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New Challenge on MTV: Battle Of The Exes (Cast List)
I?m not too ashamed to admit that I still love to watch the Real World / Road Rules Challenge shows. I love them. Maybe it?s because I remember a lot of the older cast mates from when they were actually on their original shows. Sure, it?s sad that some of them still haven?t moved on to real jobs and left their small piece of fame behind. But would you? I love the politics behind it all just as much as I love the actual physical challenges. Last season was awesome because they found people who really hated each other and made them work together. For that ?Duel? the people actually found out that they could get along, except for a few. For example, Wes and Kenny NEVER got along, which just proves that some people aren?t meant to be friends. This time around, MTV has come up with some even better. All of the nasty, middle-of-the-night, drunk hook-ups can get pretty scandalous. Not to mention some of the actual long-term relationships that have come from the shows. Now they are taking all of they couples that didn?t work out, and forcing them to work together as partners. That is a [...]
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Operation Somalia: The U.S., Ethiopia and now Kenya
Ethiopia did it five years ago, the Americans a while back. Now Kenya has rolled tanks and troops across its arid frontier into lawless Somalia, in another campaign to stamp out a rag-tag militia of Islamist rebels that has stoked terror throughout the region with threats of strikes.? Blog?
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Could Islamist rebels undermine change in Africa?
Creeping from the periphery in Africa?s east and west, Islamist militant groups now pose serious security challenges to key countries and potentially even a threat to the continent?s new success.? Blog?
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The children of Dadaab: Life through the lens
Through my video ?The children of Dadaab: Life through the Lens? I wanted to tell the story of the Somali children living in Kenya?s Dadaab. Living in the world?s largest refugee camp, they are the ones bearing the brunt of Africa?s worst famine in sixty years.? Blog?
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Who among the seven longest serving African leaders will be deposed next?
Several African leaders watching news of the death of Africa ?s longest serving leader are wondering who among them is next and how they will leave office.? Blog?
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Were NATO strikes on Gaddafi?s home town justified?
Defence secretary, Liam Fox, sounded a little scripted in Misrata at the weekend when I asked him whether NATO?s airstrikes in Muammar Gaddafi?s home town of Sirte were staying within its remit to protect civilians in Libya.? Blog?
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Was South Africa right to deny Dalai Lama a visa?
Given that China is South Africa?s biggest trading partner and given the close relationship between Beijing and the ruling African National Congress, it didn?t come as a huge surprise that South Africa was in no hurry to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama.? Blog?
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Lady Gaga, Madonna, Nicki Minaj Top 2012's Most Anticipated Albums
Mumford & Sons, Justin Bieber, Rick Ross also prepping new material.
By Gil Kaufman
Photo: Theo Wargo/ WireImage
The past 12 months have seen the release of monster albums from Adele, Lady Gaga, Drake, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj.
But the next 12 are promising to bring even more music from several of those artists, plus new albums from Mumford & Sons, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Paramore, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Maroon 5 and Green Day.
It's a bumper crop of major albums from some of rock, pop and hip-hop's biggest stars, who are returning from long breaks, hoping to follow up smash debuts or just trying to keep their momentum going.
While release dates are always subject to change, here are some of the most anticipated releases of 2012.
Pop:
Ironically, the status of new albums from the artists whose next moves everyone is most curious about are the ones most in the air. Rihanna tends to deliver a new album every 12 or 13 months, which means that she may have another disc in stores at the end of next year once the just-released Talk That Talk has run its course.
On the other hand, Lady Gaga has already begun talking about her follow-up to this year's Born This Way. Gaga recently told MTV News that she's already started writing songs and "all the concepts are beginning to flourish and take place." She didn't give a potential release date, only promising, "I'll put it out when it's done."
Katy Perry hasn't publicly spoken about what will come after 2010's smash Teenage Dream, but it's possible she could start work on new material in 2012 as well. We know for sure that Justin Bieber is planning to show his more mature side next time around, possibly even incorporating some EDM sounds into the mix.
It's been confirmed that Madonna hooked up with M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj for the single "Gimme All Your Luvin' " from her untitled forthcoming album, which will feature production from Ray of Light producer William Orbit.
Other artists who could release fresh material in 2012: No Doubt, Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, Christina Aguilera, Ke$ha and Nicole Scherzinger.
Hip-Hop:
Two titans of rap are cueing up fresh tracks for early 2012, with Nicki Minaj likely to get out of the gate first with her sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, due out on Valentine's Day. The disc will include first single "Roman in Moscow," which sees the Best New Artist Grammy nominee getting into the character of her alter ego, Roman Zolanski.
After the delay of God Forgives, I Don't due to a pair of seizures he suffered in October, Rick Ross is expected to come back strong as well. The Bawse has taken his convalescent time to work on a new track with Jay-Z.
Speaking of Jigga, fans may get a new record from him as well, considering he told MTV News he was cooking up fresh tracks way back when he first played us songs from his Kanye West collaborative album, Watch the Throne. In fact, Jay-Z said you might get solo albums from both men as well as the second Throne release.
Other artists that should have albums hitting stores in 2012: Nas, Frank Ocean, Slaughterhouse, Wiz Khalifa, the G.O.O.D. Music compilation, T.I., Big Sean, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Big K.R.I.T., Meek Mill and potentially two discs from Lil Wayne, I Am Not a Human Being II and Rebirth II.
Rock:
Some of rock's biggest guns are reloading for 2012, among them Green Day, who debuted some new tracks at a benefit show in August. The title of the follow-up to 2009's 21st Century Breakdown hasn't been announced yet, but some of the early songs slated for possible inclusion are "Nuclear Family," "Carpe Diem" and "Sweet 16."
U2 have reportedly been cooking up a number of potential new albums, logging sessions with Danger Mouse and working with French producer/DJ David Guetta, RedOne and will.i.am on a disc of dance-oriented tunes.
Prog rock revivalists Muse should also have some new material for us, with bassist Chris Wolstenholme promising in a recent interview that the sound on their sixth album will be "radically different" from 2009's The Resistance.
We may get something from Linkin Park, who are prepping the follow-up to 2010's A Thousand Suns, and Mumford & Sons. It's been two years since the British folk rock revivalists dropped their still strong-selling debut, Sigh No More, and they began giving fans a taste of some new material in the fall when they unveiled the majestic song "Ghosts."
After a rough year, Paramore have finally put the drama behind them and they're super-psyched to record an album free of tension and inter-band awkwardness. So far, they've already unwrapped the bouncy "Renegade" and "Hello Cold World," which bode well for their fourth full-length studio album.
Other rock acts slated to release new albums: the reunited Soundgarden, Foster the People, Neon Trees, Sleigh Bells, Silversun Pickups, Bruce Springsteen and All-American Rejects.
Which 2012 albums are you most excited about? Which ones did we miss? Let us know in comments below.
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LG Fantasy: Windows Phone Mango phone poses for photos in the wild
Unannounced and hitherto unseen in the wild, pictures of what?s being called the LG Fantasy have surfaced.
Papped by an XDA forum member who snapped it up ?from a tester developer in Romania,? the LG Fantasy looks nice enough - it is running Windows Phone 7.
Owing to the blurry quality of the snaps its hard to get a good idea of how its exteriors shape up. We particularly love the ?NOT FOR SALE? emblazoned across the bottom of the unit, especially considering how we came about getting hold of these images.
There?s not much in the way of specs, though it looks like the numbers on the camera unit read 5-megapixels on that third image. Though thanks to the blurrycam action, this could just as easily be 8-megapixels.
The former is a given, keeping in line with Microsoft?s stringent minimum requirements for Windows Phone phones, but we?d like to see something with a bit more beef to compete with HTC?s mighty Titan.
No word yet on whether that screen will feature IPS or NOVA technology; we?d love to see a 4.3-inch NOVA screen on the LG Fantasy. All we can do til now is sit and wait for the official announcement. If this Fantasy doesn?t become a reality at CES, we?d very much expect it to at MWC in 2012.
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Baseball Notes: Win for Fox on Dodgers TV rights
Fox Sports has won a significant victory in its effort to prevent the Los Angeles Dodgers from selling the media rights to future games.
A federal judge in Delaware on Friday granted Fox's request for an emergency stay of a bankruptcy court order allowing the sale process while he considers Fox's appeal of that ruling.
The judge also indicated that he likely will overturn the bankruptcy court's determination that certain protections given to Fox in its existing contract with the Dodgers were unenforceable in bankruptcy.
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Reds-Cubs trade
The Cincinnati Reds have acquired lefthanded reliever Sean Marshall from the Chicago Cubs for young lefty starter Travis Wood and two other players. The 29-year-old Marshall was 6-6 with a 2.26 ERA last season. He had five saves. Wood, 24, finished 6-6 with a 4.84 ERA in 2011, with a stint in triple A after struggling early in the year.
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Could a compound in fish oil cure leukemia?
A compound produced from EPA -- Eicosapentaenoic Acid -- an Omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils may help cure chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML. In their study, Penn State researchers found the compound delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3 honed in on and killed CML stem cells in mice.
Targeting stem cells as a cure for chronic myelogenous leukemia, which is one of four main types of blood and bone marrow cancer, is important because stem cells can divide to create more stem cells that in turn spread cancer.
Sandeep Prabhu, associate professor of immunology and molecular toxicology in the Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences at Penn State said, "Research in the past on fatty acids has shown the health benefits of fatty acids on cardiovascular system and brain development, particularly in infants, but we have shown that some metabolites of Omega-3 have the ability to selectively kill the leukemia-causing stem cells in mice. The important thing is that the mice were completely cured of leukemia with no relapse."
Robert Paulson, associate professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences, who co-directed the research with professor Prabhu, explains drugs taken for leukemia don?t cure the disease, but instead suppress the number of leukemia cells. Eventually, patients develop resistance to the drugs, which must be taken continuously.
According to the National Institutes of Health, the only known cure to date for CML is a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.
Symptoms of leukemia include easy bruising, petechial rash, enlarged spleen that manifests as pressure or a feeling of fullness under the left rib cage, low grade fever, weakness and fatigue and excessive sweating.
The disease has three stages ? chronic, accelerated and blast crisis. In the chronic phase, there are few symptoms. When leukemia accelerates, fever and other symptoms occur. During the blast crisis phase ? the most dangerous - that can occur if CML is left untreated, bleeding and infection can occur.
In the study, mice given approximately 600 nanograms of the fish oil compound D12-PGJ3 daily, for a week, were completely cured of the disease. They did not experience relapse and spleen size and blood counts returned to normal.
The researchers used the fish oil compound because it had few side effects. The next step is to see if the blast crisis stage of chronic myelogenous leukemia will respond to D12-PGJ3. The finding means there may be a cure for leukemia on the horizon, thanks to fish oil. The researchers are planning on testing the compound in humans.
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Santa left a lot of iDevices under trees this year. If you?re one of the lucky recipients, you?ll want to take a look at some of these AppLists and AppGuides. You?ll get plenty of ideas for apps you?ll want to grab to start your app addiction, I mean, collection!
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Kent-Meridian teacher, coach pleads not guilty to sex crime charge
By STEVE HUNTER
Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter
December 22, 2011 ? 11:53 AM
A Kent-Meridian High School teacher and coach pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to a charge of communication with a minor for immoral purposes for allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages to a 16-year-old girl at the school.
Ernie Ammons, 36, of Black Diamond, entered the plea in King County Superior Court at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Ammons, who coached boys and girls track and cross country at Kent-Meridian, was handcuffed, booked and fingerprinted and then released Thursday after he posted bail. Bail was set at $50,000.
Several girls and boys from the track and cross country teams and fellow teachers showed up in court to support Ammons, who taught health and physical education.
The Kent School District placed Ammons on paid administrative leave Nov. 8 when the allegations first came to the district's attention, said district spokesman Chris Loftis. Ammons has been removed from his coaching duties as head track and cross country coach.
The court ordered that Ammons be prohibited from teaching, coaching, volunteering or holding any position of authority over minors while the case is pending.
Ammons, who is married, is scheduled to return to court in January, although a date has yet to be set. At his next court appearance, Ammons could receive a trial date or attorneys could ask for more time to prepare the case.
If convicted as charged, Ammons could be sentenced up to one year in jail and fined $5,000, said Ian Goodhew, spokesman for the Prosecuting Attorney's Office. If convicted, Ammons also would have to register as a sex offender for a minimum of 10 years because it is a sex offense.
Prosecutors charged Ammons Dec. 8 after an investigation by Kent Police, who cited him at large on Dec. 6.
A series of text messages reportedly were exchanged between Ammons and the girl from June 27 through Nov. 6. In an Oct. 13 text message, Ammons asked the girl to meet him for sex in the school's weight room before school, according to charging papers. The two also exchanged messages about Ammons paying the girl cash for sex.
The case came to the attention of school officials in early November when a student at another school who knows the 16-year-old girl contacted Kent-Meridian Principal Wade Barringer about inappropriate conversations between a health teacher at the school and a student. The teacher was later identified as Ammons. School officials contacted the Kent Police.
Ammons led the Kent-Meridian boys track team to its first state track title last May when they captured the Class 4A meet. He has coached track and field at Kent-Meridian for eight years. He led the boys track team to a second-place trophy at state in 2009. He coached the school's cross country teams as well and helped lead the girls team to its first state appearance in November. They placed 16th.
Ammons also has worked as a volunteer assistant track coach since 2009 at Green River Community College in Auburn.
Ammons is the second South Puget Sound League coach charged with a sex crime by county prosecutors in the last month. Prosecutors on Nov. 16 charged Daniel Gregory Lum-Lung, who coached girls volleyball at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, with third-degree attempted rape in connection with a 15-year-old girl he met in October at Kent's Lake Meridian Park.
Lum-Lung pleaded not guilty Nov. 28 to the charge.
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4 out of 5 Australians Worry about Debt; New Reality - Owing More on Your Home Than You Own; Shocking Year for Corporate Collapses ; Merry Christmas to Those Down Under (935061)
Merry Christmas to all my Australian readers. Here is an economic roundup, with many links sent from Australian readers over the past couple weeks, especially Tony the "Brisbane Bear".
Boxing Day Sale Before Christmas
Boxing Day is traditionally the day after Christmas. Not this year, at least for all retailers.
Tony Writes ... "Talk about desperation! We are now having the traditional Boxing day sales before Christmas. This will not make any difference in the longer run as everyone is now so accustomed to deals that any retailer who doesn't offer substantial discounts won't get any business. It is a whole new paradigm in retail that will eventually spread to all sectors. Businesses with high fixed costs will go broke in droves."
Please consider Myer brings forward online 'Boxing Day' sale
December 23, 2011Treasurer Swan takes a potshot at 'whinger' Retailer Gerry Harvey
The annual Boxing Day sales need a new name, it seems.This year retail giant Myer will launch its annual post-Christmas shopping bonanza two days early, on Christmas Eve, for online customers.
Myer spokesman Steven Carey said more than 1100 new items would be available for purchase on the Myer website from 6pm tomorrow - the first time the company had launched its stocktake sale early online.
While some customers were expected to stick to the annual tradition of queueing outside stores on Monday to snap up a bargain, Mr Carey said more and more people were choosing to shop from the comfort of their own home.
??We?ve got to cater to both the online and the bricks-and-mortar customer,?? Mr Carey said.
It comes as electronics giant Harvey Norman, which has long complained about the rise of international online shopping, began selling computer games this week via a website in Ireland that lets Australian consumers avoid GST.
Chairman Gerry Harvey said the company had launched the initiative reluctantly. "We are not doing this with a great deal of joy. We have been able to do this for a long time, we have held off," he said. "But you get to a point where you can?t hold off."
Mr Carey said if Myer?s online experiment this year was successful, it could become an annual event.
Tony writes ..."The Treasurer and our biggest retailer are having a slanging match right on Christmas. The party is over and everyone is getting very, very agitated as they try to deal with the new reality."
Please consider Swan takes a potshot at 'whinger' Gerry Harvey
December 23, 2011Retailers Rocked as Debt Crisis Spreads
Treasurer Wayne Swan says it's just not Christmas if retailer Gerry Harvey isn't whingeing about soft sales.The co-founder of Harvey Norman has been highly critical of the rise of international online shopping, which he says is threatening Australian jobs and businesses.
Mr Swan defended the GST threshold on goods bought offshore, saying a Productivity Commission report into the issue found it wasn't the cause of retailers' woes.
"I can't remember a Christmas where Gerry Harvey wasn't whingeing," he told ABC Radio today.
"Back when we put the original stimulus package in place he spent a lot of time whingeing about that, but ultimately it did lift consumption in Australia."
Mr Harvey responded, saying he wasn't a whinger and just wanted to protect the whole retail sector, not only his business.
"To call me a whinger when you are poll-driven, that's just an illusion," he told ABC Radio.
He told Mr Swan: "I've been telling you and your government for a long time ... you have a major problem: the GST. You thought it was more important to think about the votes you were going to get."
Tony writes ... "Hi Mish. I have been saying for ages that we have cost structures set to boom time conditions with no way of lowering costs.
Panic is setting in. Prominent broker Charlie Aitken has warned that the industry has a cost base tailored for a boom year such as 2007, when volumes are more in line with 2002."
Please consider Retailers rocked as debt crisis spreads
December 20, 20114 out of 5 Australians Worry about Debt
THE nation's shoppers have firmly closed their wallets amid fears of a full-blown debt contagion in Europe, while Billabong shares were smashed by 44 per cent yesterday after the iconic surfwear company released a shock profit downgrade.The Billabong malaise extended to other discretionary retail stocks such as David Jones and JB Hi-Fi, as more than $30 billion was shed from the value of local equities.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports Most Australians worried about debt
December 19, 2011Here is a stat straight from the Twilight Zone: 82% are concerned about debt yet 29% of those worried want more credit.
Four out of five Australians are worried about their ability to meet future debt repayments, a survey shows.The biannual survey by data intelligence company Veda, found 82 per cent were worried about their ability to meet debt repayments in the future, up from 75 per cent a year ago.
The survey also found that one in five Australians was struggling to repay their current credit commitments.
However, about 29 per cent of this sub group were considering applying for more credit in the next six months, the survey found.
"It is concerning that there are people struggling with their current debt levels but are turning to more credit as the answer, potentially edging closer to a debt spiral," Veda senior adviser Matthew Strassbourg said in a statement.
New Reality - Owing More Than You Own
The Age reports on the "New Reality" Owing More on Your Home Than You Own
Rising property values have been an article of faith in the housing market for a generation of Australians who borrowed big as real estate prices marched ever upward.Tony writes "Hey Mish, Negative equity is a new buzz word slowly entering the lexicon."While the percentage of home owners with so-called negative equity remains tiny - about one in fifty of the 3 million households with mortgages - the number may well swell in 2012 if home prices extend their declines as some analysts expect.
The emergence of a sector of the housing market ??under water?? on their mortgages may hurt an already fragile real estate market. Any forced sales would obviously dent individual household wealth but further drops in home prices would deter investors from buying residential properties.
Yes indeed. For starters, I highly doubt that only 1-in-50 are underwater. Regardless, I expect that number to be 40-in-50 of those who bought or did a substantial cash-out refi in the last four years. I do not know what percentage that is, but I do know it is far more than 2%.
Shocking Year for Corporate Collapses
Tony comments "Hey Mish, panic is setting in as retail chains go broke daily. The banks are warning that next year will be very tough. It is a vicious cycle and it is gathering speed as panic spreads and people stop spending"
SmartCompany reports Tools chain Glenfords placed in voluntary administration
The shocking year for Australian corporate collapses has continued, with discount tools chain Glenfords now up for sale after being placed in voluntary administration last week.Talent Two and Billabong Shares SmashedThe sale of the chain comes as the do-it-yourself sector has reached a major transformation point, with market leading hardware chain Bunnings now battling the Woolworths-backed Masters chain.
Analysts have said mid-tier and smaller operators will slowly be pushed out of the market as Bunnings and Masters stores dominate areas once controlled by SMEs.
The construction industry has been one of the worst hit this year ? it suffers the highest number of insolvency appointments out of any sector. Glenfords has likely suffered alongside that drop in demand.
Tony writes ... "The interesting downgrade was Talent2, these guys have been very successful for a long time but it seems white collar jobs are drying up fast"
The Australian reports No 'ho ho' from Billabong, Talent Two
December 19, 2011Retail Malaise Spreads Like Wildfire
THERE'S no ho ho ho on the bourse today, as hopes for a consumer-led recovery evaporate as quickly as snow on an outback nativity set.Talent Two and Billabong -- smashed by 50 per cent and 37 per cent respectively -- tell two parts of the dismal story.
Talent Two, a leading recruiter, reported current-half earnings wouldn't come within cooee of expectations because of reduced hiring caused by ?fears of European contagion and the volatility of financial markets?.
Talent Two's full-year EBITDA is expected to come in at less than half the expected $30m or so, but the shares probably received an extra dollop of punishment because the ?market update? was issued at beer-o-clock on Friday.
Talent Two focuses on white-collar hiring, especially in the financial services sector where fearful workers rue their lack of skill at driving mining earthmovers or sealing S bends with O rings. It doesn't take a (still employed) rocket scientist to work out scared workers won't be buying electronic gizmos or surfwear, hence JB Hi-Fi's surprise downgrade last week (also after market close) and the ever-erratic Billabong's shocker this morning.
The Age Reports Myer to close or shrink stores as retail malaise bites
Last week, failed apparel retailer Fletcher Jones said it would close a third of its stores immediately and shed 61 staff as administrators try to revive and sell the company.Tony writes ...Myer stores at Tuggeranong in the Australian Capital Territory and at Forest Hill in Melbourne's east will close early next year. Others outlets will be shrunk when the shopping centres in which they operate are redeveloped.
Real estate stockbroking analysts suggested the Myer stores at Dandenong Plaza and possibly in Wollongong, south of Sydney, could also be closed.
It is not just the stores that are shrinking. Myer has already reduced the range of white goods, electrical items, DVDs and CDs it offers, and is also reducing the number and range of location devices such as GPSs in response to changed sales conditions.
Harvey Norman is following suit, shrinking the space devoted to electrical goods in response to a plummet in prices, which means the retailer has to sell many more television sets, for example, to make the same money.
Hey Mish.Spotlight on AustraliaMyer is probably our oldest and most respected retail department store. (I would guess Sears or Bloomingdale's would be US equivalents) they are in real trouble and are proposing closing stores and downsizing others.
Retail business models are broken (as are 1000's of other business models in various sectors) and reality is sinking in. It will be very ugly when people realise that there is literally no way out.
Wages are way, way too high and working conditions are way too generous and most all other overheads are way too costly. Throw in terrible industrial relations laws that this Socialist government has introduced and you have a recipe for disaster.
For those who think Australia can do no wrong and Australia is the place to be, need to take another look at Australian housing, Australian retail, and also the slowdown in China.
I contend things are going to get very nasty for those down under.?
Thanks for the Links - Merry Christmas
I get links from "Brisbane Bear" nearly every day and links from Bran in Spain nearly every day.
Indeed, I get links from all over the world every day and I appreciate them. Sometimes they stack up like this before I use them and sometimes I never use them. But I do appreciate them regardless.
Many times I get 30 or more emails on a story gone viral. I Typically do not respond to such articles or use them.
If you do send a link, my most common response is simply "thanks". I get hundreds of emails a day and often cannot say much more than that.
If I never respond (not once, but repetitively), I cannot use the stories you send, you are consistently late, or I have already seen them. Most often I will not use or respond to conspiracy theories.
Finally, to those who email every day, please note I may say "thanks" only occasionally.
Merry Christmas Australia (they are nearly day ahead of Chicago), and to everyone else too!
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Dr. Peter Breggin: The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children (Huffington post)
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Ethicist: 18th century 'giant' should be buried (AP)
LONDON ? The skeleton of an 18th-century celebrity nicknamed the 'Irish Giant' should be removed from a museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes, two experts have argued, reviving a debate about the ethics of handling human remains.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and legal researcher Thomas Muinzer said there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton of Charles Byrne, who died in 1783, and a strong moral case against it.
"What has been done cannot be undone but it can be morally rectified," the two men wrote. "Surely it is time to respect the memory and reputation of Byrne."
Byrne stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall as a result of acromegaly, a condition caused when a tumor on the pituitary gland stimulates an excess of growth hormone.
He became a celebrity in 18th-century London as the star turn in a museum of curiosities but died aged just 22.
Despite Byrne's wish to be buried at sea, his body was purchased by pioneering surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, who often hired grave robbers to supply him with corpses. For two centuries Byrne's skeleton has been on display at the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Museum in London.
Doyal, of London's Queen Mary University, and Muinzer, of Queen's University Belfast, said that while Byrne's skeleton had been of use to medical research, that was no reason to put it on public display.
"Moreover, now that Byrne's DNA has been extracted, it can be used in further research," they wrote.
The museum's director, Sam Alberti, conceded Thursday there was a "powerful moral argument" for respecting Byrne's wishes. But he said that was outweighed by the skeleton's continuing benefit to medical research.
"Patients with the condition today live long and much happier lives," Alberti said ? in part due to knowledge gleaned from Byrne's DNA.
Byrne's skeleton has helped scientists identify several dozen people in Ireland with the same genetic mutation ? all believed to be related to Byrne through a common ancestor.
One of them, Brendan Holland, says the skeleton should remain ? and he thinks Byrne would agree.
"What would his view be if he knew what we know now?" Holland said in a video for the British Medical Journal website. "He would almost certainly agree with my view that this is the right thing to do today."
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Online:
British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com
Hunterian Museum: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums
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Ethicist: 18th century 'giant' should be buried
In this undated image provided by the Royal College of Surgeons, the skeleton, left, of Charles Byrne, nicknamed "The Irish Giant," who stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall, and died in 1783 aged 22, is displayed in London's Hunterian Museum. Two experts are calling for the skeleton of the famous 18th-century giant to be removed from the museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes. Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and lawyer Thomas Muinzer say there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton and a strong moral case against it. Museum director Sam Alberti said Thursday Dec. 22, 2011 that the skeleton is still valuable to scientists, who have used Byrne's DNA to help develop treatments for the condition from which he suffered. (AP Photo/Royal College of Surgeons)
In this undated image provided by the Royal College of Surgeons, the skeleton, left, of Charles Byrne, nicknamed "The Irish Giant," who stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall, and died in 1783 aged 22, is displayed in London's Hunterian Museum. Two experts are calling for the skeleton of the famous 18th-century giant to be removed from the museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes. Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and lawyer Thomas Muinzer say there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton and a strong moral case against it. Museum director Sam Alberti said Thursday Dec. 22, 2011 that the skeleton is still valuable to scientists, who have used Byrne's DNA to help develop treatments for the condition from which he suffered. (AP Photo/Royal College of Surgeons)
LONDON (AP) ? The skeleton of an 18th-century celebrity nicknamed the 'Irish Giant' should be removed from a museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes, two experts have argued, reviving a debate about the ethics of handling human remains.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and legal researcher Thomas Muinzer said there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton of Charles Byrne, who died in 1783, and a strong moral case against it.
"What has been done cannot be undone but it can be morally rectified," the two men wrote. "Surely it is time to respect the memory and reputation of Byrne."
Byrne stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall as a result of acromegaly, a condition caused when a tumor on the pituitary gland stimulates an excess of growth hormone.
He became a celebrity in 18th-century London as the star turn in a museum of curiosities but died aged just 22.
Despite Byrne's wish to be buried at sea, his body was purchased by pioneering surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, who often hired grave robbers to supply him with corpses. For two centuries Byrne's skeleton has been on display at the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Museum in London.
Doyal, of London's Queen Mary University, and Muinzer, of Queen's University Belfast, said that while Byrne's skeleton had been of use to medical research, that was no reason to put it on public display.
"Moreover, now that Byrne's DNA has been extracted, it can be used in further research," they wrote.
The museum's director, Sam Alberti, conceded Thursday there was a "powerful moral argument" for respecting Byrne's wishes. But he said that was outweighed by the skeleton's continuing benefit to medical research.
"Patients with the condition today live long and much happier lives," Alberti said ? in part due to knowledge gleaned from Byrne's DNA.
Byrne's skeleton has helped scientists identify several dozen people in Ireland with the same genetic mutation ? all believed to be related to Byrne through a common ancestor.
One of them, Brendan Holland, says the skeleton should remain ? and he thinks Byrne would agree.
"What would his view be if he knew what we know now?" Holland said in a video for the British Medical Journal website. "He would almost certainly agree with my view that this is the right thing to do today."
___
Online:
British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com
Hunterian Museum: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums
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Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62
FILE - Essayist Christopher Hitchens speaks during a debate on Iraq and the foreign policies of the United States and Britain, in this Sept. 14, 2005 file photo taken in New York. Vanity Fair reports Hitchens died on Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus his magazine. The magazine reports he died in the presence of friends at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Chad Rachman)
FILE - Essayist Christopher Hitchens speaks during a debate on Iraq and the foreign policies of the United States and Britain, in this Sept. 14, 2005 file photo taken in New York. Vanity Fair reports Hitchens died on Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus his magazine. The magazine reports he died in the presence of friends at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Chad Rachman)
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2010 file photo taken from video author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens speaks during an appearance in Birmingham, Ala. Vanity Fair reports Hitchens died on Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus his magazine. The magazine reports he died in the presence of friends at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
Cancer weakened but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.
"I love the imagery of struggle," he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. "I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient."
Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer, according to a statement from Vanity Fair magazine. He was 62.
"There will never be another like Christopher. A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar," said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. "Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls."
He had enjoyed his drink (enough to "to kill or stun the average mule") and cigarettes, until he announced in June 2010 that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus.
He was a most engaged, prolific and public intellectual who wrote numerous books, was a frequent television commentator and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Slate and other publications. He became a popular author in 2007 thanks to "God Is Not Great," a manifesto for atheists.
"Christopher Hitchens was everything a great essayist should be: infuriating, brilliant, highly provocative and yet intensely serious," said Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. "I worked as an intern for him years ago. My job was to fact check his articles. Since he had a photographic memory and an encyclopedic mind, it was the easiest job I've ever done."
Long after his diagnosis, his columns and essays appeared regularly, savaging the royal family, reveling in the death of Osama bin Laden or pondering the letters of poet Philip Larkin. He was intolerant of nonsense, including about his own health. In a piece that appeared in the January 2012 issue of Vanity Fair, he dismissed the old saying that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
"So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion," he wrote. "It is our common fate. In either case, though, one can dispense with facile maxims that don't live up to their apparent billing."
Eloquent and intemperate, bawdy and urbane, Hitchens was an acknowledged contrarian and contradiction ? half-Christian, half-Jewish and fully nonbelieving; a native of England who settled in America; a former Trotskyite who backed the Iraq war and supported George W. Bush. But his passions remained constant and targets of his youth, from Henry Kissinger to Mother Teresa, remained hated.
He was a militant humanist who believed in pluralism and racial justice and freedom of speech, big cities and fine art, and the willingness to stand the consequences. He was smacked in the rear by then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and beaten up in Beirut. He once submitted to waterboarding to prove that it was indeed torture.
Hitchens was a committed sensualist who abstained from clean living as if it were just another kind of church. In 2005, he recalled a trip to Aspen, Colo., and a brief encounter after stepping off a ski lift.
"I was met by immaculate specimens of young American womanhood, holding silver trays and flashing perfect dentition," he wrote. "What would I like? I thought a gin and tonic would meet the case. 'Sir, that would be inappropriate.' In what respect? 'At this altitude gin would be very much more toxic than at ground level.' In that case, I said, make it a double."
An emphatic ally and inspired foe, he stood by friends in trouble ("Satanic Verses" novelist Salman Rushdie) and against enemies in power (Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini). His heroes included George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Gore Vidal (pre-Sept. 11). Among those on the Hitchens list of shame: Michael Moore; Saddam Hussein; Kim Jong Il; Sarah Palin; Gore Vidal (post Sept. 11); and Prince Charles.
"We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant," Hitchens wrote in Slate in 2010 after the heir to the British throne gave a speech criticizing Galileo for the scientist's focus on "the material aspect of reality."
"He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way. But this latest departure promotes him from an advocate of harmless nonsense to positively sinister nonsense."
Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949. His father, Eric, was a "purse-lipped" Navy veteran known as "The Commander"; his mother, Yvonne, a romantic who later killed herself during an extramarital rendezvous in Greece. Young Christopher would have rather read a book. He was "a mere weed and weakling and kick-bag" who discovered that "words could function as weapons" and so stockpiled them.
In college, Oxford, he made such longtime friends as authors Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, and claimed to be nearby when visiting Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton did or did not inhale marijuana. Radicalized by the 1960s, Hitchens was often arrested at political rallies, was kicked out of Britain's Labour Party over his opposition to the Vietnam War and became a correspondent for the radical magazine International Socialism. His reputation broadened in the 1970s through his writings for the New Statesman.
Wavy-haired and brooding and aflame with wit and righteous anger, he was a star of the left on paper and on camera, a popular television guest and a columnist for one of the world's oldest liberal publications, The Nation. In friendlier times, Vidal was quoted as citing Hitchens as a worthy heir to his satirical throne.
But Hitchens never could simply nod his head. He feuded with fellow Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn, broke with Vidal and angered freedom of choice supporters by stating that the child's life begins at conception. An essay for Vanity Fair was titled "Why Women Aren't Funny," and Hitchens wasn't kidding.
He had long been unhappy with the left's reluctance to confront enemies or friends. He would note his strong disappointment that Arthur Miller and other leading liberals shied from making public appearances on behalf of Rushdie after the Ayatollah Khomeini called for his death. He advocated intervention in Bosnia and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Rushdie posted on his Twitter page early Friday: "Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops."
No Democrat angered him more than Clinton, whose presidency led to the bitter end of Hitchens' friendship with White House aide Sidney Blumenthal and other Clinton backers. As Hitchens wrote in his memoir, he found Clinton "hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics."
He wrote the anti-Clinton book, "No One Left to Lie To," at a time when most liberals were supporting the president as he faced impeachment over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Hitchens also loathed Hillary Rodham Clinton and switched his affiliation from independent to Democrat in 2008 just so he could vote against her in the presidential primary.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, completed his exit. He fought with Vidal, Noam Chomsky and others who either suggested that U.S. foreign policy had helped cause the tragedy or that the Bush administration had advanced knowledge. He supported the Iraq war, quit The Nation, backed Bush for re-election in 2004 and repeatedly chastised those whom he believed worried unduly about the feelings of Muslims.
"It's not enough that faith claims to be the solution to all problems," he wrote in Slate in 2009 after a Danish newspaper apologized for publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that led Muslim organizations to threaten legal action. "It is now demanded that such a preposterous claim be made immune from any inquiry, any critique, and any ridicule."
His essays were compiled in such books as "For the Sake of Argument" and "Prepared for the Worst." He also wrote short biographies/appreciations of Paine and Thomas Jefferson, a tribute to Orwell and "Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)," in which he advised that "only an open conflict of ideas and principles can produce any clarity." A collection of essays, "Arguably," came out in September 2011 and he was planning a "book-length meditation on malady and mortality." He appeared in a 2010 documentary about the topical singer Phil Ochs.
Survived by his second wife, author Carol Blue, and by his three children (Alexander, Sophia and Antonia), Hitchens had quotable ideas about posterity, clarified years ago when he saw himself referred to as "the late" Christopher Hitchens in print. For the May 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, before his illness, Hitchens submitted answers for the Proust Questionnaire, a probing and personal survey for which the famous have revealed everything from their favorite color to their greatest fear.
His vision of earthly bliss: "To be vindicated in my own lifetime."
His ideal way to die: "Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around)."
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Kwame Brown agrees to one-year deal with Warriors
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Free agent center Kwame Brown has agreed to terms on a one-year, $7 million contract with the Golden State Warriors.
Agent Mark Bartelstein says the offer in Golden State was "too good to pass up."
The loss of Brown leaves the Bobcats with a hole at center. Gana Diop, who is coming off a torn Achilles tendon, is the only center on the Bobcats roster.
Bartelstein says Brown is "extremely grateful" for the opportunity the Bobcats gave him, adding that "it was a huge step to come back and play for Michael."
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Fugitive 'Red Shirt' leader surrenders in Thailand (AP)
BANGKOK ? A fugitive leader of Thailand's "Red Shirts" protesters who escaped a police raid by rappelling down a hotel facade in a scene captured by network news teams surrendered Wednesday after 20 months on the run.
Arisman Pongruangrong, a pop singer-turned-activist known for hotheaded speeches that sometimes were interpreted as incitements to arson, faces five serious charges that include terrorism. He denied wrongdoing, and said he was turning himself in because he now has confidence in the country's judicial system.
"I only called for democracy, not the destruction of anyone or anything, but now there is no more necessity to stage a rally because we have a government that comes from the people's voice," said Arisman.
The Red Shirts movement opposed the government of then-Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and generally supported former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who had been ousted in a 2006 military coup.
Thailand's new government, led by the sister of the still-fugitive Thaksin, is considered closely aligned with the Red Shirt protesters, though Arisman denied that his surrender was timed to seek lenient treatment under the new administration.
Arisman said he had fled for his safety and spent some of his time in Cambodia since going into hiding after a major government crackdown on a Red Shirt encampment in central Bangkok in May 2010, which capped several months of violence that left 90 people dead.
He surrendered to authorities Wednesday in Bangkok, where the Criminal Court denied his request for release on bail, noting he took so long to surrender and he might flee.
Arisman became a minor folk hero in April 2010 when, already facing several charges, he escaped a police raid on his hotel room by being lowered from a third-story ledge with a rope looped around his waist into a waiting crowd of cheering supporters who led him to a getaway car.
His reappearance in Bangkok was a reminder of the schisms in Thai society that were opened by the 2006 coup. Thaksin's supporters and opponent have contended in the polls and in the streets for power.
Thaksin himself is in exile avoiding a jail term for corruption, but he and his supporters say his conviction was politically inspired and are seeking a way to have him return home as a free man.
Thaksin's critics threaten new protests and legal action if the current government moves to help him. Yingluck Shinawatra became prime minister in August after her pro-Thaksin party bested the rival Democrats in a general election.
From March to May 2010, the "Red Shirts" had staged increasingly aggressive street protests as they unsuccessfully sought to force out Abhisit's government.
When the demonstrations were quashed by the military, activists torched three dozen major buildings in Bangkok, including a shopping mall that suffered serious damage. Many critics pointed to speeches by Arisman as the inspiration for those arson attacks.
Most Red Shirt leaders surrendered during the crackdown and also faced criminal charges. They were granted bail this year and still await trial.
A small crowd of Red Shirts gathered to offer support as Arisman turned himself in at the office of the Department of Special Investigations, Thailand's FBI.
Arisman said he believed the country's situation had returned to normal and that he wanted to see reconciliation in accordance with the call for national unity made by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in his birthday speech on Monday.
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UK leader wants health service to help industry (AP)
LONDON ? Britain's publicly-funded National Health Service should share all patient data anonymously with private health care companies to boost innovation in a key U.K. industry, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.
Cameron's proposal was part of an ambitious plan to make the public health service work more closely with the pharmaceutical industry, which he said can speed up patient access to new drugs and drive growth in the life sciences sector. But some lawmakers and campaigners oppose the plan, warning that patient privacy may be compromised.
"The aims are laudable ... but the methods of doing this are not at all acceptable," said Joyce Robbins of the charity Patient Concern. "This data is absolutely private ? it is not the government's to give."
Cameron said that he wants to change the National Health Service constitution so that data on all patients would by default be made available for research anonymously unless individuals choose not to have their information released.
"The end result will be that every willing patient is a research patient and every time you use the NHS you are playing a part in the fight against disease at home and around the world," he said in a speech.
He also said the government would invest 180 million pounds ($282 million) to shorten the period between the development of new drugs and their use, which can take many years. In addition, he proposed allowing the NHS to make early use of experimental drugs which have not passed all regulatory clearances to treat patients in the advanced stages of diseases like cancer.
Closer collaboration with life science companies could mean giving them more freedom to run clinical trials inside hospitals, as well as access to anonymous patient records.
Private companies can currently access a limited amount of anonymous NHS patient information from a database, consented to by patients at the beginning of treatment. Such data-sharing is restricted to certain projects and subject to strict safeguards, a Department of Health spokesman said.
Academics and major pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline PLC welcomed the prime minister's speech, saying the plans will boost pharmaceutical investment in the U.K.
"The actions on research and manufacturing will further strengthen the attractiveness of the U.K.," the company said in a statement, adding that the proposals "should ensure that the NHS is a stronger adopter of innovative medicines and technology."
But many medical charities and groups said that while research using anonymous patient data is crucial in treating diseases, such data could still include age profiles and post codes to trace back to the identity of patients concerned.
If strict safeguards were not put in place, it "could mean that details of an individual's health status and treatment will be revealed if researchers are able to search through records and identify patients in order to contact them," the British Medical Association said in a statement.
Campaigners may have reason to be worried. NHS hospitals and trusts have lost thousands of patient medical records on several occasions in the past, with the data breaches including staff losing laptops and faxing details of patients' records to the wrong number.
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