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Monday, December 31, 2012
Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
FILE - In this June 10, 2011 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as the arrives at Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia. Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)
FILE - In this June 10, 2011 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as the arrives at Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia. Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
Clinton's doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing a follow-up exam, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said. He would not elaborate on the location of the clot but said Clinton is being treated with anti-coagulants and would remain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital for at least the next 48 hours so doctors can monitor the medication.
"Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion," Reines said in a statement. "They will determine if any further action is required."
Clinton, 65, fell and suffered a concussion while at home alone in mid-December as she recovered from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated. The concussion was diagnosed Dec. 13 and Clinton was forced to cancel a trip to North Africa and the Middle East that had been planned for the next week.
The seriousness of a blood clot "depends on where it is," said Dr. Gholam Motamedi, a neurologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who was not involved in Clinton's care.
Clots in the legs are a common risk after someone has been bedridden, as Clinton may have been for a time after her concussion. Those are "no big deal" and are treated with six months of blood thinners to allow them to dissolve on their own and to prevent further clots from forming, he said.
A clot in a lung or the brain is more serious. Lung clots, called pulmonary embolisms, can be deadly, and a clot in the brain can cause a stroke, Motamedi said.
Keeping Clinton in the hospital for a couple of days could allow doctors to perform more tests to determine why the clot formed, and to rule out a heart problem or other condition that may have led to it, he said.
Dr. Larry Goldstein, a neurologist who is director of Duke University's stroke center, said blood can pool on the surface of the brain or in other areas of the brain after a concussion, but those would not be treated with blood thinners, as Clinton's aide described.
Clinton was forced to cancel Dec. 20 testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The report found that serious failures of leadership and management in two State Department bureaus were to blame for insufficient security at the facility. Clinton took responsibility for the incident before the report was released, but she was not blamed.
Some conservative commentators suggested Clinton was faking the seriousness of her illness and concussion to avoid testifying, although State Department officials vehemently denied that was the case.
Lawmakers at the hearings ? including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Clinton ? offered her their best wishes.
Last Thursday, before the discovery of the blood clot, Reines said Clinton was expected to return to work this week.
The former first lady and senator, who had always planned to step down as America's top diplomat in January, is known for her grueling travel schedule. She is the most traveled secretary of state in history, having visited 112 countries while in the job.
Clinton is considered a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, although she has not announced plans to run.
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AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
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Police: Five dead, about 20 wounded in Oregon tour bus crash
LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) ? A tour bus careened through a guardrail on an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down an embankment Sunday, killing five people and injuring about 20 others, authorities said.
The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon, according to the Oregon State Police.
Lt. Greg Hastings said the accident happened on the west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called "Deadman Pass," where stretches of the highway tend to be icy in winter months.
I-84 is a major east-west highway through Oregon that follows the Columbia River Gorge.
Police did not say where the vehicle was traveling to or from, or information on the company that owns the bus.
Rescue workers were using ropes to help retrieve people from the crash scene.
The bus crash was the second fatal accident in Oregon on Sunday morning. A 69-year-old man died in a rollover accident
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-killed-oregon-tour-bus-crash-84-215107655.html
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Black boxes examined in fatal Russian plane crash
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runwaw at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Alexander Usoltsev)
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runwaw at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Alexander Usoltsev)
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runway at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Alexander Usoltsev)
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runway at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Cars travel past the wreckage of a plane that careered off the runway at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runway at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
MOSCOW (AP) ? Investigators on Sunday examined flight recorders and other evidence to try to determine the cause of the airliner crash in Moscow that killed five people, an official said.
The Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings was carrying eight people, all of them crew members, when it careered off the runway Saturday while landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. It went partly into an adjacent highway, broke into pieces and caught fire.
Four people were pronounced dead soon after the crash and the airline said on its Twitter account that a fifth, a flight attendant, died Sunday. Those who died Saturday were the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and another attendant, Red Wings said.
The survivors were reported in critical or serious condition in Moscow hospitals.
Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency, was quoted by Russian news agencies saying the data recorders were being examined, along with fuel samples. In addition, he said flight documents for the plane have been taken from the airline for examination.
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Singapore Property News This Week #83
Residential
Private home sales fell by 44% in November
1,087 private homes excluding ECs were sold in November, a 44.2% fall from 1,948 in October, and a 36.1% from the same period in 2011. This is attributed to the lack of major launches (773 units, a 53% fall from October?s 1,633 units) and possibly the latest cooling measures. While there were no ECs launched in November, 179 ECs from earlier launches were sold. Including ECs, 1,266 homes were sold, compared to 2,624 in October, though demand remained high. 65% of the private homes sold excluding ECs were from the OCR. 20,879 private homes (excluding ECs) were sold by November 2012, and the year is expected to end with 21,000-24,000 homes sold. 3,672 EC units were sold in the same period, and the figure may exceed 4,000 by year end with 1,000-1,300 units sold in December. While prices are likely to continue their upward trend as a result of inflated land prices, sales volume is expected to fall to 16,000-18,000 units or even 10,000-12,000 units in 2013 if land sales stabilise.
(Source: Business Times)
Caution abounds in collective sales market
With the introduction of ABSD in December 2011, developers have increasingly turned towards smaller sites in 2012, and this is likely to continue in 2013. In particular, small-to mid-size land parcels of below $200 million are expected to be the most popular. While there were record deals such as the sale of Thomson View condominium at $712 psf ppr or $590 million, such cases are rare and attributed to its proximity to the newly announced Upper Thomson MRT station , or the need of some developers to replenish their land banks. 24 sites were transacted year-to-date at a total value of around $2 billion, compared to the 51 sites transacted at $3.2 billion last year. Only three out of the 24 sites sold were in the prime districts; this due to the smaller demand for homes in such districts as a result of the cooling measures.
(Source: Business Times)
Last two 99-year H2 GLS residential sites released
The first is a 1.2-hectare confirmed-list site located along Commonwealth Avenue, next to Queenstown MRT Station with a 4.9 GPR allowing it to potentially yield 700 units in a condominium over 40 storeys. The expected top bid for the site ranges from $700 psf ppr to $1,100 psf ppr from five to 10 bidders. It is expected to be highly popular since it is located in a mature estate. The tender will close on Feb 5 2013.
The second is a 2.6-ha reserve-list site in New Upper Changi Road, next to Tanah Merah MRT Station. It can potentially yield 600 units. It is expected to attract 10 bidders with a top bid of $780-$830 psf ppr if launched now.
(Source: Business Times)
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MTI to release 22 industrial sites in H1 2013
The 22 sites (13 confirmed-list sites and nine reserve-list sites) have a total site area of 24.84 hectares. To ensure that genuine industrial end-users get factory space that meets their needs, certain sites a subject to a minimum number of large factory units. All 13 confirmed-list sites are zoned B2, possibly due to the already ample supply of B1 industrial sites. Of these sites, eight are under 1.0 ha; six of which are 22-year leasehold 0.5ha sites with a 1.0 plot ratio located in Tuas South. Such small sites can draw five-19 bids with top bids of $30-78 psf ppr, under $10 million. The nine sites on the reserve list include five small sites on Tuas South Street 6 and Street 8) have debut on the reserve list and four larger 30-year leasehold sites.
(Source: Business Times)
URA releases last 2 commercial sites under GLS
The first is a confirmed-list 1.1-ha site on Venture Avenue near Jurong East MRT Station. It can yield a 25-storey development with a maximum GFA of 694,939 sq ft, of which 90% must be set aside of offices that can be strata sub-divided. It is expected to attract five to eight bids with a top bid of $700-800 psf ppr.
The second is a reserve-list 0.8-ha site located at Cecil Street/Telok Ayer Street near Tanjong Pagar MRT Station which can support a 50-storey development with a maximum GFA of 830,510 sq ft. The site zoned for commercial and open space use may attract three to six bids with a top bid of $800-1,000 psf ppr, if triggered for sale.
(Source: Business Times)
Source: http://www.propwise.sg/singapore-property-news-this-week-83/
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China cracks down further on control of internet..truth bad ...
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/china-cracks-down-further-on-control-of-internet-20121228-2byeu.html
China?s new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses.
The measures suggest China?s new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November share their predecessors? anxiety about the internet?s potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms.
?They are still very paranoid about the potentially destabilising effect of the internet,? said Willy Lam, a politics specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. ?They are on the point of losing a monopoly on information, but they still are very eager to control the dissemination of views.?
This week, China?s legislature took up a measure to require internet users to register their real names, a move that would curtail the web?s status as a freewheeling forum to complain, often anonymously, about corruption and official abuses. The legislature scheduled a news conference on Friday to discuss the measure, suggesting it was expected to be approved.
That comes amid reports Beijing might be disrupting use of software that allows web surfers to see sites abroad that are blocked by its extensive internet filters. At the same time, regulators have proposed rules that would bar foreign companies from distributing books, news, music and other material online in China.
Beijing promotes internet use for business and education but bans material deemed subversive or obscene and blocks access to foreign websites run by human rights and Tibet activists and some news outlets. Controls were tightened after social media played a role in protests that brought down governments in Egypt and Tunisia.
In a reminder of the web?s role as a political forum, a group of 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers circulated an online petition this week appealing for free speech, independent courts and for the ruling party to encourage private enterprise.
Xi and others on the party?s ruling seven-member Standing Committee have tried to promote an image of themselves as men of the people who care about China?s poor majority. They have promised to press ahead with market-oriented reforms and to support entrepreneurs but have given no sign of support for political reform.
Communist leaders who see the internet as a source of economic growth and better-paid jobs were slow to enforce the same level of control they impose on movies, books and other media, apparently for fear of hurting fledgling entertainment, shopping and other online businesses.
Until recently, web surfers could post comments online or on microblog services without leaving their names.
That gave ordinary Chinese a unique opportunity to express themselves to a public audience in a society where newspapers, television and other media are state-controlled. The most popular microblog services say they have more than 300 million users and some users have millions of followers reading their comments.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
As GOP Searches For Story To Tell, Marco Rubio Is Hard At Work Polishing His Own
WASHINGTON -? Let us count the ways that Sen. Marco Rubio is already better positioned to be a competitive presidential candidate in 2016 than Mitt Romney ever was.
Rubio (R-Fla.) is younger. He's Latino. He gives a good speech. But less remarked upon: Rubio understands the importance of talking about himself.
In other words, Rubio, 41, gets narrative.
For much of the last year, the Republican Party apparently did not. And the GOP's self-examination in the wake of Romney's loss has prompted many to say that the party needs to convey a more compelling, inspiring vision to American voters.
"The number one rule of competitive politics [is that] your story has to be rooted in lives of people. Having a narrative is really important," said former president Bill Clinton.
Narrative has become an overused clich? in everyday political parlance, but as a concept it is as crucial as ever for any national politician. President Barack Obama paved his path to victory in 2008 by telling his own story in a 1995 memoir. And Obama's longtime trusted adviser David Axelrod centered the 2008 campaign message firmly around the candidate's biography.
"Barack is the personification of his own message," Axelrod said in 2007. "He is his own vision."
Marshall Ganz, a veteran labor organizer whose ideas about narrative have influenced some of Obama's top campaign operatives, has explained the importance of what he called a "leadership story."
"Some people say, 'I don?t want to talk about myself,' but if you don?t interpret to others your calling and your reason for doing what you?re doing, do you think it will just stay uninterpreted? No. Other people will interpret it for you," Ganz wrote in 2009. "You don?t have any choice if you want to be a leader. You have to claim authorship of your story and learn to tell it to others so they can understand the values that move you to act, because it might move them to act as well."
Romney, the failed 2012 Republican nominee, was often faulted for not wanting to talk about ways he had helped other people. But Romney seemed uncomfortable talking about himself in any context. And his campaign consultants discouraged him from talking at length about his Mormon faith, a crucial part of Romney's biography and of his inner life.
Ganz, in an interview, said candidates who come from privilege often avoid self-examination. Romney grew up in a wealthy family, as did Al Gore and John Kerry, the Democratic candidates who fell short of the White House in 2000 and 2004 and who both were hindered by stiff and inaccessible personalities.
"There's a Yiddish riddle: 'Who discovered water? I don't know, but it wasn't a fish,'" Ganz told The Huffington Post. "We're fish in the water of our own stories unless there's some motivation, or some need that provokes us articulating them. And if you're living a life of privilege, it could be that there's just less need. 'I don't need to do the work of interpreting who I am.'"
Rubio doesn't have that challenge. He grew up the son of working-class Cuban immigrants who struggled at times to provide for him and his siblings. And Rubio has made sure to mention that in recent public appearances.
"My mother lived in a home with dirt floors in rural Cuba, raised by a disabled father who struggled to bring food home every night," Rubio said at a speech in early December headlining the annual dinner in honor of former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY).
The low-income and working-class Americans that Rubio is seeking to win over were famously alienated by Romney's 47 percent remarks. But conservative columnist Ramesh Ponnoru argued after the election that the entire meta-narrative that the GOP was telling throughout the election season did little to win these voters.
"The Republican story about how societies prosper -- not just the Romney story -- dwelt on the heroic entrepreneur stifled by taxes and regulations: an important story with which most people do not identify," Ponnoru wrote. "The ordinary person does not see himself as a great innovator. He, or she, is trying to make a living and support or maybe start a family.
"A conservative reform of our health care system and tax code, among other institutions, might help with these goals," Ponnoru continued. "About this person, however, Republicans have had little to say."
Avik Roy in Forbes sounded a similar note.
"Increasingly, swing voters are being hit with our health care problems," Roy wrote. "People who lose their jobs, or work part time, have to buy costly coverage on their own. Employers are increasingly dropping their health coverage -- a trend that was true before Obamacare, but that our new health care law will accelerate.
"If Republicans don?t wake up to these problems, and devote intellectual energy to solving them, they will become increasingly irrelevant to the voters who decide elections."
Rubio is trying to change this. It will, obviously, have to be about more than biography for Rubio or any other candidate in 2016. But a candidate's personal story, and the brand it creates, has become in many ways the key with which to open a door and gain a hearing with voters on these issues. Once you're through the door, they'll listen to your ideas. But not before that.
"In politics appearances are as important as reality," Rubio himself said in his book.
With that in mind, Rubio's plans for the immediate future are heavy on nontraditional media appearances that will help introduce him to the nation, rather than bog him down on Capitol Hill in partisan fights.
"He's willing to go into spaces that other people aren't," said Rubio political adviser Albert Gonzalez, mentioning the senator's two appearances on "The Daily Show."
Rubio has said little about the fiscal cliff fight. His media shop sent nothing on the issue through all of December. In contrast, his Senate office has issued statements on Human Rights Day and World Aids Day. He's also taken a hard line supporting Israel, has harped on the Obama administration's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and has made economic growth and reducing the national debt his points of emphasis in the fiscal cliff debate.
Rubio also has followed the Obama template by publishing his own memoir. "An American Son" came out in June, and while it is not as angst-ridden or soul-searching as Obama's "Dreams From My Father," Rubio displays honesty and authenticity that sets his story apart from many other books by presidential hopefuls, who usually just blather about policy positions and the greatness of America.
Rubio's book takes the reader through his personal story -? from childhood to adulthood -? and begins with a chapter about his mother's father titled, "Storyteller." Rubio also admits frequent regrets over being absent from his wife and four children, and gives his own explanations of matters that eventually exploded into ethics probes of his time as House speaker in the Florida legislature.
Having laid the groundwork to define his own narrative, Rubio is now trying to connect his biography to a broader message of how conservatism is the governing ideology that will help poor and middle-class Americans like his own parents.
"We have not done a good enough job of communicating to people what conservatism is," Rubio told GQ.
"Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it -- it crushes the people who are trying to make it," Rubio said. "So, our challenge is, if we want free enterprise, limited government, and conservatism to be a viable and successful political movement in America, we've got to make that connection for people."
Rubio has a group of experienced political advisers, all loyalists who have been with him for several years. Todd Harris, Heath Thompson, Malorie Miller and Gonzalez are outside consultants, while Bush administration veteran Cesar Conda, southern operative Terry Sullivan and communications director Alex Burgos run his Senate office. Veteran spokesman Alex Conant, who has an excellent rapport with the press, is at the senator's side most of the time.
But Gonzalez told HuffPost that as Rubio goes forward, the candidate will be the ultimate keeper of the flame regarding his story.
"He's the guy who is at the center of it all," Gonzalez said. "The strength of his narrative comes from who he is, where he's from, the neighborhood that he grew up in."
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/29/marco-rubio-narrative-gop-story_n_2377748.html
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Woman in custody in NYC subway shoving death
NEW YORK (AP) ? A woman is in custody in the death of a man who was shoved in front of a speeding subway train, and she "made statements implicating herself," New York City police said Saturday.
Detectives questioned her but aren't releasing the 31-year-old suspect's name until she is formally charged, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said in a brief statement. Among other things, investigators were arranging for witnesses to positively identify the woman in custody as the attacker, police said.
Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old Queens resident who was born in India and ran a printing shop, died Thursday night when a woman who had been muttering to herself on a train platform in Queens suddenly knocked him on the tracks as a train entered the station.
The woman fled after the attack. Police released security camera video showing her running from the station.
The attack was the second time this month that someone was pushed to their death in a New York City subway station. A homeless man was arrested in early December and accused of shoving a man in front of a train in Times Square. He is awaiting trial, and claimed he acted in self-defense.
Further details on how police managed to identify the suspect in Sen's death were not immediately available.
Investigators had been following up on tips from people who had seen the security video and were checking homeless shelters and psychiatric units in an attempt to identify the woman.
It was unclear whether she had any connection to Sen. Witnesses told police the two hadn't interacted on the platform as they both waited for the train.
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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/woman-custody-nyc-subway-shoving-death-181523192.html
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Any ?fiscal cliff? deal must get through political obstacle course in next few days (Washington Post)
Euro doomsayers adjust predictions after 2012 apocalypse averted
BERLIN (Reuters) - Back in May, as the euro zone veered deeper into crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman penned one of his gloomiest columns about the single currency, a piece in the New York Times entitled "Apocalypse Fairly Soon".
"Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro -- that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union -- could come apart at the seams," Krugman wrote. "We're not talking about a distant prospect, either. Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months, not years."
Krugman was far from being alone in predicting imminent doom for the euro in 2012. Billionaire investor George Soros told a conference in Italy in early June that Germany had a mere three-month window to avert European disaster.
Then in July, Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup and former Bank of England policymaker, raised the probability that Greece would leave the euro to 90 percent, even going so far as to provide a date on which it might occur.
Buiter's D-Day -- January 1, 2013 -- falls next week. And yet no one now believes a "Grexit", or catastrophic implosion of the euro zone for that matter, is just around the corner.
Half a year ago the chorus calling an end to the euro reached a crescendo. Among the chief doom-mongers were some of the world's leading economists and investors, many of them based in the United States.
Fast forward six months and their prophesies look ill-judged, or premature at the least. The euro has rebounded against the U.S. dollar. The bond yields of stricken countries like Greece, Spain and Italy -- a market gauge of how risky these countries are -- have fallen back.
Even the gloomiest of the gloomy are revising their forecasts, although they warn of more trouble ahead.
"Europe has surprised me with its political resilience," Krugman admitted earlier this month in a blog post.
In October, Citi lowered its view on the likelihood of Greece exiting the currency area within 18 months to a still high 60 percent and there are plenty of economists who think that while a patchwork of measures have drawn some sting out of the crisis they have done little to address its root causes.
Krugman and Buiter did not return mails seeking comment. Soros declined to be interviewed.
POLITICAL WILL
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems clear that many simply underestimated the political will in Europe to keep the euro together, and the impact that a series of policy shifts in the second half of 2012 would have on sentiment.
The most important of these were European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's July promise to do "whatever it takes" to defend the euro -- which led to the ECB's commitment to buy euro zone government bonds in sufficient amounts to shore up the currency bloc -- and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's late-summer shift on Greece.
After wavering for many months on the costs and benefits of a Greek exit, she finally came around to the view that the risks to Europe and her own political prospects of letting Greece go were far too great.
"There may be a logic to Greece leaving, but the mechanics are too disruptive for both Greece and its neighbors," said Barry Eichengreen, an economist at U.C. Berkeley, who has long argued that the euro is irreversible.
"An appreciation of European politics makes you realize that everything will be done to prevent a breakup of the monetary union. It would be intensely catastrophic, economically and politically."
Capital Economics, a UK-based consultancy that forecast one or more countries would leave the single currency bloc by the end of 2012, now concedes that it underestimated the ECB's determination to save the euro and the market's faith in the bank's promises.
"It may simply take longer," Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics said of a euro breakup. "It's obviously not happening this year."
Prominent investors have also paid a price for betting against the euro zone this year. Earlier this month celebrated U.S. hedge fund manager John Paulson blamed big losses suffered in 2012 on his bets that the sovereign debt crisis would worsen.
For those who placed their chips on the other side of the table, there were stellar returns of around 80 percent to be had on 10-year Greek and Portuguese government bonds this year.
CRISIS DEFERRED
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist whose bearish forecasts earned him the nickname "Dr. Doom", has been in the gloom camp from the beginning, predicting as far back as 2010 that countries would be forced to abandon the single currency.
Now he says the risks of a near-term catastrophe have been reduced. Reflecting the more cautious view of many of his colleagues, Roubini believes 2013 will be another year in which European politicians "muddle through", avoiding catastrophe.
But the euro's day of reckoning will come, he believes, with the risks metastasizing over the course of 2013 and Greece, once again, posing the biggest threat.
At the height of the crisis in June, the euro zone dodged a bullet when the conservative party New Democracy narrowly beat anti-bailout leftists SYRIZA in the Greek election.
Since then, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been able to keep his three-party coalition together, and behind austerity measures needed to keep bailout money flowing. But as the country enters its sixth year of recession and support for the government wanes, his task will become harder.
Recent opinion polls show SYRIZA with a five point edge, underscoring the risks of a political earthquake in Athens at some point in 2013.
"By late fall of next year, the Greek coalition could collapse and an exit may be back on the table," Roubini told Reuters.
Even economists like Eichengreen are reluctant to declare the worst of the crisis over, pointing to deep recessions on Europe's periphery and the risk of political complacency.
At a December summit in Brussels, European governments delayed serious discussion on closer fiscal integration until mid-2013 and made clear that creation of a "banking union" would stretch into 2014 and beyond.
"What we have seen throughout this crisis is a cycle where steps are taken, politicians think the problems are solved, they sit on their hands and the situation worsens again, with spreads blowing out. I'm sure we'll see more of this going forward," Eichengreen said.
Krugman, while expressing surprise at Europe's ability to avert disaster in 2012, isn't backing off his predictions of gloom either.
In his recent blog post "Bleeding Europe", he likens the austerity imposed on countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland to "medieval medicine" in which patients were bled to treat their ailments. When the bleeding made them sicker, they were bled some more.
Even if the euro has defied forecasts of its demise, the economics of austerity, Krugman says, are playing out "exactly according to script".
(Reporting by Noah Barkin, editing by Mike Peacock)
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
China tightens control over Internet, passes new rules | Firstpost
Beijing: China?s government tightened controls on Internet users Friday by enacting rules requiring them to register their names. The new rules follow online postings about graft and abuses that rattled the ruling party.
The country?s rubber-stamp legislature approved the Internet measures at a closing meeting of a five-day session.
Real-name registration will curtail the Web?s status as a freewheeling forum to complain, often anonymously, about corruption and official abuses.
The government says the latest regulation is aimed at protecting Web surfers? personal information and cracking down on abuses such as junk email.
The measure will ?ensure Internet information security, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal entities or other organisations and safeguard national security and social public interests,? the official Xinhua News Agency cited the regulation as stating.
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The measure would require network service providers to ask users to provide their real names and other identifying information to allow users to post information publicly or when signing agreements for access to the Internet, fixed telephone lines or mobile phones, Xinhua said.
Beijing promotes Internet use for business and education but bans material deemed subversive or obscene and blocks access to many websites.
The main ruling party newspaper, People?s Daily, has called in recent weeks for tighter Internet controls, saying rumors spread online have harmed the public. In one case, it said stories about a chemical plant explosion resulted in the deaths of four people in a car accident as they fled the area.
Until recently, Web surfers could post comments online or on microblog services without leaving their names, giving ordinary Chinese a unique opportunity to express themselves to a public audience in a society where newspapers, television and other media are state-controlled.
The Internet also has given the public an unusual opportunity to publicize accusations of official misconduct.
A local party official in China?s southwest was fired in November after scenes from a videotape of him having sex with a young woman spread quickly on the Internet. Screenshots were uploaded by a former journalist in Beijing, Zhu Ruifeng, to his Hong Kong website, an online clearinghouse for corruption allegations.
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Source: http://www.firstpost.com/world/china-tightens-control-over-internet-passes-new-rules-571586.html
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E-mail Marketing And You - Internet Marketing Training Blog
You have seen marketing with email at some point if you use an email address. Marketing with email is good for marketing to customers that may be interested in your business as well as ones that are already customers. This article has some tips to help you make the most of marketing emails for your business.
Send out personalized emails to your customers. Also, let them know about promotions or sales. If you can, send them promotions for new products based on the products they purchased in the past. A customer who has already trusted you for an initial purchase is more likely to continue buying merchandise from you.
Personalize the messages you send in your email campaigns. Customers will respond more positively to such messages rather than all the ones that are bland or impersonal. If your message is sent by the President, CEO or other company bigwig, it will have a bigger impact on your customers.
Be sure that you provide people with a way to opt out of your email marketing newsletters. Even though sending emails is basically free, they can still take money out of your pocket. You?ll also damage your reputation, causing your profits to reduce and potential backlash such as appearing on an email blacklist.
Harness all of the resources available to teach yourself about marketing via email strategies. Books on the subject may be available in libraries and online. Some areas even offer classes to help you improve your knowledge.
Don?t just use subscription information to target your emails; put it to work in making the service you offer your customers more convenient, too. If a customer uses an email link to visit your site, use their subscription information to pre-fill as much of the purchase form as possible. That makes the sales process run more easily, and makes people more likely to make a purchase.
If you will be including images in your emails, it can be good advantage to use Alt tags. In case the images are not loading properly, the alt tags will appear instead. The tags? descriptions should be relevant to the picture in order for the recipient to see its purpose. Also use tags on your links.
Branding your e-mail marketing in a similar fashion to your other marketing endeavors will ensure your customers instantly recognize your content. Design a great template that will enable you to show off your company?s logo, along with any special colors or fonts that you display prominently on your business?s website. This will allow your emails to be recognized instantly.
Only send your emails to clients and people that you know. Your emails will appear to be spam to those who are unfamiliar with your company. They?ll consider your email spam, defeating your marketing strategy. Their lack of care towards you and your business will most likely cause them to just mark it as spam, which just made your effort pointless.
Before getting involved in an marketing via email effort, you must obtain permission to email each person on your list. If you don?t, clients may leave or complain about your spamming.
You should not use images to convey your most important information. Many email clients won?t display images right away. This can make your messages ugly or even unreadable if they are too reliant on images. Always use clear text for the most important information you want to convey, and use descriptive alt tags for any images that you do use.
Almost everyone online knows what email promoting is, because it?s been around for as long as the Internet. For all intents and purposes, e-mail marketing is basically a medium in which businesses market to prospects via the email medium. It can be quite effective when used correctly, which can be quite easy to do if you apply the tips that have been listed in this article.
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The Customization of the Airbus A380 | Business Travel Blog
It used to be when an airline ordered a new airplane; the options were somewhat limited. They would simply get an airliner with a few first class seats and the remaining seats would be coach. Today, with the growing popularity of business class over first class and technical innovations, airlines are customizing their fleets to fit their passenger?s needs.
The Airbus A380 is one such airliner that has the capacity to carry over 500 passengers with room to spare. Customers of the double deck jumbo jets design their interiors from the ground up from unique seating configurations for business class cabins to including on board duty free shopping. Currently, there are nine carriers that operate the A380, so which airline?s A380 has what?
Emirates Airlines has the largest fleet of A380s. They also have more than just one seating configurations on many of the aircraft. As most of the A380 operators, the lower decks of the airliners are standardly reserved for economy seating, leaving the entire upper deck to be dedicated to first and business class. For long routes, the airline flies one configuration that includes a crew rest area in the aft section of the lower deck, behind economy class. On the shorter routes they use a configuration without the crew rest on the lower deck, allowing for additional economy seating.
China Southern, which was China?s first A380 customer, utilizes a three class layout which includes eight first class seats, 70 business class and 428 seats in economy. Like many of their other counterparts, the upper class cabins are located on the upper deck of the airliner.
Malaysia Airlines, China?s other A380 carrier took delivery of their first A380 this past spring. The carrier also uses a three class configuration. On the lower deck the airline has 8 first class and 350 economy seats. The upper deck has 66 fully flat reclining seats for business class and 70 economy seats.
Recently Thai Airways became the ninth airline to operate the massive jumboliner in September. The airliner has 507 seats. The upper deck is equipped with 12 first class and 60 business class. Both classes have fully flat reclining seats. The lower deck has 435 economy seats. Every seat features seat back monitors, individual power sources, wi-fi internet and mobile phone access.
Korean Air became the first of the A380 customers to make the upper deck all business class with a total of 94 sleeper seats laid out in a 2-2-2 configuration. The upper deck also has a bar and lounge section. The airline also offers an in-flight duty free store. The lower deck has 12 first class seats and 301 economy seats. Korean Air currently has the lowest number of seats for an A380 with 407 total.
Korean Air?isn?t?the first airline to dedicate a space to something other than passenger seating. Emirates is equipped with showers in their first class cabin. Australia?s Qantas has a lounge area reminiscent of the early 1970?s 747 retro lounges. The lounge is for their premium passengers. The A380s in the Air France fleet have digital lounges on the upper decks and Singapore Airlines offers a double bed feature in first class.
British Airways, which has yet to take delivery of their first A380 plans to have 12 first class seats on the main deck which will be followed by 44 of their Club World seats configured in a 2-4-2 layout and the remaining space will have 199 World Traveler seats in a 3-4-3 configuration. The upper deck layout will feature an additional 53 World Club seating in a newer 2-3-2 configuration which will be followed by 55 World Traveler Plus seating in the 2-3-2 layout. The remaining upper deck space will be occupied by 104 World Traveler seats in a 2-4-2 configuration.
More and more airlines are placing orders for the massive airliner. Future customers include, Virgin Atlantic, Etihad Airways, Qatar, Asiana and Skymark Airlines. Their future layouts will go wherever the imagination and demand take them so stay tuned.
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Source: http://www.letsflycheaper.com/blog/the-customization-of-the-airbus-a380/
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U.S. mentally ill and their families face barriers to care
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lori, a 39-year-old mother in New Jersey, would like to save for the usual things: college, retirement, vacations. But those goals are far down her wish list. For now, she and her husband are putting aside money for a home alarm system. They're not worried about keeping burglars out. They need to keep their son in.
Mike, 7, began seeing a psychiatrist in 2009, after one pre-school kicked him out for being "difficult" and teachers at the public school he later attended were worried about his obsessive thoughts and extreme anxiety. He was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
As she keeps trying to get help for him, "I am learning firsthand how broken the system is when dealing with mental illness," said Lori. (Surnames of patients and their families have been withheld to protect their privacy.)
"We fight with doctors, our insurance company, educators, each other; the list goes on and on ... It isn't even a system. It's not like there's a call center to help you figure out what to do and how to get help."
Last week, the National Rifle Association blamed mass shootings such as that at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on the lack of a "national database of the mentally ill," who, it claimed, are especially prone to violence.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University, disagrees, however. "Gun violence is overwhelmingly not about mental illness," he said. "The best estimate is that about 95 percent of gun violence is committed by people who do not have a diagnosis of mental illness."
But experts on mental illness agree with one implication of the NRA's argument: families trying to get help for a loved one with mental illness confront a confusing, dysfunctional system that lacks the capacity to help everyone who needs it - and that shunts many of the mentally ill into the criminal justice system instead of the healthcare system.
"Public mental health services have eroded everywhere, and in some places don't exist at all," said Richard Bonnie, professor of law and medicine at the University of Virginia. "Improving access to mental health services would reduce the distress and social costs of serious mental illness, including violent behavior."
Because mental health care is in such short supply, emergency cases receive priority. If a young man has a psychotic break and threatens his mother with a knife, "you can call the police and initiate an emergency evaluation," said Bonnie.
A psychiatrist called to the local emergency room may agree that the man is an imminent threat to himself or others, or cannot provide for his basic needs - the criteria for involuntary commitment in most states. Anything short of that and even someone with a diagnosis of severe mental illness cannot be involuntarily committed.
Critics argue that this emphasis on civil liberties lets dangerous people roam the streets, and cite numerous cases where it has been fatal. In October, for instance, a Tacoma, Washington, man who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was in and out of mental hospitals for years confessed to killing his father with a hatchet.
One lesson of such tragedies, experts say, is that psychiatrists' ability to predict who will be violent "is better than chance, but not much better," said Dr. Marvin Swartz, professor of psychiatry at Duke University.
Another is that the shortage of in-patient treatment has led everyone from judges to mental health professionals to look for any excuse to avoid committing someone involuntarily. There is often no place to put them, and admitting one patient means discharging another who might be equally ill.
"Getting people into hospitals is extremely difficult because of the shortage of beds," said Columbia University's Appelbaum.
The shortage extends to out-patient services, too, largely as a result of continuing budget cuts. Since 2009, states have cut more than $1.6 billion from such spending, found a 2011 report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a nonprofit education and advocacy group. The result is "significant reductions in both hospital and community services," it said.
Connecticut, where Newtown is, is an exception. Its mental health budget rose from $676 million in 2009 to $715 million in 2012.
'THEY'RE ALL PSYCHOTIC'
More typical are Illinois (a reduction in spending on mental health of $187 million in that period), Ohio (down $26 million) and Massachusetts (down $55.6 million). "There's a waiting list for our program (in Boston) and it's hard to get in," said psychiatrist and NAMI medical director Ken Duckworth, who treats mentally ill patients.
There is room in his program for 60 people. The waiting list has 20, he said, "and they're all psychotic."
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The Community Mental Health Center Act, passed in 1963, called for federal funding of outpatient psychiatric facilities in towns and cities "so people would at least know where to start" when they or a family member needed a mental health evaluation or treatment, said Appelbaum. "It was supposed to be a single point of entry." But only about 650 of the 1,500 centers were built, and federal funding for staffing tailed off after four years when Congress did not appropriate more.
As a result, of the estimated 45.9 million U.S. adults 18 or older who had mental illness in 2010, some 11 million had "an unmet need for mental health care," estimates the Alliance for Health Reform, a nonprofit advocacy group.
One of those 11 million is Joseph. Even though he became violent, tried to jump out of a moving car, hit his wife and threatened to burn down their house, it was not enough to keep him in the psychiatric unit of their local New Jersey hospital.
He "cycled through the system," said his daughter. He went to the local emergency room five times, was arrested four times, went to the psychiatric unit three times, and spent 25 nonconsecutive days in a psychiatric hospital - all in three months in 2010.
Joseph's psychiatrist and family believed he should be in a state mental hospital, but his doctor did not show up to testify at a commitment hearing and the main evidence presented was a threatening letter Joseph had written to his wife. He was not deemed a danger to himself or others, and was released.
He did, however, cycle between jail and the psychiatric ward, making him one of many cases that "wind up in the criminal justice system instead of the healthcare system," said the University of Virginia's Bonnie. "Families watch their loved one unravel and can't get assistance, and then they get ensnared in the criminal justice system and can't get them out."
The difficulty getting outpatient care for the mentally ill is particularly widespread because most psychiatric hospitals were closed during the "de-institutionalization" of the 1960s and 1970s, an effort to provide more humane care than in the sometimes nightmarish wards.
One facility that closed was Fairfield Hills State Hospital, which opened in 1933, housed just over 4,000 mentally ill, long-term patients at its peak in the 1960s, and closed in 1995. It was located in Newtown.
"It's a metaphor for what we've done about mental health treatment in this country," said Duckworth. "A town that had a major treatment facility for 60 years has a mass shooting by someone who was mentally ill. We don't have a coordinated system of screening for, let alone treating, mental illness."
Even a diagnosis of mental illness with a possibility of harming oneself or others is no guarantee of help, even for young people.
"We estimate that fewer than one-quarter of the children, teenagers and young adults who have a mental health problem receive any treatment whatsoever," said Bernadette Melnyk, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Ohio State University College of Medicine. "And of those who do get treated, a substantial amount of the treatment is not the best, evidence-based kind."
For instance, a combination of cognitive-behavior therapy and medication is most effective at treating depression. "But very few patients receive the psychotherapy because we have such a severe shortage of mental health providers," said Melnyk.
Trying to get that help can drain a family emotionally.
'SOME SORT OF MONSTER'
"There are no professionals to help us with the tantrums or hysteria at the dentist or getting a haircut," said Lori, the New Jersey mother. "When Mike has a fit or screams obscenities in public, strangers assume he's a spoiled brat or some sort of monster."
"I worry that if he does not take good care of himself . . . well, let's just say that I can empathize with Adam Lanza's (the Newtown shooter's) family, too," she said.
To be sure, protecting the public from crime spurred by mental illness is only one argument for better psychiatric care. Every person who needs such care and doesn't get it is one more individual whose dreams of a full and productive life are shattered.
Virginia's Bonnie saw that firsthand when, after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting rampage by Seung-Hui Cho, scores of families told him of their struggles to get help for loved ones with mental illness.
One young man, a brilliant college student and athlete, suffered his first psychotic break as an 18-year-old freshman and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Robert was hospitalized nine times over 12 years, but when he attempted suicide after one stay his parents could not get him admitted again: he did not meet the "imminent danger" standard.
Feeling threatened by his "increasing psychotic behaviors," the parents told Bonnie, they called the police, who arrested and jailed Robert for breaking and entering the family home. Without treatment, his psychosis only became worse.
It is all too common for the mentally ill to wind up in the criminal justice system, not the health system, said Bonnie. "Families are suffering the consequences of the lack of mental health treatment all the time," he said. "Every once in a while they explode into public view" with a national tragedy like Newtown.
(Reporting by Sharon Begley; Editing by Jilian Mincer and Steve Orlofsky)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-mentally-ill-families-face-barriers-care-132703329.html
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Whale dies after getting stranded on NYC beach
By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News
NEW YORK -- An emaciated 60-foot finback whale that washed up on a coastal community devastated by Superstorm Sandy has died, marine officials said Thursday.
The whale was found beached Wednesday in Breezy Point, Queens, where 126 homes burned down and more than 2,000 were damaged during the Oct. 29 storm. It was carried out at high tide but washed ashore another time on Thursday, and marine officials said they found it dead, according to media reports.
?Biologists have confirmed that the whale has died,? Mendy Garron, a marine mammal rescue specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told Reuters. ?Plans are currently being developed for necropsy and disposal of the carcass."
PhotoBlog: Finback whale beached at Breezy Point
Finback whales are an endangered species. They are second in size only to the blue whale, and can reach up to 70 feet in length and weigh up to 70 tons. The whales migrate to equatorial waters in the fall and during winter, they mostly fast, surviving on their fat reserves. Winter is also when they mate, and calves are born one year later, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
It is one of the fastest large whales and can stay underwater for up to 50 minutes on one breath.
Tim Dufficy, 26, a member of the Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Department, said the firehouse was contacted by security in the private cooperative about the animal. He and a few other volunteers took some new equipment, such as a portable pump and a special hose, that they'd gotten in the aftermath of the storm to keep water flowing on the whale during low tide since it was mostly out of the water.
"Everyone was hoping," he told NBC News. "But ... we knew the prospects were grim."
The whale did respond to the firefighters efforts, opening its eyes and moving its tails and side fins, he said. The fire crew eventually left the animal in the care of marine biologists. When Dufficy went to check back on the whale on Thursday, it had drifted seven blocks down the beach.
Rob DiGiovanni, executive director of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation told NBCNewYork.com?on Wednesday that the whale was ?severely emaciated? and that the outcome did not look good.
Calls placed Thursday seeking comment to the foundation and NOAA were not immediately returned.
The whale was found on the bay side of the community, which is tucked in by the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay. With most homes rendered uninhabitable by the storm, many residents have had to move away and make daily trips to continue repairs.
Sharks, dolphins and a large sea turtle have also turned up on the beaches of Breezy Point, which was founded more than a century ago by Irish immigrants. It's not clear how many survived, said Dufficy, though he knew the sea turtle was alive when marine officials took it away.
A whale also beached itself on the community's Atlantic coast around the summer of 1960, said Point Breeze Fire Chief Marty Ingram.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Syria chemical attack claims aim to justify foreign interference ... - RT
Syrian army soldiers patrol the Sheik Said neighbourhood of Syria's northern city of Aleppo.(AFP Photo / STR)
Accusations that forces backing Syrian President Assad allegedly used chemical weapons against the opposition is a provocation aimed at making an excuse for foreign military intervention, says the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Another goal of such reports is to stir up panic among Syrians and foreigners who remain in the country, the ministry?s spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich told the media on Thursday.
The use of weapon of mass destruction is unacceptable, the diplomat stressed. The Syrian government repeatedly assured Russia, as well as Western partners and the UN that it would not use chemical weapons. Moscow is keeping a close watch on the situation and has no information that the Syrian government plans to use chemical arms.
?We hope that all opposition forces will assume similar obligations and strictly follow these commitments,? Lukashevich pointed out.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the use of chemical weapons ?would be a political suicide? for Assad regime.
?Every time we hear rumors, or pieces of information come to surface that the Syrians are doing something with the chemical weapons we double-check, we triple-check, we go directly to the government and all the time we get very firm assurances that this is not going to be used under any circumstances,? he said in an exclusive interview with RT.
Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition claims the government troops did use chemical warfare in an attack on the city of Homs on Sunday, killing seven people and injuring dozens more with poison gas. A number of videos were posted online showing, opposition activists claim, victims of the alleged chemical attack.
Syria's Ambassador to Moscow Riyad Haddad denied the report saying that the information ?was absolutely wrong.?
"Naturally, it was a provocation and a part of plans to put psychological pressure on the government in Syria," he told Interfax. According to the diplomat, it is all done to make a pretext for a foreign intervention into the Arab Republic. He expressed hope though that thanks to Russian and Chinese efforts it will not happen.
Permanent members of the UN Security Council, Moscow and Beijing stand for a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
?The only path to put an end to the sufferings of Syrian people lies through a dialogue and talks,? Lukashevich reiterated on Thursday. On the whole, the situation in Syria is extremely complicated and ?is following the most unfavorable scenario." Responsibility for continuing the bloodshed in the republic is laid with those who incite further fratricidal war in Syria, the Russian diplomat pointed out.
Source: http://rt.com/politics/chemical-weapon-syria-provocation-911/
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Ouya developer console gets an official unboxing, flaunts - Engadget
It's a little early for an Ouya teardown, but Kickstarters who chipped in $699 won't have to wait long to see what the little console is made of -- Ouya's developer hardware is transparent. The console's team decided to cut the inevitable march of unboxing videos off at the neck, offering fans a quick preview of the package it's shipping out to devs. The standard accouterments are there -- the tiny console itself, two prototype controllers with batteries, HDMI and power adapters, plus a micro USB cord and a letter to developers thanking them for their investment and warning them of the early build's bugs. The note also cautions deep-pocketed gamers that the device is built specifically for developer use, and has no games to placate eager couch potatoes. The video shows the console booting up, and even demonstrates how easy it is to open the hardware. Skip on past the break to get a glimpse at what early adopters and developers are getting their hands on.
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Putin's Adoption Ban Hits Senator Rubio Close to Home | The Shark ...
By Javier Manjarres
Russian President Vladimir Putin has struck a personal nerve with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio after announcing ?that he will sign a ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans.?
Rubio, who is understandably upset, has asked President Obama to ?forcefully condemn this action? and cited that over the past decade, ?tens of thousands of loving American couples have adopted Russian orphans.?
?Senator Rubio speaks from the heart on this issue because several years ago, his own sister Veronica was able to adopt twin daughters from Russia.
??I?m deeply concerned by President Putin?s announcement that he will sign the ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans, and urge the Obama Administration to forcefully condemn this action. Over the last decade, tens of thousands of loving American couples have adopted Russian orphans, providing unconditional love, support and a quality of life otherwise unimaginable in Russia?s crowded orphanages.
?In addition to helping thousands of families, these international adoptions have brought our two nations? people closer together and served as a symbol of our growing friendship. Now, President Putin?s adoption ban will not just deprive thousands of Russian orphans of a better life, but will cast further doubt on his commitment to human rights. The Obama Administration should make clear that we will not tolerate orphaned children being treated as political pawns.?-Senator Marco Rubio
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3D Brain (for iPhone)
3D Brain (for iPhone), a free educational app, provides a good overview of the brain and its structures. It?s best for students, although there?s plenty of interest to those of us who don?t know a hypothalamus from a hippocampus. Along with providing rotatable, VR-style illustrations of the brain and its components, it has informative text and links to relevant medical articles and databases.
Its features are the same as 3D Brain (for iPad), and its layout is basically the same. It is more cumbersome, though. Most notably, if you press Info while looking at a brain structure, the information bar fills most of the field of view, blocking your view of the brain structure (and labels, if they?re turned on). Although pinching or stretching shrinks or expands the type size, the bar's width remains the same, so for the most part, you can't look at the structure's illustration and the info about it at the same time, as you can on an iPad.
A Virtual Tour of the Brain
When you open the app, you see a page labeled Whole Brain, a depiction of the entire brain with its regions marked in different colors. It's a VR-style 3D illustration; by touching it and dragging your finger, you can rotate it, revealing different regions. One side is translucent, so you can see interior structures. You can also stretch or pinch the diagram to enlarge or shrink it.
One piece of interactivity that I would have liked to have seen is some response when you tap specific areas in the brain in the diagrams. For instance, the Whole Brain view shows six areas of the brain, each depicted in a different color. Clicking on the Labels button in the taskbar identifies them as the Frontal Lobe, the Parietal Lobe, the Temporal Lobe, the Occipital Lobe, the Cerebellum, and the Brainstem. But if you touch on one of the areas or its label, nothing happens. Granted, you can access separate pages for these areas, as well as 22 brain regions or sub-regions, from the Structures button on the right-hand taskbar that reveals a drop-down menu listing the regions you can examine.
Basal Ganglia for Beginners
As an example of how it works, if you choose the second entry on the list, Basal Ganglia, it reveals an illustration with six substructures shown in different colors. Touching the Labels button on the taskbar names the structures: Globus Pallidus, Nucleus Accumbens, etc. Tapping the Info button calls up a wide sidebar on the right side of the screen, with text describing different aspects of the basal ganglia. ?Whichever brain structure you call up, the textual information provided is in the same order: Overview, Case Study (or Studies), Associated Functions, Associated Cognitive Disorders, [Impairments] Associated with Damage, Substructures, Research Reviews, and Links.
Through links in the Research Reviews section, you can access PubMed abstracts of selected articles related to the brain region. The Links section includes the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) organizational tree for the structure in question, while BrainInfo takes you to images. Whichever of these links you click on, it takes you out of the app, which you'll have to relaunch. It will open to the Whole Brain opening page, where you?ll start from scratch.
The Spinnable Brain
3D Brain (for iPhone) gives a good overview of the brain and its structures, with rotatable, expandable diagrams, and relevant, informative text and links. The spinnable VR illustrations of brain structures are the interactive high point of the app. But there are some places in which my user experience fell a bit short.
The iPhone?s screen size (even with the iPhone 5) does not permit viewing of both text and the full diagrams at the same time, as you can do on an iPad. The lack of touch-sensitive interlinking of the diagrams makes navigation (using the bar at the righthand edge of the screen) awkward. All the links, in text and in the Links section, take you to Web pages outside the app, making you have to relaunch 3D Brain and start from scratch (the Whole Brain screen).
These quibbles, though, shouldn?t deter anyone interested in the workings of the brain from downloading this free app. The material presented in 3D Brain (for iPhone) as well as its interactive diagrams should be a valuable resource to students and informed laymen alike, but, if you've got an iPad that's the best way to experience the 3D Brain.
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