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Monday, December 31, 2012
Increased calls for German Energy Ministry - The Local
More and more politicians are calling on the German government to establish an Energy Ministry after the next election, in the face of slow progress in the country's transition to renewable power sources.
The European Union's energy commissioner G?nther Oettinger chimed in with the call, pointing out that other EU members already had their own energy ministry.
Oettinger added that Germany had suffered in the past from not being able to assert itself quickly and strongly enough in Brussels when it came to important energy issues.
He told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that Chancellor Angela Merkel would therefore "be well-advised to bundle responsibilities after the general election and install an Energy Ministry - regardless of who she governs with."
At the moment, responsibility for energy policy is divided between the Environment and Economy Ministries, which sometimes prevents the government from presenting a coherent line.
This was particularly evident in negotiations over the EU's Energy Efficiency Directive, as well as talks over emissions trading. For instance, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier supports the European Commission's plan to take surplus emissions certificates out of circulation, while Economy Minister Philipp R?sler opposes it.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI is still searching for one of two convicted bank robbers who escaped last week from a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago by lowering themselves on a makeshift rope nearly 20 stories to the street. Kenneth Conley, 38, and his cellmate, Joseph Jose Banks, 37, escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center early on the morning of December 18. The pair apparently broke a window in the cell they shared, squeezed through the opening and lowered themselves to the street. They then hailed a cab to make their getaway. ...
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The Beauty of International Comparative Law in Vietnam
Law students from The John Marshall Law School and Vietnam National University School of Law, and representatives from Vietnam Lawyers' Association
The amount of warmth and hospitality that we have been shown since we have arrived in Vietnam is almost awe inspiring given the short period of time that has passed since the U.S. war in Vietnam. Today we attended our first day of law study meetings in Hanoi, and we received the same warm greetings that we have received everywhere in the city. Our discussions of the day began at the Galaxy Law Firm where Professor Nguyen Khac Hai, Head of International Cooperation of Vietnam-American Law Center of the Vietnam Lawyers? Association, gave an overview of Vietnam?s penal code and criminal procedure code. Professor Hai informed us that the U.S.-Vietnam law study exchange was the first of its kind. This is the first time in the post-war relations between the U.S. and Vietnam that the Vietnamese government has invited a U.S. law school to its country to discuss the development of law and the legal system in Vietnam. Through our discussions, we learned about the impact of international human rights law in Vietnam?s legal development. We also had the opportunity to ask questions regarding comparative criminal laws and constitutional laws between Vietnam and the United States.
One interesting area of criminal law where we noted a stark difference is the sentencing limitations for juvenile offenders of serious crimes. Death penalty and life in prison for juveniles is treated very differently between the nations. Juveniles have long been protected against the death penalty and unusual punishment in Vietnam, while a constitutional debate has waged in the U.S. over what rights juveniles retain. Prior to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2005, states could impose the death penalty on juveniles at the ages of 17 and 18. Only recently has the U.S. made headway on juvenile justice, finally ruling that mandatory life sentences and the death penalty for juveniles are unconstitutional. Discussions with Professor Chu Hong Thanh, Deputy Secretary General of The Vietnam Lawyers? Association, and Professor Hai helped to illustrate the need to integrate the international human rights standards into the Vietnamese criminal justice system.
From left: Dean Ruebner, Professor Thanh, Professor Dana, Teresa Do
Comparative analysis of Vietnam?s Constitution
The Constitution of Vietnam has been revised four times since the Declaration of Independence of Vietnam, following the end of World War II.? The current version was adopted in 1992, and the last constitutional amendment was passed in 2001. There is a movement in Vietnam today to amend and streamline the Vietnam Constitution and to incorporate international human rights standards into the Constitution.? Scholars and lawyers in Vietnam are consulting legal scholars and experts from around the world to find ways of improving the Vietnam Constitution. The John Marshall Law School is also contributing to this process. For instance, Professor Thanh raised questions concerning effective constitutional provisions ensuring checks and balances between main branches of government. In our discussions today, John Marshall law students questioned the absence of judicial review which would allow the courts to invalidate unconstitutional legislation. Furthermore, the students recommended inclusion of a new Supremacy Clause that would recognize international treaties and humanitarian law as part of domestic law.? This is a great opportunity for The John Marshall Law School, and it is a great honor to work with the Vietnamese government to ensure full constitutional protection for the people of Vietnam.
Law Study session on the Vietnam's Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Man pushed to his death on NY City subway tracks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The death of a man who was shoved in front of an oncoming New York City subway train spurred a police hunt on Friday for the woman seen pushing him, as the second such violent death this month left its imprint on the city's millions of subway riders.
The woman appeared to be mumbling to herself and pacing, witnesses told police, before she approached the man from behind on the platform of an elevated station in the borough of Queens and shoved him onto the subway track Thursday evening.
She ran from the station to the street in a scene caught on video footage that the police released on Friday as they searched for the unidentified woman, who, they said, was last seen wearing a ski jacket along with red and gray Nikes.
The death in Queens was the second time this month that a New York subway rider was killed after being pushed onto the tracks - a chilling notion for anyone who uses the city's transit system - and came just ahead of the New Year's holiday in a city choked with visitors.
"To say that it's only two in, you know, a long period of time doesn't help either person," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday on WOR Radio 710 AM's "The John Gambling Show."
Police said it remains unclear whether the woman being sought knew the victim, who they initially had trouble identifying because his body had been so badly mangled by the train. He has yet to be named.
In New York's subway stations, some took added precautions Friday, standing a few extra feet away from the platform edge. Commuter Chloe Morris, traveling from New Jersey, said she prefers to sit on a bench rather than stand on the platform while waiting for a train.
"I don't come close to the edge until a train comes," Morris said as she waited in the Times Square station. "There's too many crazy people in the world."
On December 3, Ki-Suck Han was killed after being shoved onto subway tracks in Manhattan as a train entered the 49th Street station near Times Square. A suspect, Naeem Davis, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Including Thursday's incident, 139 people were struck by New York City subway trains so far in 2012, 54 of them fatally, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman said on Friday, adding that the tally was preliminary and subject to change.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly indicated the department would not be adding more police to platforms anytime soon.
"We think we are properly deployed in the transit system," he said at a news conference on Friday.
One solution might be installing safety doors along subway platforms that block access to the tracks until a train arrives, something in use in several major cities around the world, said New Yorker Tom Walker as he waited for a subway.
New York's subway system, which is more than 100 years old and is one of the world's busiest, does not have barriers between the platforms and the tracks.
"It's an antiquated system. Of course people are going to fall in," Walker said.
(Additional reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Leslie Adler)
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2012 review: The year in life science
Read more: "2013 Smart Guide: 10 ideas that will shape the year"
The last 12 months have brought more insights into life's origins on Earth ? as well as a prediction about its ultimate fate. We've learned more about life's extremes thanks to biologists working in the driest desert, in the coldest continent ? and to a certain Hollywood director's trip into the deepest ocean trench on the planet.
It's also been a year that has taught us more about our species' origins, from the origin of art to the earliest evidence of medicine. Here are 10 more of our favourite stories of 2012.
Eats bark, fruit and leaves: diet of ancient human
Australopithecus sediba, a 2-million-year-old member of the human family, had a diet unlike other known hominins
Buried microbes exist at limit between life and death
Sediment 30 metres below the Pacific seafloor is so nutrient-poor that microbes barely fuel their cellular functions ? yet they may be thousands of years old
Prions point to a new style of evolution
A form of evolution that involves neither genetic nor epigenetic changes to the DNA has been seen in yeast
Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
Early in human evolution, our ancestors switched off two key genes. Doing so may have allowed us to fight off an epidemic of bacterial disease
First land plants plunged Earth into ice age
When the first simple mosses colonised the land, they unleashed vast ice sheets and triggered a mass extinction
Biological clock began ticking 2.5 billion years ago
An enzyme found in nearly all forms of life runs on a 24-hour clock and dates back to a pivotal moment in evolution
Chinese human fossils unlike any known species
The newly described Red Deer Cave people show an unusual mixture of modern and primitive features. Where did they come from?
Reptile grew feather-like structures before dinosaurs
Some 80 million years before the first feathered dinosaurs, Longisquama grew impressive structures using the same genes
DNA could have existed long before life itself
The idea that life began with RNA ? simpler than DNA ? looks less certain now that a DNA-like molecule has been made from basic compounds
Captured: the moment photosynthesis changed the world
For the first time, geologists have found evidence of how modern photosynthesis evolved 2.4 billion years ago
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Apple improving factory conditions in China, still no place you'd want to work
Working conditions at the Chinese factories operated by Foxconn, where vast amounts of the gadgets used around the world are made, including Apple's iPhone and iPad, are improving. Granted, that's going from truly terrible to slightly less bad, but it's movement and momentum in a direction decidedly better for the people who make the stuff that we use. That according to Keith Bradsher and Charles Duhigg, writing as part of the New York Times' iEconomy series.
When [Apple senior vice president of operations, Jeff Williams], returned from that March meeting to California, changes began. Among them, say people with firsthand knowledge, was the hiring of roughly 30 professionals into Apple?s social responsibility unit in the last year, which tripled the size of that division and brought high-profile corporate activists into the company. Two widely respected former Apple executives ? Jacky Haynes and Bob Bainbridge ? were recruited back to help lead the unit, reporting ultimately to Mr. Williams and the chief executive, Timothy D. Cook.
The iEconomy series itself seems to have changed as well. Apple isn't in the title of this article. Cynically, it's possible that an article about improvements doesn't benefit as much from the added sensationalism. Optimistically, it's possible that the NYT realized their focus on Apple was undermining the seriousness of the very real problems they're covering. (Though Apple enjoys the positive effects of the massive amount of attention they're given, and being singled out for criticism is the equal and opposite edge of that sword.)
Yet working conditions remain arduous, and problems multifaceted.
But last summer, fed up with the 25-hour train trip to see his family, Mr. Zhang moved to Chongqing and joined Quanta. He enjoys the better facilities and dorms. He frequently visits his parents? home. But his take-home pay has fallen by nearly a third and the thought that his brother may have to drop out of school so he can help the family gnaws at Mr. Zhang. Instead of working in the factory each night, he spends hours playing an online game, Dungeon Fighter. ?I?d like to work 80 hours a week,? he said.
It's a complex social and economic issue, and one that will take massive global, perhaps generational, changes to solve. Hopefully the improvements continue, and the effects ripple.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Healdsburg District Hospital names interim CEO ? North Bay ...
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Interviews for permanent CEO are ongoing
By Eric Gneckow, Business Journal Staff Reporter
George Protos was appointed to serve as interim CEO of Healdsburg District Hospital, effective Jan. 1 (photo courtesy Healdsburg District Hospital)
HEALDSBURG ? The board of directors of the North Sonoma County Healthcare District today announced the appointment of George Protos as interim chief executive officer. He will begin the role on Jan. 1.
Mr. Protos is currently the head of human resources for the district, which includes the 43-bed Healdsburg District Hospital. He will serve as CEO until the board selects a permanent CEO, a move anticipated in the next six to eight weeks.
A graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Organizational Change, as well as the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Virginia, Mr. Protos joined Healdsburg District Hospital in 2005. He career has spanned technology, financial services and health care, along with service in the U.S. Air Force.
The board of directors has conducted 18 initial interviews from 70 applications received, seeking to replace former CEO Evan Rayner. Mr. Rayner stepped down from his role in October, following six and a half years as CEO.
The board expects to have Mr. Rayner?s replacement in place by February, according to the announcement.
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Why Are Some Real Estate Investors More Successful Than Others?
Seth,
I think your question is GREAT.
I'll chime in after 36 years of real estate investing, and feeling successful at it over the last 18, but having had many not-successful years. (And man, some REALLY bad real estate stuff - I mean B. A. D.)
Most important thing I ever learned investing in real estate is how much I don't know. I'm forever humbled by the many new things I continue to learn.
Big turning point for me in real estate investing was when I really sat down and defined a long term plan and then focused everything I did from that day on (in real estate investing) on working that plan.
(OH - I'm personally not smart enough to have figured that out - another guy was doing that and I copied him.)
Before that, I went helter-skelter from deal to deal, a real gunslinger, buying this, selling that, "oh - there's another deal ! Wait a minute, maybe we could exchange!" No plan, no clue - I'd change directions before and after lunch! It was madness.
Things got way better after the change, though. The most telling sign was through the last downturn. Sure, I lost some equity, but overall, I didn't "miss a meal," and am now better off than I was going into the downturn.
For whatever it's worth, that was my big lesson. I do observe many people in real estate investing with great questions, like, "What do you think of duplexes?" or "Hey, what about Riverside - do you think Riverside is a good investment?"
And the answer can only be a number of questions, about their plans, their overall belief about the market, their goals, their investable dollars, their tolerance for risk, and most important, their big, long term plan - and unfortunately many of them are like I was - they have no master plan.
Does this help at all? I guess I really feel that I've been both people you asked about, the unsuccessful r.e. investor and the successful r.e. investor.
Great question, Seth.
Joffrey
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Ryan Murphy, husband welcome baby boy
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Ryan Murphy and David Miller.
It was an unforgettable Christmas for ?Glee? creator Ryan Murphy -- he became a first-time dad!
Ryan and husband David Miller welcomed their first child -- a baby boy -- on Christmas Eve.
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Ryan and David announced the news to friends and family via e-mail, according to E! Online.
Logan Phineas Miller Murphy was born at 9:47 AM on Monday, weighing 6 lbs., 6 oz and measuring 21 inches long, the announcement stated.
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Along with the happy holiday news, the couple also included a photo of their new son playfully posed inside a Christmas stocking.
No other details on the child?s birth were immediately available.
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Ryan?s other show-running credits include FX?s ?American Horror Story? and NBC?s ?The New Normal.?
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas
Joanne and Bill Brunetti of Newtown, Conn., part of a group monitoring memorials around the clock, take an early morning shift Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, in Newtown, Conn, near a memorial for Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers. Gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, on Friday, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Joanne and Bill Brunetti of Newtown, Conn., part of a group monitoring memorials around the clock, take an early morning shift Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, in Newtown, Conn, near a memorial for Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers. Gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, on Friday, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
A light coating of snow blankets Newtown, Conn. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. The town is dealing with the aftermath following gunman Adam Lanza's shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 14, that killed 26, including 20 children, before he killed himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Snow-covered stuffed animals with photos attached sit at a memorial in Newtown, Conn. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Among a memorial to the Sandy Hook Elementary students and teachers, Julian Revie of Ottawa, Canada, plays Christmas music on a piano he helped bring to the memorial, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
A member of the Rutter family of Sandy Hook, Conn., walks past candles and other offerings that make up a memorial in Newtown, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) ? This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown.
When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it impossible for the holiday to be the same this year.
Some residents, like Joanne Brunetti, have found ways to console and help their grieving neighbors. Well-wishers from around the country are stopping by to do the same.
Brunetti watched over 26 candles that had been lit at midnight, just before Christmas Day, in honor of those slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She and her husband, Bill, signed up for a three-hour shift and erected a tent to ensure that the candle flames never went out throughout the day.
"You have to do something and you don't know what to do, you know? You really feel very helpless in this situation," she said Tuesday. "People have been wonderful to everybody in Newtown whether you were part of what happened or not. My thought is if we were all this nice to each other all the time maybe things like this wouldn't happen."
At a town hall memorial, Faith Leonard waved to people driving by and handed out Christmas cookies, children's gifts and hugs to anyone who needed it.
"I guess my thought was if I could be here helping out maybe one person would be able to spend more time with their family or grieve in the way they needed to," said Leonard, who drove to Newtown from Gilbert, Ariz., to volunteer on Christmas morning. "I know they've been inundated with support and that's great, but it's always nice to have a present to open on Christmas Day."
Julian Revie played "Silent Night" on a piano on the sidewalk at the downtown memorial. Revie, from Ottawa, Canada, was in the area visiting at the time of the shootings. He canceled his plans to go to Australia, found a piano online and chose to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day playing for the people of Newtown.
"It was such a mood of respectful silence," said Revie, who planned to leave the piano behind. "But yesterday being Christmas Eve and today being Christmas Day, I thought now it's time for some Christmas carols for the children."
Many town residents attended Christmas Eve services Monday evening and spent the morning at home with their families. Others attended church services in search of a new beginning.
At St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, attended by eight of the child victims of the massacre, the pastor told parishioners that "today is the day we begin everything all over again."
Recalling the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, the Rev. Robert Weiss said: "The moment the first responder broke through the doors we knew good always overcomes evil."
"We know Christmas in a way we never ever thought we would know it," he said. "We need a little Christmas and we've been given it."
Volunteers hung ornaments on a series of memorial Christmas trees Tuesday morning while police officers from around the state took extra shifts to direct traffic, patrol the town and give police here a break.
"It's a nice thing that they can use us this way," Ted Latiak, a police detective from Greenwich, Conn., said Christmas morning, as he and a fellow detective, each working a half-day shift, came out of a store with bagels and coffee for other officers.
The expansive memorials throughout town have become gathering points for residents and visitors alike. A steady stream of residents, some in pajamas, relit candles that had been extinguished in an overnight snowstorm.
Others took pictures, dropped off toys and fought back tears at a huge sidewalk memorial in the center of Newtown's Sandy Hook section that is filled with stuffed animals, poems, flowers, posters and cards. Snow covered a pile of teddy bears displayed in town.
Newtown officials plan to convert the countless mementos paying tribute to the 20 children and six adults into a memorial. Thousands of flowers, letters, signs, photos, candles, teddy bears and other items at sites around town will be turned into soil and blocks to be used in a memorial, The News Times in Danbury reports.
The mementos will stay up until after the New Year as residents and visitors pay their respects.
Police have yet to offer a possible motive for gunman Adam Lanza's rampage. The 20-year-old Newtown man, who lived at home, killed his mother in her bed before heading to the school and killing 20 children ? all either 6 or 7 years? and six adults. He then killed himself.
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Associated Press writer Debbi Morello contributed to this report.
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Big-game Redskins role reversal for RG3, Shanahan
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) ? Robert Griffin III sounds like the coach. Mike Shanahan sounds like a player.
As the Washington Redskins prepare for the winner-takes-the-division regular season finale vs. the Dallas Cowboys, rookie quarterback Griffin spoke Wednesday about treating the game like any other. He said he'll tell his teammates to not make the moment "so big that you can't grab ahold of it."
Shanahan then took to the podium and took the other approach. He said Sunday's matchup is not a "normal game." He said it's a time when players can't make mistakes and that it's the type of game that can make a career.
The Redskins are 9-6. The Cowboys are 8-7. Sunday's winner takes the NFC East, although Washington could still get a wild card berth with a loss.
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Pope's Christmas message says hope mustn't die in Syria, Nigeria
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict used his Christmas message to the world on Tuesday to say people should never lose hope for peace, even in conflict-riven Syria and in Nigeria where he spoke of "terrorism" against Christians.
Marking the eighth Christmas season of his pontificate, the 85-year-old read his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message to tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square and to millions of others watching around the world.
Delivering Christmas greetings in 65 languages, Benedict used the Biblical analogy of the "good soil" to underscore his view that the hope represented by Christmas should never die, even in the most dire situations.
"This good earth exists, and today too, in 2012, from this earth truth has sprung up! Consequently, there is hope in the world, a hope in which we can trust, even at the most difficult times and in the most difficult situations," he said.
In his virtual tour of the some of the world's trouble spots, he reserved his toughest words for Syria, Nigeria and Mali.
"Yes, may peace spring up for the people of Syria, deeply wounded and divided by a conflict which does not spare even the defenceless and reaps innocent victims," he said.
"Once again I appeal for an end to the bloodshed, easier access for the relief of refugees and the displaced, and dialogue in the pursuit of a political solution to the conflict."
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics also condemned conflicts in Mali and Nigeria, two countries where Islamist groups have waged violent campaigns.
"May the birth of Christ favour the return of peace in Mali and that of concord in Nigeria, where savage acts of terrorism continue to reap victims, particularly among Christians," he said.
CHURCH BOMBINGS
In Nigeria, the Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds in its campaign to impose sharia law in the north of the country, targeting a number of churches.
In Mali, a mix of Islamists with links to al Qaeda have occupied the country's north since April, destroying much of the region's religious heritage. They have also carried out amputations to help impose strict Islamic law on a population that has practised a more moderate form of Islam for centuries.
Benedict also held out a Christmas olive branch to the new government in China, asking is members to "esteem the contributions of religions". China does not allow its Catholics to recognise the pope's authority, forcing them to be members of a parallel state-backed Church.
Late on Monday night, Benedict presided over a Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter's Basilica, where he urged people to find room for God in their fast-paced lives filled with the latest technological gadgets.
"Do we have time and space for him? Do we not actually turn away God himself? We begin to do so when we have no time for him," he said.
"The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have. And God? The question of God never seems urgent. Our time is already completely full," he said.
He said societies had reached the point where many people's thinking processes did not leave any room even for the existence of God.
"There is no room for him. Not even in our feelings and desires is there any room for him. We want ourselves. We want what we can seize hold of, we want happiness that is within our reach, we want our plans and purposes to succeed. We are so 'full' of ourselves that there is no room left for God."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/popes-christmas-message-says-hope-mustnt-die-syria-114938082.html
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Asian shares steady, U.S. budget concerns weigh
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares steadied in quiet pre-holiday trade after a slump late last week, but markets have become more jittery about the risk of the United States failing to avert a fiscal crisis.
Activity in other assets was also subdued, with spot gold steadying as investors took to the sidelines, while oil extended losses, with U.S. crude inching down 0.2 percent to remain below $89 a barrel while Brent futures also eased 0.2 percent to $108.78.
MSCI (NYSE: MSCI - news) 's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.07 percent after falling to a near two-week low on Friday when House of Representatives Speak John Boehner failed to gain support for a tax plan, raising fears the U.S. may not be able to avert the "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to start January 1.
The White House on Friday tried to rescue stalled talks but there was little headway as lawmakers and President Barack Obama abandoned Washington for Christmas.
Many market players still expect both sides to reach a compromise before the year-end deadline but heightening tensions were likely to stifle trade already slowed by the holidays.
U.S. Treasuries gained a safety bid on Friday from fiscal cliff worries, which put many investors on edge and drove down global equities markets, the euro and oil futures.
Australian shares were up 0.2 percent but trade was extremely thin, with Monday's session shortened ahead of the two-day Christmas holiday and many players already away.
South Korean shares edged up 0.1 percent in light trading before Christmas Day, with the weakening Japanese yen and U.S. fiscal uncertainty keeping investors uneasy.
"With a dearth of good news, shares will undergo corrections in the final week of this year, albeit within a limited range" said Park Hyeong-joong, an analyst at Meritz Securities.
"A chance is growing that the U.S. fiscal issue will not be resolved by this year-end," Park said.
Japanese financial markets are closed for a public holiday and will resume trading on Tuesday.
The dollar inched up 0.2 percent to 84.38 yen, having fallen below 84 yen on Friday. The dollar hit a 20-month high of 84.62 yen on December 19.
The yen has been pressured by expectations the Bank of Japan will be compelled to adopt more drastic monetary stimulus measures next year as incoming prime minister Shinzo Abe has demanded bolder action by the central bank to bring Japan out of decades-long deflation.
Abe stepped up pressure over the weekend, saying on Japanese television on Sunday that he will try to revise a law guaranteeing the BOJ's independence if his demand for a binding inflation target is not met.
Currency speculators increased their bets against the U.S. dollar in the latest week, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Friday. Bets against the yen fell after reaching a more than five-year peak.
But market players generally see the dollar staying firm for now as a U.S. fiscal impasse will likely continue to sap investor appetite for risky assets and raise the dollar's safe-haven appeal.
"It looks like all momentum for the fiscal cliff negotiations is gone," said Rob Ryan, strategist for RBS (LSE: RBS.L - news) in Singapore. While the dollar could sway by year-end flows, "on balance I would see a stronger U.S. dollar into the end of the year," Ryan said.
EPFR Global, a fund-tracking firm, said on Friday that investors around the world pulled $4.1 billion from bond funds worldwide during the week ending December 19, the most since August 2011, and favoured riskier stock exchange-traded funds despite the U.S. budget worry.
ETFs are generally believed to represent the behaviour of institutional investors, and can be used opportunistically to bet on various indexes.
The euro stood steady around $1.3180.
In Italy, Mario Monti announced on Sunday he would consider seeking a second term as Italian prime minister if approached by allies committed to backing his austere brand of reforms. Monti resigned on Friday but has faced growing calls to seek a second term at a parliamentary election on February 24-25.
At stake is the leadership of the world's eighth largest economy, where recession and public debt of more than 2 trillion ($2.6 billion) have aggravated investor concerns about growth and stability in the euro zone.
Italy faces a huge bond redemption in the first quarter of 2013 and its failure to secure funding could refuel concerns about sovereign financing not only in Italy but also similarly indebted Spain, hurting sentiment towards the euro.
(Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin in Seoul and Masayuki Kitano in Singapore; Editing by Eric Meijer)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-shares-steady-u-budget-002233065.html
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Holiday music stops at Irving Berlin's NY door
NEW YORK (AP) ? A caroling group that for 35 years has performed the Irving Berlin classic "White Christmas" on Christmas Eve outside the New York City home where he lived has cancelled the tradition.
A group spokesman says the plans were abruptly cancelled last week for lack of space at the Manhattan home, which now serves as the Luxembourg consulate.
The tradition started in the late 1970s with one cabaret singer outside the home. In 1983, Berlin invited the singers inside for cocoa and cookies.
Berlin died in 1989 at age 99.
Luxembourg Consul-General Jean-Claude Knebeler tells the New York Post the ballroom where the group performed is filled with office equipment because the consulate expanded. He says he hopes the tradition resumes in another year in the consulate's library.
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Gameloft cuts many game prices to 99 cents, wants screen time on your gift phone
More than a few of us are getting phones and tablets as gifts this year, and Gameloft wants to be there the moment we're hunting for new apps to feed our devices. Accordingly, the developer has slashed the price on many of its recent games to 99 cents during the holidays, even including better-known titles like Asphalt 7 and Dark Knight Rises. Not surprisingly, the discounting doesn't include Modern Combat 4 and a few other releases -- there have to be profit-makers left somewhere, after all -- but it's a huge break for those who want a few starter titles and aren't concerned about always having the latest and greatest. Both Android and iOS gamers can splurge at the source links.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Hot And Heavy Marketing: Online Users' Love Affair With Social ...
TIP! You will find that you can learn a lot by interacting with social media sites you are on and their communities. Do not just see the community members as just a money making tool, but fountain of information.
The odds are fairly good that you have at least heard about social media marketing before. However, knowing how to implement it correctly for business growth is a completely different story. You may simply be more accustomed to traditional marketing strategies. Relax! Social media is a simple and effective way to get a message out to a massive audience, and learning how to leverage it is as easy as reading this article. Here are some tips to aid you in doing that.
TIP! Come up with a Twitter handle that is simple to remember and is relevant to the type of product that you are trying to sell. Don?t put a lot of numbers in your username, because people won?t remember it well and might accidentally go to another page.
In order to not upset any of your followers, stay away from sharing personal or political information. It is okay to show some personality, but you want to remain professional and positive. Write about things that have to do with your niche, and keep your tone conversational.
TIP! One way to get more Facebook likes is to add a ?Like? button to your blog, so that visitors can like your Facebook profile directly from the blog. The easier you make it for them, the more likely they will be to ?like? your page.
Think twice before retaining the services of a social media promotion firm. A number of these companies are scams that prey on business owners who have no experience with Internet marketing. These companies use proxy servers and registration bots to create thousands of accounts on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Few real people, if any, will see your spot ? even though your hits are up and you pay through the nose to your marketing company.
Social Media
TIP! You won?t have success in your social media marketing if visitors don?t come to your profile, or they don?t what to read what your content is. Take your time when you are writing and editing your information to make sure it is very useful and interesting.
To start off successfully in social media marketing, until you find your own voice, simply fake it until you make it. Find out how your competition uses social media for their marketing purposes, and get ideas from them until you have an idea of what will work best for your customers and your business. Look at their content on social media, and focus on the promotions they offer.
It is important to choose what you say carefully. Anything you put on the Internet is there indefinitely.
TIP! Building up your social media marketing requires time and patience. It is extremely unlikely that you will have thousands of followers on your first days.
In order to keep your company name in front of your Twitter followers, you need to tweet regularly. Post short content through Twitter often. When your posts are short, you can make multiple updates from a single event.
Social Networking
TIP! Keep an up-to-date blog. If you are having some sort of sales event, you should write about it on your blog.
Understand that social networking shouldn?t be just used for posting ads about your products. Social networking allows you to learn more about your customers. You might also be able to have them interact with yourself and your brand. It is possible to speak with customers regarding your products, but you can also use social networking to personally interact with them.
TIP! You should be flexible about how often you update your page. When you launch a big campaign on a new product, make sure to provide the frequent updates people expect to see.
You must know the target audience to be successful. Research why some people use social networks and find out the types of content they want to see.
TIP! Be sure to make it easy for your potential customers to get involved with you in social media with as little effort on their part as possible. Forcing your visitors to immediately fill out surveys and personal information is a fast way to lose customers.
Your tweets should have quality content that appeals to your followers. Offer advice and suggestions of interest to your customers via Twitter. By mixing these tweets in with those that boldly promote your business, your followers are more likely to stay interested in your tweets.
TIP! Connect all your networking profiles together and link them to your website. That can be done by providing ?share? options on your site that visitors can use to give your content to their friends on social media sites.
Do not connect your personal and professional Facebook accounts. Your followers shouldn?t have access to your family photos or games you play. Use a different name on each page so that followers of your business page don?t accidentally find your personal page.
TIP! Do some research regarding social networking. Even though you might have a traditional Facebook page, bear in mind that using Facebook professionally is quite a different animal.
To increase your number of followers on social networks, provide exclusive incentives such as coupons or discounts to those who ?like? or follow your page. This will help your customers feel like VIPs, because they will get better prices and deals, while simultaneously helping build your business.
TIP! Add buttons to your social media profiles everywhere, as well as an RSS feed of your updates if you wish. The buttons should appear on all pages, profiles, blogs, emails and signatures.
You want your consumers to be able to easily subscribe to your email so you can market to them. Although email marketing can be a bit outdated when compared to marketing with social media, you can still gain the attention of consumers if you have something interesting to promote.
TIP! If you have a blog that you update regularly, you can actually set it up so that your posts are automatically tweeted on Twitter. You may also choose a few bloggers that can post high-quality content and updates that include links to their written posts.
Your social media network profile is a perfect place to help you attract new business to your company and it can mean more sales for your products. Educate them about current special offers, or updated store locations. Allow them access to printable coupons or limited time offers, which are just for your followers. People must think about making you a Facebook friend as an interesting thing to do.
Social Media Marketing
TIP! Always update your Twitter followers about any new posts you make on your blog, and place a ?retweet? alongside your updates. Having this atop each post allows others to easily share the information through their Twitter accounts.
Learning social media marketing is much like other marketing avenues, but it does have it?s own perks and setbacks. If you use the advice from this article, you will soon see great results from a social media marketing campaign. If you have a really good setup, you can even have fun while you make your money!
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Help! My wife of seven years is a lesbian - The Standard
Updated Saturday, December 22 2012 at 13:35 GMT+3
By Harold Ayodo
Dear Harold,
I was recently shocked beyond belief when I found out that my wife of seven years is a lesbian. We have two children ? a son and daughter ? but the reality of my wife swinging both ways affects me psychologically. As a staunch Christian, I asked her to stop her other ways and be ?straight?, but she insists she picked the habit in secondary school, nearly 20 years ago. I asked her why she never opened up to me before we got married and she says it never mattered then. I now feel cheated, demoralised and fear that I may sink into depression. Is this common? Can I opt out of our marriage on grounds that my wife is gay?
Luke, Nairobi
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Dear? Luke,
Many spouses globally are in similar relationships ? knowingly or unknowingly. For instance, 75 per cent of lesbians in the US have children and 20 per cent of gay men are married. Locally, you can opt out of the marriage on grounds of cruelty. Your wife never revealed her sexual orientation before you married her.
Moreover, she is not ready to stop her same-sex relations, which may in the long run affect your health. Her sexual relations may even amount to adultery, which family law defines as sexual relations with any other person who is not your lawful spouse. Similar legal principles may also apply to husbands in gay relationships.
However, the Constitution does not outlaw same-sex relationships ? it provides for equality and freedom from discrimination to all citizens regardless of race, sex, social origin, conscience and belief.
Got a family related legal issue? Ask your lawyer on hayodo@standardmedia.co.ke
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
India's gang-rape protesters defy moves to quell outrage
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government moved on Sunday to stamp out protests that have swelled in New Delhi since the gang-rape of a young woman, banning gatherings of more than five people, but still thousands poured into the heart of the capital to vent their anger.
Police used tear gas and batons to hold crowds back from marching on the president's palace, just as they did the day before. About 30 to 35 people, including a few policemen, were being treated at a nearby hospital for injuries, two doctors said.
The 23-year-old victim of the December 16 attack, who was beaten, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus in New Delhi, was still in a critical condition on respiratory support but responding to treatment, doctors said.
Six men have been arrested for the assault.
New Delhi has the highest number of sex crimes among India's major cities, with a rape reported on average every 18 hours, according to police figures.
Most sexual assaults go unreported and unremarked, but the brutality of last week's attack triggered the biggest protests in the capital since mid-2011 demonstrations against corruption that rocked the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The protesters, predominantly college students but also housewives and even children, are demanding more steps from the authorities to ensure safety for women - particularly better policing - and some want the death penalty for the accused.
Several metro stations were closed and many roads into the administrative centre of the city were barricaded on Sunday to prevent a build-up of protesters.
However, by late afternoon the crowd around the India Gate monument - normally a festive place on a Sunday - had swollen to several thousand.
Scuffles broke out near government buildings, where youths shouted "Down with Delhi police!" and threw bottles at the forces holding them back. Angry protesters later overturned a vehicle and seized police vans.
GANDHI GETS FLAK
Since last week's rape, the authorities have promised better police patrolling to ensure safety for women returning from work and entertainment districts, the installation of GPS on public transport vehicles, more buses at night, and fast-track courts for swift verdicts on cases of rape and sexual assault.
However, that has not been enough to placate protesters in New Delhi and other cities across the country, where the past week began with peaceful candle-light vigils and ended with a spasm of violence in the capital.
Bowing to public pressure, Sonia Gandhi, chief of the ruling Congress party, emerged from her residence after midnight to talk to protesters. She went out again on Sunday with her son, Rahul Gandhi, who is seen as a future prime minister.
"She assured us of justice," said one of the students who met the Gandhis.
Some others, though, shouted "Down with Sonia Gandhi!" and accused politicians of indifference to the plight of ordinary citizens.
"It's time she (Sonia Gandhi) takes the bull by the horns and make this country safe for women. Be it better policing or strongly penalizing offenders," said Rukmani Dutta, a final-year political science student at Delhi University.
Protesters said they would continue to demonstrate until they get firm assurances from the government.
"Until and unless the government understands the pulse of the people and imposes strict action against these criminals, we will not relent," said Sherry Kaur, a student at Indraprastha University, also in New Delhi.
(Writing and additional reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj; Editing by John Chalmers and Sanjeev Miglani)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/india-moves-quell-gang-rape-protests-crowds-build-105113669.html
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Cancer drug funding 'is in jeopardy' | The Times
A fund set up to improve access to life-extending drugs for cancer patients is under threat, a cancer charity warned yesterday.
The ?200 million-a-year Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) was established by the Government to ensure that patients would not be denied the most effective treatments, even if they had been rejected by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the medicines regulator.
About 44,000 patients are estimated to have benefited from the fund since it was established in 2010. Most of these patients were affected by so-called rarer cancers, those outside the most publicised cancers such as colon,
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3639028.ece
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New meteorite suggests that asteroid surfaces more complex than previously thought
New meteorite suggests that asteroid surfaces more complex than previously thought
Friday, December 21, 2012Meteorites that had fallen from an asteroid impact that lit up the skies over California and Nevada in April are showing scientists just how complex an asteroid surface can be. A new study published in Science this week by an international team of researchers describes the speedy recovery of the meteorites and reports that this space rock is an unusual example from a rare group known as carbonaceous chondrites, which contain some of the oldest material in the solar system. The study of these meteorites and others like them could hold answers to unsolved mysteries about the origin of life on Earth as they contain molecules such as water and amino acids.
"We found that this meteorite is a 'breccia,' a mixture of different rocks that accumulated at the surface of a larger asteroid, and those surfaces can be more diverse than we thought before," said co-author Denton Ebel, chair of the Division of Physical Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History.
About eight months ago, several Doppler weather radars detected a hail of rocks following a fireball traveling at a record-breaking 28.6 kilometers per second (about 64,000 miles per hour) over the Sierra Nevada in northern California. An immediate search-and-recover mission, led by NASA Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, and the University of California, Davis, resulted in the retrieval of 77 meteorites. The fragments, which were in pristine shape despite entering the atmosphere at a speed twice as fast as a typical meteorite fall, were collectively called the Sutter's Mill meteorite after the nearby historical site that started the California Gold Rush.
"From the loud sonic boom, we quickly realized that this was an asteroid several meters in size, the biggest object to hit over land since the impact of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the north of Sudan in 2008," said lead author and meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA Ames and SETI. "That asteroid proved to be a mixed bag of different types of meteorites, and we realized it would be very interesting to find out how diverse the Sutter's Mill meteorites were."
Several fragments were sent to laboratories around the world for simultaneous analysis of the meteorite's mineralogy and structure. The Sutter's Mill meteorite was classified as a CM chondrite, C standing for carbonaceous?high in carbon content?and M standing for the group's type specimen, the Mighei meteorite that fell in Ukraine in the late 1800s.
Ebel received five Sutter's Mill meteorites to study using x-ray computed tomography (CT), an imaging technique that takes pictures of the inside of a specimen without destroying it. The Museum's scanner takes more than 1,000 x-ray images of the object as it rotates inside of the machine. The data collected from these x-rays are then converted by computers to form a 3-D image of the specimen's interior, one slice at a time, to understand the components of the meteorite.
"In the same way that medical tomography, called CAT scanning, is used to image the interior of the human body, CT scanning in a research laboratory allows us to obtain images of the interiors of solid objects, but with a much higher resolution," Ebel said. "This is a fundamentally important tool not just for looking at rocks but for curating them and figuring out whether anything interesting is inside."
CT scans at the Museum, and at the University of California, Davis in an effort led by cosmochemist Qing-Zhu Yin, revealed that no two Sutter's Mill meteorites are the same. The meteorites contained angular pieces of different composition and density. They showed diversity on millimeter scale.
"This was the first time that a CM chondrite was found to be clearly a breccia," Yin said. "The rocky fragments came together following impacts on the parent asteroid, which implies that this meteorite originated from near its surface."
Analyses performed using different techniques at other institutions were in agreement: the mineralogy and other geochemical features of these fragments are unexpectedly diverse and complex. This suggests that the surface of the asteroid that spawned the CM chondrites, their "parent body," is more complex than previously thought.
"This meteorite is special because it records many collisional processes and mixing that we, oddly, don't see very often," Ebel said. "Maybe the real question is 'why don't we see more of this?' It could be that most of the samples we've worked with in the past didn't hold up very well as they entered the atmosphere. Or that we're just seeing a small segment of what's really out there because we don't have meteorite records of what fell to the Earth thousands or millions of years ago. We still have a lot of work to do to figure out what's really going on in the asteroid belt."
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