Thursday, December 29, 2011

UK's Prince Philip To Leave Hospital

LONDON ? Britain's Prince Philip left the hospital Tuesday, after undergoing treatment for a blocked coronary artery.

Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's 90-year-old husband, spent four nights in the hospital recovering from a successful coronary stent procedure. He was taken to Papworth, a specialist heart hospital in Cambridge, on Friday after complaining of chest pains.

It was the most serious health scare suffered by Philip, who is known to be active and robust. He has continued to appear at many engagements, most recently taking a 10-day tour of Australia with the queen.

For the first time in years he was forced to miss the Royal Family's traditional Christmas festivities, which include attending a morning church service, viewing the queen's annual Christmas broadcast together, and a shooting party on Boxing Day.

Philip did not speak to reporters as he was driven away from the hospital in a Range Rover Tuesday morning, though he smiled and waved to those gathered to film his departure.

He will return to Sandringham, the queen's private estate in rural Norfolk, to join the queen and other royal family members, Buckingham Palace officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with policy.

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The Best Videos of 2011: Day 1

It's strange to think that, around this time last year, The Nexus was terrorizing John Cena, The Rock's return was a fanboy fantasy, "King Sheamus" was still reigning supreme, Dolph Ziggler was dating Vickie Guerrero and CM Punk was on commentary. Suffice to say, things went in a different direction in 2011, and as we cross over into 2012, WWE.com takes the next five days to review our 25 favorite moments from the long, strange trip of these last twelve months. Check back each day for five new videos and see if your favorites made our list.

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Not yet The Voice of the Voiceless and a few months away from the WWE Championship, The Second City Saint kicked off his 2011 by making a huge power play.

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880291624001|02:02WWE.com exclusive: HBK gets his ring from Vince McMahon

Shawn Michaels' long-anticipated induction to the WWE Hall of Fame was an emotional moment for the WWE Universe. But in this WWE.com exclusive, Mr. McMahon privately presents The Showstopper with a true token of his legacy.

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The mysterious "2/21/11" videos revealed the return of The Undertaker. Yet before he could address the WWE Universe, The Phenom was interrupted by another returning Superstar who had plans of his own.

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1168982486001|02:30Dolph Ziggler vs. "Bro-verine"

Who said celebrities are afraid to get their hands dirty? Raw guest and "Real Steel" star Hugh Jackman - yes, Wolverine himself - showed his mettle when he cold-clocked Dolph Ziggler in the #Face, costing the show-off?his match against Zack Ryder.

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979902170001|06:54When Little Jimmy Comes Marching Home

After weeks of imagined torment at the hands of ?Little Jimmy,? R-Truth interrupted Mr. McMahon and ?Stone Cold? Steve Austin to announce his secession in Richmond, Va.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Japanese designer of arty kitchenware Yanagi dies (AP)

TOKYO ? Sori Yanagi, whose designs for stools and kitchen pots brought the simplicity and purity of Japanese decor into the everyday, has died. He was 96.

The pioneer of Japan's industrial design died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital Sunday, Koichi Fujita of Yanagi Design Office said Monday.

Yanagi's curvaceous "butterfly stool," evocative of a Japanese shrine gate, won an award at La Triennale di Milano in 1957 and helped elevate him to international stature.

The work later joined the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Louvre museum in Paris.

Another typical Yanagi design was the stackable plastic stool, humorously called the "elephant stool," because of its resemblance to the animal's chunky feet.

The lines and curves of Yanagi designs were as distinctly Japanese as they were universal, winning him fans ? and a place in homes not only in Japan but around the world ? for his tea pots, ceramic cups and even the lowly whisk, which became artwork with his touch.

Yanagi chose design for his career after falling in love with the work of architect Le Corbusier while studying at a Tokyo fine art university.

Credited with paving the way on the international stage for younger Japanese designers, Yanagi also took up more monumental pieces, such as bridges and the Olympic torch, as well as a motorcycle and toys.

He supported Japanese traditional art throughout his life, and he served as head of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo, which his philosopher father founded.

Funeral arrangements were not being disclosed as the ceremony is for family and close friends. He is survived by his wife Fumiko and four children, Fujita said.

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Sony getting out of flat-panel TV venture with Samsung

TOKYO ? In a bid to streamline its money-losing television business, Sony said Monday it would sell its stake in its flat-panel joint venture with Samsung Electronics, letting go of more of its production capacity at a time when outsourcing has become the norm in the world of manufacturing.

Sony, the Tokyo-based technology and entertainment giant, which makes the Bravia liquid-crystal display televisions, said in a statement that it would sell its nearly 50 percent stake in the jointly owned manufacturer, S-LCD, to Samsung of South Korea for 1.08 trillion won, or $939 million.

Sony's exit from the joint venture, set up in Tanjeong, South Korea, in April 2004, would allow it to switch to less expensive outsourcing options that might allow it to resuscitate its struggling TV business. The only other LCD panels Sony manufactures are at its joint venture with Sharp, in which Sony owns a 7 percent stake.

Cutthroat competition in a peaking market is squeezing margins for TV manufacturers, especially Sony, which analysts have long criticized for high production costs.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Army wants Zardari out but not a coup: Military sources

Milita?ry source?s say coup would be unpopu?lar, not just with govern?ment and opposi?tion but most Pakist?anis too.

Military sources say coup would be unpopular, not just with government and opposition but most Pakistanis too. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE

ISLAMABAD:?Pakistan?s powerful army is fed up with President Asif Ali Zardari and wants him out of office, but through legal means and without a repeat of the coups that are a hallmark of the country?s 64 years of independence, military sources said.?????????

Tensions are rising between Pakistan?s civilian leaders and its generals over a memo that accused the army of plotting a coup after the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.

?Who isn?t fed up with Zardari? It?s not just the opposition and the man on the street but people within the government too,? said one military source who asked not to be named.

?But there has to be a proper way. No action is being planned by the army. Even if we tried, it would be very unpopular and not just with the government and the opposition but most Pakistanis too.?

The Pakistani military spokesman declined comment.

General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has pledged to keep the military out of Pakistani politics since taking over as army chief in 2007.

Any coup ? Pakistan has had three since independence in 1947 ? could further tarnish the military?s public image which has already taken a battering after the Bin Laden operation, widely seen in Pakistan as a violation of sovereignty.

But the army remains the arbiter of power and analysts say it has plenty of ways to pressure Zardari to step down, especially if a link is established between him and the memo, which sought the Pentagon?s help in averting a feared coup.

Businessman Mansoor Ijaz, writing in a column in the Financial Times on October 10, said a senior Pakistani diplomat had asked that a memo be delivered to the Pentagon with a plea for US help to stave off a military coup in the days after the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.

Ijaz later identified the diplomat as Pakistan?s ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani who denied involvement but resigned over the controversy. No evidence has emerged that the military was plotting a coup and the Pentagon at the time dismissed the memo as not credible.

Friction between Pakistan?s civilian government and military have bedevilled the nuclear-armed South Asian country for almost its entire existence, with the military ruling for more than half its 64-year history after a series of coups.

In the past, the army has asked Pakistani civilian leaders to resign and influenced judicial proceedings against them.

Haqqani?s resignation was seen by many analysts as further weakening the civilian government, which is already beset by allegations of corruption and incompetence in the face of many challenges, including a weak economy and a Taliban insurgency.

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Zardari returned to Pakistan this week from medical treatment in Dubai that raised speculation he would resign under pressure from the military over what has been dubbed ?Memogate?.

Although his position is largely ceremonial, he wields considerable influence as leader of the ruling party and his forced departure would be a humiliation for the civilian leadership and could throw the country into turmoil.

One of the military sources suggested that no direct action would be needed against the government because it had already made so many mistakes.

?If the government is digging its own grave, we are not going to look for spades,? the source said.

The military has reasserted itself after a November 26 Nato cross-border air attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the memo has also given it political ammunition.

In a statement submitted to the Supreme Court, which is looking into a petition demanding an inquiry into who may have been behind the memo, Kayani said it was a serious matter which required an investigation.

?We want anyone involved, be they in government or elsewhere, to be punished. But it is not for us to do anything. If the army moves to do anything it would have national as well as international repercussions,? said another military source.

?So that is not likely. Anything that has to be done has to be done by the Supreme Court.?

Officials from Zardari?s ruling party have played down friction with the military and say they don?t fear a coup.

But they fear that some judges in the increasingly aggressive Supreme Court dislike Zardari and could move against him.

?I am not bothered about the army. I think they are acting very sensibly and would not derail the system at the moment,? a senior ruling party leader told Reuters.

?The worry probably would be what the Supreme Court does. They look in a mood to manipulate things.?

The government?s anxiety over Memogate was highlighted in comments made by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday.

?Let me make clear to you today that there are intrigues, conspiracies afoot to pack up the elected government,? he said in a speech at the National Art Gallery.

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/310431/army-wants-zardari-out-but-not-a-coup-military-sources/

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Alabama woman arrested for ticket switching at Rome Walmart www.privateofficer.com


Dec 26 2011 An Alabama woman facing shoplifting charges in Rome was released from jail on Saturday.

According to Floyd County Jail and Rome police records:

Donna Kaye Seay, 41, of 469 County Road 389 in Crossville, Ala., was arrested by Rome police on Friday at Walmart, 2510 Redmond Circle, and charged with theft by shoplifting.

Seay is accused of switching tags and hiding merchandise to avoid paying for a $79.96 PS3 Rocksmith game, a Perry clothing combo and a Punisher clothing combo valued at $13.50 each, and $12 worth of red and gold Christmas bows.

Security notified police and Seay was arrested.

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New iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad For Christmas? We?ve Got Apps For You!

New iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad For Christmas? We?ve Got Apps For You!

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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Sunday, December 25, 2011

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"We Found Love" tops chart in milestone for Rihanna (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Rihanna's single "We Found Love" on Thursday held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the eighth straight week, making it the singer's longest-running No. 1 single of her career.

The Barbadian chanteuse's single overtook Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," which stayed at No. 1 for seven weeks earlier this year, and beat her previous top-selling singles, 2007's "Umbrella" and 2010's "Love The Way You Lie" featuring Eminem.

"We Found Love" is the lead single from Rihanna's sixth studio album "Talk That Talk," and the singer will wrap her last concert on her "Loud" tour in London on Thursday.

LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It," notched a seventh week at No. 2 on the singles chart, while Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain" held steady at No. 3, Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" climbed to No. 4 and Katy Perry's "One That Got Away" rounded out the top five.

(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

US: Mistakes led to attack on Pakistani soldiers

(AP) ? An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the airstrikes on two Pakistani outposts, the U.S. Department of Defense and a NATO official said on Thursday.

"The report says we recognize we made mistakes, and that mistakes were also made by the Pakistanis," said the NATO official, who could not be named because the Defense Department's investigation has not yet been made public.

"We have a lot of work to do to improve coordination, and we've already implemented steps to do that," the official said.

The Defense Department said in a statement Thursday that the investigation found U.S. forces ? given what information they had available to them at the time ? reacted in self-defense and with appropriate force after being fired upon from the direction of the Pakistani border in the Nov. 26 incident.

"Inadequate coordination by U.S. and Pakistani military officers operating through the border coordination center ? including our reliance on incorrect mapping information shared with the Pakistani liaison officer ? resulted in a misunderstanding about the true location of Pakistani military units," said the statement, which was released in Washington.

"This, coupled with other gaps in information about the activities and placement of units from both sides, contributed to the tragic result," it said.

NATO, Afghanistan and Pakistan forces use the joint border control centers to share information and coordinate security operations.

Since the Nov. 26 attack on the Pakistani military outposts on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in mountainous east Kunar province, a furious Pakistani government has shut down NATO supply routes to Afghanistan and thrown the U.S. out of its Shamsi Air base in southwestern Baluchistan province. The base was used to maintain drones used in strikes against insurgents hiding in safe havens in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan frontier.

"For the loss of life ? and for the lack of proper coordination between U.S. and Pakistani forces that contributed to those losses ? we express our deepest regret. We further express sincere condolences to the Pakistani people, to the Pakistani government, and most importantly to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who were killed or wounded," the statement said.

It added that the military's focus would now be to learn from the mistakes and "take whatever corrective measures are required to ensure an incident like this is not repeated."

"More critically, we must work to improve the level of trust between our two countries. We cannot operate effectively on the border ? or in other parts of our relationship ? without addressing the fundamental trust still lacking between us. We earnestly hope the Pakistani military will join us in bridging that gap," the statement said.

The NATO official said the incident occurred after a company-sized joint U.S.-Afghan commando unit operating in the Afghan side of the border in eastern Kunar province came under fire from the direction of the border. A company is about 150 troops.

The unit, which could not withdraw safely due to the nature of the terrain, then attempted to determine that the fire wasn't coming from anywhere near Pakistani positions, in order to avoid hitting them, the official said.

At that point "mistakes were made" because different mapping systems were used to determine the exact location of the firefight, he said. Discrepancies on how the border was marked on different maps led the unit to believe they could safely return fire. They then called in airstrikes from F-15 fighter bombers, Apache attack helicopters and an AC-130 Spectre gunship.

"There was also an element of mistrust that contributed to the mistakes," the official said, citing the report.

Associated Press

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How Is the Rise in Christmas? Popularity Being Handled in Israel?

Foreign migrant workers from the Philippines Celebrate an annual Christmas-Hannukah party in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Dec 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ? The founders of Neve Shaanan, a neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv, planned their streets in the shape of a seven-branched candelabra ? a symbol of their Jewish faith. Ninety years later, the streets are full of Christmas decorations, reflecting a flowering of Christianity in Israel?s economic and cultural capital.

Tens of thousands of Christian foreigners, most of them laborers from the Philippines and African asylum seekers, have poured into the neighborhood in recent years. They pray year-round in more than 30 churches hidden in grimy apartment buildings. But in late December, their Christian subculture emerges in full force in the southern streets of Tel Aviv, whose founders called it the ?first Hebrew city.?

On the Saturday before Christmas, the center of festivities was the city?s central bus station, a hulking seven-story maze of concrete. A plastic green fir spewed fake snow from its top in a shop near the main entrance. Christmas carols blasted from storefronts full of rice and noodles. Giggly young Filipino women took photographs with a Santa Claus figure to send to their friends and parents.

A few blocks north of the station, pastor Ruby Austria held her arms up and led prayers for 80 worshippers, most of them Filipino women, at a makeshift church on the third floor of an apartment building.

Women wept, clutching small children and singing along to Austria?s prayers and a keyboard accompaniment. Nearly all of them were in Israel illegally because they lost their work permits when they had children.

?God is embracing us,? Austria said. ?May we see the true meaning of Christmas, that each of us will be able to see it in our lives and family.?

Romeo Moralit, 35, arrived in Israel five years ago to work as a caregiver. He planned to buy a musical Santa Claus statue to bring cheer to his home, he said. Tel Aviv?s Christmas celebrations paled in comparison to Manila?s. ?In the Philippines you see decorations everywhere, twinkling lights, and songs playing in all the shopping malls,? he said.

For some, the holiday punctuates the divide between parents and children.

Nancy Domingo, who arrived in Israel 14 years ago from the Philippines, said her eldest daughter did not plan on eating traditional Filipino Christmas food. The 7-year-old, like the other children of migrant workers here, has grown up steeped in Israeli Jewish culture. The girl speaks Hebrew, learns about Jewish holidays in school and is familiar with Jewish dietary laws, such as the ban on pork.

?If I cook pork she won?t eat it because in school they tell her pork is not clean,? Domingo said. ?She doesn?t know Christmas, only Hanukkah.?

Nearby, a mostly African church called Lift Up Your Head, runs an annual trip to Jerusalem?s Old City and Bethlehem. Tour organizer Anthony Stephens, a Nigerian asylum seeker, said 150 people have signed up.

?People from all over the world spend a lot of money to come here, but for us it is like a gift because we are in the land,? said Stephens.

Lift Up Your Head is sandwiched between two other African congregations on the first and third floors of an apartment building. These churches offer African-inflected gospel music, dancing in the aisles and fiery preaching that holds together an impoverished group far from home. On Saturday, pastor Jeremiah Dairo howled into a microphone between songs.

?Today you are in the right place and God will see you through, in the mighty name of Jesus!? Dairo said.

Not all Israelis are pleased to see the rising profile of Christmas, which to some symbolizes religious assimilation and to others a religion with a history of hostility to Jews. Moshe Avisar, 67, on his way back to Jerusalem, said the decorations in the bus station bothered him.

?I go to the Central Bus Station and I don?t feel like I?m in Israel, even though it?s my country,? he said. Of the decorations, he said, ?I don?t want to see this in the Jewish State. Then all the Jewish people get carried away with it and start celebrating too.?

The foreigners are not the only Christians in the city. Jaffa, a historically Arab town that is now the southern quarter of Tel Aviv, has churches dating back hundreds of years.

Nationwide, Israel has about 110,000 Arab Christian citizens. A wave of 1 million immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s included between 50,000-80,000 practicing Russian Orthodox. And thousands of other Russian-speaking Jews celebrate a secular version of Christmas.

But unlike these groups, the foreign workers and asylum seekers have little way to gain citizenship.

The workers, who receive temporary permits, often overstay them, living illegally and in fear of the immigration police. For these people, the churches are alternate institutions that help them navigate the uncertainty of their lives on the margins of Israeli society.

Social worker Tamar Schwartz directs Mesila, an aid organization for foreigners funded partially by the Tel Aviv municipality. The church is a key meeting place for the foreign community, she said.

Each year the organization throws a Christmas-Hanukkah party to help bridge between the migrants? foreign backgrounds and the Jewish culture their children absorb.

?They learn only about Hanukkah in school, and then they get home to parents who don?t speak Hebrew and they hear that Christmas is the most important holiday,? she said. ?A child like this grows with a split identity.?

The top Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land even warned of the migrants drifting away from their faith by living in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish society.

?We must redouble our pastoral efforts to provide religious services and to ensure their integration into the local church,? Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal said Wednesday in his annual pre-Christmas address.

Gift shop owner Daniel Seah said that when he first arrived in Tel Aviv from Singapore 15 years ago he brought his own Christmas tree because he wondered whether he could find one in Israel. A week before Christmas he produced an annual Christmas show on the fourth floor of the Central Bus Station, with singing, dancing and a gift basket lottery.

?In the mind of the people who come to Israel, it?s the birthplace of Christianity and they really thought Christmas would be a big deal everywhere,? he said. ?They were disappointed. They expect it to be a little more exuberant.?

Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/culture-clash-rising-prominence-of-christmas-in-israel-leads-to-split-identity-for-some/

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Friday, December 23, 2011

House rejects payroll-tax deal. Is it now dead?

The House rejected the Senate's temporary payroll-tax deal Tuesday, leaving no clear way out of the impasse. The House wants more discussions, but the Senate says it's done talking.

Forget lines in the sand. Congress is breaking out the shovels.

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With Tuesday?s near party-line House vote, the House and Senate are at an impasse over how to continue payroll-tax breaks and other expiring measures ? and there?s no obvious way out.

If Congress fails to act:

  • 160 million Americans will see a payroll tax hike averaging $1,000 for each taxpayer.
  • 2.5 million jobless workers will lose unemployment benefits.
  • Doctors serving Medicare patients will face a 27.4 percent drop in federal reimbursements.

The Senate on Saturday appeared to have settled the issue with a big, bipartisan vote to extend these expiring measures for two months, 89 to 10.?Senators on both sides of the aisle left Washington declaring victory.

Tuesday?s House vote to reject the Senate bill, 229 to 193, revived the impasse. The next step is a conference between House and Senate negotiators to resolve differences between the Senate bill and a House bill the Senate rejected.??

The differences are significant. The House bill extends a pay freeze for all federal workers, cuts unemployment benefits over time from 99 weeks to 54 weeks, reverses an Obama-era rule that bars states from requiring drug tests of jobless applicants, and delays pollution regulations for industrial boilers.

But the Senate has left town and is not scheduled to return until Jan. 23. Moreover, the holidays are a prime time for traveling congressional delegations, especially visits to the troops, meaning they are hard to cut short.

President Obama called on House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio to ?put politics aside,? reverse course, and bring the Senate bill back to the floor for an up-or-down vote.

House GOP leaders did not structure today?s vote as up-or-down on the Senate bill.?Lawmakers had the option to vote ?yes? or ?no? on rejecting the Senate bill and going to conference. They did not have the option of supporting the Senate bill.??

If they had, Democrats would have needed 26 Republicans to break ranks in support of the bill and send it to the Oval Office for the president?s signature.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Thai activist gets 15 years for insulting monarchy

(AP) ? A political activist was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison on charges of insulting Thailand's king, the third person to be imprisoned in a month under the country's strict lese majeste law.

The law, which forbids defamation of the monarchy, is being increasingly criticized as an infringement of free speech and an instrument of political persecution.

Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul, nicknamed "Da Torpedo" for her aggressive speaking style, has been detained without bail since July 2008 after speaking at rally using impolite language.

The Criminal Court found Daranee guilty of violating the lese majeste law, which provides for a jail term of three to 15 years for anyone who "defames, insults, or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent, or the regent."

Daranee, a journalist, became an activist after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was deposed in a 2006 coup and delivered fiery speeches at rallies organized by Thaksin's "Red Shirt" supporters.

Daranee said she would not appeal Thursday's sentence. "I have no will to keep fighting and I will neither lodge an appeal nor seek a royal pardon," she said.

Criticism of the lese majeste law increased last month after a 61-year-old grandfather received a 20-year sentence for four text messages sent from his phone to a government official.

The sentence given Amphon Tangnoppakul was believed to be the heaviest ever received in a lese majeste case because of additional penalties issued under a related law, the 2007 Computer Crimes Act. He denied sending the messages and said he didn't even know how to use the SMS function on his telephone.

The plight of "Uncle SMS," as he became known, has drawn international attention as well to the lese majeste law.

So did the sentencing earlier his month of Thai-born American Joe Gordon to 2 1/2 years in prison for translating excerpts of a banned biography of Thailand's king published by Yale University Press and placing them online. Gordon was in Colorado when the alleged offense occurred and was arrested when he later visited Thailand.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman, Darragh Paradiso, said the United States has utmost respect for the Thai monarchy, but is "troubled by recent prosecutions and court decisions that are not consistent with international standards of freedom of expression."

The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, issued a statement of concern, saying "Such harsh criminal sanctions are neither necessary nor proportionate and violate the country's international human rights obligations."

Lese majeste prosecutions used to be rare in Thailand, and were mostly used for partisan political purposes as a means of smearing opponents.

But the number of high-profile cases has risen in recent years as nervousness about the eventual succession to 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has increased, with the previously taboo subject of the monarchy's proper role starting to become a matter of public discussion.

However, loyalty to the monarch is still a touchstone of Thai politics, and frank discussion is difficult.

Earlier this year, a movement led by intellectuals and academics began a public campaign for reform of the lese majeste law, officially Article 112 of the Criminal Code.

This was Daranee's second trial. She received an 18-year term in her first trial, but was granted a new trial after courts ruled that her petition against having the first trial closed was not heard in a timely way.

Associated Press

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Ask Lambda Legal ? HIV Criminalization | Lavender Magazine

By Scott Schoettes, HIV Project Director for Lambda Legal

Dear Ask Lambda Legal,

I?m HIV positive and recently heard about someone getting incarcerated after a sexual encounter, all because of his HIV status. Can this really happen?

Thirty years after the discovery of HIV, the medical field has learned a great about the virus, its transmission, and effective treatments. Unfortunately, the legal landscape has not changed as quickly, and people living with HIV are vulnerable to outdated statutes that specifically target them. Ending HIV criminalization in the United States is a priority for Lambda Legal ? these laws unfairly subject people with absolutely no intent to harm anyone to criminal sanctions usually reserved for truly egregious offenses. In addition, criminal laws based on a person?s HIV status send an inaccurate message regarding prevention responsibility, create a disincentive to getting tested, and may actually discourage disclosure of HIV status.

Thirty-nine states have HIV-specific criminal statutes or have brought HIV-related criminal charges resulting in more than 80 prosecutions in the United States in the past two years alone. In People v. Allen, a Michigan man living with HIV was charged under the state?s anti-terrorism statute with possession of a ?biological weapon? after an altercation with a neighbor?prosecutors equated his HIV infection with ?possession or use of a harmful device.? Lambda Legal assisted in convincing the court to dismiss this charge, but other prosecutions continue to result in convictions. ?For instance, a man with HIV in Iowa, who had an undetectable viral load, was sentenced to 25 years after a one-time sexual encounter during which he used a condom. You can learn what laws are in place in your state on our publications page at http://www.lambdalegal.org/publications/fs_hiv-criminalization .

HIV criminalization is particularly concerning for groups that are disproportionately affected by HIV. In 2008, one in five of men who have sex with men in 21 major US cities were infected with HIV, and nearly half were unaware of their infection. In 2009, African Americans comprised 14% of the US population but accounted for 44% of all new HIV infections. In the same year, Latinos accounted for 20% of new HIV infections in the United States while representing about 16% of the total US population. In 2008, in California, 6.8% of transgender people were HIV positive, and African Americans within the transgender population of California had an infection rate of nearly 29%.

Lambda Legal has aligned itself with the Positive Justice Project (PJP), a working consortium devoted to ending the abusive application of criminal statutes against people living with HIV. Along with PJP, Lambda Legal is working toward passing the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act, federal legislation that would require a review of all federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding the criminal prosecution of individuals for HIV-related offenses.

If you have any questions or feel you have been discriminated against because of your HIV status, please call our help desk at 1-866-542-8336, or see http://lambdalegal.org/help

Preg?ntale a Lambda Legal ? Criminalizaci?n del VIH

Por Scott Schoettes, Director de Proyecto del VIH de Lambda Legal

P: Soy VIH positivo y me enter? recientemente de alguien que fue encarcelado despu?s de un encuentro sexual, solo por su estatus del VIH. ?Realmente puede suceder esto?

R: Treinta a?os despu?s del descubrimiento del VIH, el campo m?dico ha aprendido mucho acerca del virus, c?mo se transmite y tratamientos efectivos. Desafortunadamente, las leyes no han cambiado tan r?pidamente, y las personas que viven con el VIH son vulnerables a leyes obsoletas que se concentran espec?ficamente en ellas. El eliminar la criminalizaci?n del VIH en los Estados Unidos es una prioridad de Lambda Legal. Estas leyes injustas hacen que personas que no tienen absolutamente ninguna intenci?n de hacerle da?o a nadie, est?n sujetas a sanciones legales que usualmente solo se imponen por delitos sumamente graves. Adem?s, las leyes criminales basadas en el estatus de VIH de una persona, env?an un mensaje incorrecto con respecto a la responsabilidad de prevenir el VIH, no fomenta el hacerse la prueba del virus y incluso puede disuadir a la gente de revelar su estatus del VIH.

Treinta y nueve estados tienen leyes criminales que se tratan espec?ficamente del VIH, o han formulado cargos criminales relacionados con el VIH, que resultaron en m?s de 80 procesos judiciales en los ?ltimos dos a?os. En el caso People v. Allen, un hombre de Michigan que vive con el VIH, fue acusado de ?posesi?n de un ?arma biol?gica? bajo la ley antiterrorista del estado, despu?s de un altercado con un vecino. Los fiscales compararon su infecci?n de VIH con ?posesi?n o uso de un dispositivo da?ino?. Lambda Legal ayud? a convencer al tribunal para desestimar el cargo, pero otros procesos judiciales terminan en condenas. Por ejemplo, un hombre con el VIH en Iowa que ten?a una carga viral indetectable, fue condenado a 25 a?os de c?rcel despu?s de una relaci?n sexual de una sola noche, durante la cual utiliz? un cond?n. Puedes informarte acerca de la ley en tu estado aqu?: lambdalegal.org/publications/fs_hiv-criminalization (solo disponible en ingl?s).

La criminalizaci?n del VIH es a?n m?s preocupante para los grupos que se ven afectados desproporcionadamente por el virus. En el 2008, uno de cada cinco hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con otros hombres, en 21 ciudades principales de Estados Unidos, estaba infectado con el VIH, y casi la mitad ignoraba su infecci?n. En el 2009, los afroamericanos formaban un 14% de la poblaci?n, y un 44% de todos los casos nuevos de VIH. En el mismo a?o, el 20% de los casos nuevos de VIH en Estados Unidos fueron latinos, a pesar de que ?stos solo forman el 16% de la poblaci?n. En el 2008, en California, un 6,8% de las personas transg?nero ten?an VIH, y los afroamericanos dentro de la poblaci?n transg?nero de California tuvieron una tasa de infecci?n de casi 29%.

Lambda Legal se ha unido al Positive Justice Project (PJP), un consorcio dedicado a eliminar el uso de leyes criminales contra personas que viven con el VIH. Junto con el PJP, Lambda Legal est? trabajando para aprobar el REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act, un proyecto de ley federal que requerir?a una revisi?n de todas las leyes federales y estatales, pol?ticas y reglamentos con respecto a las acciones judiciales relacionadas al VIH.

Si tienes alguna pregunta o sientes que has sido discriminado a causa de tu estatus de VIH, llama a nuestra L?nea de Ayuda al 1-866-542-8336, o visita nuestra p?gina web: lambdalegal.org/ayuda

Source: http://www.lavendermagazine.com/our-affairs/ask-lambda-legal-hiv-criminalization-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ask-lambda-legal-hiv-criminalization-2

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Forex Broker Under Dos Attack Too

Hi everyone

It seems retail FX industry is in the eye of the storm of hackers, blackmailers and funny guys as many of us have been under Dos attacks the last few months.... FXstreet.com, ForexPeacyArmy.com.... and now FxPro, one of the most important retail Forex brokerage firms in the industry.

This is a note FxPro sent to their customers:

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Dear Clients,

As part of our ongoing customer care programme, we are writing to update you about some connectivity issues that may have affected you over the last week. These technical challenges have been the result of unsolicited and certainly undesirable traffic directed to our websites, applications and systems. This type of unlawful activity, often referred to as Denial of Service ("DoS") attacks is executed by unscrupulous individuals with the sole motive of disrupting the legitimate business operations of numerous high profile internet-based organisations, including FxPro.
Over the past year, FxPro has invested heavily in additional and significant upgrades to our capacity, defence and security capabilities. This has allowed us to completely neutralise previous attempts and minimise these more recent efforts to disrupt our service to you, to the bare minimum.

FxPro is committed to an always-on service provision to our clients and will continue to strive to deliver world-class quality and availability of our applications and systems to you. In this respect, I wish to assure you that I personally and my entire team have been working around the clock to deal effectively with the issues around this incident. As a result, we have now incorporated even more technical safeguards designed to contain and even prevent similar future occurrences.

I thank you for the patience and trust with which you have afforded us during this period and sincerely apologise for the any inconvenience you may have suffered. As always, myself, the rest of the management team and all our employees will continue doing our absolute best to make your trading experience with us as enjoyable and trouble free as possible.

Please feel free to contact our Customer Support team for any further information you may need or inquiries which you may have.

Thank you for your business and for choosing FxPro for your forex trading needs. It is greatly appreciated.

Georgios A. Korellis
Chief Information Officer
FxPro
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Source: http://www.forexstreet.net/xn/detail/3252082%3ABlogPost%3A219399

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Director of Marketing and Communications (San Francisco, California)

Summer Search seeks a National Director of Marketing and Communications who will have the exceptional opportunity to shape a consistent and unique national brand for Summer Search. Through the development and implementation of a strategic marketing plan, they will position us to raise significantly more dollars by communicating our value proposition and by raising our national reputation and profile. This position reports to the CEO and partners with the Chief Development Officer and with site leadership and development staff.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Develop and execute a strategic marketing and communications plan that develops a consistent and compelling national brand for Summer Search.
* Solicit input from key stakeholders across the sites including funders, board members, staff and program partners and participants to identify and articulate what makes Summer Search unique and compelling.
* Use this input to build a brand architecture, with key messages and brand promise.
* Build and implement marketing plans targeted to each of the key stakeholders above including a calendar for electronic and social media communications that effectively supports fundraising goals.
* For all marketing and communications activities, create and track against tangible measures of success.

2. Build and implement a public relations strategy that builds our presence and profile in the philanthropic, corporate, education and non-profit communities.
* Increase media coverage at national and site levels by implementing a media plan.
* Position senior staff as thought leaders on youth development and education through media exposure.

3. Lead communications operations to support effective fundraising nationally and at the sites.
* Build our marketing tool kit including collateral materials for current and potential funders, event management tools and publicity support.
* Oversee the development of all print communications including collateral materials and the Annual Report, and electronic communications including the web site, e-newsletters, and social media.
* Support sites with different marketing needs while maintaining consistency of voice and brand look and feel that supports national and multi-site fundraising efforts.

4. Lead Summer Search's marketing team.
* Leverage strengths and efforts of current staff at our national Support Center and at the seven sites through building collaborative relationships with key leadership and development staff.
* Manage current full-time Support Center communications and design staff member.
* Manage the budget for and relationships with contract and pro-bono marketing, communications and branding partnerships and vendors.

LOCATION
We are headquartered in San Francisco and prefer applicants who can be based from San Francisco. We will consider applicants who can be based from our New York City office. Some travel to all our offices will be required.

Source: http://www.bridgestar.org/MyCareerCenter/PositionDetails.aspx?jobId=10177

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

HIV patients can live as long as the general population when treated optimally

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Researchers who have been following Danish HIV patients for more than fifteen years now see that the patients may live as long as other Danes if they take their medicine.

"It is my impression that patients often ask themselves a range of questions: 'What are my long-term prospects? Will I be dead in five years' time? Will the disease cause brain damage? Will I have heart trouble'?" says Professor Niels Obel, the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet. He continues:

"Fortunately we are well-equipped to answer such questions in Denmark because we record an exceptional amount of data which we can use to shed light on the long-term effects of disease. This also goes for Danish HIV patients, and it is marvellous to be able to tell them that actually their prospects are quite bright."

Professor Nobel heads up the Danish Cohort Study that has provided the basis for the new results published in PLoS ONE.

Via such thorough data collection, the Danish national health board provides researchers with a unique opportunity to follow particular groups of patients over an extended period. The Danish HIOV cohort study is following every HIV positive patient in Denmark and Greenland, for example, including children and adults who have only been in contact with a treatment centre once since 1995.

Professor Obel and his colleagues publish an annual report on the condition of the HIV Cohort. The 2011 edition shows that far more men are still being infected by HIV than women (76 per cent to 24 per cent), that the most frequent path of infection is heterosexual contact (46 per cent) and homosexual contact (44 per cent), and that patients are not as ill on diagnosis (they have higher CD 4 cell counts).

"This is probably because newly infected patients visit their GPs sooner and are diagnosed earlier than they used to be," Professor Obel says.

HIV infections are chronic. Almost thirty years on since the first documented cases, we still do not have a vaccine or a cure, because HIV continually mutates and enters our DNA, where drugs cannot reach it.

So an HIV diagnosis means that patients will require treatment for the rest of their lives. However, the latest figures show that the life expectancy of optimally-treated patients is not adversely affected by taking the drugs or by the disease itself.

On 9 December, professor Niels Obel will deliver his inaugural lecture at Rigshospitalet. During the lecture he will describe the Danish HIV Cohort for a wider audience.

Professor Obel hopes that HIV patients and their relatives will also attend in order to hear the latest results.

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University of Copenhagen: http://www.ku.dk

Thanks to University of Copenhagen for this article.

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Friday, December 2, 2011

S.Africa: Funds raised to fight rhino poaching (AP)

JOHANNESBURG ? A fundraising campaign aimed at putting rhino poachers in jail was welcomed Friday by South African conservationists.

Michael Knight, head of park planning and development for South Africa's national parks department, said money raised by the Florida-based International Rhino Federation would be used to support such efforts as teaching park employees how to safeguard evidence at crime scenes.

More South African rhinos were poached ? 341 ? in the first 10 months of 2011 than in all of 2010, which was a record poaching year with 333 animals lost. The International Rhino Federation project is for parks in South Africa and neighboring Zimbabwe, which also has seen increased poaching.

An Asian economic boom in recent years is believed to be behind the spike in poaching, with a growing middle class in countries like China and Vietnam able to afford exotic purported remedies like powdered rhino horn.

"We're losing animals like crazy," Knight, who also chairs the rhino specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in an interview. "But the prosecutions are falling way behind."

Knight said police in isolated areas of South Africa are not always experienced in investigating environmental crime. He said rangers and others would be trained to support police and prosecutors.

In court, he said, "You need to have the most up-to-date information, you need to have the most convincing arguments."

Morne du Plessis, chief executive of the South African arm of the World Wildlife Fund, said his organization has for several months been involved in a similar project that includes training for prosecutors and judges and creating a team of expert witnesses. He welcomed help from the International Rhino Federation.

"It's work that's absolutely essential," du Plessis said. "In South Africa, we have a particularly poor record of conviction in rhino crime."

He said other, more straightforward crimes compete for the attention of police, prosecutors and judges. He also said law enforcement officials might feel sympathy for the often impoverished locals employed by international syndicates as poachers.

"These are very complex realities of a developing country like South Africa," du Plessis said.

The International Rhino Federation launched its fundraising this week. Donations will fund training in collecting evidence and information. The federation also plans to distribute basic crime scene kits containing cameras, fingerprinting materials and evidence bags.

In an interview, federation director Susie Ellis said that an anonymous donor kicked off the fund with $25,000. She said she spoke with South African security officials in March about how best to use the money.

"It's a small project that we hope will have a big impact," she said, adding the first training session is set for early February in South Africa.

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Online:

http://www.rhinos-irf.org

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Donna Bryson can be reached on http://twitter.com/dbrysonAP

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111202/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_rhino_poaching

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