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Barbra Streisand to sing at Oscars for first time in decades
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress, singer and director Barbra Streisand may be a familiar figure at Hollywood's Oscars, but she has only sung on the annual awards show once.
Streisand will perform again at the Academy Awards on February 24, producers said on Wednesday, without providing details about how her appearance would fit into the show or what she might sing.
Streisand, 70, has won two Oscars, one for best actress in "Funny Girl" and another for best original song, "Evergreen" from her 1976 vehicle "A Star Is Born." Her performance of the song at the 1977 Oscars show was her only previous onstage stint at Hollywood's biggest night.
"In an evening that celebrates the artistry of movies and music, how could the telecast be complete without Barbra Streisand?" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement. "We are honored that she has agreed to do a very special performance on this year's Oscars."
Streisand has also been nominated for several Oscars, including for best actress in "The Way We Were" and as producer for best picture nominee "The Prince of Tides."
Most recently she co-starred with Seth Rogen in "The Guilt Trip," a Christmas 2012 release.
Earlier this month, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that Streisand would be this year's recipient of its annual Chaplin Award, a prestigious honor recognizing achievement in film.
The Oscars will be presented at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, hosted by Seth MacFarlane and broadcast live on ABC as well as in more than 225 countries worldwide.
(Editing by Chris Michaud and Lisa Von Ahn)
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Florida teenager's killer seeks to delay trial
George Zimmerman talks with defense counsel Mark O'Mara at the Seminole County courthouse after a hearing in Sanford, Florida, December 11,
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman will seek to delay the start of his trial in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin to allow him more time to raise money for his defense, his attorney said on Wednesday.
Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's lead defense attorney, said he planned to file a motion to request the trial, which is scheduled to start in June, be delayed by six months, arguing he needs more time and money to investigate the claims against his client.
"I think that we still need another $200,000 to $300,000," he told Reuters. "There's still a lot of investigation to do."
O'Mara said a separate request for the court to find Zimmerman indigent and eligible for state funding of defense expenses "may be on the horizon."
Zimmerman, who is out of jail on a $1 million bond, is living in hiding in central Florida pending the trial.
At the time of the shooting on February 26, Zimmerman was a volunteer neighborhood watch captain in a gated community where Martin was staying with his father.
Prosecutors say Zimmerman profiled Martin as the teenager walked back to where he was staying, then pursued, confronted and killed him.
Zimmerman is expected to claim self defense under Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law which makes it difficult to prosecute a shooter who subsequently claims self defense.
A new Zimmerman defense fund website that went public on Wednesday provides a general accounting of expenditures and shows the fund has raised more than $314,000 since May 2012.
The money has been spent on Zimmerman's jail bond, security and legal costs, and almost $62,000 for Zimmerman's living expenses, according to the website.
As of this week, the fund balance was under $5,000, O'Mara said.
"I think there's enough money to pay rent (for Zimmerman) for the next month and some other living expenses and not much more than that," O'Mara said.
The defense fund is planning more aggressive fundraising, according to the website.
O'Mara said upcoming expenses include the hiring of four to seven more experts for the defense. Neither O'Mara or co-counsel Don West are being paid, according to the website.
The next court hearing on pending pre-trial issues is set for Tuesday.
(Editing by Kevin Gray and Tim Dobbyn)
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Relationship expert Dr. Jamie Turndorf (aka Dr. Love) advises a man whose girlfriend placed ads to explore her bi-sexual urges. She denies having slept with anyone else, but his gut tells him otherwise. If he finds out that she?s lied to him, he?ll end the relationship. He wonders how to get her to tell him the truth. AskDrLove.com is the Web's premier free relationship advice site since 1996. Search thousands of relationship, marriage, dating, and sex advice articles and videos on every imaginable problem, or Ask Dr. Love your own question!
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Mexico Violations of Legal Due Process Are 'Daily Bread' - Especially for Indigenous
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Retail sales forecast to rise, but not as much | Wichita Eagle
The National Retail Federation on Monday forecast that U.S. retail sales will rise 3.4 percent in 2013, a pretty lukewarm number, and below the 2012 amount of 4.2 percent.
The forecast excludes automobiles, restaurants and convenience stores, but includes all other retail operations.
On the plus side, the federation said, income growth and hiring remain positive, although slow. But consumers will spend more conservatively early in the year because of the unsettled atmosphere surrounding federal spending and tax issues, plus the impact of the increase in Social Security taxes, which returned to a higher rate Jan. 1.
?While it?s too early to know the full effect of higher payroll taxes, there?s no question that many consumers will feel some kind of impact from the change in their paychecks,? federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz, said in a statement. ?That said, consumers have in the past shown a resiliency in the face of uncertainty, and we expect those impacted to adjust to smaller budgets by trading down or simply cutting back on certain items. Overall we foresee some improvements in the second half of the year should the outlook for job creation and income growth improve.?
Online sales are expected to rise between 9 and 12 percent, the federation said.
Local merchants overall can probably expect something similar, agreed Jeremy Hill, director of the center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University.
Hill said he also expects the first half of the year to be particularly slow because of the debates about spending and taxes in Congress. By the second half of the year, he said, the net effect of continued growth will prompt more spending
?As the employment situation improves, we?re seeing more who are underemployed move to positions that are appropriate for their skills, so there is better matching in the labor market,? he said.
He downplayed the impact of the payroll tax on Kansans because of a partial offsetting impact of cuts in the state?s income tax. Once they get their tax refunds, they?ll forget about the smaller amount in their paychecks.
?The average person in Kansas won?t see much net effect,? he said.
Each business is different, of course. Some are seeing strong gains while others struggling to stay open.
Upscale clothing store Johnston?s Clothiers is somewhere in the middle.
Owner J.V. Johnston said he is buying inventory on the assumption of 2 to 3 percent growth this year, based on slow growth in the local economy and continued doldrums in much of the local aircraft industry.
?Our big hope is Koch Industries,? he said. ?I can name you the day they gave out bonuses. They?re adding jobs, really good jobs.?
Lonnie Bosley, owner of Bosley Tires, is aiming toward the other end of the economic spectrum.
Bosley Tire is adding a financing program for its tires to encourage more low-income buyers to buy higher quality tires. He said he expects 20 percent growth in sales from the program.
He is also close to completing a deal to add a new Bosley Tire location at Kellogg and Maize.
?We?re planning on it,? he said.
Reach Dan Voorhis at 316-268-6577 or dvoorhis@wichitaeagle.com.
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Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium
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Pros
Designed from the ground up for cloud-based storage and collaboration. Clear, up-to-date interface. Subtle improvements throughout. Unmatched power for editing, viewing, sharing. Single license allows use on five machines, including Macs (which get Office 2011 for the Mac).
- Cons Clumsy to use on a touch screen.
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Bottom Line
A subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium lets you install a full copy of Office 2013 on up to five devices and also lets any Windows 7 or 8 machine temporarily download Word, Excel, or the other Office apps for use on other machines. Office 2013 looks better than Office 2010 and includes new convenience features, with a minimal learning curve for existing users.
The title above says Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium, which is Microsoft's name for one of its many varieties of Office 2013?the subscription-based variety that you download from the cloud and use on your disk in exactly the same way you've used earlier versions of Office. The difference is that the new Office is designed to make it as easy to store documents in the cloud as it is on your disk, and Microsoft is pushing the idea that with Office 365, you can now edit Office documents anywhere?on any Windows-based desktop or tablet, on a Windows phone, in a Web browser, and even on your Mac, because your Office 365 subscription lets you have Office installed on five devices at any one time. This means you get Office 2013 on your Windows machines and Office 2011 for the Mac on your OS X machines. Office 2013 is an impressive upgrade to the world's most powerful office application suite, with new features so smoothly built in that it requires almost no new learning or training. Office 365 is the best argument I've seen for moving documents into the cloud without any compromise in features and flexibility compared to desktop-only applications.
Versions
Starting today, home users can buy Office 365 Home Premium for a $99.99 annual subscription, which installs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, OneNote, and Access on Windows 7 or 8 machines (but not on Vista or XP) and the full Office 2011 suite on Macs. College students, faculty, and staff can get a similar Office 365 University subscription for a single payment of $79.99 for a full four years, usable on two devices?twenty bucks per year, cheaper than any other Office pricing I can remember. Both services come with 27 GB of cloud-based storage on Microsoft's SkyDrive service?20 GB added to the 7 GB that anyone can get for free. Office 365 versions for business are due on February 27.
Office Forever
Starting today, you can also buy what Microsoft calls "perpetual" versions of Office 2013, meaning the traditional kind that are licensed forever but are only licensed to one machine. What you won't be able to do is buy Office 2013 on a DVD as you could with earlier versions. If you buy the "perpetual" Office 2013 in a box, what you get is a 25-character code that you can use after downloading the installer; if you want a DVD, you'll have to buy one in one of the "developing countries" where Microsoft still sells them.
Traditional retail versions of Office 2013 comes in Microsoft's typically confusing array of versions: Home & Student, Home & Business, Professional, and, for volume-license customers only, Professional Plus. And don't forget Office 2013 Home & Student RT, a reduced version of Office that only ships preloaded on ARM-based Windows 8 RT tablets, and which we plan to review when the current "preview" version gets updated to the final version at some unspecified future date.
One minor detail that won't affect the way you work but very slightly reduces clutter on the desktop and start menu. The names of the Office apps used to be Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc. Now they're Word, Excel, etc.
Office in the Cloud
Microsoft has dabbled in cloud-based application services before, using the same Office 365 service name, but with this new version, Microsoft has shifted Office's focus from the desktop to the cloud, more or less the same way Windows 8 shifts Microsoft's focus from the desktop to the tablet. If you want to save your documents to your desktop by default, instead of the cloud-based SkyDrive linked to your Microsoft account, you have to dig into the Options menu and check a box next to "Save to Computer by default." Office 365 works in different ways depending on the device you're using. When you run it on a desktop or an Intel-based tablet like Microsoft's Surface Pro (due to ship in February), a complete set of full-featured, no-compromise Office apps are installed on your disk, so that Word, Excel, Outlook, and the rest are all exactly the same as the versions you get from the traditional one-machine-only versions of Office 2013.
I asked Microsoft if we could expect versions of Office for Android or the iPad and iPhone. Microsoft's answer was that they were "not announcing" Office versions for non-Windows platforms at this time. It's pretty easy to guess that they might announce something in the future, but I can't guess when. Just as Windows 8 is Microsoft's answer to Apple in the tablet market, the latest Office 365 is Microsoft's answer to the cloud-based competition from Google Docs (which runs on every device you can think of) and Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps, which run in different versions on OS X and iOS. Google Docs has big one advantage for home users?it's free. But business users and universities have to pay to get Google Docs, and Microsoft is offering a far more powerful product, with all the advanced features that Microsoft has been building into Office for the past twenty years.
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What?s next for Anthony Pettis? Waiting patiently for the lightweight title shot
With his performance against Donald Cerrone on Saturday night, Anthony Pettis made a believer out of many fight fans. One of those who now thinks Pettis belongs in the title shot conversation is UFC president Dana White.
Pettis =AMAZING!!!! Ok I'm sold
? Dana White (@danawhite) January 27, 2013
While the next bout for UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson is set with Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez in April, Pettis has set himself up as the obvious next man up.
"I think the Melendez fight is pretty set, but (Pettis is) next. I can't say enough things about the kid tonight. That was incredible," White said in the postfight press conference.
The last time Pettis had a title shot, he had a wrench thrown into the plans. Pettis won the WEC lightweight belt in the promotion's final fight. A title shot was promised to whoever had the belt when the WEC merged with the UFC.
But two weeks after Pettis won the belt, Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard faced off for the belt. They fought to a draw and Edgar kept the belt, but Maynard was given an immediate rematch.
Instead of waiting for the title shot then, Pettis fought Clay Guida. He lost a decision, and the title shot was gone. This time, he's not going to let the title shot slip through his hands.
"If it's a guaranteed title shot, then I'm waiting. That was my goal this year, and I'm definitely going to wait and get better," Pettis said.
The way title shots have been going in the UFC, there's no way to know if Pettis is making the right call. However, what Pettis is doing is setting himself up as the go-to guy if the UFC needs him. Melendez has had to postpone fights because of injuries in the past, and you never know what could happen as fighters prepare for their bouts.
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Step into the Twilight Zone: Can Earthlings Adjust to a Longer Day on Mars?
On the eve of science writer Katie Worth's experiment to live on Mars time and blog about how it feels, she explains how living between time zones across the universe can prove disastrous without guidance from sleep scientists
Martian Sunset: NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. Image: Flickr/NASA Solar System Exploration
"Mutinous" is not a word frequently used to describe teams of NASA scientists and engineers.
But that's precisely the term employed by Harvard University sleep scientist Charles Czeisler to explain what happened when the group operating the Pathfinder mission's rover in 1997 was required to live indefinitely on Mars time.
"They didn't really have a plan for dealing with the Martian day before they went up, and the rover lasted a lot longer than it was supposed to, so they actually had a mutiny and wanted to shut the thing off because they were so exhausted," he says, drily adding the obvious: "NASA wasn't too happy with that notion."
The Mars day, called a sol, is 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day. Every time NASA lands a robot on the Red Planet, its operations team must adapt to that long Martian day for the first period of roving, to take full advantage of the hours between the data transmission at the end of the rover's day and the upload of new commands the following Mars morning.
Staying up for 40 minutes extra each day, as Harvard sleep scientist Laura Barger points out, doesn't sound like much. "When you first think about it, it even sounds like a good thing, having a little extra time," she says. But not for long: The team's work schedule floats through two time zones every three days, while its actual location merrily persists in its normal light-dark habits. The team creeps from day shifts to night shifts and back.
Living for long on this perpetual Mars lag has proved extraordinarily unpopular. Joy Crisp, now a principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recalls the Pathfinder mission, which initially was expected to last seven days but ultimately endured 85. Nobody had planned for it. "I just remember getting to day 30 and thinking, 'I can't keep this up,'" Crisp says. Neither could anyone else, and the disgruntled staff forced NASA leadership to drastically change the schedule.
The agency was more prepared for the Spirit and Opportunity rover missions in 2004 and asked Czeisler to chair an advisory panel about how to handle the Mars time adjustment. But such guidance lost its utility when the two rovers landed within three weeks of each other on opposite ends of Mars?the equivalent of Denver and New Delhi?resulting in hordes of enthusiastic but exhausted workers bouncing between three time zones on two planets.
NASA leaders claim they have become more sensitive to the issue over the years. Andrew Mishkin, who helped plan the Curiosity mission, says that for the first time NASA officials decided to put a definitive three-month cap on Mars time. They also scheduled people to work no more than four days in a row, encouraged employees to monitor their own and their colleagues' fatigue levels, and had Human Resources prowl the lab for zombied workers to send home. "But everybody was pretty tired of it by November," when the 90th sol finally set, Mishkin says. And when NASA officials wanted to extend the Mars schedule past the 90th sol because the rover was running behind schedule, they put it up to a democratic vote: The answer was a resounding "No."
Research indicates there is more NASA could do for these tired people. Barger led an experiment using volunteers from the Phoenix lander operations crew in 2008, providing them with education about circadian rhythms, specific sleep-wake and caffeine schedules to adhere to, and countermeasures such as blue-light boxes to place on their desks. The 19 volunteers were monitored with medical tests, and their progress was tracked with wristwatch-size detectors. The experiment was limited by a small sample size and no control group, but 87 percent of participants reported they were able to adjust to the sol.
One might imagine that NASA would have leapt on research like this and provided the same countermeasures for its Curiosity mission, but it did not. Harvard sleep scientist Steven Lockley says NASA simply doesn't take human factors as seriously as it should, adopting our culture's flippant "I'll sleep when I'm dead" attitude about getting rest. To make matters worse, NASA's ranks are filled, he says, with "highly motivated A types who think they can overcome anything?but that's not true, because biology is there for everyone."
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Using Self Improvement To Improve Your Mind, Body And Mood ...
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Sometimes when you first step onto the road of personal development, it can all be a little overwhelming. There are also a lot of different improvement avenues to chose from. Personal development can range from improving your diet to enhancing your social skills. Self improvement can be achieved in many different ways. The main goal of personal development is to improve the way that you feel about yourself, but it is quite probable that others around you will notice the changes too.
Set realistic, attainable goals for yourself to ensure that you are envisioning an achievable, healthy lifestyle. By taking some time our for yourself to focus on both strengths and weaknesses, you will notice overall self-improvement.
Take the time to research the lives of successful people. Studying the processes used by others will help you better develop your own self improvement strategies. Knowing that other people have succeeded at the same goal will make it seem more attainable to you.
Be on the lookout for new ways to challenge yourself. Discovering new challenges is a great way to open yourself up to new possibilities. You can learn more and acquire new skills. You may even start a new model by doing something that has never been done before. Do something new and unique, instead of copying others.
TIP! Seeking advice from a counselor, or paster can be a wonderful source to help guide you. They have a great deal of experience in dealing with personal thoughts and are even licensed to do so.
When you are actively trying to improve yourself, failing to do well at something can hurt your self-esteem more than it otherwise would. Actually, failure is really a learning experience. Failure is a way of learning your weaknesses and your strengths. Looking at it this way, failure is a source of pride, because you?ve unlocked another piece of the puzzle when it comes to your development.
Get organized. You will feel accomplished and your mind will feel clearer. This also helps relieve you from stress caused by disorganization. When everything is in a proper place, life is a bit more calm.
Take the time to change the focus of your conversation from your own accomplishments and awards to the achievements of those around you. You?ll be able to find out about the wonderful things the people you know have accomplished, bringing about a new-found respect and admiration for them.
Find texts that help you. This could be a holy text for some people. For others, it could just a book of inspirational sayings. Sometimes having a physical representation of comfort can help you better manage your day-to-day life.
TIP! Make the most of your work time to accomplish more. One trick to doing this, is to take more breaks.
Improving your life is closely tied to willpower, and a lot can be said for the karma you develop along the way. This means that you are wise to only wish good things upon others. If you endeavor to be positive about all things, then that positivity will come back to you.
Learn to deal with stressful situations without reacting in an emotional way. Learning ways to maintain your composure when stressed will help boost your self-esteem, and help you triumph under any circumstance. Breathing deeply can be a powerful way to reduce stress and stay in the moment.
The worst way to deal with a situation is by overreacting. This will cause you unneeded and unnecessary stress. It?s best to train yourself to cope with your daily stress, and it begins with analyzing every situation where you tend to feel strained. If you screw up, you can probably fix it, or at least find a way to minimize the damage. Rather than dwelling on what you?ve lost, look at the things you still have.
Leadership is about exercising authority, but good leaders are humble, too. When delivering criticisms, remember that you should be firm, yet friendly. You will not go far if you forget your own willingness to serve. A successful leader is one who demonstrates integrity and virtue as an example to others.
TIP! Writing out your goals will help you develop your own plan for personal growth. Record the behaviors and character traits you wish to have; for example, you might list patience or gratitude.
It is impossible for you to properly care for the ones you love, unless you take care of yourself first. It doesn?t matter if you are succeeding or failing in your path. You should always find time to rest your body so that you can renew yourself.
Strive to improve daily so that each one is more perfect than the previous. Set a goal of continuous improvement through steady efforts. Try your hardest to achieve something different today than what you achieved yesterday.
Make a list of your priorities, and plan your life around these elements. When it comes to focusing your feelings and emotions, strive to apply them to the important aspects of your life that build happiness, and do not waste them on the negative aspects that weigh you down and prevent inner peace.
Your core principles are important, and your actions should reflect them. Everyone has basic principles by which they define themselves. Having a good foundation based on your core principles will benefit your sense of self esteem. Better yet, this practice encourages consistency, which is an excellent character trait to maintain.
TIP! Live your life with wisdom and humility. There are certain things in your life that you just can?t change.
Anytime and anywhere, be ready for when your ideas strike. Make sure you have a notepad on you at all times. Scribble detailed notes when something comes to you, and then carry them out whenever your creativity is piqued.
It is essential to have a clearly outlined goal, when working toward improving self improvement. Make sure to come up with a target goal for yourself. If you are clear about your goals, it will be easier to measure how well you have achieved them.
Our goal in this article was to help you to accomplish a start on your self improvement plans. However, there are many other ways in which you may further improve your life. No matter your age, you can always work on becoming a better person for both yourself and others.
Maintaining a positive attitude will get you through a lot of tough times while allowing you to grow and mature. If you do not have a good attitude you will never get as far as you could have. Maintain a positive approach to life in order to reach your goals.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Iranian state television said on Monday that the country?s scientists had succeeded in sending a monkey into space ?as a prelude to sending humans.?
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France frets over Islamist takeover in Syria
PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Monday Syria risks falling into the hands of Islamist militant groups if supporters of the Syrian opposition do not do more to help it in a 22-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
Addressing the opening of a conference in Paris with senior members of the Syrian National Coalition, Laurent Fabius said the meeting must focus on making the opposition politically and militarily cohesive to encourage international assistance.
"Facing the collapse of a state and society, it is Islamist groups that risk gaining ground if we do not act as we should," he said. "We cannot let a revolution that started as a peaceful and democratic protest degenerate into a conflict of militias."
Western concern over the growing strength of jihadist militants fighting autonomously in the disorganized ranks of anti-Assad rebel forces is rising. This has hindered international aid to the moderate Syrian National Coalition opposition and may push it more into the arms of conservative Muslim backers, diplomatic sources say.
The meeting, which brought together Western and Arab nations and the three vice-presidents of the coalition, aims to tackle the lack of cohesion that has led to broken promises of aid.
Coalition vice-president Riad Seif said "time is not on our side" and that the opposition no longer wanted pledges of support that would not be followed through on.
"We need an interim or transitional government to provide assistance to millions of Syrians in liberated zones and to help bring the collapse of the (Assad) regime," he said.
"From the beginning we said we should be based in Syria, but so far we haven't received any money to run a government."
HALF A BILLION DOLLARS
Since its formation in November, the coalition has failed to gain traction on the ground in Syria and its credibility has been undermined by its inability to secure arms and cash.
Seif said the coalition lacked the financial or military means to set up within Syria and support civilians on the ground. "We are looking with our friends at how we can protect the liberated zones with defensive weapons and we are discussing how to get billions of dollars to create a budget," he said.
"But if we don't have this budget there is no point having a government. It makes no sense."
George Sabra, another coalition vice-president, said the coalition needed at least $500 million to launch a government.
But its disunity - it failed last week to form a transitional government [ID:nL6N0AQ0RX] - has deterred the West from boosting assistance, especially sophisticated arms and ammunition insurgents are crying out for.
"We also need weapons. We needed them from the first minute," Sabra said. "At the last meeting of Friends of Syria, they recognized our rights to defend ourselves. (But) what does that mean if we cannot provide help to victims?"
The insurgents have seized territory in the north and east of Syria, including several border crossings, and made some inroads into Assad's dominance in major cities. But Assad's air power and far superior weaponry have limited rebel advances.
France said last week there was no sign Assad was about to be overthrown, reversing previous statements that he could not hold out long, while Jordan's King Abdullah said the authoritarian Syrian leader would consolidate his grip for now.
Fabius said the Paris meeting had three objectives: to address the needs of the vulnerable Syrian population, pursue internal structuring, bring opposition fighting units of the Free Syrian Army under its political authority and prepare the post-Assad transition.
However, he sidestepped the question of arming the rebels, underlining the wariness of Western countries about spreading weapons to Islamists in Syria and across the volatile region.
The European Union is set to review its arms embargo on Syria at the end of February.
(Reporting By John Irish; Editing by Vicky Buffery and Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/france-fears-islamist-rise-syria-unless-opposition-helped-113119963.html
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New dinosaur fossil challenges bird evolution theory
Friday, January 25, 2013
The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight.
Co-authored by Dr Gareth Dyke, Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Southampton, the paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 cm in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds were long thought to have evolved from.
Over many years, it has become accepted among palaeontologists that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods from the Early Cretaceous period of Earth's history, around 120-130 million years ago. Recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs from the older Middle-Late Jurassic period have reinforced this theory.
The new 'bird-dinosaur' Eosinopteryx described in Nature Communications this week provides additional evidence to this effect.
"This discovery sheds further doubt on the theory that the famous fossil Archaeopteryx ? or "first bird" as it is sometimes referred to ? was pivotal in the evolution of modern birds," says Dr Dyke, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
"Our findings suggest that the origin of flight was much more complex than previously thought."
The fossilised remains found in north-eastern China indicate that, while feathered, this was a flightless dinosaur, because of its small wingspan and a bone structure that would have restricted its ability to flap its wings.
The dinosaur also had toes suited to walking along the ground and fewer feathers on its tail and lower legs, which would have made it easier to run.
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Dustin Hoffman: what "The Graduate" taught me about directing
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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Three decades after Dustin Hoffman fired himself from his first directing job, the Oscar winner has finally made his first movie, an intimate tale of four retired musicians in a home filled with wise-cracking septuagenarians.
"Quartet," which stars revered British actors Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon, is an ode to both exuberance and old age, to pursuing your passion no matter your physical or mental state.
One moment you see Maggie Smith struggling to stand up, the next moment you hear jokes about Apricot Jam and "rumpy fumpy."
The film has already made $11 million at the box office in the United Kingdom, where it first opened, and rolls out nationwide in the U.S. this weekend.
It has put together two strong weekends at the domestic box office in limited release - and earned Smith a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a musical or comedy.
For Hoffman, it was a revelation, a new experience in film for an actor who already has two Academy Awards and been nominated five other times. He is openly disdainful of "retirement," that being something for people who don't like their jobs.
TheWrap talked with Hoffman about the challenges of directing, how Hollywood mistreats actors and why he welcomes failure.
What brought you to this project?
It had something that resonated with me, something I knew about - not opera, but spending a lifetime performing. Unlike acting, opera singers have a limited shelf life. To still have the passion and the desire to do it, which I do about acting when I get good parts, but be forced to live in a retirement home. These people refuse to retire and that was enough to get me in there.
For the first time in three decades. You almost directed "Straight Time" in the late 1970s.
And I made the mistake of firing myself. I cast it, crewed it, took some months and started shooting in Folsom Prison. There was great pressure from the person at the studio I was doing it under. A friend of mine (Ulu Grosbad) wanted to take over, and I do think it's one of the better films I've made.
And then you never directed again. Why not?
I went on to develop more material. If you want to do what you want to do rather than just waiting for an angel to drop a script at your front doorstep ? that's why Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and other people of my generation developed things.
I developed two or three and I'd get to a point where frustration set in. I've always been bored hearing stories of projects that took an interminably long time. Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" took him 17 years. I'd put a project aside when a part came along, but that's six months out of your life even as an actor. The years kind of flew by.
Whatever other demons were delaying my re-entry, suddenly I was able to get a grip on it. My wife and agent have collaborated to push me over the edge.
Would you go back to one of those ideas you were developing it?
I'm taking a look at a couple of things I had put aside as we speak. I'm obviously quite proud of this film, and I'm trying to figure out how to direct something after I die. I don't know if Shirley MacLaine has a corner on that market or not, but that's how passionate I am.
This movie flitters in between moments of absurdist comedy and solemnity. How do you balance those two moods?
When I was a young actor, it was amazing how many times people asked, ?So what do you do, tragedy or comedy?' Arthur Miller told me people don't realize "Death of a Salesman" is a comedy. If you do it right, the character is so contradictory the audience laughs all the way through it. If you took the laughs out of "Rain Man," it's not "Rain Man." Mel Brooks said it best: If you see someone slip on a banana it's funny and you laugh. If you're the one that slips on a banana it's a tragedy.
You came into this with a few actors already attached, but how did you find all of the other people in the retirement home? I knew I had to hire real actual retired opera singers and musicians and was finally able to do with an extraordinary casting session. We scoured the U.K., Ireland, Scotland, and the answer to your question is that what none of us expected. These are real actual human beings whose phone had not rung for 30, 40 years until we gave them a job to be in this film. The wild card is that when we started shooting, they arrived at 6 a.m. and worked long, low-budget hours every single day on location. They worked with such passion and dedication that it enveloped all of us.
There's a woman who opens the movie, Patricia Loveland, who did not start acting until she was 60 and ended up in this. There had to be a lot of stories like that.
One out of the 50 people or so who were moved by this experience, Ronnie Hughes, is a trumpet player. Someone had seen him play at some small gig in some obscure fuck part of England and thought he was extraordinary. The movie was all live singing and the trumpet too. He has not lost his chops as they say.
How did those musicians influence your approach to the subject matter? Their lives in some ways resemble your story. I said to the main actors that we're all in our 70s here and we are all going to be working with people in their 70s, 80s and 90s.
These are not actors. I've asked them to not "act," and I will guide them as best as I can. We have to fit in with that. We know more than anyone or as much as anyone in our generation what it feels like to be at this stage of our career and life.
How did your acting experiences influence you as a director?
We all get labeled something because it's a lazy approach to defining someone. I was the difficult one, warren was the ladies man, Nicholson was the recreational drug user All of it to some degree was distorted. In my generation I guess what people never printed was that when I started making movies it was "The Graduate." I was almost 30 playing someone 21, and I didn't know how movies were done.
And Mike Nichols taught you how movies were made.
He did something I didn't know was out of the ordinary - a one-month rehearsal on a soundstage at Paramount. He worked with us as principles as you would on a play. You don't present the character on the first day as many actors have to do to get the job. We slowly started to build the characters and define scenes from that.
It's the very thing you're not allowed to do because studios feel it cost so much to make the movie that way. They're wrong. It's worth it rather than forcing the scenes on a day to day basis; the verities of filmmaking demand it.
I was guided by Nichols. God knows he wasn't criticized for being a perfectionist, but everyone behind the camera is a perfectionist or they lose their job.
How did Nichols compare to some of the other directors you worked with?
My second director was John Schlesinger, who did the same thing in a different way. We were in a room when he directed Voight and I and other principals and Waldo Salt sat in the corner with a tape recorder. He had us improvise every single scene for three weeks at least and Waldo would take the recording home, transcribe it and incorporate it into thing that was written. I believed this was the way movies were done. It was a shock to my system when I realized those were aberrations.
Were you able to adopt some of that rehearsal and improvisation for your movie?
We improvised all throughout the film. There were obstacles; there will always be obstacles, but we're not tied to the script word for word. Consequently some of great moments and dialogue just came out. When Maggie and Tom are in the church in this one scene. She says, "Why do we have to get old?" Tom paused and after a few he said, "Because that's what people do." That's one of the great lines in the film, and it came right out of this guy.
Maggie was the first actor attached to the project, right? She's had something of a late career renaissance.
Maggie personifies the soul of this movie. I read a London Times interview she had given years ago in her early 70s and she made it no secret she was in the midst of chemo and radiation. It had just floored her. Someone who had spent her lifetime at her craft said, "I don't want to do it; I have no passion for it. That's it, I'm giving up." A few years later she took a job and she has never stopped working since.
Do you see any irony in an iconic American actor making his first movie with a British production company and an all British cast?
I hadn't really thought of that. Actors aren't labeled by ethnicity. There's good acting and there's acting that isn't good. British actors had a training we didn't have with classics and Shakespeare, whereas American actors learned from Eugene O'Neill and Clifford Odets and Arthur Miller. A bridge was put between us that doesn't really exist today.
What I think is funny seems to be funny on both sides of the Atlantic. It is an American who directed it and British audiences are apparently filling up those theaters and continue to applaud at the end.
You mentioned it's found an audience in England and Australia. How nervous about are you about its financial performance in the United States?
I'm on a side of camera I haven't been before and it's embarrassing for me to have gone 40 years not knowing certain things.
Steven Spielberg told me years ago when I asked him about nerves that every film he start he pulls over on the first day and throws up. Greg Louganis won all these medals and I think his last dive was a basic dive and he smacked his forehead on the diving board. It was an extraordinary moment, and I've never forgotten it. It's a 10th of an inch whether you fail when you put yourself out there or succeed with a high number.
And Boston Celtics center Bill Russell famously vomited before games.
I was watching the Alabama-Notre Dame came on Monday. Alabama was up four touchdowns and its coach got into a huge argument with one of the referees. He was furious. After the game, they asked him, "Can you celebrate now?" He says, "Yeah, but in two days we start working for next year."
You're not doing it to suddenly get a crown and sit on the throne. You do it because there's no other way you choose to survive.
I don't understand retirement. The only way I can understand it is if you spend a lifetime doing what you would not call your work but just a job. I had that those first 12 years where I would keep looking at my watch wondering when I could take a cigarette break.
If you are one of the few of us who really love your work, there is no idea of retiring.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dustin-hoffman-graduate-taught-directing-010432899.html
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Pro Bowl going away? Hardly
Getty ImagesThe $20 million home built by Patriots QB Tom Brady and his other half who earns well over half of the family income has a moat.? (And if they get past the moat, Tom will be ready with his sliding crane kick.)
With Ike Hilliard serving as the Bills? receivers coach, the wideouts will have a position coach who played at the NFL level for the first time since Charlie Joiner in 2000.
So what should the Dolphins do with LT Jake Long?
CB Antonio Cromartie says the Jets ?can?t lose a guy like? Darrelle Revis.
Steelers RB Isaac Redman is due to become a restricted free agent in March.
The defamation lawsuit filed by the Bengals cheerleader who pleaded guilty to having a relationship against a gossip website ended in a mistrial.
Here are some thoughts about the things about which the Browns are thinking.
Ravens CB Asa Jackson says the people hitting him up for seats at the Super Bowl are ?not quite in the ticket budget range? for this specific game.
The Texans average general-admission ticket price will increase by 9.8 percent in 2013.
Some Colts fans had some questions about teams, and someone from the Colts website had some answers.
The radio description of the Titans? ?Music City Miracle? has been named one of the top calls in sports history.
The Jaguars continue to support local charities and programs in Jacksonville.
The mother of deceased Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher is still trying to secure custody of Belcher?s daughter, Zoey.
The powers-that-be in Oakland will spend $1 million to study new stadium proposals.
In an appearance with CNN?s Piers Morgan, Broncos V.P. of football operations John Elway talked about fake girlfriends and real guns.
Since the Chargers didn?t make it to the real tournament, they?ve concocted a tournament of the best plays from a year that wasn?t good enough to get them to the real tournament.
Former Giants DE Michael Strahan talks about his upcoming Hall of Fame bid.
MADD is working with the Cowboys on strategies to raise team awareness regarding the consequences of drunk driving.
The lawyer for former Redskins CB Fred Smoot wants to make one thing clear about Smoot?s recent DUI arrest in D.C.:? Smoot did not pee in his pants.
If the Eagles return to a 3-4 defense, there could be plenty of changes on the defensive line.
Here?s an argument for the Lions drafting Texas safety Kenny Vaccaro.
Vikings K Blair Walsh offered to pay for P Chris Kluwe to attend the Pro Bowl, but Kluwe doesn?t want a free ride unless he earns it.
Even if the read-option is only a fad, teams like the Packers need to adjust to it.
Bears DT Henry Melton remains optimistic that he?ll work out a deal to stay in Chicago before the start of free agency.
Saints P Thomas Morstead finds it ?surreal? to be hanging out at the pool after Pro Bowl practice with the ?best athletes in the world.?? (Meanwhile, the ?best athletes in the world? find it surreal that Morstead has a puzzled look on his face when they tell him they?d like a Mai Tai and a bowl of macadamia nuts.)
It could be that the Falcons will get $300 million in public money for their proposed new stadium only if the effort avoids a vote from the Georgia legislature.
So how can the Bucs recapture their 10-year-old glory?? Here are 12 steps for getting there.
Panthers LB Luke Kuechly is still working toward finishing his marketing degree at Boston College.
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh sought advice from John Madden on how to handle the Super Bowl:? ?I just know that over the years watching it, the team that complains the most when they get down there usually loses,? Madden said.? ?The other thing I know is that you haven?t done anything yet.? And I think that the team that celebrates having gotten there the most usually loses focus.?
Rams G.M. Les Snead talks about the pool of talent at the Senior Bowl.
Here?s photographic proof that Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is the same size as Drew Brees.
Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said this week of the team?s quarterbacks:? ?I?m going to give them all a shot.?? (John McKay would be in favor of that.)
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Video game controllers affect hostility during game play
Jan. 25, 2013 ? When selecting a video game to play, opting to turn on your Wii may provide a different experience than playing your Xbox, according to a study from Mississippi State University.
The study, set to be published in the January 2013 issue of Mass Communication and Society, found that individuals playing with the Wii remote and Wii nunchuck (also known as naturally-mapped controllers), were more likely to feel hostile after playing a video game than those that used a more traditional controller. The additional feeling of immersion in the game, it seems, increased the potential for aggressive response following the play of a violent game, which in this research was Punchout.
"My research also says that while motion controls can enhance your connection to the game, we aren't necessarily to the point where home gaming technology makes the player feel immersed and surrounded by the game," Dr. Kevin D. Williams, the study's author said. "That feeling is still very much a subjective human-driven process rather than an objective technology driven process."
Over 70 males participated in the study which had them play the same video game; the difference was that about half of the participants were assigned to each of the two types of video game controllers. The research also found that those using the naturally-mapped controllers were more likely to identify with the video game character, and they had higher levels of self-presence. Self-presence is the ability to actually feel like you are moving with the character.
"What needs to be clearly stated is that motion controls did increase hostility in the players, but only in a small amount (after a single 10-minute exposure to the game). My study doesn't look at long term implications either, so that small increase in hostility could be short lived," Williams said. "My concern as a parent would be where the industry is heading. If these controls impact hostility, even in a small sense now, what safeguards or ethical policies will the industry enact to make sure that as technology advances smaller impressionable children are protected."
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On The News : Bishops must shoulder their responsibility in the pro ...
By Phil Lawler (bio - articles - send a comment) | January 25, 2013 8:46 AM
Cardinal Sean O?Malley is certainly right to call for fasting and prayer this week, as we sadly observe the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The abortion issue?the ongoing slaughter of countless millions of innocent children?is not just another ordinary political question like the ?fiscal cliff? debate. This is not merely a political contest but a spiritual battle.
For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Eph. 6:12)
Pro-lifers have been fighting the political battle against abortion for 40 years, and still the bloodshed continues. Perhaps it is time to recognize that the culture of death is one of those evils that ?cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.?
Yes, certainly we should fast and pray. It?s appropriate to use spiritual weapons in spiritual combat. For that matter, in a struggle of this importance we should use every means at our disposal, every tool in our drawers. All the different forms of pro-life work?the lobbying and educational campaigns, the pregnancy-help centers, the fundraising, the speeches and demonstrations?have their place in a coordinated strategy. We should all be doing everything in our power, in the natural order as well as the supernatural, to end the abomination of legal abortion on demand.
But there is one powerful tool that has not yet been put to use in the pro-life struggle, and one group of people who have not yet done what they can do for the cause. I refer to the American Catholic bishops, and the use of ecclesiastical discipline.
Forty years after Roe there remain dozens of prominent politicians who identify themselves as Catholics, but actively promote the culture of death. These ?pro-choice Catholics? are a source of confusion to the public and scandal to the Church.
The US Catholic bishops have issued many fine statements on the evils of abortion and the dignity of human life. But statements are one thing, actions another; and when one?s actions do not match one?s public pronouncements, those statements lose value. The bishops have warned that Catholic politicians who promote abortion are separating themselves from the communion of the Church. But they have not followed up, as necessary, by taking disciplinary action against those politicians who have not heeded their warning.
If a Catholic in his diocese is promoting abortion, a Catholic bishop has a solemn obligation to take three steps:
First, admonition. The bishop should call the erring politician to a private meeting, rebuke him, and warn him that he is putting his soul in jeopardy.
Second, denunciation. If the politician remains obstinate, the bishop should make his rebuke public, letting the world know that the Church views the politician?s actions as gravely wrong. A specific public statement, naming names, is necessary to address a public scandal, and to counteract the widespread impression that abortion is only one of many issues in which the Church takes an interest.
Third, exclusion from Communion. The Code of Canon Law (#915) instructs clerics to protect the Eucharist from scandal, by refusing to administer the sacrament to those who ?obstinately persist in manifest grave sin.? The enforcement of Canon 915 is not optional; it is a moral obligation. Yet the American bishops have chosen to ignore that obligation.
As long as our bishops are not doing all that they can do (and only they can do), the American pro-life movement is not doing its utmost to fight for an end to abortion. Yes, we should fast and pray. Yes, we should engage in practical pro-life activism. But we should also beg our bishops to shoulder their own responsibility in this battle. Prayer and fasting can work wonders. However, as we pray, we must also do whatever we can, on the natural order.
Imagine that your doctor tells you that you must lose weight quickly or your life will be in danger. You pray that you will meet your weight-loss goals, and ask your friends to join with you in those prayers. Good. But if you continue routinely to tuck into second helpings of dessert, can you really expect those prayers to be answered?
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Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z: See Pics From 'Suit & Tie' Set!
The duo don formal wear, flash smiles in photos from Los Angeles set.
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Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake on the set of the "Suit & Tie" video
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Smokers to be hit with with heavy insurance penalties under health ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Here's a possible new cost for people with the cigarette habit.
Experts say millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties under President Barack Obama's health care law.
The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying an individual policy up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1.
A 60-year-old smoker could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of normal premiums.
Younger smokers could be charged lower penalties under rules proposed last fall by the Obama administration.
Workers with job-based coverage can avoid tobacco penalties by joining a smoking cessation program.
The older smokers buying individual coverage could face a heavy financial hit at a time in life when smoking-related illnesses typically emerge.
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Super Bowl commercial shocker: Sex sells
The Parents' Television Council is outraged over a Mercedes Benz Super Bowl ad featuring model Kate Upton that they say reinforces the notion of using sex appeal to get what you want. The video has attracted nearly 3 million views on YouTube in only two days.
The news this week that a watchdog group was criticizing a sexy Super Bowl ad had some readers grumbling ? about the quality of the ad.
The Parents Television Council raised a red flag over a Mercedes Benz ad showing Kate Upton using sex appeal to get a group of guys to wash her car. The ad has already been viewed online millions of times.
Some readers raised a red flag about the ad, too, but not because it was inappropriate. They just thought it wasn?t that good.
??Boring commercial. Girl is attractive, but music is annoying,? one reader wrote.
Others just said the ad wasn?t very original.
?I'm amazed no one ever thought of using sex to sell something before. Brilliant marketing,? another wrote - sarcastically, we assume.
Still, most readers said they wouldn?t have a problem with the ad airing during the Super Bowl, with many noting that there have been plenty of racy ads in years past
About three-fourths of the nearly 10,000 people who took our poll said they didn?t think the ad was inappropriate for the Super Bowl.
Those who said the ad was inappropriate argued that it?s a bad message to be sending young women.
?It's getting harder and harder to raise confident young girls when all they see that is valued in women is their looks,? one reader noted.
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Mr. and Mrs. Huxtable Please Step-Aside, the Obamas Have ...
Mr. and Mrs. Huxtable as difficult as it is for me to say this, apparently you have been replaced. For years families, including my own, sat down in front of the television screen and looked to you for entertainment. Your wisdom coupled with wit had us aspiring to be our own versions of the Huxtables. Your family faced ?real? issues but you got through them and for some of us you were the couple we sought to model in our own lives. And then it hit us (or at least some of us), not everything on television is real. Yes, it can be entertaining, relatable, and based on actual events but unless it?s live TV it isn?t real and these days, even live television is questionable.
With all due respect, fortunately, this century brought with it a new couple for us to learn from, a couple that has set an example for us, a couple that shows us that black marriages can last and that a little PDA is a good thing. They are a couple that shows us that our unions are beautiful and strong, and will not accept defeat no matter how much adversity they face. This couple has shown us that family can come first and that you can be a spouse, a parent, and an achiever of your dreams. I?m talking about the Obamas. We?ve been watching them for the past several years and I must say, one of my favorite things about them is that they are real. They aren?t casted characters and there is no script or a director designating their every move. They are simply living and in their everyday lives we, still very much viewers, get to have a glimpse of what their marriage is like.
Recently a study came out stating the Obamas have ?replaced? you. A real life couple replaced a television couple. And I?ve got to tell you, while The Cosby Show had quite a run and gave us some great laughs and things to think about when it comes to our marriages, I believe so many of us aspire to be more. We grow up and realize that dreams and goals don?t stop once the credits to a television show roll. They continue. Life continues beyond a 30-minute television time slot. Life is not scripted.
According to the study, we idolize Mr. and Mrs. Obama. But we know better. We idolize no man. We clearly know who our source is and as much as we love the Obamas it?s not them. Admiration and idolization are not to be confused. One thing they seem to have gotten right; however, is this:
?The Obamas are the strongest and most visible example of black love and happy marriage in the USA.?
You see, when you are The President of the United States everyone is watching. When you are married to the President everyone is watching. So yes, we are all watching. And yes, we do admire the love our President and First Lady have for one another. Yet, don?t be mistaken, there are surely other couples out there that have a beautiful love, an admirable love, and a real love. The only difference is the world isn?t necessarily watching.
The Obamas are on display and they are on display for more than the 30 minute time slot you all were given. Even so Mr. and Mrs. Huxtable, while we may not model our lives after the two of you, you will always have a special place in our hearts. And if we are channel surfing and just so happen to stumble upon your show, chances are we will watch. But there is a big world out there, a world filled with men and women that are showing us that black love is beautiful and genuine.
Despite high divorce rates many of us have not given up on marriage. We are fighting for what we have. While television shows run their course, many of us are determined to make sure our marriages will not. We are working in offices, seated in church pews, authoring blogs, cheering for our children during sports games, and also walking the halls of the White House. We are everywhere.
There are many couples that we can look to and yes, the Obamas are one of them.
BMWK ? Do you agree with the study? Have the Huxtables been replaced?
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Childhood Obesity Prevention in Finland
Last time, we discussed the usefulness of cognitive behavioral therapy for people who want to escape obesity.?The fact that it works is wonderful, but it?s still unfortunate that this therapy or any other kind is needed at all. Many health professionals have become persuaded that therapy for the patient won?t be needed if therapy can instead be done with the parents of that potential future patient. Rather than have a person grow up to need counseling, maybe the problem can be caught hold of earlier, by applying the counseling to the person?s mother instead.
A project designed to shed some light on this was initiated by three Finnish institutions: the Foundation of Pediatric Research, Vaasa Hospital District?s Medical Research Fund, and Tampere?s Pediatric Research Centre. They began with the premise that ?there are only few reported early interventions to prevent childhood obesity, and these are mostly not implemented in normal primary care practice.?
Here is a list of the study?s components:
- intensified diet and physical activity counseling during pregnancy
- mothers are advised to breastfeed
- parents are advised to help children adopt healthy food preferences
- parents are advised to encourage physical activity and discourage sedentary pursuits
- parents are advised to make sure children get enough uninterrupted sleep
The researchers describe the study as:
[...] designed to be a pragmatic trial integrated in health care practice? Our intervention targeted several lifestyle factors that are known to affect the child?s weight gain. Multifaceted intervention programmes are thought to be suitable for pragmatic trials and most effective in preventing overweight, since obesity is a result of many lifestyle factors in addition to genetic susceptibility.
A multifaceted intervention program means they?re trying a lot of things at once. It?s not as simple as taking a pill; it?s as complicated as building a lifestyle. The Finnish call this a ?pragmatic trial,? which roughly translated means that the fact that it works means more than the reason why it works. According to the researchers:
The importance of pragmatic trials is that they help to define the best use of limited resources as well as policymakers and practitioners to make choices between customary care and the new counseling practice. Attempts to achieve methodological purity in explanatory trials can produce results that are not applicable in real life?
Now, a cynic could claim, ?This is a perfect way to disguise the fact that a study has not learned anything. Because it includes so many variables, the facts can never be sorted out. This is not the way to do research.?
And then another voice, arguing against the cynic, could say, ?Perhaps it is the way, if the subject of the research is how to actually make a difference. If the focus is not so much on assigning blame, but more on finding out what actually helps. And if it helps, maybe understanding exactly why, right now, is not so important.?
At any rate, this study is meant to cover each child for nearly six years ? starting before birth and continuing five years afterward, and it is still in progress. The mothers are chosen for being ?at risk of having overweight or obese offspring.? They are gaining too much weight and their glucose tolerance is impaired, or they have already had obese children.
The researchers admit that good results are more likely to be obvious in this population than if the participants were random. But that is fine, because random pregnant women are more likely to do okay without intervention, and the members of a selected risk group, who most need help, are enrolled in a program that was created to help them. So nobody loses.
The authors say their study ?was designed to be integrated in routine health care practice and to maximize the applicability of results to usual care setting.? So far, the intervention costs are low, and following this model looks like a good bet for municipal health care, i.e., the public sector. What they are trying do is find out not only what helps, but how to make it scalable.
Your responses and feedback are welcome!
Source: ?Behavioral counseling to prevent childhood obesity ? study protocol of a pragmatic trial in maternity and child health care,? BMC Pediatrics, 2012
Image by jordanfischer (Jordan Fischer).
Source: http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2013/01/25/childhood-obesity-prevention-in-finland/
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Gerard Depardieu's latest drama: a Russian passport (+video)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a Russian passport to the famous French movie star in what some see as part of an escalating war of words between Russia and the West.
In this December 2010 file photo, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (r.) and French actor Gerard Depardieu (l.) attend the Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg. Depardieu, the French actor who has been sparring with his native country over taxes, has been granted Russian citizenship. A brief announcement on the Kremlin website said President Putin signed the citizenship grant on Thursday, Jan. 3.
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EnlargeVladimir Putin flourished his pen Thursday morning and signed what must be the oddest decree of his long years in power: an order granting a Russian passport to French actor and tax exile Gerard Depardieu.
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A terse announcement posted on the Kremlin website?noted that Mr. Putin acted "to satisfy an application for citizenship of the Russian Federation by Gerard Xavier Depardieu, who was born in 1948 in France."
Mr. Depardieu, star of over 170 films and possessing what is often politely referred to as a "colorful" public personality, has been locked in a high profile battle with France's new socialist government over an emergency tax that would levy a 75 percent rate on people earning more than $1.3 million. He recently renounced his French citizenship and took up residence in Belgium, which offers a friendlier tax regime for the super-rich.
France's high court struck down the law last week as "unconstitutional," but the government announced it will soon reintroduce the measure after taking the court's concerns into account.
It's not clear whether Depardieu actually applied for residence in Russia, which has a 13 percent flat income tax for all, but in a far-ranging press conference?last month Putin declared "If G?rard really wants to have a residence permit or a Russian passport, you can consider it done, the issue solved positively."
Putin also said that he has long enjoyed "kind, friendly, personal relations" with the French actor.
Come to Chechnya
Depardieu is no stranger to Russia. He has appeared in several ad campaigns and filmed the 2011 movie Rasputin in St. Petersburg. He is also rumored to be close to Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, and was guest of honor at the pro-Kremlin leader's birthday party in Grozny last October.
Mr. Kadyrov has said that he would happily invite Depardieu to come and live permanently in Chechnya if he wanted to. "If the country's leadership decides in favor of granting Depardieu Russian citizenship, we will be glad to create deserved conditions for the great cultural figure in our republic," Kadyrov said last week.
Russia's blogosphere erupted in derision and sarcastic comment Thursday, with some people writing painfully of their own troubles with Russia's notoriously bureaucratic passport department.
One man posted on Facebook his own tale of trying for years to repatriate his own Russian-born elderly mother from next-door Belarus, but he has so far failed to move Russian authorities because her Belarussian documents show a slightly different spelling of her name than appears on her Russian birth certificate.
Part of spat with West?
Sergei Strokan, a foreign affairs columnist with the liberal Moscow daily Kommersant, says the granting of citizenship to Depardieu should be seen in context with the escalating war of words between Russia and the West. Last month President Barack Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, which aims to punish corrupt Russian officials, and Moscow responded by enacting the Dima Yakovlev Act, whose main feature is a ban on US citizens adopting Russian orphans.
"Russia is very much on the defensive right now. The vindictive nature of Russia's adoption ban has shocked not only the US, but also many in Europe and here in Russia as well," Mr. Strokan says.
"We seem to be entering into a cold war-like battle of images, in which Russia is trying to show that it offers a better life, has higher ideals, and is more friendly to humanity than the West.... ?So this may be seen as a calculated PR move, an effort to demonstrate that we understand and care for the beloved French actor more than his own homeland does," he adds.
"I can't imagine that Depardieu would actually want to live here and experience the life of Russians, though. Let's see how it goes the first time he attempts to travel with that new Russian passport."
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