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Background The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) is the most widely used psychiatric research assessment for older persons. Evidence for validity comes from the developed world.
Aims To assess the validity of GMS/AGECAT organicity and depression diagnoses in 26 centres in India, China, Latin America and Africa.
Method We studied 2941 persons aged 60 years and over: 742 people with dementia and three groups free of dementia (697 with depression, 719 with high and 783 with low levels of education). Local clinicians diagnosed dementia (DSM–IV) and depression (Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale score ≥18).
Results For dementia diagnosis GMS/AGECAT performed well in many centres but educational bias was evident. Specificity was poor in India and sensitivity sub-optimal in Latin America. A predictive algorithm excluding certain orientation items but including interviewer judgements improved upon the AGECAT algorithm. For depression, sensitivity was high. The EURO–D depression scale, derived from GMS items using European data, has a similar factor structure in Latin America, India and, to a lesser extent, China.
Conclusions Valid, comprehensive mental status assessment across cultures seems achievable in principle.
The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) examination (Copeland et al, 1986) is the most widely used comprehensive mental health research assessment for older persons (Copeland et al, 2002). It is particularly suited for comparative epidemiological research, given its structured format for identifying, rating and recording symptoms, and the use of the AGECAT computerised algorithm (Copeland et al, 1986) to generate diagnoses. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the validity of the GMS, first established in developed countries (Livingston et al, 1990; Collinghan et al, 1993), extends to poorly educated populations in developing countries. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group recently included the GMS as a key component of an algorithm for the diagnosis of dementia in developing countries, in conjunction with the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI-D; Hall et al, 1993) and the modified CERAD ten-word list learning test (Ganguli et al, 1996). Here, using the same data, we assess the performance of the GMS in more detail. Validity is assessed at the level of each of the 26 participating centres. The GMS depression diagnoses are examined in addition to organicity (dementia). Responses to individual items contributing to the depression and organicity diagnostic algorithms are assessed across world regions.
Study design
The design of the 10/66 dementia diagnosis pilot study is described in more detail elsewhere (Prince et al, 2003). In each centre we aimed to recruit 30 participants into each of four groups: mild to moderate dementia; depression; high level of education; and low level of education. Ethical approval for the studies was obtained in London and in the overseas centres. Recruitment was on the basis of informed consent, or relatives' agreement where individuals with dementia lacked capacity. All participants were aged 60 years or over. To maintain blindness, independent clinicians established the diagnosis of dementia according to DSM–IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria (any dementia subtype) by completing a clinical pro forma, and formally rating dementia severity using the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale (Morris, 1993). They confirmed the diagnosis of depression with a clinical assessment guided by the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating (MADRS; Montgomery & Åsberg, 1979) with an inclusion criterion of a score of 18 or above. Dementia and depression case groups were recruited either from previous clinical contacts or by local key informant nomination. The two groups with normal cognitive function (low and high levels of education) were recruited from the community. Interviewers were given the participants' name and address but were not told of their diagnosis.
All study instruments were translated and back-translated by bilingual local investigators and the resulting local language version was reviewed by local key informants to check its face validity. The GMS is a 25-50 min clinical interview generating, from a computerised algorithm (AGE-CAT), nine diagnostic clusters: organicity (dementia and other organic brain syndromes), schizophrenia (and related psychoses), mania, neurotic depression, psychotic depression, hypochondriasis, phobias, obsessional neurosis and anxiety neurosis. A diagnostic confidence level for each syndrome ranges from 0 (no symptoms) to 5 (very severely affected). Levels 3 and greater represent likely cases, a degree of severity warranting professional intervention; levels 1 and 2 are sub-cases. Stage 1 diagnoses are then organised into final stage 2 diagnoses on the basis of precedence determined by a hierarchically structured algorithm. We used the original A3 version of the GMS. A briefer B3 ' community' version of the GMS omits those sections that assess syndromes with a low prevalence in the general community: mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hypochondriasis and some ratings of hallu-cinations and delusions. It is possible to generate B3 AGECAT diagnoses from A3 data-sets as if the briefer interview had been administered instead.
A subset of 12 GMS items contribute particularly towards the determination of the stage 1 organicity diagnostic confidence level. These comprise tests of cognitive ability (knowledge of date of birth and age; discrepancy between stated date of birth and age; orientation to day, month, year and address; recall of name of interviewer; name of their country's current and previous political leader) and two judgements made by the interviewer (presence of memory deficit, and problems with memory worse than problems with thinking). Twelve symptoms of depression in the GMS (depression, pessimism, wishing death, guilt, sleep, interest, irritability, appetite, fatigue, concentration, enjoyment, tearfulness) are used to generate the EURO-D 12-item depression symptom scale (Prince et al, 1999). The EURO-D was internally consistent and captured the essence of its parent instrument. Across Europe a two-factor solution seemed appropriate: depression, tearfulness and wishing to die loaded on the first factor (affective suffering); and loss of interest, poor concentration and lack of enjoyment loaded on the second factor (motivation).
All centres were trained in the use of the GMS. M.P. and J.C. trained the Chinese and Indian centres, using English. For Latin America the Brazilian (Portuguese-speaking) and Hispanic 10/66 network coordinators were trained by M.P., using English. They subsequently trained investigators from the 14 Latin American centres using their own languages. Over 2-3 days, each trainee viewed and co-rated two training tapes, completed and rated a supervised training interview and co-rated a further four to six training interviews. This represented a necessary compression of the more conventional 5-day training period for the GMS.
Dementia diagnosis
We estimated the sensitivity (%) for dementia of the GMS-A3/AGECAT stage 2 organicity diagnosis (level 3 or greater), and the false-positive rates (%) for each centre, among those with depression and in the ' high-education' and 'low-education' control groups. We compared these parameters with those that would have been achieved with the briefer GMS-B3.
We assessed the validity of the 12 organicity items by estimating the proportions of participants in each region and for each diagnostic group who failed on the ten GMS cognitive test items and who were considered to be impaired on the two objective interviewer assessments.
We further assessed the 12 organicity items as independent predictors of true dementia status using logistic regression. The collective discriminability of the optimally discriminant items was assessed using predicted probabilities from the logistic regression model. To avoid overprediction the data-set was divided randomly into two halves; the logistic model was developed from the first half (development sample) and applied to the second half (test sample). The sensitivity (%) for dementia of the predictive model (on the test sample) and its false-positive rates (%) for each centre among those with depression and in the high and low education control groups was compared with that of the AGECAT stage 2 organicity diagnosis.
Depression diagnosis
We estimated in each region:
the sensitivity (%) for depression of the GMS/AGECAT stage 2 depression diagnosis (level 3 or greater) in the depression group, and the proportion of GMS/AGECAT stage 2 depression in each of the three other groups (dementia, high-education and low-education), for which depression status was not a selection criterion;
the mean EURO-D score and standard deviation for each diagnostic group;
the internal consistency of the EURO-D scale (excluding those with dementia);
the factor structure of the EURO-D scale items (using principal components analysis with varimax rotation), comparing the results with those published previously for European centres (Prince et al, 1999).
Centres and participants
In all, 2941 persons were interviewed: 746 in India, 336 in China and south-east Asia, 119 in Russia, 74 in Nigeria (Africa) and 1666 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Centres were asked to recruit participants aged 65 years and over. In the event, some centres recruited some participants aged 60-64 years, 207 in all or 7% of the total sample. Of the 2941 participants, 742 were people with dementia, 697 people with depression, 719 high-education controls and 783 low-education controls. In the low-education groups the proportions receiving no or minimal education were 91% for India, 89% for China and 80% for Latin America and the Caribbean. In the high-education groups the proportions completing secondary education were 81%, 99% and 80%, respectively.
At regional level, the GMS-A3/AGECAT stage 2 organicity rating has reasonable validity against the gold standard clinical diagnosis of dementia (Table 1). Sensitivity appears to be better in Indian and Chinese centres than in Latin American. The false-positive rate among those with little education is worse in India. However, at centre level the performance is patchy. In Thrissur and Goa in Southern India, although sensitivity is excellent, one-half and two-thirds, respectively, of the least well educated are misdiagnosed. In Latin America in Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Mexico (Guadalajara) less than half of dementia cases are correctly identified. The GMS-B3 stage 2 organicity rating was identical to the A3 rating in most centres and is therefore not cited here. Where it differed significantly, sensitivity was superior with little or no decline in specificity. Thus, in Guadalajara, sensitivity with version B3 was 50% against 13% for A3, in Chile it was 67% compared with 42% and in Argentina it was 57% compared with 50%.
Item-level analysis showed that all of the cognitive test items and each of the two interviewer objective assessments of the presence of memory deficits discriminated effectively between dementia and the other three groups, in each of the regions (Table 2). Defective orientation to year (more so than to month or day of the week), ignorance of the names of the country's current and previous political leaders were the most educationally biased, particularly in India. Response patterns to the latter items were highly dependent upon local political culture. In Cuba, everyone in the control groups knew that Fidel Castro was their country's leader, as did 82% of people with dementia. Conversely, in Goa only 3% of people with dementia and 13% of people with low education and no dementia could name Mr Vajpayee. Three cognitive test items – disorientation to address, error in stating age, and confabulation in response to the question 'have you seen me before' – were good discriminators with little educational bias across all three regions. The most effective discriminators were the interviewers' two global assessments. A parsimonious model developed using logistic regression on one random half of the data-set included these most effective and least biased items, and excluded orientation to year and knowledge of past and present political leaders (Table 3). The resulting coefficients were applied to the other 'test' half of the dataset, probabilities of group membership were calculated and a cut-off point of 0.30 (optimal in the development data-set) was applied. The new algorithm was markedly more effective at discriminating between dementia and the other three groups than the AGECAT organicity rating, both in every region and in nearly every centre (Table 1). At region level, the false-positive rate in the low-education group in India fell from 37% to 5%, and the sensitivity in Latin America and the Caribbean increased from 65% to 86%.
The sensitivity of the GMS/AGECAT stage 1 diagnosis of depression for the MADRS-defined depression case criterion was close to 90% in each of the three main regions (Table 4). This figure dropped to around 70-80% in AGECAT stage 2, mainly because the depressive symptoms had been trumped by the organicity (dementia) ratings in the hierarchical diagnosis. Because dementia was an exclusion criterion for selection into the depression group, this suggested misclassification by the stage 2 AGECAT algorithm. The high levels of apparent comorbidity in the dementia case groups are noteworthy, as is the apparent high proportion of those with depression in the high- and low-education control groups in Latin America and the Caribbean compared with Indian and Chinese centres. Case-level depression was neither screened for nor excluded from the high- and low-education or dementia groups, so we could not estimate the specificity of the AGECAT depression diagnosis.
The distribution of the EURO-D scale, within diagnostic groups, was similar across the three main regions (Table 4). In each region the mean scores were much higher in the depression group than in the dementia or high- and low-education control groups. Internal consistency (Cronbach's α) was universally satisfactory. For India it was 0.91 (range for centres: 0.87-0.95), for Latin America and the Caribbean it was 0.83 (range for centres: 0.64-0.91) and for China and south-east Asia (both centres) it was 0.88. The other two regions were represented by only one centre each – Anambra in Africa (α=0.93) and Moscow in Russia (α=0.86). Principal component analysis was attempted for three regions: India; China and south-east Asia; and Latin America and the Caribbean. Two factor solutions were applied in each region following inspection of scree plots. Similar factors were extracted for India and for Latin America and the Caribbean (see Table 5), conforming to the affective suffering (depression, suicidality, tearfulness) and motivation (enjoyment, interest) factors previously reported for EURO-D (Prince et al, 1999). In the Chinese centres all of these items loaded on a single factor, whereas the second factor was characterised by guilt and pessimism.
Across the developing-country centres included in this study, the GMS was highly effective at discriminating between dementia cases and high-education controls, therefore the data presented here are entirely consistent with earlier reports of the satisfactory validity of GMS/AGECAT when used in well-educated developed-country populations (Livingston et al, 1990; Collinghan et al, 1993). It was in this context that the GMS was first developed and the AGECAT algorithm calibrated. In the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS; 1998) the age-specific prevalence of GMS/AGECAT organicity was very similar to that consistently reported from other major European and North American population-based surveys.
In developing countries the GMS is a useful adjunct to dementia diagnosis. Our earlier analyses have demonstrated that it adds to the discriminating power of an algorithm, including informant report of decline in cognitive and functional ability (from the CSI-D) and cognitive testing (from the CSI-D and the CERAD ten-word list learning test) (Prince et al, 2003). More detailed findings presented here underline a tendency for the GMS to overdiagnose dementia in low-education groups in some but not all centres, and for a relative insensitivity to the presence of dementia in others. Given that the items contributing to the AGECAT organicity algorithm can be used to generate an algorithm that is much less educationally biased, one can infer that, in Latin America, AGECAT gives more weight to some of those items that we have identified as relatively educationally biased and gives less weight to items that are sensitive to the presence of dementia.
Our data also suggest that the briefer B3 'community' version of the GMS may, paradoxically, be a more valid assessment for dementia than the more comprehensive GMS-A3. In a few centres it would appear that ratings for the sections excluded from B3 (mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hypochondriasis and some ratings of hallu-cinations and delusions) were sub-optimal, giving rise to implausible diagnoses. Thus, in Guadalajara, Mexico, 43% of all dementia true cases were rated by stage 2 as cases of mania. Similar but less extreme problems were noted for some other Latin American centres. Extensive training was provided in all Latin American centres by the regional coordinator but it was not possible logistically after training to supervise directly the conduct of the research in each and every centre. Our collective experience as trainers is that those elements of the GMS-A3 version omitted in the B3 are the most problematic with respect to achieving reliable and accurate ratings, particularly with non-clinical interviewers. Given the low prevalence of these symptoms in community samples it would seem advisable to use the B3 version.
There is ample evidence from our data for the core validity of the AGECAT depression algorithm, at least with respect to its sensitivity to the relatively severe form of depression implied by our independent-clinician inclusion criterion of a MADRS score of 18 or over. It is possible that applying the diagnostic hierarchy in stage 2 may lead to misclassification of depression as dementia. Alternatively, given the typically high rates of dementia incidence in cases clinically diagnosed as depressive pseudodementia, ' false positives' may reflect an incipient dementia process that was not apparent to the independent clinician recruiting the depression cases. Misclassification will be more marked in low-education samples, and use of the AGECAT 'patch' should again remedy this problem. Alternatively, this pitfall may be avoided by using instead the non-hierarchical AGECAT stage 1 diagnosis; this strategy also permits analysis of comorbidity with dementia, which our data demonstrate to be a phenomenon prevalent in all of the countries and cultures under study.
The EURO-D scale, derived from just 12 GMS items and extensively validated across Europe, would seem to have similar internal validity properties in other cultures. The underlying two-factor solutions for the Indian and Latin American centres were both similar to each other and generally concordant with those derived previously across the 14 EURODEP European centres. The factor solution for the Chinese centres was somewhat different but difficult to interpret, given the small numbers studied.
Implications for future use of GMS/AGECAT
None of the comprehensive diagnostic assessments in common use in adult populations, whether structured or semi-structured, lay interviewer or clinician administered, has adequately addressed the problems posed by older people with organic conditions. Thus, for research in older populations the GMS remains deservedly popular. However, the GMS on its own was never intended to provide a formal diagnosis of dementia. For such a diagnosis the History and Aetiology Schedule (HAS) informant interview with HAS/AGECAT or the History and Aetiology Schedule – Dementia Diagnosis and Subtype (HAS-DDS) would have to be used (Copeland et al, 2002). Without these, the necessary criteria of cognitive and functional decline cannot be established. Neither is it possible to exclude delirium or stable chronic brain injury as an explanation for cognitive impairment; hence the AGECAT label of 'organicity' rather than 'dementia'. Empirically, in developed countries the GMS/AGECAT organicity approximates closely to the clinical construct of dementia. In developing countries and other low-education populations, the focus in the GMS/AGECAT algorithm upon educationally biased cognitive test items risks overdiagnosis. In the 10/66 Dementia Research Group's previously published diagnostic algorithm (Prince et al, 2003) this tendency is corrected through education-fair cognitive assessment and informant history of cognitive and functional decline provided by the CSI-D. The GMS is a key element of the 10/66 algorithm because of its unique ability to discriminate between depression and dementia (Prince et al, 2003). If the GMS is to be used alone in developing-country and other low-education populations, then caution is indicated in interpreting the organicity output, which may not map as closely onto clinical dementia as in a developed-country population. Future users of the GMS, particularly in low-education populations, may, where resources permit and when dementia is a principal focus, wish to make use of the 10/66 diagnostic algorithm incorporating the CSI-D and CERAD ten-word list learning test (Prince et al, 2003). Others might wish to use the 'patch' provided in the form of the logistic regression coefficients included in this paper. Note, though, that we administered the GMS with the two other components of the 10/66 algorithm; thus, the remarkable discriminability of the interviewer judgement of the presence of memory impairment might be explained by global impressions, including information from these assessments. Similar discriminability may not be achieved when the GMS is used on its own. A revised AGECAT algorithm will provide a more robust long-term solution and it is towards this goal that we now direct our efforts.
More work is required to clarify the cross-cultural validity of GMS/AGECAT. This certainly should include the predictive validity of the organicity rating for future clinical deterioration. Clinicopathological correlation studies are superficially attractive but problematic. In the UK MRC CFAS study, GMS/AGECAT organicity diagnosis predicted the presence upon autopsy of neuropathological features associated with the most prevalent dementia sub-types – Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy-body dementia and frontotemporal dementia (Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, 2001). However, these features were also prevalent among those who did not have an AGECAT organicity diagnosis in vivo. This may reflect upon the suitability of these pathological indicators as gold standards for clinical dementia diagnosis rather than on the specificity of the GMS/AGECAT algorithm.
10/66 Dementia Research Group
The 10/66 Dementia Research Group, part of Alzheimer's Disease International, is a collective of researchers from the developing and developed regions of the world. A full list of members with contact details can be found at http://www.alz.co.uk/1066. The following members of the 10/66 Group participated as investigators in this project and can be considered jointly responsible for the development of the protocol, the data gathering, data analysis and the preparation of this report.
Coordinating Centre
Professor Martin Prince, 10/66 Coordinator, Institute of Psychiatry, London; Ms Seema Quraishi, 10/66 Administrator, Institute of Psychiatry, London; Professor John Copeland, University of Liverpool; Dr Michael Dewey, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
10/66 India (Regional Coordinator Additional Professor Mathew Varghese)
Bangalore: Professor Mathew Varghese, Dr Srikala Bharath, NIMHANS, Bangalore; Chennai (SCARF): Ms Latha Srinivasan, Dr R. Thara, Schizophrenia Research Foundation; Chennai (VHS): Mr Ravi Samuel, Dr E. S. Krishnamoorthy, Voluntary Health Services; Goa: Dr Vikram Patel, Sangath, Dr Amit Dias, Goa Medical College; Hyderabad: Dr K. Chandrasekhar, Dr M. Ajay Verma, Heritage Hospitals; Thrissur: Assistant Professor K. S. Shaji, Professor K. Praveen Lal, Medical College, Thrissur; Vellore: Professor K.S. Jacob, Dr Arockia Philip Raj, Christian Medical College.
10/66 China and ES Asia (Regional Coordinator Professor Helen Chiu)
China (Beijing): Professor Li Shuran, Dr Jin Liu, Beijing University; China (Hong Kong SAR): Professor Linda Lam, Dr Teresa Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Taiwan (Taipei): Dr Shen-Ing Liu, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Professor P. K. Yip, National Taiwan University Hospital.
10/66 Latin America and Caribbean (Regional Coordinators Dr Daisy Acosta (Dominican Republic) and Dr Marcia Scazufca (Brazil))
Argentina (Buenos Aires): Dr Raúl Luciano Arizaga, Hospital Santojanni (GCBA), Dr Ricardo F. Allegri, Hospital Zubizarreta (GBCA Y CONICET); Brazil (São Paulo): Dr Marcia Scazufca, Dr Paulo Rossi Menezes, Universidade de São Paulo; Brazil (Botucatu): Dr Ana Teresa de A.R. Cerquerira, Botucatu Medical School, UNESP; Brazil (São Jose do Rio Preto): M. Cristina O. S. Miyazaki, Neide A. Micelli Domingos, FAMERP Medical School; Chile (Santiago/Concepción/Valparaiso): Dr Patricio Fuentes, G. Hospital Del Salvador, Santiago, Dr Pilar Quoroga, L. Universidad de Concepción; Concepción; Cuba (Havana): Dr Juan de J. Llibre Rodriguez, Dr Hector Bayarre Vea, Facultad de Medicina 'Finlay-Albarran', Universidad Medica de la Habana; Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo): Dr Daisy Acosta, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU), Lic. Guillermina Rodriguez, Asociación; Dominicana de Alzheimer (ADA); Guatemala (Guatemala City): Dr Carlos A. Mayorga Ruiz, Dr Mario Luna de Floran; Mexico (Mexico City): Dr Ana Luisa Sosa, Dr Yaneth Rodriguez Agudelo, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery; Mexico (Guadalajara):Dr Genaro G. Ortiz, Lab Desarrollo/Envejecimiento, CIBO/IMSS, Dr Elva D. Arias-Merino, Gerontologia, Universidad de Guadalajara; Panama (Panama City): Dr Gloriela R. de Alba, Paitilla Medical Center Hospital, Dr Gloria Grimaldo, Santa Fe Hospital; Peru (Lima): Dr Mariella Guerra, Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental ' Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi', Universidad Peruana Cauetano Heredia, M. Victor González, Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social, ESSALUD; Uruguay (Montevideo): Dr Roberto Ventura, Dr Nair Raciope, University of Uruguay; Venezuela (Caracas): Dr Aquiles Salas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Medicine, Dr Ciro Gaona Yánez, Fundación; Alzheimer's Venezuela.
10/66 Africa
Nigeria (Anambra): Dr Richard Uwakwe, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital.
10/66 Russia
Moscow (Russia): Professor Svetlana Gavrilova, Dr Grigory Jarikov, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Mental Health Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Clinical Implications and Limitations
The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) and its AGECAT computerised algorithm may overdiagnose dementia in developing countries and other low-education populations.
Testing for orientation to year and knowledge of a country's political leaders are particularly educationally biased.
The EURO–D scale, derived from GMS depression items, has a common underlying factor structure across several continents.
Small sample sizes in each centre imply some imprecision in the estimation of sensitivity and false-positive rates.
Although interviewers were blind to diagnosis, their GMS ratings may have been influenced by knowledge of other cognitive assessments administered in the same sitting.
We were able to study only the sensitivity and not the specificity of the GMS depression diagnosis.
- Received May 7, 2003.
- Revision received May 27, 2004.
- Accepted June 26, 2004.
- © 2004 Royal College of Psychiatrists


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Landon Donovan scored twice, including a penalty kick in the 75th minute, and the Los Angeles Galaxy extended their unbeaten streak to 14 games with a 4-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.
Midfielder Sean Franklin in the 85th minute and Adam Cristman in the 90th also scored for the Galaxy. It was the fourth time in five games the Galaxy won in a shutout.
The league-worst Whitecaps held their own for the first half against the league-leading Galaxy, who played without superstar David Beckham, suspended after accumulating eight yellow cards on the season. Vancouver striker Eric Hassli was the biggest threat to Los Angeles, twice just missing the corner of the net in the second half.
Donovan's first goal came in the 61st minute, when he took advantage of a fall by Whitecaps defender Michael Boxall. The Galaxy captain took a long pass from Franklin, let the ball bounce off his chest, then chipped a shot past Vancouver goalkeeper Joe Cannon.
Donovan, who sat out this week's All-Star game with a calf injury, celebrated by blowing kisses into the stands, then bowing to the booing crowd.
The second goal came after referee Baldomero Toledo called Vancouver defender Jordan Harvey for a hand ball. Donovan struck the ball home for his 11th goal of the season, bringing another round of boos.
The Galaxy lead the league with a 12-2-9 record for 45 points. They are riding an 8-0-6 streak.
The expansion Whitecaps are last in the MLS with a 2-11-9 record for 15 points. Vancouver is 0-5-1 since a June 18 win over Philadelphia at home.
It was the second time this year one of the marquee teams in MLS came to Vancouver without its biggest draw. In May, a knee injury kept Thierry Henry out of the New York Red Bulls lineup when they tied the Whitecaps 1-1.

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HARLAN, Iowa - As he popped in and out of shops around the perimeter of the town square here, Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a quick stop at the Coffee Plant for a little coffee break.
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"Harsh Realities Still Remain" are the bywords by which the Kaleidomagorics VII: Quasi-Festival of Quasi-Festivals girds its collective creative loins, spewing out the plume of raw gritty creativity that is the usual spiritu sanctum around The Smell. What to expect from tonight's particular world of wonders: music by Sir Axel Estrada; heavy metal merchants Ides of Gemini, who have their debut LP out next month on hotly touted Neurot Recordings; the Coptic dottiness of musical prestidigitators Lantvrn; and Moab, which might be either the soundtrack to the city in Utah or an acronym for Mother of All Butts. In between the music there are $5 haircuts from Cinco Dollares, the duo of Kiersa Carhart and Brenda Jett Kamt; a custom leather and denim bazaar; an exhibition of art and visuals by Kyle Forrest Burns, Andrew Jason Conte, Martin de Pedro, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Travis Wyche; and those ever-popular "yummy" vegan baked goods from the culinary cabal of Maneesh Madahar and Michelle Marquis. The Smell, 247 S. Main St.; downtown Los Angeles; Sat., Apr. 14, 8 p.m., $5. (213) 625-4325, thesmell.org.
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Washington-Washington State: Cross-State RIvals Face Off in Pac-10 FinaleMarch 5, 2009
Washington (23-7, 13-4) and Washington State (16-13, 8-9) will meet up once again this Saturday on the hardwood of Bank of America Arena in Seattle, WA.
Whatever you do, be sure to set aside a couple of hours between 2:30pm and 4:30pm to take in college basketball at its best.
There's no better way to wrap up a Pac-10 schedule than to have two rivals square off.
This would be a great game to watch even if there was nothing more than pride on the line.
No matter, there is plenty on the line for both of these ball clubs.
Washington wants to earn a Pac-10 crown the old-fashioned way. Winning the game Saturday accomplishes that goal.
Washington State wants to ride the wave of momentum they caught a couple of weeks ago. The Cougs have a three-game winning streak and look to have finally come into their own as this regular season winds down. A win over the UW keeps momentum in crimson and gray jerseys.
Coach Lorenzo Romar has done a masterful job with his roster. His starting lineup is comprised of the best athletes, top to bottom, in the conference. It's a group of players that play solid basketball that is best defined by two words.
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Those two words are an accurate label to place on Coach Tony Bennett's squad.
Team basketball.
Coach Bennett has some outstanding athletes on his roster as well.
There is one significant difference between the two teams. The Cougs are one of the youngest teams in the nation. Coach Bennett has 9 freshmen on the 15 man squad. With five seniors, WSU has an average age of just 19.87. That's a youth movement for Division I basketball.
Youth is an important component when looking ahead to this match-up.
When these two teams met in Pullman, WA, to begin their respective Pac-10 schedules, Washington blew the Cougs off their own court, 68-48. The loss was an important lessons for the young guns of Washington State.
Will the Cougs remember the showboating of the Dawgs late in that game?
Truth be known, all the supposition about the history between these two teams won't mean much once the ball is tossed up to begin play.
What will be important to know going into this battle is that both the Huskies and the Cougars play outstanding team basketball.
The top two freshmen guards in the Pac-10 will be facing off for a second time.
Isaiah Thomas is the spark plug that fires up the Huskies. He's a lock to be honored as the top freshman in the conference.
Klay Thompson started the season as a terrific offensive player. Klay has matured into a complete player. He's a lock to be selected to the Pac-10 All-Freshman team.
Washington held the Cougs to their lowest rebound total on the season last time around. That stat coupled with WSU only shooting 41 percent from the floor spelled disaster. Missing 27 shots creates a lot of rebound opportunities. The Huskies made the most of those chances by grabbing 23 defensive boards. They dominated the offensive glass as well, collecting 13 boards while WSU could manage just five of their own.
The other area Coach Romar's team excelled at in Pullman was moving the ball on offense. They had 11 assists on their 25 buckets. That's team basketball. By comparison, WSU managed just 4 assists on their 19 baskets.
That was then.
Both teams have improved over the course of the season.
By 5pm Saturday evening, we'll know which team has improved the most.
Note: Senior guard Taylor Rochestie left practice Wednesday afternoon with an injury to a finger on his right hand. Rochestie first injured the finger in the UCLA game. An examination determined there was nothing serious and he'll be ready to go Saturday.


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Visiting: China
Trip Duration 10 Days
Great Wall Of China Walking Holiday
Stretching from the Yellow Sea to the edge of the Gobi Desert, some 4300 kilometres, the magnificent ramparts and watch towers of the Great Wall were built to protect China's northern frontier from raiding Mongol horsemen. Our walk concentrates on some of the most interesting and spectacular sections including the 'Old Dragon's Head' and Jinshanling. This trip really gets off the beaten track and explores rural China.
Tour Highlights
- Beijing - Visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City
- Old Dragons Head - Visit the point where the Great Wall meets the sea
- Jiaoshan - Walk on spectacular sections of the wall near its eastern end
- Panjiakou - Take a boat trip where the Wall crosses the water
- Eastern Qing Tombs - Visit the stunning Imperial Tomb Complex of the Qing Dynasty near Zunhua
- Jinshanling - Beautiful section with numerous beacon towers
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1Join trip Beijing
2Beijing city tour including the Forbidden City
3Drive to Shanhaiguan where Great Wall reaches the sea
4Trek on Great Wall to Jiaoshan Pass; drive to Panjiakou
5Boat trip by the Wall, walk at Luowenyou
6Visit Eastern Qing Tombs; trek on Wall to Huangyaguan
7Drive to Gubeikou; beacon tower walk to Jinshanling
8Hike on Great Wall towards Simatai
9Return to Beijing; optional visit to Summer Palace
10Trip ends in Beijing
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Influencing lives: A tribute
Lessons Learned
by GLENETTA SHUEY
While doing my research for my articles and columns, I discovered that May is Honor and Remembrance Month. As I began writing this column today, I knew this theme was fitting.
As a mom, I recall one of the best decisions I made was allowing my daughters to have jobs during high school. It was a major consideration, as I wanted to be sure they kept their grades up and still manage their extracurricular activities. Both of my girls were fortunate enough to get jobs with good people and doing work that suited them.
Or… in Candace's case, doing as little work as possible, while her employers, Kent and Myra Spears of Floral Arts, happily entertained her high school rants and encouraged her flair for the melodramatic! It didn't help that they were my friends, and Candace, spoiled as she already was, felt that this was more of a pastime. No matter that they were paying her! Thank goodness they loved her from the start.
Reminiscing recently with Myra, we both can remember the exchanges between Kent and Candace as being both witty and sardonic. Myra recalls vividly: "The memory that always comes to mind is Candace strolling into the shop, no matter how busy we were, at a snail's pace. She would always have a smile on her face the minute she saw Kent looking at her." Candace's purse was always slung on her shoulder, Myra remembers. After she took her time, Kent would ask her how her day went. And then it came: every detail of any boyfriend drama that was going down. Myra adds: "He would then proceed to give her pretty sound advice, which I'm not really sure if she would follow, but I know she realized was good advice. Kent would usually grab Candace's purse and give the best impression of Candace you have ever seen…..strolling at a snail's pace through the shop, every detail so perfect that Candace had to laugh!"
Myra looked forward to their constant banter. "If Kent loved you, he found it necessary to pick on you relentlessly," she recollects with a tinge of sadness! Kent liked to call her Princess Candace. The title has stayed with her. "Candace was one of the few people I know that could keep up with his wit. They would go back and forth…….laughing the whole time." Myra mostly just thinks back on the fun and laughter and love. "I know that he kept her employed at the shop for pure entertainment purposes. It was worth it. Kent adored Candace. I adore her as well. Some of the best memories of that shop were with her."
Candace's most vivid recollection was Kent's favorite job for her, which, of course, she despised. He had her wash the buckets in the back which she would let pile up until the last minute. Candace says fondly, "I never wanted to let him down though, no matter how much we picked and fought. He kept me on my toes, and I loved him and Myra for always treating me like one of their own."
From the time she began working for Kent, he knew that he was going to be "her wedding planner." For her wedding, he and Myra did indeed make it fabulous! He bought so many roses that he filled his cooler up and couldn't buy his Valentine's Day selection until he was finished with the wedding. He brought her in the cooler a few days before just to show her, and handed her a stem with her favorite pink miniature roses. "I left with it that day and kept it for almost seven years, until it fell to pieces," Candace reminisces. She distinctly remembers his smirk as he handed her the bridal bouquet that he and Myra had made. "Here's your casket piece" was his sardonic comment as the weight of the three dozen roses caused her arm to drop suddenly.
Kent's "Princess" remembers looking at the back wall, after the ceremony, while they were taking pictures in the church and seeing his face full of pride as he stood next to Myra. "I always knew he loved me, but that moment has always stayed with me," Candace said softly. "I will always be thankful for my time with Kent. He taught me many things. But the most important thing he taught me was to laugh and enjoy the time you do have with the people you love."
As a mother, I could never repay Myra or Kent for their wonderful influence on my child. The last wedding Kent ever did was Candace's. I remember they left the reception early, noting he looked a bit off-color. After all, they had been there since early that morning, decorating for their " princess." However, Kent suffered from a heart condition which he succumbed to a mere two months later. Kent was only 37. We were not his family, but we felt a huge loss at his passing.
The saying that it takes "a village to raise a child" is true in my little world; in our lives, Kent and Myra Spears were integral to my oldest daughter's self-esteem. Not only did they like her gift for the dramatic but they encouraged it. She became truly confident and accepted herself, largely due to them.
What did they, in turn, teach this mom? I learned that some people don't let you down and loyalty is still in "style." I learned that being yourself is a true responsibility. Most importantly, they taught me to trust, not an easy thing to do for me. Kent told me once that he and Myra thought Candace was special. However, he remarked, with that touch of sarcasm that was engrained in him, that he would deny it if I let her know. I loved it, because she already knew!
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DIED – at her residence on Lenoir street, at 11:30 o'clock last night, Mrs. Lucinda CARTER, aged 63 years. She had been sick and confined to her bed nearly eight years. She was a member of the First Methodist church, and her funeral will be held therefrom.
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A victory for India's main opposition party in next month's general elections is seen powering the rupee to highs last reached in 2008.
Polls show Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to oust the incumbent Congress party, a result that would be a "catalyst" for a long-term advance in the rupee toward 40 to 45 per dollar, from 61.19 on March 14, according to Adam Gilmour, Citigroup Inc.'s head of Asia-Pacific currency and derivatives sales. A weak coalition would be the "worst-case" outcome, he said, and might send the currency sliding beyond August's record low of 68.845.
"The market view is that if Modi gets in, it will be a game-changer," Gilmour, who has worked at the second-largest currency trader for two decades, said in a March 12 interview in Singapore. "We always take politics with a pinch of salt, with the rare exceptions like India, where it's going to really make a difference."
At stake is the pace of recovery in Asia's third-largest economy, which is only now gaining traction six years after the start of the global financial crisis. While an improvement in India's current account helped the rupee beat its regional peers over the past six months, the victor in next month's poll will take on the task of steering a country whose economy is expanding at close to the slowest pace in a decade.
Opinion Surveys
Polls by Nielsen and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies predict Modi's BJP will win the most seats, while falling short of a majority in the lower house of parliament. The Congress party is projected to achieve its smallest-ever number of seats.
The BJP and its allies will win as many as 232 parliament seats, 40 short of a majority, according to a poll released on March 6 by the CSDS. Election results are due May 16.
The rupee lost about 28 percent of its value from the end of 2010 through last year, making it the worst performer among 12 Asian currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The declines reversed when the biggest gold-consuming nation raised import tariffs on the precious metal, helping narrow the shortfall in the broadest measure of trade to a four-year low, and central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan increased interest rates to curb Asia's fastest inflation. The rupee has rebounded about 13 percent from its Aug. 28 record, and remained little changed even during the rout in emerging-market assets earlier this year.
'Material Impact'
"The positive sentiment really comes from the new central bank governor," Andy Ji, a Singapore-based strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said last week in a phone interview. "He's had a more material impact on the rupee. Politics is just icing on the cake."
For Citigroup's Gilmour, politics, in the form of the elections that will be held across India from April to May, have the potential to affect the currency more than in most other countries.
Modi, the chief minister of the State of Gujarat in the northwest of the country, has the backing of business leaders and equity investors.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani and Tata Group's former Chairman Ratan Tata have praised the 63-year-old politician, who has pledged to bring more investment into the country should he succeed in ending Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decade-long rule. Rahul Gandhi, the 43-year-old scion of India's foremost political dynasty and Congress vice president, has become Modi's main opponent after Singh said in January he won't stand for a third term.
'Sell Dollars'
A jump in the rupee to as high as 40 per dollar would represent a 35 percent rally in India's currency from the end of last week, and send it to the strongest level since April 2008. Gilmour's prediction, for which he didn't give a timeframe, is 5 rupees higher than the most bullish forecaster in a Bloomberg survey of more than 30 strategists, whose median estimate foresees the currency at 63 on Dec. 31 and at 58.50 by the end of 2016.
The rupee was at 61.21 as of 12:52 p.m. in New York, little changed from March 14. Indian markets were shut yesterday for a holiday.
"These are good levels to sell dollars against the rupee," said Gilmour, 40. "Waiting until after the election could be way too late."
Stocks Surge
India's main stock index soared to record levels last week and today after opinion polls showed the BJP gaining ground as voters seek to punish the Congress for the economic slump and a series of graft scandals. Elections could be a catalyst for policies to revive economic growth, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts including Sunil Koul wrote in a March 14 report. The bank raised India to overweight from market weight, meaning investors should hold a higher proportion of the nation's shares that are represented in benchmark indexes.
"Investors are seeing this as a market-friendly type of result," Khoon Goh, a Singapore-based currency strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said in a March 13 phone interview. "The question remains whether we'll see any major changes in policy if the BJP were to get into the government. A lot will also rest on the make-up of the coalition and how big a mandate the BJP gets."
ANZ predicts the rupee will weaken about 6 percent to 65 per dollar by year-end as the U.S. Federal Reserve reduces its unprecedented economic stimulus program. The currency may head back up toward 60 in the following 12 to 18 months should India continue to cut its trade shortfall and the central bank succeed in bringing down inflation, Goh said.
'Feel-Good Factor'
The current-account deficit will shrink to $45 billion in the year ending March 31, from a record $88 billion in the preceding 12 months, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram forecast last month. Overseas investors have added $1.14 billion to Indian stocks this year, the most among Asian markets tracked by Bloomberg after Indonesia and Taiwan, and pumped $6.18 billion into government bonds.
"There clearly is a feel-good factor in the markets," Rohini Malkani and Anurag Jha, Mumbai-based analysts at Citigroup, wrote in a March 7 report. "Expectations are up, and so are equity and currency markets, which have also been buoyed by the real gains on deficit issues."
While Gilmour sees a Modi victory as setting the stage for long-term gains in the rupee, Malkani and Jha estimate it will trade in a 60 to 64 per-dollar range over the next year. Singh's administration, weakened by the departure of several allies, has passed the fewest bills for any Indian government to have completed a five-year term.
The government estimates gross domestic product will expand 4.9 percent in the 12 months ending March 31, near the previous year's 4.5 percent, which was the weakest since 2003. The past decade's annual average growth rate was about 8 percent.
"What everyone's worried about is a quagmire of indecision," Gilmour said. "A lot of hard decisions need to be made in India to fix it."
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Updated: Queen Talking With Adam Lambert For Additional Concerts
While Queen drummer Roger Taylor is at the finish line in creating a band-authorized Queen tribute band, he and his bandmates have begun discussions with Adam Lambert to front Queen in concert.
The former "American Idol" star sang with Taylor and guitarist Brian May at the MTV Europe Awards on Nov. 6, performing "The Show Must Go On" and "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions."
"He has grown into a really great performer with an astonishing voice with a range that's great," Taylor told Billboard.biz in Los Angeles while finalizing the band for a Queen Extravaganza tour. " We would like to work with him again. There's nothing signed just yet but we're talking about live dates. It could be very exciting."
On the front-burner for Taylor is "The Queen Extravaganza Tour" that will feature three vocalists and a five-piece band. Taylor is producer and music director, although he will not be performing on the tour. CAA will book the trek, which Taylor estimates will begin in May and go for thee months. He said he expects the band will be booked into venues with between 2,000 and 4,000 seats.
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"I don't think any band has done this," he told Billboard.com about his active role in creating a tribute band. "Very few are even endorsed - I can think of Australian Pink Floyd - but there are so many of them I thought we need to have the one [we endorse]."
Musicians sent in audition videos online - more than 700 were received - and 26 finalists were flown to Los Angeles to perform Dec. 5 with other finalists for Taylor. He is scheduled to announce the lineup on Dec. 6.
When the contest was announced, only one spot in the band was guaranteed to an online "Queentestant." Taylor said the whole band could come from the musicians who tried out.
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"As it was an experiment," he says. "We didn't know what the process would be or who we would get or while professional musicians we know would we bring in. There are a lot of things to weigh - the personality, can they get along? A couple really showed up having what it takes and a few were great musicians but not right for the job."
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February 11, 2013
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The roar of the Daytona 500 is only thirteen days away, but for some NASCAR fans the season started early. NASCAR Preview 2013 brought the drivers and new cars of the 2013 NASCAR season together under one roof on Saturday, February 9th.
The NASCAR Hall of Fame and Charlotte Convention center partnered to bring the event to fruition. Thousands of fans lined up outside the Hall of Fame to get a chance to see their favorite driver. Drivers including Dale Earnhardt Junior, Jeff Gordon, and Denny Hamlin attended the event and signed autographs.
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Birmingham's Railroad park has been honored with the Urban Open Space Award by the Urban Land Institute.
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The Big Four deputies met this afternoon just as they met Tuesday without coming any closer to completing their memorandum on the progress of the Big Four talks. The four ambassadors are scheduled to meet June 12. But their meeting, too, is not expected to provide a micro-inch of forward movement toward a solution of the Middle East crisis say diplomatic sources. The feeling expressed by some sources at the United Nations today was that both the deputies and the Big Four are actually marking time to see the results of the bilateral talks in Washington between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, and the talks in Paris between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrel Gromyko and French officials. Lord Caradon, Britain's ambassador had expressed the hope that a Four Power interim report would be drafted and ready in time for Secretary General U Thant to take with him to Moscow on June 17 where he is scheduled to meet with the Swedish Ambassador to the Soviet Union Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring who is also Mr. Thant's special peace envoy to the Middle East.
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Tokoname located on the Chita Peninsula south of Nagoya is an ancient kiln town famous for its high quality ceramics, especially its redware tea sets (kyusu) and maneki neko pot cats.
During the Edo Era (1603-1867) Tokoname was a major manufacturing town for ceramic water pipes, many of which were sent to the Shogun's capital at Edo (Tokyo) by sea to provide drainage and create the city's early water supply.
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"There are many options farmers can utilize to increase yield including nutrient management, weed management, adjusting planting dates, fungicides, foliar products and seed treatments," said Mark Hinz, crop consultant for Crop Production Services, in Hancock, Iowa.
In Hinz's area, seed treatments are critical for early seed protection. CPS provides a mix-and-match approach to seed treatments and offers customized blends for its customers.
Even after a challenging agronomic year like 2012, seed treatments provide a wealth of yield enhancements, Hinz said. Regardless of the previous year's weather, seeds always need protection.
With such a strong need for early protection, Hinz stressed the need to prevent resistance from developing below ground.
"Although no resistance has been discovered, the potential is there," Hinz said. "Many people don't think that you can have resistance below ground, but it could catch up with us if we are not proactive now."
Eric Ifft, technical sales consultant, Bayer CropSciences, agreed with Hinz about the importance of seed treatments to help plants get off to an early start and the need for preventing resistance.
"Farmers will not see the high yields that today's corn and soybean genetics can provide if they don't start the year with an optimal stand of healthy seedlings with healthy roots," Ifft said. "There is not a better product on the market for protecting the root system from secondary pests and nematodes than Poncho/VOTiVO."
One of the pest challenges Hinz faces on soybeans is cyst nematodes. Ifft said there is concern that cysts will develop resistance to PI88788, one of three main genetic sources for SCN resistance genes. The other two are Peking and PI437654.
Ifft said Bayer CropScience's Poncho/VOTiVO seed treatment provides the double protection newly emerging roots need. It keeps harmful nematodes from attacking the roots, while also protecting roots from secondary pests.
One pest concern that Hinz sees an increase in within his area is cyst nematodes.
"The crop protection industry has not focused products recently on cysts. It does not seem to be at the forefront of research right now, but it is beginning to challenge yields more," Hinz said.
Fortunately, Poncho/VOTiVO has activity against cysts, Ifft said. "The biological component in Poncho/VOTiVO is a good tool for managing cyst nematodes and is helpful in preventing resistance because it creates a living barrier around the seed. When a plant has the Poncho/VOTiVO seed treatment, it doesn't have to expend its energy fighting off cysts. It is protected by the seed treatment and can use its energy to grow," Ifft said.
Both Hinz and Ifft agree that managing pests below ground can be challenging for many farmers.
"For most people, managing underground pests is a bit of 'out of sight, out of mind.' Most don't think about the pests doing damage on the roots below ground," Ifft said.
He likened the plants' root system to an iceberg. The part of the iceberg below the water is of major concern to the boat captain, as the root systems should be of major concern to the grower.
"In the end, you cannot have high yields without a healthy root system," Ifft said.


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Detained film maker speaks from India
North coast film maker David Bradbury speaks about his run-in with police in India
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Wilsons Creek film maker David Bradbury is no stranger to controversy.
His documentaries have covered political corruption in Argentina, nuclear waste from arms manufacturers, neo-Nazis, and the military dictatorship of Chile's General Pinochet.
His latest project on nuclear power has taken him to India where he was detained last week in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
"I decided I'd slip down to the southern most region because there's been a long ongoing protest for the last 10 years since two Russian-built nuclear power plants have been built," he said.
"The local people don't want the nuclear power plant to be open at all.
"The power plants are built right on the ocean edge... they fear the same could happen to them as happened in Fukushima."
Mr Bradbury was briefly detained by Indian police, along with his partner and son, before he arrived at the scene of the protests.
"The police phoned the young rickshaw driver on a vehicle, we were 3km short of the seaside village, told us to stop and two carloads of police came along," he said.
"We were questioned.
"I got a warning from the deputy superintendent... he pointed out over chai and bikkies... that we were in a prohibited zone and we were not allowed to be there even though Indian national media can go there and report on the story.
"After checking out my Visa he sent us packing.
"I think there's a certain element of surveillance in this country. They keep an eye on things."
Hear Joanne Shoebridge's interview with David Bradbury in the attached audio.


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I have a Samsung mp3 YH-820. I already transferred songs to it but i can't hear them. What can I do?
That's a strange problem indeed.
My first thought is that perhaps the MP3 files themselves are corrupted? Have you tried playing those specific files on your PC and confirmed that they were fine?
Second possibility: are the headphones working properly? Try plugging the headphones into a different device or try plugging in different headphones to your Samsung unit.
Third possibility: is your volume all the way down or do you have a mute feature enabled? On the Apple iPod, for example, you can turn the volume way down, flip the Hold switch, and then be unable to change the volume until you disable the Hold feature. The YH-820 also has a hold switch, on the top of the unit:
Fourth possibility: are you using the Play function properly in the first place? Have you ever had the unit work properly for you? Is there an MP3 demo song that's included with the unit that you can use as a test?
Your view on screen should be like this:
The lower part shows the volume feedback: yours isn't at zero, is it?
The only other possibility I can think of is that either your cable is bad and it's corrupting the files as you transfer them or that your unit is defective somehow. Again, if you've had any success in the past or have certain files on the YH-820 that actually work, that'd be very important information to know.
Hope this set of basic troubleshooting tips is helpful!


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While the headlines are full of news about rising real estate prices, there are still a number of beach resorts where prices on houses, bungalows and condos are still falling or flat. Here are five of the best remaining destinations for real estate deals. Check them out, and hurry. These bargains won't last.
Virginia Beach, VA. Prices are still falling in Virginia Beach and list prices are off 3.78 percent on the year according to Realtor.com's April data. However, the average home is selling in just 78 days, a sign that demand is strengthening as the summer approaches.
With the spring market, Virginia Beach's home resale inventories increased. Distressed properties such as foreclosures and short sales decreased as a percentage of the total market in May. The median listing price in Virginia Beach went up from April to May. There were a total of 61 price increases and 378 price decreases.
Brokers in the area report a strong buyer's market in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and surrounding cities. Buyers are scooping up some great deals and getting all their closing costs paid in full. Plentiful foreclosures and short sales still bringing down home prices in most areas, reports Chris Carlson of Hampton Roads Realty Pros.
But agent Catherine Kowalsky of Rose & Womble Realty reports that inventories are decreasing. Sellers are still assisting with closing costs but it is moving towards a sellers' market.
Myrtle Beach, SC. Two years ago Myrtle Beach got clobbered by a double whammy of waves of foreclosures and high unemployment. The median sales price of Horry County houses peaked in 2007 at $223,650, and has declined each year since with today's home price estimated near 2004 levels at $161,000, according to a report from SiteTech Systems, a local company that tracks the real estate market.
Prices were inflated based on an artificial demand, there were relaxed underwriting standards, unemployment was on the rise, and the economy took a downturn, said Todd Woodard, president and chief operating officer of SiteTech Systems. That caused a growing number of homeowners to go underwater. Home values in the city, weakened by a backlog of foreclosures, fell an average of 5.7 percent last year, marking the fourth straight year of decline and further straining local tax revenues.
Myrtle Beach's market is far from healthy. Today the median priced home listed in Myrtle Beach's MLS is $275,000. Prices are down 1.61 percent on the year through April and the average listing is 160 days old, twice the national average.
Tallahassee, FL.
To read the local reports, Tallahassee sounds like it's headed in the right direction fast. Sales are up 39 percent over a year ago. Inventories are down a modest 8 percent—enough to help prices along but not enough to light a fire like some other Florida markets. As a result, the median list price, $149,900 on Realtor.com in April, is virtually even with last year when it was down 16 percent from 2011. So Tallahassee makes our list of bargain beach resorts, but hurry.
The average sales price of homes and number of homes sold both spiked over 10 percent for the month and over 20 percent for the year, according to the Tallahassee Economic Index in April.
Mobile, AL
With Dauphine Island, Orange Beach and Gulf Shores just a short drive, Mobile offers a wide variety of housing options at prices that make its beaches affordable. Because Mobile is located near two bodies of water — Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico — travelers have a few beach choices. At a median list price of $182,900 according to Realtor.com and a median age of inventory at 104 days, homes are selling 23 days slower than the national median. Its inventories have started to decline, and are down over 6 percent from a year ago, but prices have yet to rise. Mobile's median home prices are below the national median and are still falling slightly. In Baldwin Country, which borders both Mobile Bay and the Gulf and is home to leading resorts like Fairhope, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, prices are actually lower than in Mobile, at a $179,000 median, according local brokers. Prices are up a little at 2.29 percent in May, which is normal in the spring and early summer, and inventories are down less than one percent.
Corpus Christi, TX
Padre Island's famous beaches and the Padre Island National Seashore are just a short drive from downtown Corpus Christi, where prices are still very reasonable for a leading beach destination. Like most Texas markets, Corpus Christi did not suffer greatly during the housing downturn, nor has it experienced rapid price increases recently. At a $169,900 median list price, prices are exactly where they were a year ago, according to Realtor.com, while the national median list price has risen 3.12 percent during the year. However, conditions are changing.
Prices are poised for a rebound. Corpus Christi's inventories are down a whopping 18.23 percent below a year ago, according to Realtor.com. According to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi has only a 5.6 months' supply of homes in April, the lowest it's been in the spring buying season since 2005. Low inventories will put pressure on prices as demand builds. The Corpus Christi Association of Realtors reported a 14.87 percent increase in sales and a 9.10 percent increase in prices in the first quarter. Look for listing prices to rise with the thermometer this summer.
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Yup…. anther adventure in LA. THis time, unlike last PDC I didn't have to spend
10 hours or whatever it was stranded in an airport half way! However this time, I
started to wonder as intersection after intersection downtown had flashing red lights
and people trying to remember how a four way stop worked. [Now, I'm sure we've all
had experiences where the traffic lights have been out, and we were shocked at people's
lack of ability to resolve the issues of a 4 way stop, well in LA, it's much much
worse! Anyways…. Finally made it to the hotel which had just received power, oh
just lost it, oh wait, nope we have it! The officialy news from www.ktla.com read:
" A wide-ranging power outage, set off when a cable
was accidentally cut, darkened large sections of downtown Los Angeles and many parts
of the San Fernando Valley shortly after noon today, authorities said. "
As luck would have it, my web hosting company who is usually on the
other side of the continent from me, apparently is near by and suffered some down
time from the event. All appears well and it's back to the business of the PDC. Going
to be stopping by an event hosted by the Wintellect and SPI folks before heading over
to and helping out with the INETA BOF (Birds Of a Feather) Sessions that are taking
place. You should go check them out! (They're at the main conference center)


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News Wrap: U.S. Files Charges Against Suspected Benghazi Attack
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KWAME HOLMAN: A military judge in Texas today temporarily halted the mass shooting court-martial of Army Major Nidal Hasan after just one day. Hasan is defending himself, but his standby attorney said he appears intent on getting sentenced to death. The lawyer asked that his own role be minimized.
Hasan has admitted killing 13 people and wounding nearly three dozen in 2009. He says he acted because America is at war with Islam. The trial is expected to reconvene tomorrow.
The deadly assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has produced its first criminal charges. It was widely reported overnight that U.S. prosecutors have begun the process of bringing suspects to trial.
Word of the charges comes almost a year after the attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. It's unclear how many people are included in the sealed complaint or what the charges are, but the reports named Ahmed Abu Khattala, the former commander of a Benghazi-based militia group.
Khattala has denied involvement in the past, and did so again today. He insisted he's left the militia group and that he has not been questioned in the case. In Washington, the U.S. Justice Department refused to comment, except to say the investigation is ongoing.
But Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California said anyone charged must be placed in U.S. custody without delay. Issa and other Republicans have accused the administration of neglecting security in Benghazi and misleading the public about what really happened.
Authorities in Yemen said today they have foiled an al-Qaida plot to take over strategic port cities in the south. They claimed it's the same plot that led the U.S. to close embassies in 19 cities across the Muslim world. Meanwhile, another suspected U.S. drone strike today killed seven al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen's Shabwa province.
In Egypt, the military-backed leaders declared foreign efforts to mediate the country's political crisis have failed. They blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, which backs Mohammed Morsi, the ousted president who remains in custody. Egypt's interim prime minister went on state TV to warn Islamist protesters that the decision to dismantle their camps in Cairo is irreversible.
INTERIM PRIME MINSTER HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI, Egypt (through interpreter): We ask them once more to leave quickly and return to their homes and work without resistance. Those who do not have blood on their hands, the state promises to provide them with free transportation. The cabinet warns against the continuing dangerous escalation and incitement by those who are deceiving them from amongst the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood that threatens national security .
KWAME HOLMAN: The Muslim Brotherhood rejected the warnings, and said protesters are not concerned about talk of clearing their sit-ins by force.
A small fire got out of control today at Kenya's main airport in Nairobi, the busiest in East Africa. The extensive damage grounded international flights and roiled schedules across the continent. The entire airport was closed for a time, as firefighters battled the blaze. Inbound flights were rerouted to the coastal city of Mombasa. When the airport reopened later, it was only for domestic and cargo flights.
Kenyan officials announced plans to convert a domestic flight area into an international terminal.
CABINET SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT MICHAEL KAMAU, Kenya: From tomorrow, we will be preparing this unit, unit three, for — as an international terminal for departure and arrival. We have started pitching tents on the air side for handling departing passengers.
KWAME HOLMAN: The cause of the blaze was under investigation, but officials said there was no initial indication of terrorism.
Tensions between the two Koreas eased somewhat today. Communist North Korea announced it is reopening an industrial park that is run jointly with South Korea. The park closed in mid-April amid threats by the North to retaliate against Washington and Seoul for international sanctions. Formal talks on future operations at the industrial site are scheduled to begin August 14.
On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones industrial average gained lost 48 points to close at 15,470. The NASDAQ fell 11 points to close at 3,654.
Those are some of the day's major stories.


text: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Arnd Baecker wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that I failed with fftw on the opteron ;-) - > scipy fft is (much) slower than the Numeric one > (see output below). > > I installed fftw via:: > > tar xzf ../Sources/fftw-3.0.1.tar.gz > cd fftw-3.0.1/ > ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIC --prefix=$PHOME > make > make install The old scipy.fftpack supports only fftw2. I have a patch for fftw3 somewhere. I'll apply it as soon as I'll get a chance to work on fftpack. > Reconsidering this after seeing the poor performance > shows that, `nm _fftpack.so` gives me no symbols related to fftw. Yes, _fftpack.so should contain Fortran fftpack when fftw (v2) library is not available. > And for future builds: > Is there a way to check (on the python level) which fft is used > *after* the installation? Normally it should be unnecessary. However, scipy building scripts install config.py (old scipy) or __config__.py (newscipy) files containing the system information used in building scipy. Pearu


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I like gadgets that make my life easier. With a 21-month old, I need all the help I can get! And if those novelties help the environment and reduce my impact on the world, that is definitely a bonus. Working in the promotional products industry, I have seen a lot of gimmicks, but this one really caught my eye.
Upon discovery of the Built® Sandwich Bag, I did not realize that such a contraption was needed. But, this doodad is pretty sweet! Transport your daily BLT or snacks in style! Just place your gourmet, homemade masterpiece (aka sandwich) in the bag and go! Guilt free- because you are not using horrible plastic bags or cling wrap! And will save you money, cut back on buying plastic baggies because the Sandwich Bag wipes clean and is dishwasher safe.
The Sandwich Bag is made of sturdy polyester that has been tested for lead safety and phthalates. It is PVC, BPA, latex and vinyl-free. It is totally 100% food safe! And since you are making your meal to go, you can control what ingredients you include in your sandwich-totally healthy!
Possible industries that might love the Sandwich Bag:
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BALTIMORE — The Red Sox found another way to lose, this time on a broken-bat single and an inside-the-park homer, and their 6-3 defeat against the Orioles on Monday night dropped them into a tie in the AL wild-card race.
Boston's 17th loss in 22 games enabled the Rays to pull even in the duel for the league's final playoff spot. Tampa Bay trailed by nine games after play Sept. 3.
With the score tied at 2 in the sixth inning, Boston starter Josh Beckett allowed four runs in an uprising that began with Vladimir Guerrero becoming the career hits leader among Dominican-born players.
Guerrero broke a tie with Julio Franco by bouncing a single up the middle, his 2,587th career hit. Guerrero, 36, then stole second, and after a two-out walk to Mark Reynolds, Chris Davis broke his bat on a soft liner to right that brought in the go-ahead run.
Robert Andino followed with a deep fly to center that Jacoby Ellsbury had in his glove before he crashed into the wall. Andino sprinted around the bases and made it home as the relay bounced past catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
Boston loaded the bases with one out in the eighth, but Pedro Strop struck out Saltalamacchia and retired Marco Scutaro on a grounder.
Although Dustin Pedroia hit an RBI single in the ninth, the Red Sox stranded two runners and fell short in their bid to win a second straight game for the first time since Aug. 27. Boston is 6-19 in September, the second-worst record in the majors behind the Twins. It's also Boston's second-worst September ever, with only a 4-18 mark in 1926 surpassing it, according to STATS LLC.
Jed Lowrie homered for the Red Sox, whose September swoon includes four losses in five games against Baltimore.


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Laguna Niguel
Photo by Keith MayMuch has changed during the past 20 years in Laguna Niguel. In 1981, new residents were so new that Angie's Pizza treated them to a bottle of celebratory champagne. A Carl's Jr. played country music and had a place to tie up horses out back. Occasionally, a horseback rider would even order at the drive-through window.
Now Angie's is long gone (perhaps due to all the free champagne); the fast-food restaurant still stands, but it now blares Top 40, and SUVs pull up to its drive-through. Most telling is that an upscale Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar recently opened just blocks away. Shopping centers such as Plaza de la Paz (where Scott's is located), the Marketplace at Laguna Niguel and Ocean Ranch offer a mix of eateries and shops in addition to the vast expanse (more than one-third of the area) of open space beckoning to be biked and hiked. The city, incorporated in 1989, is unabashedly residential. The heart of Laguna Niguel beats, clear of clogged arteries, in its cul-de-sacs and soccer fields.
National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region. This archive contains a number of noteworthy items, such as the naturalization records of Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Garbo and other celebs, as well as records of the LA Zoot Suit Riots and the pre-presidential Richard Nixon. It's located in the Chet Holifield Federal Building—"The Ziggurat," as it's commonly known. The sand-colored step-pyramid building reportedly made an appearance in the 1975 schlocky classic Death Race 2000, one of Sly Stallone's first films. 24000 Avila Rd., (949) 360-2641.Orange County Natural History Museum. For the moment, the museum is a trailer. Despite this temporary location, though, plenty of pinned, stuffed, fossilized (including "Waldo," an eight-million-year-old pseudo-walrus that lived here when oceans washed across most of our region) and living Orange County creatures are on display. There are also artifacts from the area's two native tribes, the Acjachemem (Juaneo Mission Indians) and Tongva (Gabrielino Mission Indians). Here's a bit of trivia for you: Laguna Niguel is named after Rancho Niguel, the area of land granted to Mexican ranchero Juan Avila in 1842, which was named after a local Indian village called Niguil. Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park entrance, 28373 Alicia Pkwy., (949) 831-3287; www.ocnha.mus.ca.us.
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Laguna Design Center. Forty interior-design showrooms packed with fancy-schmancy hand-carved walnut-wood tables, chandeliers and tapestries. This is a prime location for a yuppified mecca such as this, considering how many new homes there are in the area. Showrooms vary as to whether the public (and not just interior designers) is deemed worthy of browsing or purchasing items in them. 23811 Aliso Creek Rd., (949) 643-2929; www.lagunadesigncenter.com.
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. With an array of native wildlife and plants, this qualifies as the city's most impressive natural park. It's a popular mountain-biking and hiking destination, with 30 miles of trails covering more than 3,500 acres of varied terrain. 28373 Alicia Pkwy., (949) 831-2790; www.oc.ca.gov/pfrd/hbp.
IWS Board Shop. Where all the skate rats hang out and watch skate videos. There's a bit of a rivalry between this store and Doheny Board Center in San Juan Capistrano, but nothing along the lines of the Crips and Bloods. 32411 Golden Lantern, (949) 443-9179. www.iws-boardshop.com.
A Store for Cooks. A lot of cookware, decorations and condiments packed in here, but what makes this store particularly wonderful is its abundance of demonstration classes. They've got one-time "Lunch and Learn" and "Dine & Dash" classes with mouth-watering gourmet offerings. 30100 Town Center Dr., Ste. R, (949) 495-0445; www.astoreforcooks.com.
Apple-a-Day Health Goods & Deli. The "Works" is what makes this health-food store's sandwiches so yummy: mayo, shredded Monterey jack cheese, tomatoes, alfalfa sprouts—and here's where it starts getting funky—sunflower seeds and soy "baco" bits. The Valley avocado, egg Delight, hummus (with avocado) and Laguna tuna (dolphin-safe, of course) are some of their more memorable offerings, which come with fruit salad or tossed vegetable salad. If you choose the latter, be sure to get the honey-sesame dressing. 30262 Crown Valley Pkwy., Ste. A, (949) 495-3250.I Love Bagels. Owned by Howard Amster, who descends from a long line of bagel bakers, this South County phenomenon has mostly withstood the process of natural selection (the exception being the small Lake Forest location that shut down not too long ago) with its wide variety and just-right bagel consistency. An added bonus: everyone who works behind their counters seems genuinely nice. 28985 Golden Lantern, (949) 249-9300; 32371 Golden Lantern, (949) 443-3300.Mollie's Country Kitchen. This is theplace for Laguna Niguel breakfast. While they've got all the goods you'd associate with a restaurant that has "country kitchen" in its title (such as biscuits and gravy), their ultimate specialty is Mexican food, which includes morning-associated stuff like huevos rancheros and machacha burritos. It's served all day, so late risers can appreciate the food, too. 27932 La Paz Rd., (949) 643-9174.
ChocObean Coffee. Walking into ChocObean feels like entering a tract home—especially the back area where they prepare bagels, which seems like someone's brand-new kitchen. If you're into almonds, be sure to get either their toasted-almond or mocha-almond royale. Sure, you can get almond syrup added to any espresso drink at most any coffeehouse, but with these babies, you get toasted almonds sprinkled on top of the whipped cream. As you sip this delicious beverage, the almonds slowly soak up the rich liquid and become, as Ned Flanders might say, scrumpdiddleyumptious. 30211 Golden Lantern, Ste. E, (714) 363-8025.
Edwards Rancho Niguel. This film theater used to be hoppin', but with the opening of two big stadium cinemas five minutes away in opposite directions (Aliso Viejo and Mission Viejo), Rancho has become one of Edwards' handful of so-called Cinematiques, showing foreign and independent films. This is a mixed blessing: it may be the only place in the area to see such films as Tom Tykwer's The Princess and the Warrior(the follow-up to his surprise hit Run Lola Run), but like many art houses, the joint is falling apart. Some of the screens have absolutely impossible-to-ignore spots and rips in them (how do those things happen, anyway? Do people sacrifice their $10 drinks to play Angry Film Critic?), and the restrooms might as well be located in a gas station on the road to Vegas. 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., (949) 831-0446.
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