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Phillip Hughes ... struggled to make an impact in both innings against India A. Source: News Limited
Australia showed some signs of improvement with the bat but were still comprehensively outplayed by India A in their three-day tour match which ended in a draw just four days out from the first Test.
Australia resumed in their first innings on 4-131 on Monday in reply to India A's 451 and were skittled for 235 at Chennai's Guru Nanak College Ground.
The home side's spinners Rakesh Dhurv (5-51) and Jajaj Saxena (4-61) claimed nine wickets between them in Australia's first innings.
Trailing by 216, Australia were forced to bat again as India A skipper Gautam Gambhir enforced the follow-on.
The Shane Watson-led tourists reached 3-195 at stumps.
Watson top-scored in Australia's first innings with 84 and the Test vice-captain was prominent again in the second dig, hitting 60 from 63 deliveries.
Watson and Ed Cowan (53) added 104 for the first wicket on Monday - their second century partnership of the match.
Phil Hughes (19) was bowled by Dhurv in the final over before tea.
Usman Khawaja finished on 30 not out with Matthew Wade on 19.
Skipper Michael Clarke (hamstring) and David Warner (thumb) were rested from the three-day game but have been training well.
"Davey has been hitting (balls in the nets) in the last couple of days so I think he'll be alright," Khawaja told his post-match media conference.
Khawaja said simply playing a first-class game in Indian conditions was a step forward for Clarke's men.
"Their spinners bowled very well. They used the conditions brilliantly and they put a lot of pressure on us," Khawaja said.
"You can bat in the nets as much as you want but it's not the same.
"The players took a lot out of that.
"That's why in the second innings you saw us bat so well. Watto and Eddie really set it up and we batted pretty well throughout the second innings.
"It's just nice to be out in the middle and getting some game time and putting ourselves under a bit of pressure."
Khawaja says pace remains a key weapon for Australia.
While spinners Nathan Lyon, Xavier Doherty and Ashton Agar claimed eight India A wickets, all three conceded centuries and couldn't match the tight bowling of pacemen Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc and Moises Henriques.
"Pete Siddle bowled lovely in this game (1-40 off 18)," Khawaja added.
"He really hit the deck hard and got in their faces and did what he does best.
"Pace can be as effective as spin out here."
Agar, 19, will return home on Tuesday to resume with Western Australia.
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I saw this and immediately thought of old EPCOT Center soundtracks. Also, this is something CommuniCore or maybe Image Works could have had that we would have all loved. Meanwhile the current CommuniCore, errr Innoventions, is plenty busy teaching us about velcro and trash removal and last year's video games, um so that's good. But a wall with something like this would have caught curious 1980s attention.
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A California teen who admitted to driving drunk in the crash that killed five people on a Nevada highway was charged with seven counts of felony DUI Wednesday.
Jean Soriano, 18, appeared before a Moapa Township judge to hear five counts of driving under the influence causing death, two counts of DUI causing bodily harm, and two misdemeanor charges of driving without a license and failure to reduce speed in the March 30 crash, KVVU Las Vegas reported.
Soriano and his 23-year-old passenger were hurt when the Dodge Durango he was driving rear-ended a Chevrolet Astrovan, which overturned, killing three brothers and two other family members. The van's driver and another passenger survived.
The victims were identified as Genaro Fernandez, 31, of Norwalk, Calif., Raudel Fernandez-Avila, 49, and Belen Fernandez, 53, both of Lynwood, Calif., Angela Sandoval, 13, and Leonardo Fernandez-Avila, 45, both of Los Angeles.
Soriano admitted he had been driving and told investigators he had "too many" Budweisers before getting behind the wheel. The police report said Soriano and his passenger were driving from George, Utah, to Las Vegas.
After the accident, Soriano was treated in a hospital and was immediately arrested upon his release. He is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in lieu of bail, which was set at $3.5 million.
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Australian authorities have discovered a dead man on board a suspected asylum seeker boat near Christmas Island.
HMAS Launceston intercepted the boat, with 62 people on board, northeast of the island on Thursday.
Just before boarding, officials received reports that thee was a person with a medical condition on the vessel, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said in a statement.
"Upon boarding the vessel, the boarding party located a male passenger who appeared to be deceased and attempted to revive him without success," he said on Friday.
"The deceased passenger has been transferred to the custody of Australian Federal Police on Christmas Island."
Police on Christmas Island are investigating the cause of death.
The passengers run the risk of being transferred to offshore processing centres in Nauru or Papua New Guinea.
Opposition border protection spokesman Michael Keenan urged the government to fully investigate the death.
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Writing is just like rowing – I bet you never knew that! by Trish Morey
Like most writers I know, I love reading. I love to find a great book, a simply unputdownable book, and get transported away with the characters, the setting and with their situation. I will fly through it, relishing every word, eating up the prose until, with a final sigh of satisfaction tinged with disappointment, the book is finished. Those books, those fast reading, page-turning, non-trip-uppable stories that flow like ribbons through your mind's eye, they must be easy to write – right?
Wrong. As someone once said, easy reading is hard writing.
It's like that with rowing. I used to row many moons ago, in single and double sculls, and in a four when I lived back in
But gradually, the confidence to exit that bay built up, much as my confidence to send my work out to editors and contests slowly grew. I still wasn't rowing well. I certainly didn't have great technique and there were many a time my blade would dig in way too deep and I'd in rowing terms "catch a crab". In writing I'd catch a rejection. Lots and lots of rejections. I won a few races as a novice sculler, and boy, did that lift the spirits. I won a few writing contests. I had great rowing coaches. In writing I had critique groups.
I used to love skating over the millpond surface of the lake on those frosty morning, like a water insect darting over the surface and I did pretty well, actually made it to a couple of Nationals downunder although I never brought home a medal. I finalled in the Golden Heart, although the necklace eluded me.
And one day I worked out what it took to be a great rower. I was watching the Olympics (or the Commonwealth Games) and watching a rower look so utterly relaxed and fluid as he powered his boat through the 2000 metres to win a gold medal. Just looking at him you couldn't tell how much he was working, how much effort he was putting in when those blades dug into the water, how much it hurt when he rammed down his legs and pushed back. He made it look so utterly easy.
And that's the mark of a great writer too. Remember that last great book you read? You didn't see how hard that book was to write, you didn't feel the pain when things didn't go well for the author, you didn't see the blood, sweat and tears that went into its creation. What you read was smooth, fluid and seemingly effortless. It's a worthy goal.
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Hear Melinda Doolittle's 'You're the Reason' — exclusive
Melinda Doolittle heard the tight cluster of horns that opens You're the Reason and insisted producer Tre' Corley let her finish the tune.
Doolittle had never written much in the wake of her third-place finish on American Idol's sixth season, but she found great inspiration in You're the Reason (U.R.Y.), premiering at USA TODAY. The song wound up naming the new EP, which comes out Tuesday and features Doolittle's new single, Never Giving Up.
Doolittle, by all accounts one of the best pure singers ever to appear on the series, shows off her developing songwriting chops on the EP. The release also includes a song called Give, co-written by Connie Rae Harrington and Jimmy Yeary, two writers who, at Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards, won song of the year for co-writing the Lee Brice hit I Drive Your Truck.
The new material doesn't rely on the same old-school soul of 2009's Coming Back to You, but there's a snap and crackle not only in the funky grooves of You're the Reason, but in the live-wire energy of Doolittle's delivery.
The new EP will also feature an extended mix of You're the Reason (U.R.Y.).
Here's the track list for You're the Reason:
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Craigs Investment Partners more than doubled its profit last year as the brokerage half owned by Deutsche Bank benefited from KiwiSaver inflows and reaped fees from equity and debt capital raisings.
Profit rose to $5.3 million in calendar 2011, from $2.3 million a year earlier, according to the annual report, lodged with the Companies Office. Revenue rose 11 per cent to $75 million.
"In a very difficult market overall we had a good year," chairman Neil Craig told BusinessDesk. Craigs has more than $6 billion under management in KiwiSaver and other funds, which made "an on-going contribution last year."
Among mandates Craigs won in 2011 were joint lead manager and underwriter for Contact Energy's $351 million rights issue, joint lead manager for Summerset Group's $123.6 million initial public offering and co-lead manager of Trade Me's $363.5 million IPO. It was also arranger and lead manager for state-owned Genesis Energy's $275 million bond sale.
Craig said there has been "a reasonably tough start to the year" in 2012. "ECM (equity capital markets) at this point is not there and we're very much looking forward to the government programme (of asset sales) and Fonterra coming to the market."
The 2011 results show the firm got its biggest revenue gains from commissions, which jumped 41 per cent to $10.9 million. Fees rose 8.5 per cent to $38.8 million and brokerage rose 5.6 per cent to $25 million.
"All parts of our business had some growth," Craig said. For retail and wholesale stock broking, though, growth was "at the margin."
Operating expenses rose 5.3 per cent to $68.2 million. Benefits for employees, who own most of the other half of the firm, rose about 11 per cent to $45.4 million.
Neil Craig started the Craigs side of the business as Craig & Co in 1984. ABN Amro bought 50 per cent in 2001 of what became ABN AMRO Craigs and that holding transferred to a group of Fortis, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander that acquired the Netherlands-based firm.
Two years later ABN AMRO Craigs bought back the half-stake, renaming the firm Craigs Investment Partners. In 2010, Deutsche Bank took a 49.9 per cent holding.


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Welcome to the first-ever Adrian Dater blog on denverpost.com. I know that many of you will want to print it out and sell it on eBay, being such a historic thing and all.
A blog is a word that a few years ago I might have associated with a bathroom act or some other unmentionable thing, but now it's an everyday fact of life in the world, even in that old relic of a business most of you now call the newspaper industry.
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By Laurie Young, KF16, Indonesia
When we last left off in this new adventure, I hadn't yet stepped foot into the office of my Field Partner, VisionFund Indonesia (VFI). It's amazing what a difference two weeks makes! Not only have I now spent time in the office with the staff at Headquarters (HQ) and met with loan officers at two branches, I was also invited to attend the Annual Meeting for VFI near Bandung, Indonesia! What's a better way to get to know an organization than by spending a week attending presentations about the past, present, and future of the MFI and participate in team building activities? Thanks to the help of the Kiva Coordinator and others who probably regretted sitting next to me during the training (because they ended up having to translate pieces of presentations from Bahasa Indonesian to English), I'll fill you in on some of the great things I've learned! Also, if you manage to make it to the end of this post, I promise to provide you with a great surprise that we could call 'Laurie's Justin Bieber Indonesian Karaoke debut.'
1) Background-The relationship between VFI and World Vision and how it translates to VFI's work:
VisionFund Indonesia was initially setup to support World Vision Indonesia with the stated mission: providing financial services to empower the enterprising poor to liberate their families from poverty in the communities where World Vision works.
Using the World Vision/VisionFund 5 category economic ladder (From World Vision presentation):
World Vision works in over 40 Indonesian districts including the islands of Aceh Sumatra, Java, West Kalimantan, Sulawesi, North Maluku, West Timor, and Papua, mainly focusing support of people in categories 1 and 2. VFI supports World Vision's work by providing microfinance products (including credit, savings, and microinsurance) to category 3 and 4 Indonesians in districts where World Vision operates (i.e. as World Vision operates only in North and East Jakarta, VFI will only have branch offices setup in those parts servicing clients). Currently, VFI is operating in 7 districts on Java and the long term goal is to eventually operate in all districts in which World Vision works. The staff of VFI is now at around 80 people located in 9 branches and the HQ office. The organization currently provides general loans (i.e. no education, agriculture, etc.) but hope to begin to make agriculture loans during the next fiscal year. Mostly the loans are to solidarity groups of borrowers, and currently the borrowers are about 90% female. They also partner with an external provider to offer several microinsurance/savings products (may be a topic of a future post as I've found it quite interesting the more I learn!). VFI also collaborates with Habitat for Humanity International to help build/renovate houses for their borrowers.
2) Day 1-VFI is more than just an employer:
I had just settled into my desk after a morning of introductions and a brief presentation about VFI and World Vision when Pak Hendrik (See #3 for more about him!) walked by and casually asked me if I wanted to go to the Hospital to visit the one-year old son of a Branch Manager.
In the spirit of embracing any and all new experiences, I jumped in the van to join. The child had been rushed to the hospital the prior evening because he began turning blue and it was determined that he had an abnormal white blood count (if you are a medical professional and this correlation makes absolutely no sense to you, then something could've been lost in translation). We arrived to Rumah Sakit Islam Jakarta Hospital and brought fruit to the family and, as a Christian organization, said a prayer for the health of the child. It was extremely touching to be a part of this support system on my first day and I immediately realized I was working with extraordinary people who consider this job not simply a 9-5 paycheck, but rather an extended family invested in all who work there. I'm also happy to say the adorable little boy appeared to be recovering well and they thought he'd be just fine with the proper treatment.
3) "Expand with Quality"- Growth, Growth, Growth!
The VFI Team is headed by their fearless and consistently smiling leader, Pak Hendrik (Director). He joined VFI about 2 years ago and explained to me that at first he wasn't sure why he left is comfortable job at a large Indonesian bank but felt that it was his time to do something more meaningful by serving poor Indonesian people.
In the past year he's been able to double the portfolio of loans and open 2 new branch offices. His goal for the future is to again double the portfolio in both dollar value and loans outstanding each fiscal year. He is optimistic that their model of expansion will succeed and do so with quality. What's his secret? Before a new branch office can open, an existing one must meet certain measures (mainly the ability to cover costs/profitability) and then some loan officers or branch staff can move to a newly opened office to help it be successful. Only time will tell if this growth strategy is sustainable, but by speaking with Pak Hendrik you don't sense a hint of doubt in the organization's ability to open 2 offices on the Island of Kalimantan and another 6 on the island of Java during fiscal year '12.
4) Loan Officers
Do you ever wonder about the people who meet with borrowers day in and day out and witness firsthand the successes and failures of microloans? What about the people that collect information and take photos for the borrower profiles that you see on kiva.org? Well, in VFI's case, those are the loan officers. The typical age range of a loan officer here is 20-25 and most haven't finished a 4-year college degree yet. Six of the loan officers are also former children sponsored by World Vision Indonesia which paid for there schooling starting from Kindergarten through High School. The enthusiasm and energy of the group of over 25 men and women that I met was inspiring! Many of them enjoy the flexibilities of the position because it enables them to work as a loan officer during the day, providing an income that can be used to pay for their University classes in the evenings. Only the 3 best performing loan officers (of 5) from each of the branch offices were invited to the annual meeting. You could tell how excited and proud they were when each Branch Manager was giving a presentation about the performance of the individual branches and their statistics were highlighted on the big screen as being at the top of clients served and low portfolio at risk.
I spoke to three separate loan officers to find out how they feel about Kiva clients and the extra work involved. One loan officer, who is currently spending evenings studying cost management at a local University, said he enjoys working with Kiva and doesn't mind the extra work that is involved for Kiva loans because he feels that by VFI partnering with an international organization, it differentiates them from other MFIs in the area. Another loan officer, also spending evenings in University but studying English, enjoys working specifically with Kiva clients, because of Kiva, the clients are easier to collect repayments from and work with because they know they are 'on the internet' and want to be 'model' borrowers. The final loan officer had my favorite answer. After he takes a photo of the borrowers for the Kiva website, he returns with a copy of the photo for the borrower/group leader and enjoys the excitement and pride that the borrowers get from receiving a copy of the photo.
I hope throughout my first two posts that I have been able to inform you of one of the outstanding organizations that Kiva Partners with, the city in which they are located, and the people that constantly work to make the relationship a success!
Now as I promised, a special surprise:
One of the annual meeting evening activities was a karaoke competition. Each branch office had to sing Justin Bieber, 'Baby' and another song of their choice. To my friends and family out there who already know this is my favorite karaoke song, I promise you the song selection had already been determined prior to my arrival in Jakarta! I would've included a video montage of the event but fear that would violate some copyright laws so, alas, a few photos will have to suffice. I was, however, chosen to sing lead for the HQ office and must say I did receive much applause….or was it laughter?!
Laurie Young is a Kiva Fellow (KF16) working with VisionFund Indonesia in Jakarta. If you would like to learn more about VisionFund Indonesia, please visit its partner page and stay tuned for part two of this series! Laurie also just created a lending team for VisionFund Indonesia so please join her if you would like to support them and their work throughout Jakarta and Surabaya!


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TN files $10M claim in case
With the deadline just days away, Tennessee officials have filed a $10 million claim in the bankruptcy case of the Massachusetts drug compounding firm blamed in the deaths of 16 Tennessee patients.
But state officials acknowledge that they'll probably never see that much money.
The claim was filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston in the case of the New England Compounding Center, which was shut down permanently in the midst of the fungal meningitis outbreak caused by tainted spinal steroids.
The deadline for filing claims is Wednesday, and it approaches in the wake of an agreement to provide a fund of up to $100 million to pay creditors and victims with contributions from the owners of NECC, insurance companies and other related parties.
Gill R. Geldreich, senior counsel in the Tennessee attorney general's office, said the $10 million was only an estimate of the costs the state could claim in fines, penalties and administrative expenses stemming from the outbreak. He said it would be up to the state Pharmacy Board and state health officials to finally determine the total.
Geldreich said that under bankruptcy rules the state's claims would be given a lower priority than the dozens of claims filed on behalf of victims of the outbreak. As a result, he said, it is unlikely the state will ever collect the $10 million.
Despite that disclaimer, attorneys for some of the victims expressed surprise at the state's action.
Attorney Gerard Stranch of Nashville said he planned to ask the state to either withdraw the claim entirely or formally agree that victims' claims would get automatic priority.
Noting that fines and penalties are intended to punish the wrongdoers, Geldreich acknowledged that since NECC has gone out of business, any money diverted to pay penalties would reduce the amount available to victims.
He said the fines would stem from the "multiple violations" of state laws and regulations by NECC when it shipped thousands of vials of fungus-tainted methylprednisolone acetate to three Tennessee health facilities.
New guidelines
Other claims filed in the case include victims from Tennessee, New Jersey, Michigan and Virginia. There also are claims from the state of New York, chemical companies that supplied NECC and other service providers.
In addition to the 16 deaths among Tennessee patients, the outbreak sickened 153 Tennessee patients. Nationwide, 751 people were sickened and 64 died. Court records show more than 300 victims or their survivors have filed suit.
In another development stemming from the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines and information on a new federal drug compounding law to state officials across the country and to drug compounding firms.
Letters were sent to about 6,000 health care providers urging them to purchase any sterile compound drugs from companies that registered with the FDA under the new law.
The FDA also issued a list of 10 firms that already registered under the new law to compound large volumes of the drugs. One firm, PharMedium Services, has four locations, including a facility in Memphis.
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In watching two great early season college basketball games Tuesday night, I saw a lot that I liked about a sport I�ve had an affinity for since my youth.
In watching two great early season college basketball games Tuesday night, I saw a lot that I liked about a sport I�ve had an affinity for since my youth.
College basketball has undergone an extreme makeover of some sort, and I love it.
During the offseason, the NCAA adopted new rules to make the game more fluid and to increase the level of defense played.
The new rules will make the game slow and marred down at first but once coaches and players catch on and adapt, it will make the game better.
Here�s a few reasons why.
For starters, it�s basketball not football.
The game has had way too much excessive physicality and a lack of consistency with calls in the past that it has taken away a lot of the great talents we are used to seeing on display.
College basketball is a terrific sport, one of the best, and the emphasis that the new rules will put on playing correct and intense defense.
People complain �but it makes it impossible for good defenses to keep playing the way they are used to.�
I disagree. It makes them learn to play defense the right way.
The new rule would have hindered the old brutes like Charles Barkley, Kevin McHale and the likes.
Programs known for their physicality like Pittsburgh and Georgetown will have a hard time adapting.
The bottom line, like I said, is this is basketball, not football. You want to push and shove and tackle, go play football.
Defensive plays lead to exciting fast-break plays and is a trademark of certain programs.
The great defensive players of the past are good enough that they do not need to have the freedom to push, shove or knock down the opponent.
These new rules will showcase those players who truly work hard on their skills.
Among the changes are the outlawing of two hands on the offensive player at any time, hand-checks and arm bars which is using the forearm to push the ballhandler.
There will be a lot of whistles and free throws as a result, which we all saw last night.
In the Kansas versus Duke, game the Jayhawks shot 20-of-26 from the free throw line, while Duke only went 16-for-28 from the stripe.
It gives teams a chance to win doing something that should be the second easiest thing in basketball to do � next to a layup � and that�s to make free throws.
If a team cannot make shots with nobody guarding them, then that said team doesn�t deserve to win.
Coaches, players and most noticeably fans are already fuming a-la Yosemite Sam at the referees and we are a week into the season.
It really sickens me as a former athlete and a lifelong fan of the amount of people who complain about certain sports being �too slow.�
The sport is what it is and has been great years before most of us even existed.
For me my eyes are fixated on every play during baseball, basketball or football games. I�m sometimes keeping score, sometimes watching with a strategizing coach�s mentality and others just simply enjoying in a relaxing mood.
Sports have always been my solitude, something I can get lost in � my escape.
My advice to those not liking the new pace of basketball or baseball or any other sport you want to be a fan of in your heart but use the too slow copout?
Grab some dinner, a cold non-alcoholic beverage and sit down, have patience and enjoy the game.
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New research has found that more than one in four adults in Scotland who are responsible for paying rent or a mortgage are worried about covering the cost of their housing in 2016.
The research, carried out online by YouGov on behalf of Shelter Scotland, found that 28 per cent of adults in Scotland who pay rent or a mortgage (more than 700,000 people) said they were worried about not being able to pay for their rent or mortgage at some point during 2016.
The 25-34 age group had the highest number of respondents – 36 per cent stated they were worried about paying rent or mortgage in the year ahead.
Recently Shelter Scotland revealed the number of calls handled by its free national helpline rose again last year and that every 18 minutes a household in Scotland is assessed as homeless – 81 a day.
According to the charity, the number of calls made to its helpline rose to 21,284 in the last year (October 30, 2014 – November 1, 2015), up from 19,906 the previous year – a 7 per cent rise.
Shelter Scotland is warning that ignoring money worries rather than seeking advice could lead to people's homes being put at risk.
The charity says that advisors at its free national helpline are on-hand to help anyone who is worried about paying for their housing costs, is at risk of homelessness or struggling with bad housing.
Adam Lang, head of communications and policy at Shelter Scotland, said: "It's a worrying sign of the times that so many people are starting the New Year worried about how they'll pay for their rent or mortgage in 2016.
"Every day we hear from people who are living on a knife edge, feeling overwhelmed by mounting rent or mortgage bills, as the increasing pressure of sky-high housing costs continues to take its toll.
"We understand it is all too easy to bury your head in the sand hoping the problem will go away. But if you're in this situation, it's so important to remember you're not alone and that help is at hand. Advice from Shelter Scotland is only a click or a phone call away – so get advice early to prevent things from spiralling out of control."
Shelter Scotland is urging households facing housing problems to visit shelterscotland.org.uk/advice or call the free national helpline on 0808 800 4444.
Meanwhile, separate research for Shelter and Shelter Scotland, paints a bleak picture for many households across Scotland, revealing that:
• 31% of people in Scotland who pay rent or a mortgage have already cut back on winter essentials (fuel and winter clothing) to afford their winter rent or mortgage payments. This equates to 640,000 people.
• 9% of people in Scotland who pay rent or a mortgage are worried about meeting their rent or mortgage payments in Jan. This equates to 190,000 people.
• 5% have used savings meant for Christmas presents to pay their rent/ mortgage. This equates to 100,000 people.
• 10% have cut back on buying food for Christmas to pay their rent/ mortgage. This equates to 218,000 people.
Adam Lang added: "Every 18 minutes a household in Scotland is assessed as homeless. That's 81 a day. Our helpline is a vital lifeline for these people, but to keep it going and make it better we need to invest in it.
"Shelter Scotland receives no funding to run our busy helpline, so support from the public is incredibly important to us to ensure we can continue helping families and individuals at a time when they need it most.
"To help us, people can visit shelterscotland.org or text SHELTER 70123 and donate £3* to support our work to help homeless and badly housed people across Scotland."


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A new collection of essays traces how modern ruins have inspired artists and architects, writes Douglas Murphy
It is a well-worn cliché that architecture is the most optimistic of cultural activities. It's not hard to see why, when the very intensity of activity required to erect a building demands the most solid commitment. But this is also one of the many reasons why ruined buildings are so fascinating to us; the most strenuous reaching to heaven produces the richest melancholy when we are faced with its decline.
The last great period of ruinenlustin the romantic age between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, saw poets and painters lustily clambering over the fragments of Rome, while aristocrats built themselves ruined monasteries for lugubrious gratification.
Recently, we have been living through another blossoming of ruin culture, although one whose gaze is turned upon the recent past and the physical remnants of the 20th century. A rich vein of artistic production has been taking Modernist architecture as a means to pose questions of history, ideology and utopian belief. The latest book in the Documents of Contemporary Art series on artistic concepts, is Ruins, which draws together a number of significant texts on the theme.
Edited by Brian Dillon, these essays and extracts plot a journey through the development of our current obsession with ruins. An early highlight is German sociologist Georg Simmel's essay The Ruin(1911), perhaps the best condensation of the romantic theory of the ruin as a moment of sublime equilibrium between man's heavenward stretch and nature's downward pull.
From here, we travel through various 20th-century responses to ruination: a passage from Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture(1923) exemplifies determination of early Modernists to transcend and abolish the ruins of the 19th century, while architect/theorist Paul Virilio's morbid fascination with Nazi coastal fortifications in Bunker Archaeology (1975), hints at how architecture attempted to respond to the disaster of the Second World War.
According to Dillon, artist Robert Smithson's A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic (1967) was pivotal in creating a genuinely contemporary sense of the ruin. An ironic travelogue describing a bus trip to his New Jersey home town, Smithson eulogises building sites and industrial detritus as if they were monuments on a par with antiquity, and in the process shifts the ruinous eye from the monumental to the quotidian and begins to form a more complex attitude to ruin-time.
What becomes clear is that the modern ruin is not only a remnant of the past, but that its fragments contain a history of the future as well. Our still-visible failure to achieve this Modernist future has become a fertile source of inspiration for artists; Victor Pasmore's bathetically heroic Apollo Pavilion in the Wilson twins' video works, Toby Paterson's structured paintings, or the remnants of collective housing projects used in the installations of Roger Hiorns.
The texts collected here repeatedly return to Walter Benjamin's analyses of technology, politics and aesthetics from the early 20th century, and indeed in Benjamin's sprawling work you can already see the notion of Modernism as a fragmented, ghostly invocation to radical change forming. It is this 'dialectical ruination' that fuels recent (mainly cinematic) investigations into history, space and utopia, such as those of the Turner-nominated Otolith Group or filmmaker Patrick Keiller.
As a primarily textual resource, Ruinsrequires the reader to be familiar with (or at least willing to research) the artists and works in question, and there are a number of texts whose interest for architects will be perhaps negligible. Furthermore, those familiar with 'Deconstructivism' might have encountered some of the ideas before; Jacques Derrida is here, as is Anthony Vidler's The Architectural Uncanny (1992).
When attempting to grapple with ideas such as these in their own work, architects all too often lapse into mannerism or caricature; the ruin-inspired columns of Peter Eisenman's House VI (1975) are just as tacky as an 18th-century folly. But in an age such as ours, with the future seeming more bleak than it has for generations, this book is an excellent resource for investigating why art is so fascinated by a culture it seems that architecture would rather forget, and gives many reasons why we can't, and shouldn't, let go of the ruins of our recent past. Douglas Murphy is an architect and writer
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Windows and Office have been Microsoft's cash cows for years, but what will the next generation bring?
Microsoft watchers, especially those on Wall Street, are thoroughly obsessed with Windows and Office, the two Microsoft cash cows that have powered the company for most of its 35-plus years.
Given that the Microsoft fiscal 2012 kicks off next month on July 1, it's prime time to think about the potential cash calves that could help the 'Softies wean themselves from Windows and Office dependence.
Brent Thill, a UBS analyst who covers Microsoft, recently asked me to come up with a top 10 list of Microsoft products and technologies to which investors should be paying attention. I offered my list of 10 things Microsoft has done lately to start fattening some of its potential cash calves -- here it is, in no particular order:
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SI's Jay Jaffe had it pretty much pegged in August: the MLB's Division Series format this year makes just about no sense, and as a result, we're seeing teams with superior records (and more exciting stories, like the upstart A's) wading into unfriendly waters for their first two games. It's already been a factor in consecutive losses for the aforementioned A's, and every team with the ostensible home field advantage will have something to complain about if they find themselves down early. Jaffe sums it up:
When Major League Baseball decided to add a second Wild Card team to each league, the intent was to create an extra obstacle for non-division winning playoff teams by forcing them to meet in a one-game play-in prior to the Division Series. The change was designed to go hand-in-hand with a realignment plan that shifted the Astros from the NL Central to the AL West in 2013, thereby creating six five-team divisions and a more uniform path to the postseason for every team. Alas, the financial allure of the Wild Card games proved too great for commissioner Bud Selig, the owners and the players union to resist, so next year's design has been grafted to this year's model, thereby creating an inequity that actually favors the Wild Card winner.
The rub is that the Division Series will be played in a 2-3 format, with one travel day in between the change of venues, and the lower seed hosting the first two games, a significant advantage because it creates the possibility of more home games for the underdog than the favorite. Meanwhile, the more logical 2-2-1 format, which gives the team with the better record the advantage of hosting the first two games as well as the finale, and which was used from 1998-2011, has been tabled until next year, because heaven forbid that extra travel day push the start of the League Championship Series back a day.
Too much text for you? A little impersonal? Thirsty for Bud Selig's blood? That's why we have Twitter!
Luckily for Bud Selig, the Nationals, Reds, and Yankees fan bases are demure and unassertive. Once the A's are dispatched, he's in the clear.
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Driving north to Cooperstown from Annapolis this October was like a timelapse through autumn. Winding through the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, I yearned to pounce a brush loaded from a palette of yellow, chartreuse, and fiery orange on a blank canvas to recreate the scene. In New York the colors changed to ochre, brown, and deep evergreen. Small towns and farms nestled in the valleys, and periodically the road paralleled some of the narrow, flood-prone rivers that feed the Susquehanna River and our Chesapeake Bay.
The mighty Susquehanna River contributes the largest amount of freshwater to the Bay—more than half. The river extends almost to the top of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. At the Susquehanna's source, Cooperstown hugs the base of Otsego Lake.
In season, the lake is prime for swimming, fishing, and boat tours aboard the Glimmerglass Queen. Other attractions include the Cooperstown Farmers' Market, the Fenimore Art Museum, The Cooperstown Beverage Trail, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
To the south and west, New York's part of the Bay watershed is largely forested and rural. Otsego County, home of Cooperstown, boasts about 1,000 farms, with dairy accounting for 76 percent of the total agricultural revenue. Although agriculture is a source of pollution to our waterways, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) reports that many in New York's agricultural community are voluntarily making positive changes. And NRCS is helping with nutrient management plans, creation of habitat for wildlife, and erosion control.
Appropriately, our very first stop was the Cooperstown Farmers' Museum. My copilot, daughter Helen, and I were ready to "get our boots dirty."
The open-air museum depicts rural life in the 1840s. The village's interactive exhibits include a blacksmith shop, country store, and working farmstead.
As we mooed at a cow in the dairy barn, Farmer Wayne approached. Helen was quickly engaged in a lesson and successfully milked "Daisy May" while I snapped photos. We toured the rest of the exhibits and made our way into town.
Helen and I checked into our room at the Cooper Inn, built in 1813 and converted for lodging in 1939. Our room was lovely, and we were tempted to put our feet up for a few minutes. But the sun was sinking and we hurried off to The Otsego Resort for dinner and a beautiful sunset.
The view of the lake from the resort was spectacular. We relaxed on the back porch waiting for our table, taking in the lake, fall foliage, and neighboring golf course.
After dinner, we made ourselves at home back at the Inn. Helen was busy with some school work and I thought of the museum's farm and the industrialization of agriculture.
High-yield farming—driven by our nation's demand for "cheap meat"—has been stimulated by new machinery, fertilizers, genetics, and politics. Farmers who wished to continue with ecological, free-range, nonchemical methods became the organic, "alternative" farmers of the late 20th Century's environmental movement.
Agricultural polarization has continued. Today, although by number more farms are family-owned (91 percent), agribusiness handily collects more revenue (73 percent).
The downside to the environment has been pollution, from over fertilization, poor manure management, erosion, and extended transportation needs. The social downside has been less nutritious food, confined animals, and the waning of a philosophy that protects the lifestyle and income of a small farmer.
Helen and I were excited to spend the following day with family farmers Ilyssa Berg and Javier Flores at their Painted Goat Farm.
I went to sleep dreaming of goat cheese, Ilyssa's last e-mail playing in my head: "Don't wear heels."
Early the next morning, just a few miles outside Cooperstown, we found Painted Goat's mailbox in the middle of what many would call "nowhere." We called from the car. "I see a barn and some pigs." "Uh-huh," answered Ilyssa. (At home, this would be a helpful landmark.) "Look for our green barns at the end of the road."
Ilyssa greeted us outside the building that houses their living quarters, milking room, office, cheese-making lab, and storage cave. Ilyssa and Javier built everything themselves and it was impressive.
Ilyssa met Javier in a farming region of Ecuador's Andes while Ilyssa was doing research for her Master's in Ecological Anthropology at the University of Georgia. Her approach to farming is holistic, covering anthropology, the environment, and cultural relations.
She talked about Javier's home country, how much more environmentally conscientious the Ecuadorian people are, even without regulation and infrastructure. There, most people live in rural areas. Their love of the land is cultural, tied to their family's past and future. They value organic farming, happy animals, better food, and a healthy environment.
The couple had thought to remain in Ecuador. Instead they settled here with the idea to follow a surge of interest in food that is gourmet, local, organic, and healthy.
Painted Goat's 110 hilly acres are home to 80 goats (mostly Alpine and Nuvian), 24 chickens, two roosters (the younger still working on his crow), and Juju, a very friendly Jack Russell. The goats are rotated from field to field where they graze on grasses and get exercise and fresh air. They winter in the barn with hay.
Following kidding in February, the nannies are milked twice per day for about ten months. The kids drink cow milk until they are able to eat solids.
Helen and I watched Javier making cheese in the lab. The milk had already been pasteurized and cultured. Javier scooped the glistening pure-white curds into various molds, while the whey drained off the table into buckets.
The nutritious whey is consumed by the neighbor's pigs who love it so much they reportedly no longer drink water. A sip was enough for me.
The resulting fresh and aged cheeses are sold at local farmers' markets and specialty food stores. Painted Farm won a Blue Ribbon at the 2011 New York State Fair. The cheese is sublime and we were anxious to meet the prized milk makers.
The goats were friendly and affectionate, crowding around as we approached the gate. I shared a long embrace with a black and white Nubian while we talked. I knew that on the car ride home I would have to tell Helen we couldn't have a goat.
The goats bleated as we left, and I joked that they were saying "good bye." But Ilyssa knows her goats and corrected, "They are saying 'come back.'" We look forward to it.
Loren Anne Barnett


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By Tracey Shelton, GlobalPost
Ahmed Assi dodges bullets and missiles on a regular basis.
The 24-year-old has been shot at, wounded, hunted down, imprisoned and tortured. He has spent many months camping in the Syrian mountains "Che Guevara style."
But Assi is not a rebel fighter. He is a Syrian journalist — with a political agenda.
"I make my jihad by words, not by violence," he said.
His mission is not just to tell the world about the plight of Syria's rebel forces, but also to raise money, which the rebels use to buy more of whatever they might need. Assi works for one of several dozen websites that have popped up in the last year to raise cash for activists and rebels working inside Syria to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
"We raise money for weapons, but armed conflict is not the objective — it is a necessity at this time," explained Assi, who works with a team of volunteers on the shamfalcons.com website. "The real value of my work will be after the revolution. Information is more powerful than a bullet."
But at $4 a bullet, the going rate inside Syria these days, it will take a lot of fundraising to power a revolution.
More from GlobalPost: Inside Syria: You will never guess who arms the rebels
Assi's website posts news about the eight rebel battalions of Jabal al-Zawiya, known collectively as the Sham Falcons. Videos, photos and reports in English, French and Arabic inform readers of checkpoint attacks, the seizure of armed vehicles and weapons, and the death of fallen comrades.
Such stories are always followed with a plea to "donors, military experts and weapons merchants."
A well-placed Islamic quote outlines the rewards:
"O you who have believed, shall I guide you to a transaction that will save you from a painful punishment? [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives."
Abu Hajar, the website's developer, said he now receives regular donations from within Syria and from a network of people abroad. Hajar said everything is organized via Skype, which is encrypted, making it the "safest common form of long-distance communication in Syria." The website is hosted outside of the country, and material is uploaded via satellite connections using a virtual private network.
Hajar has worked on the site since the revolution began, first in Brussels where he had been working at the time, and now in Jabal al-Zawiya, Syria. The system he helped create has now spread across the globe. Dozens of trusted coordinators collect donations and arrange for money and goods to be smuggled into Syria.
"There are a lot of foreigners that want to come here to help us with our fight, but if they did they would be accused of being terrorists," Hajar said. "So instead they send us money."
More from GlobalPost: A Syrian rebel sings the Backstreet Boys
Many more websites like his are springing up to support Syrian rebel groups desperate for funding for everything from medicine and satellite Internet devices to guns and missile launchers.
Another website, Adopt a Revolution, is run by activists operating in Germany and Syria. It seems more like an international children's aid group than a rebel fundraising organization. All it is missing is a pitch from Sally Struthers as the site pleads for regular sponsors of the "Syrian Spring."
"One activist in hiding needs monthly about 100 euro for daily expenses," the website reads.
The page goes on to describe the various committees in Syrian towns in need of financial support. There are 31 in all, and Adopt a Revolution says they now raise about 1,000 euros per month for each of these committees with the help of 1,400 regular sponsors.
Elias Perabo, one of the websites founders, said the funds raised on their site are not used for weapons, but are instead focused on providing activists with the means of conveying what is taking place inside Syria. For this they need equipment, Internet connections and safe houses.
"We have three aims," Perabo told GlobalPost in a Skype interview. "To bring support to the local communities in Syria, to bring activists abroad closer to Syrian issues, and to build an emotional link so people here in Germany can connect with a Syrian community to understand the issues they are facing."
Perabo said their donors, who receive regular updates regarding their "adopted" Syrians, range from corporations to retired couples and students. Perabo got involved when on holiday in Syria last April. He found himself unwittingly in the middle of an uprising. The idea for the website, which launched last Christmas, came from there.
Earlier this month, it seemed that relief from the constant fundraising struggle had arrived when Syrian businessmen abroad met in Qatar and announced their pledge of $300 million toward the revolution. But the pledge was met by skepticism.
"It's hard to see where money like this goes. But we hope more money is getting through," Perabo said.
Hajar and the team at shamfalcons.com said such money would only go to the so-called Free Syrian Army leaders living abroad.
"Most of the revolutionaries in Syria refuse to place themselves under the banner of the Free Syrian Army for several reasons, and then receive no help from them," Hajar said.
As for the Sham Falcons, with an average price of $1,000 for a Kalashnikov rifle and $4 per bullet, the plea for funding is never ending.
"Money is the heart of war," Hajar said with a sigh. "Without it, we can not accomplish anything."
"With an average price of $1,000 for a Kalashnikov rifle and $4 per bullet," where are they buying these from? that is ridiculously expensive on both accounts.
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I am bringing some very beautiful pictures to the 8th Angkor Photo Festival that runs from Dec 1st to 8th. They are pictures of wind turbines from different parts of China. Either in the middle of the desert in north-western China, or along the south eastern coast line, or even right by the lakes overlooking people's houses, these giants stand there quietly yet proudly turning and churning, sending clean energy to people's houses and hungry industries.
They represent the 50,000 wind turbines all over China, with almost each province having its own wind farm. Without a doubt, China is the largest producer of wind turbines, and China has the world's largest installed wind power capacity.
In 2011 alone, thanks to these giants, China, the world's largest climate polluter, avoided burning at least 22 million tons of dirty coal and consequently avoided the emission of at least 70 million tons of carbon dioxide!
However, currently, these giants are not happy because some of them are just standing around idly, not being called on or mobilised to do more! Wind power shares only 1.5% of China's total electricity output, and we all, especially China's economy planner, the National Development and Reform Commission and the key player the State Grid, know there is much more these giants can do.
"Beautiful China" became the new "hot word" on November 8th, 2012, when President Hu Jintao gave his opening speech at the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China. He pictured a beautiful China which launches an energy revolution that welcomes low-carbon industries, high energy efficiency, and strong development of renewable energy.
This is a concept or a dream in contrast and it makes today's reality even more appalling. The reality is that coal is still the main source of energy. While providing around 70% of China's electricity, coal is one of the major sources for air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution. It is taking precious water away from sheep and horses, it is emptying mountains and collapsing pagodas and temples that have survived 2000 years and it is also sending people into hospitals with lung cancer or mercury poisoning.
The grid system in China is in urgent need of improvement to be able to bring wind power generated by these beautiful giants in these corners to millions of households and industries.
A beautiful China will have to become a smart China, empowered by these giants who are ready. A beautiful China will be one that doesn't exist only in these pictures I am bringing to Angkor but also right in our life, in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the glaciers on the Himalayas and in a safe future for our children.
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American Taliban John Walker Lindh Challenges Prison Prayer Policies in Court
(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) -- John Walker Lindh, dubbed the American Taliban when he was captured at the beginning of the Afghan war, is suing prison officials for the right to pray five times a day with fellow Islamic inmates.
Lindh, 31, is expected to testify in an Indianapolis courtroom Monday regarding the ban on daily group prayers in prison.
Lindh is being held in the Communications Management Unit in Terre Haute, Ind., where he is serving a 20-year sentence for supplying services to the Taliban and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony.
"I am a Muslim and my religion requires that I perform five daily prayers in congregation. This is mandatory and not optional," Lindh wrote in a handwritten complaint to prison officials that was also filed in federal court.
A ban on daily group prayer was instituted in 2007 after Muslim inmates ignored a lockdown caused by a fire alarm, court documents stated. Inmates are free to pray in their individual cells.
Every Friday, Lindh and his fellow inmates in the specialized unit, are permitted to gather in the multipurpose room of the prison for the Jum'ah prayer service, which the Koran dictates must be done in a group, court documents stated.
The Communications Management Unit, which was established in 2006, has been referred to as "Guantanamo North." Inmates whose communications are considered "high risk" to the prison community and the public's security are housed in individual cells within the unit, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
Lindh's lawsuit offered a glimpse inside the unit, where communications between prisoners and their visitors are tightly monitored.
Inmates in the unit are "out of their cells for virtually the entire day and are allowed to engage in a whole variety of congregate activities," court documents stated. Group prayer, however, is prohibited.
Amos Guiora, a professor of law at the University of Utah who teaches religion and terrorism courses, said daily group prayers in the unit are unlikely to be a terrorism concern.
"I don't think it raises security concerns, but if it goes beyond the text of the prayer than I can understand how it could be seen as a security question," Guiora said.
The daily prayers typically take "only a few minutes," according to Lindh's lawsuit.
Lindh, who converted to Islam as a teenager, was captured in Afghanistan on Nov. 25, 2001. During his sentencing, he condemned terrorism and said he made a "mistake" joining the Taliban.
"Although I thought I knew a good deal about the Taliban when I went to the front line, it's clear to me now that there were many things of which I was not aware," he said.
Lindh is eligible for release in 2019.
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