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How fast (and slow) can you make the shutter on the Nokia 808 PureView?
0. phoneArena posted on 26 Oct 2012, 11:34
Just how fast can the shutter be on the Nokia 808 PureView run? Using the combination of an ISO turned up and exposure turned turned down, all with the powerful Xenon Flash turned on during a sunny day,n the Nokia PureView was able to obtain a shutter speed of 1/2747th of a second...
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1. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
just put this sensor on a Lumia and i'm sold
5. tusshharish (Posts: 342; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
sensor is not everything dude..............the image quality also matters which is depends upon other factors..
8. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Agree, software and optics is also very important.
9. applesauce (banned) (Posts: 165; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
Wait for PureView Phase 3.... bwahahaha
13. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
i think it will debut either at CES or MWC next year
2. NexusKoolaid (Posts: 493; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
Not bad, but I'd like to see the detail and noise levels in some full resolution samples, not scaled down images.
3. infernal88 (Posts: 113; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
"Since the release of the device, the closest that we have seen to 41MP on multiple models is the 13MP shooter seen on some devices"
what about HTC titan II ...16 MP ?
6. Alan01 (Posts: 444; Member since: 21 Mar 2012)
That is why it says the closest on multiple models...
4. ssk27 (Posts: 15; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Just put android in this and it will sell like anything. U make phone for for us and why dont u hear us:(
7. mohamed_noor (Posts: 8; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
just tried the fast shutter technique on s3 . cool!! it too takes in awesome shutter speeds. thanks to PA
10. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
808 is really an awesome device!! really worth to buy!!!
wow love it even more!!!
11. meowcenary (Posts: 187; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
People need to realize that high pixel count is not exactly best for your photography. If anything it could be detrimental to photgraphs. The more pixels you have the more you run into sensor issue(s) like image error(s) and noise. Increasing ISO also incrases noise in your photographs.
People also need to realize that sharpness is all in the user and not the camera and the glass. Personally I still prefer a dsr, advance point and shoot, and film cameras. There is more control with WB, ISO, shutter, aperture, sensor (FX vs DX), and glass. The glass allows for a wide range of shooting conditions.
12. Guarulhos (Posts: 39; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
More Than Never Now Know The 808 PureView PRO In Skillful Hands And Steadfast Produces Photograph Best Results To Night That The 920 PureView LITE, This Because Beyond Of Count With a Image Sensor Bigger And Better, Oversampling AndLong Exposure As Good As The 920's More Precisely We Reach The Number 1.51 Second Exposure !
For That Not If Mistake 920 PureView LITE In No Situation Will Performance Similar To 808 PureView PRO Perhaps Best !


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Some of you may be familiar with an older free jailbreak tweak of chpwns called ListLauncher. The tweak made it so you could scroll over to SpotLight and quickly view an alphabetical list of all the applications installed on your iOS device so that if you ever had trouble finding one of your applications on your home screen with the various pages and folders, you could easily find the application you were looking for.
Another developer by the name of twodayslate has extended support of ListLauncher to iOS 6 with the release of a new free jailbreak tweak called ListLauncher6. The tweak does the same thing as ListLauncher did, but it adds support for iOS 6, the latest jailbreakable firmware.
Notably, the tweak adds the application list feature to SpotLight, but if you want to, you can still use SpotLight to search for things on your iOS device. It doesn't replace the SpotLight feature outright.
ListLauncher6 is an open source jailbreak tweak. If you're interested in viewing the tweak's source code, it's available here. If you want to download ListLauncher6, it's available for free in Cydia's BigBoss repository.
Name: ListLauncher6
Price: FREE
Version: 6.0-26
Requirements: iOS 6.0+
Repo: BigBoss
Developer: twodayslate
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Report NEP-KNM-2011-03-12This is the archive for NEP-KNM, a report on new working papers in the area of Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy. Laura Stefanescu issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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The following items were announced in this report:
- A. Blasco, 2011. "Patent Races with Dynamic Complementarity," Working Papers wp733, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
- Spyros Arvanitis & Barbara Fuchs & Martin Woerter, 2011. "External End Users and Firm Innovation Performance," KOF Working papers 11-276, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.
- Item repec:pra:mprapa:29083 is not listed on IDEAS anymore
- Mario Cimoli & Giovanni Dosi & Roberto Mazzoleni & Bhaven Sampat, 2011. "Innovation, technical change and patents in the development process: A long term view," LEM Papers Series 2011/06, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
- Karlsson, Charlie, 2010. "Clusters, Networks and Creativity," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 235, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.


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Its predecessor reached our shores so late in its life cycle that it's being replaced just over a year down the line.
Ford has just announced the specifications and pricing for the second-generation Ford Kuga, which comes with a wider model range to put up a stronger fight against RAV4, Tiguan, Sportage and company.
Whereas the previous range was only offered in high-specification five-cylinder turbo guise, the new range offers lower spec levels and a starting price of R289 900.
Two new engines offer a choice between petrol and diesel. The petrol option has been downsized significantly - it's now a 1.6-litre EcoBoost turbo motor available in two output levels.
The 110kW/240Nm version will be fitted to front-wheel drive models and is only available with a six-speed manual gearbox. Where most of its rivals offer 2-litre naturally aspirated motors at this level, the turbo Ford will have a certain advantage at Reef altitude.
If you opt for one of the all-wheel drive Kugas, you'll get a 134kW version of the aforementioned engine, with the same torque output, and mated to a six-speed automatic gearbox. According to Ford the FWD and AWD both take 9.7 seconds to get to 100km/h, sip 6.6 and 7.7 l/100km respectively and reach top speeds just short of 200km/h.
For the diesel-blooded variety, Ford is offering its 120kW/340Nm 2-litre TDCi motor, which is only available in AWD guise and mated to a six-speed Powershift transmission. According to Ford's numbers it's not much more efficient than the petrol model - 6.2 l/100km combined consumption - and it's slower against the clock, taking 10.4 seconds from 0-100.
The permanent all-wheel drive system fitted to the upper end of the line-up constantly readjusts the front-to-rear power slip after assessing conditions - which it's said to be able to do 20 times faster than it takes to blink an eye.
Ford's put considerable effort into crafting a classy cockpit complete with soft-touch surfaces and electroplated metal finishes.
The availability of a new entry-level Ambiente allowed Ford to bring down the base price, but it's not all bare inside, the standard fare including air conditioning, a six-speaker audio system, Sync Bluetooth and Voice Control, start button, idle-stop, multi-function steering wheel, cruise control and 17-inch alloy wheels.
Stretch to the Trend derivative and leather sports seats, a nine-speaker Sony audio system, 4.2-inch TFT screen, parking sensors and dual-zone climate control enter the scene.
True indulgence comes in Titanium models, which have 18-inch alloys, BiXenon alloys, auto lights and wipers and smart keyless entry with a handsfree 'open sesame' tailgate.
Furthermore, you can specify a Titanium Option Pack, for R35 000, which comes with a whole glut of electronic safety technologies including Active City Stop, Adaptive Cruise Control, Active Park Assist, Blind Spot Information System, Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping Aid. The pack also adds a panoramic roof and 19-inch alloy wheels.
1.6 EcoBoost Ambiente FWD - R289 900
1.6 EcoBoost Trend FWD - R324 900
1.6 EcoBoost Trend Auto AWD - R364 900
1.6 EcoBoost Titanium Auto AWD - R398 900
2.0 TDCi Trend Powershift AWD - R384 900
2.0 TDCi Trend Powershift AWD - R418 900
4-year/120 000km warranty
4-year/80 000km service plan (petrol)
4-year/90 000km service plan (diesel)
3-year roadside assistance
Kia Sportage (R301 995 - R366 995)
Toyota RAV4 (coming soon)
Mazda CX-5 (R314 700 - R396 100)
Honda CR-V (R299 900 - R499 900)
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Walkthrough: Part Ten
Dark Aether: Torvus Bog
When you arrive in the Dark Torvus Bog, the water in the room will be gone, but there will be cloaked Pirates. Take them down with missiles and Light Beam blasts the hop up to the platform with the laser on it. Turn into a morph ball and roll into the spinner. Boost it three times and the laser will trace against the wall, changing position. When you see the short cut scene, head to the portal, turn it light and go back through.
Light Aether: Torvus Bog
You'll have to flip the spiky platforms over again when you return. Do that and return to solid ground, heading over to the kinetic ball cannon that is now usable. Roll into it to get shot to a light door at the top of the room.
Continue down the next watery passage to re-emerge into the Hydrodynamo Station. Scan the console here to unlock the final bit. Drop to the bottom of the area and go through the hex door there.
Go all the way down to the bottom of this area, taking the large steps down until you reach another hex door. Go through that to enter the Main Hydrochamber. Drop to the bottom of it and find the room attached to it to gain the Gravity Boost. This will allow you to jump underwater by pressing B. Holding B after pressing it twice will allow you to slowly rise while in the water. Head out the door to find yourself in a boss fight.
Boss: Alpha Blogg
The Alpha Blogg can be a tricky kill, primarily because the fight requires impeccable timing. Move to the opposite side of the arena and lock onto the beast. Sometimes it will send jets of bubbles in your direction, and you'll want to dodge those, or you'll be temporarily blinded.
What you want to do is charge up your weapon and wait for the Blogg to charge. Just as it's almost on top of you, release a Super Missile into its maw to chew through a chunk of health quickly. As you're letting the attack go, use tap B repeatedly and press to the right or left to scoot out of the way. As the beast recovers, move to the other end of the arena and repeat the process. If you run out of missile, a Dark Beam (charged) will also work nicely.
When the fight concludes, find the circular fan hole in the wall and use your new gravity boost to get up to it. From there jump up to the ledge jutting out of the wall on the left. Finally, use the boost to get all the way across the room and exit through the hex door there. It's a good idea to backtrack to the Hydrodynamo Station and use the save location there. Return to the Hydrodynamo Shaft and find the rotating pillar pictured below. Use the boost to get up on top of it and find a portal. Hit it with a Dark Beam and step through.
Dark Aether: Torvus Bog
When you arrive, you'll find a Dark Temple Key. Grab it and return to the Light world.
Light Aether: Torvus Bog
Go back to the Catacombs via the dark door in the Hydrodynamo Station. When you get there, drop into the water and find the bomb slot that's set in the wall. This will drop the barrier surrounding this room's portal. Return to the surface and hop up to the platform with the portal on it. Scan the hologram above it then hit the portal with a Dark Beam blast and step in it.
Dark Aether: Torvus Bog
As if the Grenchlers in the Light world weren't bad enough, they have cousins in the Dark realm. Make sure you scan one of them then use the lock on and dash around them to hit each with a Light Beam attack from behind. When both of them fall, head for the only hex door in the room.
Move to the bomb cannon and morph ball jump to it and you'll be shot into a series of tubes. Watch out for the pistons that come down as you roll through to the left. When you come to rest, use a Dark Beam on the door to get through to the Sacrificial Chamber. Kill or avoid the Hunter Ing on your way to the opposite end of the room. Blast through the light door there and get in the ball cannon.
When you arrive, roll to the left, falling through holes until you reach the bottom of three pipes. Roll all the way to the left and bomb jump up and to the left then one more time. Continue bomb jumping as you work to the left and get to the tube there. This will propel you to a door that leads to the Crypt.
Use a Dark Beam blast on the crystal straight ahead to drop the forcefield and extend a number of platforms around the room. Blast the Pirates in the room and begin space jumping between the platforms, starting to the right. Some of the ledges move in and out, so time your jumps accordingly. Your ultimate goal is the light door at the top of the room. Once through there, use Light Beam blasts on the Tentacles in the next hallway to make your way to Undertemple Shaft. Drop down into the room and take out the Hunter Ing. Then use the side ledges to jump to the center apparatus and get inside the kinetic ball cannon there. This will rocket you to the top of the room. Jump across to the locked door and use a missile to blast it open. Use the Save Location inside.
Return to the platform that you ended up on when you were launched by the ball cannon. Drop off of it to reach the level below and look for a Safe Zone to drop into. From here, move inside the metal structure and and use the bomb slot on the central pillar to turn the metal structure and allow you access to a new door. Use the Ingsphere Caches in the next corridor to plump up health and weapons and get ready for another boss fight.
Boss: Grapple Guardian
Be sure to scan the Grapple Guardian right off the bat to expose its weakness--the single eye. The Guardian looks like a mega-Dark Grenchler, and is vulnerable in the same location. Stay in the safety of the white-lit pillar regions and shoot at the Guardian's eye. It doesn't like that much, and will shoot a grapple beam at you.
When this happens, make sure you're standing behind one of the pillars, as the beam will latch onto it. This will give you an opportunity to run around behind the boss and use a Super Missile on its tail. Make sure you don't linger too long, though. You don't want the nasty bastard to swing around and get you with its snout. Keep repeating this process, or use a more derring-do approach. You can also use charged-up eye shots to stun the beast then quickly dash around behind and hit it with Super Missiles. Whatever works for you.
When you whittle the boss down to about 1/8 of its health, the pillars will explode and you'll be on your own with the tailless freak. The main idea here is to avoid its attacks. Keep your distance. It will try to hit you with the grapple beam, which will do a lot of damage. Avoid that and stay on the move when it charges. Shoot it in the face with charged beam shots until it comes to a stop. When it does, it will be momentarily vulnerable. Shoot it quickly with whatever you can to whittle down the remainder of its health. Doing so will yield the Grapple Beam.
The room will drop, so make your way to the pile of ruins near the back, climb up it and face the center of the room. From here, use the Grapple Beam by pressing L and swing across to the far platform. Go through the hex door to trace your path back to Undertemple Shaft. As you emerge into the room, look right for a grapple point. Use it to get over to the ledge with a light door on it.
Battle through tentacles in the next passage as you make your way to the Crypt. Go to the bottom of the room and use the portal to head back to the Light world.
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The Royal Hawaiian Mint was founded in 1974 by Bernard von NotHaus and Talena Jay Presley to make commemorative medals marking important events in Hawaiian history. The most famous items were the issues commemorating great rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii. They have also minted Pearl Harbor commemoratives and contemporary medals evoking the spirit of living in Hawaii.


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The Tarheel Weimaraner Club has a very active Rescue Program. We have rescued and placed over 700 Weimaraners in the last 15 years. We do not agree that there is a shortage of Weimaraners! Our rescue program tries hard to match the right dog to the right owner, and we have been very successful for that reason. We get the dogs in a variety of ways, such as from shelters, or from owners who are divorcing and moving to an apartment that doesn't allow dogs. All of our dogs are vet checked, spayed or neutered, housebroken and crate-trained. We also refer people to others wishing to place their own dog. Often, in a home where both people work, an adult dog with some training can be a better choice than a rambunctious puppy.
Adopting a friend
The Tarheel Weimaraner Club will only place dogs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
The dogs are available to approved homes for the following fees: puppies 8 weeks to one year $400 (a $100 refund for pups not spayed or neutered once proof of surgery provided); dogs 1 to 5 years $300; dogs 6 years and over $200; dogs with special needs $100 to $150. These fees help a little to defray costs for the rescue program.
An application will need to be completed and approved if you are interested in adopting a Weimaraner from the TWR. Once approved, you may not necessarily get a dog right away; it is not first come, first served. As stated above, we are trying to match each dog with the family best suited for him/her.
Contact us for more information.
Dogs are housed in private foster homes. Phone: 828-447-0991
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The only debate about Joseph Wilson's credibility is the one taking place at the Washington Post and the New York Times.
by Stephen F. Hayes
ON JUNE12, 2003, when he first published a story about the matter, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus became the second journalist to have been used by Ambassador Joseph Wilson to peddle bogus information about his February 2002 trip to Niger.
Wilson told Pincus that he had debunked Bush administration claims that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger. He was specific and apparently seemed credible. And Pincus bought it all.
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Armed with information purportedly showing that Iraqi officials had been seeking to buy uranium in Niger one or two years earlier, the CIA in early February 2002 dispatched a retired U.S. ambassador to the country to investigate the claims, according to the senior U.S. officials and the former government official, who is familiar with the event. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity and on condition that the name of the former ambassador not be disclosed.
During his trip, the CIA's envoy spoke with the president of Niger and other Niger officials mentioned as being involved in the Iraqi effort, some of whose signatures purportedly appeared on the documents.
After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," the former U.S. government official said.
There is one problem with this: It's wrong. Wilson lied and lied repeatedly. His central contention--that he had seen documents about the alleged sale and determined that they were forgeries--was a fabrication. We know this because Wilson took his trip in February 2002 and the U.S. government did not receive those documents until October 2002. It could not have happened the way Wilson described it to Pincus.
Wilson was later confronted about his misrepresentations. He told investigators from the Senate Intelligence Committee that he may have "misspoken." CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Wilson specifically about these obvious discrepancies, citing Pincus's June 12, 2003, Washington Post story. Wilson decided to share the blame. He pointed the finger squarely at Walter Pincus:
Yes, I am male, I'm over 50. By definition, I can misspeak. I have gone back and taken a look at this particular article. It refers to an unidentified former government official. If it is referring to me, it is a misattribution, of facts that were already in the public domain and had been so since March. My first public statement on this, in my own words, was on July 6." [emphasis added]
The following day, Wilson was confronted again, this time by CNN's Paula Zahn. This time he played dumb before once again blamed the reporters who retold his phony story.
Zahn: I want you to respond to that very specific allegation in the addendum to the Senate report, which basically says that your public comments not only are incorrect, but have no basis in fact.
Wilson: Well, I'm not exactly sure what public comments they're referring to. If they're referring to leaks or sources, unidentified government sources in articles that appeared before my article in the New York Times [July 6, 2003] appeared, those are either misquotes or misattributions if they're attributed to me.
It was a stunning reversal. Wilson had turned on the very people who had given him prominence and had trusted that his story was accurate.
All of which brings us to the very bizarre story in today's Washington Post. The article is a rather transparent attempt to rehabilitate Joseph Wilson, casting the current debate about his credibilityas a battle between Wilson's antiwar supporters and his pro-war critics. It fails.
IT FAILS BECAUSE outside of the pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times, there is no real debate over Joseph Wilson's credibility. He doesn't have any. It is something that Walter Pincus should understand well, having been one of the earliest peddlers of Wilson's fabrications. And one might think that Pincus would be angry at Wilson after the former ambassador accused him of sloppy reporting to cover up Wilson's own misrepresentations.
But one would be wrong. Pincus is the co-author--along with Dana Milbank--of this morning's amusing attempt to reframe the Wilson story.
"To his backers, Joseph C. Wilson IV is a brave whistle-blower wronged by the Bush administration," claim Pincus and Milbank. "To his critics, he is a partisan who spouts unreliable information."
And why has Wilson's credibility become an issue? A reasonable outside observer might think that Wilson's credibility is an issue because, well, he lied about his findings. That doesn't work for the Post reporters. Wilson's claims are once again at issue because "Republicans [are] preparing a defense of the administration."
The Post report continues:"Wilson's central assertion--disputing President Bush's 2003 State of the Union claim that Iraq was seeking nuclear material in Niger--has been validated by postwar weapons inspections. And his charge that the administration exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq has proved potent."
It is the 60 Minutes defense all over again: Fake, but accurate. Yet there are two problems with these claims.
First, it is far from clear that Bush's claim has been invalidated by postwar inspections. Weapons inspections in 2003 and 2004 have little bearing on whether Iraq sought uranium in 1999. And the British review of prewar intelligence (known as the Butler report) concluded that the claim was--and remains--solid. Even Wilson's own reporting about a 1999 meeting between Nigerien government officials and an Iraqi delegation seemed to corroborate earlier reports, dating back to October 2001, that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.
More problematic: Wilson's "central assertion" was not a soft, subjective claim that Bush's statement was incorrect. His central assertion was that he had seen the documents that proved the Bush administration had lied. Wilson's story was compelling not because he had simply come to a different conclusion than the Bush administration, but because he alone could demonstrate that the administration's claim was built on a lie.
So how does the Post deal with Wilson's fabrications? Very politely. Wilson "armed his critics by misstating some aspects of the Niger affair" and when later confronted with his misrepresentations "had to admit he had misspoken." But none of this was important, according to the Post. "That inaccuracy wasnot central to Wilson's claims about Niger, but his critics have used it to cast doubt on his veracity about more important questions, such as whether his wife recommended him for the 2002 trip . . . "
Come again? The fact that he misrepresented his findings and invented a story about evidence he had never seen is "not central to his claims about Niger?"
IN ANY CASE, Pincus hasn't always believed that the involvement of Wilson's wife was a "more important question." On August 8, 2005, he wrote an article with this headline: "Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?"
And what about Wilson's claims that his wife had nothing to do with sending him? When Time magazine interviewed Wilson for an article published July 17, 2003, the Time reporters confronted him with those allegations. Wilson, according to Time, "angrily said that his wife had nothing to do with his trip to Africa." Said Wilson: "That is bull----. That is absolutely not the case."
Today's Post article once again plays this as an ambiguity: The reporters note a Senate report that suggests she was involved, but also cite anonymous CIA officials who "have always said" that "Plame's superiors chose Wilson for the Niger trip and she only relayed their decision."
Two points: By the CIA's own account, Mrs. Wilson was "involved" in sending her husband to Niger. So his denial is, again, false. Furthermore, the Senate Intelligence Committee report makes clear that Mrs. Wilson was instrumental in facilitating her husband's trip to Niger. She suggested him for the job, even writing a memo to her superiors detailing his qualifications for the mission. She introduced him at the subsequent meeting about the trip. And, upon his return, she was present for his debriefing, which was conducted by two CIA officials in their home.
The Post piece closes by citing "another item of dispute": The claim that Wilson was dispatched to Niger by Vice President Dick Cheney. In a recent interview with the Post, Wilson claims: "I never said the vice president sent me or ordered me sent."
But in his May 6, 2003, column in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote: "I'm told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged." Was that Wilson? We cannot be certain. But both Kristof and Wilson have acknowledged that he was a primary source for the piece.
Wilson further claimed that Cheney had received Wilson's report--allegedly debunking the claim--and had chosen to ignore it. From the New Republic, June 30, 2003: "The CIA circulated the ambassador's report to the vice president's office, the ambassador confirms to TNR." Wilson added: "They knew the Niger story was a flatout lie."
TODAY'S Post story is one in a long stream of news reports in both the Post and the New York Times which have given credence to Wilson's bogus claims. For more than a year--from May 2003 until the release ofthe Senate Intelligence Committee report on July 7, 2004--the mainstream press regurgitated Wilson's fraudulent narrative as if it was true.
Here was Pincus on July 6, 2003, the first on-the-record interview with Wilson about his Niger trip. "Joseph C. Wilson, the retired United States ambassador whose CIA-directed mission to Niger in early 2002 helped debunk claims that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium there for nuclear weapons, has said for the first time publicly that U.S. and British officials ignored his findings and exaggerated the public case for invading Iraq.
Wilson, whose 23-year career included senior positions in Africa and Iraq, where he was acting ambassador in 1991, said the false allegations that Iraq was trying to buy uranium oxide from Niger about three years ago were used by President Bush and senior administration officials as a central piece of evidence to support their assertions that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program."
The New York Times, too, assumed that Wilson's version of events was true: "The agent is the wife of Joseph C. Wilson 4th, a former ambassador to Gabon. It was Mr. Wilson who, more than a year and a half ago, concluded in a report to the CIA that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium ore in Niger in an effort to build nuclear arms. But his report was ignored, and Ambassador Wilson has been highly critical of how the administration handled intelligence claims regarding Iraq's nuclear weapons programs, suggesting that Mr. Bush's aides and Vice President Dick Cheney's office tried to inflate the threat."
More troubling, though, is the credulous reporting that came after the Senate Intelligence Committee report had discredited Wilson. The New York Times, in an editorial on July 19, 2005, argues as if the Senate report had never been issued:
"In July 2003, Mr. Wilson wrote an Op-Ed article in The Times that described how he had been sent by the C.I.A. to investigate a report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. He said he had found no evidence to support the claim of a uranium purchase, or even a serious attempt to negotiate one, and that he had reported this to Washington. That is entirely accurate."
Or, more recently, the July 27, 2005, Washington Post: "In a 2002 trip to Niger at the request of the CIA, Wilson found no evidence to support allegations that Iraq was seeking uranium from that African country and reported back to the agency in February 2002. But nearly a year later, Bush asserted in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa, attributing it to British, not U.S., intelligence."
But those were not Wilson' findings. And he wasn't sent by Vice President Cheney. And he was recommended by his wife. And he never did see the forgeries. And his report never was circulated to senior Bush administration policymakers. And on and on it goes.
The only debate about Joseph Wilson's credibility is the one apparently taking place at the Washington Post and the New York Times.


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The federal government provides a number of various programs to assist surviving spouses of deceased servicemembers. Here's summary of what is available:
* Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC)
* Veteran's Death Pension
* VA Aid & Assistance Pension (A & A)
* Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI)
* Beneficiary Financial Counseling Services (BFCS)
* VA Home Loans and Transition Assistance
* Education Benefits
* Bereavement Counseling
* Continuing Benefits
* Burial Benefits
Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC)
DIC benefits are provided to survivors of active duty service members or other service members whose deaths are related to their service as determined by the VA. They are generally not given to retired service members unless their death resulted from a service-related injury or had a service-connected disability. Please Note: These benefits are not automatic and you must apply for them. A casualty assistance officer is available to help you find your local VA office and apply for DIC benefits. The casualty assistance officer is automatically assigned by the military.
The DIC program provides a monthly payment that is determined annually (adjusted for inflation and/or cost of living) and is the same for all service members regardless of rank or pay grade at the time of the service member's death. (For example, in 2008, the payment for spouses was $1,091 per month.)
The DIC benefit will be paid to the spouse for their lifetime, unless they remarry before the age of 57. If the spouse does remarry but the marriage ends, the spouse will again be eligible for the DIC benefit. If the spouse and the service member had children together, the monthly payment increases by $271 per child (as of 2008). If there is no surviving spouse but there are surviving children, they are eligible for benefits and will be paid in equal shares. The children will receive the DIC benefit until:
* They are 18 (or 19 if still in secondary school)
* They marry
* They are 18-23 years old and they are attending an institution of higher learning that is "VA approved"
* For the duration of their life if they are disabled
Contact your local branch of the VA or call 1-800-827-1000 for further details.
Veteran's Death Pension
The Veteran's Death Pension is a need-based benefit for survivors of wartime veterans. The veteran does not need to be active at the time of death. It is available to survivors when both the Deceased and surviving family meet certain requirements. The Deceased must have been discharged honorably, served at least 90 days of active duty with one of those days during wartime, and if enlisted after 9/7/80, must have served at least 24 months. The survivor must be a spouse or child of the veteran who is unmarried and their income must be below the yearly limit. Additionally, the child must be under 18, under 23 if in school full-time, or was incapable of self-support before age
18. The limit is set each year by Congress and is available at the VA's Web site.
VA Aid & Assistance Pension
The VA Aid and Attendance (A&A) Pension makes provision allowing for limited benefits to be paid to the surviving spouse of a military servicemember if the service member was a war-time veteran with at least 90 days of active duty that included at least one day beginning or ending during a period of war,
This is a "needs based" program and is intended for veterans and surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing and undressing or taking care of the needs of nature. It also includes individuals who are blind or a patient in a nursing home because of mental or physical incapacity. Assisted care in an assisting living facility also qualifies.
Check the following website for more information:
See the following news release from the Sec. of Veterans Affairs.
Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI)
All members of the armed services are able to enroll in a life insurance policy with a maximum value of $400,000. Usually a beneficiary is specified when enrolling, but if no beneficiary is identified the life insurance is distributed based on the following priority:
* Spouse
* Children
* Parents
* Executor or Administrator of the will
* Next of Kin
The SGLI program also automatically provides Traumatic Injury Protection to SGLI members. This program is designed to provide funds for recovery if the service member is injured in the line of duty. It also provides funds to a service member's family if the service member sustained a traumatic injury for seven days or longer and died as a result of the injury.
There is also Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (FSGLI) benefit, which covers the service member's spouse and dependent children.
Beneficiary Financial Counseling Services (BFCS)
Financial counseling is available to beneficiaries through service members' life insurance policies. Once a survivor's claim is settled, the VA will direct them to FinancialPoint® (1-888-243-7351), a group that provides counseling to ensure that beneficiaries have the financial knowledge and tools to manage their finances.
VA Home Loans and Transition Assistance
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs provides guaranteed or non-guaranteed home loans to spouses of deceased active or inactive service members who have not remarried. Discharged service members must have had an honorable discharge for families to be eligible. These loans can offer better rates than a traditional loan. In addition, the VA will assist a spouse/family with a transition assistance benefit which is a monthly $250 payment to spouses with dependent children. This benefit is offered for up to two years or until all of the children are removed from DIC benefits.
Education Benefits
The VA provides refunds to families of active service members who participated in the Montgomery GI Bill/Veterans Educational Assistance Program (MGIB/VEAP) and died while on active duty. The death must be considered "service connected" for families to be eligible. The beneficiary will receive the amount that the service member contributed to the program, less any benefits that were used by the Deceased. Surviving spouses are also able to receive educational assistance for 20 years after the service member's death; children of service members are entitled to educational assistance from ages 18 through 26.
Bereavement Counseling
Parents, spouses and children of deceased active service members are entitled to bereavement counseling through the VA Office of Readjustment Counseling Service (RCS). Bereavement counseling is designed to help the loved ones of a deceased service member cope with emotional and psychological stress of their loved one's death. Bereavement counseling through the VA includes outreach, referral services and transition services. The counseling is provided at Vet Centers throughout the country. To request these services, call the Readjustment Counseling Service at(NNN) NNN-NNNN e-mail them
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Continuing Survivor Benefits
Many military families worry that if their loved one dies on active duty, their current benefits and way of life will be immediately threatened. The stress of death is enough to handle without worrying about moving, finding new insurance and dealing with other concerns associated with leaving the support of the military system. To assist families, the VA continues to provide several services to families upon the death of a loved one:
* According to the DOD, survivors may be eligible to continue to receive TRICARE (Military heathcare) benefits at the active duty rate for three years at no cost. After that, you will be eligible receive the retiree family member rate which will require a premium payment. Families may also continue using the TRICARE dental benefits up to three years after death. (Source: A Survivor's Guide to Benefits: Taking Care of our Own, DOD, 2008)
* According to the DOD, you may use the base theater and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facilities; you are also eligible to continue shopping at the exchange and commissary indefinitely unless you remarry. (Source: A Survivor's Guide to Benefits: Taking Care of our Own, DOD, 2008)
* Unmarried children can also use these benefits until they are 21 (or 23 if enrolled in post-secondary education). Please Note: Family information in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) must be accurate and up-to-date to ensure that benefits are awarded correctly.
* If living in government housing as a dependent (either leased or otherwise), you have one year to continue your living situation. If you need more time, you must request it from the Base Commander and you may be charged rent after the first year. If you move out of government housing before the year is up, you will receive a refund for the unused portion of the year from the Basic Housing Allowance (BHA) for the Deceased's pay grade. If you are a survivor and also a military member, you are still eligible for the dependent BHA. If you are not living in government housing, you'll receive a year's worth of BHA in a lump sum.
* Eligible dependents are also given one opportunity for relocation paid for by the government. The relocation must take place within three years of the Deceased's death, but if needed, a request for an extension can be made. Survivors are also entitled to legal assistance for help with a variety of issues that can result after a service member's death; assistance with final income taxes is also available.
* If you wish, posthumous citizenship may be awarded to the deceased service member. It is an honorary status and does not come with any benefits.
* The Deceased's Federal income tax liability may also be forgiven, provided the Deceased's death took place or was a result of active service in a combat zone according to the definitions provided in the benefit laws. The tax is forgiven "for the tax year in which the death occurred and for an earlier tax year ending on or after the first day the member served in a combat zone in active service…Any forgiven tax liability that has already been paid will be refunded, and any tax liability at the date of death will be forgiven." Also, any unpaid taxes accumulated from prior years will be forgiven, and survivors will be refunded any tax paid after death. Most states also have income tax forgiveness policies in place for veterans who serve in combat zones. Check with your state's revenue department to find out of the Deceased qualifies.
Burial Benefits
Burial benefits are available to all service members who meet eligibility requirements. Generally, if the Deceased was a member of the armed forces, including reserve forces, and died while on active duty or after active duty but retained an honorable discharge, they are eligible for military burial benefits. There is a requirement for length of service: 24 months or if the Deceased served the entire period for which they were activated. Retirees are generally not entitled to full burial benefits, but are entitled to a military funeral. There is a list of eligibility requirements that should be reviewed by survivors available at the VA's Web site (www.cem.va.gov).
Burial and funeral details are the responsibility of the Person Authorized to Direct Disposition of Human Remains (PADD). The PADD is designated before death by the Deceased. If a PADD is not specified, the military will fill that role.
The Department of Defense (DOD) assumes responsibility for the transportation, casketing and preparation of remains if the Deceased was on active duty or training for active duty. Some retired military members may also be eligible. The tradition throughout all military branches is to have a military member or family escort with the remains when they are transported. Some military branches also have a team of two military members who alternate guarding the deceased until they are buried or cremated. Please Note: Though choosing a family member for an escort may seem ideal, it is important to consider that a lengthy approval process is required before a family member can escort the remains.
If the Deceased died while overseas and is to be buried in the United States, the DOD will transport the body back to the U.S. Even though the DOD transports the deceased as soon as possible, it's best to choose a date for the funeral after the remains have arrived back in the United States as there can be delays in transportation.
All active duty service members can be buried in Arlington National Cemetery or any other national cemetery. Your local VA office has information about local and national cemetery options. Spouses and children under 18 can also be buried with the service member in VA national cemeteries. Most retired veterans can also be buried in a national cemetery, provided their discharge was honorable.
The veteran's family might be entitled to a VA burial allowance. This will help cover the costs of the funeral and transportation. The status of the veteran at the time of death determines how much the VA burial allowance might be. Both active and inactive members of the military can be eligible for a VA burial allowance.
The family may choose private arrangements over military involvment. If so, a portion of the cost of the arrangements can be reimbursed; the amount depends upon the manner of burial. If the PADD elects to have the service member buried overseas, the government will supervise the transportation to the burial site.
The return of service members' personal property is considered a priority and will be handled promptly. Legal assistance may also be provided if necessary. In addition, the
family can request a copy of the official investigative report about the death of the Deceased.
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The VA provides numerous benefits to survivors of the armed services. The VA recognizes how difficult the loss of a loved one is for the families of service members, especially in the special or secretive circumstances that can be associated with military service. The VA encourages survivors to take advantage of the benefits if you feel you need them; most are at little or no extra cost and can provide much needed support after a loved one's death.
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It's now down to the final weeks on season nine of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance (1.5/5). And, with less than a month to go before this season's winners are crowned, Wednesday night's two-hour live show was down 17% from last week's return from Olympic hiatus. Like SYTYCD, there were contestants cut last night on NBC's America's Got Talent (2.3/7) but unlike the down dance show, yesterday's Talent was flat with last week. NBC won the night among Adults 18-49 and in terms of total viewers. Big Brother (2.0/7) started primetime for CBS. The reality show took a slight tumble, falling 5% from last week's broadcast. Other than those three shows, the only other things new on TV last night was the finale of N.Y. Med (1.0/3) and the CW's Oh Sit! (0.4/1) Part two of the two-night end of the eight-part ABC docudrama was flat with Tuesday night's show. The second Wednesday night episode of the CW series was down 5% from last week's premiere. Other than the N.Y. Med finale, ABC had all repeats on Wednesday with The Middle (1.1/4), Suburgatory at 8:30 PM (0.9/3), Modern Family (1.2/4) and another Suburgatory at 9:30 PM (1.0/3). After the new Big Brother, CBS had repeats of Criminal Minds (1.3/4) and CSI (1.1/3). NBC ran an encore of America's Got Talent (1.5/5) at 8 PM before last night's new episode of the competition series. After the new Talent, the network ran a repeat of Law & Order: SVU (1.3/4).
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I turned So You Think You Can Dance off the minute they said "All Stars." I thought they were done with that crap. Either do all fresh faces, or do a show with all "All Stars." This 50/50 routine does not appeal to me.
To Nigel: Hah!
I toldja the direction your show was taking was ill-advised. Instead of listening you had a spaz and threw a tantrum at the "arrogance" and bad manners of this fan. So again, I repeat: Hah!
And yet, the CW tanks once again with their drivel reality shows. Will this network ever learn or do they like or enjoy doing so the hard way?
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The Basingstoke Bison returned to winning ways with a comfortable 5-1 win over the visiting Telford Tigers on Saturday night.
Greg Owen led the scoring with a brace, while there were single goals from Doug Sheppard, Jaroslav Cesky and Greg Chambers.
Callum Bowley scored the lone Telford goal.
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AN OLYMPIC summer of sport promised to inspire a generation and nowhere has that been more prevalent than in the Basingstoke and District Table Tennis League.
Terry White's long-running Saturday coaching is going from strength to strength. On the competitive side, Patrick Garlick's summer league gave a opportunity for newcomers to make their first forays into table tennis with a relaxed match environment.
Over the summer, UKCC Level One coach Steve Ng has been making full use of his licence, achieved with a grant from the league, as, along with Melvyn Lovegrove, they are training Blanka Bimi and Jan MacDonald at Essex Road.
It was fitting that the opening match in the league featured reigning closed championship singles winner Sander de Riemer against the Basingstoke and District Table Tennis League life president Dave Kimberley. de Riemer carried on his ruthless form from last season as he won 3-0 against Kimberley on his way to a treble. KG A's Tony Amies showed great fight, but it was left to Kimberley to notch their solitary point in a 9-1 defeat to Alpha.
Queens A's doubles pairing of Tony Palaczky and Marcel Ludwig were in great form as they both scored trebles against their Queens B counterparts in a 9-1 win. Their teammate George White was not far behind with a double, his only loss against Peter Martin in four.
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PRETORIA: The Australian Rugby Union will wait until after the end of the Rugby Championship to try to solve its dispute with disenchanted Test five-eighth Quade Cooper.
The ARU chief executive, John O'Neill, who arrived in Pretoria on Friday night, said after several days of drama surrounding Cooper's attack on the culture of the Australian rugby team, including that he did not want to play for the Wallabies, it was necessary to have ''a cooling off period''.
O'Neill plans to talk to Cooper and his management following the Wallabies' final Rugby Championship match against Argentina in Rosario next Saturday. ''Hopefully this will give everyone time to properly think through the situation,'' O'Neill said. Several senior players have also indicated they are eager to talk to O'Neill about the Cooper issue, and meetings will be put in place next month. It is clear Cooper has disenchanted numerous Wallabies with his inflammatory remarks. O'Neill, who will next week attend an International Rugby Board meeting in Cape Town, stressed it was important the Wallabies were not distracted any further in the Rugby Championship.
While Cooper has signed a contract with the Reds, he is still in negotiations with the ARU. Cooper will be unable to play for the Reds next season if he does not have an ARU contract.
Meanwhile, hard-nosed skipper Richie McCaw wants to see New Zealand clinch the inaugural Rugby Championship in style.
McCaw admitted there was a special incentive to wrap up the title on Argentinian soil, in their penultimate game against the competition newcomers, but it was not their main motivation against Los Pumas.
The world champions have had little problem stretching their unbeaten Test streak to 14 in their opening four matches of the tournament but have not scored more than two tries in any, leaving the rugby-loving New Zealand public wanting more.
''Winning's important yes … but I think when you know there is potential to be better and there are areas you can work on and have that attitude, you're always itching for something a bit better,'' he said. ''And we're always looking to be better.''
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The Cham people in Ninh Thuan Province worshiped their ancestors and prayed for good crops as they celebrated the Kate festival on October 18.
A traditional Cham dance to celebrate the Kate festival at the Poklong Garai Tower in Phan Rang
The festival, the most important in their calendar, was celebrated at Poklong Garai tower in Phan Rang city, attracting thousands of faithful.
The tower, situated on Trau hill 5 km northwest of Phan Rang, was built at the end of the 13th century to worship King Poklong Garai (1151-1205).
A great monarch, he has been deified as the Irrigation Deity.
Nearly VND11 billion has been spent to give a face lift to the Poklong tower area for this year's festival.
Kate is celebrated on the first day of the seventh month in the Cham calendar (normally September-October in the Gregorian Calendar) in honor of Garai and another male deity, Porome.
Cham palays (villages) start getting ready for the year's biggest festival four months in advance.
Older people prepare the temple offerings, young men practice pranung (drum beating) and a wind instrument called the saranai, and young women rehearse traditional dances that involve carrying a large fan or balancing a jar on their heads.
The palays hold competitions every year for the best dancers and musicians.
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Nominations of the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards have been revealed with ABC as the leading nominee, taking in 11 nods in total.
The nominees for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards are in and ABC comes out as the major nominee, taking in 11 nods all at once. The U.S.-based television network scores nominations for its hit comedy-drama series "Desperate Housewives" as well as new shows "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Greek."
As for GLAAD Special Honorees, singer Janet Jackson is one among the other recipients, being handed the Vanguard Award, which according to glaad.org is presented to media professionals who, through their work, have increased the visibility and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Below is part of the nominees for TV categories:
Drama Series
- Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (The N)
- Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
- Greek (ABC Family)
- The L Word (Showtime)
- Desperate Housewives (ABC)
- Exes and Ohs (Logo)
- The Sarah Silverman Program (Comedy Central)
- Ugly Betty (ABC)
- The War at Home (Fox)
- "Boy Crazy" Cold Case (CBS)
- "Do Tell" Boston Legal (ABC)
- "Free to Be You and Me" Kyle XY (ABC Family)
- "The Gangs of Camden County" My Name is Earl (NBC)
- "Sin" Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
- All My Children (ABC)
- As The World Turns (CBS)
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It is now common in sport for abstract nouns such as ''depression'' and ''anxiety'' to be used to summarise the feelings of retirement, or the cause of retirement itself, as happened with Mitch Clark this week.
Depression and anxiety are both boring words, easily overlooked because they are clumsy, and ask the reader to do all the work for them. They have no story. And because no one experience is universal, a reader's own experience with these words can misguide their understanding of how it applies to others.
To my mind, the only useful way to try and explain a feeling is by story-telling. This has always been the preferred method, because if a feeling is still lost in words, at least there is a story.
Boxer Floyd Patterson, for example, was a two-time heavyweight champion who could not live easily with the knowledge that a single blow could swing him from champion to loser. He brought a disguise with him to every fight - a false beard and glasses - to wear in case he lost. He had two cars waiting while he boxed - one at the front of the arena should he win, and one in the back alley that, should he lose, would take him directly to the airport.
When Sweden's Ingemar Johansson knocked Patterson out in the 1959 title fight, Patterson subsequently put on his disguise, was driven to the airport from the back alley, and bought a ticket on the next flight out of America. He landed in Madrid, where he told writer Gay Talese he took on a limp to appear elderly, and ate soup at tapas bars because he thought soup was what old people eat.
To evade the net of anxiety, footballers, too, will sometimes pose for a while as someone else. Any guise will do if it serves to level out the swing of being publicly lauded for a thing done well, and ridiculed for the same thing done poorly.
Usually, this transfiguration happens after the season, beneath a ski mask on some faraway mountain, or on a spinning dance floor in the middle Americas with a burning cigar and a coloured visor.
There was even, for many years, a communal lie told by players I knew, which would inform nearby teammates that tonight they should all be someone else. ''Hello,'' it went in an introduction to an innocent stranger, ''My name is Steven and I am a dolphin trainer. What do you do?''
Once, after a season that ended so poorly for me that I had to promise myself football was for idiots, I had something of an idea to pose, perhaps as myself, in the city of Berlin. At the time, I considered Berlin a place where a man could wander the streets and be almost anything: art critic, musician or something else of cerebral consequence that he might one day aspire to.
So it was with some disappointment when, on my second day in Germany, I heard the sound of an Australian voice say: ''Hello, Tim.'' I looked up from the magazine I was reading and saw a pair of large black boots pointing my way, and inside of them a giant athlete stood. He wore an aviator's jacket, which flared outrageously at the collar, and no undergarment. On his head was something like a beret, and beneath its short peak was the grinning face of Matthew Richardson. Here was a man, I thought, whose company I could enjoy.
Richo may not have wanted my company, but since he broke character first, I suggested we go and watch Calexico play - a band from Arizona - and he agreed.
We reconvened before the gig and, having shared an equal number of beers and words, we strolled through the city towards the concert hall. At the back of the audience we stood, tall and conspicuous in our costumes, nodding along together at a world we knew nothing about.
The next day, Richo was gone, and although I've not spoken to him in all the years since, I feel I learned something enduring about the man beneath that hat. He was a superstar, yet in every other way a fellow traveller.
To me, it is more apparent each year that if things are not going very well for you in the AFL, then they are going very poorly. And the simplicity of this scenario has the onlooker quick to dismiss the labyrinth of emotions that constitute a player's mind, who himself is likely to be one of the few people in his life that does not summarise his week as being either effective or ineffective.
Certainly, the swings in players' fortunes are what make the game difficult, hence worthwhile, but they are described and disseminated now in a maelstrom of adjectives on TV, radio and print, that together build an image of a man that is generally inaccurate.
It was Oscar Wilde, among others, who liked to suggest that the first duty in life is to strike a pose, and that no one yet knows what the second duty is. Wilde would have something to say about modern sport, and the anxious pose of its players. But even he would probably be wrong.
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Ms. HOCHUL. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
On February 12, 2009, Flight 3407 crashed into a house in my district, killing all the passengers and an individual in his home. Out of that devastation arose a spirit that actually united this Congress in enacting flight safety and pilot training rules that would have prevented the crash. The families never gave up, coming to talk to Members of Congress over 50 times over 3 years, and they are eagerly awaiting the final implementation of potentially lifesaving rules. It sounds like a happy ending, doesn't it?
Yet, this week, because the House Rules Committee refused to allow my amendment to protect those specific rules, we are at risk of losing all those hard-fought, bipartisan safety reforms. With the so-called Regulatory Freeze Act, these reforms would simply die. So those who voted for them in the past are now calling them job killing? Well, I call them people saving.
Listen, I know we need to end overburdensome regulations, and I voted against many of them, the ones that hurt our farmers and small businesses. I hear about that in upstate New York. But there's a commonsense way to do it. But to freeze all government regulations, all of them, regardless of the health and safety of our citizens is over the top, even for this town.
Flight safety rules are just one example. The bill would also block benefits for disabled and homeless veterans, it would hurt seniors, and it would eliminate rules that ensured taxpayer dollars are used for goods made in America. This only proves that Washington is broken and we need to fix it.
I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this senseless regulation and this rule.
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From all their lovey-dovey type tweets and secret late night hang outs, we knew a hook up was sure to follow!
Both Chris Brown and Rihanna are in New York so it only makes sense that they would "just so happen" to be at the same club on the same night.
They might have arrived and left separately but you know they made it a point to hang out with each other!
AND THEY WERE SEEN MAKING OUT!!! Rihanna, we hope you know what you're doing!
Perez also told Carson about Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey's unfriendly word exchange, Minka Kelly and Chris Evans are back together and Jessica Simpson's man is a cheater? Hope not, they just had a kid together!


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I am pleased to announce the publication of Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World. The book was co-edited by myself, Claire Finkelstein, and Andrew Altman, and was just published by Oxford University Press. It is available from amazon, Barnes & Noble, or directly from OUP.
The impetus for the book was a desire to bring together scholars from international law, criminal law, legal and moral philosophy, military law, as well as scholars whose work extends across several of these disciplines.
The book is therefore one of the very first to look at TKs from a purely conceptual perspective, instead of simply rehashing the factual controversies involved in Predator drone attacks. At issue in each of the essays is the fundamentally asymmetrical nature of the current TK strategy. In other words, the use of force is deployed by states against non-state actors, thus leading to great uncertainty over whether the war or crime paradigm applies. As I said during a recent panel discussion at ASIL on the topic, the lack of agreement on the lawfulness of TKs is no surprise when there isn't even agreement on which body of law (or bodies of law, if one allows for co-application of IHL and IHRL) governs the matter.
In short, the issue of TKs implicates almost every contemporary debate in jus ad bellum and jus in bello, whether from a legal or philosophical perspective. It also provides a good lens to continue the philosophical and legal debates about necessity, imminence, and self-defense that first emerged in the context of torture.
Stay tuned for an online symposium about the book at Opinio Juris later this spring.
And in the more immediate future, there will be a book launch event at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on Monday, April 30 at 5:30pm, featuring a keynote address by Rear Admiral John Hutson, emeritus dean at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Here is the full table of contents of the volume:
- Claire Finkelstein, Preface
- Andrew Altman, Introduction
- Mark "Max" Maxwell, Rebutting the Civilian Presumption: Playing Whack-A-Mole Without a Mallet?
- Jens David Ohlin, Targeting Co-belligerents
- Daniel Statman, Can Just War Theory Justify Targeted Killing? Three Possible Models
- Jeremy Waldron, Justifying Targeted Killing With a Neutral Principle?
- Jeff McMahan, Targeted Killing: Murder, Combat or Law Enforcement?
- Claire Finkelstein, Targeted Killing as Preemptive Action
- Richard V. Meyer, The Privilege of Belligerency and Formal Declarations of War
- Craig Martin, Going Medieval: Targeted Killing, Self-Defense, and the Jus ad Bellum Regime
- Russell Christopher, Imminence in Justified Targeted Killing
- Phil Montague, Defending Defensive Targeted Killings
- Amos N. Guiora, The Importance of Criteria-Based Reasoning in Targeted Killing Decisions
- Gregory S. McNeal, Are Targeted Killings Unlawful? A Case Study in Empirical Claims without Empirical Evidence
- Kevin H. Govern, Operation Neptune Spear: Was Killing Bin Laden a Legitimate Military Objective?
- Kenneth Anderson, Efficiency in Bello and ad Bellum: Making the Use of Force Too Easy?
- Fernando R. Tesón, Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis
- Michael S. Moore, Targeted Killings and the Morality of Hard Choices
- Leo Katz, Targeted Killing and the Strategic Use of Self-Defense


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10 Baby Names That Are Unexpectedly Popular
Are you expecting? Check out these unexpected baby names that are gaining popularity!
Celebrities are known for the crazy names they give their babies but apparently they're not the only ones! Your average, everyday person is now naming their baby weird things too!
Although not as weird as 'North West' or 'Audio Science' (those are REAL names too!) there's definitely some out there that make me go "Huh?!?!"
answers.com released a list of the 10 Unexpectedly Popular Names and they include ones that you've definitely heard of but maybe never knew people actually named their kids that.
1. Khaleesie (for you all Game of Thrones fans out there!)
2. Aurelia
3. Elodie (Like Melodie, but without the "M", so the child should be able to sing, right?)
4. Katniss (I think we all know where this comes from.)
5. Luna
6. Asher
7. Ransom (Uh, what?! )
8. Bodhi
9. Beckett
10. Django (Again, uh, what?!)
I've definitely heard of some of these, but others just seem a little to out there for my taste!


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