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Byline: by Mike Harris
1. Identify the 1-2-3 of the Welsh Sports Personality of the Year contest announced not long before Christmas 2008.
2. Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) published seventeen novels during a writing lifetime, three of which had the central characters' names included in their titles. Identify them.
3. What have these Roads in common ?
Anfield, Carrow, Filbert, Maine, Portman and Vicarage.
4. Which of the five Tudor monarchs(1485-1603) were male and which, female ?
5. What are the origins of 'Strictly Come Dancing' as the programme's title ?
6. If the first letter is subtracted from a famous English East Coast river, why are we then in the world of pigments ?
7. What is the full name of the UK organisation known popularly as The National Trust?
8. Complete this recent and clever Daily Telegraph headline: G***Y ! R********'S JAM BITES THE DUST.
9. Which movie(1990) starring Jeremy Irons (for which he won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actor) and Glenn Close, told of the alleged attempted murder of Sunny von Bulow, the New York socialite, by her husband, Claus.
10. Fill in the missing words in this somewhat risque limerick . 'There was a young lady named Cager/Who as the result of a *****/Consented to fart/The whole oboe ****/Of Mozart's Quartet in F *****.'
1. The 1-2-3 in the pre-Christmas WSPY - 2008 were Shane Williams, Nicole Cooke and Joe Calzaghe. Other winners were as follows: Cardiff City for their heroic cup final exploits, footballer Aaron Ramsey and golfer Amy Boulden received the male/female Carwyn James Junior Sportspersons awards and Welsh snooker's elder statesman, Ray Reardon, got a Lifetime Achievement Award.
2. The three novels were 'The Hand of Ethelberta'(1876), 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles(1891) and 'Jude the Obscure'(1896). …


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In the film, Firth plays King George IV, who became the King of England after his brother abdicated the throne. The only problem: George has a terrible stammer, and as England moves towards the brink of World War II, he must learn to overcome it with the help of an unconventional speech therapist (Rush). Guiding George along the way is his wife, played by Bonham Carter.
The film is already generating major Oscar buzz, and some say that Firth could walk away with the Best Actor Oscar. Will it actually happen? We'll find out in February. For now, though, check out the exclusive poster for 'The King's Speech,' then be sure to see the film when it opens in limited release on Nov. 26.
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A day after the government ruled out any decontrol of diesel prices, the countrys largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said it will invest Rs 1,700 crore to set a diesel engine plant with a total annual production capacity of 3 lakh units, at its Gurgaon facility by 2014.
The announcement came after the companys board of directors approved the plan earlier in the day.
On Friday, petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy had ruled out decontrol of diesel prices. Earlier in the Budget the government did not levy any additional excise duty on the diesel vehicles which has also led the manufacturers to go ahead with their plans.
Prior to the Budget, manufacturers like Maruti and Hyundai had put on hold their diesel unit plans because of lack of clarity on diesel pricing. A government-appointed committee had suggested levying additional duties on diesel vehicles to check surging sales of such vehicles on the back of lower prices of the fuel compared to petrol.
The idea was that subsidised diesel does not fuel passenger vehicles, which are not used by the poor sections of the society.
Diesel vehicles cost more than their petrol variants. Further, the companies feared that if the government decontrolled diesel prices the incentive to buy such vehicles would go away and therefore had put on hold such plans. However, now such apprehensions have been cleared. We are going to invest Rs 1,700 crore to set up the diesel plant, which will be constructed inside our Gurgaon manufacturing facility. This will be a brand new unit and will be owned by the company, Maruti chairman RC Bhargava said after the companys board meeting.
The company will build the plant in phases and will start operations by mid-2013 with an initial capacity of 1.5 lakh units a year, he added.
In the first phase, we will invest Rs 950 crore. After that, we will double the capacity to 3 lakh units per year by 2014 and it will entail a total investment of Rs 1,700 crore, Bhargava said.


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SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate (Level 3)
SIZE: One Size Finished Circumference About 20 in. (51 cm)
Finished Height About 11 in. (28 cm)
Note: Hat will stretch to fit a range of sizes.
CORRECTIONS: None
2 pattern reps = about 4 in. (10 cm) in pattern. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
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Making a Gauge Swatch
sc2tog (sc 2 sts together) Insert hook into st and draw up a loop. Insert hook into next st and draw up a loop. Yarn over, draw through all 3 loops on hook - 1 st decreased.
sc4tog (sc 4 sts together) Insert hook into st and draw up a loop. (Insert hook into next st and draw up a loop) 3 times. Yarn over, draw through all 5 loops on hook - 3 sts decreased.
1. Hat is worked from lower edge upwards.
2. If you find it difficult to join the beg ch into a ring without twisting the ch, Rnd 1 can be worked as a row then joined into a rnd, as follows: Ch 61, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each remaining ch across; join with sl st in first sc. Proceed to Rnd 2. When weaving in ends, use the beginning tail to sew ends of first row together.
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|Part I: Setting the Framework
|Introduction and Course Overview: Diversity and Change in Urban Neighborhoods
|Frameworks for Analyzing Urban Neighborhoods I
| Ferguson, Ronald F., and Sara E. Stoutland. "Reconceiving the Community Development Field." In Urban Problems and Community Development. Edited by Ronald F. Ferguson, and William T. Dickins. Brookings Institution Press, March 1999, pp. 33-68. ISBN: 0815791399.
Keyes, Langley C. "Housing Social Capital and Poor Communities." In Social Capital and Poor Communities. Edited by Susan Saegert, Phillip J. Thompson, and Mark R. Warren. Russell Sage Foundation, January 2001, pp. 136-161. ISBN: 0871547333.
|Frameworks for Analyzing Urban Neighborhoods II
| Sassien, Saskia. "Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims." In Cities and Citizenship. Edited by James Holston. Durham, Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 177-194. ISBN: 0822322749.
Sellers, Jeffrey. "The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis." Urban Affairs Review 37, no. 5 (May 2002): 611-641.
Tienda, Marta. "Demography and the Social Contract." Demography 39, no. 4 (November 2002): 587-616.
|Neighborhoods and Community
| Sampson, Robert. "What Community Supplies." In Urban Problems and Community Development. Edited by Ronald F. Ferguson, and William T. Dickens. Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution Press, March 1999, pp. 241-279. ISBN: 0815791399.
Dionne, E. J. "The Quest for Community (Again)." The American Prospect 10 (Summer 1992).
McKnight, John. "Regenerating Community." Social Policy (Winter 1997).
|Neighborhood Diversity and the Metropolitan Community
|Kennedy, and Leonard. Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices. Washington D. C.: Brookings Institution, April 2001, pp. 1-41.
Bollens, Scott A. "In Through the Back Door: Social Equity and Regional Governance." Comments by Myron Orfield and Mark Alan Hughes. Housing Policy Debate 13, no. 4.
|Community Development I: Context, Origins, and Transformations
|Yin, Robert K., and Douglas Yates. "Economic Development." In Street Level Governments. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1975, pp. 141-155.
Smith, Steven. "Civic Instrastructure in America: Government and the Non-profit Sector." Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.
O'Connor, Alice. "Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A View from History." In New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives. Edited by James P. Connell, et al. Queenstown, MD: Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families, Aspen Institute, 1995, pp. 23-63.
|Community Development II: The Current Scene
| Walker, Christopher J., and Mark Weinheimer. Chapters 1 and 5 in Community Development in the 1990s. Executive Summary. Washington, D. C.: Urban Institute, 1998. ISBN: 0877666954.
Stoecker, Randy. "The CDC Model of Urban Redevelopment: A Critique and Alternative." Journal of Urban Affairs 19, no. 1 (1997): 1-43. (Also replies by Bratt, Keating, and Stoecker.)
Kingsley, Thomas G., Joseph B. McNeely, and James O. Gibson. Community Building Coming of Age. S. I.: The Urban Institute, 1997.
|Community Organizing in the Neighborhood I
|Castells, Manuel. "Neighborhood Mobilization in San Francisco's Mission District." In The City and the Grassroots. Berkley: The University of California Press, 1983, pp. 106-137.
Stall, and Stoecker. "Community Organizing or Organizing Community?: Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment." Gender and Society 12, no. 6 (1998): 729-756.
Glickman, and Servon. "More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity." Housing Policy Debate 9, no. 3.
|Community Organizing in the Neighborhood II
| Delgado, Gary. Organizing the Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, pp. 13-28 and 63-90. ISBN: 0877223939.
Hertz, Judy. "Organizing for Change: Stories of Success." Paper presented on COMM-ORG. March 2002.
Chung, and Chang. "From Third World Liberation to Multiple Oppression Politics: A Contemporary Approach to Interethnic Coalitions." Social Justice 25, no. 3.
|Framework Reflection
|Newspaper Article and Handout with Questions for Discussion.
|Part II: Housing and Community Development
|Historic Perspective
|Radford, Gail. Chapters 3-7 in Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Sternlieb, and Listoken. "A Review of National Housing Policy." In Housing America's Poor. Edited by Salins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Chapter 2. ISBN: 0807841811.
|Historic Perspective II
| Marcuse, P. "Housing Policy and the Myth of the Benevolent State." Chapter 14 in Critical Perspectives on Housing. Edited by Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Ann Meyerson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0877223963.
"To House a Nation: An Overview." The Report of the President's Commission on Housing (1982): 17-35.
Keyes, and DiPasquale. "Housing Policy for the 1990s." Chapter 1 in Building Foundations. Edited by DiPasquale and Keyes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Hartman, and Stone. "A Socialist Housing Alternative for the United States." Chapter 29 in Critical Perspectives on Housing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0877223963.
|Public Housing and Community Development
| Bratt, R. "Public Housing: The Controversy and Contribution." Chapter 20 in Critical Perspectives on Housing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0877223963.
Stegman, Michael. "The Role of Public Housing in a Revitalized National Housing Policy." In Building Foundations. Edited by DiPasquale and Keyes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Vale, L. "Beyond the Problem Projects Paradigm: Defining and Revitalizing 'Severely Distressed Public Housing." Housing Policy Debate 4, no. 2 (1993).
|Managing the Housing Stock
|Stockard, J. H. A Guide to Comprehensive Property Management . Delft, Netherlands: Delft University Press, 1992, pp. i-vi, 1-61.
Bratt, Rachel G. Confronting the Management Challenge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 69-142.
Briggs, and Mueller. From Neighborhood to Community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 103-144.
Keyes, L. "Organizational Issues." Chapter 8 in Strategies and Saints. Washington, D. C.: Urban Institute Press, March 1, 1992. ISBN: 0877665605.
|Part III: Economic Development, Work, and Jobs
|Community Economic Development Part I: Place-based Strategies
Guest Speaker: Elisabeth Reynolds, PhD Candidate, DUSP
|Porter, Michael. "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City." Harvard Business School Review (May 1994).
Bendrick, and Egan. "Business Development in the Inner-City: Enterprise with Community Links." Community Development Research Center. February 1991.
|Community Economic Development Part II: Issues, Approaches, and Debates
|Alperovitz, Gar, Thad Williamson, and David Imbroscio. Chapters 4-11 in Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era. New York: Routledge Press, 2002. ISBN: 0415933560.
|Sources of Capital
|Parzen, and Keischnick. Credit Where Its Due. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 1-66.
|Main Streets
|Seidman, Karl. "Inner City Commercial Revitalization Applying the Main Street Model." Housing Policy Debate. 2003.
|Race and Community Building
|Thompson, J. Phillip. "Universalism and Deconcentration: Why Race Still Matters in Poverty and Economic Development." Politics and Society 26, no. 2 (June 1998): 181-219.
Hooks, Bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge Press, 2002. ISBN: 041592913X.
|Welfare, Work and Job Training
|Herr, et. al. "Making the Shoe Fit." In Project Match. December 1996, pp. 1-26 and 55-58.
Dressner, et. al. "Next Door: A Concept Paper for Place-Based Employment Initiatives." Corporation for Supportive Housing. September 1998.
|Crime, Security and Community Development
| Taub, Richard, P, D. Garth Taylor, and Jan D. Dunham. Chapters 1 and 8 in Paths of Neighborhood Change: Race and Crime in Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ISBN: 0226790029.
Herring, Darnell F., and Hawkins Cedric. "Race, Crime, and Punishment: Old Controversies and New Challenges." In New Directions: African Americans in a Diversifying Nation. Edited by J. S. Jackson. Washington, D. C.: National Policy Association. University of Michigan, November 7, 2000. ISBN: 089068152X.
Gonnerman, Jennifer. "The Neighborhood Costs of America' Prison Boom: Million-Dollar Blocks." Village Voice, November 16, 2004.
|Education and Community Development
|Traub, James. "What No School Can Do." New York Times Magazine, Sunday, January 16, 2000.
Noguera, Pedro. "Transforming Urban Schools Through Investments in the Social Capital of Parents." In Social Capital and Poor Communities. Edited by Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson, and Mark R. Warren. Russell Sage Foundation, 2001, pp. 189-212. ISBN: 0871547333.
Anyon, Jean. Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, September 1, 1997, pp. xiii-13. ISBN: 0807736635.
Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited. 75, no. 2 (November 8, 2001): 1-18.
|Health and Community Development
|Geronimus, Arline T., and J. Phil Thompson. "To Denigrate, Ignore, or Disrupt: Racial Inequality in Health and the Impact of Policy-induced Breakdown of African American Communities." In Racial Inequality in Health.
Henig, Robin Marantz. "The Genome in Black and White (and Gray)." New York Times, October 10, 2004.
|Faith-Based Organizations and Community Development
|Warren, Mark. "Race, Religion, and Community Activism: Developing Effective Strategies and Institutions to Address Structures of Racism. Prepared for The Project on Race and Community Revitalization, Aspen Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives." November 9, 1998.
|Labor and Community Development
|Thompson, J. Phil. "What Are Labors True Colors?" New Labor Forum (Summer 2004).


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December 25, 2010
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Lara Eichhorn says:
Cute. I hope that's a girl dog. Happy holidays (and vacation), Laurie!(12.25.10 @ 11:30 AM)
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I forwarded this to my mom. She feels like she and Zoe are famous now. Have a great time on your trip!(12.26.10 @ 08:57 PM)
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December 21, 2010
Whew! I feel as if I've been running a marathon. The marathon of portraits, praying for my safety while driving in snow and packing for my trip to Dayton to visit my family for Christmas. I bet I'm not the only one feeling a little battered and exhausted.
So what makes me happy when I'm tired and feeling a little bah-humbuggish? PUPPIES!!!
Luci, the Chihuahua, and Gus, the Maltipoo know how to bring on the holiday spirit.
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Love the smile on Gus!(12.21.10 @ 09:00 PM)
Charlene @ Sweetchic says:
Awww, cutie pies!! I love that Gus is SMILING!!(12.22.10 @ 10:12 AM)
Nicole Thomas says:
Sooooo adorable! I want to take them home...(01.18.11 @ 10:52 AM)
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December 20, 2010
Francesca belongs to the fabulous Misse Daniels of Honeybee Weddings. Francesca is the sweetest newborn! She gives procreation a great rep. Even when she's having a cranky moment, she's adorable.
The best thing for me to see is how at ease Misse is with her new baby. Not only is Misse a great wedding planner, but she is such a calm new mother. I know who I'm going to for mom tips when I have a baby! :)
Congrats, Misse + hubby! I bet these holidays are going to be magical for your growing family.
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You continue to put out amazing work. Keep it up and have a fantastic New Years!(12.29.10 @ 03:43 PM)
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Last Tango in Paris
|Release Date: January 01, 1972
|Running Time: 125 mins.
|MPAA Rating: NC 17
|Genre: Drama, Romance
Marlon Brando
Maria Schneider
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Jean-Pierre Léaud
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Summary:A landmark erotic drama and among Academy Award winning director Bernado Bertolucci's masterworks. Screen icon Marlon Brando plays a businessman who pursues a steamy affair with a young Parisian woman, played by Maria Schneider, on the grounds that it remains strictly sexual. While, for Brando, the affair is a means to forget his grief over his dead wife, for Schneider, it's a complication that sends her turbulent relationship with her fiancé, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, into a tailspin. An intelligent, visually rapturous exploration of how sexual obsession can be a dangerous drug with powerhouse performances from its leads.


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PERRY, Ga. (AP) — An ex-radiology technician convicted of filing inaccurate mammogram results for patients at a middle Georgia hospital has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of reckless conduct and a count of computer forgery.
Prosecutors have said 33-year-old Rachael Michelle Rapraeger of Macon entered nearly 1,300 negative mammogram results at Perry Hospital between Jan. 22, 2009 and April 1, 2010 that hadn't been reviewed by a radiologist.
Prosecutors have said 10 of the results were actually positive, and two of the patients died.
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Suns star Amar'e Stoudemire said he felt like all of the Portland Trail Blazers' eyes were focused on him.
So were their bodies, arms and hands. They met Stoudemire at every turn in the Suns' 105-100 loss Sunday to Portland in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
The Blazers fronted Stoudemire. They switched Nicolas Batum onto him. They doubled him before he had the ball when Jarron Collins was on the floor.
They looked like they were defending the two-man game of Stoudemire and Steve Nash with three players when a weakside defender would meet Stoudemire repeatedly at the point of his catch, far from the basket.
When he did have a one-on-one opportunity, it was still not ideal because he was going against Marcus Camby, whose defensive prowess and length were rough on Stoudemire. He had three of his shots blocked inside. He scored 18 but 10 of those came on second-chance hoops. His only and-one play came off a dive-in from the side rather than the usual pick-and-roll or transition methods.
"It's a sign of respect that the whole team was trying to guard me out there," Stoudemire said.
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On one play Sunday, Nash and Stoudemire ran screen-and-roll on the right side and four Blazers defenders were to the right of the lane.
The 19 shots Stoudemire took (he made only 8) is plenty, considering he averaged 15.4 this season. But he shot only three free throws after averaging 7.7 during the season.
Batum, a long-armed forward, used solid weakside defense and fronting efforts in the post on Stoudemire, a nice complement to Camby's and LaMarcus Aldridge's height.
"They slow the game down and they use their length and zone everything up," said Nash, who had to keep his dribble deep into shot clocks. "We were a little hesitant and maybe not decisive enough. You could maybe say that about our game in general. We didn't quite have the spirit or the energy we had collectively in the last few games of the regular season."
Even after winning Game 1 on the road and holding the Suns to 41.8 percent shooting, Portland coach Nate McMillan was not satisfied with how the Blazers defended the pick-and-roll. He said they were "a little soft" on pick-and-roll and switched defenders on Nash too much.
"We have to do a better job of controlling the ball and not letting them get into the paint," McMillan said. "They got the shots they wanted and they didn't make a few of those and a lot of those were open looks. If they knock down those shots, it may be a different ball game. You're trying to defend the 3-point line and they still got off 32 3s."
The Suns are practically in a must-win situation to avoid going down 0-2 and heading to Portland for Games 3 and 4. Only two NBA teams (Dallas in 2005 vs. Houston, Utah in 2007 vs. Houston) have lost Games 1 and 2 at home and won a best-of-seven, first-round series.
"We expect him (Stoudemire) to come back out more aggressive and more hungry, as well as the whole Phoenix Suns team," Camby said.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A Goldman Sachs analyst called gold a "slam-dunk" sell, but Alan Knuckman of Trading Advantage tells TheStreet's Jill Malandrino that he doesn't agree with that.
Based on price action, Knuckman said gold looks attractive, especially if it continues to hold the $1,300 level, which it has on a weekly basis.
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Bid to buy Peter Black factory fails in Trowbridge (From This Is Wiltshire)
Bid to buy Peter Black factory fails in Trowbridge
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Wiltshire Council's bid to buy the derelict Peter Black site in Trowbridge has been rejected.
The former factory has been empty for years, with GVA Grimley, the agent acting for the site's receivers, looking for a buyer.
Tim Martienssen, the council's head of service delivery, economy and regeneration, said: "Our offer was judged not to be big enough and they are now dealing with another offer, but will not tell us who that is from at this stage."
The council do not want to reveal what they offered while another party is negotiating with GVA.
Wiltshire and Trowbridge town councillor Graham Payne is angry that the former toiletries factory still stands derelict.
Cllr Payne, Trowbridge Area Board chairman, said: "Every time we walk past Peter Black it looks sadder and sadder. It represents a disservice to this town when you consider it overlooks the new cinema development."
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brandx says...
I heard that the site was going to be a care home or a large English style pub and eatery, but who really knows?
4:29pm Mon 31 Mar 14
will900cbr says...
5:48pm Tue 1 Apr 14
moonrakin wurzel says...
oh dear....
Anyway - who's paying business rates on this pile of rubble?
Surely there must e enough outstanding overdue rates on it to simply seize it in lieu of payment?
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WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) — A person critically injured when a tornado struck a worker camp in the western North Dakota oil patch has been identified as a 15-year-old girl.
McKenzie County Emergency Manager Jerry Samuelson didn't immediately release her name. He says she's in critical condition at a Minot hospital but he doesn't know the nature of her injuries.
Samuelson says he doesn't know why the girl was at the worker camp south of Watford City, but he says families do live at the camp.
The tornado hit the camp Monday night, damaging or destroying all of the 15 trailers there. Eight other people were treated at a Watford City hospital for lesser injuries.


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French Riviera Hijacked By Russian Mafia
Newscast Media — Countries from the former Soviet Union have such a tight hold on the region, that Riviera detectives expect an eastern connection to almost every crime.
"Everything from burglary and money laundering to vice is controlled by the Mob from former Communist countries," said one police officer, who was involved in the arrest of 69 members of a Georgian syndicate in March. "They're into everything, from the Russian prostitute rings in resorts like Cannes and St Tropez to gassing tourists in their villa and stealing everything they've got," said the police officer.
"Bosses are now based here permanently, with foot soldiers working for them, often flying in for set periods before returning home with their profits in cash. The numbers really are unprecedented at the moment."
Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said: "This is one of the best structured criminal organizations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation".
Another investigator, from the judicial police in Nice, told Le Figaro newspaper that he had recently been involved in the arrests of two eastern Mafia chiefs.
"One of them is involved in a vast money laundering operation in Spain and waiting to be extradited", said the officer.
"The other is suspected of masterminding the assassination of another rogue Georgian, and he organized a very violent settling of accounts, worthy of an action film, in a flat in Nice."
Laurent Laubry, a representative of the police union Alliance, said that many of the gang members were heavily armed ex-soldiers from Soviet regions such as Chechnya. He said that one of his colleagues was beaten up by four Chechens as he went to buy a packet of cigarettes last week.
"The undercover officer received a rain of blows to the face and was left for dead between two cars," said Mr Laubry, who described the "ultra-violent methods of these people, who have no morals, no rules, and who are often heavily armed and beefy."
After a decade on the run, Sicilian Godfather Giuseppe Falsone, was arrested in June, in Marseilles after a decade on the run. He was believed to have had plastic surgery and was using false identification while continuing to coordinate criminal activity, said local police. http://newscastmedia.com/frenchriviera.htm
Categories: News Tags: French Riviera, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Nice France, Provence France
Indian Woman Adopts And Breastfeeds Calf On Camera
Newscast Media Rajasthan, India — Out of the goodness of her heart, an Indian woman has decided to adopt three-day-old calf that was left orphaned when its mother died.
Chouthi Bai, who lives in Kilchu village, Rajasthan, breastfeeds the calf, that is now more than a month and a half old, three or four times a day.
"After her mother died, I held her in my arms and breastfed her. I nurtured her by feeding her my milk," she said when speaking to a Reuters reporter. "She was so young when the cow died. For me there is no difference between a calf and an infant," she said.
The calf, who follows Bai closely, is also fed bread and grass. "I feed her three-four times in a day, the same amount an infant requires in a day," Bai added. "Sometimes we have to feed her bread. We give her water to
drink and slowly she will grow on this diet. So, even in my absence she is fed. She will grow up eating grass. The gods will be pleased if I raise her."
A local man said that this if the first time anything like this has happened in the village, and that the calf goes along whenever Bai heads to the fields. http://newscastmedia.com/adopted-calf.htm
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Death row inmate kills self after death sentence is lifted
Newscast Media SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Less than week after a 70-year-old California inmate had his death sentence lifted, the man decided to hang himself in his cell.
San Quentin State Prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said that a guard found George Smithey on Saturday hanging from a noose made from bed sheets tied around his cell bars.
A Calaveras County judge overturned Smithey's death sentence Aug. 23, more than 20 years after he was convicted of killing a woman there during a 1988 break-in.
The judge ruled that Smithey was mentally retarded under state standards set years after his trial and therefore ineligible for the death penalty. His sentence was commuted to life without parole.
Robinson said he did not know whether Smithey had learned his death sentence had been overturned. Authorities found no note. http://newscastmedia.com/death-row-inmate.htm
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Republicans take 10-point lead over Democrats for the fifth week in a row
Newscast Media PRINCETON, NJ — The GOP leads Democrats by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.
These results are based on aggregated data from registered voters surveyed Aug. 23-29 as part of Gallup Daily tracking. This marks the fifth week in a row in which Republicans have held an advantage over Democrats — one that has ranged between 3 and 10 points.
The Republican leads of 6, 7, and 10 points this month are all higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup's history of tracking the generic ballot, which dates to 1942. Prior to this year, the highest such gap was five points, measured in June 2002 and July 1994. Elections in both of these years resulted in significant Republican gains in House seats. http://newscastmedia.com/gallup-august.htm
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French First Lady called a whore by Iran media
Newscast Media TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state media called France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" on Monday due to her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction.
The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, which Iran temporarily suspended but did not throw out after an international outcry. Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, could still face execution by stoning or hanging after a final review of her case, her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, told The Associated Press Monday.
The Kayhan newspaper, whose editor is a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,described Bruni-Sarkozy as a "prostitute" on Saturday in an article headlined "French prostitutes enter the human rights uproar."
The state-owned news website inn.ir carried similar remarks on Monday. "Although Bruni, the morally corrupt singer and actress of Italian (origin), was able to break the Sarkozy family and marry the French president, lately new reports have emerged about her affair with a singer," said the weekend report in Kayhan.
The media attack was in response to an open letter Bruni-Sarkozy wrote to Ashtiani that was printed in several French news outlets last week.
"How to remain silent after learning of the sentence against you?" Bruni-Sarkozy wrote, adding that the stoning would "deeply wound all women, all children, all those who have feelings of humanity."
"Deep within your jail cell, know that my husband will plead your cause tirelessly and that France will not abandon you," she wrote.Ashtiani was convicted in May 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the murder of her husband and was sentenced to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession she claims was made under duress.
Iran last month stayed her stoning, but authorities now say she has also been convicted of being an accomplice in her husband's murder. In a purported confession aired on state TV early this month, Ashtiani admits to unwittingly playing a role in the 2005 killing. She could also face a separate death sentence in that case. http://newscastmedia.com/bruni.htm
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2012 Bunkers With Canned Food And Water Become Hottest Investment
As we get closer to 2012, investors are not taking chances on what may or may not happen as predicted by astronomers and scientists. A large number of investors including the U.S. government are investing in underground shelters, should an event of catastrophic nature happen. Scientists have predicted that we could face one of the most powerful geomagnetic storms ever.
It is predicted that in 2012, there will be solar flares that will interfere with the earth's magnetic field. The Earth's magnetic field, our primary defense against harmful solar radiation, has begun to shrink. Russian geophysicists believe that the Solar System has entered an interstellar energy cloud. This cloud is energizing and destabilizing the Sun and all the planets' atmospheres. According to scientist Lawrence Joseph, The first cosmic croissant of the Carrington event hit Earth the next day, August 28, 1859, causing some of the most beautiful auroras ever seen. The northern lights don't normally extend down to Havana, Cuba, but this time they did, making the sky there appear as though it were stained with blood and on fire.
On September 1, 1859, the Sun erupted again, even more furiously. According to scientists' reconstructions, the second Carrington CME was dozens of times more powerful than average, weighing in at about 10 billion tons and 10 trillion trillion watts (trillions of times more than the sum total of all electrical, mechanical, combustible, muscular, animal, and plant energy than has been produced or consumed in the history of the planet). Traveling at about 5 million miles per hour, it was also one of the fastest ever recorded.
When CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) launch, they create a shockwave that slaps the solar wind, a sphere of charged particles, mostly protons. This impact causes what is known as an SEP (solar energetic particle) event, which accelerates everything in its path exponentially; most of these supercharged particles take an hour or less to reach the Earth's atmosphere, where they fuse nitrogen and oxygen atoms to create nitrates, which eventually settle as dust onto the poles. Were we hit today by a geomagnetic storm of equivalent strength to the Carrington event, our civilization could well be plunged into chaos. This is not an exaggeration. Rather, it is the consensus of those who presented at the National Academy of Sciences' report Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, published in December 2008. The report's executive summary says:
Because of the interconnectedness of critical infrastructures in modern society, the impacts of severe space weather events can go beyond disruption of existing technical systems and lead to short-term as well as to long-term collateral socioeconomic disruptions. Electric power is modern society's cornerstone technology, the technology on which virtually all other infrastructures and services depend…Collateral effects of a longer-term outage [such as would almost certainly result from a Carrington-scale space weather event] would likely include, for example, disruption of the transportation, communication, banking, and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of lack of refrigeration. The resulting loss of services for a significant period of time in even one region of the country could affect the entire nation and have international impact as well. Contributors from NASA, NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Air Force, a number of major universities, and advanced technology corporations gave evidence that a contemporary Carrington-scale event would lead to deep and widespread social disruption. Basic to this contention are the enormous changes to the United States' infrastructure over the past century and a half. Modern society is utterly dependent on electricity. The electrical system is the master system upon which all others depend. And it is vulnerable to historically large space weather events.
"Emergency services would be strained, and command and control might be lost," concludes the committee of National Academy of Sciences researchers, chaired by Daniel Baker, director of LASP, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Scientists have also noticed a migration in the poles and some go as far as to predict we could see a complete shift of the poles, where the North and South poles switch places. Should something like that occur, the entire map of the world would change, because earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would occur, tsunamis and tidal waves as high as five miles high would sweep the land, the power grid would shut down, and water would become scarce because it requires electricity to be pumped from the plants to its final destination.
Nobody knows how catastrophic these events would be come 2012, but one thing we know for sure is that the government is racing to complete hundreds of Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.B.S) several miles beneath the earth's crust. So the question is, who will qualify for room in these bunkers? Answer, the elite, powerful politicians, people in the medical field and a select few people of reproductive age who can continue the species, should the majority of the population get wiped out.
Plant life would be destroyed and animals too and it is suspicious that Bill Gates is funding a project in which all seed species in the world are being collected and stored 50 miles deep in an underground bunker in Norway. Now why would Bill Gates fund the collection of the seeds in the world? Another question is why won't the government warn people? The reason is because there would be massive panic. Remember hurricane Ike and Katrina in Louisiana and Houston how the freeways got clogged? In addition, there is just not enough room for everyone in the underground bunkers, so the rest of us who are left to fend for ourselves will have to develop Jason Bourne survival skills.
This is a subject the media is not allowed to touch. A lot of media elites have been promised rooms in these bunkers should a catastrophe occur. In exchange, media moguls advise their staff to keep mum about the topic, and ridicule anyone who raises it.
The majority of the population (90 percent) of the United States lives within 20 miles from the coast, so it is easy to see how 90 percent of the population can be wiped out, and the government would need people of breeding age to continue our civilization. As a journalist, I can only say, with all the secrecy and preparations being made by the government and elites, something's up.
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VIDEO: Sarah Palin Delivers Speech At Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally
Newscast Media Washington D.C. –On the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech, TV host and radio personality Glenn Beck kicked off the much anticipated "Restoring Honor" rally with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
"America today begins to turn back to God," Beck told the mostly conservative crowd, as they cheered throughout his speech.
The TV host also said that the rally would reclaim the civil rights movement, in a response to the accusation by Al Sharpton that Beck had hijacked the movement.
In her speech, Sarah Palin proclaimed how proud she was to have raised a combat veteran, who happens to be her son, and stressed the need to support the troops as well as take care of them and their families when they return home.
Palin said, "I must assume that you too, knowing that we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want, we must restore America, and restore her honor." She continued her speech by saying, "Now, I've been asked to speak today, not as a politician, no, something more. Something much more. I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier, and I am proud of that distinction. You know, say what you wanna say about me, but I raised a combat vet, and you can't take that away from me."
In his weekly radio/Internet address Saturday, Obama said: "Our nation's commitment to all who wear its uniform is a sacred trust that is as old as our republic … a moral obligation to uphold."
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Jimmy Carter's visit yields freedom for jailed American
Newscast Media PYONGYANG, North Korea — Former US President Jimmy Carter has arrived back in the US with an American whose release by North Korea he won. Mr Carter and Aijalon Gomes touched down in Boston, where their plane was met by Mr Gomes's family. Mr Gomes, who had been living in South Korea, was jailed in January after crossing into North Korea from China.
The insular nation's state-run news agency said leader Kim Jong-il had granted the former president's request to "leniently forgive" Mr Gomes. His friends and family applauded when the flight landed at Boston's airport shortly after at 1400 (1800 GMT) on Friday.
Mr Gomes, who appeared thin, embraced his mother and Mr Carter upon walking off the plane. The former president spent two days in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, before leaving with Mr Gomes, who had been working as an English teacher in South Korea.
The US state department said it welcomed Mr Gomes's release, but also stressed that Washington had played no official role in Mr Carter's trip.
"We appreciate former President Carter's humanitarian effort and welcome North Korea's decision to grant Mr Gomes special amnesty and allow him to return to the United States," state department spokesman Philip Crowley said. http://newscastmedia.com/carterjimmy.htm
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Baby Tiger Found At Airport Hidden In Suitcase
Newscast Media BANGKOK –A baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden in a suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran, was discovered by authorities at Bangkok's international airport, an official and a wildlife protection group reported Friday.
The woman, a Thai national, had checked in for her flight and her overweight bag was sent for an X-ray which showed what appeared to be a live animal inside, according to TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring group. The woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport before boarding her Sunday flight. The cub, estimated to be about 3 months old, was sent to a wildlife conservation center in Bangkok.
"The cub arrived at our unit Monday," said Chaiyaporn Chareesaeng, head of the Wildlife Health Unit at the Department of National Parks' Wildlife and Plant Conservation Center, where the animal was put under close supervision.
"He appeared exhausted, dehydrated and couldn't walk, so we had to give him oxygen, water and lactation," said Chaiyaporn. "We have monitored him closely. As of today, he looks better and can walk a little now."
The cub could have fetched about 100,000 baht ($3,200) on the black market in Iran, where it is popular to have exotic pets.
Wildlife experts say the number of tigers in Asia have plummeted over the years due mainly to habitat loss and poachers who sell their skins and body parts to booming medicinal and souvenir markets, mostly in China. Conservationists say the government needs to do more to eliminate trafficking networks that operate out of the country.
"We applaud all agencies that came together to uncover this brazen smuggling attempt," Chris R. Shepherd, TRAFFIC's deputy regional director for Southeast Asia, said in a statement.
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Glenn Beck Rally Gets Support From Christian Community
Newscast Media — Television and radio personality Glenn Beck will be joined by approximately 2,000 ministers and religious leaders are expected to attend Beck's "Divine Destiny" event Friday night ahead of the television and radio personality's more publicized "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday.
"Whether we care to believe it or not, our country is in our danger's hour," says Beck. "And there's only one answer."
Beck spent the past year trying to forge relationships with some of the biggest names in the Christian community an effort he admits has been extraordinary because of his faith and who he is.
Raised in a Catholic home, Beck has become increasingly popular among social conservatives for his political commentaries but has not been so easily embraced by Christian theological conservatives who regard Mormonism as heresy or, at best, non-Christian. Before deciding to stand by Beck, evangelical megachurch pastor Jim Garlow said he had to do a lot sorting and watched Beck as closely as he could.
"I have listened and watched very carefully regarding clues to Glenn's spiritual condition," said the lead pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, Calif.
"I have interviewed several people who have been with him and have talked very specifically with him regarding his own personal salvation," he added. And according to Garlow, Beck has said "unequivocally" that that he relies on the atonement of Jesus on the cross for forgiveness for his sins.
"[A]nd those are almost the exact words, "Garlow recalled in a five-page memo released this past Tuesday. "Few people use the term atonement. Glenn did. "Southern Baptist leader Richard Land was reportedly surprised to hear the Gospel so clearly on secular television.
"I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation – persons extremely well known in Christianity – and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), 'Glenn is saved,'" Garlow reported. "He understands receiving Christ as savior."
Still, Garlow made it clear that he doesn't see eye-to-eye with Beck on a number of things, including theology. But the megachurch pastor noted that everyone's theological understanding is off and that only the most arrogant would say that its 100 percent perfect.
"Here is my question: if your theology is off slightly, but you still trust exclusively in Jesus Christ's death on the cross for your salvation, and in his resurrection, are you still saved? Going to heaven? Yes," Garlow argued. http://newscastmedia.com/glennbeck.htm
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Walmart Attempts To Block Class Action Lawsuit
Newscast Media — In an attempt to block a class-action lawsuit, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has asked the US supreme court to freeze the lawsuit, which alleges the company systematically discriminated against female workers.The company is appealing an April court ruling which authorized the class-action litigation on behalf of an estimated 1.5 million women workers. The women say the company practiced widespread discrimination in its pay and promotion practices.
"The class is larger than the active-duty personnel in the army, navy, air force, marines, and coast guard combined – making it the largest employment class action in history by several orders of magnitude," Walmart argued in its petition to the court filed on Wednesday.The corporation is arguing that the petition involves too many people to proceed as one case.
Brad Seligman, the lawyer representing six female employees who are spearheading the case, said Walmart's appeal was an attempt to deny clients their day in court.
"The ruling upholding the class in this case is well within the mainstream that courts at all levels have recognized for decades," he said. "Only the size of the case is unusual, and that is a product of Walmart's size and the breadth of the discrimination we documented." The case was authorized by a divided 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals in April by a 6-5 decision.
The lawsuit was allowed to proceed on the grounds that its mere size should not be a reason to dismiss the case. Lawyers for Walmart insisted that the women named in the case should sue individually and that the size of the class action, which could in theory include as many as 1.5 million women, made it impossible to defend against. http://newscastmedia.com/walmart.htm
Categories: News Tags: Class Action Lawsuit, female workers walmart, Walmart, walmart lawsuit
Web site CandidateCheck.Net provides background check services on politicians
Newscast Media — CandidateCheck LLC today announced the availability of www.CandidateCheck.net, a website designed to allow candidates the opportunity to have their backgrounds and credentials confirmed by an independent third party source. Authorized by the candidate and conducted by its exclusive partner TalentWise, the background check will consist of a 10 year criminal record search, 10 year civil record search, 10 year employment verification, post-secondary education verification, professional license verification, and a national sex offender registry search. Candidates will have an opportunity to review and dispute the results of their background check prior to public release. Voters will see a summary report of any candidate that completes the check and can track who has been checked.
The organization was founded by David Doud and Todd Owens with a mission of leveraging workforce best practices to increase voter trust and confidence. According to Doud, "Because formal background screening is not a part of our election process, our democracy suffers. Voters' are left to their own devices to sort through the campaign noise and separate fact from fiction in choosing their candidates. If we can better inform just one voter through the adoption of this proven private sector practice, let's do it for the U.S.A."
"Over the past 20 years, pre-employment background screening has become an accepted, if not expected, part of the hiring process," said Todd Owens, general manager of TalentWise, a leading provider of employment screening solutions to thousands of businesses nationwide. "By conducting an appropriate level of due diligence, employers can improve workforce productivity and reduce the risk to their financial assets, their people, and their customers. We are pleased to assist CandidateCheck in its effort to extend the same level of due diligence to candidates for public office."
About Candidate Check: CandidateCheck was founded in 2010 by David Doud with the aim of building voters' trust in political candidates. Active in politics, David was surprised that in today's information rich world, there still didn't exist a place where voters could go for impartial verification about the men and women running for public office. Instead, what voters are faced with every election cycle is a deluge of information from all manner of sources, all of which are inherently biased. Add to this the almost daily news of a breaking political scandal and voters' skepticism increases and potential candidates are discouraged from
participating in such a grueling process. http://newscastmedia.com/candidatecheck.htm
Categories: News Tags: background check, background history, candidate check, politicians background history
Pellet Envy makes is to the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue Contest
Newscast Media Kansas City, MO — The current national barbeque champion, Pellet Envy, a competition barbecue team led by America's Pitmaster, Rod Gray, annual Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue in Lynchburg, Tennessee on October 22 and 23 of this year. Known as the Super Bowl of barbeque competitions, "The Jack" is the most prestigious two-day event in championship barbecue and includes more than eighty of barbecues top teams from across the United States and around the world.
The team currently holds the titles of Kansas City Barbeque Society 2009 Team of the Year and the best brisket cooks in the nation, and is currently in a heated race with several of the nation's top competitive barbecue teams to repeat as the KCBS Team of the Year.
"It is one of the highest honors of my barbecue career to get the opportunity to compete at 'The Jack' against the best of the best in the world of competitive barbecue for a seventh time," said Rod Gray, founder and pitmaster of the Pellet Envy Competition Barbecue Team. "It has been amazing for Pellet Envy to travel to the best barbecue contests week in and week out this year as the current national champions promoting barbecue and producing a consistent award-winning product. We look forward to showcasing our award winning barbecue for the judges at 'The Jack' this October."
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Conservatives prohibited from holding rally where Obama announced presidential run
Newscast Media –A conservative group by the name of Restore Our Constitution was denied a request by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, to hold a rally at Illinois' Old State Capitol both because of the site's prohibition of political events and also because of a lack of resources due to budget cuts.
The group was also denied because the site prohibits political demonstrations, yet it is the same place where Barack Obama announced his run for president and later his choice of Joe Biden for vice president.
An exception was made for Obama's events, the spokesman told the paper, because officials knew it would generate publicity for the site unparalleled to any other events. He claimed that 10 requests to hold events at the Old Capitol have also been denied recently, including non-political receptions.
Categories: News Tags: conservative group, Illinois state capitol, obama announcement
DNA Shows Hitler Was Part African Part Jewish
Newscast Media — A report from Belgian magazine, Knack which says it obtained saliva samples after tracking down 39 relatives from throughout Europe, as well as in America, indicates Hilter had both Jewish and African heritage in him."One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," Jean-Paul Mulders, the journalist who wrote the article, stated in his report.
Working with historian Marc Vermeeren, the samples were tested and were found to contain a chromosome called Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA), which is rarely found in Western Europeans.
"It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews," Vermeeren said in the article. It has always been suspected that Hitler had jewish blood in him, but this is the first time scientific data has backed up the claims.
Also according to J. A. Rogers, Adolph Hitler declares in Mein Kampf Negroes are "half-apes." There were from 20,000 to 24,000 Africans in German from 1933-1945. Many of these Africans married German women and bore half African and half German children. They were called "Rhineland Bastards."
Hitler, being the eugenicist that he was, sterilzed the majority of the blacks in Germany, and the rest disappeared in camps. For more information on the fate of black people who lived in Germany, read the book titled "German's Black Holocaust, by Firpo W. Carr, Ph.D. http://newscastmedia.com/adolf-hitler.htm
Categories: News Tags: Adolf Hitler, African background, DNA results, Hitler's relatives, Jewish background
DEA looking for Ebonics translators to interprete wiretaps
Newscast Media –The Drug Enforcement Agency has nine openings for people who are fluent in Ebonics – or African American patois, in order to interpret wiretapped conversations between suspected drug dealers. The interpreters would help the DEA decipher arrangements between criminals. Special Agent Michael Sanders said experts were needed to determine exactly what suspects were saying, which could be crucial in gaining convictions.
Sanders said: "You can maybe get a general idea of what they're saying, but you have to understand that this has to hold up in court. You need someone to say I know what they mean when they say 'ballin' or 'pinching pennies'. It has nothing to do with racial issues. It is a type of language recognised by different linguist services."
For those who are unfamiliar with Ebonics, 'ballin' means to succeed or do well at something, while 'penny pinching' means being tight with money or spending it begrudgingly.
Another DEA official said there was nothing "racial" about the hiring effort, identifying the white rapper Eminem as "one of the best speakers of Ebonics there ever was".
Ebonics, also known as African American Vernacular English, is an offshoot of American English. Characterized by pronunciation relating to speakers of Creole or West African languages, and the omission of the final consonant in words (han' instead of hand), it was defined by Robert Lee Williams, who coined the term in 1973, as English vocabulary with African linguistic structure. Detractors claim it is a dialect – or bastardisation – at best.
Professor H Samy Alim, an expert on black language and hip-hop culture at Stanford University, admitted he initially thought the new DEA recruitment drive was a joke but said it highlighted a serious issue.
He said: "It seems ironic that schools that are serving and educating black children have not recognized the legitimacy of this language, yet the authorities and the police are recognizing that this is a language that they don't understand. It really tells us a lot about where we are socially in terms of recognizing African American speech."
Walt Wolfram, professor of English linguistics at North Carolina State University, who has studied African American English for 40 years, said: "There is something of substance here. There are differences in terms of language and lexicon and so forth that are difficult to understand for most people, so it is an issue. What, of course, happens is it gets politicized and trivialized by the very term 'Ebonics.'"
The term derives from a blend of the words "ebony" and "phonics."
Here are a few phrases I have compiled for my readers:
Baller-blocking: To obstruct someone who is trying to accomplish something.
Bounce (verb): To depart, or to leave a venue.
Front (verb): To portray a false identity or put on a facade.
Grill (noun): One's personal space, or one's teeth. (Get in his grill.)
Hater (noun): A jealous person. (Don't be a hater.)
Ice (noun): Jewelry one wears like diamonds in earrings or chains. Someone who is "iced-out" is a person wearing a lot of diamond studded jewelry.
Pimp Juice (noun): Having qualities that appeal to the opposite sex. (I got all the pimp juice ladies be wantin'.) or Whassup pimp juice? Essentially pimp juice is similar to eye-candy.
Smack (verb): To talk smack is to say things that are inaccurate with the intention or angering another person. Basketballers do this a lot while dribbling. An example would be: You throw like your little sista, or in a boxing match you could say to the opponent, "You hit like a beyotch, is that all you got?"
Stun (verb): Similar to ballin' but manifesting itself through physical or material means. To stun is to ball but being able to back it up with some dead presidents.
Stunna (noun) A person who stuns. I'm the number one stunna.
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Jimmy Carter makes trip to N. Korea to free American
Newscast Media — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was expected to arrive in North Korea's capital city as early as Tuesday to negotiate the release of a U.S. citizen who has been detained since January of this year.
Senior U.S. officials have informed the press of Carter's plan to depart this week for North Korea on a "purely humanitarian mission" to free 30-year-old Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Gomes, a devout Christian from Boston who taught English in South Korea, was arrested on Jan. 25 and sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor for entering North Korea illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act."
Earlier this month, a team sent by the U.S. State Department to visit North Korea tried to free Gomes but was not granted permission to do so.
North Korea has reportedly requested a visit by a high-profile U.S. figure to gain the release of Gomes, and one U.S. official told The Associated Press that North Korea had agreed to free Gomes if Carter came for him.
Foreign Policy magazine, which first broke the news of Carter's trip, reported the former president as the top pick among several possible candidates to help secure Gomes' release. Others who were reportedly considered included Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
Last year, former U.S. President Bill Clinton had flown to Pyongyang to free two U.S. journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling of Current TV, who were sentenced to prison after illegally entering North Korea.
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Muslims start their own Facebook called IkhwanBook
Newscast Media –CAIRO, Egypt — Facebook has competition from the Muslim Brotherhood who have started their own social network called IkhwanBook. The user is greeted with the message, "Welcome in IkhwanBook Site where you can share your life with other muslim brothers over the world."
The site looks similar to Facebook, but users say it respects Islamic values better. It has more reserved use of photographs, less intrusion in the personal lives of members, and a different attitude to homosexuality.
Because the group is banned, The Muslim Brotherhood says they are using the Internet, partly because it is one of the few channels of communication left open to them in Egypt. The group is also banned from the airwaves and is also prohibited from publishing articles in newspapers. This group insists that it does not want to isolate itself from the world, nor to compete with Facebook.
However, some Muslims have criticised Facebook for not shutting down anti-Islamic sites, not to mention their unease about the more liberal attitudes and opinions that can be exchanged on Facebook.
Because the group is banned, some members have concerns that the government will identify them through their membership of Ikhwanbook. For now the site is only operating on a trial basis, and has been doing so for only a few months, but the site organizers intend to go full throttle at a later date as the membership increases. http://newscastmedia.com/khwanbook.htm
Categories: News Tags: ikhwan book, muslim brotherhood, muslim facebook, muslim social network
Rick Perry maintains lead over Bill White in latest Rasmussen poll
Newscast Media HOUSTON, TX– According to the latest Rasmussen poll neither candidate has been able to gain any ground among voters. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds Perry earning 49% support, while Democrat Bill White, a former mayor of Houston, receives 41% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Texas voters consider Perry a conservative. Forty-two percent (42%) view White as a liberal, while another 29% describe him
as a moderate.
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Texas was conducted on August 22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points. Perry has still refused to debate White unless the former Houston mayor releases all his tax returns. http://newscastmedia.com/perrywhiteaugust.htm
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Bloggers must pay for business license in Philly
Newscast Media — According to the Philadelphia City Paper, Internet bloggers who wish to continue their craft in Philadelphia are being asked to pay $300 for a business license, whether or not they generate revenue from blogging.
According to the city's website, every individual, partnership, association and corporation engaged in a business, profession or other activity for profit within the city of Philadelphia must file a Business Privilege Tax Return. Whether the blog earns a profit does not matter.
Andrea Mannino of the Philadelphia Department of Revenue, told the City Paper that by choosing the option to make money from ads — regardless of how much or little money is actually generated — qualifies a blog as a business. These business privilege taxes and licenses are far from popular in Philadelphia. Smaller vendors have been crying foul about the city randomly cracking down on licenses and fees.
Many Philadelphians who didn't know that they owed taxes on their unprofitable blogs missed out on tax amnesty offered back in the spring. Still, not all bloggers are concerned with rushing to print out new tax forms. Many didn't even know about it until it was reported on Monday.
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New Character Images From Miyazaki Hayao's THE WIND RISES!
What a great day it is for fans of Miyazaki Hayao!
After releasing the new poster for his new film The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu), which gives the first close-up look at the film's main character, fresh images of the other characters of the film have also been released together with the names (in Japanese) of the voice cast.
It is interesting to look at the character drawings alongside the voice cast pictures, because there are quite a lot of resemblances between the characters and cast members.
At the top are the pictures of main character Horikoshi Jiro and Anno Hideaki (Neon Genesis Evangelion director) who is voicing the character of Horikoshi, as reported here earlier.
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Earlier this month we reported on the pending release of the HTC DLX to global markets. The HTC DLX is virtually a mirror image of the HTC DROID DNA recently released in the U.S. market. The device is almost certainly heading to Asian markets. When we reported on a possible name change to market the device as an HTC Deluxe, we wondered whether the device would hit European markets. Unfortunately, the answer to that question appears to be "no."
According to a Facebook posting by HTC's German account, the device is not coming to European markets. The post was made in response to another Facebook user who was inquiring about some images that had surfaced. This turn of events is some bad news for European buyers as we have found the DROID DNA to be an extremely capable device and would expect the HTC DLX to match its performance.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – One has been an iconic Michigan landmark since 1957; the other, a goaltending standout in the state since 2002. Now, these two institutions have come together in a new mask worn by Grand Rapids Griffins goalie Joey MacDonald that prominently features the Mackinac Bridge and the pair's shared nickname, "Mighty Mac."
The brainchild of MacDonald and Griffins equipment manager Brad "Dogg" Thompson, the design showcases a painting of the bridge atop the mask, beneath the "Mighty Mac" moniker. The sides of MacDonald's mask feature the Detroit skyline and a depiction of Chris Osgood's mask – honoring his former teammate's 401 career wins – while the back displays the names of MacDonald's two children, Camden and Kendall.
MacDonald, who has been sidelined with a concussion since Nov. 5, is expected to return to the Griffins' lineup and debut his new mask this weekend during the team's three-game road trip to Milwaukee (Friday at 8 p.m. EST), Rockford (Saturday at 8:05 p.m. EST) and Chicago (Sunday at 4 p.m. EST).
"I've spent so much time in Michigan, so instead of focusing on just Detroit or the Red Wings for this mask's design, I thought I would do something that involved the whole state. I think it turned out pretty well," said MacDonald, a native of Pictou, Nova Scotia. "The Mackinac Bridge reminds me of some long bridges that we have back home, and I think it's a nice little tribute to Michigan. This is a great place to live."
An 11-year pro, MacDonald has spent all or part of seven seasons with Michigan's preeminent hockey teams, the Red Wings and Griffins, Detroit's American Hockey League affiliate. He played four full campaigns in Grand Rapids from 2002-06 before returning to the team last season, and he ranks as the Griffins' all-time leader with 103 wins, 19 shutouts, 193 goalie games played, 10,871 minutes played and 4,946 saves. This season, MacDonald has posted a 5-4 record in nine appearances and ranks among the AHL's elite netminders with a 2.17 goals against average (T6th), a 0.930 save percentage (5th) and two shutouts (T4th).
MacDonald, 31, made his NHL debut with the Red Wings in 2006 and has played 23 games with the club during his career. Last season, he saw action in 15 games with Detroit, leading the Wings with a 2.58 GAA and a 0.917 save percentage while posting a 5-5-3 record and one shutout. MacDonald has totaled 87 NHL games over five seasons with Detroit, Boston, Toronto and the New York Islanders, showing a 23-43-12 record with a 3.19 GAA and two shutouts.
For Thompson, his inspiration came from memories of childhood visits to the Mackinac region. "I wanted to tie in something with Michigan, and I thought of my childhood and growing up and spending time up in Mackinac with my grandpa and my mom, walking the bridge on Labor Day," said Thompson, a Grand Rapids native who has been the Griffins' equipment manager since 2001 and has worked for the team since 1997. "I thought Joey MacDonald…the Mighty Mac…it might be something cool, so we went with the Mackinac Bridge. It's pretty neat.
"Joey's been up there once before and seen the bridge, but I'll have to take him up there in the summer and show him the area. When you see the history, the forts, the French influence, the fur trading, Father Marquette and all that, it's pretty incredible," added Thompson.
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Oct. 12, 2012
Roger J. Hoystrich, 65, of Sheppton died Friday evening at the Hazleton General Hospital.
He was born in Hazleton, son of the late Joseph and Dorothy (Francisci) Hoystrich. He was a member of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Sheppton. Prior to retiring, he was employed by PPL as a lineman. He is a member of the Hazleton Owls Club and the Slovak Club. âHe is survived by his wife, the former Kathleen Lorenz, and the following children, Lynn Ann Wolk and her husband, Paul, Zion Grove; Kimberly Davidson and her husband, Leon, Sheppton; Roger Hoystrich Jr., Oneida and Ryan Hoystrich, Sheppton; and three grandchildren, Austyn and Brandyn Davidson, and Jaydon Hoystrich; and several nieces and nephews. âThe funeral will be held at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday from the Frank J. Bonin Funeral Home Inc. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9 a.m. in St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church. Interment in the parish cemetery. Friends and relatives may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.
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Solid vs Veneer
Solid Koa moulding is, as the name implies, a solid piece of Koa wood that is shaped to a given profile.
Veneer Koa moulding is a thin layer of Koa wood that is applied over a less expensive, shaped substrata. This helps reduce the cost and "stretches" the supply of Koa available for mouldings.
It does not mean that the moulding is a "cheap" imitation. The use of wood veneers has been a long time practice in the moulding industry; making exotic woods more available and less expensive.
When the frame is completed anybody, woodworkers included, would have a very hard time distinguishing the two. Solid or veneer, when the frame is completed and on the wall, you only see the surface.


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"Journal of Women's Health is the primary source of information to meet the challenges of providing optimum healthcare for women. This authoritative peer-reviewed journal publishes the latest clinical and research papers on the medical health issues that affect women throughout their lifespan.
The Journal is the core resource for cutting-edge advancements and clinical applications on new diagnostic procedures, therapeutic protocols for the management of diseases in women, and innovative research in gender-based biology that impacts diagnosis and therapy.
The Official Journal of the American Medical Women's Association." (From publisher's website)
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One of the major disadvantages of the economic of quantity modal is that it involves tough and complex mathematical calculations. In order to calculate the EOQ modal a person must have significant knowledge of algebra and related concepts. It is not an appropriate method for the small business owners that are lacking skills in math and algebra. It also requires detailed data from various sources of the company to calculate the end result. For example it requires annual demands of the order, holding cost of the order, ordering cost of the order and the fixed cost of the order to calculate EOQ.
Another drawback of this modal is that is solely based on assumptions. It assumes that the demand of the order will remain constant through out the year. Moreover it assumes that the purchase price of the order will not change over the year. It also assumes that there will be no change in fixed cost, holding cost and the ordering cost for the time period of a year. Another drawback is that it is limited to the one product business and can not calculate EOQ for the inventories dealing in multiple products.
If high seasonality is involved in the consumption of the order the EOQ modal is unable to produce a satisfactory result. Moreover it proves beneficial if it is applied to a higher volume of the order that are going to be stored in the inventory.


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A prize of $1,000 and publication by Journal of Experimental Fiction/Depth Charge Publishing is given annually for an innovative novel. Derek Pell will judge. Submit a manuscript of any length with a $25 entry fee by July 31. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete guidelines.
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