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Monday, October 31, 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Flood-wary Bangkok is contrast of misery, normalcy
Thai soldiers hold onto each other against the stream of water flowing into a neighborhood after a wall was breached by the swollen Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Thai soldiers hold onto each other against the stream of water flowing into a neighborhood after a wall was breached by the swollen Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A Thai vendor gets a drink inside a cooler at a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. City dikes overflowed in at least two places as coastal high tides pushed up the main Chao Praya river from the Gulf of Thailand, with water spilling into streets as city workers and troops shored up concrete walls with sandbags. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A Thai soldier holds a lunch pack in his mouth as he swims to a dry ground while fixing a broken flood barrier in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. City dikes overflowed in at least two places as coastal high tides pushed up the main Chao Praya river from the Gulf of Thailand, with water spilling into streets as city workers and troops shored up concrete walls with sandbags. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
A Thai boy looks at Halloween decorations at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. On one side of Bangkok, you'll find the victims of Thailand's worst flooding in half a century. But just a few miles away, you'll find something else entirely: well-heeled shoppers perusing bustling malls decorated with newly-hung Halloween decorations, couples sipping espresso in the air-conditioned comfort of ultra-chic cafes. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Shoppers look at Halloween decorations displayed at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. On one side of Bangkok, you'll find the victims of Thailand's worst flooding in half a century. But just a few miles away, you'll find something else entirely: well-heeled shoppers perusing bustling malls decorated with newly-hung Halloween decorations, couples sipping espresso in the air-conditioned comfort of ultra-chic cafes. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
BANGKOK (AP) ? On one side of Bangkok, you'll find the victims of Thailand's worst flooding in half a century. They float down trash-strewn waterways, paddling washtubs with wicker brooms over submerged neighborhoods.
Just a few miles (kilometers) away, you'll find something else entirely: well-heeled shoppers perusing bustling malls decorated with newly hung Halloween decorations and couples sipping espresso in the air-conditioned comfort of ultrachic cafes.
Although catastrophic flooding has devastated a third of this Southeast Asian nation and submerged some of the capital's northernmost districts, life is going on for the majority of this sprawling metropolis of 9 million people.
The desperate images of disaster contrast sharply with scenes of total normality ? from night-owls drinking cocktails in red-light districts to tourists enjoying relaxing foot massages in faux-leather chairs downtown.
An exodus of thousands of Bangkok residents to nearby resorts and a government-ordered five-day holiday have left the notoriously congested city unusually easy to maneuver by taxi and three-wheeled tuk-tuk.
"It's better, in a way," Nicole Attwater of Sydney said Sunday, adding that she was happy to brave some flooding to see the Grand Palace, the gold-studded former seat of the Thai monarchy, with far lighter crowds than normal on a sunny weekend morning.
"It's a good time to come, because it's quiet," she said.
Most of Bangkok is dry, with little to indicate that anything is wrong ? except for the ominous walls of sandbags stacked around hotels and homes, and the apocalyptic predictions of everyone from expatriate bloggers to some members of the Thai government.
Yet, the threat of floodwaters sweeping through the city is still real. Nationwide, 381 people have died in the flooding over the last three months, and 110,000 more have been displaced ? 10,000 of them in Bangkok, according to government figures. The catastrophe has put hundreds of thousands of people out of work and cost billions of dollars in damage ? a bill that grows larger by the day.
Among items struck from tourists' agendas: shopping for crafts at the popular Chatuchak weekend market and dinner cruises down the city's Chao Phraya river ? all canceled due to the high waters. The river swelled to a record high level early Sunday, spilling into some neighborhoods.
Fears over worse-case scenarios and travel warnings issued by foreign governments have slashed visitors by half at sites like the Grand Palace and the giant gold-plated Reclining Buddha inside Bangkok's Wat Pho temple complex.
But the biggest problem by far, said tour guide Keerati Atui, is the media, which he said have given the impression that most of Bangkok is under water.
"Look around," he said, gesturing to lines of tourists streaming into the palace. "It's dry. Everything here is normal."
River water has lapped at the palace gates and even crept inside, but much of it has welled up through drains in the riverside neighborhood. One picture posted this week on Twitter showed a cameraman filming a television news anchor on a street beside the palace in ankle-high water. On both sides of the pair, the street was dry.
Heavy monsoon rains have pummeled a large swath of Asia since July. As floodwaters crept across Thailand, they first drowned neighboring provinces, then districts on the northern outskirts of Bangkok. Last week, advancing water closed the city's Don Muang airport, which is used mainly for domestic flights. However, the international Suwarnabhumi airport is open, and the city's skytrain and subway lines are operating normally.
Nobody knows how far the water will go, but Bangkok's defenses have mostly held.
Statements from government leaders have alternated from assurances the capital would be spared to dire warnings that nowhere is safe.
Panicked Bangkokians have stripped supermarkets and convenience stores of bottled water and dried noodles in recent weeks, but there is still plenty to drink. Both those items can be found in street-side shops along the city's temple-dotted riverside, where the mineral water is ice cold and the noodle soup is spicy and sprinkled with fish balls.
"A lot of people are overreacting, they've been hoarding too much stuff," said Kwanpimol Pleegluay, a 48-year-old housewife. "They watch the news and see people in other flooded provinces and think that's going to happen to them here."
Kwanpimol was taking a casual stroll along the Chao Phraya with her husband over the weekend ? to see how high the river swelled. After peering into the water, she took his photo and chose one word to describe the scene: "Beautiful."
On the other side of the Chao Phraya, where the 200-year-old pagoda of the city's famed Temple of the Dawn rises from the banks, 42-year-old monk Phramaha Abhin said he was not worried.
"The Lord Buddha taught us not to be negligent, we must always prepare," said Phramaha, referring to newly laid protective layer of sandbags outside the temple where he lives. "But he also taught us not to foolishly fear that which hasn't happened yet."
Many people in Bangkok and neighboring provinces see the flooding as something that should be accepted.
In Bangkok's heavily flooded Thonburi district, a navy team evacuated a stranded pregnant woman whose water broke Sunday. Aorasa Wisetkoop looked anxious, but remained calm and held tightly onto her belly, while a rescue team lifted her into a boat.
"We had to get her to hospital," rescuer Nitipat Mongolpradit said.
But along with every tragic and urgent incident in the inundation, there were images of Thais splashing in the floodwaters for fun.
When the river began flowing like a waterfall over a wall into Chantana Srisuwan's wooden-shack kitchen, the 58-year-old pulled out a stack of aluminum pans, soaped them up and began washing them. "Why bother being troubled?" she asked.
"If we think we shouldn't get wet, we'll never have peace of mind," she said, as a neighbor complained he could not sleep because his bed was submerged beneath encroaching waves. "If there's no water, great. But if there is, we have to learn to live with it."
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Associated Press writers Vee Intarakratug, Margie Mason and Ian Mader contributed to this report.
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Black Keys 'Lonely Boy' Video: Meet The Dancing Machine
Actor/musician/security guard Derrick T. Tuggle's smooth moves earned him a starring role in the Keys' new clip.
By James Montgomery
Derrick T. Tuggle in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" music video
Photo: Warner Music Group
Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.
For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting his fist skyward as the song comes to a close. It is a decidedly odd, strangely compelling performance, and because of it, the "Lonely Boy" video — the first clip from the Keys' El Camino album — has racked up nearly 400,000 views in less than 24 hours. It's also made a rather unwitting star of Tuggle, even though (up until right now), no one knew his name.
But what's even more amazing is the fact that his star-making turn almost didn't happen at all, as Tuggle told MTV News on Thursday (October 27).
"I was cast as an extra, and there were maybe six or seven other people who were supposedly going to be in the video. ... I was the first one to perform in the video. It was a motel shot where the guys from the Black Keys come and give me the keys to their motel room," he said. "The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, 'Can you perform?' I said, 'I can dance, anybody can dance,' so I took some moves from everybody: John Travolta from 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction,' the Carlton Banks dance from 'The Fresh Prince' and a little bit of Michael Jackson, so it was a smorgasbord of everybody in there.
"It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing," Tuggle added. "My acting teacher Mark McPherson, he has us do this thing before we start class called 'Song and Dance,' where he'll have us sing one of our favorite songs, and then while we're singing it, he'll have us do a crazy dance, or a sexy dance, and I guess it spawned from that."
The end result is most definitely crazy — not to mention rather incredible, considering Tuggle nailed the routine in a single take ("As an actor, you have to know your lines, you have to be ready, so I was," he explained). And though he's had music-video experience in the past (he's done background work in clips for the Dave Matthews Band, Lenny Kravitz and Lloyd), he's never experienced anything quite like the reaction to "Lonely Boy," and he's hoping it will translate to more roles in the future.
"I'm elated, and I'm still in shock, to be honest. I've been out [in Los Angeles] for 10 years, pursuing acting and music, so hopefully this will lead to more work," he said. "Honestly, I just went down there to do my part and see what would happen. Who knew I would take over the whole thing?"
What did you think of Tuggle's moves? Let us know in the comments!
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Google takes another shot at the TV market (Reuters)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Google Inc is making another push to bring its Web savvy to television sets, hoping to tap into a vast new market despite consumers' lukewarm reaction to its initial offering.
The Internet search engine unveiled a revamped version of its Google TV service on Friday, bringing new features aimed at making the product easier-to-use and more appealing to consumers.
The new 2.0 version of Google TV provides new tools for recommending movies, TV programs and online videos to TV viewers, and makes it easier for software developers to create new apps for the television screen.
"There's a lot of thirst for using the Web in the living room," said Google Product Management VP Mario Queiroz, who is leading the Google TV initiative.
But in a sign of the many challenges that have frustrated Google's ambitions to conquer the living room, as well as those of other tech companies including Apple Inc, Queiroz described Google TV as a "long-term bet."
"I don't know what exact month this will take off," he told Reuters during a demonstration of the new product at Google's Mountain View, California headquarters last week. "I do think there's been a lot of progress over the past year and this next year there will be a lot more progress."
Google TV -- which currently comes built-in on certain Sony Corp television models and on Logitech International set-top boxes -- allows consumers to access online videos and websites on their TVs, as well as to play with specialized apps such as video games.
Google does not disclose how many users it has for Google TV, which was launched with great fanfare last year. But some analysts say that version 1.0 of the product has been a flop.
"The fire they were trying to start never even got a spark," said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.
The $299 price for the least-expensive Google TV device was too high, said McQuivey (Logitech has since reduced the price of its device to $100). And the fact that many of the television networks, perhaps sensing a threat from Google, blocked the Web-based versions of their shows from being accessible on Google TV devices created confusion among consumers, he said.
But TV is too attractive a market for Google to ignore, say analysts.
For Google, which generated 96 percent of its revenue from advertising last year, television represents a significant opportunity for expansion. According to industry research firm IDC, television advertising in the U.S. this year is expected to be a nearly $70 billion market.
Having a foothold in the living room could also be important for Google as the lines between traditional media and the Internet blur and as Google moves to bolster the rich trove of amateur videos on its YouTube website with professionally-produced content.
Other tech powerhouses also recognize the TV opportunity, including Microsoft Corp, which has taken steps to turn its Xbox video game console into a general-purpose media player.
In the newly-released biography of Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson relates a conversation in which the recently-deceased Apple co-founder said he was interested in creating an "integrated television set" that seamlessly connected with the Internet and with all of a consumer's electronic devices. So far analysts say that Apple's foray into the TV market has been a rare failure for the iPhone maker.
"The reason these companies have all been eyeing this market is that there's not that many markets that are 200 million plus units a year and have an installed base of a billion plus screens," said IDC analyst Danielle Levitas, referring to global sales of TV sets. "You can't ignore markets that big, on screens that are that important in terms of hours spent and media delivered."
THE MOTOROLA FACTOR
One advantage that Google could have in the TV market is its planned $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, which makes cable television set-top boxes as well as mobile phones.
"If I were Google, the first thing I would do is put (the Google TV software) into the next round of Motorola set-top boxes and say (to the cable providers) 'We'll give you half-off for these things, if you put Google TV in,'" said McQuivey of Forrester Research.
Google's Queiroz declined to discuss how Motorola might fit into the Google TV plans other than to note that Google has said it plans to run Motorola as a separate business after the acquisition closes.
Beginning on Sunday, Google will automatically upgrade the software on existing Sony Google TV devices that are already in consumers' homes, with software updates to Logitech coming shortly thereafter. New Google TV devices, from manufacturers including Samsung and Vizio, are expected next year.
Google has built Google TV on the new "Honeycomb" version of its Android operating system. The company has also redesigned the look of Google TV, replacing the cluttered, computer-like screen full of options with a more minimalist strip of graphical icons that sits at the bottom of the TV screen.
Google's Android Market, the central clearinghouse for the smartphone and tablet apps designed to run on the Android operating system, will now be available on Google TV. That means software developers that make smartphone applications, such as Rovio's Angry Birds, will easily be able to offer versions that run on Google TV.
But in contrast to Internet-connected smartphones, which have become incredibly popular in recent years, Web TV products from Google and other companies face a steep road as they strive to prove their worth to consumers, say some analysts.
"It's an incredibly difficult screen to figure out," said IDC's Levitas, noting that unlike with smartphones and PCs, a TV is often viewed by multiple people at the same time and has two disparate experiences -- standard television programing and Web content -- that need to be cleverly tied together.
"The TV is going to be the last frontier we crack in terms of the connected experience," said Levitas.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic, editing by Bernard Orr)
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Chaz Bono is the latest star to exit 'Dancing' (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? Chaz Bono has gotten his walking papers on "Dancing with the Stars."
Tuesday's edition of the hit ABC show marked the last dance for Bono. Despite his cheerful, spirited style, he had struggled from the beginning and came in last in the judges' assessment the night before.
The transgender activist said he came on the program "to show America a different kind of man."
Soccer star Hope Solo, who also was in jeopardy, avoided dismissal and will stay in contention. Six celebrities remain in the contest.
Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determine who is kicked off the show each week.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The latest episode of "Dancing With the Stars" included insults, an animal comparison and two nearly perfect performances.
A heated exchange between professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy and head judge Len Goodman stole the spotlight from first-place finishers Ricki Lake and J.R. Martinez.
Chmerkovskiy and his partner, soccer star Hope Solo, landed near the bottom of the judges' leaderboard Monday. With 20 points out of 30, they finished just ahead of Chaz Bono, in last place with 19 points.
One of the seven remaining celebrities will be dismissed during Tuesday's episode. Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determine who is kicked off the hit ABC show each week.
When Goodman called Solo's rumba "your worst dance of the whole season," Chmerkovskiy suggested the judge get out of the dance business.
Chmerkovskiy told one of the show's hosts that the judges seem to pick on certain contestants, and he kept up the conversation after Monday's live episode.
"The judges have their favorites," he said. "They always have."
Bono's professional partner, Lacey Schwimmer, agreed.
"They always have their favorites, and this season it's completely clear who they are. I won't name names, but we are not one of them," she said. "I'm actually proud of what Maks said. A lot of us don't get the chance to stand up for us and our partners."
Schwimmer cried backstage during Monday's episode and was still upset after the show, when she complained about the judges' "rude" remarks about Bono.
"Every week he gets referred to as an animal," she said. "They always comment on his personality, and last I checked, this was a dancing show."
After the couple danced their tango, judge Bruno Tonioli said Bono was like "a cute little penguin trying to be a big menacing bird of prey." Tonioli has also compared Bono to an Ewok.
Mom Cher tweeted her support before and after Bono's performance.
Bono said after the show that he "came on here to show people a strong proud transgender man, and I'm not going to let the judges get me down."
David Arquette, who finished in third place with his "Grease"-themed routine, said tensions are running high as the competition heats up.
"It's just a high-pressure part of the season," he said after Monday's episode. "Everybody's really passionate about it, so it's not a surprise people get fired up."
He earned 23 points for a quickstep that "had the exuberance and charge of a frisky teenager on spring break," Tonioli said.
Nancy Grace came in second with her best score yet: 24 points for a foxtrot that one judge called "a show-stopper."
Lake and Martinez tied with the top score of 29 points.
Rob Kardashian ? who had sisters Kim and Khloe and their basketball husbands among his cheering section ? finished in fourth place with 22 points for a cha-cha Tonioli described as "adequate, but it didn't have the impact and power it should at this stage."
The seven couples also danced a group routine to a medley of Broadway songs. Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth performed a medley of her own, singing a pair of show tunes.
Chenoweth is set to return on Tuesday's episode, when a sixth celebrity is ousted. Carson Kressley, Chynna Phillips, Kristin Cavallari, Elisabetta Canalis and Ron Artest/Metta World Peace have already been eliminated this season.
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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen can be reached at http://www.Twitter.com/APSandy.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Additional investments in youth needed as world population tops 7 billion, states United Nations report
ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2011) ? In five days, world population is projected to reach 7 billion. How we respond now will determine whether we have a healthy, sustainable and prosperous future or one that is marked by inequalities, environmental decline and economic setbacks, according to The State of World Population 2011 report, published Oct. 26 by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
"With planning and the right investments in people now -- to empower them to make choices that are not only good for themselves, but also for our global commons -- our world of 7 billion can have thriving sustainable cities, productive labour forces that fuel economies, and youth populations that contribute to the well-being of their societies," says UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin in the foreword of the report, entitled People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion.
Our record population size can be viewed in many ways as a success for humanity because it means that people are living longer and more of our children are surviving worldwide, the report shows. But not everyone has benefited from this achievement or the higher quality of life that this implies. Great disparities exist among and within countries. Disparities in rights and opportunities also exist between men and women, girls and boys. Charting a path now to development that promotes equality, rather than exacerbates or reinforces inequalities, is more important than ever.
The 7 billion milestone "is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action," said Dr. Osotimehin at the report's launch in London. The report is also being launched in more than 100 other cities worldwide.
Of the world's 7 billion, 1.8 billion are young people between the ages of 10 and 24, Dr. Osotimehin noted. "Young people hold the key to the future, with the potential to transform the global political landscape and to propel economies through their creativity and capacities for innovation. But the opportunity to realize youth's great potential must be seized now," Dr. Osotimehin said. "We should be investing in the health and education of our youth. This would yield enormous returns in economic growth and development for generations to come."
"Today's milestone is a reminder that we must act now," said Dr. Osotimehin, adding that the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development and its call to enable individuals have the power to make their own reproductive decisions remain the best guides for the future.
"With the 2014 anniversary of the ICPD rapidly approaching, the data indeed show that the road to equitable economic and social development runs straight through the centre of our mandate at UNFPA," Dr. Osotimehin said. "But our work is far from done. Consider that there are 215 million women of childbearing age in developing countries who lack access to voluntary family planning. There are millions of adolescent girls and boys in the developing world who have too little access to sexuality education and information about how to prevent pregnancies or protect themselves from HIV. In pockets of the world where women's status is low, infant and child survival are also low. And we must tear down economic, legal and social barriers, to put women and men and boys and girls on an equal footing in all spheres of life."
The State of World Population 2011 (http://www.unfpa.org/swp/) is mainly a report from the field, where demographers, policymakers, governments, civil society and individuals are grappling with population trends ranging from aging to rapidly rising numbers of young people, from high population growth rates to shrinking populations, and from high rates of urbanization to rising international migration. The countries featured in this report are China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hermit crabs running short on shells? 3D printing to the rescue! (Yahoo! News)
Crowd-sourced shell designs could help save a species
Hermit crabs are one of the most relaxing pets you can own. They don't bark, hiss, or need to be taken outside, and they generally live their lives in the slow lane. Unfortunately, these cool crustaceans are feeling the pinch of their very own housing crisis ? a lack of suitable shells to call home. Luckily, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot is here to lend a helping hand.
Unlike many crustaceans, hermit crabs aren't born with a hard exterior covering their entire body. While their front legs and upper torso are covered with a rigid exoskeleton, a hermit crab's abdomen is soft and vulnerable. They solve this problem by appropriating the discarded shells of various snails and other deep sea critters, but a recent drought in shells has left domestic hermit crabs in a bind. By creating artificial shells using 3D printers, MakerBot hopes to make DIY shells a viable option for crab owners.
Project Shellter, as MakerBot calls it, is still in its earliest phase, and key details like what material to use are still being hashed out. The company has set up "crabitats" at their manufacturing locations to test out what shell designs work best, and if you're feeling ambitious, you can even design your own. If you have access to a MakerBot 3D printer, you can craft your own crab home and upload the details to design site Thingiverse. Who knows, your creation just might please the discriminating hermits.
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Three Ways to Drive Away Annoying Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween [Evil Week]
Whether you're an old grump with no Halloween spirit or you have a baby with an early bedtime, there are any number of reasons you could want to avoid greedy trick-or-treaters this Halloween. Here are a few ways to keep them at bay.
Method One: Leave the Candy on the Porch
The most obvious method is to just leave the kids some candy on the porch. Whether your lights are on or not, they probably won't bother you?they'll just take some candy and leave. Of course, this gives you the problem of mean kids that just take all the candy in the bowl, and if it's clear that you're still home, people will probably knock if there's an empty bowl. If you don't want to give up your God-given free right to keep your lights on in the evening, an automated candy dispenser could solve all your problems. Photo by Ginny.
Method Two: The Empty Bowl
If you're a Halloween hater and don't even want to give those little rugrats any candy, you'll have to be a bit more creative. You could always stick some caution tape or a "Beware of Dog" sign up on your fence, but the easiest method is probably to just stick an empty bowl on your front porch. Coupled with a sign that says "We are out for the night, take a few pieces of candy", it'll look just like you're gone and celebrating, but that some mean kid came and took all the candy. As long as your lights are off, no one should bother you. Photo by Jakub Hlavaty.
Method Three: The Automatic Light Switch
If you want to get a bit more creative, Instructables has a great guide to building an anti-Halloween light sensor. With just an Arduino and a few choice pieces of electronics, you can build a sensor on your front stoop that turns off the lights as soon as any festively clad children approach, as if to say "I'm going to bed, so please go away". It's a bit more time-consuming, but also hilariously evil if you want to really disappoint some of those poor kids.
There are likely a lot of other clever methods you could use to keep those kids away?if you've got a particularly tight-knit neighborhood, perhaps, just start giving away toothbrushes and wait for the kid network to start buzzing?but the above methods should get you by pretty easily. Got any of your own favorite Halloween avoidance techniques? Share them with us in the comments.
You can contact Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at whitson@lifehacker.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Video: Students on trip to brenda from Long Island
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Video: Cramer Defends Chipotle Stock Price
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
NFL's Goodell advises English FA on diversity rule
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updated 12:42 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2011
LONDON (AP) -NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has advised English Football Association officials on the benefits of adopting an American Football rule designed to create more opportunities for black and minority coaches.
The FA and League Managers' Association has spent several months exploring the possibility of emulating the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate when filling head coach and general manager positions.
Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, who pushed for the diversity rule that was eventually named after him, joined Goodell in a meeting with FA officials this week.
"We're more than happy to share our perspective in anything we do (...) the issue that we spent time on was what we call the Rooney Rule," Goodell said Saturday. "What that has done is create more opportunities for African-American coaches and other minority coaches to become NFL head coaches because you've had to look at a broader slate of qualified individuals.
"And that has been good for our game (and) it's good business. And that was exactly our message to the FA officials."
Goodell is in London for Sunday's regular-season NFL game at Wembley Stadium between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears, teams which both employ black coaches.
Tampa Bay's Raheem Morris and Lovie Smith of the Bears are among seven black coaches and one Hispanic coach currently working in the NFL. When the Rooney Rule was implemented in 2003, there were three African American NFL head coaches.
Among England's 92 professional clubs over the top four divisions, there are only two black managers - Chris Hughton at second-tier Birmingham and Chris Powell at third-tier club Charlton.
In the Premier League - the world's richest football league - all 20 managers are white.
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Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus ready for your pre-orders, sticky with Honeycomb (Update: 404'd)
Having passed the FCC's critical eye, and hot on the heels of Samsung's now official love-in with Google, the Korean manufacturer's pint-sized tablet refresh is now up for pre-ordering. Priced at $399 for the 16GB model (or $499 for 32GB), Amazon remains tight-lipped on release date info, but is more than happy to tell us what we'll get for that wad of notes. That includes Android Honeycomb 3.2, and a dual-core 1.2GHz processor -- a substantial jump up from the single 1GHz processor we had with the original Galaxy Tab. If Samsung can promise a swift Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade, we could well be sold.
Update: It appears the Amazon links are pointing to a 404 error now. We'll keep an eye on them!
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Ohio Exotic Pet Incidents, by the Numbers (ContributorNetwork)
An ongoing legislative review of exotic pet ownership laws in Ohio may stem the tide of tragic incidents that have cost both animal and human lives. Current laws in the state are among the most lenient in the nation. The expired executive order signed by former Gov. Ted Strickland before leaving office required a more comprehensive reporting of ownership and revocation when animal mistreatment occurred, but did little to bring Ohio laws up to the strict standards of ownership required in a majority of states. Although laws vary, many states required a written examination pertaining to animal care knowledge, inspection of habitat and a minimum amount of time spent handling the same breed prior to permit application.
Here are some facts about Ohio exotic pet laws and incidents.
84: The number of exotic pet incidents and escapes which have occurred in the state since tracking began in 1993.
24: The age of Brent Kandra, the most recent fatality stemming from exotic animal handling. In 2010 Kandra was killed while feeding a bear on an exotic animal farm near Cleveland. The animal was put down by local authorities.
500 pounds: The weight of black bear which was killed in Morrow County after escaping. Sheriff's Deputy Stuart Mattix who was bitten while attempting to capture the bear during the 2008 incident was forced to shoot the animal to protect the community.
80: The age of John Kokas who was beaten by a kangaroo last month on an exotic animal farm in Marion County. The elderly man recovered and the exotic pet returned to the farm. At the time of the incident, Kokas Exotics was utilizing Facebook to promote the sale of baby kangaroos and other exotic animals raised on the farm.
550 pounds: The weight of a lion kept as an exotic pet in Pike County by Terry Brumfeld. The owner was attempting to get the animal back into the cage when it ran away toward State Route 23. The lion was recovered without incident.
1: The number of known monkey bites in Noble County. An escaped macaque monkey founds its way into a parked pickup truck and bit the owner.
10: The age of a Columbiana County girl attacked by a pet mountain lion while playing at a friend's house. The child recovered and no information is available about the fate of the mountain lion.
200: The number of snakes kept by Marion area breeder Michael Joliff. The man eventually recovered from life threatening injuries from a Western diamondback rattle snake.
36: The age of an Ashtabula County woman attacked by a pet black bear. The 400-pound animal escaped from the Grand River Fur Exchange Breeding Farm.
5: The number of exotic pets which perished in a fire at a Summit County exotic animal farm. The fire which killed a pair of tiger cubs, bear cub and iguanas was not the first time law enforcement officers were alerted to issues at the facility.
1: The number of exotic pet attacks in Butler County. A lion owned by a Butler County man attacked his adult daughter and had to be shot.
12: The number of days an escaped Patagonian cavy in Clark County roamed the town before being hit along State Route 41. The 3-foot-tall, 30-pound cavy was killed upon impact.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Education Policy and Republican Frontrunners Mitt Romney and Herman Cain (ContributorNetwork)
A new CNN poll shows Republican presidential nomination candidates Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in a dead heat to lead the GOP pack. Romney, Cain and the other GOP contenders will continue their series of debates October 18 in Las Vegas. Prior debates have focused on Republicans' core issues: improving the economy, restructuring the tax code and undoing President Obama's healthcare overhaul. But one burning issue about which the GOP candidates have kept mostly quiet is the implementation of education reforms at the state level.
In particular, do Romney and Cain see limits on collective bargaining, such as those recently passed in Ohio, as the pathway to instituting education reforms?
State level educational policy debates are not as sexy as healthcare and taxes - at least not yet. With Ohio voters facing a November referendum (Issue 2) on Governor Kasich's restrictive new collective bargaining reform law, Republican contenders have the opportunity and responsibility to connect their education policy views to Ohio's voters. Here's why:
Both Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have similar stances on the federal government's role in public education. Romney, who once called for the dismantling of the Education Department, now supports continuation of President George W. Bush' No Child Left Behind Act. However, Romney also champions programs, including the expansion of tuition vouchers, to provide students with more robust school choice options. Romney also favors increasing use of charter schools to force traditional public schools to "compete" for students (and their accompanying tax dollars).
Herman Cain's education policy doesn't mirror Romney's stance, but in effect it's close. Cain emphasizes the need to return educational control to the state and local level, where Cain sees the best opportunities to institute changes satisfactory to each community. Like Romney, Cain supports funding for voucher programs and charter schools. Cain seems less interested in backing No Child Left Behind than Romney, favoring a gradual reduction in federal education aid to states.
Both Romney and Cain see teachers as part of public schools' problems. Both candidates aim to reward "good" teachers and empower districts to cut "bad" teachers. However, neither frontrunner has delineated a detailed plan for how to do this. Romney, who has referred to union leaders as "fat cats," and Cain are both businessmen who see the free market and application of business analytics to public education as the foundation for school improvement. Does that mean that both Romney and Cain stand with Governer Kasich of Ohio in supporting Ohio's tough new collective bargaining limits? How will the Occupy Wall Street movement's brewing animosity toward wealthy corporate types color the debate over whether business provides the best model for public education policymaking?
The answer to that question would put into stark relief the education policy stances of both Romney and Cain. On the one hand, the candidates' support for Issue 2 would immediately alienate what appears to be a majority of Ohio voters. Given Ohio's swing-state status, this seems politically unwise. On the other hand, both candidates seem to want to empower states to do exactly what Governor Kasich has done in Ohio.
I would ask the candidates: Do you stand with Governor Kasich in support of Ohio's new collective bargaining law?
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Smashing pumpkins: Show us your MMA carved pumpkins
Artist Ray Villafane created a pumpkin that reminds me of MMA's best punch-faces.
That is an impressive work of art, particularly the flying pumpkin teeth. Could you do any better?
Here's the challenge. Create an MMA-inspired pumpkin and post it on the Cagewriter Facebook page. It can be a fighter, a fight, a logo, whatever. It just needs to be obviously related to mixed martial arts and made from a pumpkin, and not obscene, vulgar or otherwise inappropriate. We will award the best ones DVDs, fight programs and whatever else we can pull from the Cagewriter prize closet.
Read on to see some inspiration from recent fights via photographer Tracy Lee, or look through a collection of Cagewriter's exclusive pictures.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Video: Drunk dad who let 9-year-old drive goes to court
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Evanescence Comeback LP Hits #1 On Billboard
Debut album from 'American Idol' runner-up Lauren Alaina enters chart at #5.
By Gil Kaufman
Evanescence
Photo: Wind-up Records
Amy Lee and Evanescence will be back in a familiar place next week with their first album in five years. Evanescence's self-titled effort will hit #1 on the Billboard 200 on sales of 127,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. While impressive, the sales were less than half of what the band's 2006 sophomore album, The Open Door, sold (447,000) in its first week in 2006.
Hard rockers Five Finger Death Punch lock down the #3 slot with American Capitalist (91,000), easily besting "American Idol" runner-up Lauren Alaina, whose Wildflower hits the chart at #5 on sales of 69,000.
Also debuting in the top 10 are Ryan Adams' 13th effort, Ashes & Fire, which sold 49,000 copies, and country star Martina McBride, whose Eleven sneaks in at #10 (40,000).
Rounding out the top 10: Adele, 21 (#2, 111,000); "Idol" champ Scotty McCreery's debut, Clear as Day (down 55 percent in its second week to #4 on 88,000); Tony Bennett, Duets II (#6, 55,000); Lady Antebellum, Own the Night (#8, 47,000); and Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV (#9, 45,000).
In a week when most of the hold-over in the top 15 lost ground, the only gainer is Foster the People's five-month-old debut, Torches, which is up 19 percent to #12 (27,000). Joe Jonas' debut solo album, Fastlife, pops in at #15 (18,000) and the soundtrack to the shoots up 120 spots to #16 as sales soared by more than 400 percent to 18,000.
Further down the line, Icelandic conundrum Björk's Biophilia materializes at #27 (15,000) and Peter Gabriel's orchestral take on his old hits, New Blood, is at #30 (13,000). Down at #46, the Britney Spears remix collection, B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2, debuts on modest sales of just under 9,000.
Evanescence also take the top spot on the iTunes album chart, where Adele holds down the #2 spot, followed by Five Finger Death Punch, Adams, Alaina, Hunter Hayes' self-titled album, Foster the People, pre-order for Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, McCreery and the "Footloose" soundtrack.
Adele holds down the #1 spot on the iTunes singles chart with "Someone Like You," keeping LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" at #2, just ahead of Rihanna's "We Found Love," Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks," Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild & Free" and Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger."
Rounding out the top 10 are Gym Class Heroes at #7 with "Stereo Hearts," David Guetta's "Without You," Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel ..." and Lady Gaga's "Yoü and I."
Next week's debuts will include the latest from reunited indie rock godfathers Jane's Addiction and the long-awaited solo debut from former Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump.
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Woman gets $4 compensation for Korean War killing
SEOUL?? A South Korean woman has been offered a little over $4 in government compensation for the death of her brother during the 1950-53 Korean War, embarrassing officials who say they were bound by an out-dated law.
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The woman was two years old when her brother was killed in combat in 1950, but never knew of his existence until told of his death by a neighbor, local media reported, adding the children's mother has suffered from dementia.
The family had not received any compensation until April when the soldier's sister was awarded 5,000 won ($4.33) under a law in effect during the war.
The presidential Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has called the decision "incomprehensible" and urged the government to review it.
"We hope that this case will lead to forming a system of adequately compensating the families of Korean War veterans who continue to live with deep pain," the commission said.
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs and the Defense Ministry said a new law was needed to pay more or adjust the sum to incorporate inflation and interest.
Nearly 140,000 South Korean soldiers were killed in combat and as many as 130,000 are missing in action according to the Defense Ministry. ($1 = 1156.100 Korean won)
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Project leads next decade of ageing research across Europe
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An ambitious project led by researchers at the University of Sheffield is set to tackle the grand challenge of Europe's ageing population over the next 10 years.
The FUTURAGE Road Map, created by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology in the Department of Sociological Studies, will provide the European research agenda for ageing over the next 10 years.
The Road Map was launched today at a meeting of the European Parliament entitled Meeting the Grand Challenge of Ageing: the New European Research Agenda and hosted by MEPs of the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel.
The document is the result of the unprecedented FUTURAGE project which presents a major step forward in European ageing research. FUTURAGE has brought together 24 partners, 14 European countries, eight stages of consultation and over 700 individual contributors and organisations, representing many thousands of people to create a better future for ageing in Europe.
Europe is currently the oldest region in the world, and the upward trajectory of European ageing has been linear for more than 150 years. The share of the population aged 65 and over will rise from 17% in 2010 to 30% in 2060, with those aged 80 and over being the fastest growing age group, increasing from 5% to 12% over the same period.
The current average of healthy life years (years of life in full health without disability) at 65 in the EU is eight years for both men and women. However, this varies among Member States from three years in Estonia to 13 years for women and 14 years for men in Denmark. The healthy life years gap between European countries exceeds the gap in life expectancy. Both these gaps are driven mainly by the low levels of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Central and Eastern European countries. The Road Map aims to tackle the health inequalities across Europe and will aid the EU's target to increase healthy active life by two years by the year 2020.
Despite Europe's ageing population, Professor Alan Walker, leader of the FUTURAGE project and a Fellow of the British Academy, argues in the Road Map:"There continues to be a structural lag between this socio-demographic forward leap and societal institutions and attitudes, for example in the labour market and media. Hence the need for a new vision. This has to be a positive vision in which all older people, regardless of competence and capability, are included as full citizens, expected to contribute and participate and in which they feel empowered.
"The reality of the plasticity and diversity of old age must replace the outdated model of inevitable decline and disability. Later life is but one part of a life course which is characterised by lifelong development. The concept that best captures this life course perspective is 'active ageing', an inclusive paradigm which does not exclude inactive or frail older persons."
The impact of the Road Map is set to be felt across Europe from research settings to end users of services over the next 10 years. Older people featured significantly in the consultation process of FUTURAGE, ensuring that both their views are represented and their complex needs understood to inform the Road Map's recommendations.
In addition to the detailed research priorities, four key recommendations of the Road Map are:
- Engaging end users of research, especially older people
- Better coordination of existing and future European ageing research
- Capacity building for doctoral, postdoctoral and mid-research career training and structure. Providing infrastructure, support and training to those countries with relatively low ageing research capacity
- Knowledge transfer/knowledge exchange to exploit the results of the research it produces
The Road Map also identifies the key research questions that must be addressed in the near future in order to effectively manage the challenges of an ageing population. Some of these include:
- What role does age based discrimination play in exclusion of older people from service use and consumer markets?
- What are the dementia fears in European societies, what differences may exist between countries and how are such fears affecting ageing people in their everyday lives?
- What are the prevailing norms within the health and care sectors that potentially contribute to negative attitudes towards older people and inequalities? How do these attitudes deter effective health care interventions?
- What is the economic and social impact of age discrimination in the labour market?
- Can we identify a practically useful set of biomarkers of ageing capable of predicting future health and longevity in individual humans?
Funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), FUTURAGE is one of the EU's flagship policies for ageing, recognised by Mire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Union Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science as: "undertaking the most extensive consultation ever conducted in this field and it is mobilising stakeholders, including medical practitioners, policy makers, industry and representatives of older people to work out the terms of this Road Map."
Professor Alan Walker commented: "This project has been an extraordinary journey involving most of Europe's leading scientists in the ageing field and all other major stakeholders, including, I am proud to say, older people themselves. The fact that consensus has been achieved across such a wide front is remarkable. The Road Map is built on the assumptions of multi-disciplinarity, a life course approach to ageing and a commitment to the translation of scientific research into policy and practical responses to ageing. It provides the basis for Europe to adjust successfully to its unprecedented ageing and for a brighter future of Europeans as they age."
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Notes for editors:
To find out more about the FUTURAGE project visit: http://www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk
To access a copy of the Road Map visit: http://www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk/road-map
For further information please contact: Amy Stone, Media Relations Officer, on 0114-2221046 or email a.f.stone@sheffield.ac.uk
This news release will be available to view online on 18/11/2011 at http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2011/project-leads-next-decade-of-ageing-research-across-europe.html
To read other news releases about the University of Sheffield, visit http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/
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Share ] Contact: Amy Stone
a.f.stone@sheffield.ac.uk
01-142-221-046
University of Sheffield
An ambitious project led by researchers at the University of Sheffield is set to tackle the grand challenge of Europe's ageing population over the next 10 years.
The FUTURAGE Road Map, created by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology in the Department of Sociological Studies, will provide the European research agenda for ageing over the next 10 years.
The Road Map was launched today at a meeting of the European Parliament entitled Meeting the Grand Challenge of Ageing: the New European Research Agenda and hosted by MEPs of the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel.
The document is the result of the unprecedented FUTURAGE project which presents a major step forward in European ageing research. FUTURAGE has brought together 24 partners, 14 European countries, eight stages of consultation and over 700 individual contributors and organisations, representing many thousands of people to create a better future for ageing in Europe.
Europe is currently the oldest region in the world, and the upward trajectory of European ageing has been linear for more than 150 years. The share of the population aged 65 and over will rise from 17% in 2010 to 30% in 2060, with those aged 80 and over being the fastest growing age group, increasing from 5% to 12% over the same period.
The current average of healthy life years (years of life in full health without disability) at 65 in the EU is eight years for both men and women. However, this varies among Member States from three years in Estonia to 13 years for women and 14 years for men in Denmark. The healthy life years gap between European countries exceeds the gap in life expectancy. Both these gaps are driven mainly by the low levels of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Central and Eastern European countries. The Road Map aims to tackle the health inequalities across Europe and will aid the EU's target to increase healthy active life by two years by the year 2020.
Despite Europe's ageing population, Professor Alan Walker, leader of the FUTURAGE project and a Fellow of the British Academy, argues in the Road Map:"There continues to be a structural lag between this socio-demographic forward leap and societal institutions and attitudes, for example in the labour market and media. Hence the need for a new vision. This has to be a positive vision in which all older people, regardless of competence and capability, are included as full citizens, expected to contribute and participate and in which they feel empowered.
"The reality of the plasticity and diversity of old age must replace the outdated model of inevitable decline and disability. Later life is but one part of a life course which is characterised by lifelong development. The concept that best captures this life course perspective is 'active ageing', an inclusive paradigm which does not exclude inactive or frail older persons."
The impact of the Road Map is set to be felt across Europe from research settings to end users of services over the next 10 years. Older people featured significantly in the consultation process of FUTURAGE, ensuring that both their views are represented and their complex needs understood to inform the Road Map's recommendations.
In addition to the detailed research priorities, four key recommendations of the Road Map are:
- Engaging end users of research, especially older people
- Better coordination of existing and future European ageing research
- Capacity building for doctoral, postdoctoral and mid-research career training and structure. Providing infrastructure, support and training to those countries with relatively low ageing research capacity
- Knowledge transfer/knowledge exchange to exploit the results of the research it produces
The Road Map also identifies the key research questions that must be addressed in the near future in order to effectively manage the challenges of an ageing population. Some of these include:
- What role does age based discrimination play in exclusion of older people from service use and consumer markets?
- What are the dementia fears in European societies, what differences may exist between countries and how are such fears affecting ageing people in their everyday lives?
- What are the prevailing norms within the health and care sectors that potentially contribute to negative attitudes towards older people and inequalities? How do these attitudes deter effective health care interventions?
- What is the economic and social impact of age discrimination in the labour market?
- Can we identify a practically useful set of biomarkers of ageing capable of predicting future health and longevity in individual humans?
Funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), FUTURAGE is one of the EU's flagship policies for ageing, recognised by Mire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Union Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science as: "undertaking the most extensive consultation ever conducted in this field and it is mobilising stakeholders, including medical practitioners, policy makers, industry and representatives of older people to work out the terms of this Road Map."
Professor Alan Walker commented: "This project has been an extraordinary journey involving most of Europe's leading scientists in the ageing field and all other major stakeholders, including, I am proud to say, older people themselves. The fact that consensus has been achieved across such a wide front is remarkable. The Road Map is built on the assumptions of multi-disciplinarity, a life course approach to ageing and a commitment to the translation of scientific research into policy and practical responses to ageing. It provides the basis for Europe to adjust successfully to its unprecedented ageing and for a brighter future of Europeans as they age."
###
Notes for editors:
To find out more about the FUTURAGE project visit: http://www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk
To access a copy of the Road Map visit: http://www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk/road-map
For further information please contact: Amy Stone, Media Relations Officer, on 0114-2221046 or email a.f.stone@sheffield.ac.uk
This news release will be available to view online on 18/11/2011 at http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2011/project-leads-next-decade-of-ageing-research-across-europe.html
To read other news releases about the University of Sheffield, visit http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/
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