned with the words Romania-Anglia across the front – rolled out of bus stations in Bucharest with those on board paying £100 for the journey through Europe.
MigrationWatch UK has estimated that as many as 350,000 could arrive in the UK within seven years, potentially costing taxpayers £12billion by 2021.
Across Britain, cash-strapped councils, who fear the arrival of huge numbers of migrants, are bracing themselves for the floodgates to open stretching their resources to breaking point.
Tony Prosser, area commander for West Midlands Fire Service, warned: "The potential influx of migrants will exacerbate the demands on housing and...increase the use of beds in sheds, beds in garages and the use of derelict premises by people unable to afford housing and living outside the benefit system."
Romanians have told the Daily Express of "pioneers" heading to Britain on benefits and accommodation fact-finding missions, before reporting back.


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Picnics became protests Monday as women and men stuffed their faces on the London Underground's Circle Line.
The public dining — organized under the banner, "Women who eat wherever the f — k they want" — was a response to a Facebook group, "Women who eat on the tube."
Set up by Tony Burke, an artist and filmmaker, he invited people to post photographs of women eating on the subway, snapped without their notice.
Visitors were also invited to comment — reportedly, these have focused on the women's appearance and have been generally misogynistic and laddish.
Many women and not a few men find this creepy and sexist. Why, for example, are men not included? What about privacy?
And how do Mr. Burke's actions differ from those of the (presumably) adolescent males who set up a website to grade the sex appeal of female students at a Toronto-area Roman Catholic school?
Lucy Brisbane McKay, a student at Goldsmith's College in London who helped organize Monday's eat-in, said she did it to support women who might feel intimidated.
"This is about turning it around and getting the power and putting the joke on the lads posting on the page," she told The Daily Telegraph.
"I thought the best way to beat it was to take it back to basics and say whether you find it funny or not, you can't argue that women who get on the Tube feel intimidated to eat on the Tube, directly because of the page and that's a problem and no one can argue that."
Mr. Burke's group, which was set up in 2011, came to public attention last week.
Sophie Wilkinson, a journalist with The Independent newspaper, wrote a piece describing how she felt "hurt and humiliated" after her picture ended up on the Facebook page.
"I'd like to know the name of her finishing school," read a comment under her image.
"I was the butt of a joke without my knowledge, in front of thousands of strangers. I'd been 'stranger-shamed'" she said.
For his part, Mr. Burke is attempting to cloak his project in the respectability of "high art." It's not stranger-shaming; it's the London equivalent of wildlife photography, he claims.
"At its truest form, it should cherish its subjects in the way a wildlife photographer cherishes a kingfisher in a river," he said.
Mr. Burke says he was travelling on the Tube when he noticed there were more women eating while travelling than men.
His "creative brain" started buzzing, and so he surreptitiously snapped a few pictures and posted them on Facebook. His friends received them well, so he decided to create a group specifically for the pictures.
He chose to make it all-women based because he needed a niche.
"If it was called 'people who eat on Tubes', it wouldn't be the same," he said. "I thought I might as well call it something, so I called it women eating on the Tube. It was what it is and it's utterly pointless."
Facebook has now closed the page to outsiders. At last count, the group had more than 24,000 participants.
Writing for the webzine Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams argued the photos were little more than voyeurism.
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First Day of Transatlantic Crossing, Day 9.
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I woke up fairly early today as we gained another hour last night, but I didn't feel like having breakfast so I just read in my room for a while and took a little nap before lunch. I went to look for Sasa but he wasn't where we thought he would be, so I went up to the Lido deck to see Stan, and he talked me into sitting in his section and eating lunch there. It was funny because it had gotten pretty crowded while we were talking and he had to find me somewhere to sit, and then he was bringing me water and juice, when that's not his job up on the Lido deck. After lunch, I did laundry and went to the Newlywed Game, which is always hilarious. I took another little nap after I got the laundry done, and then I went down to the repeat guest party they had before dinner. They basically wanted us to sign up for another cruise, which I am going to do anyway, and then we got $100 credit on the next cruise. So that was a good deal, and then I went to dinner. The show after dinner was "Ticket to Ride", which was a tribute to the Beatles. It was a good show, and then I ended up back at the piano bar again. I just can't believe how fast this is going by, but I'm having a great time. We are going to be at sea for another four days after this, and it will be fun. We have gotten in the routine of closing the Piano Bar with Brad and going up to the Lido deck at 2 am for pizza. I am really enjoying the trip.


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Professor Jeffery shows us how the Kaiser's War had a truly worldwide impact, both geographically and ethnically, as it swept into its arms a huge variety of people, as combatants and otherwise, with examples of Africans of many races, Armenians, Chinese, Ethiopians, Maltese, Senegalese, Senussi, Tajiks, Uzbeks, West Indians, Kyrgyz and many others. Beyond the warring countries he also shows how the global reach of the war affected distant neutrals, for instance by cutting off their trade with the Central Powers. To encapsulate this in one volume he focuses on the year 1916, and within that majors on particular aspects of the conflict. For the central theatre of the war the chapters pivot on specific events - the Dardanelles, Verdun, Jutland, the Somme - whereas other sections focus on specific (but vast) geographical areas. In this way we visit (for instance) Sinkiang, Tientsin, Micronesia, Togoland and what is now Namibia. To make this system work he usefully sketches in the background - how each campaign came to be - and how each was related to others, for instance how the disastrous entry of Romania into the conflict came to be, and how it affected the Italian front, and, further, the entire outcome of the war. The vignettes relating to more minor participants are quite fascinating and I found them extremely informative, reflecting the depth of his (meticulously sourced) research into each. So also the coverage of the ethnic makeup of (for instance) the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish armies, for the former of which my own primer has long been Jaroslav Hacek's 'Good Soldier Schweik'. We see how the long arm of Russia reached out into Central Asia for conscripts, an example of how many of the ethnicities in the warring empires did not entirely grasp why they had to be involved and were thus destabilised and their parent empire with it. The Islamic dimension to the war is well covered.
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Given that this is a huge task I would question the relevance of the space given to the German-backed Dublin rebellion (Casement's treason is here well demonstrated), miniscule in military impact compared to the Somme or Verdun. This seems to me to have been shoehorned in to showcase the Irish dimension of the author's scholarship, something I suspect of some other entries. It is further strange that any comparison should be sought between this and the situation in occupied Belgium under the German jackboot, with its deportations and forced labour (later we are shown the slavery and dispossession inflicted on the Lithuanians). The thousands of Irishmen who volunteered to fight in the British Army against German aggression and tyranny could see which way was up. While we are shown the cultural impact of the war in Turkey, Australia and New Zealand and elsewhere, I note we do not see southern Ireland sliding afterwards into civil war and its long night of backward bigotry.
In Belgium (and elsewhere) the author does bring to life the ghastliness of the experience for the population although the Germans get away without mention of their inventing the deliberate aerial bombing of civilians visited on that neutral country, of which same neutrality Germany was itself a guarantor, although we are shown the Germans deliberately bombing clearly marked hospitals on the Russian front.
At sea I do question some of the judgments such as the apparent conclusion that Jutland was a draw, which does not reach out to the German failure then or ever to achieve its strategic aim, the destruction of the Royal Navy's blockade. Any German whining about it belies their own classification of food shipments as contraband. It should be noted that our blockade did not involve the sinking of merchantmen and thus the murder of their civilian sailors, unlike the German U-boat campaign, conducted in breach of the established international Conventions. The blockade itself is well covered in Nigel Hawkins' 'The Starvation Blockades' (Pen & Sword 2002), which might have deserved admission to Jeffery's eighteen-page bibliography. It is to the point that the use of Armed Merchant Cruisers avoided the Blockade having a negative effect on our main Fleet activities. The final test of our victory was the collapse of the inactive, bottled-up High Seas Fleet into Communist mutiny.
The brief reference to the West Indian contribution to the war conflates the British regular army West India Regiment, two battalions recruited in Jamaica, with the eleven battalions of the British West Indies Regiment raised by the Colonial Office across all the islands and British Honduras. Five BWIR ORs were awarded Military Medals (one of them a Bar) after extinguishing fires in an ammunition dump in Belgium that was hit by an incendiary bomb in the middle of the night. Possibly because they were ill-equipped, the West Indians suffered badly from the cold European winter which is why they were eventually deployed to Taranto essentially as dock labour.
Jeffery briefly alludes to the capture of German Cameroon in 1915. The number of different African colonies contributing troops to this is well covered at www.kaiserscross.com/188001/264701.html (which website hosts a number of other items relating to the war in Africa and elsewhere). The expedition relied on considerable Royal Navy support including two 6" guns disembarked from a cruiser onto a dredger and a lighter derisively christened Dreadnought and Iron Duke, later augmented by a number of other ships' guns fought from a variety of craft. The 4,600 battle casualties, including two RN post-Captains but otherwise mostly unsung Africans, were totally outnumbered by the 36,000 sick, from tropical ulcers, malaria, dysentery, pneumonia, rheumatism, jiggers in bare feet, and, among the French, self-inflicted beri-beri. For this side-show no Battle Honour was awarded. This campaign brought out the different approaches of the Germans and British to colonial administration - we had only a couple of machine guns per battalion, the Germans many more. In general our management of our colonial subjects comes out of Jeffery's narrative as superior in terms of basic humanity to that of other European Powers.
In spite of the appalling casualties the Somme must surely be regarded as a strategic victory, both for the irreplaceable attrition it imposed on Germany but more for the pinning of German forces so that they could not reinforce of Verdun - this saved the entire western front from collapse. It could be argued that detailed territorial objectives were set merely to give structure to operations. Here again the narrative sometimes has a somewhat intrusive Irish accent. The point is well made as to how the battle gave an identity focus to Ulstermen and Newfoundlanders just as Gallipoli has to Australia and New Zealand, albeit with some historical distortion in the Gallipoli case.
The book then moves east to the labyrinth of Greek and Balkan politics, where the Austro-Hungarians showed they had nothing to learn from the Germans in terms of frightfulness, and the Salonika campaign whose near half million casualties, a third of them from malaria, are nowadays pretty much forgotten. Further east we go to the war in Egypt and Palestine, for which I recommend Michael J Mortlock's 'The Egyptian Expeditionary Forces in World War 1' (McFarland 2011). For a light-hearted look at the local participants see CS Jarvis' 'The Back Garden of Allah' (John Murray, 1939). As to the parallel Arab Revolt, Jeffery is much mistaken in describing the British contribution as 'mostly in the form of munitions and money'. Indeed we bankrolled and supplied it, but the Royal Navy played a pivotal role via shore bombardment and landing parties, as described by John Johnson-Allen, in his 'TE Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol' (Pen & Sword 2015). The Franco-British carve-up of the area, which is still giving trouble to put it mildly, is well explained.
The chapter on the neutral USA in 1916 chronicles the German sabotage campaign and also the shadow boxing of the intelligence and propaganda war being played out there by Britain and Germany, for which I take it the prime reference would be Jeffery's 2011 'MI6: the Official History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949'. In that context I found it strange that the eventual entry of the USA into the war was ascribed pretty much to German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare without any mention of the Zimmerman telegram of January 1917, a naval intelligence coup if ever there was one.
The collapse of Russia in 1917, again with intelligence insights, starts with the killing of Rasputin at the very beginning of the year. What I see from the narrative is a general unrest in 1916 caused mostly be bad organisation of food supply providing and preparing the ground for Lenin. Ironic that the German's clever trick of smuggling Lenin to Russia to break the Russian state turned round and bit them.
The summary at the end takes the narrative right up to the present with its accounts of reconciliation ceremonies and the like from the end of the war onward. For me this chapter is shot through with woolly false equivalence between the Allies who died in an honourable cause and its enemies who died in an evil one. Somehow we then find ourselves back, metaphorically, in Ireland - I find this contrived.
One would have liked more maps. There will be other readers unfamiliar with, for instance, the geography of the Balkans, Central Asia, Mesopotamia, Transylvania, or German Cameroon, particularly as to their political geography at the time. The illustrations however are an excellent, and to me generally unfamiliar, selection; they include examples of contemporary war, or rather anti-war art.
Throughout the author finds space to rub our noses in the true horrors of the war, of life in a trench with human limbs sticking out of its walls and the stench of putrefaction from unburied corpses so vile that one man could not bring himself to eat for four days. I found this book highly educational; a 21st century Time Machine that truly takes one back a hundred years. The author is not slow to correct the received popular view of particular events. He certainly broadened my somewhat British-oriented understanding of the conflict.
1916 - A Global History
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