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The fourth accused in the Mumbai photojournalist gang-rape and the suspected leader of the gang of five, Kasam Bengali, was detained today, a crime branch officer probing the case told PTI.From Twitter | Steps taken to arrest the accusedmumbai Updated: Aug 25, 2013 12:55 IST
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As outrage over the 22-year-old photojournalist's gang-rape in Mumbai continued to spread across the nation, Mumbai Police have arrested the suspected leader of the gang of five, Kasam Bengali, on Sunday taking the number of arrests to four, according to television reports.
Kasam Bengali had allegedly raped the photojournalist twice, according to reports.
"Kasam Bengali had been picked up from the city last night (Saturday) and placed under arrest today (Sunday)," a crime branch officer probing the case told PTI. The search is on to nab the fifth accused, he said.
Mumbai Police had on Saturday arrested two other accused in a massive manhunt more than 48 hours after a crime that rattled the city and jolted the nation.
The photojournalist was raped on Thursday by five men who pretended to be railway officials and accosted her and her male colleague when they had gone for a photoshoot in the deserted Shakti Mill compound at Mahalaxmi.
Announcing the arrests, Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh said, "We should soon be able to arrest the remaining two accused."
The police caught up with Vijay Jadhav, alias Nanu, 18, at a video parlour in the Madanpura area of south Mumbai early on Saturday morning.
They picked up his friend, Siraj Rehman, alias Ashfaque, in the evening from Govandi.
On Friday, they had arrested Chand Abdul Sattar Shaikh, 19, whose grandmother has claimed that he is a minor.
Shaikh and Jadhav were produced before the holiday magistrate court at Bhoiwada in central Mumbai separately and were both remanded in police custody till August 30. Rehman will be taken to the court on Sunday.
The case was formally transferred to the Mumbai crime branch, which is believed to be closing in on Kasim Bangali, the suspected leader of the gang of five, and Mohammad Saleem Ansari, the fifth accused.
The police suspect the attack was planned as the victim had gone to the Shakti Mills on previous occasions as part of her assignment. They believe one of the accused noticed her at the time.
The survivor, who is undergoing treatment at Jaslok Hospital, was shifted to the floor that comprises VIP suites.
"She is very brave and is coping with the reality," said Dr Tarang Gianchandani, medical director and acting CEO of the hospital. "She has been eating all her meals and is co-operating in the treatment."
The case will be the first major test for the new anti-rape law, which provides for the guilty to be kept behind bars throughout their lives in gang-rape cases.
"Where a woman is raped by one or more persons constituting a group…they shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term of not less than 20 years and which may extend to the remainder of these persons' lives," says the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013, which came into existence in April following the outrage over the Delhi gang-rape.
But much will depend on the swiftness of the police in arresting the accused and preparing the charge sheet. "The trial shall as far as possible be completed within two months of filing the charge sheet," the new law states.
In Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said, "It is a heinous crime… I am saddened and pained."The gang-rape resonated in the Lok Sabha, too, with members voicing concern that such incidents continue despite stringent laws. Parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath said a report has been sought from the state government and home minister Sushilkumar Shinde will make a statement in the House on Monday.
READ: Gang-rape accused kin claims he is a minor, police disagree
Video: Fourth accused arrested in Mumbai photojournalist gang-rape
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Marcia Shanahan's regular mammogram didn't show anything. But during a routine check-up, her doctor felt something.
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DNV GL, a ship and offshore classification society and technical risk service providers, has acquired Marine Cybernetics, a company for third-party testing of computer control systems. The acquisition expands DNV GL's scope of services in the offshore and maritime industries.
Marine Cybernetics was established in 2002 as a spin-off from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Based in Trondheim, Norway, the company introduced the concept of Hardware-In-the Loop-Testing (HIL) to the maritime and offshore industries. HIL testing significantly reduces the risk of accidents, off-hire costs and non-productive time due to software-related issues.
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Marine Cybernetics Chief Executive Officer Stein Eggan said, "This is an important milestone for Marine Cybernetics and true recognition of our capabilities as the leading provider of third- party testing and verification of control system software for the maritime and offshore industries. Since DNV GL is the leading global ship and offshore classification society and the leading technical assurance provider to the oil and gas industry, this transaction will also strengthen our global delivery capabilities and continued technological development, benefitting both companies' customers and industry partners as well as creating interesting opportunities for our employees."
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"Main shareholder Statoil Technology Invest (STI) first supported Marine Cybernetics through its LOOP product development programme in 2003 and then invested in 2005, recognizing the importance of being able to independently test critical control system software on vessels and rigs. We are pleased to see that MC has found a good home in DNV GL," said Richard Erskine, Managing Director of STI.
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Men's lax NCAA draw
For the first time, on Sunday the Middlebury College men's lacrosse team lost a NESCAC championship game, 13-12 at Tufts. No doubt the Panthers are still kicking themselves for losing that 11-7 lead they held late in the third period against the 16-1 Jumbos, who were ranked No. 6 in NCAA Division III.
But truth be told, the game that really mattered was played on Saturday, when the then-No. 16 Panthers avenged an 11-6 regular-season setback to Bowdoin to reach the NESCAC final. That win, plus their 4-0 record outside the league, proved to be enough to give the Panthers not only a berth in the NCAA D-III tournament, but a first-round home game on Wednesday vs. Goucher (14-3). Game time will be 3 p.m.
Goucher may have a better record, but does not play the same quality of schedule — there's a reason the 11-5 Panthers were awarded a home game. On the plus side for Goucher, the Gophers have gone 14-1 since a 16-6 setback in their second game of the season to powerful Gettysburg. But that one loss was to Eastern Connecticut, not exactly a juggernaut. Let's say for the sake of argument, the Panthers advance.
Next up would be RPI (14-2). The Panthers have already defeated RPI this spring, 9-6 on May 20 on the Engineers' home turf. Hard to complain about that match-up if I am Coach Dave Campbell.
Who would be their next opponent if the Panthers win the rematch in lovely Troy, N.Y.? (OK, just kidding, I've been there. With all due respect to my brother the RPI alum, it's not exactly Paris in April.)
In all likelihood in an NCAA quarterfinal, Tufts again, unless the Jumbos lose their first game to either Montclair State or Endicott. Stranger things have happened, but let's suppose Tufts prevails.
Do the Jumbos really want to see the Panthers again for the third time this spring? My guess would be no.
Look, this is still a tough row to hoe for the Panthers. But a five-loss team can't ask for a much better shot in the NCAA tournament than it received.
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Judge Smith reveled in the shock Senator Tillman received when he saw the story for, as he said, he knew he was only amazed and not hurt. He never wrote one thing about him that could have harmed him, he declared. This was the rule he followed during his newspaper life.
"I never hurt anyone intentionally in my writings," he earnestly said. "If I ever injured anybody's feelings I don't know it. I was always especially careful not to hurt a mother. The father did not make so much difference, but I used every precaution to keep from injuring a mother. Every night when I went home from the office, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, I would remove my hat and walk under the stars bareheaded and go over everything I had written that day. I recalled everything I had said in each story and if there was anything in them that would injure unnecessarily a human being I would go back and smoothe that story over. On several occasions I had reached my gate before I thought of a hurt a certain story might do, but I went back to the office anyway and changed them."
The actors and actresses interviewed by this veteran reporter are legion. Edwin Forrest and Edwin Booth stand out in his memory clearer than any of the rest.
Broke in During Civil War
It was during the civil war that Bridges Smith first broke into print. He was not a regular reporter in those days, but a contributing reporter, being engaged during the war in making ammunition for the Confederate army. His contributions were printed in the "Daily Citizen," a little pioneer newspaper published in the exact place where the Telegraph is today. During that time newspapers had few facilities and were published under difficulties.
These years as a contributing reporter are not included when the Judge says that he has been in the newspaper game for half a century. During that half century he has been connected directly or indirectly with the Telegraph.
In 1778 [maybe should read '1878'] he came to the Telegraph as a local reporter and for ten years he filled that position of writing all the news that "broke" in and around Macon. It was the business of the one reporter to attend all weddings in town, funerals, shows, entertainments, and everything else that "turned up."
"In those days there was no such thing as a city editor," he declared with a reminiscent look on his face. "The one reporter was known as the local editor. I was that lone reporter and local editor for ten years. During those years I ran my life on a set schedule, leaving home at 9 o'clock in the morning and working until after midnight every night."
...Next up -- Bridges Smith Got Malaria at Wet Hanging.
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I am looking for someone who is willing to find the graves of my ggg grandmother, Sarah Licette, and her children who are buried there at Rose Hill Cemetery. Her daughter Tero Estelle Licette Cherry is buried in Riverside Cemetery with her husband, William Henry Cherry, and their children. There is a McAgee/Cherry plot in Rose Hill where my gggg grandfather, Hilliard Judge Cherry was laid to rest. Our Cherry Street there in Macon was named after him. I have pictures of that plot but could not find Sarah's. I would love to have pictures of the graves. Thanks in advance!ReplyDelete
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In Memoriam: Mauritz Casper Fredriksen
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Mauritz Casper Fredriksen on May 31. He was 100.
Mauritz was born on July 15, 1912 in Norway. He attended high school and maritime school in Oslo, Norway. He also attended International Correspondence School and from 1951-1958, he was the Captain of the Albatross for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Captain Mauritz C. Fredriksen died in his 101st year in Sudbury, Massachusetts. His rich and sometimes dramatic life spanned a century. His earliest experiences in his native Norway were from a time when cargo ships were powered by sail and radio lay in the future.
The sea brought him to countries on six continents, and his contacts with many peoples throughout the turbulent twentieth century gave him a global view of life: tolerance, wisdom, and a broad sense of social morality. He saw the good in other people and, despite setbacks nurtured what was good in his own life, appreciating it to the very end.
In 1917, during the last year of World War I, he went to sea at the early age of five. His father was the captain of a three-mast full-rigged sailing ship who brought his wife and young son across the Atlantic, carrying freight to Buenos Aires, Argentina. From there, the voyage went north to New York before returning home to Norway's southern coast.
After his father's death in 1927, Mauritz knew he had to help support his mother and siblings; he left school at 15 to start his long career at sea. He advanced through merchant marine ranks for five years, then entered Norway's Maritime College in Oslo to graduate with his Ship's Officer License. His first job as an officer was on the Belray, which carried nineteen 90-ton locomotives – some on deck and some under – from Germany to China, where the government was developing a rail system. Unloading was done by hand, with hundreds of workers using ropes and pulleys.
While the direction of his career seemed clear, the turbulent 1930s brought great changes to his life. In Germany, he like all seamen on shore took care to avoid the pitched street battles between Nazi gangs and their opponents fighting to control the country. Then in 1937, his ship, the Belray, was trapped on the Yangtze River for eight months when Japan began their invasion of China. The blockade was broken in December.
Mauritz returned to Norway and resumed his education to qualify as a Ship's Master. Within the year, he married Gunvor Ertzeid, a nurse at Oslo's city hospital. In July 1939, he left his pregnant wife in Oslo, this time as second mate on a ship bound for the US. He was in San Francisco when Nazi Germany invaded Norway in April 1940. All Norwegian ships went into Allied service during the Second World War. Mauritz served on the Atlantic convoys and then as a commercial fisherman in Alaska before bringing his wife and son over from Norway to live in Seattle in early 1946. It was the first time he saw his six-year-old son, Mauritz Carl. While in Seattle, Mauritz captained a combined fishing and processing ship, and pioneered the fishing of king crabs in Alaskan waters.
The family briefly moved back to Norway, where Mauritz's daughter, Ragnhild, was born in 1948. The following year, Mauritz took command of the Washington Star and brought it to Peru, with his family on board. The vessel's purpose was to freeze fish for export. Every day, the Peruvian fishermen would take their open sailboats and even some balsa rafts far out to sea to catch tuna and swordfish. In the evenings, these were cleaned and frozen for shipment to the US.
In 1951, Mauritz became captain of the Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel, Theodore N. Gill. For the next seven years, the Gill performed research in the Atlantic, from the Caribbean to Maine. Some of the work was done for the US Navy, classified at the time, but today we know that it involved the study of long-range acoustics for anti-submarine warfare. After several moves, the family finally settled in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Mauritz retired from the sea in 1958 for medical reasons, but immediately set out on a new career path. He passed the CPA exam, and thus began a settled life ashore. Mauritz began his career at WHOI in 1965 as a Bookkeeper. In April of 1974, he was promoted to Accountant I. He retired in December of 1974.
After retirement, Mauritz and Gunvor moved to Concord, Massachusetts. She died in 1991 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was remarried in 1992 to Sonja Rogge, who helped him continue to enjoy life, teaching him how to play golf and stay active. She died in 2007.
Many people will miss Mauritz. Failing health during his last months did little to dampen his good cheer. He will be well remembered by everyone who ever knew him.
He is survived by his daughter, Ragnhild (Renel) Fredriksen and her husband John Robinson of Lincoln, his son, Mauritz and his wife Astrid of Oslo, Norway, step-daughters Sonja Strong of Wayland and Christine Ljunghammer of London, England, foster son Zoltan Retey of Zephyrhills, Florida, and loving grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and extended family.
Memorial service at Framingham Friends Meeting, 841 Edmands Road, Framingham, June 16, 3:30 PM.
Donations in Mauritz's name may be made to the Salvation Army.
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TUCSON, AZ -- The University of Arizona unveiled a 55,000-square-foot expansion to its student rec center last week that is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building certification from the U.S. Green Building Council with goals to improve energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and indoor environmental quality.
The new building incorporates green features, such as natural daylighting, recycled rubber flooring, and low VOC paint and carpeting. In addition, 75 percent of construction waste was diverted during the facility's construction.
The expansion includes a 30,000-square-foot weight room, rock climbing features, 104 new pieces of cardiovascular equipment with TVs and a multipurpose gym.
The facility's official grand opening celebration, which organizers call The Big Green Event, is slated for Feb. 22. In addition, a Rec Fest is scheduled for Feb. 23 that will include music, food, games, prize giveaways, free massages, acupuncture, cancer screenings and more.


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"EVEN IF I OWNED Picasso's 'Guernica,' I could not hang it on a wall in my house, and although I own a recording of the Solti Chicago Symphony performance of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring,' I play it only rarely. One cannot live every day on the boundary of human existence in the world, and yet it is to this boundary that one is constantly brought by the parables of Jesus." So wrote a great New Testament scholar, Norman Perrin, in his book Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom. I often think about his frankness as I prepare for the transition between Epiphany and Lent. We must soften and make bearable the intensity of the scriptural story to face it every week in church. We can't dive to the depths every single week, and we are right to keep our child-friendliness going.
But we need to risk depth and passion, or run the danger of making the gospel seem boring and predictable. Our churchly betrayal of God lies in our willingness to make the Word seem banal. So perhaps the thing we need to give up for Lent is our avoidance of depth. The scriptures this month will speak to us of faith as the experience of being stressed almost to a breaking point. They will plumb the depths of divine frustration and disappointment. We must clear a space for these wounding and thrilling themes and suspend our strategies for making worship palatable and safe.
Martin L. Smith, an Episcopal priest, is an author, preacher, and retreat leader. His newest book is Go in Peace: The Art of Hearing Confessions, with Julia Gatta.
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Jeremiah 4:1-10; Psalm 71:1-6; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30


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HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
By BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
After the global success of YES IS MORE, one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group presents HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation. The book coincides with the HOT TO COLD exhibition at the National Building Museum and presents 60 case studies in harsh climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet.
As we travel from one end of the spectrum to its opposite we will see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense its impact on the architecture. The central challenge is to mitigate the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, while finding solutions that can be both economically and environmentally profitable.
Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren't givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. HOT TO COLD stays true to BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group's grand mission to find a pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity, but the kind of world we wish to inhabit.
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- Previously unpublished essays by Bjarke Ingels
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Snitch has us thinking about other movies featuring snitches.
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973)
There's a monologue in The Friends Of Eddie Coyle where Robert Mitchum, a career criminal edging toward the other side of middle age, talks about the "extra four knuckles" on this left hand, a speech that unmistakably recalls Mitchum's famous "right hand/left hand" spiel in The Night Of The Hunter. But the differences between the two oratories are telling: In The Night Of The Hunter, Mitchum, a vicious thief masquerading as a righteous preacher, speaks from a position of thunderous power. But here, those marks on his knuckles are the scars of a misspent life, one where his "friends" are not really friends and new allies offer another form of treachery. Facing another five years up river, he can't really be blamed for ratting out other lowlifes to the police, because more time in jail would smother what's left of his spirit.
Directed by Peter Yates (Bullitt) from a novel by George V. Higgins—whose book Coogan's Trade was recently adapted into Killing Them Softly—The Friends Of Eddie Coyle gave Mitchum an ideal late-career role, allowing him to show the weariness and age behind a screen persona built on scoundrels and tough guys. It's also exceptionally suspenseful: Yates isn't as celebrated as the flashier auteurs of the period, but there are a pair of masterful robbery scenes that develop with a quiet rigor and matter-of-factness that recall the famed jewel heist in Rififi. And they're tied to an overall dedication to getting the small details right, from the protocol for negotiating and handing off a gun shipment to the way vague promises can be used to squeeze informants like a vise. The consequences of a criminal life have taken many forms in the movies, most of them violent, but The Friends Of Eddie Coyle is haunted by the deep pull of regret.
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Frederick, MD – Mark R. Baker has been named president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).
"We are pleased to announce that Mark Baker has been selected as the next president and chief executive officer of AOPA," said Bill Trimble, chairman of the AOPA Board of Trustees. "He has all the tools this job demands. Mark brings 35 years of involvement in the GA community as a pilot and decades of experience in leadership positions in the home improvement industry, such as Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and The Home Depot. He has an extraordinary understanding of the importance of serving our membership and advancing their needs. He is well-suited to build on the foundation established by his predecessors and move AOPA forward."
A native Minnesotan, Baker, 55, became a pilot in his twenties and has logged more than 7,500 hours of flight time. An aircraft owner, Baker enjoys flying everything from light seaplanes to turbines to helicopters, but his favorite airplane continues to be his Piper Super Cub. Baker and his wife, Vickie, have four children and six grandchildren. Not only did he encourage his father to learn to fly, but two of his sons-in-law have their pilot's certificates and his own son will become a pilot soon as well.
"Being selected as only the fifth leader of AOPA is a tremendous honor," said Baker, an AOPA member since 1987. "Many of my happiest moments have been spent flying and sharing my passion for aviation with others. I am committed to the priorities of the membership and will ensure that AOPA's focus remains on carrying out our mission of protecting the freedom to fly.
"I am very much looking forward to getting out and meeting and listening to the members, and then using the feedback to focus valuable resources where they will most benefit GA pilots and increase the value of membership. I believe this approach can also be useful in increasing member participation in AOPA and driving increased GA flight activity."
Through the years, Baker worked his way up through the home improvement business and brings a sharp focus on customer service that will translate well to a membership association. Most recently, he served as CEO of Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation, a leading retailer of home improvement and garden products. Baker also served in senior executive roles at Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Gander Mountain Company and The Home Depot. Earlier in his career, he also worked for HomeBase, Scotty's Home Improvement Centers and Knox Hardware and Lumber. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota.
Baker enjoys flying Young Eagles, youths aged 8-17 who are interested in aviation and are given the opportunity to fly in GA aircraft, and has donated time and resources in the past to other Experimental Aircraft Association initiatives. He also has served on several corporate boards and has been involved in leadership roles with nonprofit organizations including City of Hope, a leading biomedical research, treatment and education institution in Duarte, California, which he has supported since the 1980s.
With this appointment, Baker also will become chairman of AOPA's Political Action Committee, chief executive officer of the AOPA Foundation and publisher of AOPA Pilot, the world's largest and most influential aviation publication.
Baker is to take office on September 6, 2013, following formal appointment by the Board of Trustees at the Annual Meeting of Members in Frederick, Maryland.


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Passenger travel is down 30 % in March even with nine days of AirTran service. April is projected to be down 35% and could be up to 50% this summer. The airport has laid off 15 this week, skycaps parking lot attendants etc. Proposed budget to be adopted next week will be 25% below the current budget.
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have split, at least for a while.
"Catherine and Michael are taking some time apart to evaluate and work on their marriage," a rep for the actress said in a statement Wednesday.
The Hollywood power couple, who married in 2000 and have two children together, haven't been photographed together since April 22 and decided to separate in May after he returned from the Cannes Film Festival, People first reported. Neither has taken action toward divorce or legal separation, the mag said.
A friend said that stresses over the past few years — his battle with throat cancer, and her treatment for bipolar II disorder — have exacted a price from the marriage.
Also, according to E! News, Zeta-Jones was unhappy about comments her husband made to the Guardian about his cancer being caused by HPV, the human papilloma virus, which he said was transmitted to him via oral sex.
Still, those in the know told People there's still hope for reconciliation.
Douglas, 68, was in Cannes with his most recent release, HBO's "Behind the Candelabra," in which he played Liberace. The 43-year-old actress appears in "Red 2," currently in theaters.
The couple's children are Dylan, 13, and Carys, 10.
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Our work priorities are based on the concerns of Quakers worldwide. Because QUNO facilitates meetings and work on sensitive topics, not all of our projects can be discussed publicly. Read below to learn more about our current programmes.
QUNO seeks to encourage a more holistic approach to peacebuilding and the prevention of violent conflict at the UN that takes into account local perspectives and the rebuilding of relationships. This includes a focus on the connections between peace, development, and the environment.
QUNO views climate change as an environmental, political and economic challenge that interconnects with its work on peace and justice issues. We seek to highlight the human impacts of climate change at a time when communities worldwide are experiencing its consequences, yet man made greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) continue to rise at dangerous rates.
We work to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights through the United Nations system, with particular reference to the interface between human rights and armed conflicts, and the protection of refugees.
QUNO's peace and disarmament work in Geneva works at the intersection of peace, human rights and development.
We promote informed and balanced discussion about what agricultural systems are best suited to different circumstances and needs.
These are topics and issues that were major QUNO projects in the past. For the most part, these projects are no longer active because our work in these areas resulted in the issues being addressed and recognized in the larger UN community.


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While David G. seems to have forgotten his pledge to update us on MobileMe's status late last week, following what can only be called a disasterous launch, Steve Jobs seems to have just dropped the BOOM! on MobileMe's status within Apple.
Ars Technica claims to have seen an email sent out late last night in which Jobs admits:
It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.
Instead of dropping MobileMe on/around July 11th, Jobs believes a staggered approach would have been better, where features and WebApps were rolled out one by one, each with considerably more testing. Saying MobileMe was "not up to Apple's standards", Jobs also said "The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year."
How so?
Eddy Cue, former VP of iTunes, adds MobileMe and AppStore to his portfolio, and now reports directly to jobs as VP of Internet Services.


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terça-feira, 25 de março de 2014
Michael Levi:Hot air about American gas will not scare Putin
Calls are mounting for the US to export shale gas to Europe to help free the continent from Russian influence. Observers are right to focus on Moscow's energy leverage but they are prescribing the wrong response. The most useful thing that Europe could import is not American gas itself but the open economic model that has enabled the US natural gas industry to thrive.
Europe buys nearly 30 per cent of its natural gas from Russia. This has led to concern that President Vladimir Putin might turn off a few taps to gain leverage in the confrontation with Ukraine. For now, these fears are overblown – among other things, Europe has a lot of natural gas in storage – but the fundamental worry is well founded.
Yet US natural gas exports would do little to reduce Russian leverage. They cannot replace Russian gas in the current crisis since it will be more than a year until any US export terminals are built. Even once these facilities are up and running, the economics of sending shale gas to Europe are unlikely to make much sense. Once the cost of shipping is included, Russian gas is far cheaper; Moscow's share of the European market is not likely to change much. Instead, American gas will flow mainly to Asia.
This is not to say that US exports would not hurt Mr Putin. They would push down the price of gas in Europe, which is one of the many reasons why they should be allowed. But it is fanciful to suppose that they could provide a decisive edge against Moscow in a future crisis.
Europe's politicians should instead put their energy into copying the successful US policies that laid the groundwork for a spectacular boom in natural gas production. This might allow Europeans to produce more gas at home instead of buying it from Russia. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that Europe has 598tn cubic feet of technically recoverable shale gas, roughly half as much as the US. Yet almost none of this is being exploited. In part, that is because the continent is playing catch-up with a boom that started elsewhere. But there are deeper reasons, too. Many European countries have banned shale gas production. Those that allow development have slapped on taxes and government royalties that do much to deter it.
The US has lessons to offer on both fronts. Most gas-rich US states have rejected calls to prohibit shale gas production; instead, they have allowed development subject to robust environmental safeguards. The specifics vary from state to state. In Texas, a longtime energy producer, the industry has won public acceptance with less oversight than elsewhere. In Ohio or Illinois, which are new to the natural gas game, regulation is more stringent. Europeans would be wise to draw lessons from US states that have struck a balance between development and the environment.
The American shale gas industry has flourished on private land, where property owners are susceptible to commercial incentives. In Europe, mineral rights are generally publicly owned and unlikely to be privatised. Still, the more basic lessons – that government policy should be careful not to undermine the economics of gas development, and that care should be taken to ensure that local communities benefit from development – should be listened to carefully.
The US can also export lessons about gas markets. The US market responds efficiently to disruptions because regulators insist on open access to infrastructure such as pipelines, and enforce standards of transparency that ensure market participants are adequately informed. Europe has moved in this direction. Unlike the US, it needs to protect itself against foreign producers that might manipulate liberalised markets. Still, it has room to improve.
Focusing on steps such as these may be less attractive than talking up US natural gas exports: it denies America a chance to brag about its strategic influence and forces Europeans to grapple with their own political problems. The biggest opportunity to improve European security, though, comes from exporting the US model, not selling American gas.
Michael Levi is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The Power Surge"
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According to stats by MetroScore Scanner, the Windows Store has exceeded 35,000 available Windows 8 apps. The marketplace is currently adding about 415 new apps daily, an even steeper rate than the 362 apps being added each day back in November.
The official tally now stands at 35,167 apps for the new Microsoft machines, 22,000 of which are available in the U.S. According to The Next Web, Windows 8 started out with 10,000 apps on October 30, jumped to 16,000 apps by November 14, and reached the 20,000 mark on November 22. It's also important to keep in mind that many of the apps are free, meaning that revenue is not growing at the same exponential rate.
As the first Windows OS to offer an app store, it makes sense for all the companies that had programs and software for old Microsoft computers to push to get their wares up in the most appropriate format for the new system. Growth for the marketplace has been on a consistently positive trajectory since the OS debuted in October. But not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon for the app store; Google said it will not be developing any apps for the Windows 8 computers.
Considering the dire predictions that faced Microsoft when the new OS came out, a rate of 415 new apps a day is reflective of the high level of interest developers are showing in the platform. If the store keeps up its current rate of new apps, the Windows Store will surpass 50,000 apps on February 1. Windows 8 has sold more than 40 million licenses so far, so it appars that Microsoft will begin the next year with a solid position.
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Probe mitigates Bunnell computer case
Montville - A state police investigation has concluded that the town's highest-ranking police officer improperly used a computer database to run criminal background checks on the town's Parks and Recreation Department employees and others but did not misuse it for his own personal use.
Lt. Leonard Bunnell, a 35-year veteran of the force, was suspended by the town on Thursday for two weeks without pay. Mayor Ronald K. McDaniel Jr. said the action was taken against Bunnell for violating protocol 38 times while using the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing system, a tool police use to gather criminal justice data.
A state police report provided to The Day on Friday by the town attorney shows that Bunnell violated the COLLECT system protocol in 32 instances when investigating summer camp counselors and a volunteer coach for the recreation department. He called Parks and Recreation Director Peter Bushway to provide him with the information.
The report also says Bunnell used the database to gather past arrest information on a person who requested it in order to make a loan application to purchase commercial property on Gallivan Lane.
The person's name and all other names in the copy of the state police report provided to The Day were redacted for privacy reasons, according to the town attorney, Eileen Duggan, of the law firm Suisman Shapiro.
Other instances of misuse occurred when Bunnell ran background checks on a convicted sex offender and a person who was applying to adopt a child through the state Department of Children and Families. One other instance of misuse took place when Bunnell did a background check on a "strange acting male" asking for residency in a town elderly housing development, the report said.
The COLLECT system's regulations clearly state the database should not be used at the direction of town employees. The state police report also shows that Bunnell took a recertification test in August 2011 in which he correctly answered two questions about protocol regarding the COLLECT system.
The investigation began after a biannual audit of the COLLECT system found 38 instances of misuse involving Bunnell. A COLLECT system auditor also was later alerted by Robin Salvatore, the police union president, that Bunnell had made a request on behalf of Bushway for a documented criminal history on a volunteer coach.
The state police report says that former state police Lt. John Rich and assistant state's attorney Kevin Shea discussed the Bunnell investigation. They decided to leave any discipline to the town unless it was found that Bunnell personally benefited from revealing any information.
Lt. John S. Eckersley, a member of the state police Eastern District Major Crime Unit, who prepared the report, said Bunnell was cooperative and admitted during the state police investigation that he had misused the COLLECT system. Eckersley determined that Bunnell never distributed COLLECT documents to anyone.
McDaniel confirmed Bunnell's suspension Thursday but declined to comment further. Attempts to reach Bunnell this week and on Friday were unsuccessful.
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The Wabash College Art Department is pleased to announce the showing of Navajo Weavings from the Korb Collection this month in the Eric Dean Gallery. The show will open on Monday, January 22, with a reception from 8-9:30 pm.
Donald B. Korb, Wabash class of 1945, and his wife Jean began collecting Germantown Navajo saddle blankets and samplers after a visit in 1990 to Arizona. Their collection includes textiles from the late 1800's to the 1940's, each with bright colors and images that reflect traditional Navajo art. The Korbs, who will be present for the opening reception, currently reside in Evansville; the collection makes its home at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
The Navajo tradition of saddle blanket weavings probably began in the mid 1730's, at a time when Spaniards introduced both horses and sheep (wool) to the Southwest. Between 1863 and 1865 the entire Navajo tribe was imprisoned by American troops, leaving the tribe without access to their sheep. In response, the federal government provided the Navajo people yarn from Germantown, Pennsylvania, dyed with colorful analine dyes. These yarns are the source of the colorful weavings in this collection.
The Navajo blankets, rugs and samplers reflect the influence of Mexican design, white man's images and symbols, and other imported patterns and designs. In one, the artist has woven the American flag, bordered by what looks like oriental rug patterns. The rich colors and patterns, and the expert craftsmanship of these weavings illustrate a wonderful tradition continued today in the Navajo Nation in our country's southwest.
The show will be exhibited in the Eric Dean Gallery through February 16. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, noon to 5 pm, and Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. The gallery is located in the Randolph Deer Art wing in the south end of the Fine Arts Center.


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I'm coming to East London this weekend and iv never been climbing there before. Is there someone free this weekend that can show me around or if I can join a party. I'm coming down with a mate that climbs 16s and I climb 28s would really want to check out NSA. Is NSA a safe place for just the two of us?
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One times local here. I'll be heading out on Saturday morning around 9. I'll also be there with a partner who climbs 16s only I don't climb 28. I'd be happy to show you around.
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No wonder the Democrats have to bribe their own Senators and Congressmen to vote for Obamacare: all poll data indicate that the measure (whatever it is at the moment) is deeply unpopular, and the latest numbers from Nebraska suggest that anyone who votes for government medicine, representing other than a deep-blue state, is in serious trouble.
Rasmussen polled Nebraska voters in a matchup between Ben Nelson, who supplied the decisive vote in the Senate, against Republican governor Dave Heineman. The result was stunning: Heineman by two to one.
It may not be unprecedented for an incumbent Senator to trail by 30 points in a hypothetical matchup, but it is certainly extraordinary. One notable finding from the same poll is that Nebraskans are unimpressed by the bribe that Nelson accepted on their behalf:
Just 17% of Nebraska voters approve of the deal their senator made on Medicaid in exchange for his vote in support of the plan. Overall, 64% oppose the health care legislation, including 53% who are Strongly Opposed.
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Another Broadway season, another cavalcade of television and movie stars testing their stage mettle.
Some come to build their acting muscles, others come for the publicity splash, and a select few come because they simply can't stay away. The chance to perform before an audience in a work that is resonant with meaning outweighs all other considerations, including their agents and managers begging them not to take themselves out of the running for a bit part in a preteen franchise film.
Well, the report cards are in and the grades not surprisingly are mixed.
The biggest name — Tom Hanks — fared the best. He has a solid shot at the Tony Award for his performance in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy." (The ceremony can be seen Sunday night on CBS.) And though my vote for lead actor in a play would go to Tracy Letts for his pugnacious performance in Pam MacKinnon's clarifying revival of Edward Albee's masterpiece "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Hanks impressed as much for his patented charisma as for his ensemble teamwork.
But the days when a Hollywood headliner was practically guaranteed a Tony for deigning to perform on Broadway are over. Bette Midler electrified the critics with her stage presence in the solo play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers" but didn't receive a nomination for the highly competitive lead actress in a play.
Alec Baldwin, a favorite New York son and no stranger to the stage, was the marquee draw of Lyle Kessler's 1983 play, "Orphans." But it was Baldwin's less-heralded costar Tom Sturridge who nabbed a Tony nomination for lead actor — a race that, in addition to Hanks and Letts, includes two beloved Broadway funnymen, Nathan Lane and David Hyde Pierce.
How marvelous to see Cicely Tyson return to the stage after a 30-year absence in the revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful." Tyson deserves to win for lead actress in a play, though Michael Wilson's production was diminished somewhat by the casting of Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., who appeared utterly lost onstage, as though he couldn't understand why the director wasn't shouting "Cut!" during his awkward moments.
Joining Gooding at the bottom of this year's class is Emilia Clarke (of HBO's "Game of Thrones"), whose charmless turn as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" had me flipping through my mental almanac to come up with a worse Broadway performance. (I'm still flipping.)
Not quite as bad though not all that much better was two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("The Help," "Zero Dark Thirty") in "The Heiress." Miscast as the plain Jane spinster-in-training Catherine Sloper, Chastain made clear through her wooden portrayal just how much more difficult stage acting is than film acting even for a Juilliard graduate.
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Katie Holmes can't be blamed for Theresa Rebeck's dead-on-arrival "Dead Accounts." Her loveliness deserved a better sitcom — I mean play — but loveliness only goes so far in the theater. The camera can make a meal out of a fresh face, but a proscenium stage requires more from a performer. The invisible must be expertly wielded.
Beauty is so rewarded in our culture that it can forestall the inner work — the digging for something unexpectedly true — that is at the core of great acting. Clarke, Chastain and Holmes made me fear that the Great White Way could be going the way of network television — a bunch of pretty faces giving expression to shopworn emotions.
Codependent relationship?
Broadway has sadly become dependent on star casting, though misadventures such as Al Pacino's wacko performance in "Glengarry Glen Ross" this season may make audiences a bit more leery of conflating consumer value with celebrity.
Movie stars ought to exercise a bit more caution themselves. Those eager to enhance their theatrical craft might want to consider less high-profile stages. Chastain is a highly regarded film actor, but her interpretation of Catherine Sloper was too tentative to compete with the luminous memory of Cherry Jones' Tony-winning 1995 performance.
Producers might come calling for Clarke, whose sexy-warrior image in HBO's ad campaign for "Game of Thrones" was all over the subway stations when "Breakfast at Tiffany's" opened in the spring. But breeding dragons on cable TV isn't the best preparation for taking on a theatrical role immortalized in the movies by the one and only Audrey Hepburn.
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It's admirable that so many well-known actors want to develop more than just their careers, but someone seems to be giving them bum advice. Who, for instance, encouraged Holmes to sign on to "Dead Accounts"? When Marilyn Monroe came to New York at the height of her fame, she was surrounded by Actors Studio gurus who were encouraging her artistic growth. Actors can't rely on agents or producers but need to build relationships with theater artists. Parachuting into Broadway increases the odds of an embarrassing mishap.
So many ways to slip up
But even a canny New Yorker can trip up. On paper, Baldwin was ideally suited for a Broadway revival of "Orphans." His role, a hostage who turns the tables on his captors and becomes their surrogate father, cries out for just the kind of menacing authority and condescending wit that Baldwin honed over the years on "30 Rock."
But this natural fit of star and vehicle had a couple of drawbacks. The first was that the play, a second-tier offering derivative of Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard, would have been better in a smaller house off-Broadway with cheaper ticket prices. The second was that Baldwin was so outwardly right for the part that he wound up trading on his persona rather than building a character from the ground up the way his costar Sturridge did.
So much controversy surrounded the replacing of Shia LaBeouf from the "Orphans" cast that it was easy to believe that the show had faltered for reasons that had nothing to do with its quality. In truth, there was a fundamental acting problem at the heart of Daniel Sullivan's production.
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Recently I was reading old lectures by the legendary acting teacher Robert Lewis in which he makes a point about casting that seems germane to the "Orphans" postmortem: "What you ought to look for in choosing someone for a part is whether or not that person can play, and is right for, the highest moment in the part, regardless of whether he exactly fits the first entrance or not."
Midler's portrayal of Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers can be scored a qualified success. A huge hit, the show proved that the Divine Miss M has enormous box office pull on the Great White Way. John Logan's vehicle, while admittedly paper thin, reintroduced her as a galvanizing theatrical force, and already there's fantasy casting buzz of her starring in a revival of "Hello, Dolly!"
Hanks is the one star who seems to have gotten it all right. For his Broadway debut, he didn't make the mistake of his pal Julia Roberts, who had difficulty adapting herself to the verbal filigree of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain" when she ventured onto Broadway in an avalanche of publicity in 2006. Ephron is a writer Hanks knew well, having had great success in two of her blockbusters, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail." "Lucky Guy," produced after Ephron's death, was clearly a labor of love for him.
It was also a play that played to his strengths. His character, Mike McAlary, a scrappy New York tabloid columnist, is an everyman — a slightly disagreeable one but an everyman nonetheless. No one inhabits this medium range of soul better than Hanks.
Better still, the work, which bounces around several highly competitive newsrooms, invites him to become part of an ensemble. Hanks clearly thrives in the company of other actors. (His early Shakespeare background at the Great Lakes Theater Festival no doubt contributed to this ethic.) There's a generosity, even a humility, to his performance.
This isn't about swanning in the spotlight and flying back to his West Coast mansion. He's finding McAlary's character through his dynamic interaction with his fellow cast members. By working so honestly in this fashion, he endows "Luck Guy" with a weight that may not be inherent in the script. (Having a director as sharp has George C. Wolfe doesn't hurt.)
Purists decry the trend of Hollywood stars taking over Broadway. Not me. To the Leonardo DiCaprios of this world considering taking a theatrical plunge, I say follow Hanks' smart lead.
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