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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Security in H5N1 Bird Flu Study Was Paramount, Scientist Says
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A Dutch researcher whose work prompted the United States to ask scientific journals to withhold details that bioterrorists could use expressed doubts that the information can be kept out of the wrong hands.
Video: Romney expects to win in New Hampshire
>>> there is the candidate who as former governor of massachusetts is the frontrunner in the next contest. in his part-time home state of new hampshire . nbc's chuck todd talked to mitt romney today one on one and is with us tonight from ashland, new hampshire. part of the news is you got to talk to mitt romney who had been pursuing a strategy of not talking to the media largely.
>> reporter: yeah. we were able to sit down with him a couple of times today. he's been the off and on frontrunner all year long but there is no state that's more make or break than new hampshire. this three-day bus trip is part of a strategy to make romney more available to voters and the press including two interviews with nbc news today. he's no less cautious and wouldn't take sides on the payroll tax cut. he was dismissive of its effect on the economy.
>> this is not going to turn the economy around. it's a very helpful feature for families.
>> reporter: romney struggled to persuade republican primary voters that he's conservative enough.
>> coming from massachusetts people begin with an assumption that perhaps you are not as conservative as they are. as they get to know me and look at my record they will recognize, no, i'm conservative.
>> reporter: there is a health care mandate in massachusetts is a conservative situation.
>> there were oh two options in my state. one was to continue to allow people without insurance to go to the homt and get free care. the alternative to that was to say people who can afford to buy insurance themselves should do so at personal responsibility. it's more conservative in my view than something given out for free by government.
>> reporter: he says his opponents are wrong when they accuse him of being a persistent flip-flopper.
>> obviously the change was most significant with regard to abortion. have i become more conservative in 20 years? absolutely.
>> reporter: he said republicans need to be clear about wall street reform.
>> we talk about deregulation. people assume we mean getting rid of all regulation. that's not the case.
>> reporter: when walking into romney 's part of the bus first you notice a campaign banner for his dad george.
>> my dad was a man of unquestioned integrity. he said exactly what he believed regardless of the consequences. i want that to with be my model.
>> reporter: he acknowledges the mormon faith he learned from his father could be a liability.
>> i don't know the reasons i lost iowa. for some my faith is an issue.
>> reporter: of course, brian, i did ask him about the gingrich complaints about all these negative ads and the super pacs. he said the heat from obama's kitchen will be hotter. gingrich responded harshly saying, quote, i'll tell you what, if he wants to test the heat i'll meet him in iowa next week, one on one, 90 minutes , no moderator. and so it goes.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45758450/
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: Three Dirty Words for Christmas
Really, you shouldn't curse around the holidays. It's not nice and it does little to generate goodwill towards men. It happens sometimes, though. It happened to me a few years ago on Christmas Day. I believe there were mitigating circumstances so I won't shoulder all the blame. If you ask me, I was provoked and responded the way any reasonable man would. Still, if you find yourself in my position, I would advise you to stop and breathe deeply before saying something you will regret.
This particular Christmas, Herself went out and bought the boy a tricycle. He was three that year and I suppose it was overdue. On hearing the news, I frowned. I just don't like children moving at high speeds. He needs one, she said. I shrugged. It was a great price, she said. I raised an eyebrow. He's going to be so happy, she said. I ran my tongue over my teeth meaningfully. This is his present, she iterated with a resolute and meaningful glare. I heaved the sigh of defeat. I apparently had no option but to capitulate.
Here's where I admit that we are both procrastinators and every Christmas Eve involves a fair amount of hustling to get ready for the big day. Herself got the job of wrapping the tricycle since it was her big idea. I wrapped smaller things and uncorked adult refreshments while we worked companionably. A bottle of nice red wine (write me if you want your brand mentioned here!) helped provide holiday cheer as we completed our Christmas Eve preparations.
Everything went so well, in fact, that we (okay, it was me) opened another bottle. The good tidings of the holiday were filling me with gladness and, if I'm honest, I suppose I had more than my fair share of the second bottle. As a result, Christmas Day came a little sooner and a lot more roughly than planned. Don't act like it's never happened to you.
If you go against all reason and decide to have kids, there is something you should know. One day you will wake up on Christmas morning with a hangover and everything is going to go horribly wrong. At best, you end up with a cautionary tale to tell others. The boy woke up at dawn. Of course he did. He does that every Christmas. He was so full of happiness that he was nearly bouncing and he was more than usually noisy. I was dragged to the couch, given coffee and warned not to be a grouch. The din of unwrapping the presents upset me greatly. I was in no mood for fun. The tricycle came last and he was overjoyed as he destroyed the wrapping. He hooted and hollered. I may have moaned. The boy slid the box containing his brand new trike across the floor and parked it in front of me with brimming joy and expectation in his eyes. My heart sank. There on that cursed box were the Three Dirty Words that every man who is slightly less than handy (and more than slightly hung over) hates to see on Christmas Day: Some Assembly Required.
I suggested that it might be better to wait until later to put the wretched thing together but that sensible idea got no support at all. As usual, Herself demurred. I have found that she is seldom supportive and hardly ever reasonable at times like these. I pleaded my case as best I could. I lacked the proper tools to get the job done. I didn't even own a hammer. (didn't I say I wasn't handy?) She suggested that I suck it up and get it done because there was going to be no peace until I had the bloody thing assembled. Not from her and not from the boy. I went to work on it with as much ill grace as I could muster and began putting things together that seemed to go together. Just to keep things interesting, the instructions for assembly were exclusively in Spanish with the perverse application of Chinese grammatical rules. This combination leads to very little clarity in case you were wondering. I feel a twinge of regret now that I viciously destroyed those instructions in a fit of rage. I think I could now enjoy bringing them out every Christmas to recite them aloud.
The tires were especially vexing to assemble because a hammer was needed to secure the little hubcaps on to the axle. I had no hammer. I was using a rock that kept slipping and hitting my fingers and if you really want to know, I wasn't feeling the Christmas spirit in the least. With each bang of a finger, I moved a little closer to the edge. Each time I dropped the little hubcap piece that needed to be secured to the axle I had to get down on the floor and look for it. It didn't help to have pointed little reminders that my father in law would have had the job done by now. I may or may not have muttered a few remarks that disparaged my wife's father and I sincerely regret them if I did. It's not his fault he's so damned efficient. The few tools I do possess kept disappearing due to the interference of a certain curious little boy. This is the point in the story where a smart guy makes up an errand and goes for a walk. I don't know why I didn't but a little too much steam was building up in my little engine. Then Herself chipped in her two cents worth. She has this way of slightly raising an eyebrow and asking a question that leaves no room for doubt that you are wildly wrong and she is right if you disagree. I generally find this charming until it's turned against me. She asked if I were sure that the wheel I was wrestling with really fit where I was trying to jam it.
I tried not to say it, people. I really did. But honestly, how could I not? A man can only take so much. I started reading her the directions in the bizarre Chinese-Spanish and then threw in something that was not strictly speaking in the printed directions but seemed to fit the bill. To wit, I suggested in my best gutter Spanish that Herself stuff the wheel somewhere that it manifestly would not fit and, would you believe it? Herself had picked up quite a lot of Spanish since our move to Brooklyn. It was all but a donnybrook. The boy's tricycle did eventually get put together but not until somewhat later the next day. I really do hope that if those Three Dirty Words find their way into your holiday that you have patience, tools and a decent set of directions.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-blackmore-Dobbyn/three-dirty-words-for-chr_b_1158940.html
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Death toll from Philippine flash floods tops 1,000 (AP)
ILIGAN, Philippines ? The official death toll from last week's massive flash flooding in two southern Philippine cities topped 1,000 on Wednesday, while authorities said they have lost count of the missing in one of the worst calamities to hit the region.
A total of 1,002 people have been confirmed dead, including 650 in Cagayan de Oro and 283 in nearby Iligan city, said Benito Ramos, head of the Civil Defense Office. The rest were in several other southern and central provinces.
A tropical storm swept through the area Friday night, unleashing flash floods that caught most of the victims in their sleep.
"There were many lessons learned by the people who did not listen to national and local governments, but this is not the time to put the blame on them," Ramos told The Associated Press, adding that warnings by weather forecasters of an approaching storm went unheeded.
He said the government continues to focus on retrieving bodies, most of which are being recovered from the sea off Cagayan de Oro.
"We've lost count of the missing," he said.
President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity during a visit to the region Tuesday and promised the government "will do its best to prevent a repeat of this tragedy."
He said there would be an assessment of why so many people died and why those living along riverbanks and close to the coast ? most of them illegal settlers ? had not been moved to safety.
Illegal logging is another factor believed to have contributed to the staggering death toll as many victims were swept away by huge logs that rolled down denuded mountains facing the two cities. Logging and deforestation also contribute to soil erosion and trigger mudslides.
Aquino declared a ban on logging in February but weak law enforcement and corruption make it a recurring problem.
With funeral parlors overwhelmed in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro, authorities and grieving relatives have begun burying the dead.
Authorities in Iligan buried at least 16 unidentified bodies after a grim process of obtaining fingerprints, dental records and DNA samples from decomposing remains to be used for future identification.
"It takes at least an hour per body," said Dr. Reynaldo Romero, head of a disaster victim identification team from the National Bureau of Investigation. "As long as there are bodies, we will continue to process them."
About 45,000 people are still crowded in evacuation centers as aid workers rush in relief supplies. Lack of running water is a major concern.
"We have enough food and water here but we don't have clothes," said Analiza Osado, one of many survivors living in Iligan's biggest gymnasium. "Everything is gone."
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Associated Press writers Jim Gomez, Oliver Teves and Hrvoje Hranjski in Manila contributed to this report.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Sri Lanka unblocks 1 news website after month
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ? Sri Lankan authorities agreed Thursday to restore access to a news website that had been blocked with four others for more than a month over alleged insults and character assassination.
The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission agreed to unblock srilankamirror.com on several conditions, including that it will not provide links to sites that are blocked or unregistered, said Saliya Pieris, counsel for the website. The site was partially available Thursday afternoon as some service providers had not yet lifted the block.
Rights groups had criticized the order blocking the sites as undemocratic. Sri Lankan laws do not restrict the press from criticizing leaders, but media can be charged for defamation.
In blocking the sites, the media ministry said they committed character assassination and insulted people including key political leaders. It also required news websites to register, bringing them in line with older media formats such as newspapers, radio and television.
As per the agreement reached in Supreme Court on Thursday, srilankamirror.com has delinked to the four blocked websites and it will delinked to the unregistered once as soon as it receives a list of them, the site's editor, Keluma Shivantha, said. He had filed a fundamental rights application in the Supreme Court against the blocking.
The news websites still blocked are www.lankaenews.com, srilankaguardian.org, paparasinews.com, and www.lankawaynews.com.
Last week, Free Media Movement ? a local media rights group ? also filed a fundamental rights application in the Supreme Court on the basis that the blockade breaches the people's right to information and freedom of expression. The case is scheduled to be heard next month.
Of the five sites, lankaenews is highly critical of the government and has been blocked previously. A number of threats and attacks have been made against it in recent years.
A columnist for the website has been missing for more than a year. The website's office was set on fire earlier this year and lankaenews blamed the government for the attack.
The U.S. Embassy in Colombo said last month it was deeply concerned. The statement called on Sri Lankan authorities and telecommunications firms "to stop activities aimed at blocking free access in Sri Lanka to all legitimate media websites, including Lanka-e-News."
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
UN chief to open ministers level at climate talks (AP)
DURBAN, South Africa ? The U.N. Environment Program chief says a treaty on climate change wouldn't be enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures, and countries need to voluntarily make deeper cuts in carbon emissions.
Achim Steiner spoke Tuesday hours before U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to open the decisive ministerial stage of a two-week 194-nation conference on climate change.
The conference is focusing on efforts to move toward a future agreement to legally bind all nations to emissions targets, including China and the United States.
Steiner presented UNEP's report showing the gap is widening between pledges by nations to reduce greenhouse gases and the targets set by scientists for preventing runaway global warming.
"We are losing time," he said.
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