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Friday, July 26, 2013
Owner of burning Gulf rig considers relief well
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? The owner of a drilling rig that's ablaze in the Gulf of Mexico says it may drill a relief well as part of a plan to control the natural gas well that blew wild.
A news release from Hercules Offshore Inc. says the relief well is among the options being considered.
It says it's also trying to find out why the well blew and then caught fire, but its first focus is cutting off the flow of natural gas.
Officials stressed that Tuesday's blowout won't be nearly as damaging as the 2010 BP oil spill. Hercules says all 44 workers on the jackup rig were rescued without injury.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/owner-burning-gulf-rig-considers-relief-well-151346610.html
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Endangered Plants for Sale Online: Are They Legal?
A young Pritchardia remota plant.
Did you know that it is often legal to buy and sell endangered species of plants through the mail? It?s true. Take, for example, the rare Hawaiian palm tree Pritchardia remota, one of several species collectively known as lou?lu. The tree, like many in its genus, is listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but right now there are several for sale on eBay. If those sellers have the right permit, then their sales are both legal and within the goals and scopes of the Endangered Species Act. Unfortunately, new research finds that the commercial trade of endangered plant species rarely lives up to law.
Plant sales and private cultivation are actually encouraged under the ESA, which recognizes that commercial propagation is often essential to the survival of listed species. Individuals can collect endangered plants from the wild (as long as they don?t do it from federal land), raise them and sell either whole plants or seeds. The ESA does have one requirement: sellers must apply for a $100 permit (pdf) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) if plants are sold across state lines.
But the first in-depth study of online plant sales has found that many if not most sellers appear to lack this essential permit. The study?conducted by researchers at University of Notre Dame and published May 28 in Conservation Letters?found 49 federally listed plant species for sale on the Internet on eBay and other sites. The researchers, who conducted their searches between October 2009 and January 2011, then compared the listings with permit notices published in the Federal Register. They found that only four sellers, two of which were conservation organizations, had obtained the necessary interstate commerce permits. The remaining sellers all appeared to lack the permit.
Lead researcher Patrick Shirey, a Ph.D. candidate at Notre Dame?s Department of Biological Sciences, first observed this phenomenon while working on an earlier paper about human-assisted colonization of threatened plants under the ESA, which was published in Conservation Letters in December 2009. When researching that paper, he says, ?we noticed that the sellers of Tennessee coneflower and Virginia roundleaf birch didn?t advertise the required permit when offering plants for sale. We wanted to know if commercial trade was common for other listed plants.?
The researchers studied hundreds of plant species, including 753 on the ESA and dozens more that are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). While many of the plants offered for sale were obviously from cultivated populations, they did observe many species that have been threatened by over-collecting from wild populations. They did not track actual completed financial transactions, only plants offered for sale, nor did they look at sales that did not cross state borders, which would not have required the ESA permit. (Each state has its own laws regarding what plants can and can?t be sold within its borders.)
Shirey and his researchers wrote that collaboration between federal agencies, nurseries and individual plant collectors could help to preserve rare species, but it may require more regulation than exists today. ?I would like to see more collaboration between public and private interests for the benefit of these endangered species,? Shirey says. He points to Australia?s critically endangered Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) as a good example. The tree has fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, but botanical gardens have propagated it worldwide, and some of the money raised from selling the plants goes into conserving the wild population. A similar program could work, he suggests, with the ESA-listed star cactus (Astrophytum asterias). ?Sales of cultivated star cactus are common? ? with and without FWS permits ? ?but profits do not support wild populations like the sales of Wollemi pine.? Meanwhile, the federal government spent more than $64,000 in fiscal year 2011 (pdf) to study and protect the star cactus in the wild.
Shirey and his fellow researchers indicate that private cultivation of endangered plants does more good than harm, and he points out that buyers who are aware of this issue should be able to tell if an online seller has the correct permit. ?The few sellers that have the permit advertise on their website or with the listing that they do so. For example, Sunlight Gardens sells the threatened Cumberland rosemary (Conradina verticillata), and they give their FWS permit number with the listing. They also send a photocopy of their FWS permit with their order.?
Gavin Shire, public affairs specialist with FWS, told me how important individuals are to plant conservation. ?Some 75 percent of endangered and threatened plant species occur to some extent on private lands, and so their conservation can be significantly affected by activities in those habitats. Private landowners and other citizens can have a positive impact on rare plant conservation, and we encourage them to contact their local Fish and Wildlife Service office, and their State Natural Heritage Program to learn more about what they can do to help.?
As for the sellers operating without permits, they might want to think about spending that $100 to get their affairs in order. Anyone convicted of selling endangered plants without the right permits could face a maximum of one year in prison and a $50,000 fine.
Oh, and by the way, I asked one of the eBay sellers currently selling Pritchardia remota plants if they had the FWS permit. I still await a reply.
Photo: A young Pritchardia remota plant photographed by Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, via Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Marsden Park Golf Club, Lancashire
Nelson, Lancashire
Pay-and-play at this brilliant East Lancashire layout
Offering reasonable prices and stunning views over East Lancashire and Pendle Hill, Marsden Park is a must-visit club for players of all abilities.
18 midweek holes can be had for as little as ?13, while even a weekend round will never cost you more than ?15. Nine-hole packages are also available for less than ?10.
But do not let the prices fool you. The course is crafted into nearly 6,000 yards of attractive semi-parkland and boasts a collection of holes that would grace a far dearer course.
Take the signature 17th, for instance. Also the toughest on the course, the 363-yard par-four features a drive over mature trees as well as a sloping fairway and out of bounds stretch. To make matters trickier, the elevated green is guarded by a bunker and a severe slope to the right of the putting surface.
The course is crafted into nearly 6,000 yards of attractive semi-parkland and boasts a collection of holes that would grace a far dearer course.
Other notable holes include the drivable par-four fourth and the 16th ? known as ?Cardiac Hill? due to the severe upwards slope you have to navigate ? which requires two of your very best hits to reach the green.
Away from the course, the club boasts spacious function facilities which can be hired free of charge. The room is big enough to seat 40 people or 70 if standing, while a range of catering options are available to suit any need or budget, from hot and cold buffets to a three-course meal.
The club also boasts a well-stocked pro shop that stock a range of top brands including Titleist, Ping, Cobra, Callaway, Galvin Green, Footjoy and Taylormade.
Visitor and society packages are available to help you make the most of your stay in the region. ?
Source: http://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/courses/articles/lancashire-golf-courses-marsden-park.html
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Oil little changed as market eyes supply data
NEW YORK (AP) ? The price of oil was little changed Tuesday as the market awaits the latest data on U.S. crude oil and gasoline supplies.
By early afternoon in New York, benchmark crude for September delivery was down 5 cents at $106.89 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The government's weekly report on America's inventories of crude is expected to show another drop in supplies. Falling supplies helped propel the price of oil to a 16-month high before the price dropped by $1.14 a barrel Monday.
A survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., shows analysts expect a decline in crude oil inventories of 2.6 million barrels for the week ended July 19. That would bring the four-week drop to nearly 30 million barrels.
The American Petroleum Institute will release its report on oil stocks later Tuesday, while the report from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration ? the market benchmark ? will be out on Wednesday.
At the pump, the average price for a gallon of gasoline held steady at $3.67. That's up 10 cents from a month ago and 20 cents higher than at this time last year.
Brent crude, traded on the ICE Futures exchange in London, was up 24 cents at $108.39 a barrel.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
? Wholesale gasoline rose 2 cents to $3.07 a gallon.
? Heating oil was flat at $3.07 a gallon.
? Natural gas gained 6 cents to $3.74 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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AP Writer Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.
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Improve The Exterior Of Your Home With These Handy Landscaping ...
Does looking at your yard make want to run, or sit and enjoy a lemonade? A lot of people believe they don?t have time or money to make their yards look great. In reality it can be easy and cost effective when you know the right way to do it. Take a look at the helpful ideas below.
Think about making a drawing of your prospective landscaping project before you begin the work. Drawing it out may help you to get a better mental picture of the finished project and will let you know which materials may be most suitable. Besides, it is always easier to modify your sketch rather than the actual lawn or garden.
Native Plants
Use native plants when landscaping your yard. It?s easier to take care of native plants because they are adapted to the climate and soil type in your yard. This means they?ll be a low-maintenance plant in any yard. You could find more info on plants that are local to your area at any gardening store in your region.
Before beginning your project, be sure to learn the difference between plants?annuals and perennials, hardiness zones, bulbs and seeds. Keep the seasons in mind as you landscape. It is imperative that you think about these things before planting so that your landscape is successful.
TIP! Before you begin your landscaping project, be sure to make a complete listing of materials required. It is terrible to start a project, only to realize that you don?t have an essential tool required to do the job.
Before you begin your project, you should make sure that you have a list of the things you need to complete your project so that you are not running back and forth to home improvement stores. It is quite discouraging to have to postpone your project until you go back to the store for a single tool.
Granite is an excellent material to use for an outdoor kitchen. While it may cost less with marble or a similar material, granite is good because you place very hot things on it and does not require much maintenance.
You can produce an impressive multi-seasonal garden by putting a little extra thought into your plant selections. Consider using plants that have different seasons for blooming so that you have color year round in your geographic location. Keep your property beautiful throughout the year with trees that provide vibrant foliage or pines and evergreens that maintain their color in cold weather.
Quality Items
Whenever you can afford it, always purchase quality products. Most home improvement discount retailers only offer lower quality items. Go to a store that specializes in landscape design where you can get top-notch products and helpful advice from their workers. If you pay a premium for the higher quality items, it will pay off in the long run.
A lot of people never consider purchasing landscape supplies online. Not only is it simpler and more convenient to purchase supplies online, but you may have access to a wider variety of plants for your landscaping project that you could never find in a nearby retail store or nursery.
TIP! Consider existing structures before beginning any landscape project. Make sure to know where cables, gutter, sprinklers and other systems are placed so you do not disturb them when you are doing your landscaping.
You now understand what it takes to get the yard you desire. A lift in your mood can be achieved by stepping out the door, just from enhancing your yard. Coming home after work will be enjoyable, as you pull up to your newly renovated landscape. Your efforts will pay off.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
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The Samsung Galaxy S4?is an amazing phone, which is why it would be such a shame to accidentally destroy it during your summer travels. Fortunately, Samsung has come out with a special tougher and waterproof version of the S4, called the S4 Active. An exclusive with AT&T, this phone is ready to handle a trip to the beach and even a few drops along the way. You can check out our full review of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active.
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Loss of African woodland may impact on climate, study shows
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A more strategic approach to managing trees across Africa could have a positive impact on the changing climate, researchers say.
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Google's Motorola may unveil Moto X smartphone Aug. 1
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, dials on the yet to be released Google produced Moto X phone at the annual Allen and Co. conference in Idaho July 11, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Google Inc's Motorola division appears set to unveil its much anticipated Moto X phone on August 1 at an event in New York City.
Email invitations sent to the media on Friday displayed the Moto X name in bold letters. The invitation depicted several youths holding the Moto X, the first smartphone Motorola has developed since its 2012 acquisition by Google.
Motorola, which Google bought for $12.5 billion, has steadily ceded market share to Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co, with most of its latest phones garnering relatively lukewarm receptions.
The Motorola business has been a drag on Google's profit margins, with Motorola's second-quarter losses totaling $342 million.
A Web page to respond to the invitation said, "Come experience the new Motorola. No Stage. No crowds." The page asks guests to select one of several "sessions" to attend at different times at an address in mid-town Manhattan.
In May, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside said at the AllThingsD technology conference that the new Moto X phones would be built in the United States.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Autos troubles, race at root of Detroit collapse
Blue-collar workers poured into the cavernous auto plants of Detroit for generations, confident that a sturdy back and strong work ethic would bring them a house, a car and economic security. It was a place where the American dream came true.
It came true in cities across the industrial heartland, from Chicago's meatpacking plants to the fire-belching steel mills of Cleveland and Pittsburgh. It came true for decades, as manufacturing brought prosperity to big cities in states around the Great Lakes and those who called them home. Detroit was the affluent capital, a city with its own emblematic musical sound and a storied union movement that drew Democratic presidential candidates to Cadillac Square every four years to kick off campaigns at Labor Day rallies.
The good times would not last forever. As the nation's economy began to shift from the business of making things, that line of work met the force of foreign competition. Good-paying assembly line jobs dried up as factories that made the cars and supplied the steel closed their doors. The survivors of the decline, especially whites, fled the cities to pursue new dreams in the suburbs.
The "Arsenal of Democracy" that supplied the Allied victory of World War II and evolved into the "Motor City" fell into a six-decade downward spiral of job losses, shrinking population and a plummeting tax base. Detroit's singular reliance on an auto industry that stumbled badly and its long history of racial strife proved a disastrous combination, and ultimately too much to overcome.
"Detroit is an extreme case of problems that have afflicted every major old industrial city in the U.S.," said Thomas Sugrue, author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit" and a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "It's been 60-plus years of steady disinvestment, depopulation and an intensive hostility between the city, the suburbs and the rest of the state."
All of the nation's industrial cities fell, but only Detroit hit bottom. Staggering under as much as $20 billion in unpaid bills, Detroit surrendered Thursday, filing the single largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
"What happened in Detroit is not particularly distinct," said Kevin Boyle, a history professor at Northwestern University who has written extensively about his hometown. "Most Midwest cities had white flight and segregation. But Detroit had it more intensely. Most cities had deindustrialization. Detroit had it more intensely."
Detroit's first wave of prosperity came after World War I and lasted into the early 1920s, driven by the rise of the auto industry. "It was the Silicon Valley of America," Boyle said. "It was home to the most innovative, cutting-edge dominant industry in the world. The money there at that point was just staggering."
More affluence followed in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the auto industry was booming. Tens of thousands of blacks migrated from the South seeking jobs on the assembly line and a foothold in the middle class. In 1950, Detroit's population peaked as a metropolis of more than 1.8 million, making it the nation's fifth-largest city. The transformation was dramatic.
"You've got a vast city of working people who no longer have insecure lives, people with high school and less than high school degrees who can earn enough to buy a house, a car, a boat, and sent their kids to Wayne State University," Boyle said.
But by that time, Detroit's decline had already begun.
The auto industry had started to expand beyond the city and was building plants and putting offices in suburban and rural areas, and eventually sought refuge from the city's powerful unions in the nation's Sunbelt states and even overseas. Between 1947 and 1963, Detroit lost 140,000 manufacturing jobs, said Sugrue, the Pennsylvania professor.
A decade later, as Japanese auto imports started gobbling more of the U.S. market, the hemorrhaging of jobs continued. Membership in the United Auto Workers topped out at 1.5 million in 1978 and stands today at about 400,000, said Mike Smith, the union's archivist at Wayne State University's Walter Reuther Library.
"In a way, it's not unlike a small town that has a textile factory for 50 years, then all of a sudden it closes up and the whole town is decimated," Smith said.
It wasn't an uncommon plight: The cities that rose alongside Detroit came to be known as the Rust Belt.
Like Detroit, Pittsburgh was a community defined by its dependence on a single industry. But as steelmaking crumbled under pressure from foreign imports and the decline of the U.S. auto industry, the city's population dropped by more than 40 percent between 1970 and 2006, according to a 2013 report from the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
But during those years, Pittsburgh also forged a new identity around health care and technology. It retrained former steelworkers, invested heavily in higher education and launched a controversial campaign to redevelop more than 1,000 acres of industrial brownfields, replacing decaying lots with luxury homes, office and retail buildings, and 27 miles of riverfront parks.
Detroit's unraveling can't be blamed solely on the city's reliance on one industry that itself buckled. Some point to the city's political leadership and its reluctance over the years to make tough decisions.
"I think it (the fiscal disaster) was inevitable because the politicians in Detroit were always knocking the can forward, not confronting the issues, buying off public employees by increasing their pensions," said Daniel Okrent, a Detroit native who wrote a Time magazine cover story on the city in 2009. "They were always kind of confronting the impending crisis by trying to make it the next guy's crisis."
Racial strife also infected the city. Sugrue, the Pennsylvania professor, said some of the tensions surfaced long before the city's infamous 1967 riots. Two decades earlier, between 1945 and 1965, he said, there were more than 200 violent racial incidents of whites attacking blacks in Detroit and almost all stemmed from the first or second black families moving into an all-white neighborhood.
The migration of blacks into Detroit, which helped power its economic rise, was followed by an exodus of white residents for the suburbs. In the last decade alone ? from 2000 to 2010 ? Detroit lost about a quarter-million residents. The city's current population of roughly 700,000 is about 83 percent black.
"Unlike cities such as Chicago or Philadelphia, where segregation produced disinvestment in certain neighborhoods, the nature of segregation in Detroit meant that the entire city suffered disinvestment," Douglas Massey, a sociology and public affairs professor at Princeton, said in an email.
What's left is a Detroit defined by a barren landscape of deserted neighborhoods and abandoned buildings that overwhelms the very recent rebound in parts of downtown. The consequences of that population loss and segregation extend beyond the declining property values and erosion of the city's tax base. The result is an isolated city.
"The racial divisions between the city and the suburbs until very recently remained very hard and fast, creating an us vs. them mentality," Sugrue said. "There's very little political will ... by suburbanites and other parts of the state to provide financial support."
Indeed, it was the state's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, who ultimately pushed control of the overwhelmingly Democratic city's decrypted finances into the hands of an emergency manager and signed off from the state capital in Lansing to his recommendation that Detroit file for bankruptcy. There appears to be little appetite there for a bailout.
"Cities are less powerful in the federal government and state capitals that they were 40 years ago," Sugrue said.
For those directly impacted by the collapse, watching the deterioration of Detroit in recent years has been agonizing.
"The neighborhood is so different ? the street lights go off, there's more violence and gunfire, the elementary school I went to is closed and boarded up," said Sareta Cheathem, a filmmaker and screenwriter who has lived in Detroit all her 42 years. "I remember as a child winning the 'beautiful block' awards . just to see the decay is something that bothers me."
Cheathem said her 92-year-old neighbor was robbed last year and thieves have tried to break into her home and garage. "My heart won't let me leave," she said, later adding, "One more attack and I'm out."
As for the bankruptcy filing, Cheathem said that has been "gutwrenching" and leaves her wondering "Is it going to get worse? Can it get any worse?"
Or will it signal the beginning of Detroit's turnaround and comeback?
Boyle, the history professor, has reservations about what is actually possible in a place that's fallen so far.
"I don't think it'll ever come back to the city it once was," he said. "The bankruptcy is not in itself a solution. It will presumably clear the debt. Something will have to happen for it not to repeat this pattern five or 10 years from now. Hopefully this will make life livable in this city. I think it's doable. But I'm not sure there's the will to do it."
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Ted Anthony in New York, Kevin Begos in Pittsburgh, Jeff Karoub in Detroit and researcher Monika Mathur in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/autos-troubles-race-root-detroit-collapse-155001770.html
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Sangakkaras best in 350th game for Sri Lanka knocks South Africa out
Colombo ? Everywhere you turn in Sri Lanka there is a cricket "match" on the go. They have an insatiable appetite for the game and the locals couldn?t wait for Saturday?s opening ODI against South ...
TNA to give nominations to all constituent parties
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided provide nominations for the upcoming election in the Northern Province to representatives from all of its constituent parties and will contest in all 5 districts which make up the province.TNA parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran stated that the decisions were taken at a meeting held in Vavuniya this morning.Leaders of parties such as the Illankai Tamil ...
Three nabbed with over 12000kg refuse tea
Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel arrested three individuals transporting refuse tea in the Dawulagala and Kadugannawa areas today.The suspects were arrested during operation carried out by a team of officers from the Gampola STF camp, who discovered over 12,000 kilograms of refuse tea being transported in two lorries in Pethiyagoda and Welambada in the Dawulagala Police Division.A ...
VIDEO UNP wants Rs.15000 minimum pay hike for public
The United National Party (UNP) today called on the government to provide the masses with a salary hike of at least Rs 15,000 in the upcoming budget and warned of an uprising similar to that which recently took place in several Middle Eastern nations if it failed to do so. UNP MP John Amaratunga stated that there is an issue pertaining to the none payment of salaries to employees of the Sri ...
Health Min. foils plans to mix sleeping pills with toddy
Inquiries carried out by the Ministry of Health have uncovered that the large a consignment of sleeping tablets recovered from an individual in Kosgama recently was meant to be used for the manufacturing of liquor. The drugs were to be misxed with toddy by a relative of the suspect, the director of the Cosmetic Devices and Drugs Regulatory Authority (CDDRA), Dr. Hemantha Beneragama said.He ...
Highway to change Rebuilding of A9 highway symbolises development in North Sri Lanka
Little can explain the tremendous change in Sri Lanka like the A9. This crucial highway, connecting the Tamil North with the rest of the island, was ravaged by war, littered with mines and held by the LTTE for two decades - almost ensuring that the land held by the Tigers was actually a separate nation.Today, miles of gleaming surface stretch from the centre of the country all the way to Jaffna- ...
President summons 275 PS Chairmen
The Central Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided to take tough disciplinary action against local government members who have brought disrepute to the President, government and the party by their unwarranted actions, said the party General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena.President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided at the CC meeting at Temple Trees on Friday evening has ...
Woman held for illegal possession of python turtles and eagle
A woman has been arrested in the Kattankudy area for the illegal possession of a 10-foot-long python, 6 turtles and an eagle. The woman was taken into custody along with the animals, following a joint operation carried out by the police and wildlife officers. The woman was produced at court and released following a warning while the animals have been handed over to wildlife officers to be ...
Sangakkaras best in 350th game for Sri Lanka knocks South Africa out
South Africa by 180 runs in the first one-day international on Saturday. The veteran left-hander's 16th one-day century steered Sri Lanka to a commanding 320 for five after the hosts were sent in to bat in the day-night game at the Premadasa stadium. South Africa were shot out for 140 in reply, the innings lasting just 31.5 overs, to leave Sri Lanka with a 1-0 lead in the five-match ...
Sri Lankan woman attempt suicide in front of lover?s home
A Sri Lankan woman, aged about 23, consumed poison in front of her ...
Five held over kidnapping ransom attempt
Three army soldiers and one army deserter are said to be among five men arrested under suspicion of demanding a ransom of Rs 500,000 after kidnapping and threatening an individual. The suspects were arrested near the Makola Gale Temple after they abducted a person from Natuduwa, Enderamulla in an attempt to collect ransom money. Sapugaskanda Police said the suspects are being held and ...
Death of democracy and freedom of expression in Sri Lanka
by Pearl Thevanayagam (July 21, 2013, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Today marks 20 years of independent journalism among severe government censorship. Lasantha Wickrematunge was murdered for his daredevil style of reporting who dared to start Sunday Leader 20 years ago today with nary a penny to his ...
ENOC insists diesel cargo to Sri Lanka was as per specs
Emirates National Oil Co (Enoc) has said an investigation of its diesel cargo to Sri Lanka, which was alleged to be not as per contractual specifications, has found the shipment to meet all specifications, Gulf News has reported. "Further to the concerns raised on the gasoil cargo for Ceylon Petroleum Corp (CPC), Enoc would like to reiterate that independent sample testing undertaken has ...
Five Point Plan To Achieve Sustainable 8 Growth
Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy Sri Lanka needs to achieve five goals if it wishes to achieve a sustained 8% growth for the next 10 years, an economist said. Those are to have an unwavering strategic development plan for the next 10-15 years where economics takes precedence over politics; the need to get the country's macroeconomics right; improved productivity; education reforms and training in ...
Lone Battle By JKH
By Paneetha Ameresekere John Keells Holdings plc (JKH) drove up the market in the last two days of trading last week, buttressed by foreign buying on Thursday, and Sohli Captain and family, the stock's largest shareholder, the following day, sources told this newspaper. These gains are in the backdrop where the market slumped to its lowest turnover figure for the year to date on Wednesday ...
Poor Regulation Cause Of Collapses
Millan Christopher De Silva Apropos the article which appeared on the business pages of this newspaper in its last week's issue under the heading "Engineers, Architects Can Do The Job," CEO, MILCRIS (a construction management consultancy), Millan Christopher De Silva told this reporter that the reason why buildings are collapsing in India is not due to the fault of quantity ...
Rs. 3000 Paid For Perch Worth Rs. 100000 In Land Acquisitions
Sri Lanka has laws to protect "victims" of land acquisitions in the name of development, but a number of such victims don't know their rights. This was stated by National Water Supply & Drainage Board (NWSDB) Greater Kandy Water Supply Project, Project Director, P.H. Sarath Gamini. The occasion was a seminar on "private land acquisitions for development" organised ...
In Praise Of Big Companies
(From Left): Gayathri Gunaruwan, (Chief Economist ? CCC), Dr. Saman Kelegama, (Chairman, Evaluations Board), Samantha Ranathunga, (Vice Chairman - CCC) and Harin Malwatte, (CEO/General Secretary ? CCC) The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce's (CCC) "best corporate citizen's" award scheme is more suited for the larger corporates. The awards presentation to be held later ...
Sri Lankas external sector stable - Central Bank
Fishermen pull their boat to ashore after a night-long fishing expidition at the Nandikadal lagoon in the Mullaitivu district. The lagoon is rich in marine resources. Today the Mullaitivu district is a hive of activity following resettlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure facilities. Pic: Susantha ...
Moral Power Is A Corrective To Bad Government
The continued leaching of the opposition's support base can be seen in two of the three provinces in which provincial council elections are scheduled to be held. In both the Central and North Western provinceslocal level members of the opposition parties are lining up to obtain membership in the ruling power. They are presumably not anticipating an opposition victory, and are hoping by ...
Private Media Forced To Tow Govt Line ? Sumanthiran
TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran speaking at theSri Lanka Journalists' Trade Union forum last week.Picture by Saman Kariyawasam Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Member of Parliament M. A. Sumanthiran says some private media institutions are being forced to tow the government line in order to survive. Speaking at a discussion on a Code of Ethics for the Media organized by the Sri Lanka ...
No Constitutional Amendments Before September PC Elections ? Susil Premajayantha
UPFA General Secretary and Environment Minister Susil Premajayantha expressed confidence in recording victories at the forthcoming provincial council elections. He observed that the governing party would not name chief ministerial candidates for the elections, but would name group leaders. Referring to the proposed amendments to the 13th Amendment, Premajayantha said that the amendments would ...
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ENERGY Run/Walk Addresses Childhood Obesity
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Teach a Kid to Fish, a nonprofit addressing the issue of childhood obesity, hosted the ENERGY Walk and 5K in the Fallbrook Neighborhood on Saturday. A family festival was added to the fundraiser in its second year. The festival included massages, music, and activities for kids.
Participants could choose from a two-mile walk or a 10k trek through the Fallbrook neighborhood. Walkers say the 10K took them more than two hours to complete.
Dr. Karla Lester left her pediatric practice in 2008 to start the nonprofit.
?I watched the obesity epidemic evolve in my patients and I was diagnosing many of them at young ages with Type 2 Diabetes and high blood pressure and high cholesterol,? said Dr. Lester.
At 8:30 p.m., the public is invited back out for ENERGY After Dark, a 5K road race. It will also include live music from D*Funk and food truck vendors.
Teach a Kid to Fish partnered with Nebraska Sports Council for the walk/run to be held in conjunction with the Cornhusker State Games July 19-28.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Feds file civil charges against hedge fund giant Steven A. Cohen
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Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in this May 11, 2011 file photo.
Steven Cohen's long personal immunity to the accusations of insider trading that have circled his hedge fund and former employees has come to an end.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that Cohen would have to answer to claims that he failed to "reasonably supervise" two senior people at SAC Capital who have been accused of engaging in criminal insider trading. Cohen's case is not, however, criminal and the SEC doesn't accuse him of engaging in insider trading.
Instead Cohen will be accused in an administrative hearing of failing to supervise the wrong doers. Penalties, if any, would be determined through the administrative hearing. The SEC said they could include fines and a bar from the securities industry, which could mean the end for SAC Capital.
"Both portfolio managers provided information to Cohen indicating that they may have had access to inside information to support their trading," the SEC said in a statement. "In each case, Cohen received highly suspicious information that should have caused any reasonable hedge fund manager in Cohen's position to take prompt action to determine whether employees under his supervision were engaged in unlawful conduct and to prevent violations of the federal securities laws. Cohen failed to take reasonable steps to investigate and prevent such violations. "
The SEC said these trades allowed SAC to avoid hundreds of millions in losses.
(Read more: Social media reaction to the Cohen charges)
A spokesman for SAC Capital said: "The SEC's administrative proceeding has no merit. Steve Cohen acted appropriately at all times and will fight this charge vigorously. The S.E.C. ignores SAC's exceptional supervisory structure, its extensive compliance policies and procedures, and Steve Cohen's strong support for SAC's compliance program."
(Read more: SAC Capital's biggest positions)
A spokemsan for Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in Manhattan whose office is investigating SAC Capital, declined to comment on the SEC's action. Earlier in the week during the Delivering Alpha conference co-sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor, Bharara declined to comment on the SAC case, but warned that in general about financial cases "no one is too big to jail."
This might be viewed as a victory of sorts for Cohen. Although he has been accused of civil violations of securities laws, the charges are much less serious than those faced by his employees.
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Is sexual addiction the real deal?
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Controversy exists over whether what some mental health experts call hypersexuality, or sexual addiction, is a mental disorder at all. Now researchers have measured how the brain responded in people who admitted having problems regulating their viewing of sex pictures, and found their brain responses were not predicted by any of the indicators that were proposed for a diagnosis of hypersexuality.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
'Red 2': A little of oldsters in action movies goes a long way
'Red 2' stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich as senior citizens in a shoot 'em-up film.
'Red 2' stars Helen Mirren.
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Enlarge?Red 2,? the sequel to the surprisingly popular ?Red,? is a retread of something that wasn?t quite worth treading in the first place. The novelty of the first film was that it was an international thriller shoot 'em-up peopled by senior citizen movie stars.
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Many of them are back for more here, including Bruce Willis as retired black ops CIA agent Frank Moses, John Malkovich as his former sidekick Marvin, and Helen Mirren as sharpshooter extraordinaire Victoria. Anthony Hopkins turns up as a renegade weapons scientist who may know the whereabouts of a portable nuclear device, one of all too many MacGuffins in this mix.
Mary-Louise Parker is Frank?s ditsy love interest, and Catherine Zeta-Jones turns up as a Russian spy. Apparently nobody told her she should attempt a Russian accent. Korean martial arts movie star Byung-hun Lee, as the ?world?s best contract killer,? has a nice scene in which he fends off an entire squadron of attackers in a convenience store while handcuffed to a glass display case.
It?s nice to see oldsters cavorting in kaboom movies, but a little of this stuff goes a long way. Grade: C+ (Rated PG-13 for pervasive action and violence including frenetic gunplay, and for some language and drug material.)
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Sony Xperia ZR, 4.6-inch LTE smartphone that lets you shoot underwater
Sony Philippines just launched the Xperia ZR which is their first waterproof phone that allows you to shoot photos and videos underwater. Let that sink in for a bit. Don?t they have waterproof phones already?
Well it turns out that their past ?waterproof? phones are only water-resistant including the Xperia Z. The Xperia ZR is their first smartphone that is IP58 compliant so you can bring it underwater up to 5 feet for 30? minutes. It also has a dedicated camera button so you can freely take photos and HD videos underwater because we all know that touchscreen and liquid don?t really work well.
Waterproofing aside, the Xperia ZR is one fine-looking phone following the design concept of the Xperia Z family. It has a 4.6-inch HD Reality display for a whopping 323 ppi pixel density for a really good picture quality improved even more by the Sony Mobile Bravia Engine.
Powering the Xperia ZR is a last-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chip utilizing a 1.5GHz quad-core processor plus an Adreno 320 GPU running on Android Jelly Bean. It also has a generous 2GB RAM plus 8GB internal storage with room for more via microSD.
There?s a 13-megapixel camera with Exmor RS for mobile BSI light sensor at the back along with a camera software that reminds us of their Cybershot point and shoots. The front camera is stuck at VGA though so no HD Skyping through it. This phone supports LTE and also has NFC by the way so you?re not left out in terms of connectivity. Battery is rated at 2300 mAh battery.
The Sony Xperia ZR is already available this weekend with an SRP of Php25,990 and comes in Black and White (Pink and Mint Green aren?t expected to arrive). Box includes a pair of earphones plus a couple of NFC Smart Tags.
| Sony Xperia ZR Specs: |
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| 4.55-inch TFT HD Display, 1280 x 720, 323 ppi pixel density |
| Shatter proof and scratch-resistant glass |
| Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 |
| IP58 certified ? dust and water proof (up to 5 ft for 30 minutes) |
| 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon APQ8064 S4 (Krait) |
| Adreno 320 GPU |
| 2GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, microSD up to 32GB |
| 13.1 megapixel camera with LED flash, Exmor RS sensor for mobile |
| VGA front camera |
| HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.8 Mbps; LTE |
| Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot |
| Bluetooth 4.0, NFC |
| Android 4.1 Jelly Bean |
| Li-ion 2300 mAh battery |
| 131.3 x 67.3 x 10.5 mm |
| 138 g |
| SRP: Php25,990 |
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DNA links Boston Strangler suspect to last victim
BOSTON (AP) ? DNA tests confirm that the man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler did kill the woman believed to be the serial killer's last victim and was likely responsible for the deaths of the other victims, authorities said Friday.
Albert DeSalvo admitted to killing Mary Sullivan and 10 other women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964 but later recanted. He was later killed in prison.
The DNA finding "leaves no doubt that Albert DeSalvo was responsible for the brutal murder of Mary Sullivan" and it was "most likely" that he also was the Boston Strangler, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
Eleven Boston-area women between the ages of 19 and 85 were sexually assaulted and killed between 1962 and 1964, crimes that terrorized the region and grabbed national headlines.
Authorities said recently that new technology allowed them to test semen left at the crime scene of Sullivan's death using DNA from a living relative of DeSalvo's. That produced a match with DeSalvo that excluded 99.9 percent of suspects, and was the first forensic evidence tying DeSalvo to the nearly 50-year-old case.
To confirm the match, investigators unearthed his remains a week ago and said Friday that the odds that the semen belonged to a male other than DeSalvo were 1 in 220 billion.
"It's a great day. This is now full justice for my aunt, Mary Sullivan," said her nephew, Casey Sherman.
A lawyer for DeSalvo's family, Elaine Sharp, said last week that even a perfect DNA match wouldn't mean he killed Sullivan and suggested that someone else was present at the slaying. She said previous private testing on Sullivan's remains showed the presence of DNA from what appeared to be semen that wasn't a match to DeSalvo.
Police responded last week by saying the evidence used in private testing from Sullivan's exhumed remains was "very questionable."
Sharp also said in a statement that DeSalvo's brother and his nephew ? whom police secretly trailed to collect a family DNA sample from a discarded water bottle ? won't comment on the new DNA result because it hasn't been proven to be relevant to the question of whether DeSalvo raped and strangled Sullivan.
"There is no level of 'unprecedented certainty' as now claimed by the government," Sharp said.
But the idea that the DNA match doesn't identify DeSalvo as Sullivan's killer is bizarre, responded Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.
"It suggests that Mary Sullivan had consensual sex with Albert DeSalvo moments before another person who has never been identified sexually assaulted and strangled her to death, leaving no trace of his presence," Wark said. "Frankly, it defies everything we know about this case."
Sullivan was 19 when she died in January 1964, a few days after she moved from Cape Cod to Boston.
Law enforcement officials disagree about whether the same person killed all the women whose deaths became connected to the Strangler. DeSalvo went to prison for life for a series of armed robberies and sex assaults before someone fatally stabbed him in 1973.
F. Lee Bailey, a defense lawyer who once represented DeSalvo, said Friday that DeSalvo provided so many details that only the perpetrator would know that he became convinced that his client was the Boston Strangler.
He said it's fortunate that the DNA test was run because the failure to try DeSalvo for the 11 homicides led to speculation about the Strangler's identity.
Bailey said Friday's announcement shows that case detectives did good police work when they devised questions for DeSalvo that only the killer could answer correctly.
Sherman had once joined with the DeSalvo family in believing that Albert DeSalvo wasn't his aunt's killer, and even wrote a book on the case pointing to other possible suspects.
He said Friday that he thinks there will always be unanswered questions related to the Strangler case, but when it comes to his loved one's slaying, his family finally has a sense of closure.
"He's the killer of my aunt, which is all this has been about for me," Sherman said.
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Associated Press writer David Sharp in Portland, Maine, contributed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dna-links-boston-strangler-suspect-last-victim-151408665.html
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