Study: Boozy Brits underestimate their drinking

LONDON (AP) ? Truth and alcohol may not mix, particularly when people are asked how much they drink.

That's the implication of a study released Wednesday that reveals a big gap between the booze Britons own up to drinking and the amount of alcohol sold nationwide. The study indicates that people routinely underestimate their alcohol consumption by around 40 percent.

That may not be particularly surprising, but the study puts a figure to the phenomenon of the drunk who claims not to have anything more than a couple of beers. Lead author Sadie Boniface said the unreported alcohol equates to nearly one bottle of wine per British adult per week ? an amount she said wasn't just disappearing.

"It has to have gone somewhere," she said in a telephone interview.

Boniface and Nicola Shelton, both with the University College London's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, derived their figures by comparing self-reported data in a public health survey accounting for 14,041 people aged 16 and up to alcohol sales figures kept by British tax authorities.

The gap was huge. More than 20 percent of Britons' annual wine consumption ? or 2.6 million hectoliters (69 million gallons) ? was unaccounted for. Nearly half of Britons' beer consumption ? 45 million hectoliters (1.2 billion gallons) ? was unclaimed. And Britons seemed particularly reluctant to take credit for gulping down whiskey, vodka, tequila and gin. Nearly 60 percent of Britain's spirit consumption remained unreported.

Boniface said the more accurate reporting of wine versus beer and spirits might have something to do with the cultural baggage attached to them.

"If you think about drinking wine, you generally think of sitting around a fancy meal," she said. "It's thought of as much more of a civilized drinking occasion than drinking spirits might be, although that's just speculation."

The study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, considered a host of other possible reasons for the underreporting. Maybe children under the age of 16, tourists or homeless people ? all groups which wouldn't have been covered by the survey ? were buying the unclaimed booze. Maybe the whiskey was being kept on shelves rather than being sipped after dinner. Maybe the wine was being used in cooking, or thrown out when it expired, or being spilled across white carpets.

Boniface said those factors were all considered and then ruled out.

"It can't be a small minority ? such as homeless people ? that are drinking vast, vast amounts," she said. "It's a widespread problem."

Issues around self-reporting aren't new ? people routinely overestimate their height or underestimate their weight, for example. And it's long been known that alcohol intake is particularly liable to be underreported; Boniface said that many doctors mentally double the alcohol intake given to them by their patients.

But Boniface said the study fleshed out an issue which is particularly salient in the context of Britain's struggle to control a surge in boozing which has seen Britain's annual alcohol-related death toll more than double between 1992 and 2008. If authorities don't know how much Britons are drinking, she said, then how can they get a handle on the situation?

Underreporting has "huge consequences for public health," she said, "and we don't have any idea what they are."

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Huawei Ascend G710 reportedly spied touting a 5-inch, 720p screen

Just because Huawei has already launched a small torrent of smartphones two months into 2013 doesn't mean the company is taking a vacation anytime soon. Evleaks has spotted what's purported to be the Ascend G710, a not-quite-high-end smartphone that would sit just below the Ascend D2. While it would preserve the 5-inch screen and 1.5GHz quad-core processor, it would dip to a 720p resolution. There's hints that it may be more a step sideways, however, through some less performance-minded changes: the G710 would have a premium-looking metal (or metal-effect) back, free up screen real estate with capacitive navigation buttons and talk to both CDMA and GSM networks. When the camera, storage and the all-important launch plans are still missing, though, there's a long way to go before we know where this latest Ascend might sit in Huawei's catalog.

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Steven Spielberg to head Cannes jury this year

PARIS (AP) ? France's Cannes Film Festival says it has finally snagged Steven Spielberg to serve as president of the award jury.

Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, recounted how he had been trying to get the award-winning director to head the jury for years ? but the American was always working. Finally, this year, Spielberg got in touch.

"When this year I was told 'E.T., phone home,' I understood and immediately replied: 'At last!'" Jacob said in a statement posted on the festival's website Thursday.

Spielberg, who was nominated but didn't win the directing Oscar for his biopic "Lincoln" this week, takes the reins from Italian Nanni Moretti. The 66th Cannes festival takes place in the glamorous French Mediterranean resort from May 15 to 26.

Spielberg's presence will likely give more of an American flavor this year to the Cannes festival, a m?lange of intellectual international cinema and Hollywood glamour. Jury presidents in the festival's seven-decade history have included such figures as Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Roman Polanski and Francis Ford Coppola.

Spielberg has had several films show at Cannes, and "E.T." had its world premiere there in 1982. His first film, "Sugarland Express," won best screenplay at Cannes in 1974.

"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world," Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers. "The most prestigious of its kind, the festival has always established the motion picture as a cross cultural and generational medium."

At last year's Cannes festival, Michael Haneke won the top prize with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/steven-spielberg-head-cannes-jury-073243970.html

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COO Artie Minson Could Exit AOL, Patch Issues To Blame?

AOL Chief Operating Officer Arthur “Artie” Minson could be departing the company soon, we’re hearing, possibly over how the company has been handling hyperlocal news site Patch. A spokesperson declined to comment for this story, Minson hasn’t returned my call, and our sources say that it’s not a done deal. Minson was promoted to the COO job in June of last year as part of a larger reorganization, moving over from his three-year stint as CFO.?His official bio is basically a big list of positions that he’s held at either AOL or Time Warner (hey, remember AOL-Time Warner?) going back to 2004. In his current position, he’s been responsible for leading the company’s three business units ? the membership group, the brand group (which TechCrunch is a part of), and AOL Networks. One explanation we’ve heard for Minson’s departure is that AOL is trying to boost the numbers for Patch?by lumping in traffic and revenue from the Huffington Post’s local sites. Patch is still unprofitable and?missed its sales target in AOL’s most recent earnings report.?Minson was supposedly unwilling to go along with that plan, which is why he’s leaving. None of this has been officially confirmed. The departure of executives like Brad Garlinghouse from AOL spurred a concerned investor letter back in 2011. The letter also mentioned the departure of Michael Arrington and Heather Harde from TechCrunch. Then exactly one year ago, it?announced a few more departures, including CTO Alex Gounares. Whatever happens with Minson, other exec changes are also happening. AOL is also looking to bring in a new CEO for the content brands division, according to another report out today.

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Van Cliburn, pianist and Cold War hero, dies at 78

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? For a time in Cold War America, Van Cliburn had all the trappings of a rock star: sold-out concerts, adoring, out-of-control fans and a name recognized worldwide. He even got a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

And he did it all with only a piano and some Tchaikovsky concertos.

The celebrated pianist played for every American president since Harry Truman, plus royalty and heads of state around the world. But he is best remembered for winning a 1958 piano competition in Moscow that helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Cliburn, who died Wednesday at 78 after fighting bone cancer, was "a great humanitarian and a brilliant musician whose light will continue to shine through his extraordinary legacy," said his publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone. "He will be missed by all who knew and admired him, and by countless people he never met."

The young man from the small east Texas town of Kilgore was a baby-faced 23-year-old when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow just six months after the Soviets' launch of Sputnik embarrassed the U.S. and inaugurated the space race.

Cliburn returned to a hero's welcome and the ticker-tape parade ? the first ever for a classical musician. A Time magazine cover proclaimed him "The Texan Who Conquered Russia."

But the win also showed the power of the arts, creating unity despite the tension between the superpowers. Music-loving Soviets clamored to see him perform. Premier Nikita Khrushchev reportedly gave the go-ahead for the judges to honor a foreigner: "Is Cliburn the best? Then give him first prize."

In the years that followed, Cliburn's popularity soared. He sold out concerts and caused riots when he was spotted in public. His fame even prompted an Elvis Presley fan club to change its name to his. His recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Russian conductor Kirill Kondrashin became the first classical album to reach platinum status.

Time magazine's 1958 cover story quoted a friend as saying Cliburn could become "the first man in history to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one."

Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, who won the Tchaikovsky competition in 1998 at an age of 23, the same age as Cliburn, said Cliburn's "romantic style captured the hearts of Soviet audience."

"Everyone was in love with him," Matsuev said. "And he loved the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russian public."

Matsuev, who knew Cliburn personally, described him as an "incredibly delicate, kind and gentle man who dedicated his entire life to art."

He also used his skill and fame to help other young musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition, held every four years. Created in 1962 by a group of Fort Worth teachers and citizens, it remains among the top showcases for the world's best pianists.

"Since we know that classical music is timeless and everlasting, it is precisely the eternal verities inherent in classical music that remain a spiritual beacon for people all over the world," Cliburn once said.

President George W. Bush presented Cliburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom ? the nation's highest civilian honor ? in 2003. The following year, he received the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I still have lots of friends in Russia," Cliburn said at the time. "It's always a great pleasure to talk to older people in Russia, to hear their anecdotes."

After the death of his father in 1974, Cliburn announced he would soon retire to spend more time with his ailing mother. He stopped touring in 1978.

Among other things, touring robbed him of the chance to enjoy opera and other musical performances.

"I said to myself, 'Life is too short.' I was missing so much," he told The New York Times in 2008. After winning the competition, "it was thrilling to be wanted. But it was pressure, too."

Cliburn emerged from his sabbatical in 1987, when he played at a state dinner at the White House during the historic visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev leapt from his seat to give the pianist a bear-hug and kisses on the cheeks.

Cliburn was born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. on July 12, 1934, in Shreveport, La., the son of oilman Harvey Cliburn Sr. and Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn. At age 3, he began studying piano with his mother, herself an accomplished pianist who had studied with a pupil of the great 19th century Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt.

The family moved back to Kilgore within a few years of his birth.

Cliburn won his first Texas competition when he was 12, and two years later he played in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the National Music Festival Award.

At 17, Cliburn attended the Juilliard School in New York, where fellow students marveled at his marathon practice sessions that stretched until 3 a.m. He studied under the famed Russian-born pianist Rosina Lhevinne.

Between 1952 and 1958, he won all but one competition he entered, including the G.B. Dealey Award from the Dallas Symphony, the Kosciusko Foundation Chopin Scholarship and the prestigious Leventritt. By age 20, he had played with the New York Philharmonic and the symphonies of most major cities.

Cliburn's career seemed ready to take off until his name came up for the draft. He had to cancel all shows but was eventually excused from duty due to chronic nosebleeds.

Over the next few years, Cliburn's international popularity continued as he recorded pieces ranging from Mozart to a concerto by American Edward McDowell. Still, having been trained by some of the best Russian teachers in the world, Cliburn's heart was Russian, with the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff concertos.

After 1990, Cliburn toured Japan numerous times and performed throughout the United States. He was in the midst of a 16-city U.S. tour in 1994 when his mother died at age 97.

Cliburn, who made his home in Fort Worth, endowed scholarships at many schools, including Juilliard, which gave him an honorary doctorate, and the Moscow and Leningrad conservatories. In December 2001, he was presented with the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Medallion at the televised tribute held in Washington.

He practiced daily and performed limited engagements until only recently. His last public appearance came in September at the 50th anniversary of the prestigious piano competition bearing his name.

Speaking to the audience in Fort Worth, he saluted the many past contestants, the orchestra and the city: "Never forget: I love you all from the bottom of my heart, forever." The audience responded with a roaring standing ovation.

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Associated Press Writer Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.

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FIFA bans 74 for match-fixing in Italy, South Korea

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updated 10:57 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2013

ZURICH (AP) - FIFA has banned 74 more officials and players from world soccer for helping fix matches, this time in Italy and South Korea.

FIFA says it imposed sanctions on 70 people, including 11 who were banned for life, after a series of cases prosecuted by Italian soccer authorities.

FIFA says the charges involved "match-fixing (direct involvement or omission to report match-fixing), illegal betting or corrupt organization (association to commit illicit acts)."

Prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Napoli have pieced together a conspiracy they believe was organized from Singapore to bet on rigged Italian soccer games.

Last week, Italian authorities detained suspect Admir Suljic, a Slovenian national, when he landed in Milan on a flight from Singapore. Suljic, alleged to be an associate of Singaporean businessman Tan Seet Eng, faces charges of criminal association and sports fraud.

Tan, also known as Dan Tan, is accused of heading a crime syndicate that has made millions of dollars gambling on fixed matches around the world.

Singapore police said last week that Tan was assisting its investigation into alleged match-fixing.

FIFA said the four new South Korean cases follow worldwide sanctions imposed on 10 people last year and a further 41 last month.

The latest global sanctions were announced two days after FIFA extended bans to 58 people found guilty of match-fixing offenses in China. Of those, FIFA expelled 33 from soccer for life, including 2002 World Cup referee Lu Jun.

FIFA can apply worldwide sanctions after national associations complete their own investigations and impose bans.

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Can Red Bulls finally run the table?

PST:?New York?has the makings of a team that will again challenge for the?Eastern Conference crown, but can Thierry Henry deliver that elusive MLS Cup?

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Military icebreaker arrives to defend Japanese whalers

The Age -- Feb 25

Japan has sent a giant military icebreaker to bolster its whaling fleet in the conflict with Sea Shepherd off the Australian Antarctic Territory, anti-whaling activists say. The 12,500 tonne Shirase, operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force, has appeared near whalers and Sea Shepherd activists 50 nautical miles off the coast of the territory, the group said. The ship was recognised on radar by its identification signal, according to Sea Shepherd.

The Korean tanker Sun Laurel was making a renewed attempt to refuel the whalers' factory ship Nisshin Maru under the shelter of a Coast Guard helicopter from Shirase, Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson said.

The powerful icebreaker can carry up to 250 crew and three helicopters, and has conducted Antarctic resupply duties for Japan, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defence website.

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California facing doctor drought in wake of U.S. health care reform

California has been preparing for drastic changes to our medical system since the approval of the Affordable Care Act, expected to launch in 2014.

But alongside the benefits, the state also faces the challenge of making the implementation work, and some experts worry that our already overpacked system may collapse. According to the Los Angeles Times, the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has proposed possible solutions to address the concern of flooding the system, but, as in any democracy, not everyone agrees on what is going to work.

Among such topics is the redefining of who can provide health care, which would expand the field of primary healthcare physicians to include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and optometrists. This would allow relief to the underserved counties that lack physicians. The CHCF is also calling for incentives to relieve recent MD graduates of school finances by serving such counties for their first three years in residency.

Critics of these ideas insist that expanding primary physicianship will both endanger patient safety and increase costs. Under-experienced workers tend to ?order more tests and prescribe more antibiotics.?

Put simply, these incentives will take years to create more coverage for depreciated counties?years that we don?t have.

Anyone who has visited an urgent care can testify that the total amount of time spent with the doctor is equivalent to the time it takes us to change one?s underwear. Most of the leg work is done by the nurses. I have seen plenty of physicians enter a patient?s room with a computer, arriving to a diagnosis after entering symptoms into their software.

I?m pretty sure this work can be extended to the professions previously listed above. It?s not like we are asking them to perform brain surgery.

According to a report from California Watch, implementation of the ACA may have unforeseen costs which unfortunately may come at the expense of our state?s children.

The report identifies a focus of concern toward a bill passed in November of 2012 that would abandon the California Healthy Families insurance program, which insures children whose family income is too high for Medicaid but too low for private insurance. The proposal was approved through the Brown administration as a budget cut to improve revenue by saving up to $72 million per year. The bill will affect 870,000 children currently enrolled in Medi-Cal.

That bill was to be effective in January 2013 but was delayed to March due to reports of possible physician abandonment. It is expected to be implemented in four phases, ending in August.

The current debate with Medi-Cal is whether or not most physicians will reject potential patients due to extremely low reimbursement rates?almost 50 percent less than Medicare. So healthcare providers will gladly accept older patients, who are covered by Medicare, over children who cannot possibly provide healthcare for themselves, all because they are guaranteed a paycheck? Unfortunate, but seemingly the case.

A report in November 2012 by Health Net, which currently covers 86,000 people under Healthy Families, gave notice to the state, stating ?it can?t say how many of its doctors will continue to see children after they are moved from the better-paying Healthy Families program to Medi-Cal.?

Unfortunately, the constant bickering most conceivably boils down to loss of money. At its most obvious (insurance companies) to its most disappointing (the workforce), everyone is scared of taking a pay decrease that will benefit millions of Californians.

But it may not have to come to that.

A report released by the Institute of Medicine found that the U.S. health care system wastes $750 billion each year. ABC News reported that this money could have provided health insurance for 150 million Americans. Reports like these can help aid waste expenditure so the multi-trillion dollar health care system won?t lose a precious penny.

I?m sure the great thinkers of America can figure out a way to make this system?which already functions in most other developed nations?work. The future of health care in California might just depend on it.

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Lawmakers dispute records for private gun sales

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A Senate aide and a lobbyist say a dispute over whether to require record keeping for private gun sales is holding up a bipartisan compromise over expanding background checks for firearms transactions.

Requiring background checks for virtually all firearm sales is a keystone of President Barack Obama's proposed gun curbs. The checks are currently required only for sales at federally licensed dealers, but not private transactions at gun shows, online or elsewhere.

Two Republican and two Democratic senators have been looking for a compromise.

The aide and lobbyist say Oklahoma GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, a conservative playing a leading role in the talks, is balking at requiring record keeping for private transactions. They say he is concerned it could lead to a national gun registry, which Democrats say is untrue.

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Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?

Monday, February 25, 2013

Our ancestors evolutionarily split from those of rhesus monkeys about 25 million years ago. Since then, brain areas have been added, have disappeared or have changed in function. This raises the question, 'Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?'. Scientists have entertained the idea before but conclusive evidence was lacking. By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks.

Professor Vanduffel explains: "We did functional brain scans in humans and rhesus monkeys at rest and while watching a movie to compare both the place and the function of cortical brain networks. Even at rest, the brain is very active. Different brain areas that are active simultaneously during rest form so-called 'resting state' networks. For the most part, these resting state networks in humans and monkeys are surprisingly similar, but we found two networks unique to humans and one unique network in the monkey."

"When watching a movie, the cortex processes an enormous amount of visual and auditory information. The human-specific resting state networks react to this stimulation in a totally different way than any part of the monkey brain. This means that they also have a different function than any of the resting state networks found in the monkey. In other words, brain structures that are unique in humans are anatomically absent in the monkey and there no other brain structures in the monkey that have an analogous function. Our unique brain areas are primarily located high at the back and at the front of the cortex and are probably related to specific human cognitive abilities, such as human-specific intelligence."

The study used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans to visualise brain activity. fMRI scans map functional activity in the brain by detecting changes in blood flow. The oxygen content and the amount of blood in a given brain area vary according to a particular task, thus allowing activity to be tracked.

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"Evolutionary-Novel Functional Networks in the Human Brain?", is available on the website of The Journal of Neuroscience: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/8/3259.abstract.

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Urijah Faber and Court McGee take UFC 157 wins

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Urijah Faber and Court McGee got back on the winning track at UFC 157 on Saturday.

Faber got a first-round submission win over Ivan Menjivar. Faber and Menjivar started the fight with a rolling takedown and Faber ended up on top. He worked the top position until Menjivar got back to his feet. Faber held on, and while attached to Menjivar's back, Faber swung around and sunk in a rear naked choke. Menjivar tapped at 4:34 in the first round. The Anaheim crowd erupted for "The California Kid."

It was an important win for Faber after he lost a title fight to Renan Barao in July. The win puts him at 27-6, with five of his losses coming in title fights.

[Also: Ronda Rousey survives UFC debut, wins via first-round arm bar]

In earlier action, Court McGee punched his way to a decision win over Josh Neer. McGee used an effective strategy early on of working Josh Neer's body. Throughout the first round, Neer was hobbled by McGee's body punches. But in the second, McGee worked more on headshots. Though it wasn't as effective, McGee outstruck Neer. In the final round, McGee worked the ground game and controlled Neer while still leading on strikes. All three judges saw it 30-27 for McGee.

It was McGee's first fight at welterweight.

?I felt great at 170 lbs. This was a great move for me. I felt stronger, faster and had a lot more gas. I was told by FightMetric that I broke the record for most significant strikes ever in a welterweight fight and feel great. I could have stopped it, maybe, early with body shots but I was glad I put on a good performance.?

After the win, McGee's record is 15-3. Though he won "The Ultimate Fighter," he also lost two fights in 2012.

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Attracting Back An Ex - Don't Make These Fatal Mistakes

Attracting back an ex is actually quite easy if you learn some things about human psychology and how the opposite sex behaves after a break up. You see, we have a tendency to do all of the wrong things after a break up because we act upon emotions. This is the wrong thing to do. Most people act on impulse when they have been hurt - it is only natural.

If you want to attract an ex back then you have to stop what you are doing right now because it obviously isn't working. A change of strategy is needed to make your ex stop viewing you in a negative way and begin seeing you as a potential romantic partner again. This is actually straightforward if you nip negative behaviours in the bud. The following things will only repel your ex from you and make them avoid you altogether. If you stay away from all of these things then you will be much more attractive to your ex and they will respect you.

Stop Stalking Your Ex - They Will Think You Are Unhinged And Crazy

Okay, so your idea of stalking and your ex's will probably be different after a break up. You probably think that you are doing nothing wrong when you turn up in places you know they will be just to get a glimpse of them. You think that your ex won't notice you staring at them from across the room, you are being subtle about it right? WRONG!

The problem with this is that you are only seeing things from your point of view after a break up and how it affects you. When you start putting yourself in your ex's position, you will view your behavior very differently. What you think is innocent and secretive behaviour, your ex will see as stalking.

You may think that your ex doesn't notice you at all, but this is rarely true. Your ex's emotions will be heightened after the break up too and they will also be sensitive to everything that you do. Even if you think that they don't care about you anymore the ego is a powerful thing. They will want to see how you are doing without them, if you still have feelings for them - you don't just suddenly disappear from their life and are wiped from their memory.

This stalking also applies to the virtual realm. With social media sites like Facebook, it is all too easy to online stalk your ex and check up on what they are doing and who they are doing it with. This is only natural and you are not ready to let go. This is a very dangerous path to go down however as hiding behind a computer screen lets you think that you are safe and your stalking won't be noticed. This is not true though. You will eventually slip up, get emotional about something that your ex posted and lash out. Then your ex will know that you have been watching their wall and be turned off by your desperation.

If you want to attract back your ex you have to pretend that you don't care about what it going on in their lives. You must seem like you have moved on and that you are too busy to stalk them and vie for their attention. Seems counter-intuitive right? This is a very effective psychological strategy that will make your ex sit up and take notice of you again. They will start seeing you as attractive now that you are seemingly not interested in them anymore.

It is a subtle game of push and pull and playing hard to get which creates the attraction, much like how it was before you two got together. You want to recreate these feelings of excitement and mystery to make your ex realise that they are not over you yet and that they still have feelings for you. Therefore, when you avoid the whole stalking trap you are subconsciously pulling your ex back towards you - it is just a matter of self-control.

Stop Calling Your Ex - They Will Ignore You

It gets scary when you think that your ex is forgetting you and moving on with their life. You think that if you call or text them they will somehow remember you and want you back. This is NOT the case though. The more you call your ex the more they will get annoyed and will eventually ignore you. This will make you feel crap and make you desperate.

Instead of humiliating yourself and opening yourself up for pain and rejection, it is best to stop this negative behaviour. It is only reflecting badly on you. The more you call, the worse your ex will view you. They will want to avoid you altogether and think that you are desperate with nothing better to do than harangue them. If you think about it objectively, this type of behaviour is extremely unattractive - why would your ex want to get back together with you when you are all over them? The thrill of the chase has a lot to do with attraction. Your ex wants to chase you, so let them!

Instead of calling your ex all of the time, get out and keep busy. Your ex will miss you when you are not contacting them and they will wonder what you are up to. Mystery is also a huge part of attraction, so let your ex wonder where you are and who you are with. You are not lying to them, you are only allowing their imagination to go wild. When your ex gets worried that you are moving on before them they will make moves to win you back. They will realise that they miss you and they will be the ones that are getting in touch with you. This is what you want ultimately as you are making your ex think that getting back together was all their idea with no coercion on your part at all.

As you can see, examining your behaviour post break up will improve your chances drastically of attracting back an ex. All you have to do is to start looking at how your ex sees you. Then you implement psychological techniques to pull your ex back to you and increase attraction. Simple right?

Your Next Steps

These are only two of the things that you should be doing to attract back your ex and make your ex want you. There are so many more that you should be researching and putting into practice to speed up the reconciliation process. To get your ex back you need to know what you are doing and be prepared. A good place to start is to work out if your ex still has feelings for you. There are certain signs ex loves you, learn how to spot them and interpret what they say to know where you really stand.

Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/reconnecting/attracting-back-an-ex-dont-make-these-fatal-mistakes

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LSE cancels Arab Spring forum in UAE, citing local curbs

DUBAI (Reuters) - A top British university has cancelled a conference on the Arab Spring in the United Arab Emirates, citing curbs imposed by the Gulf state, which has placed limits on foreign research groups in the past two years.

The UAE, a major oil exporter and regional business hub, has not seen the unrest that has ousted autocratic Arab rulers elsewhere, but analysts and diplomats say the U.S. ally is anxious to prevent instability spreading to its turf.

In a statement emailed to Reuters, the London School of Economics (LSE) said it cancelled its gathering scheduled for February 24 "in response to restrictions imposed on the intellectual content of the event that threatened academic freedom."

The UAE also barred entry to a visiting university lecturer, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, on his arrival to participate in the event, called 'The Middle East: Transition in the Arab World', Ulrichsen said.

He told Reuters he had been scheduled to speak at the forum, which the LSE was due to co-host with the American University of Sharjah (AUS), on the topic of the international implications of protests in the UAE's Gulf ally, Bahrain.

Ulrichsen, who has written critically about the Bahraini government's response to mass protests that erupted in early 2011, told Reuters UAE authorities had instructed conference organisers to cut any discussion of Bahrain from the programme.

"They made it very clear," he said.

The LSE said without elaborating it was aware of Ulrichsen's situation.

No UAE official was available for comment.

A statement by the AUS, one of the Gulf Arab state's leading universities, confirmed the conference had been cancelled.

It added: "The decision made by LSE cited restrictions on the intellectual content of the event that threatened academic freedom as the reason for the cancellation. AUS is unaware of any other information relating to the last minute cancellation."

Over the past year the UAE has shown little tolerance of home-grown dissent, detaining dozens of Islamists who the authorities say are members of the Muslim Brotherhood plotting to overthrow the government.

In March 2012 the UAE closed down the offices of two Western pro-democracy groups, the U.S.-funded National Democratic Institute and Germany's Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, citing licensing irregularities.

The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, a branch of the U.S. polling and research firm, also closed down in 2012.

In 2011 the country refused to renew the permit of the Gulf Research Centre thinktank due to "objections by the Dubai government to various aspects of (its) work".

(Reporting By Angus McDowall; Editing by Jason Webb)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lse-cancels-arab-spring-forum-uae-citing-local-165305841.html

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Not-so-hot seat?

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly is entering the final chapter of a three-year contract that he signed in 2010. So it?s time to start printing more pages.

According to beat writer Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times, Dodgers officials have spoken to Mattingly recently ?about a new contract,? though there?s no hurry to get anything done this spring.

?We?ve talked to Don a lot about what he does and doesn?t want right now,? Dodgers chairman?Mark Walter said Saturday at the team?s spring training complex in Arizona. ?I think you might see something come up before the end of the year.?

Mattingly holds a 168-155 managerial record in his two seasons with the Dodgers. That?s all well and good, but the stakes are significantly higher now that the club boasts the largest payroll in the major leagues.

Mattingly does hold an option?for 2014, but the Dodgers don?t want to pick it up quite yet.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/24/dodgers-have-talked-extension-with-manager-don-mattingly/related/

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The Warlocks Of Centrism Versus That Muggle-Loving Obama (OliverWillisLikeKryptoniteToStupid)

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Native Plant Workshop at Antioch College

When: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Where: Antioch College, Science Building, Room 106

Native Plant Workshop at Antioch College
Sunday, February 24, 1-3 p.m.

Location: Newly Renovated Science Building, Room 106

Learn about and be a part of restoration efforts in Glen Helen
We will:

** Clean native plant seeds
** Learn about breaking seed dormancy
** Practice winter twig identification
** Plant seeds in preparation for planting restoration areas in Glen Helen

To sign up, contact: Linda Fuselier, Associate Professor, Antioch College. lfuselier@antiochcollege.org or YS Senior Center at 937-767-5751

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Iraq officials say gunmen kill 7 Sunni fighters

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraqi officials say gunmen wearing military uniforms have killed seven anti-al-Qaida militiamen in an attack in a town north of Baghdad.

Police officials say gunmen asked a local anti-al-Qaida militia leader in Tuz Khormato to accompany them to a checkpoint manned by a pro-government group, known as Sahwa, for questioning early Friday. After reaching at the checkpoint, the gunmen overpowered the leader and his men and then executed them.

Medics in nearby hospital confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief reporters.

Sahwa militiamen joined forces with U.S. troops to fight al-Qaida during the Iraq war. Ever since then, the group has been a target for Sunni insurgents who consider its members traitors.

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'Open secret': Patients who refuse treatment based on race

DETROIT (AP) ? It's been called one of medicine's "open secrets" ? allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race.

In the latest example, a white man with a swastika tattoo insisted that black nurses not be allowed to touch his newborn. Now two black nurses are suing the hospital, claiming it bowed to his illegal demands.

The Michigan cases are among several lawsuits filed in recent years that highlight this seldom-discussed issue, which quietly persists almost 60 years after the start of the civil rights movement.

The American Medical Association's ethics code bars doctors from refusing to treat people based on race, gender and other criteria, but there are no specific policies for handling race-based requests from patients.

"In general, I don't think honoring prejudicial preferences ... is morally justifiable" for a health care organization, said Dr. Susan Goold, a University of Michigan professor of internal medicine and public health. "That said, you can't cure bigotry ... There may be times when grudgingly acceding to a patient's strongly held preferences is morally OK."

Those times could include patients who have been so traumatized ? by rape or combat, for instance ? that accommodating their request would be preferable to forcing on them a caregiver whose mere presence might aggravate the situation, she said.

Tonya Battle, a veteran nurse at Flint's Hurley Medical Center, filed the first complaint against the hospital and a nursing manager, claiming a note posted on an assignment clipboard read, "No African-American nurse to take care of baby." She says the note was later removed but black nurses weren't assigned to care for the baby for about a month because of their race.

That case is now a federal lawsuit. In a statement earlier this week, Hurley President Melany Gavulic denied Battle's claim, saying the father was told that his request could not be granted. Gavulic said the swastika tattoo "created anger and outrage in our staff," and supervisors raised safety concerns.

Hospital officials said they planned to make a statement about the matter Friday evening but offered no details.

Multiple email and phone messages left for Battle through her attorney were unreturned, and a listed number for her had been disconnected. She told the Detroit Free Press she "didn't even know how to react" when she learned of her employer's actions following her interaction with the father.

She said she introduced herself to the man and he said, "I need to see your supervisor." That supervisor, Battle said, told her that the father, who was white, didn't want African-Americans to care for his child and had rolled up his sleeve to expose the swastika.

"I just was really dumbfounded," Battle said. "I couldn't believe that's why he was so angry (and) that's why he was requesting my (supervisory) nurse."

Attorney Tom Pabst, who is representing nurse Carlotta Armstrong in a second lawsuit, said the hospital's actions left nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit "in a ball of confusion."

"She said, 'You know what really bothered me? I didn't know what to do if the baby was choking or dying. Am I going to get fired if I go over there?'" Pabst said.

The Michigan cases follow a 2010 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the federal Civil Rights Act prohibits nursing homes from making staffing decisions for nursing assistants based on residents' racial preferences. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a black nursing assistant who sued her employer for racial discrimination.

In another federal lawsuit filed in 2005, three black employees of Abington Memorial Hospital near Philadelphia claimed they were prevented from treating a pregnant white woman by her male partner, who was a member of a white supremacist group. The man used a racial slur when forbidding any care by any African-Americans.

The complaint alleged that supervisors honored the man's request. The case was settled confidentially before going to trial, and the hospital admitted no liability. Frank Finch III, the attorney for the employees, said hospital officials also cited employee safety in their defense.

"That defense doesn't fly under the anti-discrimination law," Finch said. "Hospitals cannot use that as a defense in nonemergency situations."

He said every hospital has a policy against discrimination and "undoubtedly acquiescing to such a demand is a violation of a written, internal policy in addition to being a violation of the law."

Fordham University law professor Kimani Paul-Emile said she suspects nurses file more discrimination suits than doctors.

"With nurses and other sorts of staff, the hospital is telling them they can or cannot do something," she said. "That might go to why you might see more lawsuits brought by nurses."

She wrote an article last year in the UCLA Law Review titled "Patients' Racial Preferences and the Medical Culture of Accommodation." It was the source of the "open secrets" phrase.

Paul-Emile's research cited a 2007 study at the University of Michigan Health System and others on how physicians respond to patients' requests to be assigned providers of the same gender, race or religion.

The survey of emergency physicians found patients often make such requests, and they are routinely accommodated. A third of doctors who responded said they felt patients perceive better care from providers of shared demographics, with racial matches considered more important than gender or religion.

"The notion of white patients rejecting minority physicians for bigoted reasons in emergency departments and other hospital settings is deeply troubling and uncomfortably reminiscent of the type of discrimination that the civil rights statutes were designed to eliminate," Paul-Emile wrote in her article.

Another study she cited found that patient requests for care by a physician are most often accommodated when made by racial minority patients.

Lance Gable, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, said he believes such requests "are made more often than we'd like to think about" even if they aren't frequently agreed to by hospital management. He suspects a supervisor might honor them but not say anything explicit to employees and only in rare instances would signs be posted as alleged in the Flint case.

"Maybe their explanation is an accurate description of what happened ? the supervisor was scared of the father of this patient and made a decision that was ill-advised," Gable said. "It might have been the right thing to do for the safety of the staff, and it still might be a violation of anti-discrimination laws."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/patients-wont-see-nurses-different-race-203058110.html

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Japan PM arrives in Washington for summit with Obama

2013-02-21 23:13:48 GMT2013-02-22 07:13:48(Beijing Time) ?SINA.com

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday started a visit to the United States in which he hopes to show a firm, unified line to an "assertive China".

Abe arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Thursday afternoon. He meets Obama at the White House on Friday at a time of growing tensions between Japan and China, and days after a nuclear test by Pyongyang.

Fresh from a convincing December election victory and with high approval ratings, Abe has taken small steps toward a harder Japanese stance including moving to step up military spending by the officially pacifist state.

Danny Russel, Obama?s top advisor on Asia, said that the United States wanted a diplomatic solution to ease tensions over contested islands in the East China Sea.

Obama ?remains supportive of the peaceful efforts to find diplomatic resolution to outstanding issues of territorial claims,? Russel told reporters on a conference call.

Russel said that the United States wanted to avoid ?miscalculation? between China and Japan, saying that the world?s second and third largest economies were leading a region that is ?the driver of growth and dynamism.?

In an interview with The Washington Post ahead of his trip, Abe voiced hope that the U.S. alliance?and the presence of 47,000 American troops on Japanese soil under a security treaty?would "send a message to China".

Officials said that the two leaders would also look to show a common front on Pyongyang, which carried out its third nuclear test on Feb 12 despite pressure.

Abe, who previously served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007, has throughout his career been known as a hawk on Pyongyang.

Abe?s Liberal Democratic Party swept out of power the left-leaning Democratic Party of Japan, which initially had a rough relationship with Obama by pushing for the withdrawal of more US troops from crowded Okinawa island.

Robert Hathaway, director of the Asia program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, expected Obama to be forthright in public comments but to talk privately to Abe about avoiding miscalculations that could send tensions soaring with China.

Abe, who faces upper house elections in July, is likely to speak to Obama about whether Japan will join talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a U.S.-backed free trade pact bitterly opposed by many Japanese farmers.

White House official Michael Froman said that any nation that enters negotiations would be expected to put ?everything on the table.? Abe, during his campaign, said that certain sectors should be exempted.

(Agencies)

Source: http://english.sina.com/world/2013/0221/563866.html

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Health News - Clear-sighted research identifies genes for eye ...

More than 45,000 people of European and Asian ancestry have taken part in a big study to gain a better understanding of the genetics behind the world's most common eye disorder.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia's Raine Medical Research Foundation joined the international Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM) to test and survey participants and identify the genes that contribute to poor eyesight.

In a paper published in Nature Genetics recently, co-author Winthrop Professor David Mackey writes: "Refractive error is a prominent cause of blindness. ?Myopia, or near-sightedness, affects over 30 per cent of Western populations and up to 80 per cent of Asians.

"CREAM identified 16 new genetic loci for refractive error in individuals of European ancestry, of which eight were shared with Asians. ?Combined analysis identified eight additional associated loci.

"The new loci include candidate genes with functions in neurotransmission, ion transport, retinoic acid metabolism, extracellular matrix remodelling and eye development."

People with the biggest number of loci had a tenfold increased risk of myopia, said Professor Mackey, who is Chair of UWA Ophthalmology.

Professor Mackey has been involved in the Twins Eye Studies in Australia and said simple questions such as "Do you wear glasses for myopia?" and "What age did you start wearing glasses?" were as important as sophisticated science for helping to identify a genetic component in eye problems.

Researchers from 13 countries including Australia took part in the study. ?Four Australian groups including the Raine Medical Research Foundation contributed.??

According to leading author Professor Chris Hammond of King's College London, it was already known that environmental factors, such as reading, lack of outdoor exposure and a higher level of education can increase the risk of myopia. ?The condition is more common in people living in urban areas.

"How environmental factors affect the newly identified genes and cause myopia remains intriguing and will be further investigated by the consortium," Professor Hammond said.

Corresponding author Professor Caroline Klaver from Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam said: "Currently, possibilities to reduce progression of myopia are very limited. ?While one drug, called atropine, may reduce progression, it dilates the pupil and causes problems with light sensitivity and difficulty with reading.? New options are necessary. ?Chances are good that the insights gained from this study will provide openings for development of new strategies."

Media references

Winthrop Professor David Mackey (Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science,? (+61 8)? 9381 0756
Lions Eye Institute, UWA)
Michael Sinclair-Jones (UWA Public Affairs)? (+61 8)? 6488 3229? /? (+61 4) 00 700 783

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Samsung unveils TV Discovery for finding and watching video content

Mobile World Congress is just a few days away, but that hasn't stopped Samsung from pulling back the curtain on TV Discovery: a new service that lets users search for and watch live TV, on-demand video and even online content from outfits such as YouTube. The platform, which will work on Samsung's mobile devices and Smart TVs, serves up recommendations and even hones its ability to gauge your interest in programs the more often its used. When loaded on a tablet or smartphone, TV Discovery can act as a universal remote control, slinging commands to cable and satellite boxes, Blu-Ray players, home stereos and more.

Of course, if you're feeling social, the solution will also let you share what you're watching with others and check up on your friend's TV-viewing habits. Netflix and Blockbuster will be on tap for the platform in the US, while Europe will have access to Acetrax, Wuaki, MovieMax, FilmIn, Chili, Pathé and SF Anytime. TV Discovery will hit all of the firm's 2013 Smart TVs in the US, Korea and 12 European countries -- including France, Germany, Italy and the UK -- during the first quarter of this year. Slates and smartphones in those countries, however, will see nab the experience during Q2.

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Sentencing reset for woman who falsely claimed her son had terminal cancer

WETUMPKA, Alabama -- A Bainbridge woman who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with falsely claiming her son had terminal cancer and accepting money is now set to be sentenced in April.

Stephanie Nicole Jones, 23, was scheduled to be sentenced in Elmore County Circuit Court this morning, but she was unable to attend the hearing, according to court records. Her sentencing was reset for April 4.

The Montgomery Advertiser reported Jones had been in the hospital.

Jones pleaded guilty to one count of theft of property by deception and one count of attempted theft of property by deception on Oct. 15, 2012, according to court documents.

Authorities say that several fundraisers were held in the community in 2010 for Jones' son Brandon in order to pay for his last dying wish to go to Disney World.

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First-ever picture of a man, taken by an octopus? (Americablog)

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Global Update: New Polio Strains That Protect Vaccine Factory Workers

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The strains have the same ability to invoke an immune reaction as the live viruses now used to make vaccine do, but with no risk to vaccine factory employees.

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More HTC One press shots leak showing it does have a back

We've seen many leaks and teasers for HTC's M7 handset, rumored to arrive as the One, but apart from a grainy TV screenshot, we haven't seen its palm-friendly side. French site NowhereElse has allegedly come into possession of yet another press shot of the all-but-unannounced handset, with the back of the black model mostly on show. The side-by-side position of the camera and flash matches the mystery white phone Peter Chou was caught with, and apart from that, we can see a couple of shiny bands near the bottom and top, a small Beats Audio brand, the HTC logo and no apparent loudspeaker grille. We'll inevitably get the full story at the HTC event starting later today, and we'll be there to liveblog every minute of it.

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PFT: Jets cut ties with linebacker Scott

The process of the Eagles hiring Tom Gamble as their vice president of player personnel took longer than he hoped, but the former 49ers personnel man said the time was right this year.

Gamble said there were several reasons why he wasn?t able to join the Eagles a year ago, but that his rare mid-offseason jump made sense this time. He interviewed with general manager Howie Roseman about the job formerly held by Colts GM Ryan Grigson last year, but was able to talk his way out of the 49ers for what amounted to a lateral move.

?The timing wasn?t right [last year] for a lot of different reasons, some professional, some family,? Gamble said, via Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News. ?Then this whole thing came up again. I have enough relationship with Howie, enough dialogue. Living out in Pac 12 country, I?ve got a lot of respect for Chip Kelly ? I?ve been in and out of his [Oregon] building, he?s been in and out of [the 49ers'] building, I think he?s a hell of a football coach.?

?We chatted again, and you know what, it was time. I was real excited about it. Again, I wasn?t looking to go anywhere; I was in a great situation with some great people ? as good as it gets in this business.?

The primary lure for Gamble was a return home. His father Harry was the Eagles president in the 1980s when the son got into the family business.

?It?s Philadelphia. That means something,? Gamble said. ?It?s a little bit different, this thing. There?s not a lot of movement, not a lot of opportunity. I didn?t know when it would come up again, and I was ecstatic to come back.?

Gamble indicated that the 49ers were hesitant to let him leave a year ago, but agreed that if the opportunity presented itself again, they?d give him a chance.

Gamble interviewed for other GM jobs, but even though he lacks that title in Philadelphia, he?ll have significant input. Roseman doesn?t have the classic personnel evaluation background, and with Kelly having no NFL experience, getting Gamble on board is a solid move for the organization.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/19/jets-cut-bart-scott-too/related/

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